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if v e 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. ______ 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.' -V 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. _ 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. __ ||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 i M 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. * • » The Review of Reviews, a popular magakiue of extensive circulation and influence, devotee a lengthy article to the * and it* work, in it* “The Voice of the People is the Voice of FORT GAINES, GA., FRIDAY AUGUST 24, 1894. w E. 1776a— ’5'// m $ > HI ■srV ;-"5s % \ ^3 w g.;' gd 4 -V fV % V \ j* ' > By flie National Reform Press Association. & Vv “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.