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PEOPLE’S n&IEiO. A. b. s. MOSELEY, } Associate MRS. MARGIE P. MOSELEY, )- REV. L. R. GWALTNEY, ) Borne, Ga., Saturday, April 12, 187 J. The Templars and tlie T’reachers- BY MARGIE P. MOSELEY. It would he amusing, (if the truth were not too appalling,) to see bow much hypoc racy there is among preachers. No crea ture with a mite of reason, can oppose the doctrines of Good Templars and yet there are men who set themselves up as “lights in the world, who pretend that God has died them to work. Yet these mon fight, and preach against Temperance 1 It sounds like burlesque to hear them, in long drawn homilies, and pious nasal argument urging upon their brethren, “Temperance .n all things,’’ while they are openly opposed to Temperance Societies, upon the ground that they are “taking the work of the church.’’ If trying to make drunkards sober men, be taking the work of the church, it is high time it should be taken, for to-day, there are more drunkards than the world ever held before, and yet the church has been “working’’ to make them sober for eigh teen centuries- Church members are drunk ards, and venders cf liquor, and yet it is the wnrk of the church to check intem perance 1 Preachers know that their mem bers hre steeped to the lips in crimes, and vices, and yet they stand and prate about faith, and mistical formulas, and never say let your work show your faith ; or exclaim “thou art the man,’’ to the Judas who be trays the cause of Christianity. Religion and good works are identical, “by their works ye shall know them,” and it is high time people were told so. What is religion for but to help men lay aside brutality, lying, corruption, selfishness and unseemly lusts? If it fail to do this, it is not that religion which Christ said could save, and which He gavo us. He said “no drunkard shall enter the kingdom of heaven;’’ men arc preaching to “save souls” and yet op pose the Templars, because it helps men one step towards the kingdom of heaven ! Oh consistency is a lost jewel! Christianity is simply taking Christ at his word, and obeying His law, and those who try to make any thing of it; are not working for the best interests of man, and are not true to the doctrines of the Book which they pre tend to teach. Whatever helps towards making men better —more temperate, helps the cause of Christianity, and the church, and whoever condemns morality in what ever form it be inculcated, is an opponent of Christianity, and a worker against the same. Horrible Klll-ct h of “Woman's Wight*” in China. BY MARGIE P. MOSELEY. In China women used to know “their sphere,” and never gave the in fallible sex disturbance by daring to circulate outside of that “sphere.” But now, “society is disorganized” and the world is turned “upside down,” for the Chinese women have got woman’s lights on the brain. They are so ultre, so imprudent, and so brazen faced as to dare to sit a> table, and eat with their husbands and fathers, a thing that no modest woman, who has the sense to know a “woman’s place” would ever dare to think of. But this is not the end of their monstrous rad ical ideas, they have dared to assert that they “have a right” to take a walk in the private streets of the cities, that they have a right to breathe the fresh :• ir outside of a harem, and some of the most daring have put this shameful “right ' into execution. It is said that th ■ shock which this knowledge im parted to the Chinese government, nearly equaled that received by our own martyred republic, when some ladies dared to vote. It is a pity about the American and Chinese men ! Far ther than this, some of those ultra worn ms rights Chinese women, have actually refused to burn themselves to death because their husbands had taken a notion to die. This is awful -a wo man wishing to live when her lord and master is dead 1 But insult is added t »injury, ami their widows have not only dared to /ire, but have committed matrimony a second time; this is the fea’-h r that breaks the camels back! Such i shame upon the lords of crea tion ! Instead of proclaiming them and living, and receiving th< ti.atmeut which no human could giv- a dog. these brazen faced widows 1. oe dart'd to marry again, truly "wo- mans rights will turn the world upside down,” at least we hope it will “turn down” such injustice as has been put upon women I Not satisfied with such innovations as these, they have protested against their children’s feet being doubled down and nailed in boxes, they wish their children to be able to walk, and ask the right for the girls as well as the boys —horrible ! To cap tlu climax, they object to wearing black alpaca vails, and want a thin vail winch will be an ornament as well as protection, instead of the hor rible contrivances which their lords have made them wear for four thousand years. Added to all this, some of them are daring to own property, and to think and work for themselves. Mir abile Dietv.! Truly “woman’s right ivill upset the world.” Vice-President Henry Wilson in Mew York. Hon. Henry Wilson, Vice-President of the United States, delivered a very interesting lecture at the Cooper In stitute on the evening of the 13th ult.. upon “The Life of Father Mrthew.” Mayor Havemeyer presided, and on the platform were Peter Cooper, Thur low Weed, and other well-known citi zens. Referring to the visit of Father Mathew to America, Mr. Wilson said: “In 1849, Father Mathew visited Amer ica. The day of his lauding was agala-day in New York, on both the land water. Her whole bay and harbor were crowded with the shipping of the world dressed with theit flags, and steamers in honor of the approaching Your streets and Bat tery were filled with the multitude in holi day attire. Your Common Council re ceived him as their guest. Your Mayor welcomed him a speech of hearty and ap preciative good-will. “On his spot,’ he said, ‘we are accustomed to receive the most distinguished men of our own and other lauds. The statesman with the high est honors of his much loved country, and the victor iresh from the fields of his proud triumps, have here been greeted with the salutions of the most eievated in authority, and with the general welcome of the citi- Zens of thia iDctropolic. But you, among us with a highly different and pe culiar distinction. The honors you wear have been accorded to you by those who revere you for your deeds of love and be nevolence.’ Father Mathew’s course thro the country was one continued ovation, and his journey little less than a triumphal march. He added more than half a mill ion to the list of those who pledged them selves to touch not, taste not, handle not the intoxicating cup- After remaining in the country nearly two years, his enfeebled constitution, still more exhausted by his labors, admonished him that both his la bor-and his life were approaching their termination, and that if he would die in bis native land he mustjhasten homeward. He accordingly embarked in November. 185 Ir Before leaving America, he issued a farewell address, that was most afiection ate and impressive. Death claimed him as its own ie 1856.” Hon. Neal Dow.—This well-known “Maine law” advocate expects to sail for Engjand the sth of April, to be absent from this country several months- He will un doubted edly enter heartily and earnestly inte the present active struggle afiainst the liquor traffic in the United Kingdom as carried on by the Alliance, theg go to the Vienna Exposition, and from thence to the Holy Land. The best wishes of the tem perance people of America will go with him. His post-office address will be 41 John Daltor. Street. Manchester, England. —National Temperance Advocate. '■ 1 ■■ 1 —- IcHABOD —Massachusetts : there she is • look at her. “Her legislative vote against the resolution censuring Sumner tells the story. It is perhaps all in keeping. Once Massachusetts was represented at outside her borders by such men as John Quincy Adams, 1 lari-ou Gray Otis, Danisl Web ster. Robert Rantoul, Horace Mann. Now, in her day of small things, when she persists in a vote of censure —he had moved to ex tinguish in the army the smouldering emb ers of the old sectional hate,and its taunting triumphs in the war, —now, in this her day of dwarfish decline and narrow parti san malignity, Massachusetts is appropri ately represented by her Credit Mobilier patron.-, her Colbath Wilson her Dawes,h*r Oaks Ames, her Hooper, her Beu Butler She should write, over the dour of her old State House. Ichabod; for her glory is depai ted. The very frogs of the old historic pond on Boston Common must be opening their spring concert with the doleful coro nach of “Old Ben. old Ben' Oakes Amo! Oakes Ames!” iltr‘'brd Times. How Adam was JVTade. | “According to the most, authoritative ' Mussulman traditions, Ada tn was create on Friday afternoon at the Assr-hour, or about three o’clock. The four archangel —Gabrial, Michael, Israfiel. and Asrael wore required to bring earth from the lour quarters of t- e world, that, therelrom God might fashion man. Hi-head and breast ; we<e made of clay from Mecca and Medina, , from the spot where later were the Holy J Kaaba and rhe tomb of Mohammed. Al though still lifeless, hi- beauty amazed rhe angels who had flocked to the gates of Par adise. But Eblis, envious of the beaut) of Adam’s as yet inanimate form, said to the angels: ‘How can you admire a creature j made of earth ? From such material uoth | ing but fragility and feebleness can come.’ However, most of the angels praised God I for what he hud done. “The body of Adam was .-o great, that ' if he stood up his head would reach into ■ the seventh heaven. But he was not ; s yet endowed with a living soul. The soul had been made a thousand years before, and had been steeped all that while in the , sea of light whkh flowed from Allah. God now ordered the soul to enter the body,— It showed some indisposition to obey; thereupon God exclaimed: ‘Quicken Adam against your will, and as a penalty for your : disobedience, you shall leave the body sorely against your will.’ Then God blew the I I spirit against Adam with such, force that it. . entered his nose, and ran up into his .read, : ’ and as soon as it reached his eyes Adam , opened them, and saw the throne of God with the inscription upon it: ‘There is no God but God, and Mohammed is His proph et.’ Then the sou! ran into his ears, and ■ Adam heard the song of the angels ; there- I upon his tongue was unlossed, for by this ' time the soul Fiad reached it, and he said, • ‘Praise be to Thee, my Creator, one and J only 1’ And Grid answered him : ‘For this I purpose are you made, i u and your.sue- ' cessors must pray to me, and you will find mercy and loving-kindness at my hands.’ , Then the soul penetrated all the members, . reaching last of all the feet of Adam, which receiving strength, he sprang up, and stood | upon the earth. But when he stood up- ' light he was obliged to close his eyes, for the light of God’s throne shining directly ' I into them blinded them. ‘What light is i ! this?’ he asked, as he covered his eyes with ! i one hand, and indicated the throne with the other. ‘lt is the light of a prophet,’ God ! | answered, ‘who will spring from thee in| later ages. By mine honor 1 swear, for • him alcne have I created the world. In ' hc<*vcu he name ot’ the rut»--.h- ’ lauded, and on earth he will be called Mo hammed. Throui’h him all men will be led ; out of error into the way of truth.’ “God then called all created animals be- . I fore Adam, and told him their names and their natures. Then He called up all the j angels, and bade them bow before Adam, i the man whom He had made. Israfiel obeyed first, and God gave to him in rec ompense the custody of the Book of Fate; the other angels obeyed in order ; only Eblis i refused, in the pride of his heart, saying, ; I ‘Why shall I, who am made of fire, bend before him who is made of earth ?’ There- | fore he was cast out of the angel choirs, and , was forbidden admission through the gates i lof Paradise. Adam also was led out of ; Paradise, and he preached to the angels, who stood before him in ten thousand ranks, a sermon on the power, majesty, and good- • ness of God, and he showed such learning and knowledge—for he could name each ] beast in seventy languages—that the angels I were amazed at his knowledge which ex celled their own. As a reward for having preache 1 this sermon, God sent Adam a bunch of grapes out of paradise by the hands of Gabriel. In the Midrash, the Rabbinical story is as follows : ‘ When God wished to make man, He consulted with ; the angels, and said to them, we will make | a man in cur image. Then they said, ‘What is man, that you regard him, and what is his nature?' He answered, ‘His I knowledge excels yours.’ Then He placed all kinds of beasts before them, wild beasts and fowls of the air, and asked them their names, but they knew them not. And af ter Adam was made, He led them be ore him, and He asked Adam their names, and he replied at once, ‘This is an ox, that is an ass, this is a horse, that is a camel, and 1 so forth.” The story told by Tabari is somewhat different; ‘When God would make Adam, He ordered Gabriel to bring Him a handful of every sort of clay, black, white, red, yellow, blue, and every other kind. Gabriel went to the middle of the earth to the place where now is Kaaba.— He wished to stoop and take the day, but the earth said to him, ‘O Gabriel, what doest thou?’ And Gabriel answered, ‘I am fetching a little clay, dust, and stone, that thereof God may make a lord for thee.’ Then the earth swore by God, ‘Thou shale take of me neither clay nor dust nor stone ; what if of the creatures made from me some should arise who would do evil upon the earth, and shed innocent blood ?’ Ga briel withdrew, respecting the oath, and , took no earth ; and he said to God, ‘Thou knowest what the earth said to me.’ Then God sent Michael and hade him fetch a lit tle mud. But when Michael arrived, the earth swore the same oath. And Michael re-pected the oath and withdrew. Then G<>d sent. Aziael, the angel of death. He came, and the earth swore, the same oath ; but kedid not retire, but answered and i s.-ii-l, ‘I must obey the command of God in spite of thine oath.’ And the angel of death stooped, and took from forty ells be low the earth clay of every sort, as we have said, and therefrom God made Adam-” —From, the Aldine. Miscellaneous- Sweet home —A bee-hive. An Irish Trick —Patrick. A creature of impulse—A foot-ball. The best thing out —A conflagration. To fin I a good book-keeper—Apply at any circulating library. People who are always wishing for some thing new should try neuralgia. It makes all the difference if you put Dr before instead of after a man’s name. Great D bankruptcy, says Carlyle: it brings an end to all shams under the sun. How does a young lady, who is engaged, find herself? Mistaken (miss taken.) Ail things are systematized nowadays, j Even every milk train has its cow-catcher. ; Ailaiu's nativity has at last been discov ered. lie was, according to Darwin, a germ man. The man most likely to make his mark in the world—One who cannot write his own name. The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can tell; its poverty by how lit- ; tie. • Here is the newest floral ‘sentiment :’ 1 If you wish for heart’s-ease, don't look to I mari-gold. Can a civil engineer inform us how it is rhat the mouths of rivers are larger than their heads? Love coming into a woman’s nature is like the last stroke of the artist’s pencil to : the landscape. You may glean knowledge by reading, but you must separate the chaff from the wheat by thinking. I To seek the redress of grisvanees by going to law is like sheep running for shcl- 1 ter to a bramble-bush. Difference between perseverance and ob stinacy—One is a strong will, and the other is a strong won’t. The Infinite and the Eternal are words without meaning till grief interprets them. I — Beecher. A poetic Hibernian explains that love is , commonly spoken of as a ‘flame’ because j it's a tinder sentiment. Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world, and the old man lives among graves.— Richter. i A French auth< r has translated a passage : from one of Cooper’s novels as follows: i He descended from his horse in front of the chateau and tied him to a large grasshop- I per. The original reads, a large locust. The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbol ic the large way in which God loves to do pleasant things. In order to force mankind to turn their eyes toward Him, God has willed that no object should contain within itself the first I cause of its existence. A gushing poet asks in the first line of a recent effusion, “How many weary pilgrims lie?” We give it up ; but experience hus taught us that there are a good many. | The essence of true nobility is neglect of seif. Let the thought of self pass in and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower. Froude. — Heels of Parisian ladies’ boots are said to be so high and so brought un der the foot that the Chinese ladies must be sensibly shod in comparison. A few days ago a correspondent of the London Observer saw a very charm ing lady in a predicament, and was malicious enough to watch her. She had gone to walk exquisitely dressed, with, of course, the inevitable stick and high heels. Alas ! Madame la Comptcsse found, after a few steps, that with such pretty but inconvenient bottines, movement was impossible. Her carriage had gone slowly on, and she was forced to cling trembling to the edge of the fo> itpath until her foot man by a happy accident looked around. Prof. L'hevreul, the eminent French chemist, has made a series of experiments on the stability of dyes imparted to silks, damasks, and fabrics used in furnishing. The blue colors,he finds,produced by indigo are stable; Prussian blue lesists moderately the action of the air and light, not of soap; scarlet and ermines produced by cochineal and ink- lye are fast; the most stable yellows , uu silks are produced by weld. Execution of Sir Thomas Kcore. The scaffold had been awkwardly . erected and shook as he placed his foot upon the ladder. “See me safe up,” he said Io Kingston ; for my coining down I can shilt for myself I ” He began to speak to the people,but the sheriff begged him not to proceed, and he contented himsell with asking for their pray ers, and desiring them to bear witness for him t tat he died in the faith of the Holy Catholic Churh, and a faithful servant of God and the King. Hethen repeated the ‘Miserere’ psalm on his knees; when lie had ended and had risen, the execu tioner, with an emotion which promised ill for the manner in which his part of the tradegy would be accomphished, begged bis forgivness. Moore kissed him. “Thou art to me the great est benefit that I can receive,” ho said; “pluck up thy spirit, man and be not afraid to do thine office. My neck is very short; take heed, therefore that thou strike not awry for saving of thine hon esty.” The executioner offered to tie his eyes. “ 1 will cover them myself,” he said; and binding them in a cloth which he had brought with him, he knelt and laid his head upon the block. The fatal stroke was about to fall, when he signed for a moment’s delay arhile he moved aside his beard; “Pity that should be cut, Ihe munnmuied. “ that has not I committed treason!” With which I strange words—the strangest, 1 perhaps, ever uttered at such a 1 time—the lips fabulous though 1 Europe for eloquence and wisdom * closed forever. ****** This was the execution of Sir Thomas Moore—an act which was sounded out into the four coiners of the earth, and was the world’s wonder, as well for the ci cum staces under which it was per petrated as for the preternatural composure with which it was borne. Something ot his calm ness may have been due to his natural temperament, sonething I to an unaffected weariness of a , world which in his eyes wasplnng ing into the ruin of the latter days. But those fair hues of sunny cheerfulness caught their color from the simplicity of his faith; and never was there a Christian’s victory over death more grandly evidenced than in that last scene lighted with its lambent humor. History wiil rather dwell upon the execution than attempt a I sentence upon those who willed 1 that it should be. i Thirty-one Thousand Women with Two Husbands Apiece. The recent official census of Franco 1 divides the population in the following I manner: Unmarried males... 9,623,227 Unmarried females 8,832,143 Married males 7,352,086 1 Married females 7,320,540 ' Widowers 1,005,153 I Widows 1,969,787 T0ta126,969,921 From which it appears that Mor monism has 31,000 proselytes in ■ Erance, but the shoe is on the other i foot there being 31,000 more married women. While there are a hundred thousand more feminines than mascu lines, “it is horrible,” says a French paper, “that any one woman should : lay claim to two of the opposite sex.” I A statistical writer in Paris profess es to have collected the conjugal sta tistics of a great number of households in that city. He gives as follows the result of his investigation: Wives run away from their hus bands. ... 1,132 Husbands run away from their wives. . . .2,348 Husbands separated from their I wives by agreement or judici- a11y4,175 Husbands in open hostility with their wives 17,345 Husbands quarreling with their wives at home, though’living apparently in peacel3,34s Households where the greatest indifference prevails between husband and wife 55,246 Supposed to be happy3,l7s Comparatively happyl27 Really happyl3 Total number examined96,9o6