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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. ■ ■ 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. T. - ■ . £L ■m l 1 111 •S*- w y : Eft J €> \ . H i Wo > ; w ; u V//y/^\ ^ | Vvl (ul; rm fir Q m — il||pLL .JMi/m&l •M r [■.'j G OM O A w i.yY a.. B| the National Reform Press Association dll' treason well defined. Joseph Mcdill (in Chicago Tribune)—The silver dollar is only worth 58 centa 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.