Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1891 — Page 2

THE DESIRE FORREFORM EX-GOV. MORTON ON THE FEELING IN THE WEST. Tariff Reform Still in the Front—Why the Farmers Are Not Deceived by Talk About Fauper Labor—Work of the Reform Club and How to Sustain it. Ex-Governor J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska, has recently spent several weeks in New York, making his headquarters while there at the Reform Club. .It will be remembered that it was this iclub which took so active a part in the ■Congress elections last fall in lowa, (Michigan, Illinois and other Western States. o Governor Morgan showed awhile" in New York a deep interest in the tariff reform propaganda which the club has undertaken. Being himself a non-resi-dent' member of the club, he was delighted to find that all the money paid to the club in the way of annual dues by out-of-town members goes directly into the work for tariff reform. To a member of the club he said on this point: “Every earnest tariff reformer in the West ought to be a member of this club. Everyman who can pay $lO a year will have the satisfaction of knowing that every penny of this goes towards supplying the sinews of war in this fight against an iniquitous tariff system. There are a great many men in the West who are able and willing to pay this sum, and would gladly do so if their attention were only called to the matter. “The protectionists ' have the advantage over us in one important respeck They can ‘fry the fat’ to an almost unlimited extent out of those who have large financial interests in protection. Now with us the case is different. On our side the financial interest in abolisht ing protection is not so great with any • .one Individual. There are many manu- , facturers who are interested to the extent of thousands of dollars a year in keeping up protection- The opponents of protection have a financial interest, in abolishing the system; but as with them the interest of each man is less than on the protection side there is less disposition to contribute money to carry on your educational campaign. “Now it seems to mo that there ought tobo many men who are willing to join this club and give $lO a year to help you to keep up this agitation. The legitimate expenses of your work of organize Ing meetings at distant points and sending out speakers to them and also iii supplying tariff-reform matter to a largo number of newspapers must be very great. The country should come to your help.” Gov. Morton was asked whether the desire for tariff reform was growing in Nebraska. “Yes,” he answered, “the yearning for commercial freedom is becoming more > and more general and more and more intense among the farmers of the Northwest. “They find that protection compels them to buy of American manufacturers 'heir farm implements at artificially enhanced prices. The Oliver steel plows, made at’South Bend, Ind., sells for less in Canada than in the United States, and so — very often— do Diston’s saws. And while the Northwestern farmer buys in a protected he sells in a free trade market His meats and breadstuffs are fixed, as to prices, by the Liverpool and London markets. He sells against all creation, and he buys where all creation is shut out from competing with the pampered protectees of the McKinley tariff., “The farmer sees that the profits of capital are the leavings of wages. After operatives are paid off the dividend fund is left, as is also a sinking fund, betterments and other increments, for the manufacturer. The farmer knows that under protection millionaires, in manufacturing ventures, have spawned and throve, like skippers in a cheese, all over the Middle and Eastern States. And it follows logically that the great fortnnes —made with greater celerity in America than elsewhere on earth—like Carnegie's, must arise from very large leavings of wages for division among the capitalists. “For this reason farmers, mechanics, and laborers generally are beginning to discriminate between high wages and v high cost of labor. It is plain to them that a skilled laborer in the United States, who gets in steel-rail manufacturing $4 a day, may leave the finished steel rail with less cost of labor in it than a less-skilled, less-alert artisan in England leaves in the steel rail made there by labor costing only $2 a day. “Denominational wages are one thing and the cost of labor is another; the former may be very high and the latter very low. Some farm hands are cheaper • at $25 a month than others at sls. cost of labor in grain grown by the former is less than that cost in grain grown by the latter sort of labor. One ' good farm hand will cultivato’well forty \ forty acres of corn in Nebraska, and get from that area 2,000 bushels. But a lazy, inefficient, slovenly man will half L till the same acreage and produce only 1,000 bushels. If the former is paid S2O and the latter sls a month, the cost of labor in the is much greater than in the 2,000. The Alliance people are now thinking upon this economic question, and will not easily be bamboozled by the McKinley assumptions and assertions about •protecting the wage-earners. ’ “Alliance men arc among themselves absolute free traders. They sell to the merchants who will pay highest for farm products, and then they buy of those who will give the most commodities for those products, direct or in cash. The farmer and his merchant trade with each other just as long as they each find it advantageous to do so. The moment either finds the exchange*unprofitable, trade between them stops—unprofitable commerce always diest All legitimate exchanges are' mutually advantageous, both between persons and between people—nations. “The United States had a growing trade with Europe. Her merchantmen flecked ■every sea. Transoceanic commerce grew apace. It must have been profitable, or it would have perished of its own unprofitableness. But it grew and grew until the Morlll tariff—and now the McKinley tariff—was enacted to kill It—to abolish that which was mutually profitable—to eradicate the commercial . advantages which —under comparative freedom—were mutual, natural, just an 1 Labor Does Not Believe Jt. The silk-workers have had hard experience in the matter of wages for the past year. Reductions in wages are very frequent in the silk industry just now, and the Master Workman of the Silk-workers’ Association declares that wages have in some cases been cut down 50 per cent, within a year. It is only natural, therefore, that the in their recent convention should have passed the following resolutions: Whereas, The silk industry of the United States, despite the high protective tariff, is at present in a most deplorable, condition, wages being so low that skilled operators are seeking other occupations, and in view oi the fact that since 1889 the wages of ribbon weavers have been reduced 58 per rent.. be it Resolved, That the representatives of the United States Silk-Workers of North America, now In seesion, appeal to the friends of , American labor not to purchase silk fabrics ot foreign manufacture, which are actually inferior to thoee made here: and be it JBmotoed, That In our opinion neither pro-

tectlon nor free trade benefits the workman. and we therefore call upon all silkworkers who are unorganized to band themselves together into the national body, and it is our further opinion that the only protection workingmen will ever receive will be that they give themselves. The silk industry is protected by duties of 50 to 60 per cent Why does not this protection secure good wages to the workers? LET THE POOR USE SHODDY. So Says Judge Lawrence, oi Ohio—Carpets ot Shoddy and Cow Hair—Greed of Protective Interests. Judge Lawrence, one of the Ohio political wool-growers, writes to the Boston Journal of Commerce a long letter advocating the total exclusion of carpet wools from this country. “The duties on carpets,” says Judge Lawrence, “are substantially prohibitory; they are entirely so on all carpets of classes made in the United States. The duties on coarse wools should be equally so, even if used only for carpets.” Although we grow almost no carpet wool in this country, for the simple reason that it pays better to grow clothing wool. Judge Lawrence would exclude foreign carpot wools entirely, and thus compel the carpet manufacturers to use in their carpets some of the low grades of wool now going into cloth. This would increase the price of Judge Lawrence's wool; and that is just what he is striking for. But it would increase the price of carpets, too. Here, however, the Ohio shepherd proposes a frank and brutal way of making a low grade of carpet for those who are compelled to buy cheap stuff. He says use shoddy. Here are his words: “If a still cheaper variety of carpets be required, as there always will be, they can be made from a mixture of such coarse wool with shoddy and cow hair sufficiently cheap.” Judge Lawrence ougjit to know that our cheap carpets are already made largely of “shoddy and c&w hair.” Re-, cent improvements in shoddy spinning machinery, however, are rapidly increasing the use of shoddy in carpets. The frankness and the audacity of Judge Lawrence’s declaration for shoddy carpets for the poorer people should enlighten these people somewhat as to the spirit of protected interests generally. That declaration is but another proof 'that these protected interests are to enrich tbemsajygs at whatever cost to the people. Let all the poorer people in the land use shoddy carpets, but Judge Lawrence must have his wool ' duty! | But the day of these wool politicians is passing. Even such a dyed-in-the-wool protectionist paper as the Journal of Commerce tells Judge Lawrence something for his benefit which shows how the tide is setting. The Journal says: “It is our impression, from the knowledge we have of the sentiment of woolen manufacturers on the tariff question, that the aggressive policy of wool growers or their representatives will, in time, and that not far distant, arouse an antagonism on the part of manufacturersto all tariff restrictions on the imports ; of raw materials, regardless of threats ; concerning the tariff on manufactured articles.” A Hinge Trust. The Iron Age, a high tariff trade paper, prints the following piece of news: “The negotiations which have been in i progress for some time between the man- I ufacturers of strap and T hinges have I resulted in the formation of a strap and | T hinge association, which consists of : the following concerns: Stanley works, McKinley Manufacturing Company. E. W. Gilmore & Co., Lindsay & McCutcheon, C. Hager «fc Sons Hinge Company. A new list has been adopted. The new prices represent an advance on the goods generally ranging from 5 to 10 per cent, on strap hinges end something like 20 per cent on T hinges. ” Thus the industries of this country are gradually being consolidated into trusts. It is said by a competent authority that nine-tenths of our industries are'already controlled by trusts-and combinations to control prices and output The old duty on these hinges was 2% cents a pound, and was practically prohibitory, only $2,37? worth of bolts, rivets, hinges, and hinge blanks having been imported last year. McKinley ; made the trifling reduction of a quarter j of a cent per pound, leaving the rate I still substantially prohibitory, as may 1 be seen, from the fact that this hinge trust is able to raise prices from 5 to 20 per cent. There may be some dispute as to whether or not our manufacturers have the right to form trusts. However that may be, our people are great fools to continue to vote for the high protective duties which give these trusts a defense against outside competition. When industries combine and put up prices, it is time to cut off their protection at a single stroke. A W indow-Glass Trust. There was talk of the formation of a window-glass trust last fall durihg the campaign. At that time Secretary Foster, who is largely interested in the manufacture of window-glass, was reported to be opposed to the formation, being then a candidate for Congress. One or more of the other large manufacturers held out against the trust proposal, and the scheme came to nothing then. The talk about a trust has been revived, and now the trust is considered much more probable. The New York Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter, which is an organ of the glass trade, has i recently pointed out how the difficulties I formerly encountered have mostly disappeared, and then continues: “Another deterring cause has been removed by the appointment of Mr. : Charles Foster to the Treasury portfolio 1 in the President's Cabinet. Mr. Foster controls large glass manufacturing interests and at the same time is prominently identified with politics. He was a candidate for Congress when the subject of a consolidation of glass interests was first mooted, and the public outcry against trusts made him at once an enemy of the scheme, because to be connected with such a movement at the time might have ruined his chances of political preferment As he is now placed in a position where condemnation ' of commercial combinations by the pub- 1 lie —under mistaken impressions or otherwise—is likely to do him and his political aspirations no damage, his co-operation, i at least in the-schemo may be expected ” ; The same journal points out that one ; of the leading manufacturers has recently put up i rices 20 per cent. Such is the working o' the high McKinSey pro- ! tection oi glass. Trusts and higher ' prices are the order of the day. Coming Horrors. How few people in the commoner walks of life, who are hardly able to earn a subsistence, realize the burden the coming World’s Fair will be to them. The hospitality of everybody will be taxed beyond the limit of endurance. All the relatives to the third remove, the schoolmates, the personal friends, the uncles, cousins and aunts will come as the leaves come when for- . ests are rended, or as the waves come when navies are stranded. How is the householder who now barely keeps out of the dutches of the “butcher, the baker and the candle-stick-maker” going to stand this strain? He will be expected to

' = give time that he cannot spare to show his visitors the sights, pay their street car and suburban ear fare, and for tickets to places of amusement, till his empty wallet aches and his discouraged heart sinks into his left boot. Men are already planning to sell out their homes and buy or rent in Aurora, Elgin, and Joliet till after the fair, for it is either this or suicide. A grasshopper plague would be a soothing mercy compared with the visitations of 1893 and the hungry hordes which will then devastate us and render us homeless, bankrupt, and forlorn. Every contemplated marriage should at once be postponed tiH November, 1893, as a means of escape from the devouring horrors of the coming fair.— Pullman (HL) Journal. IMPORTED INDUSTRIES. WHY A GERMAN MANUFACTURER DID NOT BUILD HERE. The High Tax oh Raw Materials Frightened Him—This Tax Would Keep Him Out of the World’s Market—Pauper Labor and Pauper Goods. The high McKinley duties on many kinds of goods have already compelled some European manufacturers to set up lactories in the United States to get their part in the tariff spoils, and still others will doubtless be induced to open branch establishments here. Republican otgans print news about these imported industries with many expressions of satisfaction, and point to the importation of industries as one of the best effects of the McKinley tariff law. But they do not reflect that when a mill-owner in Europe goes to the trouble and expense of shipping his machinery to America, buildirfg a new factory and putting it into operation, there must be some special hope of gain held out to him. Protectionists assert that the tariff lowers prices; but clearly the foreign manufacturer does not come hero to get Iqwer prices for his goods. He comes for higher prices—for McKinley tariff prices. An interesting case, however, is that of a German manufacturer of woolen goods, who came here to look over the ground and went home without deciding to build a plant in America. His reasons for not. building here are highly interesting from a tariff standpoint. The manufacturer gives the reasons why, after careful observation in his travels and upon ripe reflection, he concluded not to transfer his industry to this conn-* try. The first of these he declares to be the high duties on rilw wool, yarn and dye stuffs, which make it hard for American manufacturers to compete in the home markets with their European rivals, notwithstanding the heavy duties on woolens, and secure an outlet for their surplus products in neutral markets. While the American manufacturers of woolens are absolutely and inexorably confined to the home their competitors in England, Germany and France, with free wool, have the world for their customer. While this manufacturer found the high duties on wool a great hindrance to cheap woolen manufacture in the United States, he did not find near so great a difference in wages as the protectionists have often asserted to exist between this country and Germany. He says that, after personal inquiries in the industrial districts of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, he finds that the average rate is scarcely 25 per cent, higher than in Germany. He asks what this amounts to when the woolen products are subject i to duties ranging .from 80 to 100 per cent. Yet the advocates of protective spoliation incessantly repeat the fiction that the McKinley tariff is so adjusted as only to compensate American manufacturers for the difference in wages in this country and in Europe. The fact is that when the actual production of a day’s labor is taken into consideration the wages in the woolen factories of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts are lower than in France and Germany. This has been conclusively shown by experts who have examined the processes of manufacture in this country and in Europe, and have made comparisons as to the actual labor cost in a yard of goods. Such a comparison the protectionists will never make. They always take the wages paid in Europe by the day or by the week, and compare them with the daily or weekly wages in the United States. Yet it must be clear to even a half-intelligent mind that the only valid comparison is that of the labor cost in the yard, the pound, etc. On this point the great contention of the protectionists as to the “pauper labor” of Europe breaks down completely; for if we can make a yard of cloth with less labor than they can in Europe, it is folly to talk longer about the “pauper-made goods” of Europe. Truck Farming. Truck farming is market gardening carried on so far away from centers of consumption as to require railway and vessel carriage to get the products to market. Long lines of railway have made such farming possible, and now North and South Carolina planters can daily send their “truck” to Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. So far the Census Bureau finds that about 600,000 acres of land are devoted to this kind of. farming, and that $100,000,000 are invested in the industry, and that the annual products are worth nearly $80,000,000 after paying freights and commissions. These farms employ 217,000 men, 9,000 women, and 15,000 children. Seventy-six thousand horses and mules are employed in the work, and nine million dollars’ worth of implements. This industry has sprung into existence in the past ten years, and is growing very rapidly. It seems like pretty good farming which realizes $l3O gross income an acre on the land tilled. From Bergen, Norway, comes the news of a practical charity contemplating relief to a deserving class, which, however, in our changing domestic conditions does not make so ready a o 11 upon our sympathies as in older lands. Mrs. C. Soudt has given two houses and 50,000 kr. to establish a home for aged women servants no longer able to work for their own support. The bad outlook for the European wheat crop has caused an advance in the price of wheat in our markets. The for eign demand for our wheat, it is thought, will be unusually large this year. As the foreigner buys more largely of our wheat, our farmers learn the importance of their foreign market Would it not be a good thing to enlarge and extend the foreign market for our farm products by taking foreign goods more freely in change for them. Stowed away in one of the rooms at the Capitol in Montpelier, Vt, are the remains of the first printing press brought to this country. Upon it was printed the freemen’s oath for Massachusetts, the first thing printed in British North America. If you want to see jerked beef, come down and watch a Texas cowboy lasso a running steer. 'S' s -4. . ,

HI NEW TABERNACLE. TALMAGE'S GRAPHIC REVIEW OF THE BUILDING. The Passage of Jordan bj’ the Israelites— The Many Discouragements in Building tho New Structure—Stones from Sinai and Athens—A Church for All* Six thousand persons were present at the dedication of the new Brooklyn Tabernacle, and many thousands were turned away. Text, “What mean ye by these stones?” (Joshua iv. 6). The. Jordan, like the Mississippi, has bluffs on the one side and fiats on the other. Here and there a sycamore shadows it. Here and there a willow dips into it. It was only a little over waist deep in December as I waded through it, but in the months of April and May the snows on Mount Lebanon thaw and flow down into the vallgy, and then the Jordan overflows its banks, Then it is wide, deep, raging and impetuous. At this season of the year I hear the tramp of' 40,000 armed men coming down to cross the river. You say, whv do they not go up nearer the rise of the river at the old camel ford? Ah! my friends, it is because it is not safe to go around when the Lord tells us to go ahead. The Israelites had been going around forty years, and they had enough of it. I do not know how it is with you, my brethren, but I have always got into trouble when I went around, but always not into safety when I went ahead. There spreads out the Jordan, a raging torrent, much of it snow water just come down from the mountain top; and I see some of the Israelites shivering at the idea of plunging in, and one soldier says to his comrade, “Joseph, can you swim?” And another says: “If we get across the stream we will get there with wet clothes and with damaged armor, and tho Canaanites will slash us to pieces with theii’ swords before we get up the other bank.” But it is no time to halt. The great host marches on. k The priests carrying the ark go ahead, the people follow. I hear the tramp of the great multitude.' The priests have now come within a stone’s throw of the water. Yet still there is no abatement of the flood. Now they have come within four or five feet of the stream; but there is no abatement of the flood. Bad prospect! It see ins as if these Israelites that crossed the desert are now going to be drowned in sight of Canaan. But “Forward!” is the cry. The command rings all along the line of the host. “Forward!” Now the priests have come within one - step of the river. This time they lift their feet from the solid ground and putthem down into the raging stream. No sooner are their feet there than Jordan flies. On the right hand God piles up a great mountain of floods; on the left, the water flows off toward the sea. The great river for hours halts and rears. The back water not being able to flow over the passing Israelites, pile wave on wave until perhaps a sea bird would find some difficulty in scaling the water cliff. Now the priests and all the people have gone over on dry land. The water on the left hand side by this time has reached the sea; and now that the miraculous passage has been made, stand back and see this stupendous pile of waters leap. God takes his hand from that wall of floods, and like a hundred cataracts they plunge and roar in thunderous triumph to the sea. How are they to celebrate this passage? Shall it be with music? I suppose the trumpet and cymbals were all worn out before this. Shall it be with banners waving? Oh, no; they are all faded and torn. Joshua crias out, “j will tell you how to celebrate this—build a monument here to commemorate the event;” and every priest puts a heavy stone on his shoulder and marches out, and dropa that stoqe in the divinely appointed place. I see the pile growing in height, in breadth, in significance; and in after years, men went by that spot' and saw this monument, and cried out one to another, in fulfillment of the prophecy of the text, “What meant ye by these stones?” Blessed be God, He did not leave our church in the wilderness! We have been wandering about for a year and a half worshiping in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, and the Academy of Music, New York. And some thought we would never reach the promised land. Some said we had better take this route and others that Some said we had better go back, and some said there were sons of Anak in the way that would eat us up, and before the smoke had cleared away from the sky after our tabernacle had been consumed, people stood on the very site of the place and said, “This church will never again be built.” We came down to the bank*of Jordan; we looked off upon the waters. Some of the sympathy that was expressed turned out to be %pow water melted from the top of Lebanon. Some said, “You had better not go in; you will get your feet wet.” But we waded in, pastor and people, farther and farther, and in some way, the Lord only knows how, we got through; and to-night Igo all around about this great house, erected by your prayers and sympathies and sacrifices, and cry out in the words of my text, “What mean ye by these stones?” It is an outrage to build a house like this, so vast and so magnificent, unless there be some tremendous reasons for doing it; and so, my friends, I pursue you to-night with the question of my text, aqd demand of these trustees and of these elders and of all who have contributed in the building of this structure, “What mean ye by these stones?” Bdt before I get your answer to my question you interrupt me and point to the memorial wall at the side of this pulpit,and say, “Explain that unusual group of memorials. What mean you by those stones?” By permission of the people of my beloved charge I recently visited the Holy Lands, and having in mind by day and night during my absence this rising house of prayer, I bethought myself, “What can I do to make that place significant and glorious?” On the morning of December the 3d we were at the foot of the most sacred mountain of all the earth,Mount Calvary. There is no more doubt of the locality than of Mount Washington or Mount Blanc. On the bluff of this mountain, which is the shape of the human skull, and so called in the Bible, “The place of a skull,” there is room for three crosses. There I saw a stone so suggestive I rolled it down the hill and transported it. It is at the top of this wall, & white stone, with crimson veins running through it—the white typical of purity, the crimson suggestive of the blood that paid the price of our redemption. We place it at the top of the memorial wall, for above all in this church for all time, in sermon and song and prayer, shall be the sacrifice of Mount Calvary. Look at it. That stone was one of the’ rocks rent at the crucifixion. That heard the cry, “It is finished.” Was ever any church on earth honored with such a memorial? Beneath are two tables of stone, which I had brought from Mount Sinai where the law was given. Three camels were three weeks crossing the desert to fetch them. When at Cairo, Egypt, I proposed to the Christian Arab that he bring one stone from Mount Sinai, he said, “We can easier bring two roeks than one, for one must balance them on the back of the camel,” and I did not think until the day of their arrival how much more suggestive would be the two, because the

law wad write* on two tables of stone. Those stones marked with the words, “Mount Sinai” felt the earthquake that shook the mountains when the law was given. The lower stone of the wall is from Mars Hill, the place where Paul stood when he preached that famous sermon on the brotherhood of the human race, declaring. “God hath made of dhe blood all nations.” Since Lord Elgin took the famous statuary from the Acropolis, the hill adjoining Mars Hill, the Greek Government makes it impossible to transport to other lands any antiquities, and armed soldiery guard not only the Acropolis but Mars Hill. That stone I obtained by special permission from the Queen of Greece, a most sagacious and brilliant woman, who received us as though we had been old acquaintances, and through Mr. Tricoupis, Prime Minister of Greece, and Mr. Snowden, our American Minister Plenipotentiary, and Dr. Manatt, our American Consul, that suggestive tablet was sawed from the pulpit of rock on which Paul preached. Now you understand why we have marked it “The Gospel.” Long after my lips shall utter in this church their last message, these lips of stone will tell of the Law, and the Sacrifices, and the Gospel. This day I present them to this church and to all who shall gaze upon them. Thus you have my answer to the question, “What mean you by these stones?” But you cannot divert me from the text as I first put it. I have interpreted these four memorials on my right ha’nd, but there are hundreds of stones in these surrounding walls and underneath us, in the foundations, and rising above us in the towers. The quarries of this and transatlantic countries at the call of crowbar and chisel have contributed toward this structure. “What mean ye by these stones? You mean among other things that they shall be an earthly residence for Christ. Christ did not have much of a home when He was here. Who and where is that child crying? It is Jesus, born in an outhouse. Where is that hard breathing? It is Jesus, asleep on a rock. Who is that in the back part of the fishing smack, with a sailor’s rough overcoat thrown over him? It is Jesus the worn out vovager. O Jesus! is it nottimethat thou hadst a house? We give thee this. Thou didst give it to us first, but we give it back to thee. It is too good for us, but not halt good enough for thee. Oh! come in and take the best seat here. Walk up and down all these aisles. Speak through these organ pipes. Throw thine arm over us in these arches. In the flaming of these brackets of tire speak to us, saying, “I am the light of the world.” O King! make this thine audience chamber. Here proclaim righteousness and make treaties. We dap our hands, we uncover our heads, we lift our ensigns, we cry with multitudinous acclamation until the place rings and the heavens listen, “O King! live forever!” Is it not time that He who was born in a stranger’s house and buried ina stranger’s grave should have an earthly house? Come in, O Jesus! not the corpse of a buried Christ, but a radiant and triumphant Jesus, conqueror of earth and Heaven and hell. He lives, all glory to His name, He lives, my .leans, still the same. Oh, the sweet joy this sentence gives— I know that my Redeemer lives. Blessed be His glorious name forever! Again, if any one asks the question of the text, “What mean ye by these stones?” the reply is we mean the communion of saints. Do you know that there is not a single denomination of Christians in Brooklyn that has not contributed something toward the building of this house? And if ever, standing in this place, there shall be a man who shall try by anything ho says to stir up bitterness between different denominations of Christians, may his tongue falter, and his cheek blanch, and his heart stop! My friends, if there is any church on earth where there is a mingling of all denominations it is our church. 1 just wish that John Calvin and Arminius, if they were not too busy, would come out on the battlements and see us. Sometimes in our prayer-meetings I have heard brethren use the phrases of a beautiful liturgy, and we know where they come from; and in the same prayermeetings I have heard brethren make audible ejaculation, “Amen!” “Praise ye the Lord!” and we did not have to guess twice where they came from. When a man knocks at our door, if he comes from a sect where they will, not give him a certificate, we say: “Come in by confession of faith.” While Adoniram Judson the Baptist, and John Wesley the Methodist, and John Knox the glorious old Scotch Presbyterian are shaking hands in Heaven, all churches op. earth can afford to come into close communication: “One Lord, one faith, one baptism.” Oh, my brethren, we have had enough of Big Bethel fights—the Fourteenth New York Regiment fighting the Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment. Now, let all those who are for Christ andstand on the same side go shoulder to shoulder, and this church, instead of having a sprinkling of the divine blessing, go clear under the wave in rone glorious imtnersion in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. I saw a little child once, in its dying hour, put one arm around its father’s neck and the other arm around its mother’s neck and bring them close down to its dying lips and give a last kiss. Oh, I said, those two persons will stand very near to each other always after such an interlocking. The dying Christ puts one arm around this denomination of Christians, and the other arm around that denomination of Christians, and He brings them down to His dying lips while He gives them this parting kiss: “My peace I leave with you. Mk peace I give unto you.” V How swift the heavenly course they run. Whose hearts and faith and hopes are one. I heard a Baptist minister' once say that he thought in the millennium it would be all one great Baptist Church, and I heard a Methodist minister say that he thought in the great millennial day it would be all one great Methodist Church; and I have known a Presbyterian minister who. thought that in the millennial day it would -be all one great Presbyterian Church. Now I think they are all mistaken. I think the millennial church will be a composite church; and just as you may take the best parts of five or six tunes, and under the skillful hands of a Handel, Mozart, or Beethoven entwine them into one grand and overpowering symphony, so, I suppose, in the latter days of the world. God will take the best parts of all denominations of Christians, and weave them into one great ecclesiastical harmony, broad as the earth and high as the Heavens, and that will be the church of the future. Or, as mosaic is made up of jasper and agate and many precious stones cemented together—mosaic a thousand feet square in St Mark’s, or mosaic hoisted in colossal scraphin in St Sophio—so I suppose God will make, after awhile, one great blending of all creeds, and all faiths, and all Christian sentiments, the amethyst and the jasper, and the chalcedony of all different experiences and belief, cemented side by side in the great mosaic of the ages; and while the nations look upon the columns and architraves of that stupendous church of the future, and cry out, “What mean ye by these stones?” there shalhbe innumerable voices to respond, “We mean the Lord God omnipotent reigneth,” Still further, you mean by these stones the salvation of the people. We did not build this church for mere worldly reform* or for an educational institution.

or as a platform upon which to read eesays and philosophical disquisitions, but a place for the tremendous work of soul saving. Oh, I had rather be the means in this church of having one soul prepared for a joyous eternity than five thousand souls prepared for mere worldly success. All churches art in two classes, all communities in two classes, all the race in two classes—believers and unbelievers. To augment the number of the one and subtract from the number of the other we built this church, and toward that supreme and eternal idea we dedicate all our sermons, all our songs, all our prayers, all our Sabbath handshakings. We want to throw defection into the enemy’s ranks. We want to make them either surrender unconditionally to Christ or else fly in rout, scattering the way with canteens, blankets, and knapsacks. We want to popularize Christ. Wewould like to tell the story of His love here until men would feel that they would rather die than live another honr without His sympathy and love and mercy. We want to rouse up an enthusiasm for Him greater than was felt for Nathaniel Lyon when he rode along the ranks; greater than was exibited for Wellington when he came back from Waterloo; greater than was expressed for Napoleon when he stepped ashore from Elba. We really believe in this place Christ will enact the same scenes that were enacted by Him when He landed in the orient, and there will be such an opening of blind eyes and unstopping of deaj ears and casting out of unclean spirits such silencing bestormed Gennesarets as shall make this house memorable five hundred years after you and I are dead and forgotten. Oh, try friends, we want but one revival in this church, that beginning now and running on to the day when the chisel of time, that brings down even St. Paul’s and the Pyramids, shall bring this house into the dust. Oh, that this day of dedication might be the day of emancipation of all imprisoned souls. My friends, do not make the blunder of the ship carpenters in Noah’s time, who helped to build the ark, but did not get into it. God forbid that you who have been so generous in building this church should not get under its saving influence. “Come thou and all thy house into the ark? Do you think a man is safe out of Christ? Not one day, not one hour, not one minute, not one second. Three or four years ago, you remember, a rail train broke down a bridge on the way to Albany, and after the catastrophe they were looking around among the timbers of the crushed bridge and the fallen train and found the conductor. He was dying, and had only strength to say one thing, and that was, “Hoist the flag for the next train.” So there come to us to-night, from the eternal word, voices of angels, voices of departed spirits, crying: “Lift the warming. Blow the trumpet. Give the alarm. Hoist the flag for the next train.” Oh. that to-night my Lord Jesus would sweep His arm around this great audience and take you all to His holy heart. You will never see so good a time for personal consecration as now. “What mean ye by these stones?” We mean your redemption from sin and death and hell by the power of an omnipotent gospel. Well, the Brooklyn Tabernacle is erected again. We came here to-night no tto dedicate it. That was done this morning. To-night we dedicate ourse ves. In the Episcopal and Methodist cj/urches they have a railing around the and the people come and kneel aUWn at that railing and get the sacramental blessing. Well, my friends, it would take more than a night to gather you in circles around this altar. Then just bow where you are for the blessing. Aged men, this is the last church that you will ever dedicate. May the God who comforted Jacob the Patriarch, and Paul the aged, make this house to "you the gate of Heaven; and when, in your old days, you put on your spectacles to read the hymn or the Scripture lesson, may you get preparation for that land where you shall no more see through a glass darkly. May the warm sunshine of Heaven thaw the snow off your foreheads! Men in midlife, do you know that this is the place where you are going to get yonr fatigues rested and your sorrows appeased and your souls saved? Do you know that at this altar your sons and daughters will take upon themselves the vows of the Christian, and from this place you will carry out, some of you, your precious dead? . Between this baptismal font and this communion table you will have some of the tenderest of life’s experiences. God bless you, old and young and middle aged. The money you have given to this church to-day wiil be, I hope, the best financial investment you have ever made. Your worldly investments may depend upon the whims of the money market, or the honesty of business associates, but the money you have given to the house of the Lord shall yield you large percentage, and declare eternal dividends long after the noonday sun shall have gone out like a spark from a smitten anvil and all the stars are dead. Fashionable Vulgarity. Men and women exhibit more or less vulgarity in all the various classes into which social laws divide mankind. Many are measurably excusable for vulgarity, because they have had little or no opportunity to become anything better ;;but even among those who have been denied the advantages of culture or refining associations there are many who, however uncultivated, are never vulgar. The vulgarity that is most conspicuous and least excusable is that often ostentatiously exhibited by men and women who have enjoyed the advantages of what they call the best culture and surroundings; who claim to be gentiemen and ladies par excellence. It would be most unjust to say that exhibitions of vulgarity are common among cultivated men and women; but it is undeniably true that some of the most offensive exhibitions of vulgarity are made by men and women who assume to be leaders of refined society. One of the most common and unpardonable vulgarisms is that exhibited by men and women at places of public amusement. There is hardly a week that some of our best theaters are not disgraced by the brazen vulgarity of fashionable parties. Sometimes they occupy the boxes, tmd by their loud ■ and incessant conversation and exclamations, deprive a full hundred quiet spectators from hearing or enjoying the play. Sometimes they take a prominent row of seats, and disturb actors, audience and orchestra with their loud conversation, vulgar criticism and more vulgar exhibition of contempt for the better people around them. Sometimes the vulgarity is heightened by men, miscalled gentlemen, who are intoxicated; not too drunk, but just drunk enough to be entertaining to these women, miscalled ladies, and excessively annoying to scores of people around them. Unfashionable people don’t exhibit such vulgarity, for the very good reasons that, as a rule, they have too much self-respect to be guilty of it, and they would be admonished or ordered out by the ushers if they so offended.—PAtiadetphia Timea. Tn age at which many marry—4hs eonage.—Jfw Fork Star.

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