Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 20, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 September 1879 — Page 2

Wendell Phillips and the Republican Leaders. - ‘ The road of Hayes to the White House, after the Eight-by-Seven Commission decided in his favor, was made smooth by an understanding had between certain leading Obio Republicans deep in the confidence of Mr. Hayes, on the one side, and certain ‘‘rebel Brigadiers”” on the other side, as to what should be Mr. Hayes’ policy, after inauguration, toward Louisiana and South Carolina, then in the hands of the Republicans. The terms were understood to be the withdrawal -of the Federal troops from protecting the Republican officials—Governors and members of the Legislature—so as to allow the people of those States togovern themselves without National 'interference. With the results of that understanding everybody is familiar. : Hayes' Southern policy, the result” of the understanding referred to, was always gall and wormwood to the sincere anti-slavery men of his party. They regarded it as a relegation of the colored people of the South to the control of their old masters, and as the grave of the Republican party in that section. The feeling that policy engendered at the North served to diminish Republican majorities in many States, and was the cause, now and then, of bitter expregsions against its authors and stipporters. h i

The latest demonstration of ill-feel-ing we have noticed is the published letter of Mr. Wendell Phillips to Solon Chase, -of Maine. From his stand-point, a great crime against the colored people was committed by adopting and carrying out that policy, and he expresses himself freely on the subject. He notes a great difference between the class of Republicans who freed and enfranchised the black man- and those who suggested and had adopted the Hayes policy. Of the first he says: ““You ask me what I think of the Republican party. If you mean the Republican party of 1861—the party of Sumner and Fessenden, of Wade and Lincoln, of Stevens, Andrew and Giddings? That party [ know. Or doyou mean the Republican party of 18797 Well, that party I distrust and desgise. Its honesty and ability I distrust and despise. It has, either intentionally or heedlessly, surrendered to the enemy two-thirds of what the war gained at a cost of 500,000 lives and $5,000,000,000. Some say this party is honest. It has done the best it knew how. Others thinkit only timid. Ihavewatched politics for fifty years, and my judgment is that the fault of this party is one-third ignorance and two-thirds knavery.” The Republicans of 1861 did their work well and thoroughly, thinks: Mr. Phillips. They carried the flag to the Gulf and guaranteed personal liberty to every man under that flag. Those men, he says, have passed away, and their seats are filled by the men whom the Republican party created—Schurz and Hayes, Blaine -and Garfield, Dawes, Sherman and Fish. For ten yvears these men, and men like them, have ruled the party, and with .what result? inquires Mr. Phillips. He answers: ‘‘All the Southern States are again in the hands of the rebels; there is no Republican State and hardly the vestifie. of a Republican party south of Mason and Dixon’s fipe.! * ¥ ¥ The negro Wiloss freedom and citizenship are the plume in the cap of the old and trpue Republican party is flying by thousands, and wishing and planning to fly by hundreds of thousands from the lawlessness and intolerable og'pression of the very men these cowardly, hypocritical and corrupt successors of Sumner and Wade have lifted into the saddle.”” . -

Mr. Phillips has a quick eye to perceive the hypocerisy and false pretenses of the managers of the Republican party. They manifest in public great indignation ;over the alleged ill-treat-ment of the colored man at the South, and call upon the .people, white and colored, at the North, to express their resentment by voting for Charles Foster and such, who put the black man in his present position, in order to secure power for the party and office for themselves. Mr. Phillips knows they are without heart for the negro. He says that men who have watched the Republican managers for the past tén years clearly saw that they ‘‘never had any sincere interest in the negro, never really intended to protect him. * * But the only Teason they hunted out these crimes and made catalogues of ‘outrages’ wag a- heartless and merciless calculation to use such records for party purposes at election times.” How well he knows them and their tricks! He declares of the hypocrites that “‘they played, with dying men as coun ters, on the chess-board, the game of party success. Sitting cold and calm, they watched br’utafity “and agony, with no other feeling than exultation as every hideous scene, broken household and' agonized widow ministered to a better chance of party success.”

It is no Democrat that talks in that way, butione of the foremost of those who gave vitality to the Republican party, and worked - unceasin’g{)y for its trinmph. He now declares of its representative power: <‘While this Administration of corrupt bargdin and sale—a willing mercenary—lasts, I blush to be an'American citizen;”’ and of the party itself he says: ‘‘No party in our uistory has ever fallen from such a height, or to such depth of disgrace.” I% Mr. Wendell Phillips is not true to the Republican party of 1879, he is and always has been true to the colored man, according to his ‘own light of duty. He prefers the welfare of the colored race to the political sucvess of the hypocritical Republican leaders, who are always ready to sacrifice the ‘“man and brother’’ for party success.— Cincinnaly Enquirer. e

" The Sad Case of Casanave. Casanave is still dizzy. o He has been swung around the circle of proninent Repub%icans in Washington with such a bewildering rapidity that he can only faintly swear at the Administration in a centripetal fashion suggestive of circular ‘experiences and the ingratitude of republics. - Of course Casanave has a grievance —every able-bodied Louisiana Republican not cared for by Uncle Sam has a large and irreparable wrong to nurse—-

but Casanave's .is worse than the others. Notonly has he missed the public crib, but he has narrowly escaped making a vicarious sacrifice of his livery stable on the altar-of his patriotism. ' &l ¥ There is an unsettled balance of thirty-one hundred and twenty-five dollars yet due Messrs. Cullom and Castellaine for defending the Returning Board from the wicked aspersions of unscrupulous Democrats; and, as Messrs. Wells, Anderson and Kenner seem to have laid up their treasures altogether in Heaven, the more material assets of the less righte'ous Casanave have been attached for the counsel “fees. For surely it is easier for a needle to pass through the eye of a camel than for a rich man to enter the irresponsible kingdom of the impecunious. - Casanave hurried to Wa.shin%ton, and was at once taken by General Sypher into the presence of the President. He poured his woes into his Excellency’s responsive ears, and a great gush of sympathy and grief welled into the Chief Magistrate’s eyes at the sad recital. Mr. Hayes confidentially advised him to see Anderson, and he would probably pay the bill, and regretted that a Cabinet meeting called him at once.

Then Casanave went to McCrary, and the woe experienced by the President was nothing to the—metaphorical —sackeloth and ashes donned by the Secretary. He mourned over Casanave like a brother, and said that if he were not 8o poor he would pay thatbill himself. A bright idea struck Mr. MecCrary between his sobs, and he advised Casanave to go see Assistant Secretary Hewley, . .« 5 . Hawley ¢rose’ everybody else’s grief, wept copiously over the imperiled livery stable, and referred Casanave -to Sherman, who was then in Maine. - ' “When Sherman got back his heart bled for Casanave, he offered him a hundred dollar bill and advised him to see Shellabarger and Wilson. Shellabarger and Wilson took him back to the President again, and it was at this point that Casanave’s head began to swim. o -

Long lines of politicai Niobes began to goround and round him, in dreary indistinctness.. He became the vortex of a whirlpool of tearful statesmen, a center for unavailing sympathy. He began to see that he was expected to point the moral of the maxim how sweet and beautiful it is to be sold out for one’s country. Then Casanave regretted, altogether in the ' interest of the truth which is eternal and will prevail, that he did not take the alleged $50,000 he. could have made out of the Democrats, by throwing the election the other way. He stigmatizes the President as infamous, and returns to the familiar ammoniacal aroma of his home, the victim of Administrative ingratitude, Democratic malice and legal cupidity.— St. Louts Post-Dispatch. . ]

- A Ghost in the White House. The Republican papers are remarkably, even suspiciously, alert in treating the Casanave case. They declare there is nothing improper behind it; that it does not prove that Casanave and the other members of the Louisiana Returning Board were bribed to return the Hayes Electors in 1876; that the Returning Board members did nothing more than their duty, without instigation or inducement, for which they are entitled to the grateful remembrance of Republicans and. all good men—and, this is all there is of it. ‘But there are some things which this explanation does not explain. How are we to account for the curious fact that the moment Casanave found him’self in need .of $5,000, he should go ‘straight to Washington and apply to Mr. Hayes and Secretary Sherman. for ‘the money, as though they owed it to ‘him for services not, yet paid for? Casanave told Mr. Hayés that all the members of the Returning Board but himself had been provided for—had been appointed to Federal offices. This is a fact—and is it not & suspicious fact? If the other three. members of the Board have been appointed to Federal offices, is not the presumption strong that they received these appointments as rewards for returning the Hayes Electors? And is not the presumption fortified when, two years afterwards, Casanave comes along,complaining that he has been overlooked, and demandin%r $5,000 for hi¢ reward? : he Republican press assert that the Returning Board were offered $50,000 by the Democrats to return the Tilden Electors, and the offer was patriotical- 1 ly rejected. But opposed to this mere assertion is the undeniable fact that the Returning Board did return the Hayes 1 Electors in violation of law, and have beén paid for the work. If this does not prove that the Board were hired to manufacture a Republican President out of a defeated candidate, then evidence has no meaning. The Republican leaders, no doubt, fancied that after they had grabbed the stakes, the’ fraud would die out; but the unexpected .appearance of Casanave in the White House, hoarsely demanding 5,000, nearly three years after the deed was done, reminds them that crimes have ghosts which sometimes obtrude themselves when and where gl_my are not wanted.— St. Louis Repubrcan. ‘

THE fourth transatlantic cable was recently completed, making the fourth line in operation within a decade and a half of the successful completion of the pioneer wire. The system of submarine telegraphs has grown, until at present it embraces a total of 569 cables, with a length of 65,199 nautical miles and 72,5662 miles cf conductors. Of this, 149 cables, with 58,547 nautical miles length, are owned or operated by private or incorporated companies, and 520 cables, with 5,643 "nautical miles length, are owned and operated by Government telegraph administration. - :

—¢¢ Contentment is better than riches,”” and yet there are a number of people who would like to be discontented for a day or two just for the sake of being rich, if that is what the prov. erb slinger means by his assertion.— Picayune. ;

Secretary Sherman’s Finaneial Oper- : atiens. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Knquirer sends the following special dispatches to that paper, giving facts and figures which demonstrate that Secretary Sherman’s refunding policy has not proved such a shining success as has been claimed for it: WASHINGTON, August 19.

Secretary Sherman will tell the peopile of Ohio that he has elosed all retundinpg operations. “This he told the people of Maive. He deliberately deceived them, and will likewise attempt to deceive the people of Ohio. He has, on the contrar%, not yet closed his recent contract with the pet Syndicate, which at one Tell swoop zot control of all of the four-per-cent .bonds. Of the $180,000,000 subscribed in these bonds by the Syndicate, $45,000,000 yet remain unpaid for; and Secretary Sherman, in that spirit of liberality which he has always extended to a few Eastern bauks, has extended the time for final settiement until October 1, although the original contract, which he has violated at discretion, provided a tinal settlement should be made on July 17 last. The immediate result is that the banks have the use of $45,000,000 until October 1 which belongs to the people, and should have been in the Treasury thirty days ago.’ With money worth two per cent. at call, it will not require the aid of a lightning calculator to find how much money the Syndicate will make out of the £45,000,000 which Secretary Sherman allows.them to use. «

This is not the only reason, though, that Secretary Sherman gave the Syndicate an indulgence. Had a settlement been made according to the .contract, four-per-cent. bonds would not now be at a premium—they might be held at par. Sherman, fearful of this decline, indulged the Syndicate rather than pressed them, because he wanted to keep the bonds up until after the Ohio election, so that he could point to the negotiation of the four-per-cents. with pride; and the higher the premium at which they were held, the more pride would he take in the transaction. It inay be well, also, for the people ofi Ohio to know, while Secretary Sherman is among them, that on the day the contract with the Syndicate for the four-per-cents was made the United States had on deposit in th¢ hands of the National Banks the sum of $200,000,000, and these same banks still have about 40,000,000 in four-per-cent. bonds to loan Western farmers at two per cent. per month to efiable them to get their crops into market. The Syndicate have three months to pay for these bonds, during which time they collected the interest, which at four per cent. per annum is one per cent., aggregatin% $lBO,OOO profit before they were called on Tor one cent. This is not all. The monopoly thus put in :the hands of ‘these bankers made a corner on the bonds, and they were enabled to charge two per-cent. premium on the bonds, which makes a clear profit of $360,000, or, altogether, the profits of this transaction between the National Banks and John Sherman was $540,000. - Now, who does this money :come out of? During the extra session of Congress a widow of a Union soldier wrote a Member of (ongress that she had certain United States bonds in trust for her children, the proceeds of her deceased husband’s pension; that she had'applied for the interest on her bonds, and for the first time ascertained that her bonds were among those called in, and the interest had ceased. She requested the Member of Congress to go to the Treasury Department and -exchange her bonds for four-ver-cents. The matter was presented to the United States Treasury, and the réply was that the party could get the face value of the bonds in money, but the Government had no securities for sale. The consequence was that the poor woman had to pay a premium of two and a half per cent. (the small dealers must have their profit, hence the half cent additional), and the exchange for transmission was half of one per cent. more, ‘entailing aloss equal to nine months’ interest on her little patrimony. While the great capitalists, of the country arelauling Sherman’s financial success, somehow the poor widows and orphans are not able to appreciate it. !

‘WASHINGTON, August 22. Secretary Sherman’s transactions with the Syndicate grow even worse as they are investigated. Private information received here from New York is to the effect that all of /the subscribing banks which took the four-per- . cent. loans have settled with the Department except the First National Bank of New York and the Bank of Commerce. This fact has come to li%ht, not by any information volunteered at the Treasury Department, but because the banks which formed the Syndicate grew restive under the charge that they had failed to settle; and, in order to keep unimpaired their own credit, had forced the charge of being delinquents off their own .shoulders and settled it where it belongs—namely, on Secretary Sherman, the First National Bank and the Bank of Commerce. : : On the 16th of the present month there was due the United States by these twobanks §52,000.000, and of which the First National Bank owed $46,000,000. Since thatdate, however, the First National Bank has paid into ) the Treasury on account of its bond purchase ‘about $5,000,000, but still owes between $30,000,000 and $40,000,000. The capital stock of the First National Bank is $500,000; one per ceunt. decline on $46,000,000 of four-per cents. is equal to $460,000, or within $40,000 of the sum of the capital of the bank. Ever since Secretary Sherman’s more recent transactions with this bank have been the subject of criticism, the four-per-cent.: bonds have depreciated in the market. Now,ifthe bon%s should, by any of the vicissitudes of spectlative gambling, fall below par, it is a matter of the greatest doubt whether the First National Bank would be able to fulfill its obligations with the Government. The result would be that the Secretary of the Treasury would be compelled to take the bonds back from the bank, with a depreciated market confronting him, and his much-boasted talk of having closed refunding operations would fall to the ground. .| v Right here it is in order to let out a secret— | for it is rumored, at least, that it is true—that | it was because of the threatened complications with lis pet bank that induced Secretary Sherman to discoun&enance his name as a Republican candidate™®for Governor of Ohio. ‘When Sherman went into Ohio last spring it is claimed by those who ought to know, that the subject of his visit was to pave the pathway to secure that nomination; that he wanted it and meant to have it. It will be remembered, also, in the Convention, that he visited Ohio, but made the pilgrimage by way of New York City. . It is charged that while in that city he was advised that his favorite bank might not be able to respond to its obligations. While in Ohio a few days after that he was absolutely assured that it would be unable to meet its promise to pay on July 17th, and that to avoid the scandal of publicity—nay, more:_ to hide his peculiar method of financiering from .a successor in the Secretary’s office--he was constrained to forego the ambition to be himself a Gubernatorial candidate, and from henceforward he used.the influence of his office and patronage, and was aided by the President, to destroy Judge Taft, who would hayve received the nomination if Washington influence had kept its hands off, and put forth every effort to nomianate the ;;cli{tifen ” who mow leads the Republican cket. iy £ : 453

_ Returning to thé original matter, it is a matter of fact that when the 17th of J uly last intervened, the Treasurer of the United States had his draft drawn on_the delinquent banks for the amounts due. It is also a matter of notorious fact that, at least so far as the First National Bank is concerned, Seeretary Sherman ordered the payments to be stopped, even after the drafts had been mailed hence, and had actually reached New York. This _%lpon the request of the officers of the First National Bank, a corporation which has beensingularly favored by Secretary Sherman. And another notorious fact is that nearly $20,000,000 of the four-per-cent. bonds which the Syndicate subscribed for and which Secretary Sherman has: r%peabQQly informed the American people had been disposed of, are now Iying in the Treasury of the United States, and on'which the Byndicate has beén regularly drawing the interest ever since their subscription was made, now nearly four months ago. And furthermore, that these bonds, as get absolutelg the property of the United tates, have been accepted by Secretary Sher-man-ag security for the faithful gerformance, of the contract on the part of the First N%tional Bank of New York, and is the only security in his possession. |

The Togic of this matter.hence, is just this: Secretary Sherman is in Obhio, deluding the people with the idea that he has closed refunding operations. The truth is that he has not. He has still all the way from $37,000,000 to $45,000,000 of bonds yet to be paid for, and he predicates the closing of refunding on the promise to pay of two banks which have failed to keep the contract with the Government. Between individuals such a delin- | quency would put the delinqueut in the attitude of a bankrapt. Sherman extends without law the time for payment till October Ist. If the bavks should not then be able to pay, he can, if he wants to, under the same violation of contracts which induced him to make one extension, make an indefinite extension; but such trifling. with the public credit is almost criminal. - A : . The New York Sun, in its issue of to-day, has the following editorial on the subject: ‘*The First National Bauok of this city, which is the legitimate successor of Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Co., has on deposit some millions of dollars belonging to the Untted States Treasury, variously estimated at from $17,000,000 to #37,000,000. It has been obliged to ask an extension of time for meeting its obligation to the Government. Mr. Sherman has granted that extension. The sum of money nominally in the vaults’ of the First National Bank - subject to the order of the United States Treasurer is not really there. The figures represent the balance of tour-per cent. bonds subscribed for by the First National Bank and not yet disposed of by the bank to its own customers. Yet the loan has been declared closed by Mr. Sherman. ‘“ There are two ways of looking at the situation, and both are bad for Mr. Sherman. 1f the bank is regarded as an agent of the Treasury Department in its refunding operations, then the four-per-cent. loan has been a failure, and the refunding of the six-per-cent. has not been accomplished. If the bank is reecarded as the debtor of the Government to the amount of the unsold bonds for which it subscribed, then Mr. Sherman is leaving from $17,000,000 to $37,000,000 of the people’s money in the hands of a corporation whose capital is $500,000. A decline of two per cent. in the value of the bonds would wipe out almost the entire capital of the bank. “From first to last the favor extended to this bank by Mr. Sherman have been ascandal in Wall street. In the matter of an increase of commissions to large: subscribers, forcing small investors in this ¢ Popular’ loan to buy through the First National Bank instead of directly of the Department, and in the matter of the extension of time allowed the bank for settling with the Treasurer, Sherman’s course toward the successors of Jay Cook, McCullock & Co., has been extraordinary. How much has the First National Bank, with its capital of $500,000, made by the refunding ‘operations of the past twelve months? And where have its profits gone?”’

FACTS AND FIGURES. THE official returns of the registrars of Ireland for the second quarter of the year contain a record of the death of persons aged respectively 105, 107 and 1. ' o . It is thought that statistics for the last fiscal year will show that new steam vessels with a tonnage of 88,813 were builtin the United States, as compared with 81,860 for the fiscal year ending in 1878.. Co S - A POOR man a few years ago purchased a piece of ground at South Amboy, N. J., and commenced selling the clay that lies underitssurface. He has dug ‘great shafts and tunnels, and is said to have earned a fortune of $300,000. : : :

THE mining receipts at San Francisco for the first six months of the year amounted to $16,260,000, of which $2,099,421 was for the month of June. Of this sum, the California sent $1,856,292; Eureka Consolidated, $1,562,500; Consolidated Virginia, $1,494,571; Richmond, $1,200,000, and Ophir, $723,000.

THE curious fact is noted at the Pension Bureau, that while Kentucky fur nished 79,025 white soldiers to the Union army, about half as many as Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire, which sent 144,005, the number of pensioners from Kentucky, 2,106, is only one-fourth as large as the number, 8,800, from the other States mentioned. S

SOME statistics have just been published by the Ministry of the Interior relative to the communes of France. They are now 36,068 in ‘number, and, ‘as the superficial extent of France is ‘upward of 52,750,000 hectares, the average size of a commune is 1,463 hectares. The annual revenue of the com‘munes is 424,180,000 francs. The receipts of the Bureaux de Bienfaisance reached in 1878 the figure of 27,444,000 franes. No extra guties have been laid down by the communes since last year. 4 : :

THE following are the heights of the principal monuments, domes, ete., in the world: St. Antoine column at Rome, 135 feet; prineipal tower of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, 145; I Trajan’s column at Rome, 145; Napoleon’s column at Paris, 150; Washington monument at Baltimore, 180; the "‘ fireat obelisk at Thebes, 200; Bunker ill monument at Boston, 223; column of Delhi, 262; Trinity Church steeple at New York, 264; the contemplated new dome cof the Capitol, 300; dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, 320; tower of Manlius, 350; tower of the cathedral at Strasburg, 460; dome of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Rome, 465; great pyramid of Egypt, 481. THE following estimate of the deficiency in the crops abroad has been made by an eminent French authority: France, 14,000,000 bushels; England, 120,000,000; Italy, 18,000,000; Spain, 24,000,000; Holland and Belgium, 12,Q 00,000; Switzerland, 6,000,000; total, 294,000,000 bushels. The surplus of the ex‘port.ixtl)g countries is estimated as follows: nited States, 157,000,000 bushels; Hungary, 7,500,000; India, 12,000,000; Australia, 21,000,000; Southern Russia, 30,000,000; Danubian countries; 6,000,000; Egypt, 3,0000,000; total, 236,500,000 bushels. The estimate for the United States is by far the largest of any year in our history. : RARE, indeed, do we find a person at thirty years of age with a sound set of teeth. Far more often do we .find young lads and girls of ten to sixteen years of age whose teeth are mere shells of decaying tissne, mttmg away with almost visible r;fa,fwidibfy, epositories of decaying particles of food, and the source of contaminating elements which deteriorate digestion, and offensive odors which contaminate the breath. In confirmation of these statements - respecting the . condition of American masticators,’it mog be mentioned that there are 12,000 dentists in the United Stavefil,nwho annually extract 20,000,000 teeth, manufacture and insert 3,000,000 artificial teeth, and hide away in the cavities of carious teeth three tons of pure gold, to say nothing about the tons of mercury, tin, silver and other metals employed in ¢ fillings.” —@ood Words. il

- . . 2 _ Religious. “ NOW I LAY ME.” BED time for the twgttering birdies, : Mother Wren has hushed to rest; Bed time tor n‘y little birdie, : Nestled close {to my breast. ‘ Now beside me lowly kneeling, Hear the lisping tongue repeat— Dear old prayer of tender memory—**Now 1 lay me down to sleep.” - . With what trusting grace, and tender, : Rosy lips petition make; ‘*Pray the Lord to take my spirit, If I die before I wake,” - ‘And no thought of dread comes o'er me, As I kiss her sweet ** good night.”’ ~ Welre so careless of our daplm%s : Till we lay them out of sight! : ! Once again ’tis birdie’s bed-time; ¢ q Little neighbors in the tree - Hush their baby bird to slumber, With no thought of lonely me. ! Ah! my mother’s arms are empty. . Draped in sadness all the room. And no whispered ** Now I lay me” Breaks upon the twilight gloom. Smooth and white the little pillow, Undisturbed the pretty bed; : On the table lie her playthings, 2 Mute reminder of my dead. For no more my little treasure My sad mother’s heait may keep; - 'ln the Heavenly Father's bosomI have laid her down to sleep. Down to sleep! Ah, yearning mother‘ Murmuring and sick at. heart, . Full of joy shall be the waking, ‘ Where no sorrow finds a part. - There we’ll find our garnered treasures, From all pain and earth-cares free, Where no sad|good-bye shall pain us Through a long eternity. . ! - : — Presbyterian.

- Sunday=School Lessons. : ; : THIRD QUARIER. . ; Sept. 7.—The Coming of the Lord. ... B : 1 'Thess. 4:13-18 Sept. 14—The Christian in the World. : I,Tim. 6: 6-18 Sept. 21—The Christian Citizen.. Titus. 3: 1- 9 Sept. 28—Review, or Lessons selected by the School. ; FOURTH QUARTER. Oct. s—Oour Great High-Priest..Heb. 4:14-16° Oct. 12—The Types Explained.. Heb- 9: 1-12 Oct. 19—The Triumphs of Faith. Heb: 11: 1-12 Oct. 26—Faith and Works..... James 2:14-26 Nov. 2—The Perfect Pattern..l Peter 2:19-25 Nov. 9—The Perfect Savior...l John 1: 1-10 Nov. 16—The Love of the Father.... ‘ 1 John 4: 7-26 Nov. 23—The Message tothe Churches : : Rev. 3:d-13 Noy. 30—The Glorified Savior.... Rev. 1:10-20 Dec. 7—The Heavenly Song..... Rev. 5: 1-14 Dec. 14—The Heavenly City...... Rev. 21:21-29 Dee. 21—The Last W0rd5........Rev. 22:10-21 Dec. 28—Review, or Lessons selected by the T tSchool. o _ . gl B < ; : ¢¢Barrel Sermons.” . OF course there is one thing the minister can do and does—put his hand in that barrel and preach the oldsermon.. As a rule we don’t believe in this bar-rel-sermon preaching. Very seldom does a minister preach an old sermon to his people the "second time with any thing approaching the fire and -spirit of its first delivery. The freshness, the warmth, the outcome of its ‘preparation, its’especial seasonableness, the enthusiasm, if he had it, attendant upon handling a new theme for the first time—these are all gone at a second preaching-—so he stands up and reads off his barrel-sermon, and how-. -ever it may have excited interest at the time, it is—unless repetition ‘has been specially called for—pretty apt to fall like a wet theologic blanket on the hearers. The effect of barrel-ser-mon preaching on, the minister himself is not good—certainly it is not stimulating. And here is another view of the matter: no minister ought to give up one church and take another with the idea of using that sermon-bar-rel. Yet just this many ministers are forced to do because of the demand made upon them by the double-sermon service. We never knew those ministers who moved away to another church and took up with the barrelsermonizing to succeed. Certainly he is putting himself under the dominion of sloth, beside subjecting himself to the disintegrating process known as rusting out. Old Andrew Fuller once replied to a young minister’s question as to what use should be made of his old sermons, ‘¢“Burn’ em, sir, burn’ ens”’ It wouldr’t be a very great loss if most of the old sermons in the country were to be consumed by spontaneous combustion. As this is not probable, anything—whatever it be— which tends to weaken the minister’s dependence upon that sermon-barrel can scaxgeely fail to be a gain to pastor and people. — Christian at Work.

Justice, Mercy and Flumility. ‘To po justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly before God are, according to a high authority, the three essentials of the highest life. Of these the first is the hardest to practice. It is often easier to be generqus than to be just; easier to-show men favors than to recognize and respect their rights. But when we do turn from the gracious to the legal mood, trying to pe just, we ‘are apt to be very careful lest we yield others any more than of right belongs to them. This is the characteristic of many men who take pride in being just, and who in spite of this honest scruple are soundly hated; they are always bound that nobody shall get from: them anything more than even measure; and in this exacting spirit they not seldom pervert the justice on which. they are intent. ¢ If people calculate the judicial mean too nicely,’”” says a great writer, ¢ they will not hit it; in ‘their hearts they ou%‘ht to go a little beyond it, or they will fall short of it.”” The only kind of justice whose company we can afford to keep is the justice whose handmaid is sweet charity —the justice that would give man a penny more than his' due rather than ‘give him a farthing less. ' : } The mercy that we are bidden to love is not mere lenity toward offenders, ‘but the good-will which is the fulfillin of the law. This is the quality Wit‘fi which justice must alwaysbe tempered. So far as conduct goes, the man in whose heart this good-will rules, and in ‘whose life it finds expression, is blameless. God has nothing more to require of the man who in word and deed: obeys the royal law. But it is not pexfunctory beneficence that is bere enjoined; it is not the mere doing of use-{ ful and kindly deeds; it is what Tennyson calls ¢ the love of love.” *To Xo justly and to love mercy” is what thy ‘God requireth of thee. . : ““To walk humbly with thy God” is the last, and not the least of these requirements. The laws of conduct are summed up in the injunection to do justly and love mercy; but the habit of | thought which is here enjoined is one

of the crowning attributes o the 'highest virtue. There is a justice that is haughty, and there is a beneficence that is ostentatious; the true glory of life is only seen where a genuine humility abides. And yet we do well to rememwhat Dr. Sears -has so well said, that ‘‘ humility is not humiliation nor selfdisparagement. It is simply rendering to the Lord what belongs to Him, instead of claiming it as our own. We are the most humble when we think least of ourselves, or put ourselves out of the account altogether, and let the Lord shine through us, with His uncolored sunlight, without staining it with our own self-hood.”’—Sunday Afternoon. SR

-~ Mosques and Their Ministers. . In all Mohammedan . countries the mosque is the great center of both religious and political influence. It is especially so among the Afghans. In the cities there are mosques attached to every street, and in the villages to each - section or parish. The village mosques are usually very simple .structures of mud, but not unfrequently they are buildings of stone or brick with some architectural pretensions. The ordinary mosque -is constructed in the figure of'a®square court with about onethird of it covered in 'with a threedomed roof. Within the covered portion is a Mihrab, or niche, marking the Kibla, or the .direction of Mstea, to which all Mohammedans turn their faces during prayers. There is also a Mimbar, or pulpit, consisting of three steps, from which the preacher recites the Friday Khutbah, or oration. If the mosque is situated on a river bank the legal ablutions are' performed in the. stream; but if there is no river, either a well or a tank will be constructed within the precincts of the courtyard for that purpose. The floor of the mosque is covered with matting, and the rich and poor pray side by side, the chief with his servant and the ruler with his subject, men of wealth or rank enjoying no. special distinction. Women are -not forbidden to attend public places of worship, but they are not encouraged to do so, and in Af‘ghanistan (and the same may be said of other Mohammedan countries) females never pray in the mosques. The Muslim takes off his shoes at the entrance of the mosque, carries them in -his hand sole to sole, and places them upon the floor: a little before the spot his head will touch in prostration. The mosque is not only the Muslim place of worship, but it is the village school or college, and'if the priest in charge should be a man of renowned scholarship or piety, his pupils will be very numerous. The students from a distance reside in the mosque, and receive their daily rations from the parish. The mosque is presided over by an Iman, or priest, whose pay is derived from the endowments and the free-will offerings of the people. The position of Iman is somewhat similar to that of a beneficed clergyman-in England. - His duties are to lead the prayers, to perform marriages and burials, and to settle the disputes of his parishioners. But, unlike the clergyman in England, the Mohammedan priest is not expected to pay pastoral visits to his people, but the people pay frequent visits to their priest. Indeed, the social position of the Mohammedan priest is estimated entirely by the reputation he has, and by the number of people who visit him daily.: If the Iman be a scholar-and also & man of reputed sanctity, his advice will be sought upon almost every conceivable question, and ‘the benefit of his prayers will be solicited in behalf of the most multifarious necessities. — Sunday at Home. - ]’ .

—At Lowell, Mass., thg other day, a large Newfoundland dog-was acting in an unaccountable manner on the margin of a small pond. He seemed to wish to-approach the water but at the same time held back by dread of it. He apparently suffered, also, from spasms, during which he would leap high in the air and then writhe in. agony. While a policeman went in searc% of a weapon to kill the animal and end his misery the dog jum(f)ed into the pond, in spite of - his evident aversion to the water, walked twenty or thirty feet from the bank toward the middle and there deliberately. drowned himself. !

. —Small girl, very harshly, to a doll in a toy -carriage, dolly having tum,bled from the seat: ¢ Sit right up, you .horrid old thing. Don’t you dare to do that-again, or I'll whip you.”” Seeingsa passer, who h,a&a.ppro,ached unobserved, she modifidd her voice and continued in dulcet tones: ¢“Now, sit up straight, ‘darling, and be careful not to fall and hurt yourself.”” -

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