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8. H. WEAVER, Editor.
VOLUMK I.
POLITICAL HASH.
SERVED HOT AND COLD TO
SUIT OUR READERS.
to lint I* lIHnft Ml«t and Done Hero
Thero mid liverywhere.
The Populist have always charged
that tlw leaders of both old pnrtles
were controlled by the money power
of tho country, nod that upon matters
affecting the interests of banks, corpo
i at ions and trusts the representatives
of those parties would be found vot¬
ing together. Since the democratic
party has had control of affairs the
truthfulness of these charges has been
demonstrated. <»n tho question for
the demonetization of silver a majority
oLbolh parties voted to strike down
silver. • The democratic party has
fostered the interests of trusts tho
same ns the republican party. It has
Bcceodod to the demands of bankers as
did the republican party. It has sided
with railroad corporations as did the
republican party. Iu Oregon tho demo¬
crats voted with the republicans
against the Populists, and in Alabama
tho strong rcruihlicnn counties
(negroes) gave the democratic candi¬
date for governor tho la g.st ma¬
jority.
And now comes tho chairman of the
republican state committee of Wiscon¬
sin who explains the whole situation
and lets the political cat out of the
bag. lie says:
“The present unsettled social non
economic conditions make it necessary
that the PopulistB should bo driven oni
of public life. Th'e Populists are a
dangcious menace to law and order
and good government. * * * I had
rather sco a decent democrat in the
house than an indecent Populist, and
to far as their principles are con¬
cerned they arc all indecent howevet
agreeable may be their personality.
“bu tho gr. at vital questions when
the honor and dignity of the Ameri
con people are concerned we will al
ways find the democrats voting with
the republicans for the common good.
'1 he democratR have the same feeling
ao far os tho republicans arc con¬
cerned. They dislike our financial
and economic systems, but they know
we are sound on all the great ques
t ons of tho day. So far ns I can con*
trol it there will be no alliance be
tween the republicans and the I’opu
lists in the hope of defeating the
democrats. From what I hear the
gentlemen who are managing the
democratic congressional campaign
entertain tho same aversion to those
unholy alliances, and i am glad of it.
If this program is faithfully carried
out by both sides we shall soon see
the la-t of a Populistic representation
in the home.’’
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Tho country is wondering now what
the democrats made their Chicago
platform for. While their declaration
on the silver question was a straddle,
it u as interpreted in tho west and
south to mean the repeal of tho 8hor
man law with a law providing for free
coinage. Instead of that the
party demonetized froo silver. The
platform declared explicitly in favor
of repealing the state bank tax.
W hen the question came up the party
vo^ted it down. The platform declared
in favor of local self government.
That principle was never so ruthlessly
violated as when Cleveland sent
United States troops to Chicago
against tho protests of both the mayor
of the city ami the governor of the
state. The plalfoi m declares its hos¬
tility to trusts, yet it is known to all
tl at tho potty conceded to tho ex¬
actions of the sugar, eoa', iron and
other trusts in the formation of the
tariff hill.’
Tho platform declared its devotion
to tho interests of tho people, yet
their petitions havo been ignored and
tho demands of corporations and
banks been acooeded to as they never
were before In the history of the
country. With professions of economy
still ringing in the ears of tho people
jt-hey havo voted themselves extra pay
In tho way of rai’eage
and clerk hire that ought to
shame the devil. The cries of
the workingmen have £one unheeded.
Tho distressed condition of the coun¬
try lias been ignored. It seemed to
have been the sole object of the pres¬
ent congress to look after and foster
the insvrests of Wall street, the trusts
and cerporations. If the people do
not repudiate the action of this
congress, then indeed aro we nearing
that stage of paralysis that foreshad¬
ows a nation of aristocrats on the one
hand and venal slaves on tho other.
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cently hold in Albany, New York, J.
J. T. Brooks, vice-president of the
Pennsylvania railroad company ap¬
pealed to that body to embody a pro¬
vision in the constitution prohibiting
public officials from receiving passes
from railroad companies. He claimed
that he was unnecessarily annoyed by
by requests for passes for representa¬
tives, senators and oven Judges of the
Supremo Court and their friends,
and, if he did not comply
the interests of the company
jeopardised by the introduction
of hostile billa by the parties refused.
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enough to make it a misdemeanor for
any person elected or appointed to
any position in the service of the
public to ask or receive for himself or
nny other person free transportation.”
Here is another “straw” which
shows that the railroad companies
aro obliged to look to tho government
for protection from that very corrup¬
tion which is urgel as one of the ob
stae’es in the way of government
ownership. The fact is that when¬
ever a railroad corporation becomes
so corrupt, or the object of abuse by
public officials or its own officers as to
bo unable to sustain itself, the only
alternative is to resort to the govern¬
ment to aid and assist in purifying its
management.
DEMOCRATIC FRAYER.
NO. Xlt.
Most adorab'c and ever to be rever¬
enced Grover: Thou who art alwaj r s
great, whether trampling tadpoles on
Hog Island,catching bats at Buzzard’s
Bay, or making congress tremble in
its boots at Washington. We come to
thee once more to thank thee for all
thou hast done for our party and for
the people. Our most esteemed politi¬
cal father, thou doest all thiugs well,
and we arc willing that thou shalt be
glorified therein.
If congress is stubborn, thou takest
it by the napo of the neck and the
>eat of the pants and thaketh it until
Us free silver teeth rattle in its head,
i hat is right. Make them squirm.
Bid they not vote for thee? Hid they
not nominate thee? D d they not
stump the country and advise every¬
body to vote for thee? Verily they
did. Now, most adorable Cleveland,
make ’em too the mark. Make ’em
pass resolutions praising thy ad¬
ministration. Hold their noses
to the' politcal grindstone while
the Populists and-the republicans ride
on their backs. Give ’em the gold cure
nntil they puke up every ’“time
honored principle” they ever knew.
Take their 6haggy locks in the right
md left hand of thy wrath and bump
their heads together until they prom¬
ise to kiss thy big toe. Most worthy
master, we commend to thy especial
rare the southern congressmen who
advised everybody to vote for thee,
who swore by Adam's off ox that
thou wast the right stuff, who shared
the swag, and now are trying to re¬
pudiate thee and profauo thy great
name, Our worshipful master, don't
let them do it Drive ’em away from
thy pie counter. Follow them home
and defeat their renoraination. Sit
down on them with the importance of
thy political w’eight. Mash the ever
lastin’ atuftln out of them forever and
forever. As to us poor common peo¬
ple who voted fora thee, take no
thought whatsover.
Thou knowest our uprisings and our
downsittings. Thou canst tell it by
the patch on our pants.
It ia glory enough for us to see thee
rule with an iron rod. We are but
the mud sills of society. Put thy feet
an us and mash us into the earth.
We fear thy name and thy mighty
power. We
shall never ask thee for any¬
thing that will bring displeasure to
thy fatness.
Coxey and Browne tried that and,
!o! they did languish in jail.
They rose up in the morning and
went forth with a banner the size of
% Columbian postage stamp.
Tho? bearded the lion la hie den.
“The Voice of the People is the Voice of God.”
FOR’f' GAINES, GA., FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14 , 1894
.
They stepped on the grass.
They offended thy fatness and the
servants of thy fatness.
And the servants of thy fatness
swooped clown upon them and gath¬
ered them in.
They smote them hip and thigh.
So be it. most gracious master, in
all thine enemies.
IVhat business has a poor man to
want that which he has not?
If he is not satisfied let him get off
the earth.
There are too many of them here
anyhow.
We thank thee, most gracious mas¬
ter, that they are being starved out
and shot and killed.
It will make more room for thy
fatness.
Now take us into thy care. Tut us
in the seat of thy pants and sit down
on us whensoever thou wilt. Tie us
in a knot and throw us to the dogs,
but we will continue to praise thy
name forever and forever.—Amen,
No Pinkerton, . marshal, militia¬
man or any one else has been con¬
victed for the hundreds of murders
they have committed while in the
service of corporations. Women and
children have been killed in their
homes and yards, women and men
have been killed walking the streets,
bombs have been thrown into their
houses while the family were asleep
and women and children killed by
them, and in no instance save one
has ever one of them been arrested
and tried, and in the case tried the
corporations defended the accused
who were ocquitted because they
could not be identified as the ones
who did the murder. These murders
were committed by men in the service
of millionaires, who are democrats
and republicans, and who give thou¬
sands to the campaign funds of both
old parties. Will some of their
party speakers tell the people
why none of these murderers have
been punished? Why is not Cal Brice
Carnegie, Vanderbilts, Goulds, Sage,
Frick and others as much guilty of
murder when they hire men, arm
j them, and men, women and children
are killed by them, as Parsons, the
anarchist, was who was hung for ap¬
proving of a crime not knowing it
was to be done and not being present
when it was committed. ^Have the rich
corporations or individual the right
to kill and slay any more than the
poor worker? If both kill had ought
not both be punished? Where does
the Pinkerton company get their au¬
thority to hire and arm men to fight
for corporations—uniform them and
number them so thateven their names
are lost? W hen one of them is ar¬
rested, as many of his comrades as are
necessary are on hand to swear he is
innocent. They are assassins hired
to kill—and to kill without fear of
punishment.
Americans, to this condition has the
old parties who are owned by the cor¬
porations brought you. How long
will you support parties who allow
bands of assassins in times of trouble
to kill at w’ll? Vote them out!
“Am I my brother’s keeper?” spake
Cain, but his excuse was overruled,
and despairing, he cried, “My punish¬
ment is greater than I can bear.” The
plutocrats of to-day say to their
brothers of earth, “Say! we are not
your Veepers. You be d—d,” and as
God rules the nation their punishment
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THE SILVER QUESTION.
The silver question is very simple.
This question of ratios and dollars
of the same intrinsic value is one of
Wall and Lombard street's modern in
ventions. There is not enough gold
and silver mined in the world each
year to furnish money sufficient to
keep pace with the increase of popu¬
lation and business, Thera is not
gold and silver enough in the United
States to do this if not one dollar
went abroad, Now how can we
check the fall in the price on any¬
thing? Why, by increasing the de¬
mand, of course. But when we Btrike
silver down as money wo don’t in
crease the demand for it, but decrease
it. If we want to increase that de
mand we want to increase its uses.
In other words let governments say
to every man who has silver, I will
coin it into dollars of 417% grains
each free of charge and silver at once
is placed on a parity with gold. No
man can show that as long as this
or any other government had free
coinage of silver that it was noi
worth as much as gold. Suppose that
the government should say to the mine
owners I will pay $10 a ton for hard
coal and $5 for soft coal. Don’t you
know that everybody else would have
to pay that price as long as the gov
ernment continued to buy? Free
coinage means that legal and the com
mercial value of the silver dollar shall
be the same. And this will be true so
long as the product of silver doe3
not amount to more than we need to
coin each year for money to keep pace
with . , the business of , the t country. It is
true that the mine owners will profit
by this, but not more so than will the
wheat and cotton growers, and other
producers in the land. Besides this
objection can be urged with equal 7 pro- l
priety , . against . , gold, because free .
coin
age increases the value of gold. If the
government should make those prices
on hard and soft coal does any one
suppose that those prices would
change—thus changing the ratio?
That is, would it be likely that Eoft
coal would only bring $3 while hard
coal would bring $11?
Voters should remember that gold
will leave this country as long as cot
ton is below eight cents per pound
and wheat below $1 per bushel. The
money exploiters will, under o’d
party management keep the United
States treasury busy selling gold
bonds to get gold for them as long aB
they hold power.
The fight between the tweedle-de
and tweedle-dum tariff parties has
ended for the present It is now in
order for the liars to come home and
speak for the free silver they would
not vote for.
Gek. Warner makes the assertion
that there are more daily papers in
this country owned by foreigners than
there are in England. At this rate
England will be making onr school
books, and George the Third will take
the place of George Washington.
Men* who produce all wealth have
a right to what they create, and all
laws, customs or means that deorive
them of the use of the products of
their labor must be abolished before
before full justiee is done to the la
borer,
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.
Do We Need More Judges on Onr
Supreme Court ?
At the October election the people
will vote on a proposed amendment
of the Constitution, increasing the
number of Supreme Court Judges from
three to five.
Is this a good thing for the people
as a whole?
What are tho facts? By them let
this question be decided. The people
will vote right if they know the facts.
The more work there is to be done,
the more workmen thero Bhould bo to
do it. The more cases there are to be
decided, the more Judges there should
be to decide them.
The two great causes of litigation
nro population and property. The
following parallel columns will show a
comparison between the causes aild
sources of litigation in the Supreme
Court at the timo of its creation, nnd
those existing now:
In 1846. In 1894.
Number of counties Number of counties
and superior courts, 93 | I nnd 137. superior courts,
| Increase, 47 per cent.
Number of city I Number of city
courts, none, courts, 17.
Total courts from Total courts from
which ca-es wont di- ! j which cases go direct
rect to supremo court, to Supremo court, 154
91. Increase, 66 per cent.
Number of judicial ! I Number of judicial
circuits, 11. circuits, 23.
| Increase. 110 per
cent.
Population, exclud- 1 Population, estima
ing slaves (who could ted, 2,000,000 (in 1890
not litigate)459,5591 1 it was 1,837.000.)
Georgiacitizens litigat#- who Georgia citizens who
could whites—............. only | could All; both litigate........ white and
| black.
j Increaso in popula- litiga
tion sources of
I tion, 335 per cent
Figures showing the assessed value
of property in 1815 are not at hand, but
tho following comparison between 1856
and 1894 will aid in showing how much
larger aro the property sources of liti¬
gation now than then.
in 1836. In 1893.
for Properly taxation, returned exclud- j for Property taxation, returned exclud¬
ing slaves, $271,538,- I j ing slavos, $152,614,-
322. 907:
I Increase 67 per cent.
Tho increase in wealth and popula¬
tion, in connection with tho well
known increase in variety of indus¬
trial pursuits, meane an increased va¬
riety in litigation nnd a consequent in¬
crease of the number of difficult and
practically new legal questions. Take
railroad record litigation—the kind of cases
■whose iB nearly always long
and difficult of digestion. Railroad
mileage in 1846 is not known, but was
very small; but
In 184 a In 1894.
Railroad corpora¬ | Railroad corpora¬
tions in Georgia, 5. tions in Georgia,
1 about 60.
Increase, 900 per
i cen'.
Number of mdes of | Number of miles of
railroad in Georgia, railroad in Georgia,
603. : 5,225.'
! Increase, 764 per
cent.
A comparison of the 1st and 90th
Volumes of Georgia Reports will show
a great increase in amount and variety
of work to be done by the same nurn
her of Judges; for instance,
Firdt Ga. Ninetieth Ga
Number of cases, 93. j Nuirffnr Increase,58per of cases, cent. 147
Criminal cases, 8. | Criminsl cases, 33.
Iucrease, 312 per
cent:
Damage suits, 3. I Damage Increase, fu9r, 37
| | 1,133 per
cent.
So, while the 90th Georgia has 58
p C r cent more cases, yet the kind of
cases, criminal and damage, which re¬
quire most time and labor in reading
and digesting records, has increased
^y ft vastly greater per cent.
The following shows the number of
cases decided in tho last seven years
by ihe Supreme Courts of the States
known ns the Southeastern States—a
g roU p selected because of their simi
] ftr jty to Georgia in social and com
mercial conditions and in kinds of liti
gation :
West Virginia, 710. | Georgia, 3,050.
Virginia, 1,038. i Which is about 240
South Carolina, 1,343. I per cent more than
North Carolina, 2,199. the average of the
Average in theso by each four j other four states.
court ; 1
states, 1,322.
But the vastly greater amount of
work thus imposed upon each Georgia
j uc i ge is shown from the fact that
West Virginia Supreme Court com
prises four Judges; Virginia five
Judges; North Carolina, five Judges.
Therefore, the average number of
cases decided by each Supremo Court
in these . States, omitting , . frac
Duns, is as o ^y 8 *
?JjS n i£ g,ma ’ 207. Georgia,
North Carolina, 439. 1,016.
y<jU,h Carolina * 447 *
Avera :e for each Judge Average for each Geor¬
in these four States, gia Judge, J.0I6:
317. Which is 322 per
cent, more than
average for each
Judge in the other
four States.
Everybody knows the importance of
an opinion in each Snpreme Court
case, giving the reasons on which the
cas 8 decided. These opinions should
be written slowly and carefully, lest
they be imperfect and by their imper¬
fections and uncertainties produce
more litigation. With so few Judges
to write so many opinions, the Court
is obliged in most cases at present, to
simply decide a case by head notes,
without giving opinions. The conse¬
quent iDjnrv to the particular litigant
is comparatively trifling. But the in
jnry done the public by the uncertain¬
ty of the law, caused by crude or har¬
ried decisions without opinions, is in¬
calculable.
Not only does the Court hear argu¬
ment in each case, but they meet for
consultation, read the records, make
Q P the judgments, and each also written,' sub;
mita to the full court, when
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
his opinions which are revised and cor¬
rected till they meet the approval of
all.
But where there are so few Judges
in proportion to the number of*cases,
it is impossible for them to do the
work as thoroughly and well.
these Comparatively little of the time of
Judges is spent in hearing-argu¬
ment. By far the greater labor is-in
reading the record, discussing and de¬
ciding the cases, preparing head note's
and opinions, and investigating legal
authorities.
In 1877 the present Constitution
was adopted. It fixed the number of
bupremo Judges at three. But in
1877 Georgia had not two-thirds as
many people nor two-thirds as much
wealth as now. These two things—
both sources of litigation—have nearly
doubled in this period.
Comparison of 58th volume of Geor ¬
gia Reports, containing cases heard by
Supreme Court just before the present
Constitution was adopted," with 91st
volume, tho last published, shows:
68 th Vein mo. 91st Volume.
Criminal Oases, 22 Cr minal Cases, 47
Increase, 114 per
cent.
Railroad Cases, 14 j Railroad CVrs, 25
I Increase,78 per cent.
These are two kinds of cases which
generally are long and tedious, and
are samples of the greater labor re¬
quired of the court at the present. An
increase of the number of judges at
tho same average per cent, would give
nearly six judges instead of three, ns
now.
All the Northern nnd Western
States, except those small ones lately
admitted, have from live to nine Judges
on their Supremo Court bench. Sev¬
eral of them have also intermediate
courts, which largely decrease tho la¬
bors of their Supremo Courts. But
some might think it unfair to compare
Georgia with wealthier and more pop¬
ulous States. So in the following we
take only Southern States, and a few
Nor thorn States smaller in wealth and
population than Georgia.
States having each five Supreme
Court Judges—Virginia, North Caro¬
lina, Alabama, Louisiana and Arkan¬
sas.
States having not less than six nor
more than nino Supreme Court Judges
each—Maryland, New Jersey, Dela¬
ware, Maine, New Hampshire, Ver¬
mont, Connecticut.
States having four Supreme Court
Judges—West Virginia.
Every ono of theso States has less
wealth and Joss population than Geor¬
gia-most of them a good deal less.
The only Southern States, besides
Georgia, having only three Supreme
Court Judges each are South Carolina,
Florida and Mississippi. But Geor¬
gia’s Supreme Court decides as many
cases pier annum as the Supreme Courts
of these three other States combined.
Two successive legislatures have by
large majorities voted in favor of in¬
creasing tho Supreme Court from
three to five Judges. They did this
after full investigation of all the facts.
The last legislature voted almost unan¬
imously that way.
The increased expense is only six
thousand dollars a yenr. This means
an increase of taxation amounting to
one oent in three years for each citi¬
zen in the State. In other words, it
would cost a man worth a thousand
dollars one postage stamp once in
three years.
In the decrease in litigation conse¬
quent on better considered and more
carefully prepared decisions, the tax¬
payers will save a hundred times as
much, probably, ns the salaries of the
two additional Judges would cost.
Some fear an unworthy man might
get on the bench.
If this is a good roason for refusing
to consent to more Judges, when they
are needed, it is equally as good a
reason for abolishing all judgships and
having no judges, for we might get a
bad man on the bench as it is now. In
all offices we take the chances of get¬
ting competent men to fill them. If
the wrong man should chance to slip
in, he will soon show what ho is and
the people will see that he is left at
home next time.
INDICTED FOR MURDER.
The Grand Jury at Memphis Returns
. Indictments Against Lynchers.
. A Memphis, Tenn., special says:.
The investigation into the lynching of
the six negroes, near Millington, in
this county, is being pushed with vigor,
and the grand jury returned indict¬
ments Thursday afternoon against De¬
tective W. 8. Richardson, who arrested
the negroes and led them into the
hands of tho mob; A. Atkinson, tho
man who drove the wagon on the night
of the lynching; Jeff Laxton, a mer¬
chant of Kerrville, supposed to
have been the leader of the
mob; Mike Strickfadden and
James Sisselly, members of the
vigilante. Richardson, Laxton and At¬
kinson were out on $5^000 bail each,
but were rearrested and jailed imme¬
diately after the finding of the indict¬
ments. Ed A. Smith, a farmer, living
near Kerrville, has also been arrested
charged with the same crime.
Reports from Kerrville and Milling¬
ton state that the lynchers have be¬
come alarmed over the firm stand
taken by Governor Turney and Judge
Cooper, and are making preparations
to leave the country.
Died from Yellow Fever.
A Baltimore special says: Second
Engineer Cornelius Watson, of the
British steamship Samuel Tyzack, who
was taken to quarantine hospital suf¬
fering with yellow fever, died Sunday.
The other two victims are in an im¬
proved condition. The vessel, with
her crew aboard, is anchored at quar-.
antine, and every precaution has been
taken to prevent the spread of the dis¬
ease.
It is better to wear out than to rust
out, but thero is no necessity for doing
•ither,
NUMBER 16
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RELIGIOUS READING;
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IK DIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY.
A oorrespondet of the Puritan, in stating
the impressions made upon his mind at tha
late anniversaries, among others, says:
“I was impressed with tho necessity of a
new' and individual consecration to Christ.
If the events working, which constitute the
glorious progress of the church, are the re¬
sult of individual and obscure efforts in lim¬
ited spheres.then I cannot roll off the respon¬
sibility of doingjthis work on others, ft is
not the speakers of anniversaries; it is not the
secrelnries of societies and the ministers and
churches in the citlts. It is I that must do
thp work, and the aggregate of results will be
greater or less according to tho fidelity of
every individual Christian in Ids humble
sphere. Let us. then, understand what God
through his church Is actually doing.and con¬
secrate ourselves anew to its accomplishment.
I have thought much, while listening to the
recital of faithful .efforts of God's children
ail over the world, of the preciousness of
those \jords to him that is permitted to hoar
them. ‘Well done, good and faithful ser¬
vant.' After all our anxiety whether wo aro'
in the path of duty, all our fears lest \v« ac¬
complish discouragements, nothing good, all our difficulties,
tern pi at ions to have the
great Master scrutinize our lives, and then to
say, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant’—
Oh, there is a bliss, in the very anticipation of
it makes the heart overflow. What, in view
of this, are the toils end pains of self-denial
to be regarded? And if, by our selfish toils,
of we the heap up wealth and gain all the honors
world, what is it all compared with
tho crown which God will give to him
that has lived to do good? No. He that in
a day like this dares to take tho name and
vows of a Christian, must trample on selfish ,
gains and cousccrato himself with anostolio
fervor to doing good. He must be a laborer,
and a laborer with God in carrying on the
gieat work in which the hearts of the really
godly are now throbbing and their hands
toiling.
Earth’s little “Why should I regard
store of borrowed sweots? I sure
Have hsd enough of bitter in my cup,
To show that never was It His design
Who placed mo here, that I Should livo at
(ase.
Or drink at pleasure’s fountain. Henceforth
thi n
It matters not if storm or sunshine be
My future lot, bitter or sweet my cun; .
I on : y pray, ‘God lit me for the work,
For God the make me holy, and my spirit “ nerve
stern hour of strife.’
COMMIT THY WAYS TO OOD.
Reflection will teach a man that he shouK
trust himself to tho guidance of some supe
rior being; and reason thy unites with revelation the Lord.
to toll us to commit ways to
Human life is such a journey that man needs
a guide and provider. It is not in man that
walketh to direct his steps.
Men nro entirely ignorant of the future;
hence, since we know not what our circum¬
stances will be, ourselves cannot form tho
plans which shall be best to bo adopted.
Every man may say in verity, “Thus far in
life hath the Lord helped me.” Our own
present condition and that of all others, is
utterly and entirely a way that was unknown
to ourselves. The great and blessed God has
been our conductor, though unseen, and it
may be acknowledged. Ought we not, then,
to acknowledge him and commit our ways to
liim?
Time is an ocean, and each person’s life a
voyage. Its tossings and heavings, its tem¬
pests tell and innumerable that perils, himself should plainly
to each voyager cannot steer
his frail tempest-tost bark. He needs a pilot,
if he would, make the port of safety; he needs
a helmsman other than himself. Let him
commit his ways to God.
The world is a wiJderness—a dark and
thorny desert. Shall the traveler attempt to
tread its wilds alone? Let him remember, it
is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
He has need not been that Fellow-traveler, way before, and does only he
not a guide? the
proper guide is God; to him let us commit
our ways. It is rational and safe.
Voyager, traveler, by prayer commit thy
ways to God. .Venture not alone upon such
an ocean, through such a wilderness. Thou
canst not guide thine own bark—thou canst
not guide thine own God." steps; every morning
and ask wisdom of
he is OUT.
‘See there, he is out!’ ‘But how did ho get
out,’ said the other? While the they were thus
discussing the matter, creature out was
rapidly running off, and it was soon seen that
such a discussion would not suspended, bring him back
acain. It was therefore and the
whole attention was directed for the time to
the recovery of the gone one. When ho was
secured and placed once more within the en¬
closure, did he the out?’ ‘question There eamo up a'difference again, ‘How in
opinion get entertained this was subject. One said
on
he* must havo gotten out underneath. ‘No
said the other, he could not lrnve gotten out
there. He must have jumped' over.’ They
ended the discussion, however, by resolving
to stop up below, to put on more above and
to guard all around, and thus make it sure
that he should get out no where again.
This occurrence is brought to remembernnee
sometimes, when I hear brethren discussing
the question relative to tho causes which havo
produced church. Ardent the low piety state has of evidently religion in tho
gotten
out of our hearts and how is running off. The in¬
quiry is often raised another, another. happened it? all One
says one thing, back Let But this it
does not bring it again. us get
back. Let our whole attention and efforts bo
directed to that, aryl when back let us stop up
beneath and elevate above, Yes, and guard every
part and keep it back. keep it back, by
keeping our hearts with all diligence.—Watch¬
man. *
In illustration of Mills tho possibilities related of moth¬
er’s prayers, Mr. a story about
a sister and two brothers in New Jersey, who,
about to start out one night for a party, were
spoken to by their mother, who said: “I
think, children, that there must be something
wrong with me that you are not more anxious
about the things of God. I ask you to for¬
give mo. I do not want to rob you of your
joy, but when you are at the party to-night,
remember that I wdilbo praying to God for
you.’’ They went the to figure the revelry the words but they
could not banish or of
the mother. And sure enough when they re¬
turned they saw the light in the mother’s
room, and heard the mother’s prayer in their
behalf. Next morning when the mother
wefit up to the daughter's the room, she heard a
sob. Opening door she found the girl
crying bitterly. What was the matter? The
girl was deeply convinced the mother of sin. Tutting
her arms around hef, preached
Christ to her. and she was converted.
“And where is your brother?” asked the
mother.
“Out in the woodshed, I think,” was the
reply. And that where tho mother found
was the
boy. on bis knees behind a pile of wood, cry¬
ing for mercy. He, too, was savingly con¬
verted.
The third boy was found in the hay mow,
convinced of sin. and imploring pardon, And
he found tlie Saviour.
Now, one of these young hetold men was engaged
to be married, and when bis betrothed,
she saM she would give her heart to God,
too. and did. In course of time thev were*
married, and had three eiiLdren, of whom
one was Dr. Tadmage, who has preached the
Gospel by tongue and pen to more people
than any other m m in the world.”
“There was a most affeiting word about
Mr.^Mill’s him. He own mother from aud home. her inliucnceover
was away He seemed
to be away from God. In a room where be
was stopping in a big city, he felt one night
the influence of a mother’s prayers to God
on his behalf Jp a sudden glory whfeb seemed
fill the He felt that “
to room. ho had to go
back light at once to mother and to his
mother,'# Gcd. Ills mother had Lien on her
knees that vciv night pleading for him at the
throne of grace, lie had to eoitje Laefc to
Go’.