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Clay County Reformer
8. H. Editor,
VOLUME I.
HUMAN RIGHTS.
they are more sacred than
PROPERTY RIGHTS.
UIE TITLK VKNTF.II IN <lOH ANI)
ANf HOKF.II IN TIIK IIF.AHTS
OF TIIK I'KOl’LK.
Yhln Nation Sowing to the Wind—.Hu¬
tu *n It food T«m» (hcil l» It Will Urn))
the Whirlwind Money and Property
Flared Above Vlrlue and llonoKly —
God** lleeree: In the Kwe»t of Thy
Fare Khalt Thou Kat Bread.
ID'Man rights are vested rights.
The title is rested in God. They arc
a thousand times moro sacred thou
property rights, yet they are trampled
upon and held in scorn when they
clamor for recognition. “Vengeance
is mine saith the Lord.” And ven¬
geance will come. Mark the predic¬
tion. This nation is lowing to the
wind. It will reap tho whirlwind.
Human b’ood is too cheap. Money
and property is placed above virtue
and honesty. Tho attributes of God
lu man uro ignored and reviled while
the rich revel in the luxury of wealth
obtained through false systems
Wealth secures legislation giving it
a legal right to rob the man who “eats
his bread In tho sweat of his face.”
They seem to forget that a legal right
may he a moral wrong. Tin law of
man can not set aside tho decree of
God. "In the sweat of thy fnce
shalt thou eat bread.” As sure
as God said it he meant it. He did
not mean that some should eat their
bread in the sweat of another’s face.
He did not mean that 10,000 men
should swelter in the sun to make and
sustain a millionaire. He did not
mean that a few should own and en¬
joy all the good things in this life and
tho ba’anca sweat and toil to support
them, being bold in subjection by
that hypocritical cry “vested properly
rights.” IIiimini rights are supremo
and above nil. They have tho seal of
God’aapproval. Placing vested rights
above 1 uman rights had its origin in
hell. In this country of undeveloped
1’esoUroos, rich in tho endowments of
nature, no man should go idle that
wants work. Under a proper distrib¬
utive system no man who works
should be poor. Labor produces all
wealth. Labor should enjoy what it
produces.
“If imy will n<>t work neither shall
ho oat.” These are philosophical,
God given truths. No amount of mun
made theory will supplant them. “It
has always been so and always will
be ao," is no argument. They aro the
words of u coward and a laggard.
They oonstlluto a lit motto for hell.
The»e is where they originated and
there is where they should return.
"Money runs this country and alway's
will” la anothor one of the devil’s lies.
Manhood cl id run this country onco
and will again. Hoar the echo of tho
words of ono of God's noblemen: "I
am not worth huving, but such as I
am the king of England is not rich
enough to buy me." Of another,
"Give me liberty, or give mo death."
Let us not “rob God.” These were
not the "fires of 1770.” It was
the expression of a principle placed in
the heart of man by the Creator
long before tho enslavem. nt of
Israel’s children, or the thunders of
Mount Sinat. It was the God in man,
fanned into llamo by the oppression
of tyrants. Liberty is of heaven.
Tyranny and oppression is of hell.
"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to
God." Whoever prays for forbear¬
ance with tyrants is a hypocrite.
Whoever places property rights above
human rights is a tool of the devil.
Whoever votes for a party that makes
laws placing property rights above
human rights needs tho prayers of
the righteous. Wo talk plain. '1 he
time has come to do so. The situa¬
tion is serious We are on the brink
of a revolution. Tho question is up
whether the citizen or the dollar
•hall rule this country. Whether God
or the devil shall dwell uppermost in
the hearts of men, This question will
be settled, and there is only one re¬
sult God shall prevail. Manhood
will win. Human rights will bo vic¬
torious. The only question is,
how? Teaceably, or by force
of arms? Will the people vote for the
devil and then have to tight to de¬
throne him as they did with the insti¬
tution of slavery? Will you precipi¬
tate war by prolonging the reign of
the devil? Or will you rise up in
your manhood and vote him out like
men? Millions of men are idle. Win¬
ter will soon be upon us. These men
will be hungry, naked and cold. In¬
stead of looking after their interests
Congress has been looking after tho
Interests of Wsll street and the rich
manufacturers. No measure of re¬
lief has been passe.I for the masses.
Money be* been made scarcer and the
Industrie* of the country robbed of
the mean* to carry on the business
A* a result, thousand* and millions
have been thrown out of employment.
And to what end? To make the dol¬
lar better. My God! was ever any¬
thing more absolutely hellish? To
make' tha rich man's dollar better,
million* of man have been made
hungry. Million* of Innocent child
f* to tell their *ouls or stsive.
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Tell me that this is the work ot honest
men and parties! Tell me that this in
accordance with the will of God!
Away! It is the work of the devil.
It was conceived in iniquity, born in
hell, and christianed by both parties,
"public faith.” Human rights have
been ignored. Capital has been
placed above labor. And now the
demon of hunger is to be met. Now
the penalty is to pay. And, mark you!
you can not shoot this demon out of
existence. It fears no gattling guns
or dazzling lines of deadly bayonets.
The truth that man has a right to
earn his living by honest labor can
not be crushed, because it is of God.
You can inprison-men but 3-011 can't
in prison ideas. You can shoot down
a hungry man butcantkill the public
sentiment and sympathy which his
condition arouses.
And what is the condition? When
winter comes the hungry must be fad
or shot. Already the hounds of war
are preparing for their part in the
drama. But mark you. God has done
his part. lie has given ub a country
rich in natural resources. He has sent
his sunshine and rain, and given us
abundant crops. In the face of his
goodness the few have appropriated
these gifts and seek now to protect
• themselves behind the specious plea of
“vested rights.” Human rights, the
noblest gift of God arc ignored. The
millions are hungry. The few revel
in riches and plenty. Tho law of God
has been defied. Who will respect
tho law of man, secured by corrup¬
tion and bribery, and sustained by
un Godly courts? We sound the warn¬
ing. "Thou hast taken usury and in¬
crease and £hou bast greedily gained
of thy neighbors by extortion, and
hast forgotten mo, saith tho Lord.
Behold, therefore, I have smitten
mine hand at the dishonest gain
which those bast made, and at thy
blood which has been m the midst of
thee.”—Ezekiel xxii: 13, 13. We are
not ctirring up strife. We are stand¬
ing on tho watch tower of liberty to
sound tho cry of imminent danger.
The men who would lull the people
to sleep while danger is near are
traitors to tho best interests of the
country. We would not provoke
bloodshed. We would prevent it.
But not by submission to robbery
and oppression. Hence we utter the
warning cry to the oppressor. You
may deceive the people for a time but
not for all time. It is only a matter
of time when they will turn upon you
and rend you. Again we say, beware!
(.Jet back to the righteousness of God.
The TnrlPT Reform Fake.
The standard plea of the democratic
party in favor of tariff reduction has
always been that if any article was
placed on the froo list it would be
cheaper to tho consumer. That the
people wore robbed by the high tariff
upon tho commodities which they
i
consumed. And on these points the
democratic orators and editors have
rung all tho changes which their com¬
mand of language would permit.
Now Mr. Cleveland in his letter to
Mr. Wilson declares that “no tariff
measure can # * * bear a demo¬
cratic badge that does not provide for
free raw materials.” American farm¬
ers have been told that they were to
be benefited by the democratic doc¬
trine of reducing the tariff upon what
they consume and now they are told
that this means free raw materials
and a tariff on manufactured articles.
That is, no tariff on the raw materi¬
als which they produce and a conse¬
quent reduction in the price of what
they have to soil, and a tariff on man¬
ufactured commodities and the con¬
sequent increase in the price of what
they must purchase. Perhaps it will
dawn upon the democratic farmer that
free i aw materials is a protection to
the manufacturers. Tho republican
plan was to help the manufacturer by
a tariff that would compel the farmer
to pay more for his goods, and the
democratic plan is to help the manu¬
facturer by giving him free raw ma¬
terials, and compelling the farmer to
take less for nis products, while he
will still be compelled to pay a tariff
duty on what he buys. Under the
McKinley plan of helping, the manu¬
facturer, the farmer could escape the
burdeu by refusing to buy, but under
the Cleveland plan of helping the
manufacturer there is no escape, as
the farmer must sell his raw material
or get no money at all to meet the de¬
mands of debt and taxation. Great is
this tariff chestnut, and wonderful in¬
deed are the torrents of intellectual
dishwater which its votaries vomit
forth to befuddle and delude the peo¬
ple who are hard up because money is
scarce. Instead of this old chestnut
of tariff reform let us demand a re¬
form, that will reform—a reform in
our financial system that will increase
our ability to purchase and oonsume
each other'sp roducts, by making the
production of wealth by labor more
profitable than loaning money.—Mis¬
souri World.
The money power has been sys¬
tematically robbing the laboring and
producing classes of the land for
years. The money gamblers hate
almost pauperiz ed th e n ation .
John Sherman smuggled a law
through congress in 1873 that robbed
the producers and laborers of this
country ot billions of money and
filled the land with beggars and
tramps.
“The Voice of the People is the Voice of God.”
FORT G A INKS, GA • t FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 7. 1894.
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Joseph Mcdill (in Chicago Tribune)—The silver dollar is only worth 58
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Senator Stewart (Populist, Nevada)—The man who says that the
United States silver dollar is not worth 100 cents is a traitor to his country
and to his God. The day will come when the detainers of our money will
be treated as traitors should bo.
WHAT IS THE BEST MONETARY
SYSTEM FOR THE UNITED
STATES?
Z; By A. C. Fjsk.
No. 3.
Prof. Jevons, in "Money Mechanism
and Exchange,” shows that in 1805 the
value of gold between 1789 and 1809
fell in the ratio of 100 to 54 or 4(j
per cent. From 1803 to 1859 it raised
from 100 to 245, by 145 per cent, ren¬
dering government aunuities and
fixed payments almost two and one
half times as valuable as they wore in
1809, prostrating and paralyzing in¬
dustries in the same ratio that debts
and fixed incomes become more val¬
uable, and gold increased in value and
purchasing power. After 1840 gold
discoveries in Califoriia and Australia
increased • the world’s annual supply
from $01,000,<)00 lhat year to $181,000.
0J0 in 1851, •diminishing its value 3G
per cent.
It is contended that gold is a stan¬
dard of value. 11 can not be a standard
of its own value, as it is subject to all
tho changes and fluctuations of other
products. Uniformity of general
prices is the only reliable standard of
money value.
In 1857 Chevalier in his work,/‘Fall
of Go’d,” said: “Tho quantities of
gold annually thrown on the market
makes in round numbers a millard of
francs ($200,000,000). For a long serieB
of years California and Australia
must produce such quantities as to
render a market dccliue in its value
inevitable.” As gold increased its
purchasing power declined, conse
quently labor and the product of
labor increased.
Germany, Austria and other coun¬
tries demonetized gold. The Con¬
gressional Monetary Commission says:
"Tne movement in Europe for tho
general demonetization of gold would
have become general but for the re¬
sistance of France. The change from
demonitizing gold to demonetizing
silver was more of form than of sub¬
stance. The object aimed at by both
was a disuse of one of the money metals
to protect the creditor classes, and
those having a ti.xed income against a
fall In the value of money and a rise
in general prices of labor and pro¬
perty.” Tho "Fall of Gold” which
Chevalier lamented in 1S57 was its
fall in relation to property. It was
not a fall in gold in relation to silver
which caused Germany to demonetize
silver in 1857, nor was it a fall in the
value of silver which induced several
countries of Europe and the United
States to demonetize that metal. The
object was the same in both cases, to
decrease the volume of money, and
consequently enhance its purchasing
power.
Banks should not have the power to
increase or contract the currency, and
the right to regulate the currency
should be taken from congress and re¬
ferred to the people. No legislative
body ought to be vested with the
power to pauperize the nation. The
liberties of the republic are in dangsr
so long as the power to decrease the
money volume remains in the hands
of congress. They can. by a collusion
with the chief executive, cause a con¬
fiscation of nine-tenths of the prop¬
erty of the na ion. All powers of
congress are derived from the consti¬
tution, but that instrument should be
amended so as to prohibit congress
from decreasing the per capita circu¬
lation of money below a g'.ven point,
say $50, without its being submitted
to a direct vote of the people. And
the taxpayers of all countries should
federate together and pass an inter¬
national law holding any ruler re¬
sponsible for any new indebtedness
except and with the unanimous voice
of the people expressed by the Aus :
tralian ballot system. ^
There is no doubt bnt that congress
and the national administration have
been unduly influenced by the money
power of the world for many years,
until the liberties of the people and
the life of the nation itself, are in
danger. If congress has not the right
to delegate its control over the coin¬
age of gold and silver, where does it
ob'ain its authority to delegate its
control over coined substitutes? Con
gress could not grant the substitute
prerogative to the banks unless it first
possessed it. If it ever possessed it it
was held as a trust to exercise for the
benefit of the people as their agent.
If it never possessed the substitute
prerogative, it could not confer it
upon the banks, lienee they exercised
a usurped power. Congress has no
more right to delegate its powers to
issue one kind of money than another.
If congress has a right to confer the
mouctary function of sovereignty
upon an hereditary succession,
it has a right to dispose
of any kind and all sovereign powers
in the same manner. The national.
bank system is a step toward the
establishment of a sovereignty based
upon hereditary succession and is the
corner stone of imperialism.
The bank act conferred and perpet¬
uating delegated power upon foreign¬
ers and aliens is a gross betrayal of a
trust delegated by the people to con¬
gress by the constitution, and is trea¬
son against the people. The national
bank act is a usurpation of power
not warranted by tho constitution.
The question arises, if bank notes
are money, where do they derive their
money functions, and if the govern¬
ment can create money for the banks,
whymot for itself and the people? If
th6 debts of a nation are good security
on which to base its money, is not its
wealth better security? Why should
the government pay interest on
its bonded debt and issue cur¬
rency for nine-tenths of its
faco value without receiving credit
on the bond, and stopping interest to
that extent? Nearly all nations rec¬
ognize the sovereign right of a gov¬
ernment to make treasury notes a
legal tender. The universal experi¬
ence of all governments is that gold as
the exclusivedegal tender money is not
sufficient to enable the people to carry
on their domestic and foreign trade,
and where the quant’ty of full legal
tender is not added to gold in great
quantities, or is excluded altogether,
there must bean issue of legal tender
paper.
What is th« basis of goldar^d silver?
During the financial crisis in England
in 1847, whe* legal tender debt pay¬
ing money vas in urgent demand, no
one could borrow a five pound note on
$1,000 worth of silver because the ba¬
sis of silver coin had been removed
by demonetization. Although its
intrinsic value was as much
as ever, it did not rep¬
resent any money function. In Cal¬
cutta, where only silver is a legal
tender, dirring a money stringency in
1864 it was impossible to borrow a
dollar on gold, and merchants who
had hindreds of thousands of dollars
in goli coin, were obliged to allow
their totes to go to protest because
they could not borrow $10 in silver on
a bushel of gold.
The question is not “What kind is
the Money.” bnt * What will it do,? Is
it full legal tender basis and doe’s it
rtpre.ent debt paying function?”
Hinry Cernwiscbi, an eminent
French writer on finance, says:
“Mdrey is a value created by law, its
basil is legal and not material. It is
perlups not easy to convince one that
the ^alue of metallic money is created
by Aw; it is, however, a fact. If you
su ijfrose that gold and Bilver are not
mJney —are not a legal tender—their
value is
How many tariff speaker*- v*- — a
difference between. Bill McKin
the bil1 5 Wilson’s
ley’s McKinley * n
Wilson bill? /
DEMOCRATIC PRAYER.
NO. XL r t - *r
Oh, Grover, most adorable master:
Thou who canst do no wrong. Thou
in whom we have placed our trust
and likewise our trust deeds and the
price of wheat twid cotton. Thou for
whom we voted, marched, wore tin
roosters, carried torchlights and
yelled ourselves hoarse. Thou who
holdeth the mugwumps by the tail,
the stalwarts by the nane of the neck
,and the republicans by the hair.
Thou are master of the situation.
Thou art mighty in strength. What¬
ever thou wiliest, that doth come to
pass. Midst the raging of thine ene¬
mies thou sittest calm and serene.
The howlings of Bland and Bryan and
of the southern politicians disturbeth
thee not. Let the heathen rage. Did
they not vote for thee? Did they
not speak for thee? Y’ea, and vouched
for thee. Thou, most gracious mas¬
ter, art a part of their handiwork.
Must the merchant rofiUse his own
goods? Must the workman condemn
his own handiwork? Must the jury
read the law to the judge? Not if the
court knows itself. Why kick against
the pricks? Why this waal and lam¬
entation throughout the land? Why
this gnashing of teeth? Bland weep¬
ing for his silver bill and will not be
comforted. Wilson crying aloud for
the child of his heart and it can not
be found.
Verily, the way of the politician is
hard, but the cuckoo walloweth in
luxury.
Blessed are they that do thy will
for they shall have the privilege of
worshiping thee.
Most gracious master, we bow down
to thee.
’ .We thy meat.
are
We succumb.
' Wo have been succumbing for a
long time.
Thou art about all we have left and
wo don't want to give thee up.
We love thee.
We adore thee.
We worship thee.
Wc dote upon thee.
Thou art all right.
Thou art a democrat.
Thou art all right because thou art
a democrat.
Can a democrat do wrong? Ob, no.
When the republicans demonetized
silver it was a sacrilege- a violation of
the constitution.
It was the great “crime of 1873.”
But thou canst knock silver sky*
ward and it is all right.
For thou art Cleveland.
For thou art a democrat.
We are democrats.
We sing thy praises.
We thank thee for being our Presi¬
dent.
We thank thee for demonetizing
silver.
We thank thee for issuing more
bonds.
We thank thee for befriending the
bankers.
We thank thee for all thou hast
done for the trusts.
We thank thee for having breath
enough left to thank thee.
When Coxey comes into thy town
sock It to him and his ragged beggars.
What business have they in Wash¬
ington, scaring baby Ruth with their
long bushy hair and hungry looks?
Put ’em in jail.
Fine ’em.
Work ’em on the rock pile.
Let ’em know "there is a God in
Israel” and his name is Grover.
Most adorable master, we don’t
know what thou wilt do nest but we
indorse it now.
That’s what we are here for.
That's the creed of the democrats
party.
Now take us under the shelter of thy
political wing, or lay us down in the
mire of tby wrath and walk on us, as
suits thee best.
It is all the same to us.
Thy smile is sunshine, but thy frown
everlastingly paralyzes us.
We are willing to sell our wheat for
15 cents a bushel and our cotton for 3
cents a pound and live on hominy and
dirt, but we can never think of giving
up our old party. Never, no never.
Save us from the temptations of the
Populists; feed us upon promises, Boak
us with 40 rod whisky, and if our
clothes hold out we are with you to
the end. Amen.
What Parties Have Hone.
The republicans demonetized silver
in 1873; the democrats did the same
thing in 1893.
The republicans enacted laws to se¬
cure a gold standard of values, the
democrats have done the same.
Ihe republicans created the national
banking system; the democrats sus¬
tained it
The republicans enacted a tariff law
with very little protection to agricult
ure, and high protection to manu¬
factories; the democrats are trying to
enact a law with less protection to
agriculture, and more protection to
trusts and combines.
’ Under the republican party
were
nuilt up gigantic monopolies, com¬
bines and trusts; under the demo¬
cratic party these are fostered and
strengthened.
The republican parties deposited
public money that had been drawn
from the people through the avenues
of taxation with favorite banking in¬
stitutions without interest; the demo¬
crats did the same as long aa there
was any such money to deposit.
t ra ffi?«Llicap M rule made t uw millions a-msKiDp of
millions - -
more.
keep from them and
off the grass,"—United Labor.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
SHAM AND FRAUD.
Real Reasons for all the Hubbub In the
Senate on Tariff.
(Special Correspondence — Noncomformlst.)
Washington, July 29. —The seem
ingly . , great tight which has been
go
ing on in the democratic ranks in the
snate the , last , few - days , is ... the greatest . .
sham in sill history, as the following
facts will show.
In the first place, things in Alabama
began to look desperate for the pluto
crats, and news from all parts of the
south and west made a very dark out
InnW look for /nr tha the permanent establishment .
of the gold standard. The Jews of
Wall street and London were alarmed.
r lnese ,„ men are not only the greatest
financiers, but in carrying out their
S ch,me S they have become the greatest
politicians.* 1 he secrets of every court
and government of Europe and Amer
ica is au open book to them. 0 borne
thing had to be done to prevent the
money question from becoming a
straightout and single issue in Ameri
can politics. According bv a large dele
gation _„t- n n of , Jews r_„ were sent ; to , Washing
ton. They did not bother senators or
ri>nr('««ntn representatives this time „ ... but * went *.
straight to the white house. There
the desperateness of the situation was
discussed, . remedy . proposed , and
a was
the inordinate vanity of the President
fea to natiety. Apian was concocted
to make the tariff question a more
Vitat bane tor the nest three year.
tnan it had ever been, and by it Grover
Cleveland was to be made the idol of
the American people and be elected
lor a third . time. ,. m, The -r, President ,, ,
was
to make such demands in regard to the
tariff as would defeat the bill or give
him an excuse to veto it and then
stand before the people F as the only *
redeemer . of , pledges, , ,
the only true
tariff reformer, and fight the old Me
ey nil tight . . . with ,,,
over again a
fierceness and vigor heretofore un
paralleled. *
bince the Jews have been here sev
era! articles have appeared in the pin
tocratic papers advocating a third
term for Cleveland. There was a very J
strong one in this morning’s Post.
I his fight in < the senate is a sham
and a fraud. Its ouly J object J is to di
vert the attention of the American
people away from the money question.
’Rah for “Tariff Question.”
When a lot of pickpockets want to
make a haul they will get up a dog
fight in the street, gather a erowd and
go through the pockets of the specta
tors—who were looking on "wonder
ing ___ which . . , dog , . . to ...
is going win.
Wanting to skin, rob and plunder
it. the people tlmrobbers ____ and „„ i plunderers i j
are trying to get up a dog fight about
the “tariff.” "A speck of war” with
some power in Europe, or Mexico,
would answer just the same purpose.
But the program is to ring the
changes on “tariff.”
,,,, l he ,. hired , man who , does , the ,, edi- ,,
torial work for the Chicago Daily
Npwb s, and who l.„„ knows nr., just „i___4 about as
much as a last year's crow’s nest,looks
wise as an owl and says:
( l there is . seldom ,, room . the world
in
for more than one great question at a
4tm time. a Just now, the public mind ... of
America is centered on the tariff.”
Ilere is a man who is hired to say
just . what his boss tells him
to. In
other words he is an intellectual pros- V
+ titute. He has no convictions ~ -4- of , his .
own; he simply works for so much a
week, cackling about the "tariff” just
because his boss tells him to. His
“boss” don’t know enough to cackle
for himself, but his money counts. £Z)
All the discussion that is going on
about the “tariff” is in the columns
of the subsidized press, echoed by the
little 7x9 journalistic squirts who edit
patent inside country newspapers,and
run country postoffices. The cross¬
roads shyster lawyers also take a
hand at the “tariff”—simply because
it is a question where the “gift of
gab” counts for more than brains.
ifiThe people who work; the men who
pay the taxes; the bread-winners—are
not interested in the "tariff.” They
know there is something wrong. And
for awhile they thought perhaps that
it might be the tajiff. But during
the dozen years that the "tariff” has
been ‘‘monkeyed with” by “free
trade - ’ democrats and "protection”
republicans, they see no difference in
the condition of their own affairs.
They are now beginning to think
for themselves. And with one accord
they say “It is not the tariff.”
- Do any of the 2,000,000 wage-work- 6
ers and ,, plow-holders—who constitute
the members of the various industrial
and . _ , agricultural organizations ... in . the .
country, discuss the tariff?
Not all' '
at '
♦
With perfect accord they say: "There
is nothing in the ‘tariff question. We
have , , fooled , . with that .. . sort of , chaff , _
long enough! It is an old chestnut!”
The little penny-a-line hired men
editors who scribble for daily adver¬
tising sheets in the big cities may
howl themselves black in the face—
and they can never succeed in raising
an issue that will change the relations
of the two old parties.
* * * * »
All this talk about “tariff’ is in¬
spired, engineered, kept np and paid
for by the Shylocks, the trusts, the
monopolists, the robbers and the plun¬
derers of the common people—in order
to divert the attention of tha people
rrom the schemes of robbery and
plunder whi»h »re daily impoverish¬
ing the masses and making million¬
aires of the few.—The Sentinel,
NUMBER 15
RELIGIOUS READING.
FOUB IMPOSSIBLE THINGS.
1. To escape trouble by running away
from duty. Jonah once made the experi
ment. But he soon found himself where all
Jp, Therefore, 8 * m .^ a * ors manfully will in tho meet end and find themselves. the
difficulties overcome
and tria's to which the post ae
signed to you by God s providence exposes
you. Go at God's bidding, as did Moseg, and
do the work laid upon you. His grace will
be sufficient for you as it was for him, and
^J r ® nd wiU be pea ' 0 ’ houor and eternal
j 2. To beoome a Christian of strength and
What m aturity, without undergoing sovere trials.
fire is to gold, so in affliction to the be
never. It burns up the dross and makes the
gold shine forth with unalloyed lustre. There
»hf; d ?.“r timi<11 ?, shrink 4he ‘roubles
which h God s B providence brings upon you,
but count it all joy to overcome them,
"knowing this, that the trying of your faith
IT T^o'm aTm’dopeedeet ehsractor, «.
cept when thrown upon our own resources,
• PIie oak , in the middle of the forest, sur
rounded on every side by trees that, shelter
and shade it, runs up tali and sickly. Cut
away its protector, and the first blast will
tempest, becomes its protector, % c
own
aloft "As high and wide as it sends its boughs
so below. deep and so wide does it strike its
roots So the man who is compelled
to rely on his own resourses, from an inde
pondence l have of character, to which lie could
not otherwise attained. Therefore.
never purpose to be zealous and devoted
Christians <»Jy wken others are so. but lot
you faith, and love and zeal shine clear and
steady, i° in the dark days of general declen
B n -
influence to your past. Therefore, prefer to
Obs.
WHAT IS BALIEV1NO?
,. "At u , last, says , he, “when ... _ I lost t a all ,t«. hope,
these words were deeply impressed on my
mln< U “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and
faith?— Lord teach me! I know nothing?
1 nothing! If thou save nuf not I
perish!” “Cast all thy It was then brought him.” I cried,“Lord, to my mind,
care upon
tho burden of my sin is all my care, and may
I cast this upon thee? Wilt thou receive such
a sinner? I know thou art ubie to save and thy
Wood is sufficient to atone. But art thou in
dc ?. d willing?” It came into my heart-only
believe. I felt a rising hope, and cried “I
will,” but my Bins stared mo in my face, and
he me again—only I believe, I thought it cannot
now. must repent more,be more in earn
est It is impossible he should bo so racrei
ful to forgive all my sins now. It was ap
plied a third time—Ouly believe. I said,
“ L ° rd ' he] £ meto b oJi ? v ? aud *° ca8 ‘
soul upon thy mercy! , Let me do know bolieve that I
am indeed born of thee; that I to
the saving of my soul.” I have nothing to
plead; but Jesus came to save sinners, even
the lost. I am lost! Thou hast said, “Como
unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy
laden, and I will give you rest.” 1 am weary
and heavy laden. EStifgStfSZ I come, therefore; the
&Kd
the redeemer, with an"assured confidence in
in bis promises. Then I was happy indeed.
His love was shed abroad m my heart;- and
those precious words were applied: “He that
loveth is born of God.” Now, if I had a
thousand souls, I could have trusted him
with them alL j found a real 0 h aug o in my
heart. I was a new creature—I was a child
^God.-Evangelist Magazine.
ALONE YET NOT ALONE.
There are experiences in life when, what
ever the surroundings, one must, so far as
human counsel and lieJp are concerned,walk Voice
alone; when one knows that the whose
word is supremo in loyal souls, has called
him to a path, whether longer or shorter, in
which not even his dearest ones can go be
pid e him. It is one of those places in which
the pilgrimage where the narrow way be¬
comes so narrow it can only admit the pas
ease, side by side, of the believer and his
Lord. Even the beloved Son of God, in his
human life, tasted this experience; and in it
found, what every true soul finds, “Yet me.” I am
not alone because the Father is with
And this revelation of the blessedness of
theLord’B companionship, its sweets and
supports and satisfactions, compensates the
soul for its human solitariness, it is one of -
the m08t helpful and precious lessons of Jif® the
to have learned in our own experience
truth of the poet’s lines:
“A presence actual as the heart
From whence my own life-motions start,
• A being real, than though where unseen, form hath been;
More true trace
A spirit to my soul is nigh.
Alone, yet not alone am J.
DBIFTING APABT.
How many persons there are who are drift¬
ing apart. Families part asunder, husbands
and wives separate, brothers and sisters drift
away. The same roof may cover them, they
may eat at the 'same table, they may come
and ily, go ostensibly members of tho same fam¬
but in reality drifting asunder day by
day. They have loss in common, loss union,
less friendship, less love, and then sometimes
love turns to hatred and disgust, and persons
who begin by drifting away,end in open which war¬
fare and unbrotherly strife. Families
begin to drift apart on trifling broken matters, aro
finally Watch utterly wrecked and up.
against the tendency to drift asun¬
der. Keep the bonds of affection bright,
pray against the tendencies to evil. Let
heart and hands be united in sincere affec¬
tion. Let love be without dissimulation, ab¬
hor that which is evil, cleave to that which is
good. and Stay the harsh words,be patient under
trials afflictions, watch against sin, re¬
sist evii. and pray that God may keep you
peaceful and and desolation, united in a and world of strife, dis¬
sension bring you to the
land of rest and peace, the home of everlast¬
Peace.—The ing g:atlness in the presence of the Prince of
Christian.
ONLY ONE MCST.
Sturdy Luther once in a time of famine
into f°. und a ft mill ^ °* where rou « corn h peasants was stored, about to “What break
1,ve do ye?” >” cried he. “Master Luther, we must
thundered pleaded Luther, one of “I the do peasants “Nay,”
know but one must,
We must.be honest.” To carry ever a thor
ough surrender of ourselves to the word of
the living God is our only eaiety, as it was
the safety of the tempted Christ. To cast
away the future for th* present good, to bar
ter the relationship to God, and all that is
loftiest and best for a present and passing
gratification, is the sin of Esau. Temptation
uever justify justify it. sin; circumstances can
never
Would our King tell as again aud again
“Fear not!” m- if 11 .’here 'Here were were any any reason reason at at all’ oil
to ------ fear. Would Would be ho KJIV say thi« this L-ind kind mzur/l word again
and again, ringing changes as of the bells of
heaven upon it, only to mock us. if he knew
ali the time that we could not possibly help
fearing? Onl.v give half an hour to seeking
out the reasons he gives why" we are not to
fear, and the all-inclusive circumstances in
which he says wo are not to fear; see how we
are to fear nothing,and no one,and n^ver and
nowhere; foundation see how he himself is In every case
the and the grand reason of his
command, his presence and his power always
behind it, and then shall we hesitate to say.
“I fear no evil, for thou art with me?” Shall
we even fancy forever there is any aaswor to those
grand and unan„..^___ unanswered questions,
“The Lord i§ my light aud my salvation;
whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength
of my life; of whom shall i be afraid?"- F,
It. Havergal.