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The Exeter Times, 1891-2-19, Page 3ISE MODERN OCTIXTRY'g D IN ITS 13UIIIE5S 343043,7,, W 11. 111, "P10VidixsforhonOst thin sight et the. ord. betels° in Con vet 21. • The first thing that we mind, is the saereduess oft rentembet that when a man into our keeping, it is his ours. It may be 10 dots, o no matter what the sum is or small, there is not one belongs to us, We have n upon it as ours to use unde •whateoever : if we do, we the eyes of a thief, In a rightly constructed alwaye, be a strong disincli the responsibility of any fin is the last thing that an seueitive o the elaiins of wish to dde I cenitot under nese with which men ass mined -ion with Urge mom I might add, the eagerness seek for it. Why, I should sensitive to take 500 dole., business friend in tide city deliver it to a purty in tel not thy I would, not do 1 circumstances, hut I do s easier when the money wa tbe whole thing was off my Why should I feel SO' Ue is 330t mine ; that is 4 full ea sons which grow out of this can readily imagine. Theveisa saeredness bit property -a thereduess in another pettoe, which plac law beyond my touch, hap beyond my wish to towel z mine ; thee is all I cart say i the feeling which exists in lation toit. Ono of tile first thiugs t the rights -the peculiar au ef ownership. What isDiel and -Harry bee no right, to the arat letter in the alphab loneetho so admits tbie priu it as one et the fibres ot Ida a boy whese conscience is sharpening of Oils %henget- come a defaulter. It is evident that among of to day in this country, ti. ownership is not vividly no as tide statement, is, eons -tit almOSt an impeadiment of esty, still it is the only mid most charitable one, too, ti in extenuatitte of crimes con of moral standing. Ohitracter ; for moralstaudiu mond character is another, as recent history eadlyprov ing without the charac t. thoughts over the names of • been •CONVIOTED oo T in the hot few years. I a r there for every man is title t ey not his own for his own he has received explicit au reation so to do from the ,* front of how many a inmate° P of how mane' it bank pr aye, and on the roar In, how rnany a monument, ev word 'could be written. lip40 I say? nay, it is write blieded eyes -blinde 1 with t eel it. Friendship may It heed aside, end even the e opinion may cover it over QI SileUCe, butistheee who se ju e. leo, looking through the , which only enlighteits and k hold the dreadful word wit 1 infatny clearly and strongl • used for personal ends mono theirs without authority so out a, shadow of authority became thieves. Did thoy thieves? I a,nswer : They. they are without. console were not without conscienc ' uprigheness in all other . them to have been endowed Conscience they had, theref I How could they do it, th 11 , They stifled conscience. Th . ged the mouth of their mo e voice within their very bo ttorment their days and • sleep at night by " Thief " against them. that they were thieves. Th their dishonest acts they ha selves to public condemnati did they so carefully sent' Why did they wrap there 1 • Why? Because their de Their deeds troubled them bringwrong, being criminal, anis; and by trick, by evil hypocritical device, yes, an hood itself, they seught to iniquity. Let us not lose our sen wrong, or accuracy of defiiii • cribing men's conduct in 'perverse generation. Better be proved a liar than that G true. The eternal verities, is surely one and one of the -garde charabtenmust be pre • ecl, untainted in all th majesty, unless we would treasury of heaven itself. dard unshortextecl although • shown to be undersized. I • riglit and wrong which ga character of the next gen • Seek that thieving is a yen %oven nVel people this ei Al Dilfl: qtree whence be urcettz • • l'AS swept so m yard to e is an exag_ger Ve of the eel ue of money. e • standard that measures vale: What is valuable we have pi and what is comparatively v, put at the top. We have era - "encl not sweet homes. We costly raiment, and not ME.A.LTEtY BOMB We have sought after riches emsness. We have desired t • and not the favour of God. of the apples of Sodom hecao of their appearance, and bbs ---aS we might haveteloneteen aseee in our rieseeeleh 'tate weteemnennittget Wisdom. I wish yoe Ott remendosa • ing espeeially to besitild • because that X litt the eve time above material con May Sot pouree upon. you stroing light of God -the li remeMbee, everetheng revettlea-for you kto •ie nee trickery. A m teictioty111 mamina beed tte Ample' ct, ette tenee an - ?PULPIT. - . MOOR:DER- tELATIONS. '' turrayt e, not only lathe he sight omen..' ear in U should b ' lists ; we should puts his ineney - • money and. not „ .1000 ciois. . , whether great cent of it that : right to look e ee 7' any emergency look at it with. mind there will iation to assume metal tenet. It y nature troy lemur. would. etand the reedit mut responsible we trusts ; itay, „to; which they reel exceedingly even, from any inder protease to w yea. / tem : under certaiu f 1 y I Amid ee a delivered. and hands. thus the money iswer. The retie real:neon you he ownership of what helmet: to es te net eery le. lecee it in teellee e et te me, lute n etheanetiou of ay nature in re_ teach a hey is . sacred rights- es is not teeny' s touch it ; that is at of honesty. A epic: este weave conscionsuees-- sdged with the -will never be- he business men et reerecluess of tereized. Severe Ating as it does ser average hon. auation and the at can be urged imitted by men, iot say of moral cis one thing au d rad many a man 3, has the stand- ort Run your those who have infT ay convicted. of if who uses mon- purposes, "Riese liOrity and di- teeter, On the 0 ; an the wall osident's mime de surface of at, this dreadful >tad be writttn on. Love, with tears -may not indly turn her harity of public with the curini ' n 1 with the eye& of dear.atmosphere 'ever blind% be' i every letter of r carved. They y which was not to use it -with- load in so donee mow they were musts have, else nee. But they ,. Their lives of irections prove all moral sense. tn. ,n ? I answer ; ty wickedly gag- ral sense that a, toms might not startle their crying out ires, they knew er knew that by i exposed their - on ; or else why y copthalment t ves ia darkness? els were evil. . Their actions made them cow- contrivance, by 1 by open false- cover up their e of right and non, when dee- his wicked and that every MD el sheeld be un- f which honesty chiefest as itre- *erred untouch- ir immaculate bankrupt the [Keep the 'stare every man be Is our sense of Tea the moral -aration. If we id offence, 001' ty with future . . 3 flowed the evil tny men down- ted conception aim berried elie 3 upside down. t at the bottOr01 lawlessly° have ved fine •houses, lave longed for ' s. • ancl not right- • e praise of men, We. have eaten se of theddeanty etehave turned hey would -to ell our getting e , • 1 11111 tell": I of d it it eideratio . tem them the •d1 * get, in which, inn fatally, be• r, that btisMOS,s etho eesorte F3. fi,b. A3. nmit6 Pr° tises . his lach et . _ , • b'ble men to raak6 money honestly. To meet and ovenome the ebstaeles of fortune requires strengele To dodge and not meet them is a sigu of weak- neon 1 count no men, able who has made his fortune bit suoces.sful munleittg, or by practising the A ulgar arts of a thief at large.. , Business is business. Villainy is villainy. And between the two there isno kinship, or . connection, Any transaction whieli bond. mt cannot bear the measurement 'of the con. it is a 'criminal ro. science is not businese ; . le ceeding, and as such tannot be claseedin the category of hopourable industries. Any Man h ' ' 1 t n "s nob a, y o eugages in suo 1 a eaesac ion i .n business man he is a, criminal and is not • , . worthy to be naked amoiag those weavon- duct the honoureble and benevolent ex. . changes of the world. It m necessary that a line li e well chalked,t o hould be -4 n ' ° ---3 ,,,., drawn across the floor at this time ;that the d b holiest and the eishonest may be place t. Y the pronounced tudementof public apinioe, • 0 ,, this on tbat side ethere they belong. vpon is point, henceforth, in this country, there Inust be no emfusion of ideas, no difference of opinion. One standard there musette and 0130' else business will be but another only , • .„ . , . ,. _ , „ „. mule ior Vatia, uy : trimness nte oniy anotner name for the exereise of man s lowest facial- ties, and the. nape of a merchant be ietuonY" mous Inth. villain or el eat. I seek to bring these cuseriminations out clearly, even by repetition, because they eoustitute the essential elemtute of Peleeopslaught, mein, The reeoeuition of Yid-eel:Oho basis 4, ,, ., e. ••••• ., et, , e.. , e. -"le "ma" “este-an u 'thel t."'""" "114 nese structure of the country rests. If the averene honesty of men should sink below a o . a 1 cenanet. certain Imo, bunness cool not le ed. Wben men do not kuow-whom to trust, they do not kuow with - whom to deal, dui ilde The benevolout traffic becomes imp. es . _, %tele segos of mankind math when. minuet confidenee is detente:ed. Dithemeet practice d towards barbarism. They are not the ten • i • e - actions of eivilized teinge, ut ° t °-e. lvu°• knowing no stauderd et honour, ateeet nothing which reteuree the observenee of the standard. Now, 1 seek to be careful of epeech : this IS mettle time for exonem corer:Axon. Farthest from melte thethought of premium ing undiserinduating Sentence 1111011 nee thetas:tram-nor would, such senteuee he juse, timely isnot demi. integrity is not extinct. Honour as a seuthavut ie not hall- Mixed front the hosems of men, Truth, virtue. faithfuluess, and piety -these are not lost virtues. They live. They are potent. They are fou d everyw ere, and they seed 'e1lle age the preeept for a splendid hart eat. ' ahead will be white and fragrant with thee- blooming, and the garners of Heanen sired know' inert:ate esthete' ripen ; 'hut, neeerthe• lees, you all Ithow that morel deeadence In a gone aS far as it eon go without Peril to the national interests -to our OWII interests. The air is full of that heat u eich suggeSIS lightning. The heavens are black with that blackness whence roll thunders, and tone- does are Immeshed darkly forth in their elestruetive courses. Flash after flesh- tierce, lurid, and startlingly nigh have paled the noonday light of our prosperity, and. started. from tee couch on which it wits resting our confidence in man. Let us mot shut our eyes nor stem our ears to the multi- plying evidenees of our peril, • We are in danger. From whom? We are in danger from each other, for we are one, and one we must remain. ' Our danger isnot , u om a en- front a foreign foe b t from domestic • 'domain is not invaded emy. The nationa . The tunic:mat character is attacked ; °etude ed not from without but from within, Moral tleteriora.tion, like a disease, is actually at work within oar system, We musb check it before it has run its evil course, or we slue] he brought to that degree of weakness to which men and nations only come when they have come to death's door. Let u t d s no 0- •ndistrv wive ourselves as to our peril, when only by its rehognition can we hope to escape it. Do not think that I am alarmed at the dis- °every of great duplicities. Do not think that 1 axe alarmed at the dropping of 06 masks that men have so long worn, orat be. holding on so many shoulders a, death's-head in the place at a healthy countenance. Lotus . rather thank God that the revelations havees come, that the dreedfal disease which has so Ion oisoned the blood and ' filled g P . . „ the flesh of the nation, with inopient rottenness, has at last broken through the skin and revealed • its character by the unseemly1 til t' 1 tt" ant pes en ut spo ergs. Discovery of crimes never kills. Th Their concealment, their successful concealment, is the true peril. We are learning a bitter but a salutary lesson. The boys of the country are learning that money does not consitute happiness; that riches gained by cunning and kept by fraud are not honour- able. The true businese men of the country -the men Who have been honest, economi- cal, conservative, are at lase being vindient• ed. They are no longer suffering in coin- parison with knaves. The. winds ha,ee blown ;the rain has descended; the floods have come andtbeat upon the two classes of houses; and mu, eyes are compelled to see which were banded upon the sand, which on the rock. • Who Who can over-estimate :the value of such revelations? Who mei measere the influ- enee, they shall exert upon the future? I pray that the good work of discovery may go on until wetand our children • shall have learn the warning that :they teach. Until the when body of busine,s shell be purged of its impurities and stand beautiful with recovered health. Until all freed is Anima*, ed, all • causes of fraud discoverect, mid. we shall stand as a child: that has been.rebuked for, its evil , courses by his fathe.-'s hand, • - humble and penitent before God. . What a terrible beimiliation, you say, What a.neodecl humiliationt I. retort. 'Let us. eiseriininate. It is iniquitous success that shames a people It is fraud unpenisn. diseraces. It . is hypocritical a ' ed thatit, , pearances and dishonesb. practices tiewenp. ped of justice which constitute dishonour. Ob, if -we cati only be delivered from these at Me Matter what cast to our pride! If we can only reelize that upright conduct As better than money'that the mem- of a ftoOd mune, nutouchecl' ,b;‘,7 Ems • • ' melon, is a t". itolOer heritage to leave our children than bonds, and houses and. la,nds„ T( we can only learn these things, at It -hetet -dr coet to ourpride, it shall be well ' with us indeed. 'Let. us 'set the stenclarcl; - then, twhich • has denoted value, right end up, pin ting money at the bottom . character at tete eee and being, L 3 our ambitions kith harm r -,• v-! IT i es measurement, lose we, even p• -,..t.,:' se fraud o ruin. mien our children, e that they, beingand ea by our evil example, .shall cerse us above our graves, because' with the erepel for 'our guide we did not teach them!'better. , ' It is saideenti said with truth, that the temptations of the commercial class were - - - never so greet as they have. been the east .twenty years. Be that as it ttlav i they have been beyond doubt very great .ne weile y have not been strong ,eu: ,, . ".:::' over- UM national 'honesty, thee have been •It •u h to,preate in theLation a Minor- 5.,,,e g; Whe Alt . 16,`0, -it of Anex- , S. . 1 e le n j ,. y L. ' I'ller° 1 ' -nen have remained honest, HoWlarg ..,. . . ,duce.fittry: '.'11,Unlbet of e-ceptteas khee leis net yet evitent, . • -eat._ • .. .-.. ..... greerth of this. number of proven defaeltere toed conweermal freude hat been, rapid of late. I am glad it -hes been so. Ior doubt if the reaction of a false way a doing business, which these men represene. ed, has ever been so strong., so earnest, th determined, as it has been nettle -country in the last sixty days. Men everywhere are saying, "This sort of eltieg must stop.' Aud the best of it Is they are not only saying but they are tete- in it • and when, the business men, of the g t - . country feel that the false way of doing busineee, whiell hes been fasIdonable a late, mast stop, the -II-t, _ _ pe_ y wi stop 1 You hold the in our powery owN" lentos. There are business inert enough in this d. e au Mice th nealtehusiness conservative, safe and honourable in this city, if io,nt so choose. • - 7 ' 'charged on can stop recklessness cm can stop * extravagance. You cao steer faleellood, You t, i• t i f . It • „ , „ can se a eel on o doing business met emu, e(ed me to ail intentsand purposes a standard by which en new men ami new enterprises shall be meathred, :led old ones too. You have the power : I urge you t,o ,exercise it tt at the future of the my may remember you as among its great benefactors. There eve no higher honours that this eity or com- eionwealth can give, than to say, speaking tineetiet the month of her press, lierpulpite, her (teeters., end, her leedin men who your death, friend, is annenteed and your funeral is made, "Hero Bei the body of an her e t e h hhi t 1 a Man, 4 3,011 0 e saseep i e 0 the claim of sueh an. hotteur. I ask your : :mete to ree and to so noble.an ambition, e e - 1/ 1 i - - - - ten" t me e on to ot: e at year e i i rem year cleries-the yoeng mou of vim eithh_md as you ase them, as you think how el " • • , aeir e oeng lives willl• be staped ey you example, / ask you to say -to pledge yonrselves __to matte holy covenant with your i eel, that whatever else you any fail to cle. you will not fail to leave to posterity the le. -.teepee of a lifelong integrity. Tuen, theugh ym he dead, yet steel you speak; theug„ your body depart, yet shall you coneinue even as the mother, long after her body ie buried, mokeaer iudoonce good. through 'the eituntry of her children. Greuting, then, that the temptations o- 4 he oonmieveiel class haTe beeu too great tor mauy men to resi,t, is it not the pert el wise men to ask whence the temptetioas have arisen e I ofinr this as my answer to the queetiou. The tempt:items of tbe moment al eleee bane arisen that from a wrong thump ion of the true objects ofirustaten The object ce husines.e-the object grane enough oz: make it worthy of man's powers end to win the favour of God, is not moneentuaking, The object of business is eaucatrani ; the leading out and up of times powere, Money is au inchientel result, but in no %nee a prime ole , led.. I would not do hushaese a, day tenger if it did not make me a larger, 4 wiser, o„ better man- The monee' I get: the money youpie does not pay us for our toil, our anxieties, our disappointments; bile the ettution we acquire,. tho wisdom we gain, the hitowledge we :Again, th e couragewe grow up into, the charity wearetanght, in short, the enlargemeut of capacity, the quickening of f I th discipline ' f ' aett ty, 0 o power -in these we fi d TI la ' n our reward. re useless of the earth ought to make the manhood of hea.ven. It, ought to make the atgels of the future nobler beings. It ought to number es who are now en et ed in it, when we lutete nas d ft gth 4, . . e • , - I away, among e slants or Juse men raa te - 1, peewee When the young mon of the colmtry shall see nothing nobler in business than Moue tt' when .. . ,, 1 • . , Y" ge ing ; le %tau am tavate in them no finer ambition thau that which. is content. with sordid rens ; whetthey shall see noth- ing chivalric. in it, nothing heroic, eothin g divine, they will have been -beau lit b the f h• r • • g position7 . as ion o thew time to that in which, in order to preserve •their manhood, they will have to deny themselves the very means by Which God iutended their manhood, should be advanced. _ For twenty yeare we have put a wrong definitioni n business, and you see the re- s ult. The object of businees has been to make money and not ' To 3.1,11c.n zees. Well, you have your money, but where are your men 1 Melly of them are exiles, fugi- tiees from even the loose justice of your time Many of them are in muds You ' _ . , . know how they came there. •many others " d b I b h 1- 0 will ou t esssoonsent e tot ego: s. them have gone crazy, crazed by the pressen of _ th • " 1 ' d their ' • their ma ortunes and crimes.' Tee bodies of yet others sleep in graves, and their faults are condoned by that charity which the solemnity of death su t t gges un o mortals. Others still -who can doubt it- are trembling in high places, -trembling lest their iniquities • shall be discovered, and they end their families be overwhehned with disgrace. These .are the arguments that prove th us our mistake. These ,stand for warnings that we steer clear of the rocks, running upon which they made wreck. Thesecond cause of ouhe financial, temp -want tations can he found in the wrong conce P• ion which, as a people, we have had of the source or sources of Imppiness. As a people, we have sought 'fee happiness in luxury. We have craved. rich and elegant surroundings -craved them inordinately ; craved them so strongly that we were not honourably aensi- tive to the methods by which they were obtainee. We are learning -and it is a bitter leseone-our mistake. Many wives are learn- ing that an •eleeant house purchased at the 0 • price of a husband's honour, costs too dear. Is it possible that they could have learned the lesson in 3 ny other way? Is sufiering thehis caly road :bet can ;east men and women to • • wisdom? Oeert he 'oeauty of inn:xi:nee only be amereleended ehrough the nears' with which anguish has filled our- eyes'? What devil is this in human nature that will not go out uttil the Savieur has found us amid . the graves where our dead are buried? ' Show me' the graves when the betties of men alone sleep; and they seem to me in' no sense 'oppressive. • The winds that blow through the willows are as fiesh, and cool; the sun, as it shines overhead, is as cheer- lid' 't 1' lit a th ' li I at 1' a' ' d • in x s ig • a oug •ooc m gar ee, for do I not know thee only the bodies ' in which key lived were buried, -that ;the earth eilleived only what was leindred to ie and to which it gave, therefore,a harmless Weleonae ? But show . me a gray° -where love • lies ' dead, where - hope is • buried, where homier le entorebe,c1; wheee • virtue ' foetnd.a sepulchre,. to. whose door of stone no regurrection shall give its' • challenge, I will stand ebove that Mound with a . . , . , • countenance sad, as the face of , grief itself, and ivith'a heartas heave, as the marble slab that tells of the- greet catastrophe. Letts learn, as we stand in the presence ' of the runts of hearts and homes caused by, dishonesty, in businees-clishonesty resorted to because the man • thought that: money,' with the powerie gives, made happiness ; ' f -these 'et us leant, Tsar, in the preempt: o • reas, that thie faith of the man Was a Ile; that money doss notmaks happiness -if gain- odbv the sacrifice of thosemanry viethes and „ . . ,. h* b Ge 1 ' 1 • 1"1 Womanly 'graces w lc . oc has ore ante( f t4qtrl. the beginning, of the world ' to ,.be the , . „. . .. . caidieterend constituent elements of happi- . dri, twri; make liemeri S le ell • d at' 1 t k. eo 1 meemens on Indira oveagains ecetcleettat . . wow ectleerenes • . . do net rbil people toward heaven, whether your heaven begin in, the here and the now, or in the hereafter teed the fee off. Once let this thought becomeur a part of yolife, and you shall be delivered from wee of the greet causes wbence eeme temptations to , cheat and steal. Auoelter source tat our fitaandal tempter • -• - . • i tions Is foued in our exceptionaly fevorab e conelitions toasnasswealth rapidly. If wealth comes slowly the nature has time to adjust itself to it, and so is safe; but when wealth =rearm faster thau the fanuly skuowledge . of how to use it wisely • faster than the sense o respell% 1 ay w nc it s op reng f their"lir 'al • b ' 13 Icl b ' with its corning; faster than that religions • - pimmple which teaches us what the true tre asure is and where to layit up then ' ' wealth becomes a peril -a, peril which few know howto - - • te, eennehes eomelike ti • ' • - a. flood men are swept away. This has been the ease with us 0,8 a pee. tele duriug the last twenty years. Tommy rlebes V"le he a day. Que week they were poor, the next they were ride, You kuow inunan nature, ane. knowing it, you knowP what would naturally be the result. The linden went wild -wild with extravagance. Many were crazed with ambitious hien sew their ueighbors makieg money at 4 jump- making more ill 4 year, perhopein amouth, dem they:be closest. attentien to businem tad' reede10 -Pena lifetiule.If others mule re, way endue. not tney? evioney, you see, Was the object The methods of getting it .... • dere not reseeded, and so an evil fashion was set. A dreadful temptution Was in this way eut upon all men trusted with funds. The gambler's recklesenees witheue the gamb• 1tr'". °*In"eti°11 11114 metuftse tr'ete P°e- 'iessam of thousands. The cashier used the money of the bank. The treasurerund the money of the mill, The trustee used the ul°21°7 of the estate* The clerk used the 1001107 of his employer, The son used. the 1 i money of his either, forgiug Jes• /343" necessary, to obtain it. How can I describe such estate of things? Was ever thieving BO unique? They did imt • mewl to steal. They did not tome upeet • Mae stealing. They expected to be suceesa• full awl pay Wattle Moly ode suctesetul, mid did pay it back, and their erne is con- -*totted to this den. Some were untrecceenfill emi their crime iti known. Mt know this : -end 1 ask thesayouolimou to carve it this day on the tablet of their memory in letters so deeply cut and truly edged, that they will never fade -that those who were suctessful and paid the money batik, and those who were unsuocessful andwilose cam 'shown, an alike thies CS. Before the tribunal of heavenly and earthly juetice they ennui- known and unknown together -equally eentleinued. And whether they be in prisons toelay, or sitting in church pows, they gond in need of the same penitence and the same acquittal through theenterposition elf Divine Merey, of that universal ani WINISCIRST at/STIOE., whose eye looketh upon the heed. Men say that these are hard times. By what Incipient do they say it, and in whet e niS do they mean it 9 If these e t d 7° ° = • • • ar he ems in which &mulls being discovered in which h • t h ' t yprocn os are meg unmasked, ni which vienous babits of doing business are being corrected, in which the oonseience of the tut- • • • • tionis being Quieltened and the oyes of all of • • - us opened to that -which is right, just, aud true, how can you call them hard times? The evil days were the days when we were making Immo rapidly and losing character as rapidly. The evil days were the days when honesty was counted as ig nalkt, when character was not a held in business, when patience and • were ignored when ho o bl 1 1 ' - ' n nrne-e and conservative men were laughed at:- those were the evil days, and if we are being delivered en from them, t h are the clays to which we have come good days and not evil. Why are they good? Because we are being brought into tudgment ou ourselves. We • are iscovering our own foolislmess Is it d a" . le not a goo ay when a man discovers eis own foolishness? When amen, for instance, who is given to drink is brought to judgment on himself, when his eyes are opened to his evil habit and he sees th e danger to which he is exposed is t that cl el f la' 9 - 12E' noagoo ay or nn . Certauily, that is % blessed day when a man sees the' ' evil of his course, be it what it may. The evil day - t - he when h ' blinded, h h is • e ay e Is w en e sees not the gulf ahead of him but rushes wildly toward it not kno • • i • wing Ins peril. God forbid • that we should ever again see such days as we saw between '60 and 470 . ' God- forbid that that old, wicked, cor-nclosing rupting•prosperity should.ever come back to us. For thirty years we were a nation of money getters. Europe said so ; and it said the truth. It took the thunders of God and the shock of a ;revolution to make us humane -to rnake ue thoughtful of the rights of eman. It had taken years of . financial shrinkage and failure -the wreck of a thousand Erma • the fall of many •ehtvh nun r • '1 houses;' thed' . Ell- - eci •e. "I . ' • nsgrece ot citiz_ene ; the impeverishment of ci.lf of our population to. make us realize Shat money 38 not the. object o f business: that truth, honesty,. piety, constitute the true wealth of nations, as they likewise futhish the permanent basis of thvernment - • • - • •spondingeditor andtstueapp 1 the material with -which is con- - - Y11 h' hstand f defencesrec those we, s w le or the of human liberty. 1 'd • t I *d itwith th Is ledge said illetIT. disgracefulsalwi . t e. -now- ro a e facts t hat the cent veers have elven tis full In m eye. e - - y , I know that many of • ' • • TES Dereurases - of the country have been °Much -members- that many of • the greatest ones, too, have been professors of religion, active, in church administration, and regular in theireetend- mace on She Sanctuary. How do 1 acconnt for it ?. Easily enough. Religion has been teehnically interpreted ' mid technically 'be- lievect It has been pie:tolled as if it consisted of a set of notions -a series of opinions•held. by theologiane, a catalogue of historical faces . , , ora number of teachings formulated into a creed. 1 have told. you, my people, time and again t that Christianity is more than these --that it is life ; that it is spirit; that it is Maracter. . I have taught you well. In the great , day -when all human nthehings - • made in the Divine nettle shall be passed in review, whatever errors of mine may,apeear I arcefearleeely certain that the definition of Chrietianity, which I have published unto you, will be approvedand confirmed. by Him • • • in whose life and Character is found i s per. ersonis found feat expreesion, and in whose p , , its first embodiment. The conscience of the r has not been reinforced as it hould count y , „ s have been from the pulpit. Theologies have been preached and Christianity fergetten ; but I tell you and I call upon earth and , . heaven alike to' heer my speech, I tell you piety is not in vain. It represents the powe7 of the human soul in ile most just, holy, and • • T1 o ' e• tiib ' the Most sublime moots. . 1, . ott t., etc High isnot i 9 efficien t -t , .- , mge t he beat t sea and shape the:conduct ; , aliTil if you throw the teriehinde Of , tlip, - .1,111,-,.1,,, ,,,,1.4. _ . and turn our minds to the dIrection t „ e y.... . . . _ . ask - of the terent Xaster as to ieow to live, . ing for theDieinead as yenned, there will come ntwledge i*. Your mimeo such knoof . duty, and to your souls sue* holyeouguags for and. clivine courage to do the right and true thing, that you 8411 be able to shied in the evil 47, and having doneall to etand. The evil days are peened, therefore ; the good and blessed days are come, The man. try still lives. Her 'future is eecurnmed the people are being turned, by the providezices to d • 'E f 0. • . Q , unto rig Weenies% On the crest o the eastern hills you can see the line of fire which tells that the sun is rising. The clouds that have bun like 4 pall above us are breakingena and reelturg away. The fresh, strong 'muds of 4 new 46.y are beginning to mat e „urine trivigeraeon is dug own ' A d' • " t" * be' IA upon us. Breatbiug of it we ellen neeeme stronger; we Mall have strength to rim the race ; we shall win; we shall be crowned. • • d - And where having home our stripes an ent (lured our trials, we hone come to the hour f ' -. o the supreme deliverance foam earthly toils the old Pauline coura e will breek .• . . g ' . forth frona our 11 m exulteteon and we ,. „ -.. - h Ps ' I, ' e Sean seen " tv e -eve fought the good t.ght ; we have kept the faith ; we heee thelehed " h f It' laid f the course - ence ort there is z up or ., -;, .„, • esc. which the lewd TicTwn..,„„,0.4 r =LT it - '-' - " 44 g"' l'ia .9" 1 . „ „ . _ „. .„ . ..,„ ... P rouum off:A-RIK A NI= 1. --- .4 oubeiniatlaa, uzir Amajoged by Te0i 41. 7 , llten.-4. terreateentese lie theiltaren Te le th t helm • tin •• 0 celtereou be - ef e a • ene bear. is too stupid. and sleepy to be dengo 011SgreAsbered by Foremen 3obubre'l an three other awn employed in the. Vietori ntinernorth shore of Lake Superior, Nei and hie grew went into an abandoned oross cut from, the tunnel to dean it out -mince tory to pushing if...ahead toittrikee vent the , , , . _ ,,..... Wet Peen nue on eneteer levee teintone over some Wien rook and theibeze the; awoke a big bear that had made a eomfart ettie Rinke den futile drift - Tbe bear was fell of fixe and fight. Ife did, not %tepee his imunchee andeenowl es • - the ininere after the fashicei of storeeboot heed Arne witesuch slid. beers, but . . . . .. .... denuess that no cue bed time to get out ei is may or . . y o etema . Ines . et, h' • do an f tie re tie' th 1 the regula_ tion bear storiee preseribe. X ./.' Le t, 11 ti f the be ' ' el It e roe° ec ou * guetttof of the maim: is tlaat at the first, jemp tin be k keel It tit utb 4 ' ar nee . we or ree Q , e par 1 d tli t U f th di t own, au . e. a but One 9 . 4 Can 41 went out- Oleo bulled for 0 Leif tannte4,_ bin Pon 01. '''' g tub ouge ' g 11 • • e ground, glene 1 eu , to roma 4 y mute ewes of Mea 1 badly " d ' add bear. Dougherty. one of the miners was lying senseless and etivered witla bleed. Tht bear bed struck biro on the head in the fled and tom one° higgetat part oi Wee:041p, nt • hen .. eil serambled to hie feet the hem w het h' d th tit f d ife, as . ween man a Man 0 the r and the two other miners were striking at the beast with their roles. Neil attacked bruin in the rear and tried to drive thepoint of a pick UM his ca " but mixed by an pine, , , • e ' ' • . eich, and inflicted only a fleet% wound. The bear wheeled instantly, roaring tievegely, and, struck at Neil, but failed to rettell Mtn, n lump 00 CAS 0 41,01 e ow e I . 1 et ha, 1- t • 'd tli bl Neil stepped -upon the solitary :muttering easulle and nut out the light, and the rest, of the battle was fought iii • the dark, The fight lemma a mixture of growls and howls from.the hear, thuds of the pities and . cries of pain and warning frern mere Whom- ever a man thought the bear was within reach he strnek 43 hard as he coull with his pielt, Sometimes the blow latetled and some times it didn't. Whenever the hear hoed a man. mOre he ravized in that dire -diem, and be charged abaut to men pee effect that the Men conducted tent he could see to some degree in the &anew. He frequently steack them withlais claws, but the atetaulte upon him were so etottiMMILIS that he never had time to pey exclusive atteution to one adversary. The Ught, tested about an hour, as nearly as the men could gueee at the throe anal was ended by a lucky blow of a ielesupon the spine at the base of the bear's bmin. .•,.,--,.. ...---e----„,„ Poor ben Done For. And now theyette that, insteed of belt)? a h • g 1 ee. bet ermine, oen 9 re onge to t etpeet iar Ims It o t th t t' k • e It WU a e present Me itS °rasa 5, that the voices ahe hoed in the woods of Domrenty were the hallucinations of 4 dint ordered intellect. Ifer vide to Governor Boudricourt so aunoyed him thee he I 1 ' • • ler on to the there of the deepen,. ler the mere purpose of getting rid of, her, where in turn the dauphin. dreteted her up in tumor fee the aunteerneet et the 04) t TIM 1,0010 . tar t - °taste even go so far as to assert thee the consecrated sword which wee tomtit per troan's dine:tide buried, in the Ohurcli of St. Catharine at Flerboia, and which was pre- sented to her by the dauphin, had been planted thereby handle of ordivary flail and blood. They further asiert that alwilid not lead. the army to the relief of Weenie but merely went along like a vivandiere. They scoff at the story that the eoldiera who tied tide abueed lady te, A, gene in, the merleet place at Rouen were %ruck dead. Se the uedicatious are that the great French here. ine will bone to get down °trot her pedestal and follow William Tell, Quilitiue Curtius et al. Meeeeval history is rapitily losing its brightest stars through the Irreverent in• vestigations of the modern quidnunc. It now totem like it was a mere wetter et time until American history is attacked in tha.‘ same way and. these individuate will be pre, eared to prove that Patrick Henry never made a speech, that no cherries grew at the Washington homestead, and that the John Smith-Porethorees story was due to the fer• tile imagination of some special correapetn. dent. 40101.40., AMmviVNOROMPVW0V0,416..1. WACO% The Leueet of London, one of the ablest medieal journals in the world, has the f41,1 lowing to say about the utte of taw* let bays: "We are not in the least surprised to find it stated that a coneiderable nronortion oi - 1..-1,- .u. . 0 the boys 'meekest' examined art e tut States le Y j t d the of aVy are re ea 4 on 0 scare .... ' weaknees of the heart,' awl thattitits amine be attributed to the habit of smoking cigar. ettes As we pointed out, when first &rect. ' lug attention to the %deject, the sphygnice gine& shows a peculiar unfluence to be, exert. • • • 1 - ed by the smoking of tobaceopartiemar y In - e pule, tho form of eineettes ou the epartly e . ' . , heart's • duo to the depression of the ;totem and tartlet to the I of the vasomotor tone . ,e - . in tne arteries. ose practitioners who do Tb t It b' 11 tua. v use the sphe-gmograph in their nO. , astly work, but coutent themselves with sim 1 -feeling the pulse with the finger, may _A! _ n.1be o ne IS a ae -,, nes ert ' e f ti ' fact. It 1 t • theless To -be sedative action of tobacco * ' . . on the heart may possibly be due that agree. able sense of quiettede audof t000ling'whieb is cornmeal ' d h k" y experience W en smo zng in the heat of summer. "The points for which we are now are especially' santionS to caU considerationum these : (1) The influence of to coo is apparently eumulative. A warningnense • in She excessive use of tobacco generally too ate. e cmgar or =matte may 1 Th — ,Pnit . . ga • •-• and - im aid aside, but the depressing name - ating effeetincreasesfor some time. Never- th I there ' lid to supposevalid reason tobacco or nicotine does not actually accumulate. ( ) 'uneaten o the nerve ' f centres as by oxidation seems to intensify ' , effects of tobacco when once token into the • . system. On .going out into the ear, and breathing quickly, the characteristic sent melons are nearly always for a time aggro. - . weed (3) A cigar or cimmette smoked • n through a fine tube is generally "Stronger" 113 . . its Influence than the same smoked with- out a tube. These three results of observa. tion and experiment seem to suggest the conclusion that the action of tobacco is topical as regards the nerves, the afferent ra icals being first acted upon, and when tt these are brought under its influence the centres being. affected from the periphery. In. short, we incline to think tobacco is not absorbed, or if it be, its action is not due to absorption; but that it operates as a 'peripheral sedative, like cocaine, and pro - duces its general effects, as owe stops the sense of hunger, by 1:tumbling the nerves of the stomach, the central effects being se. condttry, and to some exteut reflexe, - ------- 'Arrest ot a " Dead " Man, • • , A curious case of fraud has just come to light at Duna:berg, Russia. The police have, according 'to an official report, just arrested " a dead man who has been in the country for fifteen years." The explanation of the mystery is that sonie fifteen years ago a man named Davide:ate in order to esaape the .• . . 'conscription, paid a sum of 5000 - roubles th certain functionaries of the synagogue for a . certificate attesting his death and buriee according to the deenth jaw. He himeelf • took the papers to the proper authorities, and thee saw his own name struck froni the list of the nen-tits for the army. lie sabse. Timely marriech, and is now at the head 'oe a numerous family. Unfortunately, soiaa little time ago he had a warm , dieenssiot, With the funetionariee. of the synagegue ex regard to an honorary position to whien he deeined. himself entitled, and the latter, to • • , gee rid of his pestering demands, ,dwi,ouneed Inxii to the Government. Date:dim lies aecordingly been arrested, and wieestraittet. way be put on his trial before the military . . ‘ wathottnes.• His denunciators are also to be. as accent ' • • proceeded against places. -..- Rediscovered. Walter Besent descant in a. London journal his visit to the recently discovered remains of a Roman eity at Silehester, in Kent, England. The Antiquaries' Seeley i ex vatin h. s ea g the place in anti:ens, W le 1 after being studied and sketched, are coy. erect again for preservation, "'Sou might look earths that flat land ta right and left," saya Mr. Beane% "and. never dream that a toot or two below the surface lie the foundations and floors and tesselated pavements of a great city, of which not a tradition or memory survives." The tosvn was built in spare blocks which can be treed:I:where: the corn is stand! ing. The most interesting part of the place is the Forum, the official centre of the town. Here are the great Basilica, a hall two hundred and eighty feet Ion chamb rs far - -I) g' e legal and publics usiness, and the shepa where the business of the city was carried on. A perfect groune plan. of a erne, has been laid bare. The tenant of this house, which was probably of one story only, had a cloister built around three aides of a qua - a 1fourth" ' rang e, theside remaining open ; it enclosed it small garden; a large garden lay outside. Behindthe cloister were largerooms, those for winter being warmed by bot -air pipes connecting with. great underground stoves which can be sem. Behind these chambers was another cloister, and at the back were , kitchen, pantry and larder. The large area occupie. d by this one a. vie seems to mdicate that the population could n h bb ever ave been ve great; ut This may very have been an exceptionally large house. A h great stone wall stretches around t e town, an area of e ere hundred aores. He Had Renzi Enough. "1 heard, through a literary friend of mine," remarked a man with a lofty fore- head as he entered the editorial office with a firm, determined step, " that you were in of a good corresponding editor, one who can answer the various questions sent in to the paper by your readers. The editor lighted a cigar. . e You have been rightly infornted," said he. "We do want a corresponding editor Are you well informed 2" he continued. o yes, sir." . . , ee am glad of it, for frequently our come- is obliged to answer a couple of dozen inquiries inside of half an hour. New, we vrill begin the competitive ex- sanination." • - • Glancing at the letters which he had in hand the editor asked; •. e t 11 hat .was the date of the fine Fmk war?" ' The applicant'blushed. "I'm sure .1 can't remember jest now," he faltered. . • " Indeed 2 Here is another Of what -re- ligion Was Diana de Pottiers ?" "1-1 couldn't say." ' '' Will you phrase give me the exact dimensions of Waterloo, Bridge and the name of the first man who passed over it?" "N-ob right away." ' " Be kind enough to print. in your paper a cure for erysipelas, toothache ahd. headache . . The spplicant Was visibly staggered. "I never studied medicine," he answered, . "A corresponding editor is 'supposed to indied ever thin " severely said the have s, . y g, editor, " end to be able to give replies upon She spot. Here few more., s you are a• ee if can ' give replies to any of them: "At what age did Martin Luther grow a _e, mustache. "'Is. there any law preventing one from marrying his grandmother's niece 9,, • ' " 'What is the last style of dressing the . . .,,, , nand , . " 1 1Vhat day did. the 13th of November, et., f p, 0 h, , bm? - ""a0blin e b ' • . g me y But the editor was interrupted by Abe .. . , ahmwant. . , .. ' I -I don't think I cl do for a coerespond- ing editor," he stied, and his lofty forehead looked sad as he walked out. . = , . . . . -....-7.-........_............. . School elaildr,m an Victoria Austnilia -e S ... , . , , , „ narried on the tramcars free . . _. ..._ .... ' A Base Deception. . A correspondent of the Fetal. Field and , Stockman tells how to get rid. of eats : 1,,Illt u all the ol li :reel Firse , p d c , ems en the farm ; if there are not etototh of them go , . , . , , e , ,_ to the nearest jiink shop end bey' them ,, „ Place them at thereeholee end run ways so that the tees cannot' avoid goieg ever , them. Alter they have laid amend for two or three- clays get a dozer. or two of good . , e Steel traps and set thernm place of the hoe -G- . ., shoes and:whenever you ,catch it eat moya the trap to another 'place, het ho pore to put a shoe in its place. The,s;atiii Vrill s.‘ton . become disgusted and leave. A. week= 34 . will clean thou. all out. and then ree tee , , . . g . , ., t t bane un your trAns till thev• 4'•.filr3tt fe0a111.