The Exeter Advocate, 1895-3-7, Page 7TRE GLORIOUS GOSPEL
SOFIJI011 by ReY. T. De iVitt Talmage,
DD., at New York Aendenly
Of MuSie.
Several thousand persons were turned
away from the doors of the Academy of
Music, after the huge buileing had been
fillet to oyerfiewing, the crowds having
begun to assemble fully,two hours belore
the time fixed for opening the services.
Rev. Dr, Talmage took for his sobject,
The Glorious Gospel," the text chesen
being, "According to the glorious Gospel
of the bleseed Ged, which was committed
to my trust." 1 Tim. 1: 11.
The greatest novelty of our time is the
Gospel. It is so old that it is new. As
potters and artists are now attempting to
f ashion pitchers and cups, and curious
ware like those of nineteen hundred
tee. years ago recently brought up from
bathed Pompeii, and such cups, and pit.
se °hers, and curious ware are universally
•ik admired, so anyone who can unshovel
the real Gospel from the mountains of
stuff under which it has been buried, will
be able to present something that will at-
traet the gaze, and admiration and adop-
tion of all the people. It is amazing
what substitutes have been presented for
what my text calls, "The glorious Gos-
pel." %here has been an hemispheric
apostasy. There are many people in this
and all other large assemblages who have
no more idea of what the G-ospel really is
than they have of what is contained in
the fletuteenth chapter of Zend-Avesta.
the Bible of the Menlo°, the first copy of
which I ever saw I purchased in Calcut-
ta., India, last September. The old Gos-
pel is fifty feet under, and the work has
been done by shovels of those who have
been trying to contrive the Philosophy
of Religion. There is no philosophy
about it. it is a plain matter of Bible
statement and childlike faith. Some of
the theological seminaries have been hot-
beds of infidelity, because they have tried
to teach the "Philosophy of Religion."
By the time that many a young theo-
logical student gets half through his pre-
paratory course, he is so felled with
doubts about Peenary Inspiration, and
the Div,nity of Christ, and the questions
of eternal Destiny -2 that he is more fit for
the lowest bench in the infant class of a
Sunday school than to become the teach-
er and leader of the people. The ablest
theological professor is a Christian mo-
ther, who, out of her own experience, can
tell the four-year-old how beautiful
Christ was on earth, and how beautiful
Ile now is in heaven, and how dearly He
' loves little folks, and then she kneels
clown and puts one arm around the boy,
and with her somewhat faded cheek
against the roseate cheek of the little one,
consecrates him for time and eternity to
Him who Paid, "Suffer them to come unto
Me." What an awful work Paul made
with the D.D.'s, and LL.D.'s, and the F.
R.S.'s, when he cleared the decks of the
i jok old Gospel ship by saying: "Not many
e wise men, not many noble, are called,
but God hath chosen the weak things of
the world to confound the mighty."
There sits the dear old theologian with
his table piled up with all the greatbooks
on Inspiration and Exegesis, and Apolo-
getics for the Almighty, an writing out
4 his own elaborate work on the Philosophy
e of Religion, and his little grandchild
• coming up to him for a good -night kiss,
he accidentally knocks off the biggest
book from the table and. it falls on the
head of the child, of whom Christ himself
said : "Out of the raouths of babes and
sucklings thou has perfected praise." Ah!
my friends, the Bible wants no apolo-
getics. The throne of the last judgment
wants no apologetics. Eternity wants no
apologetics. Scientists may tell us that
natural light is the "propogation of an -
deletions in an elastic medium, and thus
set in vibratory motion by the action of
• luminous bodies ;" but no one knows what
Gospel Light is until his own blind eyes
by the touch of the Divine Spirit have
opened to see the noon -day of pardon and
peace. Scientists may tell me that
. natural sound is "the effect of an im-
pression made on the organs of hearing
by an impulse of the air, caused by a
collision of bodies, or by other means ;"
but those only know what the Gospel
sound is who have heard the voice of
Christ directly, saying, "Thy sins are for-
given thee; go in peace." The theologi-
cal dude unrolls upon the plush of the ex-
quisitely earvecl pulpit a learned discourse
showing that the Garden of Eden was an
allegory, and Solomon's Song a rather in-
delicate love ditty, and the Book of Job a
drama in which. Satan was the star actor,
and that Renan was three-quarters right
about the miracles of Jesus, and that the
Bible was gradually °voluted, and the
best thought of the different ages, Moses
and David, and Paul, doing the best they
could under the circumstanees, and there-
fore to be encouraged. Lord of Heaven
and Earth, et us out of the London fog of
Higher Criticism!
him.; Lincoln and John Wilke Booth,
who assinated ", Washington and
Thomas Paine, who slandered him ; Nana
Sahib, and the missionaries, 'whose he
clubbed to death at Ca wnpore ; Herod,
and the children whom he mases.ered ;
Paul, and No. o, who beheaded him, As
a result of the promulgation of mesh a
mongrel and congloine ate heaven, there
are millions of people in. Christendom
who expect to go straight to Heaven from
their seraglios, and their inebriation, and
their suicides' when among the loudest
thunders thatbreak over the basaltic is-
land to which St. John was expatriated,
was the one in which God anuouneed that
"the abominable, and the murderers, and
the whoremongers, and sorcerers, and
idolaters, and all liars, shall have their
places in the lake which burnoth with fire
and brimstone, which is the second
death." I correct what I said when I de-
clared the Ge spel was buried fifty feet
deep; it is buried a thousand feet deep.
Had the glorious Gospel been given full
opportunity, I think before this the world
would have had no need of pulpit, or ser-
mon, or prayer, or church, but thanks-
giving and hosennas would have resound-
ed in the temple to which the mountains
would have been pillars, and the blue
skies the dome, and the rivers the baptis-
tery, and all nations the worshippers in
the auditoriun of the outspread world.
But so far from that, as I remarked in
the opening sentence of this sermon, the
greatest novelty of our time is the Gospel.
send let me say to the htmdreds and thou
sands of educated and. splendid young
men about to enter the Gospel romistry
from the theological seminaries of all de
nominations, on this and the other side
of the seas, that there is no drawing
power like the glorious Gospel. "Him
hath God lifted up to draw all men unto
Him." Get your souls charged and. sur-
chae god with this Gospel, and you will
have large audiences, and will not have
to announce in order to assemble such
audiences, a Sunday night sacred concert
ith a brief address by the past< r; or the
presence of "Black Pattie, or or Creole
Minstrels, or some new exposure of Tam-
many, or a sermon accompanied by a
mape lantern, or stereopticon views.
we step out of this We, without so much
ae soiling our foot with the upturned
earth of the grave. "They Isbell reign
forever and ever." Does that not mean
that you are, if saved, to be kings and
queens, and do not kings and queens
have castles? pot the °tie that you was
offered was for thirty-three yea,re an aban-
doned castle, though now gloriously in -
h. ited. Though an ab retuned castle
while Christ was here achieving your re-
demption is again occupied by the '1Chief
among ten thousand," and some of your
own kindred who have gone op end wait-
ing for you are leaning from the balcony.
The windows of that castle look off on the
king's gardens where immortals walk
balked in eternal friendship, and theban-
queting hall of that castle has princes and
princesses at the table; and the wine is
"the new wine of the Isingdora," and the
supper is the marriage supper of the
Lamb; and. there are fountains into
which no tears ever fell, and there is mu -
Bic that trembles with no grief, and the
light that falls ut on the scene is never
beclouded, and there is the kiss of those
re -united after long separation. More
nerve will we tutve there than t ow, or we
would swoon away under the raptures.
Stronger vision will we have there than
now, or our eyesight would be blinded by
the brilliance. • Stronger ear will we have
there than now, or under the roll of thet
minstrelsy, and the clapping of that ac-
clamation, and the boom of that hallelu-
jah, we would be deafened. Glorious
Gospel! You thought religion was a
straight -jacket, that it put you on the
• limits, that thereafter you must go cowed
down. No, no, no. It is to be (sestet
lated. By the cleansing power of the
• shed blood of Golgotha a t your faces to-
ward the shining pinnacles. Oh, it does
not matter much what becomes of us here
—for at the longest our stay is short—if
we can only lanrl there. You see there
are so many I do want to meet there.
Joshua, my favorite prophet; and John
among the evangelists, and Paul among
the apostles, and Wyclitte among the
martyrs, and Bourdaloue among the
preachers, and Dante among the poets,
and Havelock among the heroes, and our
loved ones whom we have so much missed
since they left us, so many darlings of
the heart, their absence sometimes almost
unbearable, and, mentioned in this sen-
tence last of all because I want the
thought climacteric, our blessed Lord,
without *hone we could never reach the
oll Castle at all. He took our place. He
purchased our ransom. He wept our
woes. He suffered our stripes. He died
our death. He assured our resurrection.
Blessed be His glorious n me forever!
Surging to His ear be all the anthems!
Facing him be all the thrones!
Oh, I want to see it, and I will see it—
the day of His coronati n. On a throne
already; methinks the day will come
when in some great hall of eternity all
the nations of earth whom He has con
Tiered by His grace will assemble again
to crown Him. Wide and high and im-
mense and upholstered as with the sun-
rises and sunsets of a thousand years,
great audience room of heaven. Like the
leaves of an Adirondeek forest the ran-
somed multitudes, and Christ standing
on a high place surrounded by worship
pers and subjects. They shall come out
of the farthest past led on by the Pro-
phets; they shall come out of the early
Gospel days led on by the Apostles; they
shall come out of the centuries still ahead
of usted on by champions of the truth,
heroes and heroines yet to be born.
And then from that vastest audience
ever assembled in all the tusiverse there
will go up the shout, "Crown Him!
Crown Him! Crown. Him !" and the Fa-
ther who long ago promised this His only
Begotten Son, "I will give thee the hea-
then for thine inheritan.ee and the utter-
most part of the earth for thine posses-
sion" shall set the crown upon the fore-
head scarred with Crucifixion bramble,
and all the hosts of heaven, down on the
levels and up in the galleries, will dr p
on their knees crying, "Hail king of
earth! Bing of heaven! Xing of saints!
King of seraphs! Thy kingdom is aix
everlasting kingdom, and to Thy domin-
ions there shall be no end! Amen and
amen! Amen and amen !"
The glorious Gospel of the blessed God
as spoken of in my text will have more
drawing power, and when that Goepel
gets full swing it will have a momentum
and a power mightier than that of the
Atlantio Ocean, when under the force of
the September equinox it strikes the
Highlands of the Navesink. The mean-
ing of the word "Gospel" is "good news,"
and my text says it is glorious good news,
and we must tell it in our churches, and
over our dry goods counters and in our
factories, and over our threshing ma-
chines, and behind our ploughs, and on
our ships' decks,and in our parlors, our
nurseries, and kitchens, as though it were
glorious good news, and not with a dismal
drawl in our voice, and a dismal look on
our faces, as though religion were a
rheunaatie twinge, or a dyspeptic pang,
or a malarial chill, or an attack of nerv-
ous prostration. With nine "blesseds"
or "hsippys" Christ began His sermon cn
the Mount: • Blessed the poor; blessed
the mourner; blessed the meek; bless' d
the hungry; blessed the merciful; bless-
ed the pure; blessed the peace -makers
blessed the persecuted; blessed the 1'0'41:
ed : blessed, blessed, blessed, happy,
happy, happy. Glorious good news for
the young, as through °heist they may
have their coming years ennobled, and
for a lifetime all the angels of God their
coadutors, and all the armies of heaven
their allies. Glorious good news for the
middled -aged, as through Christ they may
have their perplexities disentangled, and
their courage rallied, and their victory
over all obstacles and hindrances made
forever sure. Glorious good news for the
aged, that they may have the sympathy
of Him of whom St. John wrote: "His
head and His hairs were white like wool,
as white as snow," and the defence of the
everlasting arms. Glorious good news for
the dying, as they may have ministering
spirits to escort them, and opening gates
to receive them, and a sweep of eternal
glories to encircle them, and the welcome
of a loving God to enbossom them.
Oh, my text is right when it speaks of
the glorious Gospel. It is an invitation
from the most radiant Being that ever
trod the earth, or ascended the heavens,
to you and me to come and be made
happy, and then take after that a Royal
Castle for everlasting residence, the angels
of God our cup -bearers. The price paid
for all of this on the cliff of limestone
about as high as this house, about seven
minutes walk from the wall of Jerusalem,
where with an agony that with one hand
tore down the rocks, and with the other
drew a midnight blackness over the
heavens, our Lord set us forever free.
Making no apology for anyone of the
million sins of our life, but confessing all
of them, we can point to that deft of
limestone and say: 'There was paid our
indebtedness, and God never collects a
bill twice." Glad am I that all the
Christian poets have exerted their pens
in extolling the matchless One of this
Gospel. Isaac Watts, how do you feel
concerning Him? And he write ,s "I am
not ashamed to own ray Lord." Newton,
what do you think of this Gospel? And
he writes, "Amazing grace, how sweet
the sound." Cowper, what do you think
of Him? And the answer comes, "There
is a fountain filled with blood." Charles
Wesley, what do you think of Him? And
he answers, "Jesus, lover of my soul."
Horatius Boner, what do you think of
Him? And he responds, "I lay ray sins
on Jesus." Ray Palmer, what do you
think of Him? .And he writes, "My faith
looks up to Thee." Fannie Crosby, what
do you think of Him? And she writes,
"Blessed asturance, Jesus is mine." But
I take higher testimony: "Soloman,
what do you think of Rim? And the an-
swer is, "Lily of the valley." Ezekiel,
•what do you think of Him? And the
answer is, "Plant of renown." David,
what do you think of Him? And the an-,
ewer is, 'My shepherd." St. John, what
do you think of Him? And the anneal'
is, 'Bright and morning star." St. Pauli
what do you think of }Tim? And the
answer comes, "Christ is all in all." Do
you think so well of Him, 0 man, 0 wo-
man of the blood -bought immortal spirit?
Yes, Paul lovas right when he styled it
"The Glorious Gospel." And then as a
druggist, while you titre waiting for him
to make up the doctor'spreseription, puts
into a bottle so many grains of this, and
so many grains of that, and so many
drops of this, and so many drops of that,
and the intermixture taken, though sour
or bitter,restores to health: so Christ,
the Divine Physician, prepares this
trouble of our lifetime, and that clisap-
poiatmeht, and this perseeution, and that
hardship t and that tear, and we must
take the intermixtere, yet though it be a
bitter draught, under the Divine prescrip
tion it adrcunistots to our restoration and
spiritual health, "all things working to-
gether for good." Glorious Gospel!
And then the Royal. Castle into which
he night is dark and the way is rough,
and we have a Lantern which God has
put in our hands, but instead of employ-
ing that Lantern to show ourselves and
others the right way, we are discussing
lanterns, their shape, their size, their
material, and which is the better light—
kerosene, lamp oil, or candle; and while
we discuss it. we stand all around the
' Lantern, so that we shut out the light
from the multitudes who are stumbling
on the dark mountains of sin and. death.
•)•
Twelve hundred dead birds were found
one morning around Bartholdi's statue in
• New York harbor. They had dashed
their life out against the lighthouse the
• night before. Poor things! And the
great Lighthouse of the Gospel—how
many high -soaring thinkers have beaten
all their religious life cut against it,
• while it was intended for only one thing,
and that to show all nations the way in-
to the harbor of God's mercy, and. to the
crystalline wharves of the Heavenly,City
where the immortals are waiting for new
arrivals. Dead skylarks, when they
might have been flying seraphs.
Here also come, eavering up the old
Gospel, some who think they can by lam
and exposure of crime save the world, and
from Portland, Maine, across to San Fran-
cisca and back again to New Orleans and
Savannah, many of the ministers have
gone into the detective business. World-
ly reform, by all means' but unless it be
also Gospel reform it -will be dead failure.
In New York its chief work has been to
- give us a change of bosses. We had a
Democratic boss, and now it is to be a
Republican boss; but the quarrel is, who
shall be the Republican.? Politics will
save the cities the same day that Setae
evangelizes perdition.
Here comes anothet class of people who
in pulpit and. outside of it cover up the
Gospel with the theory that it makes no
final difference 'what you believe, or how
you aet—you are bound for Heaven, any-
how. There they sit, side by side, in
Heaven; Garfield attd tauiteau, who shot
L.16k
ONTARIO LEGISLATURE.
Jaws." Other legislation outlined iuolud.
ed. the eireplitieat,ion, of proceeding in the
high courts, the reduction of the number
of Jurors to ten, the prohibitory liquor
laws, the fees(motion and the esainten-
awe of Government Vouse,
The Opening ef the Provincial Parlia-
ment — The Patrons Will Sit To-
gether—Speech From the Throne.
The legislative halls of the Province
were all life and bustle Thursday. Scores
of members were there shaking hands
and being sworn in, and Liberals, Con-
servatives and Patrons all took turns at
it. Col. Clarke stood with a Bible re-
sembling a half-grown volume of Web-
ster's unabridged dictionary. Patron -
leader Haycock was on deck early with a
number of his friends. He and his thir-
teen followers will sit together. The
Patron members in town have not been
long in getting their heads together. After
a consultatiou among themselves they
sent a deputation consisting of Messrs.
Haycock, Caven, McNichol, MacPherson
and Gray to interview Sir Oliver and his
Ministers. The interview took place
Thursday morning, but as to what it was
all about all parties were as dumb as a
Dominion politician on the Manitoba
question.
The Patron members will hold a caucus
shortly to appoint a "whip," but so far i
have no one n view. Promptly at three
o'clock, George A. Kirkpatrick, Lieut. -
Governor of Ontario arrived at the state -
buildings in Queen's' Park and proceeded
to open the first session of the new Leg-
islature. The clergy, the judiciary,and
foreign powers were represented on the
floor of the House. The galleries were
packed. The Lieut. -Governor was escort-
ed to the Legislative buildir g by a detail
of twelve men from the Royal Canadian
Dragoons. Major Buchan commanded
men from the Royal Canadian regiment
of infantry who formed the guard of
honor to the buildings. Mr. W. D. Bal-
four, the Radical member for South Es-
sex, was elected Speaker'.
The speech' from the throne, as deliver-
ed by Lieut. -Gov. Kirkpatrick, referred
to the depressiou in trade and the excep-
tionally low prices for farm products
Thelatter had stimulated an intereet in
improved methods of farming. The
speech gave assurance of the establish -
malt of a pioneer dairy farm in the new
northern districts of Ontario. "During
the year," read the Lieatenant-Governor
"the Rainy Lake region has come into
nobles as a gold field. Many explorers
have been attraeted to it, a number of
promising locations have been taken up
and partially developed, and it is expect-
ed that several mills for treating this ore
will be in operatioil this year. The pros-
peet of gold mining in this distriet will
no doubt promote settlement of rich agri-
cultural lands in the Rainy River valley
A bill will be laid before yoti eentaihing
some supplementary provisione which the
experience of the last general election has
indicated. to be desirsible ti the election
Nearly two-thirds of the House is atm -
pas d of new members, and most of these
lingered long after the adjournment in-
speetiog the contents of their desks and
gel ting pointers from the older legislative
heads. The public aceounts report will
be laid on the table next 'week The re
markable feature about this is the amount
realized from succession duties. It was
estimated that these would realize $50,-
000, but they have reached $150,000.
Newspapers will not be allowed to be sold
by the pages on the floor of the House.
A deputation of hotel -keepers from all
over the Province will wait on the Gov-
ernment within a few days to ask for
certain amendrneuts to the license law,
The trAost important of these will be one
to provide for a uniform hour for closing
bars all over the Provinces.
It was John Craig to whom fell the
honor of moving the address in reply to
the speech from the throne. He became
critical and instruetive. The formation
of the two new parties, the P. P. A. and
the Patrons of Industry, he took as inclie
eating an approach to the state of affairs
in France, where there were the extreme
Right, the Extreme Left, the Centre,"
and so on. There was a fear expressed
that the formation of these new political
bodi s might interfere with the speedy
and efficient transaction of imbibe busi-
ness. He rejoiced to hear of the progress
which had been made in the Department
of Agriculture. The college at Guelph
was doing excellent work; its students
were many and its fame had gone abroad
and even over sea. The Government had
done the province a good tern in opening
up and exploiting the value of the farm-
ing lands in the war North. A vote for
every man seemed to Craig to be desir-
able. Why, he asked, should the cities
only be given the benefit of the registra-
tion law? It would be only fair to the
farmers to zna,ke the new not effective in
all parts of the province.
Donald MeNish seconded the motion of
John Craig. He wanted to know the P.
P.A.'s reason for existence. They could
do no good. Their avowed object was to
breed a spirit of discord in the land.
Patriotism had no part in their platform.
As to the Patrons, McNish had naught
but good to sav. Their object was to se-
cure efficient government and economical
administration of the affairs of the Prot
vince. Their aims were identical with
thoseaf the government and were on all
fours with the course of the administra-
tion in the past. The aid which the men
under Haycock could give would be valu-
able.
It was G. F. Marter's task to reply.
He referred in terms that were kindly and
regretful to the death of Christopher Fin-
ley Frazer, "an honorable and weighty
opponent," who had fought hard and
fairly. His loss both the Government
an t Province would feel sorely. The
elevation of Mr. Meredith also had de-
prived the House of one of its brightsst
lights, and of a legislator who had done
his full share in promoting good govern-
ment. Ati to the new political bodies,
Mr. Marter had nothing to say. He was
not for them or against them. The Gov-
ernment had laid claim to being economi-
cal in its administration of the Province's
affairs. Was not the Patrons' appear-
ance in the Legislative halls a protest
against this contention? Canada as a
'hoe was prosperous, Ontario was pro-
gressing, but not because of the line of
policy adopted by the Mowat administra-
tion. It had been the boast of the mover
and seconder of the address that the
Agriculausl College had passed through
a satisfactory twelvemonth. He was
gad to hear that, at last the college hap
had a prosp sous year. It was to be hop-
ed that there would be a reversal of the
decis .on of the Supreme Court in respect
to prohibition. To him it seemed
anomolous that the Province could not
legislate with regard to this question,
while the corporations to which the power
of governing the liquor traffic might take
much mo e thorough members than the
Provincial Administration.
Now arose Joseph Haycock, chief of the
agrestic legislators. ,1
HAYCOCK'S LITTLE BAND OF HEROES.
which they are engaged. In, addition to
this, fiaid Mr, Brown, the asseciatiois
lusped to take up work which could not
be attended to by local societies in look-
ing into eases of exaelty to animals in
lumber camps and other similar places.
Sir Oliver Mowat thought the under-
taking a rather big one, and asked what
other sources of revenue the assoeiation
would have. Mr. Brown replied that they
had. a membership fee, and received, an-
nual sums from the local societies.
Rev. Father Paradis saw the Commis-
sioner of Crown Lands for a few inomesats
in the afternoon. and received a promise
that he would be given a hearing by the
Council on his repatriation scheme.
The public accounts of the provine,e for
the year ending December 31, 1894, were
'sanded to the members of the House to-
day, in order that they might be extizoin,-
ed before the britiget speech is submitted.
on Thursday next, The total appropri-
ations, according to the Supply bill of
last session, were $8,534,120.94, and the
total departmental expenditures amount-
ed to $8,874,879,75. The amouht unex-
pended on appropriations were 5232,769.06
and the over-expenditeres were 578,-
027.87. The over -drafts on appropria-
tions were 536,459.24, The grand total
of the year's expenditure was 53,842,-
505.28, This is somewhat less than in
898, when the total expenditure was $8,-
907,145.82, The ehief differences between
the two years are in the administration
of justiee branch,. which shows an in-
crease of about $38,000 I edueation,which
increased $22,000 public institutions,
deereased 822,000; hospitals and chari-
ties, which increased 518,000; public
.exildings, whieh decreased $115,00e ; new
Parliament buildings, which decreased
$159,600.80 to nothing; Brockville asy-
lum, which increased 8105,000;. and mis-
cellaneous, -which increased $25,000.
Criminal justice and Crown prosscutions
cost the country last year $173,322.28,
which is about $80,000 more than in the
previous ye,ar. The industries at the
Central Prison make a good showing.
The debit balance on January 1, 1894,
was $81,758.78, which, added to the total
expenditures for the year, made a total
debit of $186,860.01. The revenue during
the year was $142,406.58, leaving a debit
balance of 548,956.48. The surplus for
the year was therefore 537,797.29. Apart
from these items the figures presented
show little change from the previous
year.
Mr. Gibson presented to the House re-
ports of the Taverns and Shop Licenses
Act for 1894, and of the work accomplish-
, d under the. Children's Proteetion. Act
during the same period.
TRIP TO" GUELPH.
Mr. Dryden stated that the arrange-
ments were eomnleted for the annual ex-
cursion to the Agricultural College,
Guelph. The train would leave at 8.20
a.m., reaching Gcelph at 10.20. The
party would leave Guelph on the return
journey at 5.40, reaching the city two
hours later.
"You all know why I have beeri sent
here. We are but seventeen in number,
but we may be the little lump that will
leaven the whole loaf. The leader of the
Opposition has said that the election of
the Patrons was a rebuff to the Govern
ment. I can't see how he figures that
out. We defeated more Tories than
Libera's last June. We haven't come
here as obstructionets, but our desire is
to facilitate the obtaining of honest and
economical government. As to prohibi-
tion, every man of us will vote as the filo-
tates of his own consqence prompt if the
question comes up. Most of tbe members
of this House know our platform. I can
only say besides this that we believe in
paying officials by fees. We don't see
why the man who places twenty or thirty
settlers should be paid no more than the
man who secures only one."
The motion for the address pass,d,
some routine business was through. ant'
the debate on the speech had been finish-
ed in the short time of twahours less five
minutes.
Tuesday,
THE BUDGET SPEECH.
Mr. Maxtor said it would prove very in-
convenient for the Opposition, in fact,
they would be taken at a disadvantage,
if the budget speech was delivered on
Thursday, owing to copies of the public
accounts and estimates not yet having
been placed in the hands of members.
Sir Oliver Mowat did. net see the neces-
sity of postponing the delivery of the
budget speech, as the estimates and pub -
he accounts were expected to be in mem-
bead hands that night.
Mr. Whitney remarked that last year,
when the Opposition were not laboring
under circumstances as unfavorable as
those of to -day, the request for an ad-
journment was granted immediately.
The force of the contention of the leader
of the Opposition, must be clear to every
member of the House; that if the esti-
mates and public accounts, which pre-
sumably formed the basis of any criticism
which was to be made, were brought
dowix within twenty-four hours of the
time in which members of the Opposition
were expected to criticise the financial
statement, the -practical effect of such a
course was to tell them that their criti-
cisms must not take in the estimates and
public accounts.
Mr. Hardy said the Government desir-
ed to extend to members as much court-
esy as was combatable with the progress
of public business, but he had. already
heard complaints regarding the short sit-
tings of the House.
Mr. Ryerson thoughtif the Government
were very anxious to reduce the length of
the session they would have had the pub-
lic acme ts ready by the opt fling day.
It seemed as though the Government
were very anxious to stifle criticism in
order that the session might be shortened.
That was not in the interest either of the
people or of the House, and he agreed
with preceding speakers that longer time
should be allowed in which to examine
the publie accounts.
Mr. Harcourt atIsed the hon. gentleman
to name one Legislature or Parliament
which inany one year placed the public
mem ts in the hanrls of members at aix
earlier period than harl the Ontario Gov-
ernment during the last four years.
Mr. 0. A. Howland. craved the privi-
lege, as a new member, of addinga word
i
to the discussion. He supposed, n com-
mon eith other new members, that they
were elected to the House to perform seri-
ous business, and the most serious busl-
-nese they hail always imagined to be that
of auditing the public accounts of the
country. (Hear, hear.) He would like
the Government to cite the case of any
financial institution having to perform
the audit of millions where- the auditor
a as asked to discharge this doty in two
days or a week. He submitted that the
Government should reconsider their de-
termination, and allow a proper interval
to elapsn, to enable those gentlemen
whose duty it was to prepare themselves
for the task of criticising the financial
statement.
The session of the House to -day was of
forty minutes' duration,and was taken
up almost exclusively with a dispute as
to the shorteness of the time intervening
between the bringing in of the pub ic aes
counts and the making of the budget
speech, which the Opposition claimed
was too short to enable them to discuss
the figures intelligently. The Govern-
ment, however, would not recede from
its positioh.
Mr. Kerns presented a petition from
the County Council of Halton asking for
a reduction in the tolls 011 the toll roads
in the provinee.
Petitions were presented from the
County Councils of Waterloo and Nor-
folk, praying for the amendments to the
Anatomy Act, so that eounty councils
might have control of the bodies of per-
sons who die in the houses of industry,
instead of handing them over for pur-
poses of dissection, as is done at present
in some eases.
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Royal Canedian Humane Association.
Mr. Brown was the speaker, He read
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