HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1894-7-5, Page 7THE 11011INION 110UBE.
SEVENTH PARLIAIVIENT FOURTB
SESSION AT OTTAWA.
minateen eavn lermele.
Mr. Sproule in moving for iv return of the
oorreipondenco regarding regulations for
the carriage of live stock over Canadian
railways Leone a Pine in the United States
to any other point in. the United State°,
read a great number of letters from d .13,
Wright, of Windsor, an ex -veterinary in -
specter Of the Dominion Government,
threatening to publish articles ,which he
di:whited would result hi the sobeduling of
Canadian eattle unless raid a eum of sever-
al hundred dollars, which he alleged was
owing to him. The charges which he
threatened to make public were that the
Deputy Minister of Agriculture winked at
a violation of the inspection regulations,
and that his officers certified to inspection
without making an exaniination. These he
(Mr. Sproule) declared were false, and
without foundation. If any inspection was
not properly made Dr. Wright was to
blame, for the inspeotors at the port of en-
try acted under his orders. He was stir.
prisedeacthat the Government tolerated
blackened so long and thought the Govern -
meet ought to punieh him.
• The motion was carried.
TRAP SHOOTTNO.
Mr, Coittsworth movedethe House again
into committee on his bill to make further
provision as to the preveetien of cruelty to
animals, and to amend the Criminal Code
of 1892.
• Sir Sohn Thompson hoped the committee
would reject the amendment of the hon.
member for, South Norfolk (Mr. Tisdale),
which proposed to permit trap shooting as
a test of skill in marksmanship
Mr. McCarthy thought it was scarcely
c fair to the hon, member for South Norfolk
(Mr. Tisdale), to deal with the olause in his
absence. He therefore mpved that the
committee rise.
The motion was lost.
Mr. McNeill detenied trap shooting as a
less barbarous method of dispatching pige-
ons than by wringing their necks. It was
quite as cruel to shoot partridges or any
other game bird or animal as it was to
engage in trap shooting.
Mr. Miller moved that the committee rise.
The motion was carried by 43 to 19.
OCEAN FREIORT RATES.
-Mr. McMullen, in the absence of Mr:
ijdulock, moved the second reading of a bill
• respecting ocean freight rates on cattle.
The greet trouble was in the power possess-
• ed by vessel owners at Montreal, who were
enabled to extort from cattle dealers, when
there was a rush, rates far in excess of the
customary or legitimate rates. The pro-
motion of the cattle trade was a vital gees -
tion, and reasonable freight rates would do
much to promote the industry. Ile was
well known that the ,price of carrying ani-
mals had fluctuated in a season from $7 to
$17. It was imposeible that market prices
could fluctuate so as to make this variation
reasonable. Cattle dealers, too, complained
that they were unable to obtain rates in
advance af the sailing of the vessels. Their
intereaes 'were thus carried on in a very
precarious manner. It would be well that
legislation should be passed to regulate the
rates within reasonable bounds. He was
sure his hon. friend the projector of the
bill did not desire to embarrass the Govern-
ment,. Statistics were quoted showing the
difference between the freights from Boston
and Montreal for the past four years to
represent a loss of $1,645,326 to the Can-
aolian farmers. The excess of rates from
Montreal over Boston in 1892 was eleven
Shillings, and in 1893 seven shillings.
Sir Charles H. Tupper—What was it in
1894?
4.1r. McMullen said lie had not the figure's
for 1894. Be believe the rates from Mon-
treal were lower this year on account of
vessel owners having heard of the action
proposed teem taken in the House. There
was no doubt that the vessel owners raised
the rates whenever the prices in England
were good. The bill proposed to compel the
publication of rates at all times for the
benefit of the cattle owners.
Mr. McNeill said no more important
question could be presented to the House
from a trade point of view.
Mr. Forbes moved that the debate be ad-
journed, as the hon, mover of the bill ems
ebsent
The motion was carried.
FISHERIES ACT.
Sir Charles H. Tupper moved the first
reading of a bill to amend the Fisheries
Act, which contained substantially the
same provisions as were very fully consid-
ered in the House about two years ago. It
was not proposed to bring the changes into
effect this year. The bill concerned princi-
pally the Canning, miring, and packing of
lobsters under a license system. At pres-
ent this important industry was not under
supervision, and he was convinced that
under the regulations at present an injustice
was worked to bona -fide packers. Dealt
canning and curing went on to such an
extent that the officers of the department
were unable, though exercising all vigilance,
to stamp it out. Without such regulations
as he proposed in the bill, it would be im-
possible to preserve the industry which
concerned the Maritime Provinces directly.
The bill did not make any change in the
close season, Be had instituted a series of
enquiries to determine the facts about the
' actual condition of the lobsters, etc., at
erertain seasons, which woeld enable him
• properly to arrange the close season. An-
other subject dealt with in the bill was
respecting the prohibition of the using of
the drift -net for salmon, -With the excep-
tion of the Fraser River, B.C., and the Bay
of Fundy, the use of these nets was probe.
bited. The bill ale° prohibited the catching
of fish for manure and the polluton of
rivers. It had also a provision with refer-
ence to which he would like the opinion of
the House concerning the gradation of
• penalties. Under the regulations as they
• stood at present, an inducement was actual-
ly held out to poachers to Carry on their
illicit' work. If they were fortunate, they
could make sevetal times the amount of
their fine. He had adopted the language
of the Fishery Acts in other countries,
where the penalties increased with the
offences. The penaltiee eihoeld be deter-
rent.
The bill was teed a first time,
sTiitts.
Mr. Bergin introdueed a bill to• provide
that no employe on a canal should be
seeoyen twenty-four
ed more than twelve hours out of
The bill was road a first time.
Drialt LoAns,
Sir Charles IL Tupper moacd the second
reading of the bill to permit setts plying
from Canada to carry a silefoot deek loetr,
rerretely, the limit was three feet.
Mr. Davis euggeeted thea Some word
should be toriertee in the clause toreviaing
abet wharf owners 4411 be liable for an
touts in actions reeultiug from the leSs of
life byreason of a passenger falling over
i .
board n crossing front veseelto a wharf in
the absence of a light, Making it an offence
only when negligence can be proved. Very
often wharf -Milers did nob know veesels
were corning to a wharf until they had tied
up.
Sir Charles Tupper promised to con-
sider the suggestion, and provide for it as
the hon. gentleman lied stated.
The bill was read a second time.
luanmanenTirrOAUS,
Sir Charles H. Tupper moved the House
into committee on the following resolution;
—"That instead of fees provided by sec-
tions six and eight of the Act respecting
Certificates of Masters and Mates of Ships,
the Govenor-in-Council may establish a ;male
of fees to be charged for such certificates,
and until so established, the fees to be
charged shall be the following: that is to
say, for a certificate of competency as
master, °fifteen dollars; for a -certificate of
competence, as mate of a seagoing ship,
eight dollars ; for a certificate of compet-
ency as mate of a ship trading on the inland
waters of Canada, or On coasting voyages,
six dollars for a certificate of service as
master, eight dollars'; for a certificate of
service as mate of a seagoing ship, five
dollars; and for a certificate of service
as mate of a ship trading on the inland
waters of Canada, or on minor waters of
Canada, or on coasting voyage' four dol-
lars." The fees received lastyear from
this source vrere $2,280, and the expenditure
was $4,416. From 1871 to 18,93 the total
fees received amounted to $55,000, in which
period there was a deficit of $15,000,
The resolution was adopted.
NORTH-WEST roracm.
Mr. Ives moved the House into commit-
tee on the following resoution :—" That it
is expedient to provide with respect to the
North-West Mounted Police force, that
the maximum pay of veterinary surgeons
shall be $1,000, instead of $700 per annum;
that the maximum pay of four staff -sergeants
shall be $2 instead of $1.50, per diem, and
that twelve buglers may be appointed at a
rate of pay not exceeding 40 cents per diem;
and also, to provide that all pay due to
deserters at the time of their desertion from
the force shall form part of a fund applicable
to the payment of rewards for good con-
duct or meritorious services, to the estab.
lishment of libraries and recreation -rooms,
and much other objects for the benefit of the
members of the force as the Minister ap-
proves."
The resolution was adopted.
LABOR DAY.
Sir John Thompson moved the iiecond
reading of the bill to make thefirstlelonday
in September a legal holiday to be known
as Labor day.
The motion was carried.
The House went into Committee of Sup-
ply and passed the resolutions under the
head of dredging in public works and the
North-West Mounted Police.
FRENCH TREATY.
Sir John Thompson introduced a bill re-
speoting a certain treaty between her Brit-
tonic Majesty and the President, of the
French Republic.
The bill was read a first time.
1‘101INTED POLICE.
The House went into committee on the,
bill respecting the North-West Mounted
Police.
Mr. Landerkin thought the North-West
was civilized enough to do without a mount-
ed police force.
Mr. Ives said that whereas 800 men were
sufficient to patrol the Oweadian North-
West, the smallest number of men that the
United States Government found sufficient
to patrol the States of Montana and Dakota,
much smaller territory, but possessing
about the same number of Indians, was
between 3,500 and 4,000.
THIRD REAMNGS.
- The following bills were read a
time:—
Respecting the Manitoba and North-
Western Railway Company of Canada,
To consolidate and amend certain Acts
relating to the Ottawa and Gatineau Val-
ley Railway Company, and to change the
name of the company to the Ottawa and
Gatineau Railway Company.
MOUNTED POLICE.
The House resumed in committee on the
bill respecting the North-West Mounted
Police, and reported it with a few amend-
ments.
The House then went into Committee of
Supply, and passed resolutions in the de-
partments of ocean and river service, light-
house and coast service.
DissizowArion Asinn von.
Sir John Thompson, answering Mr.
Leduc, said that the Government received
yesterday a petition asking for the dis-
allowance of the Act passed by the Legis-
lature of the Province of Quebec during its
last session, whereby the town and parish
municipalities of Nicolet are authorized to
vote a grant of $8,000 each for the purpose
of aiding in the building of a cathedral
church in the town of Nicolet The sub-
ject had not yet been taken into consider-
ation.
GEOROBTOWN POST•OFFICE.
Mr. Landerkin'on the motion being
made that the House go into supply,
called attention to the dismissal of Mr. L.
W. Goodenough,postmaster at Georgetown.
He had been twenty-five years in the
service, but having suffered recently, from
illness,the duties of the office were discharg-
ed by his daughter. Last January the post-
master was dismissed for not giving person-
al attention to his office, end Mr. H. B.
Henderson son of the member for -Halton,
was appointed in his stead. Mr. Henderson
wag only eighteen years of age, and had
never yet given hie personal attention to
the office. This was atrange,and conflieted
with the policy pursued elsewhere. The
Owen -' Soune post -office had been kept
vacant a year and a half. Ottawa was
kept a long time without a postmaster. In
Galt the postmaster resigned, took part
in an election, and was reappointed. In
his' own constituency there were post -offices
that were fanned out, tO which the post.
masters never gave their pereonal attention,
yet in the ease of Georgetown a postmaster
was removed because,he was abeent from
Minim This was unair and unjust. Re
appealed to the Postmaster -General to
right the wrong that had been dime. He
Moved an ameeanient reoltieg the filmes, and
eenoluaing With the deolaretion thee the
dismitseal of Ur. Goodentaieh was enamel.
Rebid'harah,and cruel.
SirAdelphe Caron said the department
had arri+ed very unwillingly t the conclu-
sion that the Poetmester at Georgetown
was unable through illness to discharge his
duty, In eanuare, 1893, it nem informed
that through a great &Motion, which he
much regretted, Me, Goodenough had been
mint:Mee for twelve months is. a lunette
asylent, yet the department" did nob ace
upon 'Asa. It welted, thirteen months to
see if there was any hope of recovery, and
finding there was little or none, wopeiretefl
a successor. There was no haraiiiese Or
haste in the wetter, for the daughter of
Mr. Goodenough had been retained in her
position as deputy, The charge was base -
les, aati therefore the accusation fate to
the ground.
The House divided on the motion which
was loot one party vote of 36 yeas and 88
nays.
The House went into Committee of
Supply and passed several resolutions in
the Department of Marine and Fisheries.
A QVISTiONABLE PURCRASE.
Mr. Edgar called attention to the pus.
chase of methylated spirits from H. Corby
to the value of $4,900, He asked if the
gentleman named wee a member of Payne
arnent, and if the purchase was a breach
of the Independence of Parliament Act,
Mr. Wood (Brookville) said he would
enquire into the matter.
nitememtaioni
Mr. Daly, explaining the immigration
policy of the Government, said there had
been a large felling off in immigration to
America, the decrease being 52 pen cent. to
the United States, and 45 per cent. to
Canada. At present there was a movement
towards South Afrieit whice was holding
out inducements in the way of free passages
and otherwise to an extent that Canada did
not propose to do. The Canadian agents
in Great Britain were, by lectures and
literature, stimulating an interest in this
country. At no time in the history of
Immigration had Canada been so well
advertised in England and Ireland as now.
Most of the immigrants to Canada lately
went to the district of Edmonton. Agents
had been sent to the World's Faireencl were
very euccessful. The amount of ignorance
amongst the people south of the line as to
the opportunities for settlement in Canada
was amazing.
Mr, Eraser said the oharaoter of the im-
migrants coming to Canada was determined
rather by the country they came from, than
by personal or collective appearance. The
question of immigration was a most serious
one for Canada to -day. The only way to
meet thegrowth of debt was by an increase
of population. The reason immigration
was nob diverted more to Canada, in his
opinion, was because too much time was
spent in figuring on how to make the people
rich who were in Canada now. He was
ready, if necessary, to vote even a larger
amount than vas voted for immigration
if a more sensible method was pursued.
Further, and speaking for himself, he would
be willing to purchase land back from the
companies which had received it, and give
it to the bona fide immigrants. He had
very little faith in agency work carried on
in Great Britain.
The resolutions were adopted.
MR. CORBY RES/GNS.
Mr. Corby said he desired to make an
explanation, after which he proposed to
hand in his resignation. He exceedingly
regretted that he was the person referred
to in the Auditor -General's report as having
supplied the Government with a quantity
of spirits. Previous to the Government
taking over the manufacture of methylated
spirits, his firm was in the habit of making
the article. When it took over the business
he received an order in the usual way from
the Department of Inland Revenue for a
certain quantity. The order was received
and attended to in the ordinary course of
business. He had not the slightest idea
that he was violating the Independence of
Parliament A,ct. Moreover, be had no hard
feeling whatever against the hon. gentleman
who had brought the matter up, since he
would be sorry to sit as a member for West
Hastings with such a charge against him.
Whatever he had done, he had no intention
of violating the rules of the House. When
he stated that his busines swan more than
half a million a year, it would be seen that
it was impossible for him to know of every
rd
Had he desired to profit by his position, it
would have been easy for hint to do so to a
greater extent, for the order received from
the department reached only $4,552. Any
distiller would agree with him that there
was very little profit on the quantity of
spirit supplied. He would not come to
Parliament for the sake of selling a few
thousand gallons of spirits and place herself
in the position he was to -day. Had he de-
sired to disguise the transaction, the liquor
could have been transferred to any license -
holier in Belleville, and his name might
not have appeared in connection with 'it.
But he had no idea whatever that any-
thing wrong was being done. It was done
in absolute want of knowledge. In with-
drawing from the House, he assured the
members on both sides that he would have
the most pleasant recollections of them all,
and. he thanked them irrespective of party
for the courtesy they had extended to him.
Mr. Corby then handed his resignation
to the speaker, and withdrew from the
chamber.
Sir John Thompson said that no one re-
gretted more than he did the circumstances
which compelled the hon. gentleman to
resign. From the explanation he had
received from the department', the state-
ment of Mr. Corby as to the unwitting
manner in which the law had been violated
was quite team In view of that, everybody
would underetand the credit he was doing
himself and the Rouse in taking the present
course, and in showing himself prepered to
take the consequences.
Mr. Laurier said he was glad to be able
to add that he would second any step to
exempt Mr. Corby front the penalty of his
act.
QUEBEC'S mem
Sir John Thompson introduced a resolu-
tion to authorize the Government to pay to
Quebec the sum of $2,394,000, which was
allowed it in 1884 on account of expenditure
on the North Shore railway. He explained
that the Dominion was at present paying
Quebec five per cent, on the debt, a as it
could secure the money for less tha per
cent., the new arrangement was adv 1.-
eous to Oanada.
The resolution was carried. .
oommog SCHOOL FUND.
Sir John Thompson m red a resolution
authorizing the Government to pay to
Ontario and Quebec their respective shares
of the Common sehool fund, amounting tie
$2,582,373, as those shares shall be deter-
mined by the arbitration.
The motion was carried.
The House went into Committee of
Supply, and passed several items in the
Department of Indian Affairs,
THIRD READ/NOS.
The following bills were read a third
time 14-.
Respecting the St. Lawrence Insuramie
Company.
Pt tipeeeipg the St. Catharines and Niago
era °nib.' Bellamy Company.
Respeobing the Canitde, Southern Rail
way Cempany. 0
ply,
.he Mixed Went into Minato of Sup -
A loemotfve lusts fifteen years ad earns
about -$500figq.
0 SAVE THE SABBATH,
SOME TERRIBLE RESULTS EROM IT
NEW OBSERVANCE,
eateiligent elein, the Dumb Wrist and
Dead
Machinery Cry Out tor the
Lorirs Ikey.....a Sermon or World -Wide
interest.
Buootarq, June 24.—For toady Rev.
Dr. Talmage has chosen a subject of world-
wide interest as the theme of his sermon
through the press, viz., the necessity of
guarding the Christian Sabbath against
invasions that aim • at its destruetion.
The text selected yeas Ex. Si, ; 13, "Verily,
my sabbath you shall keep."
The wisdom of cessation from hard labor
one day out of seven is almost universally
acknowledged. The world has found out
that it can do less work in seven than in
six, and the fifty-two days of the year
devoted to rest are an addition rather than
a subtraction. Experiments have been
made in all departments. The greet Lord
Castlereagh thought he could work his
brain three hundred and sixty-five days in
the year, but after a while broke down and
committed suicide ; and Wilberforce said
broefasthukili"Po
tnI of the non -observance
Castlereagh l T
of h isi s h
the Stal:
A celebrated merchant declared : "I
should have been a maniac long ago but
for the Sabbath." The nerves, the brain,
the muscles, the bones, the entire physi-
cal, intellectual and moral nature cry
out for the Sabbath rest. What is true
of man is for the meat part true of the
brute. Travellers have found out, that
they come to their places of destination
sooner when they let their horses rest by
the way on the- Sabbath. What is the
matter with those forlorn creatures
harnessed to sense of the city oars?
Why do they stumble and stagger and
fall? It is for the lack of the Sabbatic
rest. .
In other days, when the herdsmen drove
their sheep and cattle from the far west
down to the seaboard, it was found out by
experiment that those herdsmen and,
drovers who halted over the seventh day
got down sooner to the seaboard than those
who passed on without the observance of
the holy Sabbath. The fishermen off the
coast of Newfoundland declare that those
men during the year catch the most fish who
stop during the Lord's Day.
When I asked the Rocky Mountain loco-
motive engineer why he changed locomotives
when. it seemed to be a straight route, he
said, " We have to let the locomotive stop
and cool off or the machinery would soon
break down." Men who made large quanti-
ties of salt were told that if they allowed
their kettles to cool over Sunday they
would submit themselves to a great deal of
damage. The experiment was made, some
observing the Sabbath and some not ob-
serving the Sabbath. Those who allow-
ed the fires to go down and the kettles to
cool once a week were compelled to spend
only a few pennies in the way of repairs ;
while in the cam: where no Sabbath was
observed many dollars were demanded for
repairs.
Inother words, intelligent man, dumb
beasts and dead machinery cry out for the
Lord's Day. But while the attempt to kill
the Sabbath by the stroke of axe and flail
and yardstick has beautifully failed, it is
proposed in our day to drown the Sabbath
by flooding it with secular amusements.
They would bury it very decently under
the wreath of the target company and to
the music of all brazen instruments.
There are to -day, in the different cities,
ten thousand hands and ten thousand pens
busy in attempting to cut out the heart of
our Christian Sabbath, and leave it a bleed-
ing skeleton of what it once was. The
effort is organized and tremendous, and
unless the friends of Christ and the lovers
of good order shall rouse up right speedily,
their sermons and protests will be uttered
after the castle is taken, There are cities
in the land where the Sabbath has almost
perished, and it is becoming a practical
question whether we who receive a pure
Sabbath from the hands of our fathers shall
have piety and pluck enough to give to our
children the same blessed inheritance. The
eternal God, helping us, we will
I protest against this invasion of the
Holy Sabbath, in the first place, because it
is a war on Divine enactment. God says,
in "If thou turn away thy foot from
doing thy pleasure on My Holy day, thou
shalt walk upon the high places." What
did he mean by "doing thy pleasure ?" He
referred to secular and worldly amuse-
ments, A man told me he was never so
much frightened as in the midst of an
earthquake, when the beasts of the field
bellowed in fear, and even the barnyard
fowls screamed in terror. Well, it was
when the earth was shaking and the sky
was all full of fire that God made the great
announcement, "Remember the Sabbath
day to keepi t hol holy."
Gothrough the r eets
where the thea-
tres are open on a Sabbath night; go up on
the step; enter the boxes of those peaces of
entertainment, and tell me if that is keep-
ing the Sabbath day holy? "Oh," says
some one, "Goa won't be displeased with
e grand sacred concert. A gentleman
ho was present at a grand sacred concert
me Sabbath night in one of the theatres of
our great cities, said that during the exer-
cises there were more cornie and sentimental
songs, interspersed, with coarse jokes.; and
there were dances, and a farce, and fight
rope walking, and a trapeze performance.
I suppose it was a holy dance and a cense-
creted tight rope. Teel is what they call
\ehear
og
"grandhes sacred great.
delo
concert."
We
f talk about the
rights of the people" to have just such
amusements on Sun ogees they wan b to have.
I wonder if the Lord has any rights. You
rule the family, the Governor rules the
State, the Presinent rules the whole land ;
I wonder if the Lord has a right to rule the
nations and make the enactment, " Iiernem.
her the Sabbath day to keep it holy," and
if there is any appeal from the high
einirt from that decision, and if the
men veho are warring against that enaet.
moat are riot guilty of e high treason
against the maker of heaven, arid earth.
They have in our °Mite put Ged on trial.
It has boon the theatres ittwe "he opera,
houses, plaintiffs, versus the Lord Almighty.,
defendent ; the suit has been begun, and
who then come out ahead you know,
Whether it be popular or unpopular, I now
announce it as nay opinion that the people
have no rights save those which the great
Jehovah gives them. He has never given
the right to man to break His holy Sabbath,
and ae long as His throne etands He will
never give that right.
The prophet asks p. question which I can
easily answer, " Will a man rob God?"
Yee. They dbbed him last Sunday night
at the theatres and ehe opera houses, and I
charge upon them the infamous and high-
handed larceny. I hold the same opinion
as a sailor I have heard et, The crew lied
been discharged from the vessel because
they would not work while they were in
port on the Lord's Day. The captain went
out to get Sailors, He found one man, and
lie said to him, "Will you serve rue on the
Sabbath?" " NO." " Why not ?" Well,"
replied the old sailor," a man who will rob
God Almighty of His Sabbath would rob
use of my wages if he got it ammo."
Suppose you were poor, and you came to
a dry goods merchant and asked for seam
cloth for garments, and he should say, "1'11
give you six yards," and, while he was off
front the counter binding up the six yards
you should go behind the counter and steal
the additional yard, That is what every
man -does when he breake the Lord's Sabbath.
God gives us Mx days out of seven reserv-
ing one for Himself, and you will hot let
Him have it, it is mean beyond all Qom-
putetion.
Again—I am opposed to this desecration
of the Sabbath by secular entertainments
because it is war on the stetutes of most
of the States. The law in New York says;
It shall not be lawful to exhibit on the
first day of the week,coinnionly called Sun-
day, to the public, in any building, gar-
den, grounds, concert room or other room
or place within the city and county of New
York anylinterlape,trageclymomedy, opera,
belleMplay,stage magic, minetreley,negro or
other dancing, or any other entertainment
of the kind, or any part or parts therein, or
any equestrian, circus or dramatic perform-
ance, or any performancepf juggling, sore -
bats, or ropealanoing.
Was there ever a plainer enactment
than that? Who made the law? YOU,
who at the ballot boxes decided who should
go to Albany and set in the Legislature.
You who in any region exercise the right
of suffrage. They madethelaw for you and
for your families, and now I say that any
man who attempts to over -ride that law in-
sults you and me and every man who has
the right of suffrage.
Still further, I protest against the in-
vasion of the Sabbath, because it is a foreign
war. Now, if you heard at this moment
tho booming of a gun in the harbor, or if a
shell from some foreign frigate should drop
into your street, would you keep your
seats in church.? You would want to face
the foe, and every gun that could be man-
aged would be brought into use, and every
ship that could be brought out of the navy
yard would swing from her anchorage, and
the question would be decided. You do
not want a foreign war, and yet I. have to
tell you that this invasion of God's holy
day is a foreign war.
As among our own native-born populk-
tion there are two classes—the good and
the bad; so ibis with the people who come
from other shores—there are the law-abid-
ing and the lawless. The former are wel-
come here. The more of them the better
we like it. But let not the lawless come
Irons other shores expecting to break down
our Sabbath, and institute in the place of
it a foreign Sabbath.
How do you feel, ye who have been
brought up amid the hills of New England,
about giving up the American Sabbath
Ye who spent your childhood under the
shadow of the Adirondacks or the Catskills;
ye who were born on the banks of Savannah,
or Ohio, or Oregon, how do you feel about
giving up the American Sabbath? You
say, "We shall not give it up. We mean
to defend it as long as there is any strength
left in our arm, or blood in our heart! Do
not, bring your Spanish Sabbath here. Do
not bring your Italian Sabbath here. Do
not bring your French Sabbath here. Do
not bring your foreign Sabbath here. It
shall be for us and our children forever a
pure, consecrated, Christian, American
SaIbbwaltlbl.'m'ake a comparison between the
American Sabbath, as some of you have
known it, and the Parisian Sabbath. I
speak from observation. On a Sabbath
morning I was aroused in Paris by a great
sound in the street, I said : " What is
this ? " 0," they seed, "this is Sunday."
An unusual rattle of vehicles of all sorts.
The voices seemed more boisterous than on
other days. People running to and fro,
with baskets or bundles' to get to the
rail brains or gardens. Itseemed as if all
the vehicles in Paris, of whatever sort, had
turned out for the holiday. The Champs
Elysees one great mob of pleasure seeking
people. Balloons flying. Parrots chattering.
Footballs rolling. Peddlers hawking their
knickknacks through the streets. Punch
and Judy shows in a score of places, each
one with a shouting audience. Hand organs,
cymbals, and every kind of racket, musical
and unmusical. When the evening came
down, all the theatres were in full blaze of
music, and full blaze of light. The wine -
stores and saloons were thronged with an
unusual number of customers. At even-
tide 1 stood and watched the excursionists
coming home, fagged -out men, women and
children, a gulf -stream of fatigue, irritabil-
ity, and wretchedness; for I should think
it would take three or four days to get over
that miserable way of Sundaying, .„It seem-
ed more like an American Fourth of July
thanaChristianSabbath.
Nolv,incontrast, Ipresent
one of the
Sabbaths in our Lest .American cities.
Holy silence coming down with the day.
dawn. Business uteri more deliberately
looking into the faces of their children, and
talking to them about their present and
future welfare. Men sit longer et the table
in the morning because the stores are not to
be opened, and the mechanical tools are
Slob to be taken up. A hymn is sung. There
are congratulations and good cheer all
through the house. The street silent until
ten o'clock when there is a regular orderly
tramp churchward. Houses of God, vocal
with thanksgiving for mercies receiveclovith
prayers for oonifort, with charities for the
poor. Rest- for the body. Rest for the
soul, The nerves quieted, the temples
cooled, the Mind cleared, the soul strength-
ened, and our entire population turned out
on Monday morning ten years younger,
better prepared for the duties of thie life,
better prepared for the life that is to
dente.
Whish do you like the best, the Amen.
can Sabbath or the Parisian Sabbeth I Do
you know in What boat the Sabbath came
across the see and landed on our shores ?
It, was in the Mayflower. Do you know in
Whet boat the Sabbath will leave us, it it
over goes? It Will be in the ark that floats
over a deluge of national deetruotion.
Still further I protest against the in.
'melee Of the Lord's day, because it %slogs
a vast multitude of employee of their red.
The play actors and etresses can have their
rest between their engagements ; but how
about the Setine.Shittere, the ballot -dm -leers,
the calbboys, the innumerable attendants
and super nunieraries of the American
theatre I Where is their Sunday to come
from? They are paid small salaries at the
beet. Alas for them. They appear on the
stage in tinsel and tassel with ealberds, or
iii gauze whirling in toe tortures, and they
might be mistaken for tattles or queens;
but after twelve o'clock at night you may
see them trudging through the etreets In
faded dresses, shivering and, tired, a bundle
Under their arms, seeking their homes us
the garrets and cellars of the city. Now
you propose to take from thousands
of these employes throughout this country
not only all opportunity of moral culture,
hut all opportunity of physical rest. For
heaven's sake lee the crushing Juggernaut
stop at least one day in Seven 1
Again I oppose this modern invasion
of Christian Sabbath, because it is a
war on the spirtus,I Welfare of the people.
You have a body? Yes. You have a
mind? Yee, You have a soul? Yes.
Which of the secular halls on the Sabbath
day will give that soul any culture?
Now, admitting that a man has a spiritual
and immortal nature, which one of the
places of amusement will culture it? Which
one of the Sabbath performances will remind
men of the foot that unless they are born
again they cannot see the kingdom of God?
Will the music of the Grand Dizehesee help
people at last to sing the song of the one
hundred and forty and four thousand
Besides, if you gentlemen of the secular
entertainment have six days in the week
in which to exercise your alleged beneficial
influence, ought you not to allow Christian
institutions to have twenty-four hours. Is
is unreasonable to demand that if you have
six days for the body and intellect we should
have one day at least for our immortal soul.'
An artist has three gents—a coraelian, an
ameihyst and a diamond. He has to cut
them and to set them. Which one is he
most particular about? Now, the carnelian
is the body, the amethyst is the intellect,
the diamond is the soul. For the two former
you propose six days of opportunity, while
you offer no opportunity at all for the last,
which is in value as compared with the
others like one hundred thousand million
dollars to one farthing. Besides, you must
not forget that nine.tenths, or ninety-
nine one -hundredths, of all the Christian
efforts of this country are put forth on the
Lord's Day. Sunday is the day on which
the asylums and hospitals and the prisons
are visited by Christian men. That is the
daywhen the youte of our country get
their chief religious information in Sunday
schools. That is the day when the most of
the charities are collected. That is the day
when, under the blast of sixty thousand
American pulpits, the sin of the land is
assaulted,and men are summoned to repent.
When you make war upon any part of God's
day, you make war upon the asylums, and
the penitentiaries, and the hospitals, and
the reform associations, and the homes of
the destitute,and the Church of the living
i
God, which s the pillar and the ground of
the truth.
lam opposed to the invasion of the Sab-
bath because it is a war on our political
institution. When the Sabbath goes down
the Republic goes down. Men who are not
willing to obey God's leavein regard to Sab-
bath observance are uot fit to govern them-
selves. Sabbath breaking means dissolute-
ness, and dissolute nese is incompatible
with selfgovernment. They wanted a re-
public in France. Alter awhile they got a
Republic. But one day Napoleon IIL ,
with his cavalry, rode through its streets,
and down went the Republic under the
clattering hoofs. They have a Republic
there again ; but France never will have a
permanent epublic until she quits her
roystering Sabbaths, and devotes one day
in every week to the recognition of God
and sacred institutions. Abolish the Sab-
bath and you abolish your religions privi-
leges. Let the bad work go on, and you
have "the Commune," and you have "the
Revolution," and you have the sun of na-
tional prosperity going down in darkness
and blood. From that reign of terror may
the God of peace deliver us.
Still further; I ant opposed to this inva-
sion of the Sabbath because it is unfair, and
it is partial. What secular amusements in
different societies are allowed to be open on
the Sabbath day, dry goods establishments
must be closed, and plumbing establish-
ments and the butchers' and the bakers',
and the shoemakers', and the hardware
stores. Now, tell me by what law of justice
you compel e man to shut the door of his
store while you keep open the door of your
worldly establishment. May implease your
honors, Judges of the Supreme Court, if
you give to secular places the right to be
open on the Sabbath day, you have to give,
at the same time, the right to all commer-
cial establishments to be open, and to all
mechanical establishments to be open. If it
is right in the one case it is right in all the
oases.
But we are told that they niuts get
money on Sabbath nights in order to pay
the deficits of the other nights of the week.
Now, in answer to that I say, that if men
cannot manage their amueemente without
breaking the Lord's day, they had better
all go into bankruptcy together. We will
never surrender our Christian Sebbata for
the purpose of helping these violators to
pay their expenses. Above all my confid-
ence is in the good hand of God that, lies
been over our cities since their foundation;
but I call this day upon all those who be-
friend Christian principle, and those who
love our polictical freedom, who stand in
solid phalanx in this Thermopylie of our
American history; for I believe as certainly
as I stand here that the triumph or overflow
of American institutions depends upon this
Sabbatio contest.
Bring your voices,your pens, your printing
presses and your pulpits into the Lord's
artillery corps for the defence of our holy
day. To day, in your families and in your
Sabbath schools, recite; —"Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy." Decree
befofe high heaven that this war on your
religious rights and the cradles of your
children shall bring ignominious defeat to
the enemies of God and the public weal;
for they who die in the contest battling for
the right we shall chisel the eptiaph:—
"These are they who eatne out of great
tribulation, and had their robes washed
and made white in the blood of the Lamb,"
But for that one who shall prove in this
moral critsit recreant to God and the Church
there shall be no honorable epitaph. Re
shall not be worthy even of a burial -place
In all the free lend; 'but the appropriate
interment for such an one would be to carry
out his remains and drop them into the sea,
where the lewletie winds which keep no
Sabbath may gallop over the grave of him
who lived and died a traitor to God the
churchiand the free institutions of AMerica.
Long live the Christian Sabbath. Perish
forever all attempts to overthrow it.
Ito—" May I kiss this dainty hand ? "
See -e" Oh, yes, if it will give yea any
plomenrc. But where do I (tome in?"
INTERNAM a 'LS13011,
Presentation Irs the Tenineeweteetee
biftihmoof. 3:0;tuerstoyodoulkyr: asfrateeport
f PRZ. eera le
rul'thte° nthe
Great',
Fing of 311d °A*
Between the Lessons,—The shepherds
went' out and told what they had seen, bat
they then returned to their lowly work,
theuusteuaouhhlrufrontussthat
duty. Fite;ri
veIgilvdaysslons
shIdtd
after the Saviour's birth he was eireumeised
aticording to the Jewish law, and received
the name, jeans, which means Savionr„
Pee Matta 21.) Then on the fortieth day
after his birth he was taken to Jeruselein
and presented to God in the temple, (mord-
ing to the requirement of the Scriptures.
The Jewish law said that when a child Was
presented to God the mother should offer
a lamb and a turtledove or a young pigeon;
but if the mother were poor and not able
to bring a lemb, she should °flee two doves
or two young pigeons. Mary being poor
brought two turtledoves, It was while the
child was being presented in the temple
that the events of this feeson took place.
It is a beautiful sight, the giving of a little
child to God. Were you not given to (ha
in your infancy by loving parents?
The Temple.—Herod bad rebuilt the
temple of .Zerubbabel, making it very splen-
did. It was bate the court of the women
that the child Jesus was brought.
20H.3i8n.ts for Study, Review last lesson.
Look up Bible references, Read Luke 2
HELPS IN LEARNING TRH LESSON.
25. Behold, there was a man.—Nothing
is known of this old man Simeon, except
what is told us here. His old age Was very
beautiful, Just and devout.—"Juste refers
to outward acts. He was honest, righteous,
generous, and kind to his fellow -men. "De-
vout" describes the state of his heart toward
God. He loved and honored him. We need
boththesequalities of life --goodeovvardnien,
reverent and loving toward God. Waiting
for the consolation of Israel, —That Le, he
was looking for the coming of the Messiah,
who is called the " consolation of Israel,"
because he would give comfort to his peo-
ple by his appearing. The Holy Ghostwas
upon him.—He was, therefore, taught by
the Holy Spirit about the Messiah. The
Spirit also made his life holy and beeuti-
ful.
26. It was revealech—In some way the
Holy Spirit had made him know 'that he
should see the Messiah with his own eyes.
Not see death.—Should not die until he had
seen Christ. The Lord's Christ —The an -
/minted Messiah.
27. Be came by [in] the Spirit —The
Spirit was in him at this time. The temple.
—The part called the court of the women.
After the custom of the law.—The way that
Jewish parents were required to do.
28. In his arras.—The Holy Spirit made
Simeon know that this was the Messiah,
and the old man clasped the child in his
arms, showing his faith and his love.
29. Now letteat thou.—There was a great
joy in Simeon's heart, and he felt that his
life's mission was 'fulfilled. Now that he
had seen the Messiah he was ready and
eager to go home. He had, received the
highest blessing a human life could receive.
According to thy word.—Which had been
spoken to him by the Spirit. See v. 26.
30.—Thy salvation.—Simeon saw in the
infant in his arms the One whom God had
provided for the saving of his people.
31. —Which thou haat preedered.—For
ages God had been preparing tais salvation.
Before the face.—In the presence of. —All
people.—" All peoples," not for the Jews
only, but for the whole world.
32.—A light. —See Isa. 42: 6; 49: 6; John
1 : 4-9; Acts 13 : 47. The Gentiles, the
nations are spoken of as sitting in darkness,
that is, in ignorance and sin. Christ is e
light to them. Light is a great blessing to
the world; so is Christ to men's livea, 4Leie
glory.—While Jesus was a Saviour for all
the world, he was born of the Jews, and his
coming was the glory of that nation. If
they had received him he would have made,
them the glory of the world,
33. Marveled.—They were surprised at
what Simeon had said, and wondered at it.
They did not yet fully understand Christ's
glory.
34. Blessed them. --Pronounced a bless.
lug upon them. Is set.—Such shall be the
effeot of his coming. There is a reference
to the passage (Ise.. 8: 14, 15) where it is
said that he should be a "stone of stumbling
and a rock of offense." They who will not
build on him stumble upon him. The fait
and rising.—The effect of knowing Cerise
is first the fall of our hopes, as we become
conscious of sin and fall at his feet in
penitence ; then,,as we believe on him, we
are raised up again. Or it ma e ineen that
he is the cause of the fall of those who re-
ject him and of the rising of those who am
cept him. A sign..—He became a mark
before men, conspicuous, attracting atten-
tion. Spoken against. —Ile was spoken
against by thousands, and is yet in many
places
andby0In8.
5.Asword shall pierce.—Simeon says
'his to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Ho
foretells the pain she will have through
her son's suffering and death. The, shadow
of the cross fell thus early upon her hearts,,
One picture of the mother and child showe
three crosses in the distance, That the
thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.—
The effect of his words and life 'would. be -to
test people's hearts,to show their true char-
acter, Some would COMb out on Ciarist'sside
and others would come out against him.
What we think of Christ fixes our place in
this5.worldand in same name
sAnna.—The name as Han-
nah. A prophetess.—She wag one who
walked with God and spoke forth what
God gave her to say, Aser.--Asher. No-
oAfullaahout fonrscc;re and
No-
thing is knwoiwdnowof
four years.—This was either her age at this
time,or the number of years she had been
a widow.
38. Gave thanks.—Showing that she
also knew that this child, was the Messiah.
To all them that looked twore looking e for „
redemptior,—Those who Were devoutly °
Weitigii for the Messiah,
A single brewery in the nor th.west pro-
vinces of India, where many are suffering
rem. hunger, daily tieeti an amount of green
fo form melt for beer that would feed. 20,.
too eaeli day.
In 1851 Indio. had 01,000 Christian eon-
verts. At present that! are 250,000
don Christians and 1,e44,414 iixtheretito
Christian churohme