Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 16, Number 3, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 4 April 1894 — Page 2

lIE VETOES IT. President Cleveland's Opposition to Coining th 9 Seigniorage. Bn Send# a Message to Congress Vetoing the Measure —Fall Text of the Documeut Explaining Ilia Reasons for Ilia Action. DISAPPROVED. Washington, March Sl.—'The following is the full text of the president’s message vetoing the Bland seigniorage bill. To.the House of Representatives: Ireturn without my approval house bill numbered 4,956, entitled “An act directing the coinage of the silver bullion held in the treasury and for other purposes." My strong desire to avoid disagreement with those in both houses of congress who have supported this bill would lead me to approve it if 1 could believe that the public good would not be thereby endangered and that such action on my part would be a proper discharge of official duty. Inasmuch, however, as I am unable to eatisfy myself that the proposed legislation is cither wise or opportune, my conception of the obligations and responsibilities attached to the great office 1 hold forbids the indulgence of my • personal desire and inexorably t confines me to ‘that course, which is dictated by my reason and judgment, and pointed out by a sincere purpose to protect and promote the general interests, of our people. * Financial Disturbance and Recovery. The financial disturbance which swept over the country during the lass year was unparalleled in its*severity and disastrous' consequences. There seemed to be almost an entire displacement of faith in our financial ability and a loss of confidence in our fiscal policy. Among those who attempted to assign causes for our distress it was very generally conceded that the operation of a provision . of law then in force which required the government to purchase monthly a large amount of silver bullion, and is>*uo its notes inpayment therefor, was either entirely, or to a large extent, responsible for our condition. This led to the repeal on the Ist day of November, 1893. of this statutory provision! We had, however, fallen so low in the depths of depression, and timidity and apprehension had so completely gained control in financial circles, that our rapid recuperation could not bo reasonably expected. Our recovery has, nevertheless, steadily progressed, and, though less than five months have elapsed since the repeal of the mischievous silver purchase requirement, a wholesome improvement is unmistakably apparent Confidence in our absolute solvency Is, to such an extent reinstated and faith in our /Blsposition to adhere to sound financial methods is so far restored as to produce the most encouraging results both at home and abroad. The wheels of domestic industry have been elowly set in motion, and the tideJpf foreign investment lias again started in our direction. Our recoveiy being so well under way nothing should be done to check our convalescence; nor should wo forget that a relapse at this time would almost surely reduce us to a lower stage of financial distress than that from which wo are just emerging. A Possible I hock. I believe that if, tnp hi 11 under consideration should become a law it would be regarded as a retrogression from the financial Intentions indicated by our recent repeal of the provision forcing silver bullion purchases, that it would weaken if it did not destroy returning faith and confidence in our. sound financial tendencies, and that, as a consequence, our progress to renewed business health would be unfortunately checked and a return to our recent distressing plight seriously threatened. The Purchase of Silver.^ This proposed legislation is so related to the currency conditions grow ingout ot the law compelling the purchase of silver by the government that a glance at such conditions, and a partial review of the law referred to, may not Ue unprofitable. lie tween the 14 th day of August, 1830, when "the law became operative, and the Ist day of .November, 1893, when the clause it contained directing the purchase of silver was repealed, there were purchased by the secretary of the treasury -more than 10Hr000,000 of ounces, of silver bullion.'' In payment for this bullion the government issued its treasury non sos various denominations, amounting to nearly *rls4H<Ou,iyU0 f —which notes were Immediately added to the currency in circulation , numng our pcople. Such notes v.ere by the law made legal tender in jayment of aIT Tic fits, public and private, exe pt w hen .otherwise expr- ssly stipulated.arni were made receivable for customs, taxes and all public dues, and when so received might be so reissued They ' were also perm4ted td be held by harming associations as a part of their lawful reserves. Oil the demand of the holders thesedreasuTy notes were to be redeemed in gold or in the discretion of the secre'.; 1 ry of the treasury, but it was declared as a part of this redemption provision that it was "the established policy of the United Elates to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present' legal ratio, or such ratio as may bo provided by . lav. The money coined from such bullion was to bo standard' silver dollars, and after directing the. immediate coinage of a little less than 28,1)00.9011 ounces the lawprovided that as much of the remaining bullion Should be thereafter coined as might be neeesfeary to provide for the redemption of the treasury notes issued on its purchase, and that “any gain or seigniorage arising from such coinage shall be accounted for and paid into the treasury." This gain or .-ciguiorui/e evidently indicates so much of tin; bullion owned by the go\'< rumen: as should nniuii after using u sufficient amount, to coin us many standard silver dollars as should equal in number the dollars represented by the treasury holes issued- in payment of the i mire quantity of bullion. These treasury not.es no;,v outstanding and in circulation amount to-M. >2,9.51,280, and, al-though there has been thus tar but a comparatively email amount of this bullion coined, yet tue socalled gain or seigniorage, as above defined, which would.arise from the coinage of the entire mass has been easily ascertained to boa. quantity of bullion sufficient to make when Coined 55,150,081 standard silver dollars. * Parity Must He Maintained. Considering the prisent intrinsic relation between gold and silver, the inalfitenauce of the parity between the' two metals, as Mentioned In this law, can mean nothing less than the maintenance of such a parity in the estimation and confidence of the people who use our money in their daily transactions. Manifestly the maintenance of this parity can only be accomplish! and. so Jar as it is affected by these treasury notes, and in the estimation of the holders of the same, by giving to such holders, on tht ir redemption, the coin, whether It is gold or silver,, which they prefer. Itjqllows that while in terms the law leaves *the choice of coir, to he paid on such.redemption to the discretion of the secretary of the treasury, the exercise -of .this discretion, if opposed to the demands of the bolder, Is entirely inconsistent with the * fleet{ve and beneficial maintenance of the parity between' the two metals. J? both gold and silver are to serve us as money, and if they together are to supply to our people a safe and stable, currency, the necessity of preserving this parity Is obvious Buch necessity has been. repeatedly conceded in the platforms of both political parties and in our federal statutes. It is howhero more emphatically recognizedthan In the recent law which repealed the provision under which the bullion now on hand was purchased. This law Insists upon the “maintenance of the parity in value of the coins of the two metals and the equal power of every dollar at all timo.s In the markets and in the payment of debts.” The secretary of the treasury has therefore, for the best of reasons, not only promptly compiled with every demand for the redemption of these treasury notes in gold, but the present situation, as well as the letter and spirlt_of the law, appear plainly to justify, if they <lo not enjoin Upon him, a continuation of such redemption. The conditions I have endeavored to present tnay be thus summarized: First. The government has purchased nnd now has on hand sufficient silver bullion to permit the coinage of all the silver dollars trecessary to redeem, in such dollars, the treasury Holes issued lor the purchase of said silver

bullion and enough besides y to coin, as gain or seigniorage, 55.156,681 additiopal standard silver dollars. Second. There are outstanding and now in circulation treasury notes issued in payment of the bullion purchased amounting to f 15-’,951,280. These notes are legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private. except when otherwise expressly stipulated. they are receivable for customs, taxes and all public dues: when held by banking associations they may be counted as part of their lawful reserves, and they are redeemed by the government in gold at the option of the holders. These advantageous, attributes were deliberately attached to these notes at the time of their issue: they are fully understood by our people to whom such notes have been distributed as currency, and have inspired confidence in their safety and value, ar?tr have undoubtedly thus Induced their continued, and contented use as money, instead of anxiety for their redemption. Objections .Specifically Stated. Having referred to some incidents which I deem relevant to the subject, it remains for me to submit a specific statement of my objections to the bill now under consideration: This bill' consists of two sections, excluding one which merely appropriates a sum sufficient to carry the act into effect. The first section provides for the immediate coinage of the silver bullion in .the treasury which represents the so-called gain or seigniorage, or which would arise from tho coinage of all the bullion on hand, which gain or seigniorage this section declares to be 155,156.681. It directs that the money so coined or the certificates issued thereon shall be used in the payment of public expenditures, and provides that if the needs of the treasury demand It, the secretary of the treasury may in his discretion issue silver certificates in-excess of such coinage, not exceeding the amount of seigniorage in said section’'authorized io~l>o coined.The second section directs tho tas soon as possible after the coinage of tnis. seigniorage the remainder of the bullion held by the goyrrnrnenl shall be coined into legal tender standard silver, dollars, and that they shall be held in the treasury for the redemption of the treasury ndfes issued in the purchase of suki bullion. It provides that as fast as the bullion shall be coined for tho redemption of said notes, they shall not bo reissued'but. shall be canceled and destroyed in amounts equal to the coin held at any time in the 4rea.sury derived from the coinage provided for. and that silver certificates shall be Issued on such coin in the manner now provided by law. It is, however, especially declared in said section that the act shall not be construed to change existing laws relating to the legal tender character or mode of redemption of the treasury notes issued for the purchase of the silver bullion to bo coined Faulty In Construction. The entire bill is most unfortunately constructed. Nearly every sentence-presents uncertainty and invites controversy as to its meaning and intent. The first section is especially faulty in this respect, and it is extremely doubtful whether its language will permit the consummation of its supposed purposes. lam led to believe ■that the promoters of the bill intended in this section to provide for the coinage of the bullion constituting the gain or seigniorage, as it is called, into standard silver dollars; and yet there is positively nothing in the • section to prevent its coinage into any description of silver coins now authorized under any existing law. I suppose this section was also .intended, in case the needs of tho treasury called for money faster than the seigniorage bullion could actually be coined, to permit the issue’ of silver certificates in advance of such coinage; but its language would seeiii to permit the issuance of such certificates to double the amount of seigniorage as stated, one-half of which would not represent an ounce of silver in the treasury. The debate upon this section in the congress developed an earnest find positive difference of opinion as to its object and meaning. In any event lain clear that the present perplexities and embarrassments of the secretary of the treasury ought not to be augmented by devolving upon him the execution of a law so uncertain and confused. lain not willing, however, to rest my objection to this section solely on these grounds; in my judgment sound finance does not commend a further infusion of silver into our currency at this time, unaccompanied. by further adequate provision for the maintenance in our treasury of a safe gold reserve. Issue of Certificates. Doubts ab o arise as to the meaning and construction ot the second section of the hill. If . the silver ‘dollars therein directed to be coined are. as the section provider, to be held in the treasury for the ledemption < i treasury notes, it is suggested that, strictly speaking, certificates cannot be issued on such coin "in the mariner how provided by law." because these dollars are money held in the treasury for the express purpose of redeeming treasury' notes on demand, which would ordinarily mean that they were set apart for the purpose ot. subs-tijuting them for these treasury notes. They aTe not, therefore, held in such a way as to furnish a basis for certificates according to any provision of existing law. If, however, silver certificates can properly bj issued upon these dollars, there is nothing in the section to indicate the charac.eristics and functions of these certificates. If they were to be of the same character as silver certificates in circulation under existing laws they would at best be receivable only for customs, taxes and all public dues; and under the language of this section it is, to say the least, extremely doubtful whether the certificates it contemplates would be lawfully received even for such purposes. Whatever else may-be said of the uncertainties of expression in this lull, they certainly ought not to, tie found In legislation affecting subjqgts so important uud fur-reaching as our finances and currency. In stating other and more important reasons for my disapproval of this section I shall, however, assume that und"r its provisions the treasury notes issued in payment tor silver t ul'.ion will continue to be redeemed as heretofore in silver or gold, at the option of the holders, and that if when they are presented for redemption, or reach the treasury in any other manner, there are in the treasury 'coined silver dollars equal in nominal value to such treasury'notes, then, and in that ease, the notes will be destroyed and silver certificates to an equal amount be substituted. Dangerous and 111-Advised. I am convinced that this scheme is ill-advised and dangerous. v As an ultimate result of its operation treasury notes which are legal tender for all debts, public and private, and which are redeemable in gold or .silver, at the’option of the holder,' will be replaced by silver certificates which, whatever tnay, be their character and description, will .have none of these qualities. In anticipation of this result and as an immediate effect the treasury notes will naturally aiipreciate fn value and desirability. The fact that gold citu bo realized upon them, and the further fact that their destruction has been decreed when they reach the" treasury must tend to their withdrawal., from general circulation to be Immediately presented for gold redemption or to be hoarded for presentation at a more convenient season. The sequel to both operations will be a large addition to the sliver currency in our circulation and a corresponding reduction of gold in the treasury. The argument has been made that these things will not occur at once because a long time must elapse before the coinage of anything but the seigniorage can be entered upon. Jf the physical effects of the execution of the second section of this bill are not to be realized until far in the future, this may furnish a strong reason why it should not he passed so Tnuch lmadvance; but the postponement of its actual operation cannot prevent the fear and loss of confidence nnd nervous ,precaution which would immediately follow its passage arid bring about its consequences. I regard this section of the bill as embodying a plan by which the government will be obliged to pay out its scanty store of gold for no other purpose than to foree an unnatural addition of sliver money into the hands of our people. This is an exact reversal of the policy which safe finance dictates if wo arc to preserve parity between gold and silver andqnaintain sensible bimetallism. Outstanding Silver Certificates. We have now outstanding.more than 5338,000,000 in silver certificates Issued under existing laws. They are serving the purpose of money usefully and without question. Our gold reserve, amounting to only a little more than 1100,000,000, is directly charged with the re-

demption of ? 346,000,000 of United States note* When it is proposed to inflate our silver currency it is a time for strengthening our gold reserve instead of depleting it. I cannot conceive of a longer step toward silver monometallism than we take when we spend our gold to buy silver certificates for circulation, especially in view of the practical difficulties surrounding the replenishment of our'gold. Hotter Power to Issue llonds. Tliis leads me to earnestly present the desirability of granting to the secretary of the treasury a better power than now exists to issue bonds to protect our gold reserve when for any reason it should be necessary. Our currency is in such a confused condition and our financial affairs aro apt to assume at any time so critical a position that It seems to me such a course is dictated by ordinary prudence. I am not insensible to the arguments In favor of coining the bullion seigniorage now in the treasury, and I believe it could be done safely and with advantage, if the secretary of the treasury had the power to issue bonds at a low rate of interest under authority in substitution of that now existing and better suited to the protection of the treasury. Hopeful for the Future of Silver. I hope a way will present Itself In the pear future for the adjustment of our monetary affairs in such a comprehensive and conservative manner as will accord to silver its proper place in our currency; but in the meantime I am extremely solicitous that whatever action wo take on this subject may be such as to prevent loss and discouragement to out people at home, and the destruction of confidence in our financial management abroad. Grover Cleveland. Executive Mansion, March 29, 1891. COXEY'S ARMY. Its Progress Towards Washington—Notes of the March. Colummana, 0., March 31.—An aged farmer named Thomas Holloway fell dead, in the inain street of this city Thursday with a cheer for Coxev’s commonweal on his lips. He came into town early in the day with a load of provisions for the army and delivered them at the supply headquarters. Mr. Holloway appeared much excited as the column marched through the town. He raised his cane in the air and shouted lustily several times. When the column disappeared down the street Holloway turned to ascend the steps of a store. He paused a moment as he entered the door, turned and shouted a farewell to-the common* wealers. While the words were yet on his lips lie sunk to the sidewalk and in five minutes lie was dead. Holloway i had been a resident ! county for many years, and Trc-was highly respected among his neighbors, i The army began its march of 10 miles i to Columbian a in a driving snowstorm j which lasted all day. Eighty eight > footmen were in line; fourteen men | rode on horses and eighteen found ; places' on the wagons. About fifty ! made the trip on a freight train, re- | joining the army at Columbiana. After leaving this place no partofthe.comI monweal will be allowed to ride on tho cars. They must all walk or lose their rations. At Lcetonia a bounteous lunch of hot coffee and sandwiches was served by the citizens. A number of recruits joined during the stop. After lunch i the march was continued. Just befqro { reaching this city Gen. Coxey, who had I returned from his Chicago trip, ! rejoined the army and was greeted with cheers. The crowd in ! Columbiana, owing to the strength of the populists in this vicinity, was ; unusually largd. After passing through j the city the army went., into camp at 'Johnson's deserted machine shops. . 'The Populist club had collected an immense amount of provisions, more than i the army can possibly use at present. The surplus will be held subject to ' Coxey’s orders. j The arjny, according to Marshal Carl Browne's order No. 0, w ll inarch from : this city at 11:30 this morning, stop for ; lunch at New Waterford and reach Camp Oompers, East Palestine, early in the afternoon. Died on the Train. Chicago, March 31 —Prof. John M. Ellis of Oberlin college, Oberlin, ()., died on a Santa Fe train coining into • the city at noon Thursday. Prof. Ellis was consumptive and went to Sail : Diego to recover his health, lie was on ! bis way home, and was accompanied by his wife and -sou. As the journey progressed eastward a decided change came ! over him and lie began to sink rapidly. As the train rolled into Chicago Thursday morning Prof. Ellis died in his berth in a Pullman sleeper. (iriivoHondors in tin* Penitentiary. New York, March 31. — Constable Andrew S. Jamieson and Election ln.sp.ee--1 tors John W. Murphy, Mieheal P. divan, Martin Morris, John 15. llrmvn- '! hill, W. Lyons, Conrad Steuben berg, 1 Jr., Fred E. linden, Eenjumin Cohen and Victor Hausen ween were on j Wednesday afternoon taken from Siinoiid street jail to Kings county | penitentiary at Crow Hill to servo j terms for which they were sentenced i for the Gravesend election frauds. Ills Family Was .Starving. I Carthage, Mo., March 31. —Officer J. | A. Manker just before day-dawn discovered a burglar in Smith & Jennings’ ! grocery and entered to arrest him. Tho i burglar ran, and tho oflieer, too bulky ; to crowd himself through a window, fired, killing the fleeing man, who ■ proved to be John Peterson, a local ear- ■ penter, long out of work, and stealing i to provide for a starving wife and four - children. Roys Hound for Manitoba, Liverpool, March 3^ — The British ! steamship Sarnia, ( apt. Cojich, will 1 carry a curious lot of passengers on her i next trip across the Atlantic. The living freight of this steamship will include 234 boys from Dr, Harnardo’s homes and missions for ofplian boys and destitute lads, who are en route to Manitoba., . ■ lown Pension Fraud*. Dubuque, la.. March 31. The trial of the Van Leuven pension fraud cases has been set for April 1H in the United States court in. this city. There are forty-three indictments, embracing charges of accepting illegal fees, conspiracy to defraud and falsifying indictments. Hilled Ills Wife ly Accident. Hillsroro, ()., March 31. Luther Rarshberger, a young man at New market, this county, accidentally shot and killed Ills wife. They had been married but a year. He was trying to kill cats, and fell down, discharging liis gun iu the fall.

THE RELIGION OF JESUS. ! ' Rev. Dr. Talmage Contrasts It with the Blight of Infidelity. I ‘ - True Religion Productive of Cheerfnl Contentment,' While Unbelief Is a Continual Source of Misery and Despair. ! The following sermon on “The Sustaining Power of Religion” was delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage in the Brooklyn tabernacle, being based on the text; Though ye have lain among tho pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a (love covered with silver, and h#r feathers with yellow gold. —Psalms, Ixviii., 13. I suppose you known what the Isi raelites did down in Egyptian slavery, j The men made bricks. Amid the utensils of the hrick’-’kiln there were also other utensils of cookery—the kettles, the pots, the pans, witli which they prepared their daily food; and when these poor slaves,,, tired of the day’s l work, lay down to rest, they lay down among the implements of cookery and | the implements of hard work. When j they arose in the morning they found I their garments covered with the clay* | and the smoke and the dust, and bej stii irched and begrimed with the utensils of-cookery. _Biit after awhile the i Lord broke up that slavery, and He took these poor slaves into a land where they had better garb, bright and clean and beautiful apparel. No more bricks for them to make. Let Pharaoh make his own bricks. When David, in my text, comes to describe the transition of these poor Israelites from bondage amid the brickkilns into tlie glorious emancipation which God had prepared them, lie says: “Though ve have lain among the pets, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.” Miss Whately, the author of a celebrated book, “Life in Egypt*” said she sometimes saw people in the east cooking their food on the tops of houses, and that she had often seen, just before sundown ,pigeons and doves which had during the heat of the day been hiding among the kettles and the pans with which the food was prepared. -picking up the crumbs that they might find; just about the. hour of sunset they would spread .their wings and fly heavenward, entirely unsoiled by the region in which they bad moved, for the pigeon is a very cleanly bird. And as the pigeons flew fiway the setting sun would throw silver on their wings and gold on their breasts. So you see it is not a farfetched simile, or an unnatural comparison, when David in my text says to these emancipated Israelites, and says to all those who tire brought out of any kind of trouble into any kind o,f spiritual joy; "Though ye have Ipin among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove, covered with silver, and lien feathers with yellow gold.” Sin is the hardest of all taskmasters. Worse than Fharaoh, it keeps ns drudging in a most degrading service; but after awhile Christ conies and He says, “Let my people go,” and we .pass out from among the brick-kilns, of sin into the glorious liberty of the Gospel; we put on the clean robes of a Christian profession, and .when, at last, we soar nw;iy to the warm nest which God lias provided for us in ] 1-eave’n, we shall go fairer than a dove, its wings covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold. I am going to preach something which some of you do not believe, and that is that the grandest possible ornament is the religion of Jesus Christ. There are a great many people who suppose that religion is a very differ: ent thing from what it really is. -The reason men condemn the Bible is because they du not understand the Bible; they have not properly examined it. Dr. Johnson said that Hume told a minister in the bishopric of Durham that he had never part icnlarlv examined the New Testament, wtTall bis life warringjigainst it. Halley, the astronomer, -announced his; skepticism | to Sir Isaac Newton, and Sir Isaac j Newton said: “Now, sir, 1 exam- | ined the subject and you have not; and 1 1 am ashamed that you. professing to j be a philosopher., consent to ebndeihn a thing you never have . exabiined.” j And so men reject the religion of Jesus j Christ because they really have never 1 investigated it. They think it soine- | thing undesirable, something that will 1 not work, .something I’ecksnillian, I something hypocritical, something re- ! pulsive, when it is so bright and so beautiful you might compare it to a chaffinch, you might compare it to a robin-redbreast, you might compare it to a dove, its wings covered with silver and its feathers with yellow gold. Rut how is it if a young man becomes a Christian? All through tin; clubrooms, wlier# lie associates, all through tin* business circles where be is known, there is commiseration. They say: “What a pity that a young man wlm bad such bright prospects should so have been despoiled bv those Christians, giving up ult his worldly prospects for something which is of no particular present worth!” Here is a young woman who becomes a Christian; her voice, her face, her manners the charm of the drawing-room. Now, all through the fashionable circles the whisper goes: “Wlmt a pity that such a bright 'light should have been extinguitlied, that sijcli a graceful gait should be crippled, that sueli worldly prospects should be obliterAh, my friends, it can be shown that religion’s ways are ways | of pleasantness, and that all her paths ! are peace; that religion, instead of j being dark and doleful and lachrymose i and repulsive, is bright and beautiful, its wings covered with silver and its feathers with yellow gold. See, in the first place, jvhat religion will do for a man’s heart. I care not | Trow cheerful a man may-naturally iur before conversion, conversion naturally brings him up to a higher standard of ! cheerfulness. I do not say he will laugh'any louder; I do not but tie ; uiay stand back from some forms of

hilarity in which lie once indulged; but there comes into his immense satisfaction. A young man not a Christian depends upon worldly success to keep his spirits up. Now lie is prospered, now he has a large salary, now he has a beautiful wardrobe, now he has plpasant friends, now he lias more money than he knows how to spend; everything goes bright and wellWith him. Rut trouble comes—there are many young men in the house this morqing who can testify out of their own experience that sometimes to young men trouble does come —his friends arfc gone, his salary is gone, his health is gone; he goes down, down. He ‘becomes sour, cross, queer, misanthropic, blames the world, blames society, blames the church, blames everything, rushes perhaps to the intoxicating cup to drown liis trouble, but, instead of drowning his trouble, lie drowns his body and drowns his soul. Rut here is a Christian young man. Trouble comes to him. Does lie give up? No! Rethrows himself back on the resources of Heaven. He says “God is my father. Out of all these' disasters I shall pluck advantage for my soul. All the promises are mine, Christ is mine, Christian companionship is mine, Heaven is mine. What though my apparel be worn out? Christ gives me a robe of righteousness. What though my money be gone? 1 have a title deed to the whole universe in the promise, ‘All are yours.’ What though my worldly -friends fall away? Ministering angels are my bodyguard. What though my fare be poor and my bread be scant? I sit at the King's banquet!’’ Oli, what a poor, shallow stream is worldly enjoyment compared with the deep, broad, overflowing river of God's peace, rolling midway in the Christian heart. Sometimes you have gone out on the iron-bound beach of the sea when there has been a storm on the ocean, and you have seen the waves lash into white foam at your feet. They did not do you at harm. While there you thought of the chapter written by the l’sal mist, and perhaps you recited it to youself while the storm was making commentary upon the passage: “God is our refuge and strength, a very 'present help in time of trouble. Therefore will I not fear, though tlie earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though the waters thereof roar and be troubled., though the mountains-shake with the swelling thereof.” Oil, bow independent the religion of Christ makes a man of worldly success and worldly circumstances! Nelson, tlie night before his last battle, said: “To-morrow I shall win either a peerage or a grave in Westminster abbey.” And it does not make much difference to tlie Christian whether he rises or falls in worldly matters; he lias everlasting renown anyway. Other plumage may be torn in the* blast, but that soul adorned with Christian grace is fairer than the dove, its wings covered with silver, and its feathers with gold. You and I have found out that people who pretend to lie happy are not nlways happy. Look at that young man. caricaturing t in* Christian religion, scoffing at everything good, going into roystering drunkenness, dashing tho champagne bottle to the floor, rolling the- glasses from the bar-room counter, laughing, shouting, stamping the floor. Is lie happy? I will go to bis midnight pillo.v. I will see him turn Hie gas off. i will ask myself if the pillow on which be sleeps is as soft as the pillow ’on which that pure young man sleeps. All! no. AVlien lie opens his eyes iu the morning, tyjll the world be as bright to him as that young man who retired at night saying his prayers, invoking God’s blessing upon bis own soul and the souls of bis comrades, and father and mother, and brothers and sisters far away? No, no! His laugh will ring out from tlie saloon so that you hear it as you pass by, but it is hollow laughter; in it is the snapping of heart-strings and the rattle of prison gates. Happy! that young man happy? Let him fill high the bowl; lie cannot drown an upbraiding 'conscience. Let the balls roll through the bowling alley; the deep rumble and the sharp, crack can not overpower the voices of condemnation. Let him whirl in the dance of sin and temptation and death. All the brilliancy of the scene can not make him forget the last look of his mother when he left home, when she said to him: “Now, mv son, you will do right; I am sure you will do right; yo will, won't you?” That young man happy? Why, across every night there flit shadows of eternal darkness; there are adders coiled up in every cup; there are vultures of despair striking their iron beaks into bis heart; there are skeleton fingers of grief pinching at the throat. I come in amid tlie clicking of the glasses and under tlie flashing of the chandeliers, and I cry: “Woe! woe! The way of tlie ungodly shall perish. There is no peace, saith God, to the wicked. The way of the transgressors is luird.” Oh, my friends, there is more joy in one drop of Christian satisfaction than in the whole rivers of sinful delight. Other wings may be drenched of the storm and splashed of the temptest, but the dove that comes in through the window of this heavenly nrk has wings like the dove covered with silver, and her feathers with low-gokh-Again I remark, religion is an adornment in the style of usefulness into which it inducts a man. Here are two young men. The one has fine culture, wardrobe, plenty of friends, great w'orldly success, but be lives for i himself. His chief care is for his own | comfort. He lives uselessly. Hedies unregretted. Here is another young ; man. His apparel may not be so good, bis education muy not be so thorough. He lives for j others' His happiness is to make othLom happy. He is as self-denying as I that dying soldier, falling in the ranks, when he said: “Colonel, there is no need of those boys tiring themselves by carrying me to the hospital; let me I die just where 1 am.” this young

\ man of whom I speak, loves trants all tlie world to love him, is not ashamed to carry a bundle of clothes up that dark alley to the poor. Which of those young men do you admire the better? The one a sham, the other a prince imperial. Oh, do you know anything, my hearer, that is more beautiful to see than a.young man start out for Christ? Here is someone falling; he lifts him up. Here is a vagabond boy; he introduces him to a mission school. Here is a family freezing to death; he carries them a scuttle of coal. There are eight hundred millions perishing in midnight heathen darkness; by all possible means lit; tries to send them the Oospel. He may be laughed at, and he inay be sneered at, and he may be caricatured, but he is not ashamed to go everywhere, saving: “I am not ashamed of the Hospel of Christ. It is the power of Hod and the wisdom of Hod unto salvation.” Such a young man can go through everything. There is no force on earth or in hell that can resist him. I show you three spectacles. Spectacle the first: Napoleon passes by with the host that went down with him to Egypt, and up with him through Russia, and crossed the continent on the bleeding heart of which he set his iron heel, and across the quivering flesh of which he went grinding the wheels of his gun-car riages—in his dying moment asking his attendants to put on his military boots for him. Spectacle the second: Voltaire, bright anil learned and witty and eloquent, with tongue and voice and stratagem irtfernal, warring ‘ against Hod and poisoning whole kingdoms with his infidelity, yet applauded by the clapping hands of thrones and empires and continents —his last words, in delirium supposing Christ standing by the bedside —liis last words: ‘‘Crush that wretch!” Spectacle the third: Raul—Raul, insignificant in person, thrust out from all refined association, scourged, spat on, hounded like a wild beast from city to city, yet trying to make the world good and Heaven full; announcing resurrection to those who mourned at the barred gates of the dead, speaking consolations which light up the eyes of widowhood and orphanage and want with glow of certain and eternal release; undaunted before those who could take his life, cheek flushed with transport and his eve on Heaven; with one hand shaking defiance at all the foes of earth and all principalities of hell, and with the other hand beckoning messenger angels to come and bear him away, as he says': “lain now ready to la; offered, and the time of my departure is at hand; 1 have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous .Judge, will give me.” ? Which- of the three spectacles do you most admire? When the wind of death struck the conquerorand the infidel, they were tossed'lilfe sea' gulls in a tempest, drenched qf the wave and torn of the hurricane, their dismal voices heard through the everlasting storm; hut when tin* waves and the wind of death struck Raul, like an albatross, he made a throne of the temand one day floated away into the cal m. clear summer of Heaven, brighter than the dove, it wings covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold. Oh, are you not in love with such a religion—a religion that can do so much for a man while he lives, and so much for a man when he comes to die? That I might woo you to a better life, and that I might show you the glories with which Hod clothes His dear children in Heaven, I wish I could this morning swing hack one of the twelve gates, that there might dash upon your ear one shout of the triumph, that there might flame upon your eyes one* blaze of the splendor. Oh when I speak of that good land, you involuntarily think of someone there that you loved—father, mother, brother, sister, or dear little child garnered already. You want, to know what they are doingthis morning. I will tell you what they are doing. Singing! You want to know what they wear. I will tell you what they wear. Coronets of triumph! You wonder why oft they look to the gate of the temple, and watch and wait. I will tell why they watch and wait and look to the gate of the temple. For j ? our coming! I shout upward the news to-day, for I am sure some of you will repent and start for Heaven. “Oh, ye bright ones before the throne, your earthly friends are coming. Angels poising midair, cry up the name! Gatekeeper of Heaven, send forward the tidings! Watchman on the battlements celestial, throw the signal!” “Oh,” you say, “religion I am going to have; it is only a question of time.” My brother, I am afraid that you may lose Heaven the way Louis Rhilippe lost his empire. The Rarisian mob came around the tulleries. The national guard stood in defense of the palace, and the commander said to Louis Rhilippe: “.Shall I fire now? Shall I order the troops to fire? With one volley we can clear the place.” “No.” said Louis Rhilippe, “not yet.” A few minutes passed on, and then Louis Rhilippe, seeing the case was hopeless, said to th*e general: “Now is the time to fire.” “No,” said the general, “it is too late now; don’t you see that the soldiers are exchanging arms with the citizens? It’s too late.” Down Went the. throne of Louis RljilippGr Away from the earth went the house of Orleans, and nil because the king said: “Not yet! not yet!” May Hod forbid that any of yon should adjourn this great subject of religion, ami should postpone assailing your spiritual foes until it is too late, too late—ybu losing a throne in Heaven the way that Louis Rhilippe lost a throne on curtli. • When tho Judge descends In might, Clothed in majesty and light; When tho earth shall quake with fear, Where, oh where, wilt thou appear?