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O r > County Reformer
8. R. WEAVER, Editor.
VOLUME 1.
Plenty of money would put every
Idle man to work.
Any kind of fusion is straying from
the ‘'middle of the road.”
Gomi still going out of the country.
Repeal another Sherman law.
Tim senate tariff bill leaves demo
cratic lies on the free list.
Hay, that sacred gold reserve is
” mighty low, aint it?
Tiik love of '‘pie” is all that is hold¬
ing: the two old parties together.
The deck is now clear for the demo¬
crats to make some more promises.
Dive ’em another chance and they’ll
give the bankers some more bonds.
Tmc record of the democratic party
ia making honest democrats grunt.
Wr denounce trusts—that is tosay^
some trusts.—The Democratic 1’arty.
Comk to think, why, ye*, it was tho
democratic party that demonetized
•iver.
Any nation that holds property
rights above human rights is bar
bariah.
Tiik Populists have the bible on
their aido and ought to have tho
Christians.
lii NbiiKos of prominent men have
Joined in tho song, good-bye, old
party, good bye.
Tuk United States (staking the gold
cure, hut England is taking the gold.
How do you like it?
1 Tim democrats have done one thing
they wero elected to do—thoy havo
drawn their salary.
Dkmockatb who refuso to cat repub¬
lican dishea aro getting out of the so
called democratic party.
IVk elected congressmen for our
.
servants, but they seem to be serving
Wall street and bossing us.
Tim sugar senators didn't do much
talking, but the result Bhows that
they rawed wood like sixty.
I Tiiky are all in favor of free silver
and they are all honorable men—if a
fellow don’t cure what he Bays.
Yks, they turned the rascals out,
but the rascals they kept in are as bad
or worse than those they kept out.
Thk People's party is the only free
silver party. Goldbug parties with
free silver side shows don’t count.
The house swallowed the tariff bill
and is now barking at the senate to
distract the attention of tho people.
Thousands of recruits are coming
to tire People's party every day.
Reason: It is tho only party opposed
o trusts.
IIA vino been sold out for thirty
years the voters in both old parties
are coming in droves over to the pco
tplo's party.
ITiaikman Wii.son says the senate
is a protective tariff body. It looks
now like tho house nad about the
same disease.
The only difference between a gold
bug and a bed bug is in the size nnd
shape—the habits and characteristics
about the same.
That senate bill ought to have been
disinfected before being sent to the
country, but the democratic hou-e was
not able to do it.
Both the republican and democratic
parties claim to be in favor of free
ailver. They are in power, why don’t
they give it to us?
There is millions in that syndicate
coal deal if Whitney, Lamont and
Cleveland can Induce congress to put
coal on the free list
If Cleveland’s mission was to wreck
the democratic party hit life is a suc¬
cess, and we are perfectly willing to
attend his funeraL
Wr rise to a question of privileges.
Are you a democrat? If so how do
yon know you are? What rule do you
measure yourself by?
A corfohation lawyer has been ap¬
pointed to help Carroll D. Wright to
investigate the Pullman strike busi¬
ness That settles it.
Protracted hot weather and a pro¬
tracted session of a congress of cow¬
ards and shitepokes is too much for
one country to stand.
At laat the McKinley bill is knocked
out Now look out for good times,
end If they don’t come charge it up to
the democratic bosses.
The man who will change his
principle! for the rake of an offtae is
a political prostitute, sad we Have
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IBZE^ETYKIIlSra- 1 H Hi ICE.
AMONCI THE
HOW THEY VOTED ON THE EX¬
TENSION OF NATIONAL
BANK CHARTERS.
Tho Power of tho ltanks Over the Cur¬
rency anti Over tho Husincss
of tho Country.
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No question beforo the American
people is equal in importance to the
money question, and no phase of the
money question is of equal importance
to that relating to the power to issue
it. The constitution of tho United
States gives congress the power to
“coin money and regulate the value
thereof.” To coin means to create,
and the Supreme court of the United
States has said that congress has the
power to issue or create paper money,
and to make it a legal tender
in the payment of debts. In
1840 the democratic party
declared that “congress had no right
to charter a United States bank.”
They further declared that “such an
institution was dangerous to the lib
erties of the people and calculated to
placo the business of tho country
within the control of a concentrated
money power and above the laws and
the will of the people.” That plark
was reaffirmed in every platform up
to 18f.a Since that time both parties
have espoused the cause of the banks
of issue. Jefferson said that “banks
wero more dangerous than standing
armies.” At another time, in a letter
to Mr. Kppes, he said, "book paper
must he suppressed and the eireulat
hip medium restored to the people to
whom It belongs.’’ John C. Calhoun
said, “The bunk is » union of the e pov
ernment and , the
money power—a
union far more dangerous than church
and state.” Henry Clay said, “I con¬
ceive the establishment of a national
bank dangerous to the safety
and welfare of this republic.”
Thos. II. Benton said: “Govern¬
ment ought not to delegate this power
(issuing money) if it could. It is too
great a power to l>e trusted to any
banking company whatever, or to any
authority but the highest and
responsible government. % I In two of
Audrew Jackson’s messages he op¬
posed it with all the intensity of his
nature. In his farewell address he
said:
“The result of the ill-advised legis¬
lation, which established this great
monopoly, was to concentrate the
whole moneyed power of the Union,
with its boundless means of corrup¬
tion, and its numerous dependents,
under the direction and command of
one acknowledged , i a a l head; a thus or
ganizing this particular interest as
one hoi] y> aDd securing to it unity
__ throughout
and concert of action, the
United States, and enabling it to
bring forward, upon any occasion, its
entire and undivided strength to sup
port or defeat anv measure of the
government. In the hands of this
formidable power, thus perfectly or
ganized, was also placed unlimited
dominion over the amount of the cir
culating medium, giving it the power
to regulate the value of property and
the fruit* of labor, in every quarter
tf tat Ualeus aad to bestow prosper*
‘The \ oicc of the People is the Voice of God.”
FOl T 0 A I NKS, GA fi iD ay aia r *■ ust si. Ot —*
ity or brinfr ru5n npOQ cit y or
section of the country, as might best
comport with its own interest or
policy.”
No principle in political economy is
letter established than that the
volume of money regulates its value
as compared with commodities. In
other words the volume of money in
circulation ti.ves prices. Then the
power that controls The volume of
money also controls prices of commo
dities. Fur this very reason, says
Uaiiiel Webster, “Congress was given
control over tho currency.” The
establishment of the National bank
was a surrender of that power. The
bankers have used it to their own ad
vlUJ t a £e and against the people. The
system of national banks, is ’a nut
shell is, the people collectively as a
government loaning money to the
bankers at 1 per cent and borrowing
it back at JO and 12 per cent The
banker gets interest on what he owes
and the people pay interest on what is
coming to them. No one doubts the
Ktabili( y of the bank notes, because
they are backed up by the government
the people. They are based upon
the wealth and credit of the nation,
^>ut why the people should loan them
to the banker at I per cent and bor
ro ' v them back at 10 and ,2 per cent,
BOme thing that nobody but the
banker can explain, and he says “it is
business, you know.” Many a demo
cratic speaker has pledged the party
to rCDeal 1 b>s system, but we find
when lhe - v have the chance they walk
‘ n footsteps of the republicans
aud rca1 1 /, in favor of granting
^e banks ,ti.l . further pr,v,lege S -Mr.
00 ' '' !n a measure to
t . " at ''hen the bill came up to
^ Jol r ' 1S ° 3 »<* ,he twenty Tote was years as
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follows:
In the Senate.
1 OR l:\TKNDINO tiie charters.
Republicans...................... as
Democrats........................ a
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Total
AGAINST EXTENSION.
Democrats H
Republicans 2
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Total 13
In the House
FOR EXTENDING THE CHARTERS.
Republicans......................
Democrats........................ 22
—
Total 123
AGAINST EXTENSION.
Republicans CO
Democrats.. 5 Ci
Grefenbackers eg)
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This °tal.......................... 67
was a very light vote. Seventy
eight democrats dodged the vote. Had
thev come up and voted as they had
talked and promised the bill would
have been defeated. The democrats
have made no effort in the present
congress to secure the abolition
these banks or of the system. Their
pronrses have all fallen to th e ground.
Leading journals already concede
to the Populists a balance of power
strong enough to dictate the next
senator from Illinois, and that
ance from Chicago alone. The
try is largely anti-monopoly and will
see to it that Chicago does not corner
all the third party legislators. •— Chi
cage tissrfhlifht-
LOCAL POLITICS.
If It Does Not Agree With the Platform
and Action of tho National Party
Jt Is a Fraud.
The effort is being made in the west
and south to deceive the people again
on the silver question. Although the
national platform contained a plank
declaring for free silver on an inter¬
national basis, which means an in¬
creased ratio and the consent of Great
Britain, that declaration was miscon¬
strued in the campaign of 1892, and
nearly every southern and western
democratic congressman, and many
republican congressmen, were elected
on the strength of their declarations
in favor of free silver, at the ratio of
10 to 1, and without awaiting tfie ac¬
tion of any other government. Every¬
body knows the result. A majority
of both parties voted against free
silver. Both candidates for President
in 1»92 were opposed to free
silver. This is the record and it can’t
be wiped out. This means that the
government of the United States has
practically gone out of the business
of “coining money and regulating
the value thereof,” and has turned
that prerogative over to the bankers,
it means that the whole business of
this country is now placed in the
hands of perhaps fifty bankers and
brokers who can contract or expand
the currency at will. Who can pro
duce a panic whenever they desire
and force the government to issue
bonds at their bidding In some of
the southern states the democrats
have incorporated a 10 to 1 silver
p]ank thclr pIat form. In CaMfor
n j a the republicans have done the
same thinp. 11 this is not for the
purposb of deceiving the people,
why is it? With eighty majority
in the house the democrats
were unable to pass a free
silver measure. No sane man
claims for an instant that the party
w-ill be able to increase that majority.
On the other hand it is more than
likely that it will be re luced. If the
democratic party, then, could not give
us free silver with eighty majority,how
can we hope to have it from a house
with a reduced majority. The facts
are plaiu. The democratic party is
opposed to free silver. That is, a ma
jority of their leaders are. If the
western and southern democrats are
sincere in their declarations for free
silver let them cut loose from a party
that is responsible ' for its defeat.
What can the minority expect to do
against the majority when it is known
that the majority is and will be as
sisted by the republicans. If the south
ern democrats are in favor of free silver
let them show themselves to be so by
attaching themselves to a free silver
party. No one expects free silver at
the hands of the republicans. The
whole record is against that party
with more force than the democratic
par ty. Only fifteen out of one hun
a red and twenty-eight votes that were
cast favored free silver. The adoption
of a free silver plank in the state
platform, as has been done by the
democrats of Arkansas and the repub
licans of California, is a fraud, a de¬
lusion and a snare. These men know
that so far as its influence in national
affairs will extend ,it. amounts to
nothing. It is simply a case of a
promise •< the t«U to wag the dog.
It is put there to catch votes. It is
not the policy of the national parties
nor will it ever be put into effect by
them. Again we say if they are in
with regard to free silver let
join a free silver party—the
People’s party.
KELLY JOINS THE POPULISTS
Prominent Indiana Democrat Formal¬
ly Announces His Change of Faith.
Indianapolis. Ind., Dispatch: Tha
report that Freeman Kelly, one of thn
foremost democrats in northern In¬
diana, has joined the Populists is con¬
firmed. Mr. Kelly was a candidate
tor congress in his district several
ago, and was defeated by John
H. Baker, now United States district
judge, by forty votes Kelly served
two terms iu the legislature. In an
interview Mr. Kelly says:
“1 have left the democratic party
and shall never return to it. The
democrats have lied to me long
enough. The party has made prom¬
ises year after year and has failed to
keep them. It has been captured by the
gold bugs in the east, and the great
west, which is suffering for the want
of money with which to do busi¬
ness, need never expect any assistance
fro a it. I have left the party because
it has not been true to its principles
on the money question. I have joined
the Populists because that party rep¬
resents my views on the money ques¬
tion. We need more money with
which to do business. The circulation
per capita has steadily decreased until
there is not enough money with which
to carry on the business of the coun¬
try. The people can not expect relief
from either of the old parties. Neither
can get away from the power of Wall
street. The latest cry is for an inter¬
national monetary conference. Why
should w-e go into an international
conference while we are starving here
at home for want of mtney? Let’s
look after our own affairs first: let’s
give the country money on which to
do business and the cry of hard timei
will soon pass away.”
HOW SILLY!
Congress accepted the senate bill
and then turned round and passed
bills to put coal, iron and sugar on
the free list. This is like voting
against the only silver law we had in
order to clear the deck for free siiver.
It will end about the same. The
house was either bought, bulldozed or
scared into their support of the senate
bill with all its monstrosities. It was
simply a confession of weakness that
is wholly inexcusable. If the sugar
trust and a few senator; are going to
dominate legislation what is the use
to have a house? It is silly now for
the house to send bills to the senate
to undo the mistake it has made.
bills have been voted on separ¬
in the senate and defeated It
a clear case ot dishonesty or incom¬
.
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More Contempt of Coart.
“I am a PoDulist and am in favor ol
both the old parties out so
will never come into power
1 have been a democrat all
life and am ashamed to admit it
want every one of vou to go to the
and vote the Populist ticket.
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ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
DEMOCRATIC PRAYER.
A I.»mentation.
NO. X.
Almighty and and all powerful
Cleveland, Thou who sittith upon the
throne and ruleth with an iron hand,
Thou who regardeth not lines or
boundaries, or mountains or rivers or
oceans. Thou who in the morning of
thy glory forsaketh the cause of Maria
ilalpin, and in tho evening espouseth
the cause of a “nigger queen.” The
morning sthrs sing together, but they
pale before the dazzling rays of thy
greatness. But, oh, almighty master,
where is the glory of the democratic
party? Where is she that sat upon
the throne and cominonded the ad¬
miration of the world? What has be¬
come of her loveliness and her gran¬
deur? She was the greatest party in
the nation—yea, in the whole world.
But she has become as a widow—yea,
as a harlot.
She that was great among the na¬
tions and princes among the states,
now dallieth with political libertines
and weareth the bright colors of a
harlot.
Her heart is torn asunder and she
weepeth, and tears are on her cliceka
for her departed greatness. She bath
embraced as lovers her enemies, even
the republicans.
She has rested lovingly in their
arms while they played with her
golden tresses.
She hast permitted them to pollute
her lips with kisses, and hast taken
of their gold and slept in their politi
sal bed.
She is in sad plight.
II r filthiness is in her skirts, and
she remembereth not her last end.
She hath grievously sinned.
All that honored her dispise her,
because they have seen her naked¬
ness.
Her enemies revile her, her lovers
mock at her and her friends hide their
faces in shame.
The republicans have entered into
her sanctuary and laid polluted hhnds
upon her honor.
She winketh at her enemy and
kicketh too high in the dance.
And, now, all her people sign.
They mourn her departed glory.
They seek bread and find it not.
Their pleasant places have departed.
The sweet maiden, Democracy, doth
smile no more on them.
She hast taken her departure from
the people.
Sheseketh after political courtesans.
She hast gone wrong.
And the yoke of her transgressions
rest heavy upon the people.
Flushed with wine and pleasure she
mocketh at their distress.
And seeing our bhame our adver¬
saries, even the Populists, sorely dis¬
tress us.
They encompass us roundabout and
exclaim, “Aha!”
We are the victims of much afliic
tion.
Our party has led us into darkness.
Against us it has turned, but we
Love it still:
It breaketh our skin and flesh and
bones, and fills us with gall, but we
hang on.
It sets us in dark places and hedges
us about with broken promises and
disappointments, but we cling to it.
It has inclosed our ways, proved us
liarg &nd made Qur paths crookedi but
we shout for it. *
It has made us desolate and set us
up in derision before the people, but
we freeze to it.
It has made us drunk with tho
wormwood of poverty, and covered us
up with the ashes of despair, but we
cry out in our distress, “Bully for the
old party.”
It has broken our teeth and pierced
our soul with the iron of neglect, but
we shout aloud from the hilltops,
“We’ll vote ’er straight i J
Most beloved Grover, we are glad
we have not been kicked off the face
of the earth.
We thank thee that we arc permit-
4<ed to live.
The democratic party is thy throne
and we are thy footstool.
Bear down on us hard, for we wor¬
ship the soles of thy feet.
Bless us or kick us, according to thy
pleasure; it is just the same to us.
Bless the republicans who helped to
repeal the Sherman law.
Bless John Sherman, who is thine
high priest in the senate.
Bless Tom Reed, who also leads thy
servants in the house.
Bless Lil, the “nigger” queen of
Hawaii, who had her throne kicked
out from under her.
Bless the National league, who are
organized to suppress free speech and
a free press.
Lead them by a pillar of fire by
night aod pillar of cloud by day. until
they reach the house of the editor of
the National Reformer, that they may
slay him for daring to mention thy
name.
Ble^s everybody but the Populists
and Maria Halpin.
Bless especially the patches on our
clothes. Grant that they may not
only grow larger, but more numerous,
as an indication that somebody is
prospering.
Seek thine own pleasure. Hunt
fl 9 h or drink beer as seemeth best m
thy sight, and when election time
comes we’ll cast another vot« to thy
fiery dmeoh
NUMBEU 14
RELIGIOUS READING;
TIIK HELP OF THE HOLY 8T1RIT.
When Christ told his diseip’oa that it was
best for thorn that ho should go away, he
promised them that he would send unto them
the Comforter, even tho Holy. Spirit, which
promise was fulllllcd on the day of Pentecost,
and since that day, the Holy Spirit has boon
a necessary power in the life of every true
Christian. He is inseparable from the Father,
inseparable from the Hon. When we en¬
deavor to comprehend the length, breadth,
and depth of this living reality, our minds are
lost in wonder, love and praise. Without the
Holy Spirit wo can do nothing. Even when
wepray.it is the Spirit that indlteth our
petitions for us, for w<‘ know not what to
pray for aright.
The Spirit enables us to see ourselves as wo
are. poor, blind, and lost in the dark waves of
sin, and when ho has opened our eyes, it is
he that lends us to Christ, and says to us,
‘‘Behold the Lamb of God that (aketh away
the sin of the world.” Jlo opens our blind
eyes that we may behold wondrous things
out of God's law. lie comforts us in sorrow,
and when passing through B e deep waters of
earth’s’trials which lie in our pathway, it is
he that helps us to look to Jesus, who will
gladly carry our burdens, and help us to pass
through them all, and bring us safe on the
other shore, free from earth’s pollution, with
our garments washed anti made whito in tho
blood of the Lamb. Jt is the Spirit that
gives light, that Light which lighteth every
man that cometh into the world. It is tjjo
Spirit that gives power, power over our foes,
foes within and foes without.
It is the Spirit that gives strength to over¬
come, and have enabled US to conquer, he
will give us strength to stand. Who would
not have be Ids led by the Spirit? dwelling Who would within, not
presence ever to
sanctify us unto all truth? Lotus depend
mote upon the Hpirit and loss upon ourselves.
Let us feel more the importnneo of his help.
Let us pray more earnestly for his power in
us, then we may make our Christian lives
show to those around that we are abiding in
Christ, Religious and the Holy Spirit abiding in us.—
Herald.
Look upon success and sweetness of thy
duties as very much depending upon tho
keeping of thy heart closely with all dilli
gonce.—navel.
now ms CHILD LED HIM.
Several years ago my brother was In
Springfield half oho cheerio s day, with about
an hour on Ids hands before train
time. Strolling along near tho depot, ho
noticed a tidy restaurant, and went in for
lunch. A bright boy came to take his order,
and as soon as ho brought it sat down to his
lessons. A respectable man, evidently the
proprietor, was seated near the lire, with a
disabled foot propped up in a chair. When
my bro:her had finished his meal, he ap¬
proached boy him. Saying: “You havo a bright
to wait on your eustomors.”
pride, “Yes, indeed, said tho man, with parental
“I couldn’t hire so good a hoy as that;
ho is my son, and was the means of my open¬
ing this place instead of keeping a saloon,
which was the way I got my living for some
years; and I’ll tell you how it was. He came
from school oilo day heavy-hearted, and
when I asked him what was tho matter ho be¬
gan to cry hut couldn’t speak. After I had
urged him, he said that in recess some of the
boys asked each other what their
fathers did. One said that his
father was a plumber; another that
his was a carpenter; and when thoy
came to my boy, who said Ids father kept a
saloon, one of them said : ‘That’s the mean¬
est kind of business,’ and I could sco that
they all felt the same way. That made me
feel awfully ashamed, so. father, if you will
only give up the saloon, I ’Jl do anything I
can to around help you.’ With and, that sobbing, ho threw his
arms give it my neck, Well, tho end begged
me to up. of it
was I sold out. I don’t make so much
money ns I did selling liquors, but it
goes home. further, and wo have a happy
My wife can help along because
decent people come here for their meals,
but before I did not like to havo her around,
there was so much low talk. My boy has
been as good as Ids word. I couldn’t ask
for a better son."
My brother thanked the man for his con¬
fidence, and after giving his hearty approval
Christian. went his way.—Julia Hillings, in the Little
SPIRITUAL -TOY.
The plain truth is this, that what hinders
our do this joy is allowed sin. The power of sin to
is great. This Jittlo hand, said White
Held, placing his hand near his eyes, as ho
was preaching flooding in the field, while the glorious
sun was creation with his beams—
this little hand hides all the Justro of tho sun
from my eyes, and so a little sin may evolve
the soul in darkness, though the spiritual
world bo all bright as heaven itself. But
should we therefore be content to llye in dark¬
ness, oi set ourselves with more resolution
against all forms and degrees of sin? Tho
latter is the course of duty, and is it not alBO
tlie course of wisdom?
Is it idle to ask the question. What man¬
ner of person ought wo to be, in all holy con¬
versation and godliness? Why is it we do
not understand thatour only concern in this
world is, to keep a guileless spirit, a con
science void of offence? Aias, that we
should offer such things as love of lucre, or
pre-eminence, jealous, or of sensual irrasciole pleasure, or
and envious and feelings,
to rest m our bosoms, and stay here from
day to day, and week to week, and month to
month, in the place which should be ever
sacred to the gracious affections; in the
temple of the Holy Ghost!
Alas, that cold we should be so seldom infrequent, fast¬ so
cursory, so in prayer; so in
ings, so formal and Jifehss in the duties of
the sanctuary; that we should bo so uncii -
cuinspect ing in the in speech, so little pursuits intent on walk
regardless Spirit: the in all i he of life so
of great principle of Christian
mo.*als, which demands that we do all things,
God. even to eating and drinking, to the glory of
Here Is the secret of our want of re¬
ligious joy, of our spiritual doubts and feais;
and also of our readiness to justify them.
THE DYING YOUTH.
There is no place on earth like a dying bed.
There i;» no hour in man’s brief journey across
this world, like a dying hour; so solemn, so
impressive, and so full of dread interest to
each individual when he arrives etthat place,
and fee's ihat his hour hiis come. Then the
soul makes a pause. Hhe looks back on a re¬
ceding world, and onward into a dark im
fathomed eternity. There is no retreat. The
hour of exehanginging wo: Ids has conm. To
have then a good hope of pardon, and of
heaven, how bles.y d nnd Invaluable! To have
all no hope then, when flesh and sundered, heart fall, anti
mortal ties are about to be and
to die in despair, how dreadful beyond imag¬
ination to conceive! To avoid it is worth a
whole life of ceaseh ss effort and prayer. Anil
yet such dread hours do come, with a 1 their
indeseriliable solemnity. That hour came iff
the history of a youth of sixteen, the child of
many prayers.-—New York Evan.
CHB1ST CAMK TO MAKE MEN HOLY.
About one tiling there enu be no doubt.
Christ came to this world to make men holy.
Whether wo take his own words or those of
his disciples, this- alone was the object of his
mission among men. Indeed, the one thing
on which a 1 agree is, thnt Christ puts a new
an<l larger meaning into the words “right¬
eousness’' and “holiness.” We find it in
every phase of salvation of his teaching. . No oilier con¬
ception in a pure heart and
righteous living is to be found in the New
Testament writings.
The contention of Christ witii the religion¬
ists of ids lime was that they had lost the
idea of spiritual religion out of their hearts
and therefore out of their worship. Scribes
and Pharisees alike knew as Ue y WeieNl of
hb teaching that they were not to bt< school;
ihot lie must be sib nerd or Id's idea of iclfi
i ”i vveuid —Central Christian Auvo
cat*,