Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1896 — Page 6

1* s> IJI T 1 HUNG Ps I Chang R 21 H J J 1 eserves I 0 S the title of th® & > B rt "grand old I ■ ¥ B 3 man” of Chifl ■ * r.a. In length BMHSHQBttfI if " i VujS ice, iu the char-z-'7’*i 6 '‘- ‘ i “‘ 6s< eL acter and imp iSmT®3 " porta nee of VlllU£9 that S er v ice and of the myriads of people in whose behalf it was rendered, in his intellectual •attainments, his unique characteristics and in his commanding personality, Li Hang Chang stands shoulders above any •ther citizen in the Celestial empire. He is, says Hon. John W. Foster, the renowned American diplomat and who was the adviser of I.i Hung Chang in the peace negotiations with Japan, the most distinguished visitor that the great continent of Asia has sent to Europe or America during this generation. • He is a striking illustration of the workings of the social and political system of the Chinese empire. Although it is the oldest monarchy on earth it may be said to possess no hereditary nobility. Tt is the only land which bases its aristocracy on letters, and in this respect is a near approach to a pure democracy. The highest posts in the empire, except the few places held by the princes of the imperial blood, are open to the lowest anbject, and the road to them is through the three grades of the competitive scholastic examinations held in the district, the province and at Peking, the imperial capital. Li Hung Chang, whose father d’ns in ao wise distinguished, passed in all the

LI'S FAMOUS YELLOW JACKET.

grades and in the final contest at Peking came out with distinguished honors among 20.000 competitors. He therefore has reason to take pride in his accomplishments as a scholar, though judged by the Western standard of education Chinese scholars would hold a very low grade. They have no conception of learning as understood in the West—of mathematics, chemistry, geology, or kindred sciences, and of universal history. Indeed, they have a very imperfect knowledge of geography. Their curriculum of study embraces the Chinese classics and philosophy (a voluminous compilation, especially holding in eminejice the teachings of Confucius), the theory of government, and Chinese poetry and history. It is the standard fixed 2,000 years ago. and has undergone little change in the succeeding centuries. One of our diplomatic representatives tells of a conversation had with one of the most distinguished scholars and highest officers ih the empire, in which they canvassed

COPY OF THE PICTURE TAKEN IN CHINA SHOWING LI HUNG CHANG AND GEN. GRANT.

their respective systems of education; and Me reports that his Chinese friend had •ever heard of Homer, Virgil, or Shaksj>eare; knew something of Alexander having crossed the Indus, had a vague knowledge of Caesar and Napoleon, but none whatever of Hannibal, Peter the Great, "Wellington, or other modern soldiers; and Me was ignorant of astronomy, mathematics, or the modern sciences. When the American minister expressed surprise at these defects in Chinese education, the mandarin replied: “That is your civilization, and you learn it; we have ours, and we learn it. For centuries we have gone

LI HUNG CHANG’S HAT.

•a satisfied to know what we know. Why 'should we care to know what you haoTr?' 1 iFrom Student to Warrior. In China the competitive examination •nds jyith admission so office-; beyond that step promotion niust'cOTfie through other methods. Li Hung Chang secured the right'-of admission to office through his •sridtwus application to study and every ancceeding step in his upward career has boon attained by his own genius and eap»<ftty. It was the intention of Li Hung Chanfe tb deyote himself to study, but an •rent occurred just after' his return to Ms father’s home on the Yang-tse-Kiang River," after his successful examination at Peking, that changed the current of his Sfe. The Taiping rebellion, which was (faceted against the reigning dynasty, wM-then at its height and its leaders had «*pturod the ancient capital, Nanking, mm! were marching at the head of a tri■■aphant army toward the capital, Pe■ag. Li Hung Chang, bis yoathful ar-

LI HUNG CHANG

dor inflamed, raised a force of militia and harassed the rear of the rebel army on its march. The rebels were checked in their advance on the capital and were forced to return to Nanking Li Hung Chang’s services in contributing to this end were recognised by the general of the imperial army, Tseng-Kwo-fan, and Li’s army was attached to the main army and Li himself was assigned to an important post. He soon displayed great military qualities and became the active commander in the field. He joined to his army a band of adventurous Europeans, organized and commanded by an American sailor named Ward, and afterward, on Ward’s death, led by Gen. Gordon. This army was called “the ever victorious army,” and victory after victory was won until the rebellion was crushed. The rebellion had cost the empire dearly, hearty half of it had been laid waste a nd' 20,000,000 lives had been sacrificed. Li Hung Chang emerged from it with a high military reputation and the most famous man in the nation. He was made an earl, was presented, with the yellow jacket—the exclusive emblem of imperial favor—and was appointed viceroy of an important province. But he was not suffered to engage in the administration of civil affairs. Numerous revolts occurred after the suppression of the Tai-ping rebellion, and for several years Li Hung Chang was engaged in suppressing them. And then came, in 1870, the horrible butchery of French missionaries and nuns and of the French consul at Tientsin. The French Government demanded heavy reprisals and the Chinese Government became alarmed. Li 'Hung Chang was transferred as viceroy to the province of Chihli, where the riot had occurred, and so well did he rpanage the affair, that peace was restored, complete atonement made to the French, and war was thereby averted, to the evident benefit of the Chinese. French honors were conferred on Li Hung Chang; he was made imperial tutor, grand secretary of state and was created a noble of the first rank. These offices made him ever since the first official and statesman of the Government under the Emperor. As Governor of Chihli he became the guardian and protector of the Emperor, the capital being within the province. His office ns imperial tutor brought him into intimate relations with the imperial household and his diplomatic duties at Tientsin, following the massacre, distinguished him as a diplomat in every important treaty negotiation or diplomatic controversy of his Government. Probably no living man has received such signal marks of respect from his diplomatic antagonists as he. In the Margary affair, a most serious controversy with Great Britain, he was so straightforward and just in meeting the demands of that Government that Sir Thomas Wade was led to make an important concession, “in recognition of the frankness with which he had negotiated this very troublesome business.” In the adjustment of the French conflict with China of 1884-85, the French minister inserted in the treaty a renunciation of all claims for indemnity, in order thereby “to pay a mark of regard to the patriotic wisdom of his excellency Li Hung Chang. Bis Work as Viceroy. As Viceroy of Chihli much of his time was ocupied in the organization of the army, the building of a navy and the fortification of the approaches to the capital, a work in which he was greatly hampered by the conservatism of the central government. In addition to periodical revolts, China is often afflicted with disastrous floods and terrible famines, and with many of these the Viceroy had much to do. In 1577-78 Chihli and other neigh-

bojring'provinces were visited by one of the most fearful famines in their history, in which it is estimated that about 9,000,000 persons perished. The Viceroy Li was the most prominent agent in staying the ravages of this fatal scourge, and his energy, administrative capacity and largehearted charity were conspicuously displayed in the measures for relief. While Li Hung Chang is the greatest statesman China has ever produced, and ranks among the topmost men of the, age, he is also conspicuous for two widely diverse things—great wealth and great happiness. He is one of the teb-'riefaest men on the globe, and goes world laughing. Gen; Grant said he was the happiest man he had ever known. This wealth is estimated at near five hundred millions of dollars, and it was acquired by him in a typical way. Before Li Hung Chang rose to power, China possessed neither railroads, telegraph, telephones nor hospitals. Now it has all, four, mostly owned by 1 " Li. Through the powerful influence of Prince Kung, he was enabled to establish factories and reap the benefit of them, while giving occupation to thousands of his countrymen. By the introduction of silk-looms he has made Chinese silk, once so rare and costly, cheap; and he has engaged artists who can work by stepcil as well as by brush, so that Chinese decoration has been reduced to a pittance. In one of Li’s factories candlesticks are made' at a cost of 10 cents each, and they are sold to importers at $9 apiece. His latest. mercantile venture is the manufacture of bicycles. They are made on land granted Li by the Chinese Government, which is untaxed property, and he pays no rental for the buildings, which were built by granted workmen at no expense to himself. The material in the bicycles costs only a trifle, and the labor even less, for a Chinese workman will cheerfully work for a turnip a day and a dinner of rice. Th-se mq'dMnjes, it is said. 1 (XfnJbeisold in the United States for sl3 apiece, and they are excellent specimens of workmanship. Li Hung Chang is a monopolist upon a gigantic scale. Other Chinamen may have been shrewd enough to realize the wisdom of introducing and conducting

such tremendous enterprises, but they did not have the influence with the court at Pekin which is so necessary to the successful introduction and operation of any innovation in China. Li Hung Chang made himself indispensable to the Emperor and the late Empress-Dowager—the latter, in fact, being the real ruler of the empire—as the first step in the consummation of his scheme, and bis success is shown by the size of his bank account. But Li Hung Chang's career has not been an unbroken record of success. He has had formidable political enemies and three rimes, owing to their influence, he was degraded by having his yellow jacket taken from him. Li Hung Chang's yellow jacket means more to a Chinaman

than it does to an American. To a Chinaman it means that Chang is about the most powerful subject in all the empire. Chang has many yellow jackets. The one he wore when presented to President Cleveland was made of gorgeous yellow shiny plush. It looked like a fabric made of spun gold. It is cut in one piece and is the perfection of textile art and garment cutting. The last time the jacket was taken away was on the occasion of the defeat of the Chinese in Corea and in the uaval battle off the mouth of the Yalu River by the Japanese. But he was soon restored to imperial favor and successfully conducted the peace negotiations with Japan. Seeks to Reform China, Li Hung Chang has introduced some important reforms into China and hopes to introduce many more, although he is greatly hampered by the antiquated customs of the empire. He has greatly improved the educational system and he is striving to make fitness and not scholarship the test for entranee into public service. While a disciple of Confucius and a firm believer in Confucius philosophy he is tolerant toward Christianity and welcomes the aid given by foreigners toward the betterment of the Chinese nation. Though a military leader, in the Chinese acceptation of the term, he is a man of peace and deplores war. His visit to Europe and America is to study their systems of governments with a view of adopting that which commends itself to him in the systems. Li Hung Chang, since his attendance at the Czar's coronation in Moscow, has been traveling in Europe and America and has been everywhere received with marks of the highest coi{sideration. It ruav be remembered that on the occasion of Gen. Grant’s tour around the world he was the guest of Li Hung Chang and the recipient of much honor. Li Hung Chang still remembers the dead General, and on each Decoration Day the Chinese embassy in Washington places a wreath of flowers bn Grant’s tomb in Riverside,

DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF LI'S SUITE.

New York. It was thus doubly iheet that America should honor the greatest living Asiatic. Li Hung Chang is now in his 74th year, and is a man of commanding presence, standing fully six feet in height. Judged in the light of his education, his first experience and fiis surroundings he must be regarded as the first of the living statesmen of Asia and one of the most distinguished of the public men of the world.

SAVED BY HER BIG SLEEVE.

A Lady’s Narrow Escape from Being Fatally Bitten by a copperhead. Balloon sleeves, ribbed with stays of whalebone, saved a young lady at West Point a few days ago from being fatally bitten by a copperhead snake. The young lady, Miss Florence Sears, of New York, visited West Point with a number of friends and while leading the party on the mountain side overlooking the training ground of the young soldiers she stooped to pick a bunch of wild flowers. As she was about grasping the flowers she heard

LT HUNG CHANG. (From a late London photograph.)

a startling, hissing 'sound. Not realizing what the danger was she threw up her right arm to ward off some unseen peril. In a moment a copperhead snake struck at her from beneath a loose rock just above where she was standing. Miss Sears saw the reptile as it struck at her. It was too late to jump back, and the arm that she had thrown upward caught the blow. It saved her face from injury, and the balloon sleeves of her waist almost baffled the snake. But the strike of the poisonous reptile was a vigorous one. The sharp

teeth and fangs tore through the light cloth and hooked in the whalebone stays. As the reptile's weight dragged it down, it tore the sleeve and the fangs scratched along the skin from shoulder to elbow. The Incisions, however, were not deep, and., the deadly poison, it Is believed, did ndt enter the victim’s veins. ~ N At Miss Sears' foot was a large stone. She was still bending over when the snake struck her. She picked up the stone and" crushed the snake’s head before it could gather Itself for another strike. When she had bravely done this, without uttering a scream, her courage vanished. She gave one cry and fell fainting across the dead snake.

Cause of the Matabele Revolt.

A German who has been living in South Africa for a loqg time has addressed to one of his compatriots a letter in which he gives the following as the original cause of the Matabeles’ revolt: The young women in Matabeleland are seductive, handsoine, well formed and very agreeable, though somewhat proud and wild. Many whites at Buluwayo, and nearly all Europeans in the country around, have taken some of these girls for their wives, with the ready consent of the latter. These girls insult the xnen of their own race, calling them “the dogs of the white men.” and they decline any friendship with them. That contempt has Irritated the Matabeles against the Europeans and incited them to insurrection. —New York Tribune.

FLORENCE SEARS.

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

HE PREACHES UPON MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. He Says the Castles of Sin Are All Going to Be Captured by the Sunglass of the Gospel Focused Upon Wickedness. Religion in Cities. So much that is depressing is raid about the wickedness of the cities that it will cheer us to read what Dr. Talmage says in this sermon about their coming re* demption. The text is Zechariah, viii. 5, "And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.” Glimpses of our cities redeemed! Now, boys ami girls who play in the streets run such risks that multitudes of them end in ruin. But in the coming time spoken of our cities will be so moral that lads and lasses shall be as safe in the public thoroughfares as in the nursery. Pulpit and printing press for the most part in our day are busy in discussing the condition of the cities at this time, but would it not be healthfully encouraging to all Christian workers, and to all who are toiling to make the world better, if we should for a little while look forward to the time when our cities shall be revolutionized by the gospel of the Son of God, and all the darkness of sin and trouble and crime and suffering shall be gone from the world? Every man has a pride in the city of his nativity or residence, if it be a city distinguished for any dignity or prowess. Caesar boasted of his native Rome, Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Demos-, thenes of Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse. and Paul of Tarsus. I should have suspicion of base heartedness in a man who had no especial interest in the city of his birth or residence —no exhilaration at the evidence of its prosperity or its artistic embellishments, or its intellectual advancement. I have noticed that a man (never likes a city where he has not behaved well. People who have had a free ride in the prison van never like the city that furnishes the vehicle. When I find Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna trying to prove themselves the birthplace of Homer, I conclude at once that Homer behaved well. He liked them, and they liked him. We must not war on laudable city pride, or, with the idea of building ourselves up at any time, try. to pull-others down. Boston must continue to point to its Faneuil hall and to its Common and to its superior educational advantages. Philadelphia must continue to point to its Independence hall and its mint and its Girard college. Washington must continue to point to its wondrous capitoline buildings. If I should find a man coming from any city, having no pride in that city, that city having been the place of his nath*ty or now being the place of his residence, I would feel like asking: “What mean thing have you done there? What outrageous thing have you been guilty of that you do not like the place?”

The Road to Victory. I think we ought—and I take it for granted you are interested in this great work of evangelizing the cities and saving the world—we ought to toil with the sunlight in our faces. We are not fighting in a miserable Bull Run of defeat. We are on our way to final victory. We nre not following the rider on the black horse, leading us down to death and darkness and doom, but the rider on the white horse, with the moon under his feet and the stars of heaven for his tiara. Hail, Conqueror, hail! I know there nre sorrows, and there are sins, and there are sufferings all around about us, but as in some bitter, cold winter day, When we are thrashing our arms around us to keep our thumbs from freezing, we think of the warm spring day that will after awhile come, or in the dark winter night we look up and see the northern lights, the windows of heaven illuminated by some great victory, just so we look up from the night of suffering and sorrow and wretchedness in our cities, and we see a light streaming through from the other side, and we know we are on the way to morning—more than that, on the way to “a morning without clouds.” I want you to understand, all you who are toiling for Christ, that the castles of sin are all going to be captured. The victory for Christ in these great towns is going to be so complete that not a man on earth or an angel in heaven or a devil in hell will dispute it. How do I know? I know just as certainly as Cod lives and that this is holy truth. The old Bible is full of it. If the nation is to be saved, of course ail the cites are to be .saved. It makes a great difference with yoUy and with me whether we are toiling on towArd a defeat or toiling on toward a victory. Now, in this municipal elevation of which I speak, I have to remark there will be greater financial prosperity than our cities have ever seen. Some people seem to have a morbid idea of the millennium, and they think when the better time comes to our cities and the world people will give their time up to psalm singing and the relating of their religious experience, and as all social life will be purified there will be no enterprise. There is no ground for Such an abstjrd anticipation. In the time of which I speak where now one fortune is made therp will be a hundred fortunes made. We all know business prosperity depends upon confidence between man and man. Now, when that time comes of which I speak, and when all double dealing, all dishonesty and all fraud are gone out of commercial circles, thorough confidence will be established, and there will be better business done, and larger fortunes gathered, and mightier successes achieved. The great business disasters of this country have come from the work of godless speculators and infamous stock gamblers. The great foe to business is crime. When the right shall have hurled back the wrong, and shall have purified the commercial code, and shall have thundered down fraudulent establishments, and shall-have put into the hands of honest men the keyh of business, blessed time for the makers. lam not talking an abstraction. lam not making a guess. I am telling you God’s eternal truth. Taxes Will Be Low, In that day of which I speak taxes wili be a mere nothing. Now our business men are taxed for everything. City taxes, county taxes, State taxes. United States taxes, stamp taxes, license taxes, manufacturing taxes—taxes, taxes, taxes! Our business men have to make a snifill fortune every year to pay their taxes. What fastens on our great industries this awful load? Crime, individual and official. We have to pay the board of the villains who are incarcerated in our prisons. We have to take care of the orphans of those who plunged into their graves through sensual indulgences. We have to support the municipal governments, which are vast and expensive just in proportion as the criminal proclivities are vast and tremendous. Who support the almshouses and police stations, and all the machinery of municipal government? The taxpayers. But in the glorious time of which I speak grievous taxation will all have ceased. There will be no need of supporting criminals; there will be no criminals. Virtue will have taken the place of vice.

There will be no orphan asylums, for parents will be able to leave a competency to their children. There will be no voting of large sums of money for some municipal improvement, which money, before they get to the improvements, drops into the pockets of those who voted it. No oyer and terminer kept up at vast expense to the people. No empaneling of juries to try theft and arson and murder and slander and blackmail. Better factories. Grander architecture. Finer equipage. Larger fortunes. Richer opulence. Better churches. In that better time, also, coming to those cities. Christ’s churches will be more numerous, and they will be larger, and they will be more devoted to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and they will accomplish greater influences for good. Now, it is often the case that qhurches are envious of each other, anil enominations collide with each other,, and even ministers of Christ sometimes forget the bond of brotherhood. But in the time of which I speak, while there will be just as many differences of opinion as there are now, there will be no acerbity, no hypercriticism, no exclusiveness. People Will Sing in Church. In our great cities the churches are not to-day large enough to hold more than a fourth of the population. The churches that are built—comparatively few of them —are fully equipped. The average attendance in the churches of the United States to-day is not 400. Now, in the glorious time of which I speak there are going to be vast churches, and they are going to be all thronged with worshipers. Oh, what rousing songs they will sing! Oh, what earnest sermons they will preach! Oh, what fervent prayers they will offer! Now, in our time, what is called a fashionable church is a place where a few people, having attended very carefully to their toilet, come and sit down—they do not want ,to be crowded; they like a whole seat' to themselves —and then, if they have any time left from thinking of their store, arid from examining the style of the hat in front of them, they sit and listen to a sermon warranted to hit no Man’s sins, and listen to music which is rendered by a choir warranted to sing tunes that nobody knows: And then after an hour and a half of indolent yawning they go home refreshed. Every man feels better after he has had a sleep. In many of the churches of Christ in our day the music is simply a mockery. I have not a cultivated ear, nor a cultivated voice, yet no man can do my singing for me. I have nothing to say against artistic singing. The $2 or $3 I pay to hear any of the great queens of song is a good investment. But when the people assemble in religions convocation, and the hymn is read, and the angels of God step from their throne to catch the music on their wings, do not let us drive them away by our indifference. I have preached in churches where vast sums of money were employed jo keep up the music, and it was as exquisite as any heard on earth, but I thought at the same time that for all practical I would prefer the hearty, outbreaking song of a backwoods Methodist camp meeting. Let one of these starveling fancy songs sung in church get up before the throne of God—how would it seem standing amid the great doxologies of the redeemed? Let the finest eparatic air that ever went up from the church of Christ get many hours the start; it will be caught and passed by the hosanna of the Sabbath school children. I know a church where the choir did all the singing, save one Christian man, who, through “perseverance of the saints,” went right on, and afterward a committee was appointed to wait on him and ask him if he would not please stop singing, as he bothered the choir. Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our God, But children of the heavenly King Should speak their joys abroad. “Praise ye the Lord. Let everything with breath praise the Lord. In the glorious time coming in our cities and in the world hosanna will meet hosanna and hallelujah, hallelujah. In that time also of which I speak all the haunts of iniquity and crime and squalor will be cleansed and will be illuminated. How is it done? You say perhaps by one influence. Perhaps I say by another. I will tell you what is my idea, and I know I am right in it. The gospel of the Son of God is the only agency that will ever accomplish this.

Rather Preposterous. A gentleman in England had a theory that if the natural forces of wind and tide and sunshine and wave were rightly applied and rightly developed it would make this whole earth a paradise. In a book of great genius and which rushed from edition to edition he said: “Fellow men, I promise to show the means of creating a paradise within ten years where everything desirable for human life may be had by every man in superabundance without labor aird without pay; where the whole face of nature shall be changed into the most beautiful farms and man may live’ in the most magnificent palaces, in all imaginable refinements of luxury and in the most delightful gardens; where he may accomplish without labor in one year more than hitherto could be done in thousands of years. From the houses to be built will be afforded the most cultured views that can be fancied. From the galleries, from the roof and from the turrets may be seen gardens as far as the eye can see full of fruits and flowers, arranged in the most beautiful order, with walks, colonnades, aqueducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphitheaters, terraces, fountains, sculptured works, pavilions, gondolas, places of popular amusement to lure the eye and fancy, all this to be done by urging ,the ; water, the wind and the sunshine to their full development.” , ( lie goes on and gives plates of the ma- ' chinery by which this work is to be done, and he says Jje only needs,at the start a company in which the shares shall be S2O each, and SIOO,OOO or $206,000 shall be raised just to make a specimen community, and then, this being formed, the world will see its practicability, and very soon $2,000,000 or $3,000,000 can be obtained, and in ten years the whole earth Will he emparadised. The plan is not so preposterous as some I have heard of. i But I will take no stock in that company. I do not believe that it will ever be done in that way, by any mechanical force or by anymachiuery that the human mind can put into play. It is to be done by the gospel of the Son of God—the omnipotent machinery of lovo and grace and pardon and salvation. This is to emparadise the nations. Archimedes destroyed a fleet of ships coming up the harbor. You know how he did it. He lifted a great sunglass, history tells us, and when the fleet of ships came up the harbor of Syracuse he brought to bear this sunglass, and he focused the sun’s rays upon those ships. Now the sails are wings of fire, the masts fall, the vessels sink. Oh, my friends, by - the sunglass of the gospel converging the | rays of the sun of righteousness upon the sins, the wickedness of the world, we will make them blaze and expire! The Changed City. In that day of which I speak do you believe there will be any midnight carousal? Will there be any kicking off from the marble steps of shivering mendicants? I Wil* there be any unwashed, unfed, unj combed children? Will there be any blasi phemies in the streets? Will there be any I inebriates staggering past? No. No wine | stores. No lager beer saloons. No disI tilleries, where they the three X’s. !- No bloodshot- eye. No bloated cheek. No 1 instruments of ruin and No

fist-pounded forehead. The grandchildren of that woman who goes down the street with a curse, stoned by the boys that fojjow her, wit! be the reformers and philanthropists and the Christian men and the honest merchants of our cities. Then what municipal governments, too. we wili have in ail the cities. Some cities are worse than others, but in many of our cities you just walk down by the city halls and look in at some of the rooms occupied by politicians and see to what a sensual, loathsome, ignorant, besotted crew city polities is often abandoned. Or they stand around the city hall picking their teeth, waiting for some emoluments of crumbs to fall to their feet, waiting all day long and waiting all night long. . Who are those wretched women taken up for drunkenness and carried up to the courts in prison, of course? What will you do with the grogshops that make them drink? Nothing. Who are those prisoners i# jail? One of them stole a pair of shoes. That boy stole a dollar. This girl snatched a purse. All of them crimes damaging society less than S2O or S3O. But what will you do with the gambler who last night robbed the young man of $1,000? Nothing. What shall be done with that one who breaks through and destroys the purity of a Christian home, and. with an adroitness and perfidy that beat the strategy of heli, flings a shrinking, shrieking soul into ruin? Nothing. What will you do with those who fleeced that young man, getting him to purloin large sums of money from his employer—the young man who came to an officer of my church and told the story and frantically asked what he should do? Nothing. Ah, we do well to punish small crimes, but I have sometimes thought it would be better in some of our cities if the officials would only turn out from the jails the petty criminals, the little offenders, $lO desperadoes, and put irttkqjjr places some of the monsters of iniquity who their roan span through tire atttets so swiftly that honest men have to leap to get out of the way of being run over. Oh, the damnable schemes that professed Christian men will sometimes engage in until God puts the finger of his retribution into the collar of their robe of hypocrisy and rips it clear to the bottom! But all these wrongs will be righted. I expect to live to see the day. I think I hear in the distance the rumbling of the King’s chariot. Not always in the minority is the church of God going to be or are good men going to be. The streets are going to be filled wltit regenerated populations. Three hundi®£ and sixty bells rang in Moscow yyhen,one prince was married, but whenstighiteotitvess and peace kiss each other in all the, earth, ten thousand 1 times ten thousand'bells shall strike the jubilee. Poverty { Hunger fed. Crime banished. Ignorajyje i enlightened. All the cities save<L r notthis a cause worth working in?

Wheel Into Line. Oh, you think sometimes it does not amount to much! You toil on in your different spheres, sometimes with great discouragement. People have no faith and say: “It does not amount to anything. You might as well quit that.” Why, when Moses stretched his hand o’ver .the Red Sea it did not seem to mean anything especially. People came out, I suppose, and said, “Aha!” Some of them found out what he wanted to do. He wanted the sea parted. It did not amount to anything, this stretching out of his hand over the sea. But after awhile the wind blew ail night from the east, and the waters were gathered into a glittering palisade on either side, and the billows reared as God pulled back on their crystal bits. Wheel into line, O Israel! March! March! Pearls crashed under feet. Flying spray gathers into rainbow arch of victory for the conquerors to march under. Shouts of hosts on the beach answering the shout of hosts amid sea. And when the last line of Israelites reach the beach the cymbals clap, and the shields clang, and the waters rush over the pursuers, and the swift fingered winds on the white keys of the foam play the grand march of Israel delivered and the awful dirge of Egyptian overthrow. So you and I go forth, and all the people of God go forth, and they stretch forth their hand over the sea, the boiling sea of crime and sin and wretchedness. “It doesn’t amount to anything,” people say. Doesn’t it? God’s winds of help will after awhile begin to blow. A path will be cleared for the army of Christian philanthropists. The path will be lined with the treasures of Christian beneficence, and we shall be greeted to the other beach by the clapping of all heaven’s cymbals, while those who pursued us and derided us and tried to destroy us will go down under the sea, and all that will be left of them will be cast high and dry upon the beach, the splintered wheel of a chariot, or thrust out from the foam, the breathless nostril of a riderless charger.

Short Scrmons.

Love and Liberty.—True unity is possible only in love, and if we be knit together in love we shall never believe evil of one another. We shall see the virtues rather than the. vice, the excellences rather than the. infirmities of each other’s character. Love never accounts that anything has been given so long as anything has been withheld.— Rdv. W. A. Shanklin, Methodist, Seattle, Wash. Charity.—The entire Christian religion is a work of charity. Its aim is to accomplish things for others’ sakes, to elevate the degraded, to lift jjp the fallen, to bring relief to the sick, to comfort the dying, to knit all together in the bonds of love and Christian fellowshlp. It converts no one by force, it robs no one of his home, it makes no one miserable.—Rev. D. H. Keech, Moravian, York. Pa. Young Men.—Christian young men should wield an influence in politics. There are 8,000,000 young men in this country, and about 5,000,000 of them are affiliated with some Christian association. If they were together, they would form tFltelt-from Portland, Me., to San*&t«£MMe& : #hd still farther out on the Pacific ocean. All young men should be patriotic and be loyal to their God. The riod is a most critical one. We leaders among our young men.—Rev. H. B. Grose, Baptist, Boston. Worldliness.—That which keeps men back from a free and ready acceptance of the good news of the Gospel is worldliness, a sort of satisfaction with the conditions of things as they now exist; a love of the world, and an indisposition to change the habits and mode of life-do which they are accustomed--these are the things that keep men ont of heaven. They do not refuse th« offers of salvation because there is insufficient evidence that these offers anj real. They do not determine in favor of the god of this world because there Is Insufficient proof that there is aa almighty and supreme God of the universe. It is not want of conviction that is in their way. It is satisfaction with things as they are. It Is want of desire for anything bettor than this world affords. In one word, it is worldliness. —Rev.„ Charles Logan, Episcopalian, Philadelphia.