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X FOR SUNDAY READING. FOR GOOD. "All thins work together for aood to them" that lore Ood."-om. vM: 28. Sometimes, dear Lord, mr doubting heart Can scatce take In thll Word Dlvlnei when tar from Thee mr feet depart. Or when I hopolcstljr repine Wbou loving friend Is laid below The soft brown mold fur out of sight) When mr poor henrt Is nilod with woo. And life's bright day Is turned to night. Orworso, estranged from somo Inved friend, who ne'er buforo had stood iiloof, Whom fain we'd trust unto the end. But who had failed when put to proof. Then, Lord, ah then, otirboarts robot, And bitter, burning tears taut How; Life's sullen surges deeper swell, And bitterness is urowncd with woo. The disappointment that will come, The cures and worries of naoh day Are these but loading to one home? Is this the path tho only way But there are times, dear Lord or mine. When my soul grasps the promise sweot; Accepts this blessed Word or Thlno, And humbly lies at Thy dear feet. Willing to take from Thy wise hand Whaterer Thou tnay'st choose to give: Lowly to serve, or to command: To rut In death, or weary lire) Could we but this sweet truth receive, Our lives would flow In endless peacot O help us, Lord, then to believe. Bid our dark doubts forever cease. Within my heart I hear a voice That says: "Thy pain, thy lost and strife, Tin mug tnee an tne more rejoice, When thou shalt enter Into life." At last my restless heart Is stilled Whatever comes Is for the bests It could not come unless tiod willed. And so 1 leave to Him the .rest. Mart) a. ttovdtiull, tn tynbyUrlan. "THE UNTHINKABLE." Mr. Bpenoer and Mis Followers Asking Mankind to Aeeept at Phantom Instead of the Infinite rather. It was an exceedingly clever bit of "reduction to an absurdity" which was given in Mr. Frederic Harrison's crit ique on Mr. Herbert Spencer's "ghostly religion;" bis attempt to make a basis for a sort of religion out of the "un knowable" Mr. Spencer's pretentious vagueness, and the tantalizing unre ality of his religious ideas were shown with muoh effect. But not less effective wns Mr. Spencer's retort upon his Fos itiviat critic. If ho could not repol the charges ngainst his own "ghostly re ligion," he could, at least, as he did, show up the "pnuntom religion" which tho Positlvist scheme for the "worship of humanity" labors to make out and strives to commend. In tliis rather peculiar theological duel it would bo impossible to say which comes out ahead, when each so neatly annihilates, lue otber. According to the pet theories of each it would seem to bo but a thoroughly Pickwickian sort of "religion" that could be the strictly logical result. It is pretty certain that not many sane men are ever likely to fall down and worship "humanity yet awhile. It is equally clear that a phil osophy of the "unknowable," a phil osophy that thinks it knows enougu to know that it would be absurd and "un thinkable" to attribute intelligence, wilk personality or any moral quali ties to "God;" that which wo may say of "It" that it is "eternal forco," we have no reasonable right to say that "It" thinks, or wills, or loves, or pur poses. How the "agnostio" philoso phy comes to know so much as that is what seems to its critics the queer puzzlo. No such Unknowable as that can, of course, ever become an object of real worship. For tho human heart, with its burden of care and solicitude, its deep apprehensions and its instinct ive hopes, there must bo offered some thing more solid than a phantom. The modern "metaphysician" Is fairly matched by the "agnostic." The former knows there is not any such thing as matter; the latter knows there isn t any such being as God,' about whom it is possible for any body to know' niiy thing. Modern science, as illumined by the doctrine of evolution, shows us a very wonderful world indeed, wherein, during name less ages ana eons, mnniteiy curious laws nave boon busy producing in finitely interesting results. At the bot tom and back of all this there must, it is admitted, havo been a Cause, a Power, an Eternal Something. To deny that would, of course, be a case of self-stultitlcation. That all thiujra which science sees and admires and. wonders at should have come t be, without any cause, just as Topsy did, the agnostio is as quick to declare as any one else; there must have been a Cause, a Power, and that au Eternal Power. But should any one venturo to attribute intelligence or will or per sonality or any moral quality to that power the agnostic affects to shudder at tho unthinkableness of tho supposi tion. But why it Is any more un reasonable, unscientiflo or unthink able to speak of "intelligence" than of "power" in connection with tho "unknowablo" Causo is what tho ag nostic has been asked in vain to ex plain. , Mr. Spencer is far from denying the importance of religion. Ho insists upon it; but it must bo only so much of a real religion as can consist with the worship of "It;" a something about which from the nature of tho caso nothing can be known or thought Mention tho word "anthropomorph ism" in Mr. Spencer's hearing and he goes into mental hysterics. Emo tion, will, intelligence, these are human attributes. Applied to tho "Unknow able Cause" they are, he says, words that have no corresponding ideas. But are thore not exactly the same scien tific reasons for intelligence that there are for power? "I held at tho outset," ays Mr. Spencer in reply to Mr. Har- . Wson, "and eontinue to hold that this Inscrutable Existence which science, in the last resort. Is compellod to reoog alze as unreached by its deepest anal ysis of matter, motion, thought and feeling, stands toward our general conception of things is substantially the same relation as does tho Creative Power asserted by theology." That Is to say, the relation U the same, up to the point where the conception of the creative power begins to have some possible human interest The way in which Mr. Spencer's roind -has stuck to such phrases as 'the 'i un knowable," 'tho ",uptblnkabie. -suddenly check In its freedom of scope, like swimmer caught with a cramp, betrays the signal weakness at this point of his attempt to formulate a really interpretive philosophy. On any scheme of agnosticism uothlng Is left for a religion that Is not a "ghostly," unreal phantom. And ' Pickwiokian religion of that sort can never satisfy the prayer of the human heart; can never Inspire and fortify the sentiment of mortality. la all the sharo crises of human experience. " deep calls unto deep," and will re-fuse to be comforted by any cant phrases about the Ultimate rower, the lascrutlble Mystery, the Sternal Force, we uatuaKaMe, auoaworos, at mm , aJr rape like mockery. A worse misfortune could hardly be Imagined for the millions, say, of the work people in American, than to havo their minds pervaded by the notions and spirit of the agnostio philosophy. One inevitable consequence would be a tendency to the anarchistic despair and recklessness. Evolutionism owes no thanks to agnosticism. And even Mr. Fiske admits an "Inilnlto Person" Is Infinitely mora reasonable than an "Infinite Power," as tho explanation of the world. Science, philosophy, morals, business, society, tho public weal, have no advantage to gain by any teaching of tho ghostly, tlie plinn tas'mlc, tho unthinkable and infinitely remoto in 'religion; but 'every thing to lose. Of Pjokwicklnnism wo hnvo else whero already more than enough. Chicago Inter Ocean. THE DUTV QF REVERENCE. A Virtue Much Keetled In America at the Present Tlinr. Perhaps thoro is no single duty which is more generally unpopular all tho world over, and especially hero in America, at tho prcsont time, than tho duty of reverence." ltovercnco is oven more than unpopular; it'is quite com monly scouted 'as an accompaniment of superstition or of servility un worthy of a self-respecting, independ ent manhood. It is not by any means admitted on all sides that "reverence" is a duty in tho senso of tho literal meaning of tho word itself; and there are many who.! while conceding that reverence 1; a duty in a somewhat gen eral and illy-defined way, are quite un able to see the duty of rovcrenco in all its strictness, as an clement of person al character showing itself Godward and man ward in every relation of life. Reverence Includes tho idoa of look ing upward, with a feeling of respect, of admiration and of affection mingled with awe. Reverence is to ward one who has a right to be viewed in this way. Reverence toward God is as unlike superstition as may bo; rev erence toward man is equally dissim ilar to servility; for both suporstition and servility include tho idea of a slavish fear, while reverence is tho in telligent recognition of a superiority that is rightly deserving of awe, of honor and of love. 'Yet reverence in volves a certain admission of infer iority and of subordination on the part of him who renders it; hence it is that the thought of reverence is so distaste ful to the natural mind, especially in those days when tho independence and tho prc-emlnenc worth of tho individ ual man are made so much of in con ception and in practice A mere recognition ot superior pow er as power is not reverence; nor is a helpless subjection to an iron rule ma terial or spiritual. Reverence is of the affections, as well as of tho intellect; yet reverence is not simply emotion, nor is its play only the inevitable effect of natural qualities and characteristics. Reverence is the out-going and the up going of mind and heart toward one who is, by right, superior or supreme, and who is to be given honor and lov ing deference accordingly. In this sense reverence is a duty, whether one is inclined in its direction' by his natn ural impulses or is by nature reluctant to its sway. Reverence 1 as truly a duty apart from the question of one's personal preferences as is courtesy, fairness, honor or humanity; or, again, as is love, or faith, within its proper bounds. S. S. Times. A Sublime Reality. Tho precepts and principles of Christianity furnish ample grounds on which to baso an indisputablo claim to its divmo origin. It is nevertheless true that tho most convincing proof of tho reality of religion is furnished in its experience. Its provisions are designated to bring us into a state of reconciliation with God, and tho proof that this is, in any case, an accom plished fact rests essentially on human experience. And this oxporienco is real.. It Is not a mere fancy. It is not a simple pretense. It lahn absolute verity. " .Through .meohanicnl forms, and by a system of self-excitation, one may, for a timo, indulge the delusive notion that lie has such an experience, when ho is entirely ignorant of it. But hiich an assumption, whether of leagoror shorter duration, does not affect the position that, in other cases. Religion is provon undeniably true by its experience, a personal experience of grace in tho hoart attests its reality and proves it to be as much a verity as existence itself. Among tho many illustrations of this Is i tho! blessed consciousness of communion with God in prayer. This aione supplies a satisfying proof mat religion is a1 sublime reality. It Is an experience than which there can bo nothing more undoubted and roal. Baptist Weekly. - -GEMS OF- THOUGHT. - - I i tl . I ,i 1 i Every tear of pcnltcnco springs' up a pearl. Matthew Henry. Where there is no hope there can bo no endeavor, Dr. Johnson. Continued cheerfulnoss is a mani fest sign of wisdom. Good Housekeep ing. Tho best way to keop good acts in momory is to refresh them with new ones. Cato. All true work is sacred; in all tmo work, were it but true hand labor, there is something of Divineness. Qarlyle. Do what you think is right, and then do not puzzle yourself In weigh ing your motives. N. Y, Christian Advocate. The peculiar law of Christianity which prevents revenge, no man can think grievous who considers the rest less torment of a malicious and re vengeful ' spirit Stamford. The great mystery of the Gospel doth not lie in Christ without us, though we must know also what Hs hath done for us; bat the very pith and kernol of it consists in Christ inwardly formed In our hearts. Oudteorth. Men may deliberate too long and thus let golden opportunities waste, but hardly any one has ever had to complain that he was too thought ful. It la careful thinking that en ables us to succeed In useful doing. unuea tretoyurtan. Every thins that a righteous man does is beautiful; for himself is in what he does. As the Lord garnished the heavens with His Spirit makintr them beautifuL.io, by their spirit, do the righteOM garnish and beautify their worxs. inougni jsicntnqs. We mav know the love of Christ and be filled with it, and constrained by it, even as we know by experleBoe tne coot refreshment of a fountain whose depths we can not fathom, and rejoice In the warm beams of the sou wtteM gfeanees we ean slot uompre vans, 4?. rr. vsrwiMH jgawcmtM. CRUCIFIED. International Bnnday-Scheol Lesson for October IT, IMS. IBpeclally arranged from 8. 8. Quarterly. John II: MS; commit versos 14-16. 1. Then Pilate therefore took Jasua and Scourged Mm. a. Ana tne soiaiers piattca a crown or thorns, and put tt on His head, and thoy pal on Him a purple robe, a And said: Hall, King of tho Jews! and they smote Him with their hands. 4. Pilate therefore went forth again, and salth unto themi Behold, I bring Him forth to ou, that ye may know that I Hud no fault In Slim. 6. Ihen oame Jesus forth, wearing the crown or thorns and tlio purple robe. And Pilate said unto them: Heboid the Man. 0 When the chlof priests therefore and officers saw Him, the orlod out, saying: Cru elty Mm, cruclfr Him. Pilate salth unto thora: Tak ye Him and oruolfy Him; for 1 Und no fault In Him. 7. fnm Jnurfl inMnml film ttn tiftvi. l and bv-our law He ought to die, because Ho niaae nimseit ine eon or uoa. 8. wbon Pllato therefore heard that saying, ho was the more afruldt ft. And went again Into the Judgment hall, nnd Balth unto Josus: Whence nrl thou? But Jesus gave him no answer. 19. Then said Plluto unto Hltn: Bpeakest Thou not unto me? knowost Thou that 1 hm o power to crucify Thco, and have power to ro loase Thee. " 11. Josus answered: Thou couldst have no power at alt against He, except It were given tbeofrom aboe: therefore he that delivered Me unto thee hath the greater sin. , 12. And from thenceforth Pilate sought to release Hlra: but the Jews cried out, saying: If thou let this man go, thou art not Cawars friend: whosoever maketh himself a King spenkoth against Ciesar. 1.1. When Pilate therefore heard that saying he brought Jesus forth, and sat down In tho todgment seat tn a slaoe that Is called tho 'arc (sent, but In the Hebrew Gabbatha. It, And It waa tho preparation of the passo ver and about the sixth hour: and be salth unto tho Jowst Behold your King! jo. rniE iner cnoa out: Away witn turn, away with Him, cruelty Him. Pilate salth unto them: Shall t cruelty our King? Tho chief priests answorod: We have no King but Cirsar. IS. Then delivered he Him therefore unto them to be crucified. And thoy took Jesus, and led Mm away. Time Blx to eight o'clock Friday morn ing, April 7, A. d. 30. Place Pilate's palace in Jerusalem. pAtiALi.ir, HtSTOttT With vs. 1-3, Matt 27:20-30; Hark 15:15-19. II eli-s oveh Hard Places Ordr of Event (11 Pilate warned by his wife's dream (Matt 27:19). Pilate's palace early Fri day morning, while the people were decid ing to choose Barabbas. (2) The end of Judas (Matt 27:3-10; Acts 1:18 19). As soon as Judas saw that Jesus was really condemned to death, and made bo resistance, he was struck with re morse and committed suicide. (3) Pilate orders Jesus to be scourged (r. 1; Matt 37:26; Mark 15:15). Court ot Pilate's palace, six to seven o'clock a, m. (4) Mockery by the soldiers (vs. 2, 3; Matt. 27:27-30; Mark 15:16-19). 3. A pur ple robe: one of the soldier's red cloaks. Matthew says they put a reed in His hands, and Mark that they spat upon Him. (5) Pilate makes another effort to re lease Josus (vs. 4-7.) Outside tho palaca. His object was to appeal to the pity of tho multitude. 7. We have a lam (Lev. 24:16): blasphemy was to be punished with death by stoning. (6) Pilate confers with Jesus (vs. 8-12.) Within the palace. 11. From above: from God. Governments are ordained of God. The greater tin.' Caiaphas and the Jewish leaders sinned against greater light, filled an office more especially ordained of God, and were trying to persuade Pilate to die regard the duties of his office. (7) The Jews accomplished their pur pose (vs. 13-16). U OoofcXAo.- i. ., a hill. It was a tessellated pavement on rising ground, outside the palace. 14. Prepara tion', for the Sabbath, the great day of the feast. Sixth hour: six o'clock. Roman notation, like ours, as always in John. This was when Pilate's proceeding began. (8) End of the murderers. Judas hung himself: Caiaphas was dopesed the next year; Pilate was soon deposed, and com mitted suicide; forty years after the cruci fixion, Jerusalem was destroyed, and many of these very Jews or their children were crucified by the Romans. BUBJXOrS FOR SPECIAL REPORTS The mockery. Why Pilate hesitated to do justice. The influences tha would load him to do right. The end of Judas. Why Pilate was afraid. Pilate's power given from above. The greater sin. What in duced Pilate to yield at last Golden Text Then deliverod he Him therefore unto them to bo crucified. John 19:18. Central Truth Jesus condemned con trary to justice and to conscience PRACTICAL 8COOESTIONS. 1. Vain are our efforts to escape a de cision as to what we will do with Jesus. a Cowardly tear is the motive, not of tho Christian, but ot those who dare not become Christians. 3. Those who tempt others to sin are wore than their victims. ' 4. By rejecting Jesus as King, the Jews rejected their hope, and glory and true kingdom. 5. Jesus is our true King. To accept Him as our King is to receive a kingdom and eternal glory; to reject Him is loss and death. 0. Pilate, by his crime, lost the very things he sought to preserve by it 7. Those who give up right and con science, in order to save this world's wealth or honor, will be sura to lose more than they gain (Matt 16:35). 8. Men wash their hands from tho blame of rejecting Christ by blaming others, or the faults of Christians, or tomptatlons, or bad companions, but all in vain. review exercise. 1. What did the soldiers do to Jesnst Ans. They crowned Him with thorns and mocked Him. 2. What was Pilate's three fold testimony to Jesus) Ans. I And no fault in Him. 3. What final argument did the Jews bring! Ass. That releasing Jesus would be treason to Rome. 4. What did Pilate then dot Ans. He delivered Jesus up to be crucified. Who are the men and women In every community most honored and most trust ed! Are they not those whose line of con duct Is the line of Christian duty! JV. 1". Independent Few men are both rich and generous; fewer still are both rich and humble. Cardinal Mawtino. A young man of Baltimore went West several years ago and corre sponded regularly with an elderly lady friend in Washington. About six months ago he wrote that he'd get mar ried now if be knew a nice girl that would have him. "There's a chance for you,' said the lady, laughingly, to her niece when she received the letter. "Tell him to write to me," said the young woman, also laughing. The aunrald so, the young man wroto, tho young woman answered (he letter, and the result of the correspondence that followed was a wedding between the young folks who, until a few days be fore, had never seen one another. Their friends say that both have done well A". T. Sun. There Is a rumor that the Cradock House, in Medford, Mass., the most ancient bouse in New England (with a fossible exoeplion in favor of that at embroke, Mass., far less interesting), u to be taken down. The stanch old' pile, built in 1684 of imported brick, and named for the colonial owner who never himself came over seas to ooou. pv it, stands ont ot the town, towards Maiden, a solitary landmark. itortoit Btrald, DELIVERED TO BE TEMPERANCE. AN S A ON A DRINKING MAN. Wn N V not a drinking man: His habit B 7. grows To nn X S, do what hn can Naught can X 1. Its woes. TIs very It D finds to Btop, Though oft be will 8 At Then fall and C K whisky shop His tortures to L A. Ills pockot always MT Is, And C I) nro his clothe: Ho CHn't attend to N V, biz:" ltcd dolh K A his 11030. Drink holds hlra In Us I N grip: Soon D V gets In sin: Burn In tho N D down will slip, Tilled with D K within. Though of no V C often takes H U of cloves to quell His breath, and then In D I) makcj Thoso I) Q know who stnoll. His friends all havo nn I C way When for their A D koch, Thoy can't X Q's his vlio display, And P P not his woes. In K C has a wife to slay Her heart will A K lot: Tho debts he O Z mnkot her pay. And tears her 1 1 will blot. B K V can't his doom aright! 8lck ero old A O lies; Tho suakos ho O Z tries to fight And without P O dies. 11. C. Dodat, in Detroit Fru Press. THE TRAFFIC IN ENGLAND. Cardinal Manning Says It Can tie Crushed Only by a Qrand Uprising of the Peo ple. What seem.s to us by far tlio most valuable contribution that has yet been made to the recent discussion of the subject of Temperance is furnished by Cardinal Manning in the last number of tho Fortnightly Review of London. Intompernnco he treats as the "na tional vice" of Englnnd, agreeing with Mr. Gladstone that it is tho source of more evils than war, pestilence nnd famine. For upward of a thousand years the English have had the reputa tion of being hard drinkers, but tho vice was a comparatively minor one until three centuries ago. Then alco hol, which previously had been almost wholly confined to sclcntilio experi ments and certain trades, was intro duced to tho public, and the dnngers of the drinking habit were multiplied ninny fold. It not only became of it self n common drink in tho form of distilled liquors, but was also used as an agent for giving ale and wino "new nnd fntonser qualities of intoxication." Drunkenness incrensed with frightful raplditv, so that at Inst tlio barriers which legislation has essayed to set up against it by a system of licensing laws hao been "overwhelmed and swept away in the swelling flood of intoxicat ing drink." There, as here, the groat obstaclo to practical reform has been tlio power of capital, for $700,000,000 is annually employed in tlio supply and sale and distribution of drink in England; and, as Cardinal Manning says, although tho manufacturers and sellers do not intend to get the whole population drunk, it is for tho prosperity of their trade that tho facilities of drunkenness should be multiplied and the incrcaso of drunkenness made inevitable. Therefore the number of drinking places, which was about 50,000 in 1829, Is now nearly 200,000, though mean time the population has hardly doubled. The capitalists of tho drink trade and their friends, political and business, nave also beon strong enough to sway the oloctions, the Houso of Commons and the Government in the interests of their tremendous tralllc. But how is the evil to bo conquered? Cardinal Manning answers, as we have answered, only by an uprising of tho people themselves "against the system which has so long mtuio their homes desolnto and their lives intolerable." "Our national vice," ho says further, with truth and forco, "will never bo corrected from above. Governments, magistrates and police havo labored, or seemed to labor, for these three, hun dred vears to diminish or control tho spreaii of'intemperanco. They aro too remote to influence the millions of peo ple." Coercion will not avail, and it could not be inforced "short of mar tial law." But let tho pcoplo who suf fer most from the evils of drink once learn to recognlzo and hnto their ene my, and the remedy will soon bo found. " Wo havo been told," says tho Car dinal, "that the pcoplo need and wish for public houses. It is strange, then, that the most popular House of Com mons should contain nearly throe hun dred members pledged to local option, nnd about half of thorn in favor of a direct local vote." The more demo cratic England becomes, the louder the call for the lessening of the temptations to drunkenness. The resistless Tompovaneo movement which will shatter toe political power of rum will be started by the people to whom rum has been tho greatest curse. N. Y. Sun. HOT-BEDS OF VICE. Although Disagreeing on, the Proper Methods of suppressing Intempertiicr. All Good Citizens Can Unite Against the Saloons. No mutter what n mail's opinion may be about the feasibility of prohibition or the physical or moral effects of nlco holio drinks, ho can not deny that "sa loons" aro the curso of American poli tics and society; that none of them, whether Democratic or Republican, aro entitled to any "protection" what ever; that if they could bo all shut up, it would be a great thing for the coun try, and that ovon if thoy can not be all shut up, they can be at least diminished in number and made less mischievous. For passing jutlgmont on them no par ticular views on tho liquor question aro necessary, me teetotaler, toe moder ate drinker, the high-license man and the prohibitionist can all unite in a crusade against them. To say that tho saloons aro all over the country nurseries of vice and crime is to repent a commonplace In this respect thoy receive plenty of denun ciation from reformers and philanthro pists of all shades of opinion. But their effect on politics does not receive half enourh attention. It is thoy, more than auy other single agency, which make tho problem of municipal fovernment in America so formidable, 'hey give political power and import ance in all cities to probably tho worst class of men in America. All party managers are almost compelled to ac cept tho services of liquor-dealers as captains of fifties and captains of hunt dreds, and having accepted them, the party becomes dependent on the liquor Interest and bound to conciliate it The -'saloon is not simply a place to whtoh men resort for society and exhilaration. It is almost invariably a political olub,. of which the liquor-dealer is the head, aad he goes into politics for precisely the same reason for whloh he sells liquor. All his political intuence to corrupting. Evory thins; that he telle hi customers, oi what ft going on is politics confirms them in the belief I that it is simply a means of robbing I tho tax-payer. When they put him in I onice. it is lor tne avowea purpose 01 plundering and sharing with them. Whatever ho may bo in politics, too, whether alderman or school trustee, his voice is always raised on the sldo of corruption and disordor. Wo havo bad innumerable .liquor-dealers In of fice in this city during tho past forty years, but wo doubt If anybody can re call a single caso in which one of them raised n linger or said a word on tho side of good government, and did not stand as far as ho could in tho wav oi every nttrmpt at purification and Im provement, or failed to fill his pocked with public monoy whenever ho got s chnncc. There novor has beon, in fact, in nny ago or country, a trade so distinctly marked out for legal reprobation and discouragement as liquor-dealing In thi United Status In our timo. Wmitovei be the morits or demerits of nlcoholiu drinks, tho man who sells them scemi always prone to become a social nut sancc, and his shop a fountain of cviL N. Y. Post. LIQUOR'S SALE AND USE. Multltadrs of Authorities, Both Religion! and Secular, Unite In Condemning the Great Curse. The Volksfreund for August, 1854, states that out of nino hundred persons who died in Rotterdam tho preceding year from cholera only three wero ab stainers. Judge Pitman. If the traffic in ardent spirits is im moral, then of necessity aro the laws which authorize the traffic immoral. And if tho laws are immoral than we must be immoral if we do not protest against them. Oerrit Smith. Throw eut your light; teach tho peoplo to feel that they aro the law makers. Show all tho friends of Tcm pcranco tho folly of sending drinking men to our legislative halls, nnd then sending them petitions to save the com munity from the ruinous effects of their own practice Edward C. Delavan in lasts. I have found the use of alcoholic drinks to bo tho most powerful predis posing causo of malignant cholera with which I am acquainted. Wero I one of the authorities, I would placard ev ery spirit shop in town with largo bills containing tho words: "Cholera sold here." Dr. A. M. Adams, Professor of the Institutes of Medicine in the Antler- sonian University of Glasgow. Be It enacted, That from and after tho first day of September, 1862. tho spirit ration in tho rmvy of tho United States shall cease; and thereafter no distilled spirituous liquors shall bo ad mitted on board vessels of war, except as medical stores, and upon tho ordor and under tho control of tho medical officers of suoh vessels, and to bo used only for medical purposes. United States Congress. I protest against tho notion so preva lent and so industriously urged, that beer is harmless, and a desirable sub stitute for tho more concentratod liquors. What beer may bo, and what it may do in other countries and climates, I do not know from observa tion. That in tills country and cli mate, its uso is an evil only less than the use of whisky, if less on the whole, and that its effect is only longer de layed, not so immediately nnd ob viously bad, its incidents not so re pulsive, but destructive in the end, I have seen abundant proof. Colonel Greene, President Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. All intelligent physicians will assont to the following facts: 1. That tho use of intoxicating drinks, for a bever age, causes tho principal part of the sufferings of society. 2. Other things being equal, thoso who totally abstain from tho uso of intoxicating drinks aro more healthy than thoso who do not. S. Tho abolition of tho liquor traffic would greatly promote tho gen eral hoalth and prosperity of the coun try. These tilings being true, it docs appoar to me that every good citizen should do what he can to hare the liquor traffic abolished. Far bo it from us to wish or endeav or to intrude upon the proper religious or civil liberty of any of our peoplo. But tho retailing of spirituous liquors, and giving drams to customers when they call at the stores, nro such preva lent customs at prosjant, and are pro ductive of so many evils, that we judge it our indispensable duty to form a reg ulation against them. The causo of God, which wo prefer to every other consideration under Heaven, absolute ly requires us to stop forth with humblo boldness in tnts respect. Tnontas uoke and Francii Asbun, Bishops of the M. E. Church in America, 1800. I wish some of our great statesmen would walk through our great towns, nnd would go trom house to house with some of the devoted clergymen who know the condition of tlie people. I wish they would come and hear the biographies of intense misery which aro to be found under tho humblest roofs; and when thoy havo learned these things, and found that they aro all to bo traced up to one black fount ainintoxicating drink I believe they would lay aside their political ques tions and conflicts, and take in hand that which touches tho very root of the life and morals of tho people. What are we nbout? How is it that men who profess to be statesmen can waste thoir timo and the timo of tho Legisla ture before they take this subject in hand. Cardinal Manning. Temperance in Missouri. Tho reduction in tho number of sa loons in Missouri in the last tew years is a phenomenon both encouraging and interesting. Four years ago, in 1882, thoro were 3,601 saloons in the State, paying In licenses an aggregate of $517,000. The number was not large for a population of 2,300,000. Never theless, in four years it has been re duced nearly one-fourth, tho number on July 4, 1886, being only 2,800. Nearly every fourth saloon that existed in the State four 'years ago has closed up. The 2,800 now in the State yield in license fees aboutf l;6O0,000 nearly three times as much as tho larger num ber yielded in 1882. St Louis has fully shared in this saloon doorcase, and there aro now in this city only 1,681 saloons of all kinds less than naif the nuniDer (3,300) in Chicago, and 1,172 fewer than' there are in San Francisco (2,790). Eighteen counties in the State have no saloons, the county courts, at the demand of the community, refusing 10 issue licenses. When it is reflected that these con Biderable reductions in the number of drinking places In four years 100 la St. Louts City and 800 in the State- have been brought about m the face oi a large growth tn the population, it will be admitted that they exhibit a marked improvement in the moral temper ot the peoplo. 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