Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1891 — Page 2

AGRICULTURAL VALUES SOME STATISTICS OF FARM MORTGAGES. VFhat I s the Matter with the Farmer ? Protection as a Fac or in Agricultural Depression—The 1 armer the Universal J Burden Bearer. There has been much controversy of late ibout the amount of farm mortgages in the United States. The Bankers' Mageeline makes the statement that the farm mortgages of Kansas amount to $235,900,000; those of Indiana, $640,000,000; of lowa, $567,000,000; of Michigan, $500,000,000; of Ohio, $1,431,000,000. At 6 per cent.', $200,000j000 would be required io pay the interest on these mortgages, as the total in the five States is $3,431,000,300. The grand total of mortgage In- « debtedness on farm property in only five / Stages exceeds by $1,846,000,000 the en- / tire national debt, principal and interest, \ as reported at the close of the fiscal year ending the 3th of last June. Statistics of the Agricnltural Bureau of Illinois show a decrease in the value of farms and farm property in the State during the past yeafof $4,000,000. Governor who is a farmer, says the depreciation of the .same kffld of property in Ohio, in the past ten years aggregates $80,000,000. Hugh McCulloch, the great Republican financier, who was Secretary bf the Treasury under two declares that while T’ents in cities and large towns are steadily increasing, agriculture has bej come so depressed that good farms offer inducements to tenants to hire them at a rental of 6 per cent, on one-third of their assessed value. In the face of facts like these there are still 'some .Republicans left in the country who vainly try to make the farmer believe that he is in a prosperous condition. They, fight against the evident fact that our system of tariff taxation bears with undue weight upon the farming class. In order to escape the acknowledgment of that fact some deny that there is any agricultural depression. A Republican orator has oven claimed that farm mortgages, iristead of being evidences of distress, are to be taken as proofs that the farmers are .prosperous and happy. But when a man feels pain he docs not need a doctor to convince him that nothing hurts him. The pain makes Itself felt and -can be seen in\ the agonized expression of the features. theories of any kind and no so-called proof can remove it for a moment from the consciousness of the sufferer. The best evidence that the faripers are less prosperous thtfn they were is to be found, not in figittgs of farm mortgages, but in the fact that this lack of prosperity is universally recognized by the farmers themselves. In corner of the country there is a singular and painful unanimity on that point. While the causes of this depression are several, there can be little doubt that •- the main cause is to be found in the protective tariff system. Nothing can be clearer than the fact that the duties on farm products have, in almost every case, no effect whatever in raising the prices of those products, 'since we are large exporters of nearly every form of farm/ produce, and our imports from Canada and other countries are so insignificant as to have no effect whatever in reducing prices with us. It is equally clear that the boasted advantage to the farmer of protection's home market is more fanciful than real; for this same home market pays notone cent more for farm produce than the “worn-out and effete nations Os Europe” pay, and the farmer seldom even knows whether he is selling for consumption in the home market or in foreign markets. But protection to manufacturersand miners costs this country an enormous sum every year. Who foots protection’s bills? Who but the consumer? But the farmers constitute the largest class of consumers in the land; and when we say that protection is a burden upon the consumer, it is the same thing as to say that the farmers bear the greater part of this burden. Moreover, the burden which protection lays upon the great masses of the people who are neither "farmers nor* manufacturers and mine owners is itself largely shifted to the i farmers and laboring people. The burden which protection lays upon the physician for medicine and for implements of surgery is shifted back upon his patients. In this way the rate of ultimate profit to the rion-proteeted classes, who are not ghle to shift their burdens back upon others, is largely reduced indirectly by protection, and the former does not know what struck him. Let not the farmer be deceived by the insincere rubbish about protection causing home competition to bring down prices of manufactured articles. The bull-dog tenacity with which the protected manufacturers fight for thtfir duties, and flock to Washington at great ex- • pendrture of time and money to got them, is a Sufficent answerrfo such nonsense. ‘ Our blessed tariff is levied on what a man spends, and the farmer spends all he makes. The tariff, therefore, lays a much greater burden proportionately,, upon him than upon the prosperous citizen who lays by half of what he makes. Again, the farmer does not buy much of those things which are not affected in price by th# tariff. Very few buy wheat, flour, corn, pork, or beef. They all buy clothing, machinery, and tools, crockery, furniture, and a hundred forms of manufactured articles. The farmer needs only to investigate prices in the markets of the world to discover what the tariff is doing to promote agricultural depression. Free Trade with Brazil. The Republican press everywhere is rejoicing in the fact that we are to have partial free trade with Brazil. It is a delightful sight to behold the men who have been denouncing free trade as a “ wicked British devise for ruining American industry now facing about under the euchantment of the “shrewd and weatherwise navigator" of the State Department, and praising absolute free trade with Brazil as a thing highly beneficial to our farmers and manufacturers The foreign market, which they have ‘ been laboring in season and out to prove worthless, unprofitable, uncertain, far away, expensive, and cursed with pauper labor, suddenly looms up as a thing of beauty. McKinley wanted to know only last May “what peculiar sanctity hangs about foreign trade,” and already the sanctity is discovered. There is to be an attempt to find “a foreign market for another barrel of pork and another bushel of wheat.” Os course the treaty with Brazil will be a good thing, so far as it will go, but our farmers must not expect it to go too far. The duties on farm products which Brazil will remove on the first of April are very small at present. What those duties are may be seen from the following statement from a commercial company in Now York: “Wheat, free; wheat flour, 10 per cent, ad valorem on a fixed valuation of 10 reis per kilogramme; corn, 10 per cent, ad valorem on a valuation of 5 reis per kilogramme; corn flour, 30 per cent, ad valorem on a valuation of 120 reis per kilogramme; rye, 10 per cent, ad valorem on a valuation of 20 reis per kilogramme; potatoes, beans, and peas, 10 per cent, ad valorem on a valuation of 5 reis per kilogramme; pork, 10 per cent ad valorem on a valuation of 40 reis per kilogramme; dry fish, 10 percent, ad valorem on a valuation of '2Qreis per kilogramme; canned fish, 30 per cent ad valorem on a. valuation of 300 reis per kilogramme; |

‘ turpentine, 10 per cent ad valorem on a valuation of 40 reis per kilogramme; rosin, 10 per cent, ad valorem on a valnl tion of 5 reis per kilogramme. “The old duties on the articles reduced by 25 per cent were chiefly as follows: Lard, 20 per cent advalorem on a valua- ■ tiyn of 120 reis per kilogram; cotton 1 clothing, as high as 30 per cent, adL valorem per 1,000 reis; stockings, 30 per cent upon a valuation of 2,0C0 reis per > dozen; shirts, 30 per cent, upon a valui ation of 8,500 reis per dozen. On some • dry goods the duty was as much as 30 per i cent, on a high valuation, while on dis- ■ ferent qualities of oil, machinery and ; naval stores it was very heavy. “The method of calculating these rei ductions of duty will now be. not to take I off 25 per cent, of the dutiable rate, as i for instance 16 instead of 20 per cent. • upon lard, but to lower the valuation by - 25 per cent, and calculate lard, for ins stance, at 20 per cent, on a valuation of ■ 96 reis per kilogram instead of on a val- , uation of 120 reis. A a half • cent., and a kilogram ifertwo and twotenths pounds. ” ) i ; THE CYCLONE OF FEAR. \ REDUCED WAGES IN PROTECTED INDUSTRIES. > McKinley’s Promise aifd the Manufactttri ers’ Performance—How the Workman Is i Failing; to Get the Tariff Spoils—How Labor Strikes—Figures of Strikes and Lockouts. - No one of the many superstitions in the who e system of protection is being so much damaged bi the light of experience and fact as tfe superstition that

BENNY THE KJffSUKRECTIONIST. OP f 0 —'A* — > *—J ■ 1 iWB A itJi But, alas’ It's buried fb deep and the corpse is so dead and the ground is frozen so hard that it’s.simply an awful job for the poor little manikin. “Dead for a ducat,” he moans — Chicago Herald.

protection raises wages. It was shown in the last Presidential election that this old stand-by of protectionist catch-words was losing its power among the workingmen in factory towns. In nearly all of the manufacturing centers of New England, where the “European pauper labor argument” was used persistently by the protectionists, the Democrats made gains in that election. “The cycloneuif fear” which had been predicted j&y'Chauncey M. Depew as the thing that was going to sweep the country was not realized among the workLngfpeople. If the cry.of high tariff and high wages failed then much more is it doompd to become a derision and a jest to-day. The McKinley tariff law went into operation on Oct. 6 last year with higher duties and the promise of higher wages. What has been the result on wages thus far? In two/tr three unimportant cases higher wages have been reported, but in a very large lumber of cases reductions have been made. Here is only a partial list of reductions of wages, nearly all of which have been made since Jan. 1: Brooke Iron Company, Birdsborough, Pehn., closed Feb. 2, and 450 men thrown out of work because they refused to accepts reduction of about 7 per cent. Ellis & Lessig Steel and Iron Company, Pottstown, Penn., closed Feb. 2; 700 men out of work because a reduction of 12 per cent, was rejected. Hopedale Fabric Mill, Hopedale, Mass.; wages of weavers reduced 2% cents a yard. Silk mill at Warehouse Point, Conn.; wages of winders and doublers reduced from 81.37 to $1 per day. Sturtevant Blower Works, Jamaica Plain, Mass.; reduction of from 10 to 30 per cent. Pottstown Iron Compan'y, Pottstown, Penn.; reduction of about 7 per cent. „ Bethlehem Iron Company, Bethlehem, Penn.; reduction of 10 per cent. Feb. 2. Pennsylvania Steel Company, Steelton, Penn.; reduction of from 8 to IQ per cent. Feb. 1. Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, Scranton, Penn.; an average reduction of 20 cents a day on Jan. 1. Steel Works, Carnegie, Phipps & Co.; 10 per cent, by agreement. Pullman Palace Car Company's works; new scale, making a reduction of about 10 per cent., brought Jan. 1. . Otis Iron and Steel t'ompany, Cleveland, Ohio; reduction of 30 per cent. Coal mines, Duquoin, 111., reduction from 69 to 60 cents per ton. Ribbon weavers in Paterson, N. J.; reduction of 15 per cent. Coal mines, near Leavenworth, Kan.; reduction of 11 per cent. Cocheco Manufacturing Company; wages of weavers reduced 4 per cent. Manufacturers of pottery, Trenton, N. J.; wages of sanitary ware pressers reduced 22 per cent. '• Merrimac Mills, Lowell, Mass; wages of mule spinners reduced 3 cents per hundred. Buckeye Mower and Reaper Works, Akron, Ohio; reduction of frojn 30 to 60 per cent, reported on Feb. 3. Saxony Knitting Mill, Little Falls, N. Y.; reduction of about 20 per cent Southern Steel Company, Chattanooga, Tenn.; reduction of 10 per cent. The official statistics of strikes and lockouts for the six years, 1881-’B6, as published by United States Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright in his third annual report, afford a striking commentary to .the oft-repeated assertion that protection raises wages and insures steady employment. In <£hc whole country there were dur ing these six years 22,304 strikes and 2,214 lockouts. Os the strikes, 9,439 were for increase of wages, 4,344 for re duction of hours, 1,734 against reduction of wages, 1,692 for increase of wages and reduction of hours, and so on to the smaller classes in which some special form of the wage question was under I dispute. Os the 2,214 lockouts, 314 were

against demand for increase of wages and 229 to enforce reduction of wages. Does protection then guarantee steady employment? Does it keep wages up to a point which satisfies the laborer? Is it not the height of folly to make claims about what protection can do in raising wages in the face pf the evident fact that it does slot give the laborer such wages as will keep him from striking? As the laborer is compelled to contest every inch of ground he gains Sy trades unions, by strikes, and by other mgfins, it will be difficult to persuade him that protection is a good thing for him. Me 4K>.y Prices Again. The talk about higher prices has broken out again. Some prices, after rising when the McKinley law was first imposed, have fallen to the old figure, and the protectionist organs are quick to point out this fact and to claim it as our first benefits of the McKinley law. But there is another side to the matter. The New York Dry Goods Economist, itself a supporter of a mild form of protection, now points out how some of These' lower prices have been brought about. It says it is by lowering the quality of the goods. “So in imjSbrted hosiery,” says the Economist, “we still have what is known in the trade as the •25-ceut stocking,’ but in quality and workmanship it is slightly inferior. It hgs been adroitly cheapened. The customer gets the article at the old price, but it is not as good, and no advertising lies canttinake it as good. ” The cheapening qf the stocking is not the Only case of thmkind. The Economist- says that the thing “has been, done in many cases. ” And so under the reign of McKinleyism cheap and nasty go together.

WOOL PRICES. The History of Wool Prices Shows that the Grower Bas No Interest in the Duty—Free Wool Wanted for Grower, Mannfactnrer, and Consumer. The recent declaration of the woolgrowers of Livingston and Ontario Counties, in the State of New York, in favor of free wool has attracted wide attention. Their denunciation of the wool duty as a “delusion and a snare to the woolgrower, ” is warranted by the history of wool prices since 1867, when the first high wool tariff was adopted. The prices’of wool for four years before and after that year are given in the following table: Price per Price per Year. pound, cts. Year. pound, cts. 1863 75 1868 -..46 1654.. 100 1869 48 1865.. 1 75 1870 46 1866 .... 70 1871 L....G2 Four years’av... .80 Four years’ av.SOW fn 1883 there was a change in the wool tariff amounting to a slight reduction. The prices for the four years before and after this change are given in the following table: Price per Price per Year. pound, cts. Year pound, cts. 1879 37 1884 ;.....34 1880 46 1885 31 1881 42 1886., 33 1882 .42 1887..... .....38 Four years’ av. 41% Four years' av.. .34 In view of figures like these, it is surprising that any farmer should want a duty on wool. A high protectionist paper, The Manufacturer, of Philadelphia, points out that a jhigl? duty on wool always results in 18wer prices for domestic wool. The question may arise then: “Would the removal of the wool tax raise the price of domestic wool?” Most likely it would. The manufacturers say that they reach the best results in making cloth when they mix American with foreign wool. An increased demand for foreign wool would, therefore, increase the demand for our own wool. Many mills now idle would begin work again, and American woolen cloth would be cheaper to the American consumer, and besides it could be profitably exported. When that change comes about it will not be possible for commercial journals to report, as they did last summer, that 60 per cent, of the woolen mills in the country are idle. While the wool grower has not prospered under high wool duties, no more have the manufacturers prospered. This fact is strikingly exhibited in the following table showing the number of woolen mills in the country and in the New England States in 1870 and in 1880: • “ Mills? states. De1870. 1880. cre’se P’r ct In all the States and Tcrri4»ries . 2,890 1,990] 31.14 In New England States— Connecticut "... 108 78 28.00 Maine ...J. 107 93 13.1 Massachusetts ,185 167 9.7 New Hampshire 77 58 24.7 Rhode Island 65 53 23.2 Vermont 65 44 32.3 Totals 607 490 19 3 From every standpoint, therefore, from that of the grower, the manufacturer and the consumer, free wool is the demand of the hour. It is only a piece of stupid folly to continue the wool tariff longer It is doomed; and in the interest of all the people it must go. Tire starch trust was organized nearly a year ago, and has already for months kept the price of starch fully a cent.per pound higher than before the combine was made. They have raised the price by about one-third. At the recent meeting of the trust dividends were* declared on three kinds of shares. The protective duty on starch is prohibitory. •' ’ ■ - • ...

PRACTICE, NOT THEORY. DR. TALMAGE CONTINUES HIS EVANGELICAL SERMONS. The Catholic Doctrine ot "Good Works.” Too Many Protestants Lay Too Little Stress on Works—Religion Should Go Into the Everyday Lite. Dr. Talmage took for .his text: “Faith without works is dead” (Jas. li, 20). “The Roman Catholic Church has been charged with putting too much stress upon good works and not enough upon faith. I charge Protestantism with putting not enough stress upon good works as connected with salvation. Good works will never save a man, but if a man have not good works he has no real faith and no genuine religion. There are those who depend upon the fact that they are all right inside, while their conduct is wrong outside. Their religion for the most part is made up of talk—vigorous talk, fluent talk, boastful talk, perpetual talk. They will entertain you by the hour**in telling you how good they are. They come up to such a higher life that we have. no patience .with ordinary Christians in the plain discharge of their duty.. As near as I can tell, this ocean craft is mostly sail and very little tonnage. Foretopmast staysail, foretopmast studding sail, maintopsail, mizzentopsail—everything from flying jib to mizzen I spanker, but making no useful voyage. Now the world has got tired of this, and it wants a religion that will work into all the circumstances of life. We do not want a new religion, but the old. religion applied in all possible directions. Yonder is a river with steep and rocky banks, and it roars like a young Niagara as it rolls on over its rough bed. It does nothing but talk about itself all the way from its source in the mountain •to the place where it empties into the sea. The banks are so steep the cattle cannot come down to drink. It does not run one fertilizing rill into the adjoining field. It has not one grist mill or factory on either side. It sulks in wet weather with chilling fogs. No one cares when that river is born among the rocks, and no one cares when it dies into the sea. But yonder is another river, and it mosses its banks with the warm tides, and it rocks with iioral lullaby the water lilies asleep on its bosom. It invites herds of flocks of sheep, and ? coveys of birds to come there and drink. I -It has three grist mills on one side and six cotton faetorys on the other. It is the wealth of two hundred miles of luxuriant farms. The birds of heaven chanted when it was born in the mountains, and the ocean shipping will press in from the sea to hail it as it comes down to the Atlantic coast. The one river is a man who lives for himself, the other rivfer is a man who lives for others. Do you know how the site of the ancient city of Jerusalem was chosen? There were two brothers who had adjoining farms. The one brother had a large family, the other had no family. The brother with a large family said,''' “There is my brother with no family; he must be lonely, and I will try to cheer him up, and I will take some of the sheaves from my field in the night time and set them over on his farm and say nothing about it” The other brother said, “My brother has a large family, and it is very difficult for him to support thens, and I will help him along, and I will take some of the sheaves from my own farm in the night and set them over on his farm and say nothing about it.” So the work of went on night after night, and night after night, but every morning things seemed to be just as they were, for though sheaves had been subtracted from each farm, sheaves had also been added, and the . "brothers were perplexed and could not understand. But one night the brothers happened to meet while making this generous transference, and the spot where they met was so sacred that it was chosen as the site of the city of Jerusalem. If that tradition should prove unfounded it will nevertheless as a beautiful allegory setting forth the idea that wherever a kindly and generous and loving act is performed that is the spot fit for some temple of commemoration. I have often spoken to you about faith, but now I speak to you about works, for “faith without works is dea<y’ I think you will agree with me in the statement that the great want of this world is more practical religion. We want practical religion to go into all merchandise. It will supervise the labeling of goods. It will not allow a man to say a thing was made in one factory when it wa§ made in another. It will not allow the merchant to say that w’atch was manufactured in Geneva, Switzerland, when it was manufactured in Massachusetts. It will not allow the merchant to say that wire came from Maderia when it came from California. Practical religion would walk along by the store shelves and tear off all the tags that make misrepresentation, It will npt allow the merchant to say that is pure coffee when dandelion root and chicory and other ingredients go into it. It will not allow him to say that is pure sugar when there are in it sand and ground glass. When practical religion gets its full swing in the world it will go down the street, and it will come to that shoe store and rip off the fictitious soles of many a fine looking pair of shoes, and show that it is pasteboard sandwiched between the sound leather. And this practical religion will go light into a grocery store, and it will pull out the plug of all the adulterated sirups, and it will dump into the ash barrel in front of the store the cassia bark that is sold for cinnamon and the brick dust that is sold for cayenne pepper, and it will shake out the Prussian blues from the tea leaves, and it will sift from the flour plaster of Paris and bone dust and soap stone, and it will by chemical analysis separate the one quart of Ridgewood water from the few honest drops of cow’s milk, and it will throw out the live animalcules from the brown sugar. There has been so much adulteration of artiles of food that it is an amazement to me that there is a halthy man or woman in America. Heaven only knows what they put into the spices, and into the apothecary drugs. But chemical analysis and the microscope have made wonderful rovolations. The board of health in Massachusetts analyzed a great amount of what was called pure coffee and found in it not one particle of coffee. In England there is a law that forbids the putting of alum in bread. The public authorities examined fifty-one packages of bread and found them all guilty. g The honest physician, writing a prescription, does not know but that it may bring death instead of health to his patient, because there may be one of the drugs weakened by a cheaper article, and another drug may be in full force, and so the prescription may have just the opposite effect intended. 041 of wormwood, warranted pure, from Boston, was found to have 41 per cent, of rosin and alcohol and chloroform. Scammony is one of the most valuable medical drugs. It is very rare, very precious. It is the sap or the gum of a tree or a bush in Syria. The root of the tree is exposed, an incision is made into the root, and then shells are placad at this incession to catch the sap or the gum as it exudes. Ik is very precious, this scammony. But the peasantry mixes it with cheaper material; then it is taken to Aleppo, and the merchant there mixes it with a 1 cheaper material; then it comes on to i ‘ '

the wholesale druggist m London or New York, and he mixes it with a cheaper material, then it comes to the retail druggist, and he mixes it with a cheaper material, and by the time the poor sick man gets it into his bottle it is ashes and chalk and sand, and some of what has been called pure scammony after analysis has been found to be no scammony at all. Now, practical religion will yet rectify all this. It will go to those hypocritical professors of religion who got a “corner’ in corn and wheat in Chicago and New York, sending prices up and up until they are beyond the reach of the poor, keeping these breadstuffs in their own hands, or controling them until, the prices going up and.up and up, they were after awhile ready to sell, and they sold out, making themselves millionaires in one or two years—trying to fix the matter with , the Lord by building a church, or a university, or a hospital—deluding themselves with the idea that the Lord would be so pleased with the gift He would forget the swindle. Now, as such a man may not have any liturgy in which to say his prayers, I will compose for him one which he practically is making: “O Lord, we, by getting a ’corner’ in breadstuffs, swindled the people of the United States out of ten million dollars, and made suffering all up=and down the land, and we would like to compromise this matter with Thee. Thou knowest it was a scaly job, but then it was smart I Now, here we compromise it. Take 1 per cent of the profits, and with that 1 per cent, you can build and asylum for these'poor miserable ragamuffins of the street, and I will take a yacht and goto Europe, for ever and ever, amen!” Ah, my friends, if a man has gotten his estate wrongfully, and he build a line of hospitals and universities from here to Alaska, he cannot atone for it After a while this man who has been getting a “corner” in wheat dies, and then Satan gets a "corner” on him. He goes into a great, long Black Friday. There is a “break” in the market. According to Wall street parlance, he wiped others out, and now he is himself wiped out No collaterals on which to make a spiritual loan. Eternal defalcation! But this practical religion will not only rectify all merchandise, it will also rectify all mechanism and all toil. A time will come when a man will work as faithfully by the job as he does by the day. Yes, this practical religion will also go into agriculture, which is proverbially honest, but needs to be rectified, and it will keep the farmer from sending to the New York market veal that is too young to kill, and when the farmer farms on shares it will keep the man who does the work from making his half three-fourths, and it will keep the farmer from building his post and rail fence on his neighbor’s premises, and it will make him shelter his cattle in the winter storm, and it will keep the old elder from working on Sunday afternoon in the new ground where nobody sees him. Yes, this practical religion of which I speak will come into the learned professions. The lawyer will feel his responsibility in defending innocence, and ararraigning evil, and expounding the law, and it will keep him from charging for briefs he never wrote, and for pleas he never made, and for percentages he never earned, and from robbing widow and orphan because they are defenseless. Yes, this practical religion will come into the physician’s life, an l he will feel his responsibility as the conservator of the public health, a profession honored by the fact that Christ himself was a physician. And it will make him honest, and when he does not understand a case he will say so, not trying to cover up a lack of diagnosis with ponderous technicalities, or send the patient to a reckless drug store because the apothecary happens to pay a percentage on prescriptions sent. Yes, this religion, this practical religion, will come and put its hand on. what is called good society, elevated society, successful society, so that people will have their expenditures within their income, and they will exchange the hypocritical “not at home” for the honest explanation “too tired” or “too busy to see you,” and will keep innocent reception from becoming intoxicating conviviality. Yes, there is a great opportunity for missionary work in what hre called the successful classes of society. It is no rare thing now to see a fashionable woman intoxicated in the street, or the railcar, or the restaurant. The number of fine ladies who drink too much is increasing. Perhaps you may find her at the reception in most exalted company, but she has made too many visits to’ the wine-room, and now her eye is glassy, and after a while her check is unnaturally flushed, and then she falls into fits of excruciating laughter about nothing, and then she offers sickening flatteries, telling some homely man how well ho looks, and then she is helped into the carriage, and by the time the carriage gets to her home it takes the husband and the coochman to get her up the stairs. The report is, she was taken suddenly ill at a german! Ah! no. She took too much champagne and mixed liquors, and got drunk. That was all. Yes, this practical religion will have to come in and fix up the marriage relation in America. There are members of churches who have too many wives and too many husbands. Society needs to be expurgated and washed and fumigated and Christianized. We have missionary societies to reform Elm street, in New York, Bedford street, Philadelphia, and Shoreditch, London, and the Brooklyn docks; the there is need of an organization to reform much that is going on in Beacon street and Madison Square and Rittenhouse Square and West End and Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill. We want this practical religion not only to take hold of what are called the lower classes, but to take hold of what are called the higher classes. The trouble is that people have an idea they can do all their religion on Sunday with hymn-book and prayerbook and liturgy, and some of them sit in church rolling up their eyes as though they were ready for translation, when their Sabbath is bounded on all sides by an inconsistent life, and while you are expecting to come out from under their arms the wings of an angel, there come out from their forehead the horns, of a beast. . There has got to be a new departure in religion. Ido not say a new religion. Oh, no; but the old religion brought to new appliances. In our time we have had the daguerreotype, and the ambrotype, and the photograph, but it is the same old these arts are only new appliances of the old sunlight So this glorious gospel is just what we want to photograph the image of God on one soul, and daguerreotype it on another soul. Not a new gospel, but the old gospel put to new work. Now you say, “That is a very beautfful'theory, but is it possible to take one’s religion into all the avocations and business of life?” Yes, and I will give you a few specimens. Medical doctors who took their ’cejlgion into everyday life: Dr. John Abercrombie, of Aberdeen, the greatest Scotish physician of his day, his book on “Diseases of the Brain and Spinal Cord” no more wonderful than his book on “The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings,” and often kneeling at the bedside of his patients to commend them to God in prayer. Dr. John Brown, of Edinburgh, immortal as an author, dying under the benediction of the Sick of Edinburgh, myself remembering him as he sat in his study in Edinburgh talking to z' '

me about Chrlstand His hope of Heaven. And a score of Christian family physicians in Brooklyn just as good as they were. Lawyers whocarried their religion into their profession. -The late Lord Cairns, the queen’s adviser for many years, the highest legal authority in Great Britain —Lord Cairns, every summer in his vacation, preaching as an evangelist among the poor of his country. John McLean, Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and President of the American Sunday School Union, feeling more satisfaction in t!he latter office than in the former.. And scores of Christian lawyers as eminent in the church of God as they are eminent at the bar. Merchants who took their religion into everyday life: Arthur Tappan, derided in his day because he established that system by which we come to find out the commercial standing of business men, starting that entire system, derided for it then, himself, as I knew him wellrin moral character Al. Monday mornings inviting to a room in the top of his storehouse the clerks of his establishment, asking them about their worldly interests, then giving out a hymn, leading in prayer, giving them a few Words of good advice, asking them what church they attended on the Sabbath what the text was, whether they had any especial troubles of their own. Arthur Tappan, 1 never heard his eulogy pronounced. I pronounce it now. And other merchants just as good. William L. Dodge in the iron business; Moses H. Grinnell, in the shipping business; Peter Cooper in the glue business. Scores of men just as good as they were. Farmers who take their religion into their occupation: Why, this minute their horses and wagons stand around all the meeting houses in America. They began this day by a prayer to God, and when they get home at noon, after they have put their horses up, will offer prayer to God at the table, seeking a blessing, and this summer there will be in their fields not one dishonest head of rye, not one dishonest ear of corn, not one dishonest apple. Worshiping God to-day away up among the Berkshire hills, or away down amid the lagoons of Florida, or away out among the mines of Colorado, or along the banks of the Passaic and the Rairitan, wherp I knew them bettor because I went to school with them. Mechanics who took their religion into their occupations: James Brindley, the famous millwright; Nathaniel Bowditch, the famous blacksmith, and hundreds and thousands of strong arms which have made the hammer, and the saw, and the adze, and the drill, and the ax sound in the. grand march of our national industries. Give your heart to God and then fill your life with good works. Consecrate to him your store, your shop, yobr banking house, your factory and your home. They say no one will hear it God will hear it. That is enough. You hardly know of any one else than Wellingon as connected with the victory at Waterloo: but he did not do the. hard fighting. The hard fighting was done by the Somerset cavalry, and the Ryland regiments, and Kempt’s infantry, and the Scots Grays and the Life Guards. Who cares, if only the day was won! In the latter part of the last century a girl in England became a kitchen ngaid in a farm house. She had many styles of work, and much bard work. Time rolled on, and she married the son of a weaver of Halifax. They were industrious; they saved money enough after a while to build them a home. On the morning of the day when they were to enter that home the young wife arose at 4 o’clock, entered the front door yard, knelt down, consecrated the place to God, and there made this solemn vow: “O Lord, if thou will bless me in this place, the poor shall have a share of it.” Time rolled on and a fortune rolled in. Children grew up around them, and they all became affluent; one, a member of Parliament, in a public place declared that his success came from that prayer of his mother in the door yard. All of them were affluent. Four thousand hands in their factories. They built dwelling houses for laborers at cheap rents, and when they werb invalid and could not pay they had the houses for nothing. One of these sons came to this country, admired our parks, went back, bought land, opened a great public park, and made it a present to the city of Halifax, England. They endowed an orphanage, they endowed two almshouses. All England has heard of the generosity and the good works of the Crossleys. Moral—Consecrate to God your small means and your humble surroundings, and you will have larger means and grander surroundings. “Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.” “Have faith in God by all means, but remember that faith without works is dead.” Lorenzo Dc’Medici. One afternoon, the Duke Lorenzo de’Medici in walking through the garden camo upon young Michael Angelo who was busily chiseling his first piece of sculpture. The Duke saw in the stone the face of a faun which the boy was copying from an antique mask, but which, with his usual impatience of imitation, he was changing so as to show the open lips and teeth. “How is it,” said the Duke, drawing closer, “that you have given your faun a complete set of teeth ? Don’t you know that such an old fellow was sure to have lost some of them ?” Michael Angelo at once saw the justice of the criticism. Artists are not always ready to receive adverse comment. Michael Angelo himself was quick-tempered and hard to move. A hot word to one of his boy companions on a certain occasion, brought so severe a blow in the face, that all truthful portraits cf Michael Angelo have since had to show him with a broken nose. But the Duke’s criticism was kindly given, and was plainly warranted, and the young sculpture could hardly wait until the Duke walked on before/ beginning the correction. When the Duke saw the faun’s face again he found some of the teeth gone, and the empty sockets skillfully chiseled out. Delighted with this evidence of the lad’s willingness to seize and act upon a suggestion, and impressed anew by his artistic skill, the Duke made inquiries, learned that Michael Angelo had borrowed stone and tools on his account in his eagerness to begin sculpture (he was first set at drawing from the statuary,) and ended by sending for the boy’s father. The result of the consultation was that the Duke took Michael Angelo under his own special patronage and protection, and was so well pleased after he had done it that no favor seemed too great to bestow upon the energetic young artist. Michael Angelo, then only fifteen, not only received a key to the Garden of Sculpture, and an apartment in the Medici Palace itself, but had a place at the Duke’s table. In fact, a real attachment grew up between Michael Angelo and the Duke, who frequently called the boy to his own rooms, when . he would open a cabinet of gems and * intaglios, seek his young visitor’s opinions, and enter into long and confidential talks. — Alexander Black, in St. Nicholas x

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