Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 4 March 1898 — Page 6

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FRIDAY. MARCH 4, 1888.

SINCE the rising of the war cloud the new woman has quit talking.

A DIVKR in full paraphernalia looks like the dreadful octopus the Populists have been talking about for the past fire years.

THK business failures last week were nearly 20 per cent, less than in the corresponding week of last week, being only 269 against 325.

TIIE English courts have decided that gambling debts cannot be collected. Crawfordsvillo sports never had to go to law to find that out.

IT is no longer necessary to say that Mr. Bryan has accepted an invitation to deliver a speech. If the invitation comes the rest goes without saying.

WASHINGTON' Post: President McKinley might do the magnanimous thing by tendering to Hon. William Jennings Bryan the leadership of the Marine Band.

Tun combined yield of gold and silver in the United States last year was but one-third the value of the corn crop. We received 854,000,000 for corn exported and that is a Klondike of tested richness.

SAMJONES has ^changed his mind about running for Governor of Georgia, and says he would not accept the nomination "if tendered on a silver waiter." That illustration knocks him out with the free coinage men."

Mii. BRYAN1 said his election to the Presidency would restore silver to a parity with gold. This is rather hard on President Diaz, who has been considered a man of at least Bryan's ability. Gold in Mexico insists on remaining at a premium of 215.

TUK Dingley law is getting down to business. The receipts under it this month have run as high as the average expenditures, the total for the first 21 days of February being $21,348,310, or considerably over a million dollars a day, while the average expenses, as is well known, are, during the year, just about an even million dollars a day.

THE government has more gold to Bpare now than it has greenbacks. This is a marked chaDge from the conditons just before the election of 18(.)(. At that time it bad very little gold, although it had sold 3202,000,000 of bonds to buy gold. These days it has more gold than it needs, and the amount on band keeps on growing. As an evidence of financial confidence the treasury gold barometer is decisive.

REVENUES continue at a high figure, those of February thus far being in excess of the iDcome of the corresponding time in recent years. In this respect the Dingley law is justifying the faith of its framers. Expenditures, however, are also above the figures of recent years. Of course the war preparations will send expenses up still farther, even if war does not occur, but this is a contingency that the ways ani means committee did not take into the account. The recent developments in Havana were not looked for eight or nine months ago by anybody. The Morrill tariff act of 1801 was framed to meet a condition of peace, but, when war came, the act was quickly extended and strengthened. If war should come now the Repuolicans could do the same with the Dingley law.

A i.ASK A may get a full territorial government before many more years pass. The gold discoveries in its region have attracted Congress' attention toward it, and a bill granting right of way to railroads in that locality and extending the homestead laws to it has passed the House and has, with some changes, been reported favorably to the Senate. This is a wise course. A large accession to Alaska's population is likely to be made thin year on account of the gold excitement, and it is well to extend the facilities for travel in the territory and to encourage permanent settlement in it. Alaska's products long ago paid back the 87,200,000 which the territory cost, and it may in the next few years add greatly to the country's wealth. Some of the gold prospectors have high high hopeB of rich discoveries in that locality.

SIMPLE .JUSTICE.

Nothing is more generally admitted among the people than the injustice of our tax laws as at present enforced all over the country. We say this in spite of the splendid work of the Indiana Tax Commission in the last few years for we have the authority of General Benjamin Harrison for the statement that conditions of inequality do exist to such an extent as to be a menace. Read the following selections from the ex-President's speech on Washington's birthday on "The Obligations of Wealth:" "The great bulks of our people are lovers ot justice. They do not believe that poverty is a virtue or property a crime. They believe in an equality of opportunity and not of dollars. But there must be no handicapping of the duil brother and no chicanery or fraud or shirking. If our plan of taxation includes notes and bonds and stocks, they must all be listed. The plea of business privacy has been driven too hard. If for mere statistical purposes we may ask the head of the family whether there are any idiots in his household and enforce an answer by court process, we may surely for re ven ue purposes require a detailed list of his securities. The men who have great wealth must not hide it from the tax gatherer and flaunt it on the street. Such things breed a great discontent. All other men are hurt. They bear a disproportionate burden. "The special purpose of ray thought is to press home this thought, that one of the conditions of the security of wealth is a proportionate and full contribution to the expenses of the State and local government. It is unsafe to make a show in our homes and on the 6treet that is not made in the tax returns."

Equal taxation is simple justice. Anything else is injustice.

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY'S suggestions made in his recent New York speech, that the duty of the pariy entrusted with the managemenf of National affairs is to take up the currency problem and do all that can be done toward its solution, are likely to be followed, it seems, by the Republicans in Congress. Latest reports from Washington indicate that a bill will probably be reported to the House based upon the President's recommendation by which the greenbacks redeemed with gold will be retained in the Treasury, or provision made by which greenbacks shall be utilized by national banks as a part of their reserve, thus taking them out of the field of active circulation. Another feature of the prospective bill-will, it is understood, reduce the taxation on national bank issues and permit banks to increase their currency up to the par value of the bonds deposited to secure their circulation, thus increasing the currency in this manner, while reducing the danger of further use of the gold bearing notes for the withdrawal of gold from the Treasury.

ONE by one the "statesmen out of a job" find employment in the interests of the silver syndidate which is seeking to force its wares upon the Deople of the United States, even at the cost of national honor and the destruction of national finance. Ex-Senator Dubois is the last addition to the band of "silver missionaries" who are traversing the country in the interests of this enormous trust, having recently visited Washington for the purpose of developing certain schemes in this interest. Bryan, Warner, Towne, and Dubois, and a large number of lesser lights, whose people grow tired of them in Congress, are now apparently devoting themselves to this "lost cause" in a manner which justifies tte suspicion that the silver trust has put several new bar'ls on tap.

ONE of the Democratic papers of this city very falsely and unwarrantedly avers that the Republican leaders are trying to discredit the labor organization, The publisher of this paper could champion the cause of labor organizations with better grace if he made his printing office a union ollice. He has fought labor unions for years by refusing to maintain a union cilice or the pay anything like a union scale of wages, yet constantly yawping loudly concerning the rights of the laboring classes. Actions speak louder than words, and it ill-becomes a "rat shop" to pose as the friend of a labor union.

SECRETARY GAGE is wise in giving his attention to the question of a war loan. Money will have to be borrowed if war takes place, and borrowed in large sums. Most of it, however, can be furnished at home. The country's stock of money was never so large in the past as it is now, and it will be freely offered to the government if needed. Europe, too, stands ready to lend the government hundreds of millions of dollars at short notice and at low interest. On the score of cash the country will be in grand condition to fight Spain. There will be no lack of funds at any stage of the confiict, if the conflict'comes.

LAWS have already been passed in several States requiring the use of wide tires on heavy wagons on the common highway. It has been proposed to combine with that plan a pro vision that the rear axle shall be six or seven inches longer than the front one. The hind wheels would then run in a different track from the front ones, and a smoothing effect upon the road would be produced. The scheme has merit.

GEN, WALLACE'S VICTORY. Valuer's Weekly. Harper & Brothers have pursued, captured and flayed a Teuton pirate. After the high handed fashion of his tribe he had presumed to print an unauthorized translation of one of Gen. Lew Wallace's remarkable novels. But he reckoned without the Harpers. They strung him up in Karlsruhe, pilloried him there in the Court of Appeals, forced him to disgorge, then keelhauled him, left him for dead and be hanged to him ever after. And quite right too. A writer's ideas, or 'hat which passes for such, should be recognized as his own and his rights in them protected. They constitute his capital. He derives an income not from stocks, but from stories. His bank is his brain. Another may build for himself treasures where thieves break in and steal. But even so it does not alarm him very much. He has had them registered. They are so much beautifully engraved waste paper in the burglars' hands. What is more, if he catches the cracksmen he can shake the handcuffs at them and throw them into stripes. Those treasures are his personal property, the law protects his ownership. Why should not the law protect his neighbor's ideah? Are they not properly too, and, however po.ir, at least his own? Are they net also sometimes —though not often—more valuable than treasures of any kind?

Is Tliis Our Abe?

Nearly everyone here will remember Uncle Aoe Eastis, who spent some weeks here two years ago proposing marriage to all the eligible ladies in town. He was later married at Bainbridge and removed to Indianapolis. From an Indianapolis paper we clip the following sad lines: "Abraham Eastis has made serious charges against his wife, Ann Eastis, in a divorce complaint filed Saturday. After referring to 'little tbiDgs,' such as refusing to cook his meals, etc., he alleged that from the day of their marriage Mrs. Eastis refused to occupy the same room witn him. Finally, as charged, he discovered that her objection to occupying the room with him was that she was occupying it with a former friend by the name of John Hill.

Faris Will lie Kenoniinated. A Terre Haute special sa\s: Filbeck, the Renublican district chairman, in an interview said the renomination of Congressman Faris was a sure thing. "Judge Coffee of Clay county, is the only avowed candidate," said Mr. Filbeck. "Senator Haysof Greenfield, told me that he would not be a candidate unless there is a geueral scramble. In that event he would take a hand. I think after the primaries are held and it is seen that Mr. Faris leads, the others will withdraw,"

To Teach Indians.

W. W. Ewing last Saturday received word from Washington that he had been appointed to an excellent position as teacher in the Indian school at Fort Apache, Ariz. The position is a desirable one and Mr. Ewing will leave for the West in a few weeks. He was engaged in similar work several years ago and was eminently successful in it.

Sir George Newneg.

Sir George Newnes can claim to hay® bad one of the most remarkable and successful careers of any business man in Great Britain. Undoubtedly his success as a journalist is unrivalled. He attributes not a little of his success to the lady now known to the world as Lady Newnes. Indeed, together they may be said to have evolved the first idea of Tit-Bits. The future millionaire was at the time engaged in a business house at Manchester, and suddenly, whilst reading to his wife a paragraph out of the Manchester Evening News, he exclaimed, "There! that is what I call a real tit-bit! Now, why can't a paper be brought out containing nothing but tit-bits similar to this?" There and then the young couple discussed the possibility of the little green weekly which was to bring them fame and fortune. George Newnes, however, is one of those men who essentially believes in the motto, "Slow but sure."

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HE LYNCHING TRIAL

Attorney General Thinks He Has a

Case Against Hughes.

OLD INDIAN CHIEFS CLAIM.

Corpse Found In a Shock of Fodder Near Portland Highly Connected Young Man Confesaett to Keing a Tlilef.

Blown to Fragments Bigamist Has Pleaded Guilty,

Indianapolis, Feb. 28. Governor Mount and Attorney General Ketcham had along talk over the telephone yesterday regarding the Hughes lynching trial at Gross Plains. Mr. Ketcham informed the governor of the defense set up by Hughes' attorney. He told the governor that he believed lie would succeed in having the defendant bound over to the grand jury. The defense is endeavoring to break young Kelley's testimony by proving him a notorious liar and that ho was prejudiced agaiust both Hughes and McCoy. It is said the former had Kelley flogged while he was an inmate of the infirmary. William Baggott testified that lie saw the lynching.

IN A K)I»I)i SHOCK,

Dead Uody of a Man Discovered Near Port land. Portland, Intl., Feb. 28.—While Isaac Garringer, a farmhand, was hauling in corn fodder Saturday, ho took down a shock and. found a dead body. The entire face had been eaten away, and tbo ankles, legs and wrists lacerated by the rats. The body had evidently been there for many days and was frozen stiff. It was brought here late Saturday and carefully examined by Coroner Garber. The body was that of a man fivo feet 10 inches high, and was very well dressed. A number of small trinkets were in the pockets, also a receipt given by J. L. Saperston, a Buffalo tailor, to J. II. Clark. ]STo signs of foul play are evident".

WAS XliVKIl CJCOHD.

All Old Imlisui Chief Claims J.anil In Tipton County. Tipton, Iud., Feb.

4JS.—Au

old man,

giving his name as Pakogon, and his home as Hastings, Mich., claiming to bo au Indian chief, has speut several days examining the records in the county recorder's office. He claims that a considerable part of northern Tipton comity is embraced in a tract of laud never ceded to the government by the Indians, and was comparing maps und documents in his possession with the papers oil file. He wiil investigate in adjoining counties and then go to Washington to present his claim to tlie government.

Charges .Against a Deputy Warden. Indianapolis, Feb. 28. Secretary Amos Butler of the state board of charities will make a trip to Michigan City in a short time to investigate charges that have recently been made by released convicts. The latest complainant is Fred Williams, a Cincinnati burglar, who has been ill the prison for two years. Williams called on Mr. Butler and told a story similar to many others that have lately been made to the governor, which alleged that the deputy warden was guilty of cruel practices.

Prosperous Met hodists.

Wabash, Ind., Feb. 28.—The officials of tlie M. E. church have adopted plans for anew church edifice to be erected here this year at a cost of $30,000. The seating capacity of the auditorium is GOO with 800 additional in the galleries. On the same lloor is a largo Sundayschool room, seating several hundred, with society parlors holding 200 more. There are, all tokl, forty separate apartments in the building. It will be constructed of vitrified brick.

Jtody Blown to Fragment*. Prescott, Ind., Feb. 28.—Peter Thibo, who lived northeast of here, was killed Saturday while blasting stumps with dynamite. The accident occurred near his home, members of the family seeing the explosion, which blew liis body to fragments. It is not known just how the accident occurred. He was a young married man and leaves a widow and two children.

Bigamist Pleads Guilty.

Indianapolis, Feb. 28.—Max Rosenberg, the theatrical man who was convicted some time ago of bigamy, was granted anew trial Saturday by Judge McCray. The prisoner was immediately arraigned and plead guilty, receiving a sentence of six months in jail and $5 fine. His original sentence was six months and $400 fine.

liis Head Was Cut Oflt.

Brazil, Ind., Feb. 28.—Edward Murry, aged 30, attempted to board a westbound freight train on the Vandalia here late Saturday and was crushed to death. His head was cut off and carried 50 feet. Murry had two brothers and one cousin killed on the railroad in the past few years.

Drakeman Killed.

Sullivan,Ind., Feb. 28.—While switching at Merom Junction on the I. and I. S. railroad, Roy Thompson, a brakeman, fell from the top of a boxcar Saturday, striking on his head and sustaining injuries from which he died two hours later. Thompson was a young man.

Killed by a Train.

Greencastle, Ind., Fob. 28.—An unknown man was killed here by a Big Four train. He caught his foot in a frog and it was pulled off, while his body was horribly mangled. A letter in his pocket bore the address of Lou Grauemann, Elwood, Ind.

Many Marriage licenses.

Anderson, Ind., Feb. 28.—Saturday was a recordbreaker for marriage licenses ill this county, the list figuring up 28 at the close of the clerk's office. One justice married se'ven couples during the day.

WILLIAM M. SINGERLY.

Proprietor of tlie Philadelphia Rccoril Passes Away Suddenly. Philadelphia, Feb. 28.—William M. Singerly died suddenly at his residence hero yesterday afternoon. Heart disease was the immediate cause of death. Mr. Singerly had been suffering for about 10 days from a cold and had remained at home since last Wednesday, although his Indisposition was thought to be in no way serious. While sitting in his bedroom smoking a cigar he was

WII.L.IAM M. SINCIKKI.Y.

seized with a violent lit of coughing and immediately afterward foil over dead. The physicians say they had frequently cautioned Mr. Singerly that his heart was weak, as a result of excessive smoking, and of late his custom was to take a "dry smoke." Yesterday, however, his cigar was lighted, and it is thought that the smoke brought on the coughing spell, the severity of which rujitured a blood vessel of thi' li'Tirt.

'William M. SiivL was proprietor of the lit'co:\l !'ii!ishiii_ company president, of the Chest nut. Street: Xutioual ulk and the Chest nut Street Savings Fund and Trust company, which recently collapsed, and president. of the Singerly pulp and paperinill. 1 le was a member of lhe Fairmount, park commission and until lately the treasurer and a trusteo of the Philadelphia Commercial museum.

He was born in this city Dee. 27. lStJ-3 and with the exception of a brief perio I in his early manhood, when he conducted a commission business i:i Chicago, has lived here ever since.

In 18S7 he bought The Record, than a comparatively feeble journal and brought it to its present standard of excellence.

Financial misfortune overtook .Mr. Singerly during the last. lVw months of his life when on Dec. 23rd, lasr, the Chestnut Street National Bank and Trust company were compelled to close their doors. .Messrs. Karl-,' and Cook were made assignees of the trust company and managers of a plan looking to the liquidation of the affairs of both institutions. Mr. Singerly promptly turned over to them every personal asset he p.iss \ssed, including his interest in The Record. Since then a receiver has been appointed for the bank and the affairs ol' it and ihe tru_-.t company are in process of settlement."

CONFLAGRATION AT SEA.

Five Mt'n Drowned ami One liuriied It Death. Boston, Feb. 28.—The British steamer Legislator, Captain Tennant, bound from Liverpool for Colon, was burned at sea on Feb. 1(1. The fire broke out so suddenly that- 11 men forward were cut off from the rest of the ship, and in saving them a boat was capsized and five men, including the second and third officers, the chief steward and the chief cook, were drowned. A fireman received such severe burns that he died in a few minutes. Five others were serij ously injured.

The remainder of the crew, 28 in all, with two passengers, Dr. W. Mortemer and wife of London, were rescued within four hours after the fire broke out by the l'ruit steamer Flowergate and brought to this port. The injured were taken to the marine hospital on arrival at this port.

MURDERED BY A MANIAC.

One OFleer Killed Instantly and Auother Fatally Miot. Chicago, Feb. 28. Officer Patrick Fenton was killed and Officer Daiiiel Carey was fatally shot by Michael Clark, whom they attempted to arrest. Clark was a butcher employed at the stockyards and boarded on Forty-second street. His landlady noticed that lie was acting strangely ami asked him to vacate, but he refused and barricaded the doors of his room. The police were called and they forced an entrance. As Fenton stepped into the room he received a bullet through the heart. Carey leaped upon the maniac and in the struggle received a shot through the body. Clark saw his victims fall and jumped through a second story window. Ho ran to the parish church and gave himself up to the priest, who turned him over to the police.

THRILLING FEAT.

Runaway Team Dashes Over a Narrow Kail way Trestle. Lima, O., Feb. 28.—A runaway team performed the thrilling and miraculous feat Saturday of running over a 300-foot narrow railroad trestle, 50 feet above Swinona river, reaching the other side and continuing their liiglit unhurt until they were caught. The team belonged to John Lathrop. It started down the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton tracks, and at Market street the buggy hit a telegraph pole, throwing Lathrop out. The animals continued their flight and ran upon the trestle and over it without a misstep, it was a feat that a man could hardly do running.

ltaided the Gamblers*.

Toledo, O., l^eb, ~S. Tlie police raided the gamblers here from all quarters Saturday night. Wagonloads of paraphernalia were carted to the police station. All sections of the, city were included in the raid. The men had plenty of money and bailed themselves out.

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.

LESSON X, FIRST QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, MARCH 6.

Text or the Lesson, Math, xii, 1-13—Mem-ory Verses, 10-13—Golden Text, Math. xii, 8—Commentary by the Rev. D. M.

Stearns.

[Copyright. 1897, by D. M. Stearns.] 1. "At that time.Tesus went on the Sabbath day through the corn, and His disciplcs were an hungered and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat." The lesson today touches the Sabbath question, the one which, according to all the gospels, determined the Pharisees to kill Christ. See verse 14 immediately following our lesson, then Mark iii, 6 Luke vi, 11 John v, 10. Dr. Weston says that the Sabbath was the Jewish national flag other nations practiced circumcision, offered sacrifices and had temples and religious rites, but In the Sabbath the Jews claimed a peculiar relation to God as their Creator, Redeemer and Rest, As the nation grew in national feeling and prido and in the thought of separation from and superiority toother nations, they became more and more tenacious of their Sabbath. If wo keep in mind that it was their national honor they were thinking of and not the honor of their God and His Word, we shall understand many things otherwise dark. 2. "But when the Pharisees saw it they said unto Him, Behold, Thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon tbo Sabbath day. The Sabbath^ were a sign between Cod and Israel, not to show how holy and honorable they were, but to honor Iliin and delight in Him and magnify Him. If eating a little corn, even fresh from the field, would quiet the body that the soul might the better commune with God, it was well so to do (See Ex. xxxi, 13. and Isa. lviii, 13). 3 "But Ue said unto them, Have yo not read what David did when he was an hungered, and they that were with him?" They would hardly wish or dan to find fault with David, their great king, whom they praised so mueh, even if they were so unwilling to recognize the Son of David and David's l.ord in Him with whom they now lind fault. 4. "How He entered into the house of God and did eat the shewbrcad. which was not lawful for llim to cat. neither for them that were with Him, but only for the priests." Cod would have us consider the spirit of His law rather than the extreme letter of it. He would have us to know Him and 11 is great heart of love. It is better to know Him than to be wise, or mighty, or rich. He delights in loving kindness, judgment and righteousness (Jer. is, 23, 24). 5, (. "Or have ye not read in the law how that on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are blameless:-' But 1 say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple." Thus lie directs lliem to their king and priests as both doing that which by the strict letter of the law was forbidden, and yet they are blameless. In verses 41 and 42 of this chapter He says He is greater than Jonah and Solomon lie now says lie is greater than the temple, and implies, what is elsewhere taught, that lie greater than David or Aaron In Hebrews we read thai He is givater than angels or Moses, or tabernacle, or sacrifice. He is our great Priest- King. 7 "But if ye had known what this meaneth. I will have mercy and not sacrifice. ye would not have condemned the guiltless." What a comfort that we are to have righteous judgment, and our .1 udge will not decide by what lie sees or hears (Isa. si, 4). anil will never without cause condemn either a person or a work! Let us have more of His Spirit, remembering I Cor iv. o.

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For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath day." As Son of Man He is l.ord of all earthly institutions and the direct object of all earthly allegiance. All things were created by llim and l'r Him. and by llim all things consist (Col. i. Hi. 17) He shall yet subdue ail things unto

Himself, even all kings shall fall down before Him and all nations serve Him(l Cor. xv, 28 Ps. Ixxii, 11) \Ve feel like saying, "Oh. that these people had known Him, that they might cheerfully receive Him anil submit to Him instead of judging Him

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And when He was departed thence, He went into their synagogue." If He could not get good. He would be where He might do good The j-'.ripi ares were re c' in the synagogues, and there is nothing on earth like the Word of God. Whether those who read see mueh or little of God in His Word lie is in every page of it and opened eyes and ears will seo and hear Him. 10. "And, behold, thero was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked Him, saying. Is it lawful to herd on the Sabbath days? that they might accuse Him." The impotence of the man was very suggestive of the spiritual condition of the nation, but he knew his condition and they did not. They were blind, and deaf, and lame, and palsied, and leprous, and thought that nothing ailed them, but that, on the contrary, they wero the only righteous people on earth. 11 "And Ho said unto them, What man shall there be among you that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the Sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it and lift it out?" One has well suggested that He did not say see a sheep, but have a sheep the point is that of ownership He is the Lord of the Sabbath day. The law commanded to help creatures not your own if you saw them in trouble (Deut. xxii. 4)

IS. Ilow much, then, is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on tho Sabbath days." Better than many sparrows, better than all beasts, God's own property every day, and, though oft in rebellion against Him, yet loved by Him and watched longingly to see if he will turn to His good and loving God. God is good to the unthankful and to the evil, but how little they think that His goodness is intended to lead them to Him 13 "Then sqith He to the man. Stretch forth thine hand And he stretched it forth, and it was restored whole, like as the other." Tho man could not help himself, and he knew it, but .lesus healed him instantly The Pharisees were as helpless to help themselves as this man, but they did not know it and would not believo when they wero told, so continued helpless, and, worse, they gave placo to the devil.

This lesson must include verse-14, for it 6ets forth their determination because of Christ's conduct on this occasion, and also gives the reason for some changes in His teaching, or, rather, His manner of teaching. Ho will not yet break these bruised reeds, but tho time will come (verse 20). Let verses 24 to 28 givo some light npon verses 81, S3. Let verses 84 to 36 urge us on to "Let the Word of Christ dwell in us richly" (Col. ill, 16) and may verse 50 givo us a constant'halleluiahI"