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Clay County Reformer.
8. R. WEAVER, Editor.
VOLUME I.
Laugh feeds the world.
Till 1 : federal bayonet to crush labor.
Win not declare Cleveland a dicta
tor.
As A wrecker Cleveland is a suc
( css.
GbovkR stood nobly by the sugar
trust
Gold is not only a coward but a
traitor.
Photkot the railroads—the people
be d-d.
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Kil l, somebody if It is only an inno¬
cent girl.* __________________
Ik this is prosperity give us some¬
thing else
No qrr.tviloN is settled until it is set¬
tled right.'
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The democrats have lost the Jeffer¬
sonian chart\
for No Cleveland. LOCAL 4 -government nopsense
* Contraction V the currency fs the
i urse of the age.'
Gov kun mi nt ownership of railroads
is not far distant.
Dr mock Ac v now-ardays consists in
voting tho ticket.
Whkn parties run out of argument
they resort to abuse.
Callino Populists anarchists don't
answer any argument.
A democratic congress could give
relief, but it don’t do it
W in.it k now is your huge howl
ab< ut federal bayonets?
More money is th s broadest plank
ever put in any platform.
Tor democratic party has adopted
republican p rinciples.
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Reason with your neighbor and in¬
duce him to vote ri ght.
The placo for labor to make its de¬
mand is at the ballot box.
f You nlay suppress the truth for a
time, but you can’t kill it.
Why don’t some democrat howl
about l uiicd Stat s marshals?
• The labor problem can’t be solved
by putting its advocates in jail.
Tiik strike lias set the peoplo to
thinking, but it is a costly lesson.
We are facing a condition which
the old parties are responsible for.
The strike lias not ended, lt will
be repeated at the polls in November.
The pluto* can imprison our men
but they can’t imprison our principles.
Everybody is in favor of freo silver
in their mouth, but somehow we don't
get It.
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||Tiie banks havo got control of tho
finances aud it is hard to "boll the
cat”
The issue of money now by the gov¬
ernment would unlock that which is
in tho banks.
A MONEY that cal s lor redemption
in lome other kind of money is a
fraud.
Let there be an organization that
will take in every workingman in the
country.
Those United States troops in Chi¬
cago made a few corpses aud a lot of
Populists.
U-JtOCK-mmiEDcoloned democrats will
be the next variety announced by the
bourbon bosses.
That letter which Cleveland wrote
to Congressman Wilson caused a
mighty rumpus.
Tiik sugar trust don’t seem to bo
suffering much. It stands in with
both old parties.
Campaign contributions by trusts
and corporat ons are mortgages on the
leaders of parties. .
Congress could set every industrial
wheel in motion within sixty days if
it would only do it
Although you may be out of deb fc
the debt slaves set a price on your
products and your labor.
New Zealand is more socialistic
than any other country in the world
—and it is more prosperous than any
ot eer. * - '
Clkvkland favors free rau material
even the ran pauper labor that comes
to this country to nnderbld American
labor.
The democrats are committing
themselves to a aerlee of blunders
which will forever keep them ou* of
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POLITICAL HASH.
SERVED HOT AND COLD TO
SUIT OUR READERS.
Wliat I* Being Said. Thought and
Bone, Here, There and Everywhere.
It is an old saying that “when
thieves fall out honest men get their
dues ” We do not stop to discuss the
irutli or. falsity of this adage, but it
reminds us of the fact that the crim¬
inations and recriminations in the
ranks of the democratic party is unfold
ing to the eyes of the people a great
deal of euBsedneas. Cleveland's recent
letter to Chairman Wilson, containing
an ostensible plea for the observance
of a democratic principle—free raw
material—lias a much deeper meaning*
A syndicate composed of Secretary
Lainont, ex-Necretary Whitney, .Tohn
E. Russell and others of Mr. Cleve¬
land’s friends, own the immense coal
mines of Nova Scotia, and of course
want the privilege of dumping their
coal on our shores Lee of duty, it is
natural for Mr. Cleveland to make
this plea in their behalf. These mines
were purchased by Whitney, Dumont
& Co., through Mr. Charles E. Hell, a
wealthy banker of Chicago. Mr. Bell
got an option on them prior to the
election of 1892, and when it was
learned that the democrats would
control the house by 75 or 80 majority,
so as to secure coal on the free list,
he closed the trade. The bill went
through the house all right with coal
on the free list, but Senators Gorman,
Gibson and Camden own large coal
fields in Virginia, Senator Brice owns
mines in Tennessee and a number of
other senators are equally interested,
and the senate saw fit to tack on a
duty to protect the home product
from Whitney and Lamont’s dump.
Hence the row.
*
The general supposition now is
that Mr. George M. Pullman
is a liar. During the recent
“unpleasantness” he stated to the
public that the 1’ullman company
were running their business at a loss,
aud hence had nothing to arbitrate.
At the same time the following card
appeared on the business envelope of
the company:
PULLMAN PALACE CAR CO.,
Stock 530,000,000.
DIVIDENDS AVERAGE 8 l’KU CENT.
Surplus in 1889-90, Over Charges and
dividends, $2,298,131; in 1890-91, $2,
980,223; in 1891-92, $3,250,389. Extra
dividends are paid.—Clapp’s Railroad
Securities.
And now, since the strike, the com¬
pany has issued the following notice:
> * A quarterly dividend of $2.00 per
share from net earnings was declared
this day, payable on and after Aug.
15, to stockholders of record. At close
of business Aug. 1, 1894. By order of
committee. A. F, Weinshkimkr.
This dividend amounts to $600,000,
0002, per cent on $30,000,000 of stock,
50 per ceut of which is fictitious.”
Did 1’ullman tell the truth when he
published a statement that the busi
ness did not pay and lie was obliged
to cut wages to pay expenses?
* * *
There is some pretty strong evidence
that the railway companies them
selves are responsible for most of the
destruction of their property in the
reeent strike. The two objects they
are supposed to have had is, to get
pay for their old cars, and to obtain
the sympathy of the public and get
military aid in suppressing the strike,
Vice-President Howard of the A. R.
U., made some very important and
not altogether unlooked for revela
tions, while being interviewed at the
Cook county jail, the next morning
after his arrest. He said:
“This thing is going to be a test
case. We don’t consider ourselves
bigger than the law v and incidentally
we think the railroads are not. We
are getting some evidence for
the coming battle, and we con
sider it a pretty fair grade,
Here is a letter we receiv
ed telling of evidence that most of the
freight car burning done in Chicago
was done by two men in the employ of
the General Managers' association,
One of the secret agents of a certain
committee saw two men on t’ie night
of the fire go through the yards with
a hand-car of inflammable waste, which
they lighted and systematically threw
amone the cars. This agent over
heard a conversation between the
men, from which he gleaned that they
were paid $2u0 down, and were to re
ceive $300 more when the job was
done. This, we understand, was done
before the troops were called out. An
effort is now being made to arrest
these two men. We further have
pretty positive evidence that the big
man who led the mob of 5,000 at Blue
Island was a Pinkerton man emp’oyed
by the railroads, and it is significant
that although he could be easily
identified, yet he has not been arrest¬
ed. It is Fafe to say that this case will
not be entirely one-sided.”
Remember that Chicago pays the
loss—the railways lose nothing by the
burning.
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The Review of Reviews, a popular
magakiue of extensive circulation and
influence, devotee a lengthy article to
the * and it* work, in it*
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“OLD GLORY’ OUR SLOGAN.
Alter \,... si Fopullsts Are
I see the People’s party movement
through the eves of an old Lincoln
republican; I have followed tho repub
lican party from its birth through its
glorious triumphs in the field of na
tional legislation, but shall not follow
it to its grave. Call me anarchist, if
you will, but for myself I see in the
People’s party the industrial masses
rising in their might under
the dear old flag which only
July issue. We clip the following ex¬
tract:
Populism and the Tariff.
The Populist party adopted no tariff
plank whatsoever in its Omaha plat¬
form. It believed that there were
other questions more fundamental
than the tariff, and that the purifica¬
tion of politics and the adjustment of
some other issues would make it more
possible to deal with the tariff ques¬
tion upon its merits, and in the inter¬
ests of the nation at large. Its criti¬
cism of the tariff struggle between the
two great parlies was embodied in the
following language:
“We have witnessed for more than
a quarter of a century the struggles
of the two great political parties for
power and plunder, whiie grievous
wrongs have been inflicted upon the
people. We charge that the control¬
ling interests dominating both these
parties have permitted the existing
dreadful conditions to develop with¬
out a serious effort to prevent or re¬
strain them. Neither do they now
promise any substantial reform.
They have agreed together to ignore
in the coming campaign every issue
but one; tney propose to drown the
onteries of a plundered people with
the uproar of a sham battle over the
tariff, so that capitalists, corpora¬
tions, national banks, rings, trusts,
watered stocks, demonetization of
silver and the oppressions of the
usurers may ail be lost sight of.”
This denunciation of the two parties
seemed to the country at the time of
* ts promulgation quite too dismal aud
overdrawn; but in view of what has
actually happened, and ot the exist¬
ing state of pending tariff legislation,
there are many citizens who vote with
one or the other of the old parties
who will feel inclined to sympathize
somewhat with the view that the
Populists recorded in their platform
two years ago. It has no doubt
been somewhat of a sham battle,
this fight over the tariff, The
ruling party in the senate has
made no disinterested attempt to
serve the interests of the who'e coun
try, but has indulged in an un
seemly scramble for the protection
of this locality or interest or trust or
combinatien. and for the correspond
in^ 1 punish ment of some other locality
or interest or combination. The out
come is much what the Populists had
predicted, and appears to be viewed
by them with more equanimity and
less concern than by anybody else,
Here again, it seems to us, the Popu
lists have scored something, although
in a less definite way. Their predic
tion was that this democratic victory
—won on a pretense of settling the
tariff question and on a claim that
their settlement of that question
would bring about the most far-reach
ing and beneficent results—would
prove a disappointment. Further
more, the Populist declaration that
the solution of these questions would
require a statesmanship more free
from improper influence, has seemed
to be shamefully verified by the
circumstances under which the tariff
measure has been handled in the
senate.
Well, we are to have an increase in
the standing army, sure as shooting,
The money sharks have more than one
way of “skinning the cat.” But the
rascals are not going to be on top verv
long. Next fall’s election willrpange
matters. If it don’t, labor would be
better off if it should go back to the
old chattel system of slavery—if it
only could, which we doubt, for the
capitalists know that capital control
of labor beats chattel slavery all hol¬
low, and does not carry with it the
care for the laborer. — Free Trader.
iabor pays for every banquet,every
ball, every gorgeous dress, and eVer.V
magnificent display of wealth that
dsxEles the eyes and intoxicates tho
brain of the Voice,
East Ileitis Seen in a Truthful Light.
once since 1776 floated over a worthier
cause. Then, dear brothers, let me
old a f‘ flag, that rally for once the more third around and last the
time we may demonstrate to the
monarchies of Europe that “a goveru
ment by the people, for the people
and of the people” shall not perish
from-the earth. God, as ever, is with
us, and victory will be ours.—From
an address to the Rock River confer¬
ence on ist 1894.
DEMOCRATIC PRAYER.
No. IX.
Oh, Cleveland, our great political
father whose strength can only be
computed by the length and breadth
of the political pie counter; whose
word is law and whose wrath is like
unto the lightning that striketh the
Hills and rippeth up the Vests of
those who walk not in thy ways;
whose word is gone out and it will
not return to thee, we worship thy
mighty name, and bow before thee in
humble submission. Oh, almighty
father, thou who causeth it to rain
political manna upon the stalwart and
the mugwump alike; thou who art not
a respeetor of persons but appointeth
a Gresham, or a McVeigh, or a negro,
as thou seeest fit; thou who holdeth
in the hollow of thy hand the fattest
offices in the land, and distribute
them whithersoever it pleaseth thee,
we come to thee in deep and humble
contrition that we may not provoke
thy displeasure. Most adorable
master, our enemies encompass us
round about. The mortgage eateth up
our wheat and cotton; the lailroads
take our corn and pork, and lo! the
sheriff gathereth in the remainder for
taxes. Winter holds us in its icy
grasp and the cold chills trot glee¬
fully up and down our spinal column.
This seems to be all that our back¬
bone is fit for. But worst of all, the
Populists torment us until life is a
burden. Wherever we turn is h—1.
We voted for SI.00 wheat and lo! 40
cents a bushel stares us in the face.
We voted for 10-cent cotton, and again
we are obliged to drink the gall of
bitterness. Disappointment seems to
be the badge of democracy. The sea
°* democratic expectation is strewn
w Hb the wreck of disappointment. In
vain do we look for the better times
tha,t do not come. Ob, precious Cleve
land; canst not thou woo Dame For
tune back, even as thou didst woo
Maria Halpin, that she may smile
upon us as thou didst smile on Maria.
Most adorable father, our punishment
is greater than we can bear. We cry
for work and there is no work Our
children cry for bread and there is no
bread. Help us, oh gracious father of
mugwump democracy, and save us
* rom the body of this death. If it
pleaseth thee, seud us over to Hawaii
*° triend Queen Lil, that we may
ea t of the crumbs with her dogs. tSend
servants and put these Popu
lists to flight, for they cry from every
corner: “Aha! we told you so.” Le t
thy servantssmite them with a splinter
of thy wrath. T hey sorely distress us
anc * speak disrespectfully of theel
^bev area dangerous ciement and
not vole * or tbee. Ye are not
unto them, most adorable master,
^ e * a b e tilings as they come. Ye
vote er straight. " e love tnee
b ecauEe ^ e love thee. Ye are demo
crats tec ause we are democrats.
P ro P ose continue to ‘vote ’er
stra '& bt 11 sinks every pound of
cl ’ tton anti every bushel of wheat into
the bottomless P t- 0ur to
l tlODe ^ ee and b. For the P thee art y and shail democratic not be G ues *
cess we will face poverty, cold and
hanger. For democratic success we
Yvill forsake our wives and our
children. It is so pleasant to have a
democratic postmaster, For this
pleasure alone we are willing to sell
our wheat at 40 cents and our cotton
at 6 cents. It is worth it. We are
poor. We don’t deserve to be any¬
thing else. We never expect to be
any better off. But we propose to
keep right on voting the democratic
ticket. It is born aud bred in us. We
can’t help it Y’e know our leaders
lie and make promises they never ful¬
fill. But it don’t swerve us. We pass
right on. ^he road of poverty is
broad and we 1 beaten, and many
there are that travel thereon. But
most worsh'pful master, we look to
the.* for comfort in ibis our hour of
trial We know that when thou
peakest thy voice is like unto the
thunder. When the American con¬
gress heareth it it trembleth in its
boots. It humbly bows to thy man¬
date. We pray thee to lash it with
the cat-o’-nine ta Is of thy dsp'easure.
Misery loves company, Make our
lawmakers as miserable as possible.
Scorch them with the rod of thy
wrath. Make them dance to the
tune of thy displeasure. Wo love
To see it, even as it pleases
us to watch the trained dogs
of a circus. Belt ’em over the head
with an empty political pie pan. Sock
it to ’em with the toe of thy political
patronage boot Iiip ’em up the back
with thy civil tervice knife. Spot
’em on their political snouts with the
ungloved hand of thy wrath. Lay
them down on the floor of thv dignity
and stand on them with all the weight
of thy political greatness until their
eyes stand out like a tumblebug’s
with a wagon wheel rolling -over it,
and their tongues protrude from their
mouths like that of a dying calf.
Bravm*old Big Paunch! Go on with
the show. We are enjoying it. It is
meat and drink and clothes to us.
Punch up the cattle! Make ’em
squirm! It is the “Greatest Show On
Earth!” It shows the “vanity of all
things,” and especially of democratic
promises. But soak it to ’em and we
will be with you to the end, and thine
shall be the political Ameu.
CONSPIRACY,
Its Definition Depends Upon Who It Is
that “Conspires ”
In all the contests beween emp’ojm
and employer, similar to the one now
going on, it is noticeable that it is the
employer: that appeal to the courts
and ask for military aid. Another
noticeable circumstance is, that they
generally get all they ask for in this
direction. Is this because they are
always right and the workmen are
always wrong? It is generally con¬
ceded that the laborers have a right
to organize, but what for? It is also
conceded that they have a right to
quit work when they feel so dis¬
posed.
It is denied by many that working¬
men have any kind of right to prevent
in any way other people from taking
their places. Yet in doing this they
are only doing what is practiced by
some corporations, notably the Pu 1
man corporation. There are alsorail
road companies that are successful in
almost every instance [by conspiring
together] in preventing certain dis¬
charged einp’oyes from securing work
from any other company. They do
n °t use force to attain this end, but
they accomplish it nevertheless.
s : There are many former railroad em¬
ployes who testify that they have been
forced to engage in other business be¬
cause, after being discharged, they
found that wherever they applied for
work under another company they
were blacklisted. They are Basked
where they have worked, and, on giv¬
ing the information, the telegraph is
brought into play, and they are soon
informed that their services are not
needed. Y’et they do not invoke the
aid of the courts or of the federal
authorities, knowing well that no at¬
tention would be paid them if they
did.—Topeka State Journal.
Let no one say again that Cleveland
is a blunt, honest,but misguided man.
His letter to Wilson on the tariff bill
sh jws him a dissembler. With expres
sions of regard for the interests of the
people he calls for a tax on sugar.
Now a tax on sugar will put millions
j n tlie pockets of the sugar trust,
Then after all his party has said about
the “tariff barons,” “robber manu¬
facturers,’’ etc., etc., he urges free
coal and free iron ore, just what the
manufacturers want Free coal, free
W ool and free iron ore will shift
minions of taxes off the manufacturers
on t Q the people. Without discus
sing the merits of free trade or
protection or intending in any way
h e ip keep up the “sham bat
t j e over ^e tariff,” we call the atten
t ion of the democrats of the west and
south to the fact that their party is
i e gi s ] a ting in the interests of the 60 -
called “tariff barons,” by protecting
the manufactured articles and giving
them free raw material upon which
they (“tariff barons") have been pay
ing millions of tariff duties to
government It was Bob Ingers
that raised the banner of “free raw
ma terial, the product of
labor, and protected
g 00 ds, the product of
i a b or .” This is the way he stated it,
though probab y not his own words
as we quote from recollection. It
at a republican meeting in the
torium at Chicago i i ls88 that Inger
soll, the republican, announced this
doctrine. It was a night or two be¬
fore the E-ssembling of the republican
convention at that place that nomi¬
nated Harrison the first time. It
a republican meeting. Delegates to
the convention were there. And
sentiment was cheered to the echo.
Now we have in the present tariff
bill the embodiment of that senti¬
ment. “Free raw material the prod¬
uct of ignorant labor.” Wool is
mat rial. Wool is produced on
farm. Verily there is no
between the two old parties.—Mo.
World.
Rbuemijer, the democrats are at the
bat.
By their fruilsye shall know them.
What are the fruits of the
democratic administration?
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
AMONG THE RECORDS.
THE VOTE ON THE CAR COUP¬
LER BILL.
Both Old Fartles I’ledged to Uroteet
Bailroad Employe*, Hut They Foil
Eighty-Four Votes Against It—Tho
Fopullsts Press the Measure to a Vote
and to Its Final Fassage,
Right now it will be of interest to
know who are the real friends of the
railroad men. In 1892, the democratic
party adopted the following plank in
the r Chicago platform:
Sec. 19. We favor legislation by
congress and state legislatures to pro¬
tect the lives and lira’s of railway
employes and those of other hazard¬
ous transportation companies.
Tho same year the republican na
tional platform contained the follow¬
ing plank:
“We favor ellicient legislation by
congress to protect the life and limbs
of employes of transportation com
panies engaged in carrying on inter¬
state commerce, and recommend legis¬
lation by the respective states that
will protect employes engaged in
state commerce, in mining and manu
faeturing.” ln a recent article
written by Congressman John
Davis, and published in the
Nonconformist, it is shown that 30,000
persons are killed and maimed an
nually on our railroads, or about
twice the number killed and wounded
in any of the great battles of the late
war. He also shows that although
there were about 100 [ eople killed and
crippled during the recent sirike,
there was a saving in loss of life and
limb of 400 on account of the suspen¬
sion of operations of about one-tliird
of the railroads in the United States.
With these statistics staring us in
the face, and the pledges made by the
two great political parlies of this
country, it would seem to be an easy
matter to pass a measure of protection
for railroad employes, The matter
came up in the winter of 1893, in the
Fifty-second congress. It was brought
up under a suspension of rules and re¬
quired to be passed by a two-thirds
majority. The vote stood as follows:
Democrats for it.. i.w GO
Republicans for it C* f
Populists for it... X
Total............... QQ
Democrats against it.. <5
Republicans against it 5
Populists against it... v 0
84
No republican or democratic gov¬
ernor has hesitated a moment in sid¬
ing with the railroad corporations in
all difficulties resulting in strikes.
Grover Cleveland has gone so far
as to trample upon the doctrine of
states rights and local self
government in his haste to serve the
corporations. The courts as a rule are
against the employes, and the only
safe and sound retreat they have is in
the ranks of the People’s party.
The Missouri World Until the Novem¬
ber Election for 10 Cent 4 .
The Missouri World will be
until November election for 10 cents
in clubs of not less than ten. The
World is a Populist paper
for general circulation, goes to all
states. It gives the general news
makes a specialty of People’s
news arid correspondence. It is
lished weekly at 50 cents a year. Ad¬
dress The Missouri World, Chilll
cothe, Mo.
The power of federal courts in
proceeding for what they call
tempt is unlimited. They can
tence a man to jail for an indefinite
period, terminable never or at
own sweet will. Relief can’t be
through the habeas corpus
ings. The victim is
ly helpless, his sole dependence
upon the humanity or leniency of
judge. This is certainly a power
safe to entrust to any human being.
The liberty which is only enjoyed
the mercy of another is hardly worth
having. — Noncon form ist
If you had a “hired man”
didn’t do his work any better
the members of the present
are doing, you would “fire” him I
would you no.? Bear in mind con
gressmen are of your own choosing.
\ ou elected them to work for you, and
.you pay them a sala y to do so,
can you tell of one thing they are
ing for the welfare of the people?
Then why not “fire" them this
Pay them off and let them find a new
situation, or join the army of the un
employed —Free Trader.
In Australia, where the railroads
are state owned, you can ride a dis¬
tance of 1,000 miles across the country
for $6.50, first-class, too, while work¬
ing men can ride Mx miles for 2 cents,
twelve miles for 4 eent% thirty miles
for 10 cents, etc. Railroad men re
ceive 30 per cent more wages for
eight hours of labor than they are
paid in this country for tyn hours
work, and yet the profits of lhe rail¬
roads of Australia has enabled the
government to abolish the internal
revenue tax.—Kansas Commoner.
State’s eights Lave gone ffltmiuer*
lag.
NUMBER 18
RELIGIOUS READING.
LIGHT THROUGH CONFESSION.
In a largo city I noticed an old man who
had remained through the first and second
meetings, and was standing as though ho
were hesitating whether to leave the room or
to tarry in order to confer with others. I
asked a gent'eraan who was then my asso¬
ciate to speak to him, and, approaching him,
he said : “My friend, are yeti a Christian?”
Tho old man said, “No, sir, I am not a
Christian; but 1 want lo bo. 1 have been
trying all my life to find out howto he a
Christian, but I have not been able to receive
any satisfaction in connection with my en¬
deavors in that respect, 1 have been to
church all my life, and read the Bible. 1 have
attended mei tings like these, and yet have
received no light as to what I need to do in
order to be a Christian. When Mr. Moody
was here, several years ago, 1 attended al¬
most all of his meetmgs, and talked with
him and others personally, and when tho
meetings weie done 1 was as far away as
ever. Now I don’t suppose it is of any use,
but I would be very glad if you would tell
me what I need to do in order that I might
become a Christian.”
My friend said to him : “Havo you ever
confessed The old Chr.st with your lips?” waiting
man said: “No, I was
to become a Christian before I should do
that”
My friend said to him : “That is just tho
Way to become a Christian,” and quoted a
passage upon that point from the tenth chap¬
ter of Roman-, and said : “I believe you need
to commence tonight with an open acknowl¬
edgment of Christ as your Master."
Tho old man stiid : ••it is too late to do it
tonight, for the service has been dismissed.”
My friend looked about tho room, where
there may have been ten persons tarrying,
iirnl said: “Suppose you confess Christ to
these people who are now in this room?”
After a moment’s bosh at ion tho old man
wa ked down the room and held out his hand
to a gentleman whom he knew, and said:
“Mr. W--1 want to confess Christ to you,”
and then wont to others and said practically
the same thing. I think I was tho last one
to whom he spoke that night, and I told him
not to Jet the adversary make him think that
he had not commenced the Christian life that
night, but to count tho matter settled, and to
think of himself as a follower of Christ
The next morning, when I came in to the
ten o’clock service, the old gentleman was.
seated In the front seat, and with him was
another man about 75 years of age. The ilrst
man came to me, and said :
“I have brought a friend to meeting this
morning. He is a little hard of hearing.
Will you please speak out so that he can hear,
and be sure to say something about confess¬
ing Christ?”
I said to him :
“Has And the said: light come to you?”
ho
“Yes, and I want my friend boro to confess
Christ, too.” old
Before tho day had done tho second
man had risen in tho meeting to express his
intention of being a follower of Christ, and
after that it was a joy to seo the two old men,
side by side, with their faces beaming with
the satisfaction that was brought to them by
their new life. I believe that what God puts
first we need to put ilrst also, and that there
is no creator aid to tho faith of one who
would bo a disciple than open acknowledg¬ of
ment of bis ilrst intention to be a follower
Christ.—-B. Fay Mills, in Golden Rule.
TIIE I’BOFIT OF LIVING.
have “Mostsurely,” ho says, “those latter years
had a peaco and fulness whieli there
did not used to bo. I say it in d< ep rever¬
ence and humility. I do not think it is tho
mere quietness of advancing age. I am sure
it is not indifference to anything which I
usod to care for. I am sure it is a deeper
knowledge and a truer love of Christ. this
should “Andit seems to in mo impossible that by the
have come any way except
experience friends of life. I find myself when pitying tho
of my youth who died we were
twenty-five be years old, because, which whatever they havo may
the richness of the life to
gone and in which they have been living
ever since, they never can know that particu¬
lar manifestation of Christ whieli he makes
to us here on earth at each successive period
of our human life. All experience comes to
be but more and more of pressuro of his life
on ours. It cannot come by one flash of
light or one great convulsive event. It comes
without haste and without rest in this per¬
petual living of our lives with him. And all
the history of outer or inner life, of the
changes of circumstances, or tho changes of
thought, gets Its meaning and value from this
constantly growing relation to Christ.
“I ca nnot tell you how personal this grows
to me. He knows me and I know him. It is
no figure of speech. It is tho realest thing in
the world. And every day makes it realor.
And one wonders with delight' what it will
grow to as the years go on.—Phillips Brooks.
THE CHUItCH AND THE SALOON.
The church of today, much more the
churfth of the future, must take to its heart
the duty of combining and massing its forces
against that gigantic atrocity, that diabolical
conspiracy, that nameless monstrum horren
dum of Christ an civilization, that mothers
nine-tenths of the woes and sorrows which
blight and curse our modern ago—the traffic
in intoxicants, which hides its deformity
under forms of law. How long shall the
face of our Christian ago blister with this
worse than pagan shame? Has tho vinue of
our time degenerated so low that we do not
even blush at tho legislated traffic in tho
souls pf our own children? That by the verv
doors of our homes nnd by our temples an
army of miscreants should, by authorization
of laws made by Christian law-givers, prose¬
cute a work of murder and death ! Are wo
reduced to the shame of admitting that a civ¬
ilization which has grown up about our al¬
tars is impotent to cure the evil? How can
wo go to tho heathen with this cancer of
worse than heathen infamy festering in our
bosom?—Bishop Foster.
A VOICE OF DEPENDENCE.
Tho child stretches its arms and calls to its
father and mother for help. And the parents
love its call. That voice of dependence, de¬
sire, confidence is music to tlieir heart-*. No
parent, however tender and wise, would wish
his child never to ask anything from him. It
would he very unnatural for a child to say :
“My father has arranged all for me; he will
do his best, and I need never tell him a trou¬
ble or a wish. Every true parent loves to
hear his child asking comfort in trouble, pro¬
tection in danger and the supply of its wants.
And God. who made a father’s heart, repre¬
sents himself as a Father, and teaches of us as
children to “call upon him in the day trou¬
ble.”—liev. Newman Hall.
THE EVEHLA8TIXO A JIMS.
“The everlasting arms”—I think of that
whenever rest is sweet. How the whole earth
and the strength of it, that is almighlyness,
is beneath every tired creature to give it rest,
holding us always! No thought of God is
closer tbau that. No human tenderness of
patience is greater than that which gat hers in
Its arms a little child and holds it, heedless of
weariness. And He fills the great earth and
ail upon it with this unseen force of His love.
—A, D. T. Whitney.
A negative relation to Christ has always
ended in His crucifixion Pilate said, “I
find no fault in ’ Him;” Herod said, “I find
no fault in Him; but they gave Him up to
the murderers! Fiom the spiritual neeossity
of the case that was inevitable. This is the
irresistible sequence. Beware of It! There
is no security In negativeness. If you mere¬
ly “find no fault in Him” you will assuredly
give up Christ under external pressure.
Christ asks ue for no good conduct certificate.
He asks us for the loyalty of the heart’s
whole trust. He claims the throne of our
nadividtd Dr* Joseph Paritsr.