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M A MB ( DILFH COUNTY mmMA A o A Family jfavspappr, Devoid lo Lilcraliirc, Education, Morality, Temperance, Agriculture, Local and Foreign News, the. Arts and Sciences, Politics, Commercial and General Intelligence NEW SEMES. WINCHESTER, RANDOLPH COUNTY, INDIANA: THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1S.")9. VOL. 2. NO. 22 v i liiindoljih Count v.Toiirnal r.vi:r:Y tutu-pay morni.m; 2BT IS. DP. DIGGS, ur-Usiinr. am rr.oiT.it.nu.. ofr tit.m. For Twilve Mikittln, in ad aurr,. . . . SI.1" C??""M1 pirT discontinue4? heu the time suh-cr'.ht-d for viin. i'ur the journal, classes were in Obcrlin, trembling 1 visions of this onions statute would I Ilrcnincd. iv i.. . noisn. TT.IJMS OF Al)VrHTISINi:. Odo ii.iri in lim - otic insertion,. . . , ,00 l!nh ail'lil tonal irwt tion tVnrtcr column m vc.ir, 2".,)' U.4lf :i.vo Due .'.",00 :' f 1 i ..,,, 1... n-ii.l I i!r aim 1 of ;i li.i.. , lit.int rlhnr. Far, l'.r tin-nr.d -höre d time, In , hind nfj'tsrr and unclouded l!is -Mon lair than luinvworlJ like this. I dreamed f -wr t t!-.n cr that scf nt thepnle With j-wctU-t IVaruncc, fWiiN that never I fail; alike for their safety, because they well knew their fate ishouM those men hunters get their hands on them. never be enforced within the bounds of this State. lint I have another reason to offer Iu the midst of such excitement, the j why I should not be sentenced, and loth day of SeptcmliCr was ushered j one that I think pertinent to the case. in a day ever to be rememUued in the history of that place, and I pre- I have not had a trial before a jury of my peers. The common law of Eng- snme no less in the history of this j land and vou will excuse mc for rc- Whcre l.ilmv r jr.atid Mu-tf Mmzhxu, Conrtou tnose men by lying ferrin- to that, since I am but a pri- l&utdrew tin -ir choicest "ihm lrom tlontdi w. ..... . . 1 fr in nd ar.ee lPt"Vif n p:rticnl ir time i specified, ulici handed in, :dv rti.cmtiit will ! jii!-lbh-J until ordered out, :md char-til fur ac--r!in;lv. business prettorj. Ti.ii z: t a iu.i;. Train Jkl-m Winchester gdug wt üi Kd 1 j w ; J jrt-v Mail at 1 " ' M. Ihv Kxtri V. M. Kifirr' A.M. l,oeil IVt-'irht and Acco:mnd'on .lt. 1 A. M. llxirvsi Freight I-S'JA.M. Traiin pin aat M'rnii.pr I x prf?.s 7.'J0 A. M. MVtl Tni.i 1.16 I. M. N iv't l.jri !- l'J.I'J A. M. l.'ical Fn iL'ht siiid Accoinmo'oii 1. M St ck Kpr-! ll.2-r. M. Attorney mid Counselor nt Law. Oßic il Floor in Xcic Jail ItiiUdlwj. Will promptly att-nl to all hu-inc.s ( truttil t his care. Strict attention jiivtn t the f.urity an I r!lctiin of claim-'. j . ltu o o it it i c ii i , " Attorney uwl Counselor ut Late. Ollice i:p Ntuiri in the New Jail, Will promptly atUnl to all Imsincv cn-trn-tC'l to hi rare, llix cial attention iv t ;i to the .Mtm iii' ami t-otleetion of claim. " ILA X VO LG11Ö V K , Attornrj A: Counselor at Law, Wet Fuhlie Square, Winchester, 1ml. Will promptly and li!i,i:ntlv attend to al 1uhh"' ruti u-H-! to Ii- ear. T. M. BROWMK. J. J. CIIKXKV. kkouwi: tV 4;hi;i:y5 A tf uriicy at rv, Ojliee in the law Jail liuihlin;'. -j.t-eial Httrntion to the eoMeftion an l s-eeei ity of claim. A . .. rt.i I.I.K. K. I.. V IT8U.N. ii:i:La,i: v watsox. Attorneys V ( oiiiim-Ioin at I.:iv Ollic' in the new Jail Uuihlhi'. Will jiraetiee in t!ie Cirrnit ('onrt-!, tlu Snpicme I'ourt anl the U. S. Court, for the litiict of Inliana. devices, decoved into a place where I ,!rr.nne.! of .ret muic that ro-r nti-l fell l(ty QuM t tip;r lian,s Qn JÄln J Like mnrnuirs öl mu-ie or Mh erv ltll, " . . . Tiiiit inrapturetl my foul with thrilling j..y i will not sry n jIave, lor 1 do not KUOW that but a man, a brother, who had a ri'at to his liberty under the laws of (lol, tind'T the laws of Nature, and under the declaration of American Independence. In the midst of all this excitement, the new3 came to us like a Hash of lightning that an actual seizure under and by means of fraudulent pretences had been made! Peing identified with that man by color, by race, by manhood, by sym pathies, such as (i oil has implanted in us, I felt it my duty to go and du what 1 could toward liberating him. I had been taught by my Revolutionary fath er and I say this with all due re spect to him and by hi honored associates, that the fundamental doc trine of this government was that all men have a right, to life and liberty, and coming from the Old Dominion I brought into Ohio thse sentiments, deeply impressed upon my heart. I went to "Wellington, and hearing from And ithoeti tweet strain without eaithU ullov. I ilreanie.1 of -wf ct form-" that flittiil anions The u-tt-ctnteil flow i, anl mingled in son;; That fo emed in their hrightnesi of beauty nml love To ie with the angels in hr-aven nhove. I dreamed, not in vain, in earthly rcmoc From care and life's sorrow in mansion.'' of lo e, Sw eet How-en cvr Mount on affections warm lirca.-t. And anjrcl forms flit thro' the hearts of the lotst. From Househeld Words. The Waste of War. (Five me the gold that war has t'ost Ilefore this iieare expanding dav; The wasted kill, the lahor lu.t The tacntai treasure thrown away; And 1 w ill buy each rood of Mil Iu everv vet discovered land: Where hunters roam, where peasants toil, Where many peopled cities ttand. I'll clothe each shi crin wretch on earth, In ne edful, nay, in brave attire; Vesture betitlin; hamplet mirth, Which Lings mipht envy uud admire. In every vale, on ecry plain, A school .hall glad the g:'z-r's fiht; Wh'-re every poor man's child may gain Fine knowledge, free as air und light. I'll build asylum for the poor, I'v age or ailment made forlorn, And tunic shall thrut them from the door, Or sting w ith looks, and words of corn. I'll link each alien hemiphtrc, Help honest men to conquer wrong; Ai t, Science, Labor, nerve and cheer lieward the ioct for his jung. In every crowded town shall rise Halls academic, amply graced; Where ignorance may soon bo w ie, And coarseness learn both art and taste. To every province .hall belong Collegiate ftructures, and not few Fill'd with a truth-exploring throng, And teacucrs ut the good. In everv free and peopled clime A vat Walhalla h ill shall Und; A marble edirict Mihlirne For thf illustrious of the land; A r.inthcon f.r the truly great, The wise, beneficent and just; A place of wide and lofty state To honor or to hold thtir dust. A temple lo attract and teach Shall lift its Fpire on every hill, Where pious men shall feci and preach Feaee, mercy, tolerance, good-will; Music of bells on Sabbath da Round the whole earth shall gladlv rise W. V. riSBIKACK, Attorney nt Law and Notary Public And one great Christian song of praise Okhcu No. TO 1'. Washington St., j Stream nweetlv upward to the hkie! i;. of odd Fellows Hall, Indiana.!'!., Ind. j r. ii. i s: kV-i:s ; or , Office at his old st unl.eor Main V South St. - Where he may at all times be found mi es profeion illy cngagnl. Tiiös." ivAiiii, vate citizen was mat every man should be tried before a jury of men occupying the same position in the social scaly with himself. That lords should be tried before a jury of lords; that peers of the realm should be tried before peers of the realm; vassals be fore vassal, and aliens before aliens, and they must not come from the dis trict where the crime was committed, let the prejudices of either personal friends or foes should atfeet the ac cused. The Constitution of the United States guarantees not merely to its citizens, but to all persons a trial be fore an impartial jury. 1 have had no such trial. The colored man is oppressed by certain universal and deeply fixed prejudices. Those jurors are well known to have shared largely in these prejudices, and I therefoic consider that they were neither impartial, nor were they a jury of my peers. And the prejudices which white people have against colored men grow out of the facts, that we have as a people consent ed for two hundred years to be slaves the parties themselves by what nu-! of the whiles. We have been scourg thority tli2 boy was held iu custody, I conceived from what little knowledge 1 had of law, that thev had no right to hold him. And as your Honor has repeatedly laid down the law in this Court, a man is free until he is proven to be legally restrained of his liberty, and 1 believed that upon that princi ple of law those men were bound to take their prisoner before the very first magistrate they found, and there es tablish the facts set forth iu their war rant, an4 that until they did this every man should presume that their claim was unfounded, and to institute such proceedings for the purpose of secu- ed, crushed and cruelly oppressed, ami have submitted to it all tamely, meek ly, peaceably; I mean as a people, and with rare individual exceptions and to-day you sec us thin, meekly sub mitting to the penalties of an infamous law. Xow the Americans have this feeling, and it is an honorable one, that they will respect those who will rebel at oppression, but despised those who tamely submit to outrage and wrong; and while our people as a peo ple submit, they will as a people be despised. Why, they will hardly meet on terms of equality with us in a whisky shop, in a car, at a table, or the man claiming to be in pursuit of a fugitive, and I, by the perjury of a solitary wretch, would bv another of its provisions be helplessly doomed to life long bondage, without the possi bility of escape. Some mavav that there is no dan ger of free persons being seized and carried oil as slave. No one need la bor under such a delusion. ir, four of the eight perrons who were first carried back under the act of 1S50, were afterwards proved to be free men. They were free persons, but wholly at the mercy of the oath of one man. And tut last Sabbath afternoon a let ter came to mc from a gentleman in St. Louis, informing mc that a young lady who was formerly under my in structions at Columbus, a free person, is now lying in the jail at that place, claimed as the slave of some wretch who never saw her before, and waiting for testimony from relatives at Colum bus to establish her freedom. I could stand here by the hour and relate such instances. In the very nature of the case they must be constantly occur ring. A letter was not the laws, it merely finds them upon cident with phfioil laus. Herein! Her husband writes of her thit the statute book and is bound to on- j lay one great mistr.i.c tf the Mystics j these spiiittial discoveries cams in the force them. In consideration of the to whom we owe much in this sphere train of an increasing faithfulness in circumstances in your ease, the sen-1 of experience, because divMing their the J: formation of every duty. ef great tencc of the Couit is that you pay a J lives to this subject with energy an t j consciotncs, humility, and prayer s' deeuion, thev gained great stoic's, ufifuln". fine of 8100 and costs of suit, impri oned in the County Jail -0 days; and if for nnv cause von can not be con fined in the jail of this county, rou will be taken by the Marshal to some other jail in this District." gained gn knowledge. Hut starting w ith the obi Another thing to be said ;s Ii idea of the impurity of mutter, and rc-1 ;;ct expect any experience of another long a I ring an investigation as they might j even at the altar of God. So thor lind warranted by the laws of this 1 0ugh and hearty a contempt have they SPEECH OF MR. LANGST0N, One of the Oberlin Rescuers. The court asked Mr. Langston, have you or your counsel any thing to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced upon you? Mr Langston replied, I am for the first time in my life before a court of Justice, charged with the violation of law, and am now about to be sen tenced, lint before receiving that sentence I propose to say one or two words in regard to the mitigation of that sentence, if it may be so con- . t t r .it smtcti. i can not. ot course, aim no not expect that which 1 may say will in any way change your predetermined line of action. I ask no stich favor at your hands. I know that the courts of this coun try, that the laws of this country, that the governmental machinery of this country, are so constituted as to op press and outrage colored men, men of my complexion. I tan not then, of course, expect, judging from the past history of the country, any mercy from enough to serve it. the laws, from the constitution, or from the courts of the country. Some days prior to the loth of September, lis8, happening to be in Obeiliti on a visit, I found the country round about there, and the village it self, filled with alarming rumors as to the fact that slave catchers, kidnap pers, negro-stealcrs, were lying hidden and skulking about, waiting some op portunity to get their bloody hands on some helpless creature to drag him back or for the first time into help less and life-long bondage. These reports becoming current all over that neighboihood, old men and innocent women and children became exceed ingly alarmed for their safety. It was HARDWARE MERCHANT, Vn:hingtii st., north of the Tuldic Square. utii 'i ii v mtoTiiinr, RETAIL MERCHANTS, ("r. Main V Franklin Sts.,W inchestcr, Ind. iv. is. ii KutTi:, DEUGGIST, F.i't Public S.pnre, under Journal Offfe. AUTi:iC iVUI LL, MAXCFACTt'RF.as or CARRIAGES & BUGGIES, O s Franklin St.. smith side, we-t Meridian. rv . II. Y A It l, Mcr ICTt'tirR or Natl tile and Harnes, ShoM north Public Square. Winchester. Jnd. lohn II. Crowley, II. !., i'tiYMcimi mid Surgeon, t'au be found at present at his residence on Franklin street. West of the Public Soure. iik. Y:o. o. join:, lliyMiuii iiimI iiij:oii, Office East part of town, Jh n rsvti.i.r, He will always be fund at his ollice unless professionally engaged. ir. w i:T it i: v i: ifi v, riiyiri:iit mid .surgeon. Office ad residence in west front of Public S.jUAre, immediately w ct of court house, Wiurhmtt r, lift. OAIIPEMCH AM) IH'ILDEII, Mio on Washington M. Op:o'xtr the Ak'f lloute, W'iiiehettrr, ". vxi Trifn sTA'i r.s iioim., JOHN T. WATSON, Paoraii.Toa, BOtTU-WKST COHN F.H or Sixth mill Wtlllltlt MlTl lH, Cincinnati, Ohio. Poird SI per diy PALMER HOUSE, J. I), i Vlt.MK II i:i. ..Proprietor, Cor. Washington and Illinois Sts., INMAS.UMI.Irf, lNt. 7" Fare reduced to $1 .VI p r d ir. ruiMjrs iioi m:. ml ritv. ii i ii i J. i:. IIUiniFbb Pn piieio;. I not uncommon to hear mothers say Re-op ned Septem!. r I, 1KT. J that they dare not send their thildicn to school, for fear they would be caught up and carried o!V by the way. Some of these people had become free by long and patient toil at night, after working the long, long day for cruel masters, and thus at length getting State. Xow, sir, if that is not the j plain, common sense and correct view of the law, then I have been misled both by your Honor, and by the prev lent received opinion. It is said that thev had a warrant. Why then should they not establish its validity before the proper officers ? And I stand here to-day, sir, to say . that with an exception of which I shall soon speafc, to procure sueh a lawful investigation of the authority under which they claimed to act, was the part I took in that Jay's proceed ings, and the only part. I supposed it to he my duty as a citizen of Ohio excuse me for saying that, sir as an outlaw ot the United States, to do what I loubl to secure at least this form of Justice to mv brother whose liberty was in peril. Whatever more than that has been sworn to on this trial, as an act of mine, is false, ridicu lously false. When I found these men refusing to go, according to the law, as I apprehended it, and subject their claim to an official inspection, and that nothing short of a habeas corpus would oblige such an inspes tion, I was willing to go even thus far, supposing in that county a Shcrilf, might, perhaps, be found with nerve In this I again failed. Nothing then was left to me, nothing to the boy in custody, but the confirmation of my first belief that the pretended authority was worthless, and the employment of those means of lib eration which belong to us. With regard to the part I took in the forci ble rescue, which followed, I have nothing to say, further than I have already said. The evidence is before vou. It is alleged that I said "we C. F. HALL, SKA I; EXGRA V.E11, I I Vrf Fourth St., CINCINNATI, o. ' orr ir 'hotel, " I j. ii. K HIT I. FY ,",,rK,rT,'"-i money enough to buy their liberty. South r.id- of Ma-n ?t.. Int. Marion and ' ' Franklin, Kb h.mml, tud. ( mar.tl Other- had become free by mean ol the good will of their masters. And LAWS &c S03ST, DCAt r.il is . WOOL AND SHEEP PELTS, Cor. Firth St. nnd Ft. Wayne Avenue, near railroad depot, Kii'iiN'iiD, Is:o. intrHlJ I. O O. I. Meets r err Thursday t vtn inj: at C'4 o'clock, at their new Hall, on the public S.iuaru I. O. off.. T. of Winrhrtr, meets rrrrr Monday eTenin' of each week at their Hilf, on thecorncrof Main and Washington Stroits. ' "iTiXOOLI'lI DIVISION No. Jf, S im of Temperjace of Winchester, meets rret Turml ij evening of each week, at the Trnij-erincf II ill, on the curr.tr of Main aaid Wahinton StitvU. j there were others who had become free to their cvctlasting honor I say it by the the intensest exercise of their own God-giren powers; by es caping from the plantations of their masters, eluding the blood thirsty patrols and sentinels so thickly scat tered all along their path, outrunning blood hounds and horses, swimming rivers and fording swamps, and reach ing at last, through incredible difficul ties, what they, in their delusion sup poäcd to be free soil. Tbc thtce will have him anyhow." This I nev er said. I did say to Mr. Lowe, that the crowd were very much excited, many of them averse to longer delay and bent upon a rescue at all hazards; and that he being an old acquaintance and friend of mine, 1 was anxious to extricate him from tho dangerous po sition he occupied, and therefore ad vised that he urge Jennings to give the boy up. Further than this I did not say, either to him or any on else. The law under which I am arraign ed is an unjust one, one made to crush the colored man, and one that outra ges every feeling of humanity, as well as every rule of Right. 1 have nothing to do with its constitutionality; about that I care but little. I have often heard it said by learned and good men that it was unconstitutional. 1 remem ber tho excitement that prevailed throughout all the free States when it was passed; and I remember how often it has been said by individuals, con ventions, legislatures, and even Judges, that it never could be, never should bo, and never was meant to be en forced. I had always believed until the central y appeared in the actual in stitution of proceedings, that the pro- for those who will meekly lie still under the heel of the oppressor. The jury came into the box with that feel ing. They knew they had that feeling, and so the Court knows now, and knew then. The gentlemen who pros ecuted mc, the Court itself, and even the counsel who defended me, have that feeling. I was tried by a jury who were prejudiced; beforo a Court that was prejudiced; prosecuted by an officer who was prejudiced, and defended, though ably, by counsel that were prejudiced. And therefore it is, your Honor, that 1 urge by all that is good and great in manhood, that I should not be subjected to the pains and pen alties of this oppressive law, when 1 have not been tried, either by a jury of my peers, or by a jury that were im partial. One more word, sir, and I have done. I went to Wellington, know ing that colored men have no rights in the United States which white men are bound to respect; that the Courts had so decided; that the Congress had so enacted; that the people had so de creed. There is not a spot in this wide country, not even by the altars of God, nor in the shadow of the shafts that tell tho imperishable fame and glory ot tho heroes of the Revolution; no, nor in the old Philadelphia Hall, where any colored man may dare to ask a mercv of a white man. Let mc stand in that Hall and tell a United States Marshal that my lamer was a revolutionary soldier; that he served under Lafayette, and fought through the whole war. and that ho fought for my freedom as ( much as for his own; and he would sneer at me, and clutch me with his bloody fingers, and say ho has a right to make mc a slave! And when I appeal to Congress, they say he has a right to make me a slave; when I ap peal to the people, they say he has a right to make me a slave, and when I appeal to your Honor, your Honor since found upon the person of a counter feiter when arrested, addressed to him by some Southern gentleman in which the writer says: "Go among the niggers; find out their marks and scars; make good de scriptions and send to me, and I'll find masters for 'em." That is the way men are carried "back" to slavery. But in view of all these facts, I say, that, if ever again a man is seized near me, and is about to be carried south ward as a slave before any legal in vestigation has been had, 1 shall hold it to be my duty as I held it that day, to secure for him if possible a legal inquiry into the character of the claim by which he is held. And I go fur ther; 1 say that if it is adjudged illegal to procure even such an investigation, then we arc thrown back upon those labt defences of our lights which can not be taken from us, and which God gavo us that wo need not be slaves. I ask your Honor, while I say this, to place yourself in my situation, and rvii vill wnv with Ulf tllrtf. if Vrtlirl brother, if your friend, if your wife, if your child, had been seized by men who claimed them as fugitives, and the law of tho land forbade you to ask any investigation, and precluded the possibility of any legal protection or redress then you will say with mc, that you would not only demand the protection of the law, but you would call in your neighbors and your friends, and would ask them to sav with you, that these your friends could not be taken into slavery. And now I thank you for this leni ency, this indulgence, in giving a man unjustly condemned, by a tribunal be fore which he is declared to have no rights, the privilege of speaking in his own behalf. I know that it will do nothing toward mitigating your sen tence, but it is a privilege to be allow ed to speak, and I thank you for it. I shall submit to the penalty, bo it what it may. Rut I stand up here to say, that if for doing what I did do on that day at Wellington, I am to go in jail six months, and pay a fine of a thousand dollars, according to the Fu gitive Slave Law, and such is the pro tection the laws of this country afford me, I must take upon myself the re sponsibility of self-protection; when I como to be claimed by some perjured wretch as his slave, 1 shall never bo taken into slavery. And as in that trying hour I would have others do to me, as I would call upon my friends to help me, as I would call upon you, your Honor, to help mc; as I would call upon you, to tho District Attor ney to help mc; and upon you, to garding the body as a corrupting hin drance instead of a transparent medi- to be developed in you. The Christ typ, like the human form, will woik saws he has a right to make mc a slave, and if any man, white or black, seeks an investigation of that claim. they make themselves amenable to the pains and penalties of the Fugitive Slave Act, for black men have no rights which white men arc bound to respect. 1, going to Wellington with the full knowledge of alb this, knew that if that man was taken to Colum bus he was hopelessly gone, no matter whether he had ever been in slavery before or not. I knew that I was in the same situation myself, and that by the decision of your Honor if any man whatever were to claim mens his slave and seize me, and my brother, being a lawyer, should seek to get out a writ of habeas corpus to expose tho falsity cf the claim, he would be thrust into prison under one provision of the Fu gitive Slave Law, for interfering with Judge Bliss and upon you, to his counsel so help me Gold I stand here to say that I will do all I can, for any man thus seized and held, though tho inevitable penalty of srx months imprisonment and one thou sand dollars fine for each offence hangs over me! We Jjavc all a common hu manity, and you all would do that; your manhood would require it; and no matter what the laws might bo, you would honor yourself for doing it, while your friends and vour children to all generations would honor you for doing it, and every good and honest man would say, you had done right! (Great and prolonged applause, in spite of the efiorts of Court and Marshal.) The Court replied: 'Mr. Langston you do the Court injustice in saying that nothing you could say would in fluence the Court in the matter of sen tence. I have taken careful cogni zance of the testimony in your case, and I find many mitigating circum stances. You, sir, quietly counseled a resort to legal measures rather than to force, for getting possossion of the fugitive; and for this and for other reasons, your sentence will bo compar atively light. Still it must be remem bered that this Court docs not make From the New York Independent. The IliKher Chritiau Life. BT HARRIET F.KCIIF.R STOUT.. One great reason why the discus sions of thin subject become cloudy and confused is that, in attaining it, the consideration of the element of per sonal peculiarity is, to a great extent, overlooked. The inquirer has presented to him quantities of cases, in which most marked and delightful results have been obtained, and instead of making these instances, as they should bo, a means of religious suggestion and stiniulous, he forms some one or more of them into a standard of what he is in his own personality to expect to attain. Xow the highest form of Christian life is that in which the union of the soul to God is the most perfect and complete, and the whole life ami con duct, through its minutest ramifica tions, brought into concord with this higher harmony. But the causes which separate nohIs from this harmony are as various as temperaments and circumstances. False intellectual views, which obscure the Divine character, acting on minds of a certain class, arc the obstacle; again, with others, physical habits, which disturb the balance of the nerv ious system and interrupt the clearness of its perceptions false ideas, im planted by education, of what is to be sought or expected in religion great stringency of personal will, unyield ing pride of character, tenacity and ob stinacy of disposition, habits of effem inacy and self-indulgence any of these may be the obstacle often the unsuspected obstacle why the soul, fluttering and straining on her cord, still, liko the chained eagle, can not rise and soar away. It therefore comes to pass that there may be in all these cases a distinct crisis, when the great obstacle gives way, in a marked and perceptible man ner, and through the gap thus cleared a flood of peace and joy irradiates the soul and gives a new impulse to all its powers. There are doubtless an equal number of cases where the bar rier is imperceptibly worn and frit ted away, and the person, without any marked crisis, comes, by comparing one year with another, to feel that he has gradually trained this eleva tion. The inquirer, who generally com mences his researches by the reading of Christian experience, finds that it is now Mi idea now that which is the prominent one, but in each case the result is the same there seems to be a crisis of the soul resulting in a great accession of spiritual life and strength. This crisis is called in different ages and denominations by different names. It is called the witness of the Spirit, the assurance of faith and hope, Chris tian perfection, holiness, etc.; but if we examine the facts under all these names, wc shall find substantially the same features of experience an ex citement of the soul towards a definite point, a purifying struggle, a marked victory, raising the soul into a higher plateau of its spiritual life, so that ever after it sojourns in a purer air. But as to the first inquiry in every W 9 V A. case now am l to begin; it nas answers as various as are human constitution, character, and circum stances. Some undoubtedly must begin with the physical laws of their being. A man who is constantly unstringing his nerves and violating their action by unnatural stimulus or unhealthy modes of life, cannot look for a health) religious experience, any more than ono can see a fine prospect through a cracked, dirty, cobweb-curtained gar ret window. All evidence goes to urn, they pursued their object with a itself out individually in each case; recklessness of physical laws which your experience will bo like you, aiid mingled their divinest aspiiations with ! come in conformity to your past his- morbid fancies. One reads the histories of St. There sa, lohn of tho Cross, and Francis de Sales with a mixture of admiration and pain. One cannot help regretting that these glorious beings wasted to much of their strength in wrestling down and destroying tltoe laws of their physical nature which might have been their strongest support in their quest of holiness. It wiu as if an angel, instead of using his wings to tlr with, should sit down laboriously aud painfully to pulling all the feath ers out by the roots. If the forty daws' fast ol Christ be quoted, as it often is, as a justification of a course of unnatural asceticism, wc answer that diiUt's connection with tho supernatural world was dif ferent front that of any mere human being, and that this incident was be sides an exceptional one to the general course of his life that his disciples were criticised for not fasting, and his cheerful enjoyment of social life and its common, homely blessings brought on him, as compared with tho severe ascetic standard, the accusation of a gluttonous man, wine-bibber, etc.,, and when the accusation was brought i to him he did not denv that the Son of Man did come eating and drinking like other human beings. Christ lived in the open air, per formed all his journeys on foot, and gave all the evidences of high bodily health a physical perfection in which there was not only enough for daily wants, but a stock in reserve for un common exigencies, so that to pray all night after teaching all day lid not produce instant prostration and ex haustion. The apostle following in Chiist's footsteps were specimens of cheerful, hardy, healthy men, living among men, vindicating all their l ights to or dinary human enjoyments; and their axaltcd spirituality was no cellar nor tory and the law of your Wing. You will know yourself oven in heaven. tiod himself values your identity too much lo interfere with it. The Little Mortara liar. Poor little boy! said Mr. Arne, as he was reading the creuing paper. Harrv, who sat on a stool by his mother, exclaimed, 4 What boy, papa?' Mr. Ames explained to him about the Jewish bov, a little fellow only six year old, who was stolen from his father', hoiiso at Bologna, a city of North Italy, by persons belonging to the Roman Catholic church. What did they steal him for?' in quit cd Harry. His father told him that when tho bov was only a year old, his nurie; who was a Roman Catholic woman, baptized the child, and thus made him, as she thought, a child of tho Roman Catholic church. At mid night, on tho 3d of last June, tho Catholics kidnapped the boy, and have kept him ever since, intending to keep him from his parents, and mak, I suppose, a priest of Mm. Harry looked quite puzzled. Many thoughts camo intt his head. So h went on to ask questions, as little in quisitive boys aud gitls will, you know. Father, can a tcoman baptize chil dren?' In Roman Catholic countries,' mi I Mr. Ames, 'the law peimits any per son to baptize a JewitJt child, with out the consent of his parents when in danger of death, and when th parents have abandoned the child. The nurse baptized little Mortara when he was sick, and she thought ho was going to die.' Harry knit his brows, looked up in" his father's face, and asked, 'Did that make a Roman Catholic of little Mor tara?' 'Xo, leplied his father; it is all superstition; a mere pretext to get tho hot-house growth, neither white and I boy away from his parents, and keep brittle for want of light and air, nor languid and heavy from stove heat ami confinement; and, whatever may be thought of modem spiritually, we believe they touched the possible hight of human attainment in a healthy body. To a seeker who longs for a higher lane of Christian life, it is certainly safe to give one direction. Do not necrlcct your health. Do not rush roni meeting to meeting, sit in hot, tinvcntilated rooms till a bite hour in the evening, and keep the brain and moral faculties hour after hour on an unrelieved stretch, till you become nervous and sleepless. Remember that while in the body God' light must come through bodily Jaws. If Christ himself should walk vNably through our streets, and our windows were choked with dust and cob webs, he would not probably work a show that tho irreat model man after whom the Christian seeks to re create himself, was a model physically as well as morally, and that the might) levers of his moral and mental mis sion worked on the firm fulcrum of a strong, healthy body. Every bodily faculty was delicately pure, developed in perfect proportion, and capable of the highest endurance, and hence that most incomprehensible union of spir itual intensity with common-sense calmness which distinguished him. He who does pot imitate the man Christ Jesus in these respect may have false- ecstasies, trances, and il luminations, and come to end the whole in a mad-house. In this life perfect communion with God can not he found by ignoring and despising the body it mnbt be tought iu com him The more Mr. Ames said, the nioic questions Harry wanted to ask. Thetc was nothing wrong in thin. Children will never know much unless they do' ask questions, and have kind parent who will hear them patiently, and give them all the information they can. Mr. Ames was a good father, and so ho let Harry ask him questions to his heart's content. Is it right, father, for pcopln to steal little children from their father and mothers, brothers aud sistc?' asked Harry. By no means,' replied his father, 'it is wicked, very wicked Harry had heard his father read 'Undo Tom'a Cabin,' and ho knew that slave holders steal all tho littl slave children away from their pa rents; so ho said, 'Father, ain't ihn slave holders as wicked as tho Roman miraclo to make himself een through Catholics who stole that little Mcttara them. bov ain't thev father?' Xor let the seeker throw tip all j Mr. Ames always spoke the trrith. earthly duties to devote himself to and therefore he taid, 'Yes. my son; those especially devotional. St. The-: and they are more wicked, becaYu resa discovered in a convent that all work performed for the love of God becomes a sacrament, and Francis do Sales has much tho same sentiment. Wherever wc are, there is where we can best attain if we only know it; and whatever we have to do, if prop erly understood, in God's sacrament of union, in which he will meet us. Ono of the most beautiful and strik ing instances of the development of tho Higher Christian Life is found in tho Experience of Mrs. Jonathan Edwards, as lecorded by her hus band. Here we have a soul like that of St. Theresa, with a clear, practical. New England training, developing the in tellectual equally with the spiritual faculties. Mrs. Edwards lived out wholly and healthily that whole sphere of social and family duties without which a woman is but a partially de- thev know more. It is worse for us to do wrong than it is for tho more ignorant people of Italy. But there aro a great many people of Italy But there are a great many people here many Jews, too, I fear who will be angry because the MortaTa boy was kidnapped, and feel but very lit tle when hundred and thousaTrJi of little boys aud girls are kidnapped every year in this country, arJ lept from thiir parents all their lires long, because they have black complexion. Harry felt sorry, and looked Bp and said, 'Mother, mother, isn't it a shame, a great shame, mothct?' American Missionary. m m JtfT A traveler was refused holter at an inn unless he would agree to sleep, and without a light, decorously, in a room occupied by a lady. He promised, and just before day a thun dering uproar was heard iu the room, rtil tttd Ir.t-oLr riinn mllin ilnttM . .1 i i . 1 .i r . - . I "w v... - - o .eiopcu .K. ana suerciuiu F ktajr8 CXclimiDg: twenty years of struggle with which j oh. Lord! the woman is dead!' the Spanish saint strangled that most 'I know that,' replied the ho.t; 'but ill r i. iti.An .i:.t I'Aii fttA it .ifS ciorious ana nouic part oi uou swotk "v" " j " in her. Living in the dignified and calm performance of all her duties as T Well. Patrick,' asked the doe tor, 'how do vou feci to-dav? mother of a largo family and minis- 'Och, doctor, dear, 1 injoy rery tor's wife in a flourishing parish, she j roor h(Alth This tumatica amr,(1 Whlulr tlrnunk W h.ni'"7 JUtrCssm' H-dade. whm I gO duties, wisely understood and per formed, at these high spiritual results and enjoyments; results not to be expected truly, except in cases of similar temperaments, but still inter esting to read and charming to con- 1 template. to sloep 1 lay awake all night, and my toes is twilled as Urjje as a cooso hen' egg, so whin I stand op I fall down immediately. XT A man who strives earnestly and prestrvingly to ecavtnea oth:r. at least convinces u that he is ton-himself.