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Clay County Reformer ,
8. R. WEAVER, Editor.
VOLUME
the 1 senate tarifp bill is
BROUGHT INTO COURT AND
SUBJECTED TO TRIAL.
Democratic \Vi(u«m«i on the Stand.
The ea*e is the Senate Tariff bill,
■ lias the Wilson bilk
It is charged with being a protec
ionist measure.
The New York Sun (democratic)
will take the stand.
U* Mr. Sun, are you acquainted
with the defendant in this chhc, Sen¬
ate Tatiff Bill, alias Wilson Bill?
A. Yes, sir.
*2- M 111 you please state to the jury
how you regard its general character.
A. Looking back from this elevation
of enlightenment to the proceedings
since December of last year, they will
now sec that since tho President's ini¬
tial betrayal of the democratic prin¬
ciple of revenue only, in his last an¬
nual message to congress, down to
hi* siibrnhsion of those last amend¬
ment* to the senate bill, through the
medium of the financial officer in his
cabinet, Secretary Carlisle, all tariff
business, whether steered by Wilson
or Voorliec.", lias been mere protec¬
tionist rough and tumble in which no
professing democrat over showed his
head. Talk about a tariff bill that
should “conform with the Chicago
pisiform,” or * redeem the pledges of
the democratic party,” has been hum
bug from the start. There has been
nbthmg but a squabble in the protec
o n nest between its owner and the
cuckoo about the disposition of tho
■tufling, and nothing more or differ
ent has been visible at any stage of
the game of fraud and bluster set a
going by the last annual message from
thewhltehmi.se.
'J hat will do, step down.
The Baltimore Nun will now take
the witness stand.
Q. Mr. Han, what is your polities?
A. Democratic.
Q. State to the jury if you are act
(juuintcd with the defendant.
A. 1 am.
y. Tell the jury what you think
4bout iu
A. '1 he 400 amendments proposed
to the Wilso-* tariff bill which h id
already beeu subjected to important
modification* in the interest of con
ciiiation and harmony will, if they
are enacted into law, bo, with a string
of exceptions inserted as a blind, a
virtual abandonment of the Chicago
platform of 1H92. They can not be
defended on any other principle than
the same which underlies the McKin
ley tariff itself—protection pure and
simple; not such moderate protection
as may be properly givon to American
Industries as an incident in tho ra is
ing of neoded revenue, but protection
for protection’s sake, regardless o
revenue. The passage of such a
tariff bill as a fulfillment of
tho pledges of tariff reform which
the democratic party has given to the
people in every national campaign
for twenty years past, and which it
renewed with more explicitness and
emphssls two ago than it had | ■
ever pre.io«»ly (riv*n them, will bo
st ooco a legislative fiasco, a party
humiliation and a national misfor¬
tune.
Tho Louisville Courier Journal will 1
please take tho stand:
Q. Mr. Journal tell the jury whatf
you think of tho Senate Tariff bill.
A. Intrusted with a mission whose
fsithful performance meant the poli¬
tical policy and material welfare of
75,000,000 of people; directed by a
chart as clear as sunlight and as au¬
thentic as their own commissions; em¬
powered by a popular verdict as regu¬
lar os a court of law and as sovereign
ts a revolution, these senile or in
vertebral agents of the people will
shrink at every 6lmdow, dodge at
every shape, and cannot surrender too
quickly whatever or whenever a demo
era tic renegade or a protection free¬
booter demands. The result is weary
months wasted to the business world
and to the party, and, after it all, in¬
of a bill redeeming the pledges
they were commissioned to redeem, a
mongrel pie-bald of patches and
pusillanimity, a grotesque hodge
podge of pretence and pettifogging, a i
nondescript abortion of inoompeteney,
Iflelfishnesa, cowardice and treachery.
0- What is your politics, Mr.
Journal?
P A. Democratic.
will do, take your seaL
The Chicago Times will take the
Avitness stand.
<Q» Mr. Times, what is your poli
f
A. Democratic.
# What do you know of this 8en
Tariff bill,once known as the Wil¬
son bill.
A. The Wilson bill has emerged
from the senate committee on finance
las battered and unrecognizable con- !
ditkn. All that was democratic in it
has been pounded out of recognizable
form. It was not an object to be en
thoniftatic over when It went to the
committee, but upon reappearance it
suggests nothing so much as a crazy
quilt fabricated by an epileptic.
That will do. The St Louis Post
Dispatch will now take the stand.
Q. Mr. Dispatch, what is your poli¬
ties?
A. Democratic.
Q. Kindly state to tho jury what
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fj th« tawni Reform (Vm AstcSdioa
WHY THE PEOPLE’S PARTY GROWS IN NUMBERS.
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you Unow of tho Senato TarilT bill>
; formerly known us the Wilson bill,
; A . Tho Wi]son bm is McKinley
ized . iron and lead ores, coal, sugar
and wool are taken from tbg free list
and a duty put upon them at the dic
tatlon of the ]obby- , Instead of tariff
, cform we are to have only a mildly
expurgated form of high protection,
Platform pledges have been ignored
aud the distinction between the two
parties on the main question is ap .
parently without a difference. This
lame and impotent conclusion is due
to the machinations of tho democratic
“conservatives,” to tho “retained”
senators and to those senatork who
arc using tho privileges of the trust
committed to them by the people to
feather their own nests. Gorman,
Brice. Murphy, Hill, Caffery and
White have cast in their lot with the
plutocracy, abandoned democratic
principles, and propose to yield noth
j np to the public which costs them a
penny or diminishes in the smallest
degree the illegitimate profits of the
interests they represent.
Take your seat Roger Q. Mills
will now step forward and occupy the
witness stand.
Mr. Mills, you arc a man who
Knows a K^e^t deal about the tariff
family, will you please state to the
jury what you think of the present
Nenate Tariff bill?
A. No man can torture me into the
admission that the bill pending before
this body is in any respect a response
to the pledges made by the demo¬
cratic convention to the democratic
people of the United States. * * *
Running along through the bill wo
have had to surrender at discretion
at every point until it is a question
now between the McKinley protec
" ! a " ,» Bd h » P rMeDl
teetiye tariff bill, with a very little
margin of difference between the
two.
Judge. Tho sheriff will now
take the jury out and allow them to
join the torch light processions, hear
the brass band, and be talked to for
three months by the candidates for
salaries, after which they will render
their decision as follows: “Guilty,
but innocent”
The Ohio republicans indorsed free
silver and John Sherman. The Mis¬
sour * democrats indorsed free silver
ond Grover Cleveland. Both, how
ever ' are °pon to a proposition to “re
af Li us C’ the ratios. It is our own
Niiver Dick that suggests this basis
^ or un ' on the forces of Sher
man, Cleveland and the silver demo¬
crats against the People's party and
its unwavering demand for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to 1. Will the free sil
ver democrats be lead into th .s trap?
Nok much Such c «ckoos as Bland
aml I,a11 arul their unthinking dupes
will be taken in by it, the former for
pie and the latter for—what? Can
you tell what the dupes will get? We
know that they have hard times and
they will probably get some more of
the same medicine. The pie is for the
cuckoos—Mo. W orld
When the Kansas Populists were
members of the republican party they
were intelligent, progressive citizens
of a great state, The moment they
ceased to vote the republican ticket
they became wild cranks of a wooly
western community. It is remarkable
that their true nature was not dis¬
covered while they were faithfully
TOkin|f * or republican men aud meas¬
ures.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
If “stepping on the grass" which
grows on an infinitesimal portion of
the public domain be a crime equiva¬
lent to high treason and justifies the
dragooning of the people of Washing¬
ton, what crime and what punish¬
ment is invoked in voting away hun¬
dreds of millions of acres of grass and
the ground on which it grows, all
equally portions of the public domain?
—St*
“The Voice of the People is the Voice of God.”
FORT GA.. FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1894.
VOTE AS YOU SHOT.
TO THE OLD SOLDIERS WHO
SAVED THE UNION.
Capital Was an Enemy Then and It Is
an Enemy Now.
When the dissolution of *the Union
of states was threatened in 1861, and
the tocsin of war was sounded, the
workingmen left their plows, their
hammers, their picks and their ma¬
chines and responded promptly,
bravely and nobly to the call of Uncle
Sam. At the same time a call was
made for money to carry on the war.
Mark how different the two calls were
responded to. The workingman, with
an unselfish patriotism and devotion
to his country’s cause that dims the
bright luster of the world’s past his¬
tory, sprang to the front. He never
stopped to ask or consider what the
government would pay him, nor even
to count the sacrifices he was making
or the danger he was braving. With
devotion to bis country, he
kissed his wife, his mother or his
sweetheart, donned his uniform and
went out to battle. There was no
selfish thought of how much money
he was going to make out of the
transaction, or of driving a bargain
with Uncle Sam. His only thought
w as of home and his duty to save the
But it was not so [with the_cap
talist. The bankers £ who had
gold and silver was the
staple, sound and honest
quickly discovered that this
“sound” money would not do to fight
battles of the country. They at
contracted to loan the govern¬
S150,0u0,000, but after paying
one-half of the ^lo'an m coin,
bank in tho country suspended
payments and they kindly of¬
to loan the government their
Then came the trial of the govern¬
to get money to pay the troops
carry on the war. “Sound cur¬
“honest money,” “the money
the world,” had failed in the very
of the trouble. But the
Lincoln and Stevens, solved
problem, t Let the government
money to carry on the war. A
was introduced for this purpose.
soldiers were in the field bravely
for the flag and the preserva¬
of the Union.
Up against the mouth of the confed¬
cannon, that belched death and
from their iron jaws!
Now marching in the rain, wading
the mud, hungry, tired and cold.
Now in the dreary hospital, waiting
health to come to be able to go
again to meet death.
Now burying a dead comrade, or
the pain of a wounded com¬
Following the flag wherever
went
Storming a rampart or wasting
in sickness by the inaction of a
siege. Always to the front
murmuring,marching, suffering,
for what?
For Human Liberty!
Where was the capitalist?
Besieging congress to prevent the
of money to pay the soldiers!
Demanding a chance to grow rich
of the blood of the nation!
Crippling the money that was pay¬
ing for supplies and munitions of
war, and which was intended as only
poor pittance at best for the man
who placed his life in danger to save
the republic.
At home, and when drafted hunting
a substitute as cheap as possible,
to serve his country by proxy.
.At home plotting treason by crip¬
pling the finances of the government
The confederate soldier who risked
hislifeinan open field in defense of
what he had been taught was right Is
entitled to a thousand times more re¬
spect than the miserable, traitorous
capitalists who went to the
very seat of government and
plotted treason by demanding
an opportunity to get rich off of the
necessities of the government.
And they did get rich.
They inlluenced congress to pass
laws by which they were enabled to
get rich.
Through their / influence the war
was prolonged and its cost increased.
These miscreants were aiding and
abetting the south.
They were traitors, deep-dyed trait¬
ors to their country.
Capital never contributed one cent
to put down the rebellion. On the
other hand it made it the opportunity
to grow rich.
The soldiers put down the rebellion
and then came home and went to
work to pay capital a tribute it had
laid on them while they were busy
fighting, and without surrendering
anything itself. That tribute is be¬
ing paid to-day. *
The capitalist is still at the seat of
government demanding more tribute
and further privileges.
He is a traitor to the government be¬
cause he is a traitor to the interests
of the people. He is a more dangerous
traitor than the man who faced you
with a musket in his hand during the
war. You shot against the traitor
then.
Why don’t you vote 1 against the
traitor now?
The man you vanquished in the
field has laid down his arms.
He has sworn his allegiance to the
government.
But the traitor at the capital whom
you did not vanquish is still plotting
his damnable treason against you.
He has both money and bond. You
have to buy the money of him to Pay
the interest on that bond.
“He toils not, neither does he spin,
yet Solomon in all his glory was not
arrayed like him.”
The false lights he holds out to you
are “honest money” and the “nation's
credit.”
He never made an honest dollar in
his life.
He did more to ruin the nation’s
credit than the southern confederacy
did.
It was your blood and brain that
saved both the nation and its credit.
You did it not with his help, but
in spite of his damnable and dark
plotting against you and the noble
sacrifices you were making.
He has demonetized silver.
He has established gold as the god
of worship and as the one thing only
in which you can pay him his semi
annual tribute
He owns congress.
He controls legislation.
The courts do his bidding.
He controls the po icy aud the can
didates of both the old parties.
\ r ou shot at traitors from 1861 to
1865.
If you want to vote as you shot,
then vote against this worst of all
traitors—the money king.
--—
The New York Nun, which more
than any other one paper was re
sponsible for putting him there, says:
“Life lasting, Grover Cleveland will
hold the most powerful office on earth
for nearly three years Jonger, and the
possibilities of havoc and disaster to
our institutions involved in the cir
cumstances of a socialistic President
are beyond all human calculation. ”—
Inter Ocean.
The salaries of 500 railroad presi¬
dents in the United States aggregates
$?2,000,000 per annum. Pretty big ex¬
pense, but the sugar trust made a
clear profit of $35,000,000 last year,
and had less than that sum invested
in sugar refining machinery, build¬
ings, etc. Railroad salaries are not
the largest evil in this country.—Pro¬
gressive Farmer.
Tk* disputes between Senators Hill
and Harris did uot settle whether the
manners of the Bowery or those of
the Tennessee plantations are the
best for use in the senate chamber.—
Kansas City Mail.
THEY COST.
WANTON EXTRAVAGANCE OF
THE AMERICAN CONGRESS.
Average Farmer Don’t Sell Enough
to Pay for the Stationery for
One Member.
There is nothing like examining the
books of those who handle our public
It may have the effect of
our partisan ardor, but in
end it will be money in our pock
ets. A short time ago we examined
the accounts of a republican sen¬
No wonder they have been
with reckless extravagance.
But now, dear reader, go with us
while we turn over the leaves of the
official report of the expenditures of
a democratic house—and one, too,
that was intensely democratic—148
majority.
5, Beginning with July 1, 1891, ending
with December 7, 1591, a period of
five months, we find the pay for clerks,
messengers, doorkeepers, postmasters,
laborers, etc.,to amount to $139,332.21.
Then we paid the police during that
period to keep the cows from eating
our congressmen, $10,128.22. Then
comes a little stationery bill of $7,325.
One month’s extra pay all round for
this economical democratic congress
cost the people over $37,000. On
down a little further we pay the po¬
lice some more, only $3,269.30 this
time
Then comes some more stationery,
$39,971.33. Gewhillikins! isn’t that a
lot of stationery for congress to use?
Let’s see, that is $120 each.
would be 20, ooo sheets of paper, the
same number of envelopes, half a
cord of penholders and pens and forty
gallons of ink. It would buy your
wife fifty calico, ten lawn, tea ging¬
ham, five alpaca and five cashmere
dresses, enough aprons to last her five
years and a suit all round /or the
children.
But you don’t want to raise any
racket about this little item. Just
raise the allowance for stationery for
your farm hand, cut down the number
of dresses for your wife, and vote tho
same old ticket.
It is not supposed that the door¬
keeper would have much use for sta¬
tionery, but he has $563 worth charged
to his account. He must have bedded
the dogs with it. This stationery
business with congress is a pretty big
thing. It would be most interesting
to know just what articles are cov¬
ered by “stationery.” The expenses
for running that 148 democratic ma¬
jority house from Dec, 8, 1891, to June
20, 1892, a period of seven months,
was as follows:
Salaries of members........ $1,685,000
Extra for Mr. Speaker....... 3,00 0
Mileage of members (about). 400,000
Salaries of officers and em¬
ployes ..................... 265,023
Police....................... 3,269
Commutation for stationery. 39,971
Fuel......................... 3,430
Furniture................... 11,034
Materia's for folding........ 7,050
Miscellaneous items......... 22,957
Stationery for committees... 4,985
Ditto for members.......... 7,611
This sums up to nearly two and one
half million dollars. This does not
include the expenses after June 30,
which continued until August.
The last thing which this 148 ma¬
jority democratic congress did was to
vote each member a clerk at an ex
penseof$100 each per month, to be
paid out of the hard earnings of the
taxpayers. This additional expense
for 356 members, amounts to $35,600
every month that congress is in ses
* on ’ or aljout $400,000 a year. Think
a con & ressInan using up more “sta
tionery than the crops sold by the
avera o e farmer would buy.
The report shows that a man was
appointed deputy sergeant-at-arms
ind sent to Chicago after an absent
member whom wa s necessary to
arres ^ anc ^ take to Washington by
to him to attend to the busi
for which he was elected. What
you recken it cost? The legitima e
of the trip would have been
$60 to $75. But this deputy
yon $223.75 for his expenses
bringing your man in. He had his
are > boar d, his bus fare and all
Then he puts down $53.05
r incidentals. “Incidentals” must
come pretty high on that trip, or
he bought lots of ’em. This is
way your money is being spent.
can know all about it if you want
You can get the official report of
these expenses. But if you don't
to go back on your old party
n u better not do it If all the people
just what their representatives
doing up there at Washington,
would fire the whole thing out
We believe that the people are about
make their last grand stand for
liberties. They have, lor cen¬
past, been fleeing from tae iron
of tyranny and oppression.
from Asia, the birthplace of
and traveling westward until the
of the Pacific ocean calls a
they discover that they can fly
the enemy no further; the room
all taken; so they must turn and
it out in some way and it must
a fight to the finish this time. Will
we be able to peaceably hail the ap
proach of a diviner civilization, or
will we go down beneath the iron
of the oppressor of human liber
(Neb.) Headlight
ONE DOLLAR PER
NOT TRAMPS BUT MISSIONARIES,
A new plan has been devised to set
at work the most intelligent among
the unemployed people of this abused
and suffering country.
It is to turn the tramps into mis¬
sionaries. These tramps, as Gov.
Lewelling recently said, are “the
product of our economic conditions.”
Judge Kelly said the same thing
the tramps of twenty years ago. Hugh
McCulloch was the father of those
tramps. He “hamstrung the nation,”
as Judge Kelly expressed it, by con¬
tracting the volume of money after
the civil war, and converted 2,000,000
of soldiers and toilers, who had saved
the Union, into beggars, while he tied
and held down the south by the same
process. Whal Hugh McCulloch did
from 1866 to 1876 John Sherman and
Grover Cleveland have done in 1894,
only on a larger scale with more con¬
summate wickedness. By demonetiz¬
ing silver and otherwise conspiring
against their country, these traitors
have brought us to our second era of
tramps. Let us not blame the tramps;
the traitors are the men to hate, and
kick and spurn.
The average tramp of to-day knows,
much more about political economy
than the average reader of the sub¬
sidized press, and will make a very
good missionary to that kind of
heathen. Some of the so-called
tramps, indeed, are able as well as
excellent men, and could get work,
as is sometimes charged against them,
if they would throw others out of
work to get it. But they ses this
point as it is and decline to be as
mean as the “upper classes” would
try to make them. Mr. Morris of the
“Coxey army” is one of the most in¬
telligent, temperate and conscienti¬
ous men in the United States. Some
months ago he constituted himself an
economic missionary in Pennsylvania,
distributing literature and beginning
a work of which is now “in the air”
and which hundreds of people evi¬
dently “have in their heads’’ all over
the country. This “tendency of the
times” has been organized and has
become the formal purpose of a
strong and active organization. It is
called the American Economic Re¬
form society.
ItThe circular of the society bears the
motto: “More Money and Less Mis
ery for the People.” It says:
“The American Economic Reform
society was organized on the 8th of
June, 1894, a meeting being called for
that purpose at the rooms of the so¬
ciety, 1202 Pennsylvania avenue,
Washington.
11 While recognizing the need of po¬
litical and economic reform in many
directions, the meeting instantly de¬
cided that the panic in this country,
with the present hard times, had been
directly precipitated upon the people
by a strangulation of their money vol¬
ume, partly through the demonetiz¬
ing of silver, partly by the sudden
withdrawal of circulation and credits
by the national banks, and owing' in
general to the British-American bank
system, which issues some ten credit
dollars to every one actual metallic
dollar, yet promises to ‘redeem’ its
ten I. O. U’s. (of discounts and bills)
in that one gold piece that can never
go around when really needed.
The immediate purpose of the Amer¬
ican Reform society was therefore-de¬
clared to be the enlightenment of the
people in regard to this great confi¬
dence game, which must be understood
and abandoned before any other
economic reform can possibly be
achieved.
For a brief statement of its general
purpose the society adopted the fol¬
lowing “declaration:”
“To relieve distress and secure pros¬
perity for all the people we favor
more money, and believe it should be
issued by the government and its
volume controlled without the inter¬
vention of corporations. Thus believ¬
ing and teaching, relying upon peace¬
ful and lawful methods, we call upon
all who thus favor more money and
less misery to unite with us for politi¬
cal action to secure these results,”
Steps have been taken to put into
the field at once several groups of
speakers and organizers to furnish
them with supplies of suitable litera¬
ture, and to connect them with other
groups in the different states.
Here is the inception of a movement
that is destined to become national.
The American Economic Reform so¬
ciety may be sure of support and co
°P era fi°n on evey hand. I he times
are r *P® * or J usk f'hing and the
gold bugs have made us so poor that
the work will be self-supporting.
Men will do their best in this direction
for a bare subsistence, if only that the
next generation may not be slaves.
The Arena says the unemployed
number fully 5,00o,003 people which,
marching four deep, would make a
column 300 miles long, while the
women and children, the aged, sick
and infirm dependent upon them
would trail along for 1,200 miles in the
rear. —Labor Advocate.
9
“The theory of intrinsic value has
been abandoned by the best writers
and speakers. ’’—Encyclopedia Brit
annica. “Metallic money, while act*
ing as coin, is identical with paper
money, in respect to beiog destitute
of intrinsic value.”—North
Review.
NUMBER 9.
RELIGIOUS READING.
rOOR HEARING.
I have heard much formerly Rnd lately,and
At all times, about poor preaching, so that I
have not doubted there is such a thing in the
world. But I have wondered something has
uot been said about poor hearing. I believe
there is a reality too. And as I believe more
has been said about poor preaching than
poor hearing, I will cast a mite into tho lat¬
ter scale, thinking that if tho pulpit feels the
lash, the pews ought to at least hoar the
mapper! You
1. Drowsy hearing is poor hearing. yourself
shall have a case, rather, and see for
what you think of it. Enter into a tale to
your friend, that deeply interests vour heart.
While in the hot haste of your own interest,
you be hear your What friend gunping, hearing and do «oon after call
snores. kind of you
that? In sorrow I say it, there is not a little
of just such hearing about those days in the
sanctuary; and if you do not call that poor
tion bearing you can help yourself io any appella¬
for it you like better. If you wete in
the pulpit, ami there were no more than
these men in the ark, hearing after their
fashion, you would soon take vengeance on
the thing, by some suitable epithet, if you
did not on the perpetrators.
hearing, 2. Attention with the eyes only, is poor
that is, they give their eyes to the
speaker, but their thoughts and imaginations
are pilgrimaging the wholo creation. The
natuial eye is in the right direction, but the
mentalin the wrong. “I go, sir, but went
uot.” However, a half a loaf is better than
no bread. Even looking at the preacher is
better than nothing.—For if he has the eye
he can but hope ho has the ear.
3. Captious hearing is very poor hearing.
Some pt ople always hav-*their net sproad for
the worst llsh that swim. They seldom catch
any other. They think they are excellent
fishermen. Ami so they are in their way.
Successful they most certainly arc. If the
preacher faltois anywhere, the keen eye trained sees
itthe acute ear hears it; tho well
memory retains it, and tho tongue is set on
fire to lot others know what a rich specimen
their course presents of poor hearing.
4. Hearing for other people is a bird of the
same feather. “I am thankful the’Bquiro is
hero to hear that; and Miss 1’. may take that,
and I think the colonel will hear the whistling
of that shot, and if Mrs. Bubbletongue is not
quieted now,” etc. It is a comfortable thing
to get the mind so trained that, unwounded
ourselves, vve may look about us and sco
where the preacher’s artillery takes eiToet.—
llut if this is not one of tho ways of offering
“the sacrifice of fools” in tho house of God, I
will take meekly any man’s rebuke who will
point out my mistake. But one tiling about
it I shall not take back for anybody, viz.,that
this is poor, very poor hearing.
5. Prayerless hearing is. so also. Let tho
husbandman cast his seed upon unsoftened
ground, and who would commend such hus¬
bandry?—And what thankless sol? is the
unsoftened human heart. Cast the good seed
of the word upon it and it would be nothing
but madness to look for a harvest. But
humble, fervent prayerdoes wonders with the
heurt. It waters tho ridges thereof, it settles
the furrows thereof; it makes it soft as with
showers.” Prayer opens tho heart so that
the great sun of righteousness can penetrate shut
it. heart, But and oh, pruyerlcss a prayerless hearing heart is a hearing. up
is poor
It follows!
1. That poor preaching is not thp only poor
thing to be found in the sanctviary.
2. T he subject sheds some light on the ori¬
gin of poor preaching. Poor hearing does
not account for all of it, but that it does for
no small amount of it, I defy any man would to
deny. Were there a now roform there
be a pulpit roform. Let the hearers eschew
all drowsiness, llx their eyes in deep and
solemn attention on the speaker, be downright captious
of caviling no longer, hear in
honest earnestness each one for himself, and
do all this in the spirit of humble and fervent
prayer both for themselves and the preacher,
and if they would not then hear excellent
preaching, from that same preacher, too, I
will sit down submissively in the shame of
my mistake. And if that preacher under so
delightful a reform in his congregation, does
not get a new and powerful impulse to good
preaching, yea the very best in his power,
then let another take his bishopric, and all
the people shall say, Amen!
WHAT FRUIT HAD VK IN THOSE THINGS?
has Lord Chesterfield, the celebrated testimony worldling, the
borne as emphatic a remember to have van¬
ity of this world, as we to
read. Says he, “I have run tho silly round
of business and pleasure their of futility, the worid, and and
consequently know do not
regret their loss. I appraise them at their
real va’ue, which Is is in truth, very low;
whereas, those who have not They experienced only
them, always overrate them. see
their gay outside, and are dazzled with their
glare. But I have been behind tho scenes; I
have seen all the coarse pulleys machinery. and dirty
ropes, which moves the gaudy
I have seen and smelt the tallow candles
which illuminate the whole decoration, to
the astonishment and admiration of the igno¬
rant multitude. When I reflect upon wliat I
have seen, and what I have heard and done,
I can hardly persuade myself that all tho
frivolous hurry, and bustle, and pleasures of
the world had any reality; but I look upon
all that has passed, as one of those romantic
dreams which opium commonly occasions;
and I do by no means wish to repeat the nau
ceous dose for the sake of the fugltivedream.”
Lord Byron declares, that, upon the most
carclul recollection of his childhood experience oj life,
of joy and sorrow from onward, he
could not recall but eleven days in which he
enjoyed himself, and which he could wish to
live over again.
There can be no doubt of the entire sincer¬
ity of these declarations of Byron and Ches
te. field. aDd as little reason to doubt their
truth. When, then, we reflect upon the emin¬
ent opportunities this world, of these and witnesses enjoy to make
the most of it to their
heart’s content, nve must see the < overwhelm
ing force of their conclusion, that the world,
taken as a portion, is very vanity and delu¬
sion.
It is a very observable fact that they mourn
the most about the delusiveness of the world,
who have gone deepest into it and had the
largest share of It. Not your beggar, with his
bone and rags; but your Byrons, Chesterfields
and Solomons, who have from infancy had ev¬
ery temporal good to satiety. These are they
who in the bitterest spirit cry out, “Yauity of
vanities.”
Equally true and worthy but* of reflection Is it,
that those who seek little here below,
find much. We suspect that there has been
very few lively Christians who have found
this world so this barren world as Byron found it. They
have found to answer a very good
purpose, and yield of this them has many been, enjoyments.
But the secret that they
sought the kingdom of God first, and the
world last, in its proper place and for its
legitimate uses.—Mother’s Magazine,
REOBKT EXHORTATIONS.
“Let me in love urge the question home—
what are you doing with your pound? If
there is a soul who hears me ‘ t that has laid
his away In a napkin, giving as excuse for
lack of service that God is austere—and oh!
how many do give just this reason for their
niggardly service, neglecting holy living
because tney mink events have taught them
God is hart’. — if there is such s soul
hearing rae, I warn you this hour of
the hour of reckoning and I urge
you pound. to begin at once trading with
your - Maybe you can increase it
three-fold, use'd if not five, or ten. The napkin
should be to wipe the sweat of service
from your forehead, and not to hide the gift
of God. To us all the words come, not as the
lash of a task-mAster, but as trumpet blast
calling onward to fresh victories, new tri
umpbs while remaining and increased renown. In the little
some of us may please our
Lord the by surprising gains, and in heaven en¬
joy lie sovereign rewards for that good we ought all the to cities enjoy, which and
over y
He desires us to rule,”