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'Recent Matters of Interest in the
Metropolis Delineated by
Fen and PencilTrouble
Over a Rich Woman's
Will?Jay Gould and His
Partners, etc., etc.
[Special New York Letter.]
The name of Charles Morgan, owner
of Morgan's Louisiana and Texas HailToad
and Steamship Line, and likewise
pthe possessor of several millions of cash,
'was at one time a familiar name over the
States, but like so many other names of
note, had dropped out or mmu suun
After his de:th, in May, 1879, until
iforought up by the death of his widow
at Saratoga last July, and is again before
ihe public from the curious developments
(arising from the settlement of the estate
and the sale of over a million and a half
dollars worth of paintings and etchings
which has been put on the market and
disposed of to the highest bidder.
CHARLES MORGAN.
When Mr. Morgan died he called his
relatives around his bedside and gave
rthem sums ranging from $100,000 to
-$300,000 each in cash, trustiu^ that this
method would prevent any squabble over
ihis millions after death, of which he had
fS great dread, and then, leaving a will
which simply prescribed that all his
property should be divided among his
Sheir3-at-law according to the laws of
.ENew York, he passed quietly away,
trusting that the usual fight would be
Avoided, and that he had outwitted the
'legal fraternity for once and thus prevented
a fair divide with the lawyers of
his hard-earned money.
But he reckoned without his host, and
ihad scarcely time for a safe passage
across the stormy Styx before the batteries
of the law were brought to bear
against the bulwarks of his wealth, and
the law came in for its inevitable share
of the inheritance. Several of the heirs
who had'nt been present when the gifts
.were being distributed, sued for a reversion
of them back to the estate, claiming
that undue influences were at work or
Mr. Morgan would not have adopted this
> extraordinary course of leave-taking and
gift-making, and the matter has been in
-court ever since, and there isn't mush
probability that it will ever get out in
this generation unless the estate gives
out. His widow, Mrs. Mary Jane Mor gan,
raised a fund of over a million, about
!$1 ,200,000, from the fortunate ones who
received the cash gifts, which was to be
rusea in fighting the unfortunate ones
who didn't get any, and then, if the at.torneys
for another set of suits arising
from her death are to be believed, she
herself became the special subject for
undue inlluences, and proceeded to give
away a fortune of several millions with
as little compunction as ordinary mortals
give pennies to poor beggers.
MRS. MART JANE MORGAN.
Among other tilings which it is said
she gave away may be mentioned a
regular gift of $30,000 per year to her
business agent, beside his ordinary commissions.
Becoming a patron of remarkably
high art, she invested $1,199,;000
in paintings, also $400,000 in etchrings,
and over $100,000 in decorated
^plates, paying as much as $:),:J00 for a
idozen dinner plates. Then she
fbought over a quarter of a million
of dollars worth of orchids, which
csvere recently sold at about ten per cent.
:Of their cost, to people who hadn't as
imuch idea of these plants as Mrs.
iMorgan. She paid $15,000 for decorating
her second floor front room, $11,i000
for frescoing her parlor, and $41,>000
for the wood paneling of her hallway.
Then she spent over a million
and a half with a single jeweler's firm in
six years for trinkets, and how muck
[more went in various ways is not known
rto date. But the most remarkable thing,
And one which the heirs are raising
^trouble over, is the way in
which thoy claim a certain min
ftster of this city profited by his ac
fquaintancewith the widow, an.i her generosity.
This gentleman at one time wai
(the pastor of a small church in this city,
jmd although not of the same faith as
Mnrrran. hf? bfiinir a Presbyterian
(And she an Episcopalian, he had the good
tfortune to preach the funeral sermon ol
lier husband, and then became acquainted
with Mrs. M. The attorneys for the
administrator claim that by his subsequent
acquaintance he profited very materially,
giving much spiritual advice it
.exchange therefor. They say that his
present abode on Thirty-fourth streel
was presented to him by Mrs. Morgan al
a cost of $i)7,000?$52,000 for the prop
ierty and $45,000 for the furniture?thai
fihe supplied him with the mone]
to live upon in this elegant home,
and that she at various times gave hin
j;ifts of money, the largest being a gifl
.MUI-IVU ..Uv.
avoiding lawsuits among the heirs after j
her dea'.h by disposing of most of the ;
property as she pleased while living,and !
leaving but little to fight over. As it is, j
here seems to be about three millions j
left of her estate, taking her investments j
in art, cliini, etc., at the amounts paid j
for them. As much of it is not worth j
half what it cost, however, it is diilicult i
to say what will really be realized from
it, and the J-ale of the paintings it is
hoped will bring a much better proportionate
sum than did the sale of the orchids,
some of the paintings costing as
high as $23,0 JO each. The complete
failure of Mr. Morgan's idea of avoiding
lawsuits over his wealth is only one more
evidence that some way ought to be
provided whereby wealthy people can
die happy in the consciousness that what
they leave will rcach those to whom
they leave it without a struggle at law.
Once ngain it is definitely reported
that Jay Gould is about to retire from
Wall street, at the expiration of his partnership
with the firm of W. E. Connor &
Co. The report is sustained by Mr.
Connor, who has been Gould's partner
W. E. CONNOR.
| for the past ten years, together with Mr.
! Morosini and GeoTge Gould, Jay Gould's
! son. It is claimed that Gould put in
j ?230,000, Connor and Morosini ?100,000
each, and that George Gould was admitted
' in 18S1 without paying a cent. Giovanni
Morosini, it is also stated, will retire from
| tho firm upon the expiration of the present
partnership. Nobody knows defii
nately how much Jay Gould will retire
i with, but his wealth is placed at from
4-y-v eivf r Y>-\ 111'r\nc Prnrvhnfl V
lUi bj tu OlAij iuiii?vuo? a-, ? v. %T ^ v ~ b,
i thought Gould was c'.ose to the
wall during the few duys following
the Grant & Ward failure, and his ruin
was predicted by many on the street.
He was in fact badly pinchcd, and
brought out security after security from
safe deposit vaults to help him out.
The bears smote him heavily on the
right cheek then, but just as they thought
he intended turning the left cheek also
! and taking his loss calmly, he sprung a
mine in Missouri Pacific cn the oversold
j market, rushed it up from sixty-five
cents to par, ruined several operators
who had been working for his fall, and
squeezed others unmercifully, coming
out of the whole deal ahead instead of
ruin. Nearly every broker will rejoice
to see him leave the street, since most of
them have discovered by experience that
the old colored man had him specially in
mind when he said that the ''white man
j was mighty unsartin.'' Gould has been
| on Wall street since 1SG:J, and has been
such a connndrum during the last twentytwo
years that all who tried to solve him
gave it up in disgust. At varirous times
| almost every operator on the street has
; had a tilt with him, and sooner or later
! reached the inevitable conclusion
i that he was too sharp for them,
| and the ones who reached this
| soonest, lost the least money. The only
j thing which Gould went into that he
: failed to get out of at par was the daily
! nnwsmnw lnicinf'QQ Affr.nr nuttinf
I 1 a
several hundred thou:aud dollars into it,
i buying several new presses, and sinking
i considerable money in editorial talent,
be was very glad to get out of it alive,
it is said, and stick to railroads and
Western Union.
r j COLONEL MAPLESON*.
i Colonel Mapleson, the famous operatic
1 manager, closed the Italian opera season
here this year several weeks before it
was sunnosftd he would. The colonel
J has been in this business for thirty-live
, ; years, and has managed all the principal
> singers during that time at one time or
i another, and has had perhaps as many
I rows with divine prima donnas from
f Patti down, as any one man is entitled
to. The German opera at the Metro'
politan opera house has left Itr.liau opera
: in the shade this Eeason, however, and
! consequently the colonel bids farewell to
t j New York this time with sadness and no
i: great expectations for the future unless
i j the millionaires again take an interest in
t, the revival of this style of opera. If bus
i iness gets so dull that Colonel Mapleson
II has nothing else to do, he might write a
r book descriptive of operatic life behind
, the scenes, as experienced by himself,
i Written with reference to facts, such a
t book would lind a ready sale among
of .$600,000 in government bonds some j
eighteen months sigo. Although to date ,
no will has come to light, it is claimed
that one was written by a lawyer of this
city giving the bulk of her property to
the reverend gentleman, although this is
not believed by the heirs, as the will
has not bL'en produced. The property
has dwindled so materially that a pretty
light is looked for to account for the
missing millions, since it appears that
even if her investments in paintings, etc.,
are accepted at the value paid lor them,
there still remain some two or three
millions unaccounted for. The clergyman
refuses to state anything about the
matter for the benefit of the public, and
live3 in ease and contentment within
his elegant home, letting the heirs and
.ittorncvsdo all the worrying. With two
set3 of lawyers hammering away at the j
great estate, ono trying to prove that i
Mr. .Morgan was unduly influenced, and
the other endeavoring to show that Mrs.
Morgan also labored under this exclusively
wealthy people's coraphiut, the
end of a large fortune cannot be defij
nitely foreseen as reaching the heirs to
any extent. Some think that Mrs.
I n-no onrrtinrr nilfc an idea Of I
lovers of music who hope to rcach tho
altitudes of high opera?there are about
5,000 in this city?and also arnoug a
curious public who would like to know
if opera singers really do drink sweet oil
to give their voices mellowness, eat nothing
for four hours before the performance
begins, stuff cotton in their mouths to
keep the cold out when going to their
carriages, and hate each otheras cordially
as it is generally reported they do to the
outside world.
The features of the late Thomas A.
Hendricks, Vice-President of the nation,
are well known to the country, but
MRS. TITOS. A. HENDRICKS,
those of his devoted wife, are not. Mrs.
Hendricks traveled with her husband
through all the hotly contested
campaign of last year which
elected him to the vice-presidency, and
she is reported as having the politics of
the country at her finger ends through
her intercourse with various politicians
at "Washington and elsewhere. Between
herself and her husband the warmest at
tacliment is said to have existed, but all
who knew them both personally, and
she made his home life so thoroughly
cnjoj^able that lie was loth to leave it for
: the gaitics of "Washington during his
residence there in his -various official
! c apacities. It is siid that he was so de|
voted lo her that on the last visit they
made to Chicago, a short time before his
death, he accompanied her upon her
shopping expeditions to the various .
s lores.
The ce!e!>rated dynamite gun, with its
sixty-foot bnrrclhasjustbeentriedatFort
Lafayette, in New York harbor, and !
threw a dynamite shell containing 100
pounds of this explosive two miles down
the bay. When it struck the water it
exploded, and a column of spray rose
150 feet high, while dead fish rose to
the surface all around within a radius of
100 feet from where the shell struck.
One shell containing fifty pounds of dynamite
exploded at the bottom of the
bay, eighty feet below the surface, a few
bubbles announcing the fact, while
another containing the same amount
failed to explode, and will be hunted for
by some daring diver who is willing to
risk handling it at the bottom of the bay.
Altogether the gun is considered a success,
and representatives of Turkey,
Chiua, and other people who went to see
| it, are reported as convinced that dynami
ite will become a powerful agency in
j naval warfare of the future.
There yet remains about ten thousand
! dollars to be raised for the completion
of the model of the Bartholdi statue or
liberty, which i9 to be presented to the
city of Paris by Americans, in return for
the statue of liberty sent here. It will
j co.-t about twenty thousand dollars, and
I half of it has already been raised. It is
proposed to raise the rest by popular
subscription in this country.
It is said that Jay Gould's incomc
when he leaves Wall street will be two
million dollars per annum. His most
intimate friends think this will keep the
wolf from the door, without getting up
any charity fairs iu his behalf.
SriHTO Gextil.
Dnplicftteil Names In Congress. '
In the present Congress the pairs of
names are John J. Adams, of .New York,
and George E. Adams, of Chicago.
There is a Brown from Ohio, Democrat;
Brown from Pennsylvania, Republican,
and General Browne, from Indiana, also
a Republican. Mr. Anderson, of Kansas,
Republican, can pair with .Mr. Anderson,
i of Ohio, Democrat, on all political quesj
tions, and, for that matter, so can John
j and George Adams. In the last. Congress
J the Jones family was the most numerous,
: there being four Democrats of that name.
The Campbells and Taylors have that
! honor in the Forty-ninth Congress,
j There is Felix Campbell, from Brooklyn,
I and Tim Campbell, from New York; J.
I E. Campbell, from Ohio, all Democrats,
and J. M. Campbell, from Pennsylvania,
I Republican. Ohio and Tennessee furnish
! four Taylors, three of whom are Hcpubi
licans. Florida and Alabama each furj
nish a democratic Davidson, audArkanI
sas and Kentucky keep alive the memory
| of John C. Breckinridge with sous of the
Vice-President from those States. Maryland
and West Virginia send two members
of the Gibson family, Illinois and
Ohio each a Republican Henderson,
while North Carolina sends a Democrat
of that name. The Jones family is limited
to one from Alabama and one from Texas.
There is a St. Martin from Louisiana and
a Mr. Martin from Alabama. Mr. Johnson.
of New York, Republican, will have
Mr. Johnson, of Indiana, and Mr. Johnson,
of North Carolina, for companions
on the roll. The House will have two
democratic Wards?one from Illinois,
the other from Indiana. Mr. Stone, of
Massachusetts; Mr. Stone, of Kentucky,
and Mr. Stone, of Missouri, the last two
Democrats, have the hardest name of any
of the members of tlia Forty-ninth Congress.
Mr. Warner, of Ohio, comes with his
silver bill, and a democratic Warner he
is against Mr. Warner, a new member
from Missouri, who does not agree with
his Ohio namesake in politics or on the
-:i "VT.. ('rnnn nf Vfti th
silver uiu'onuu. vuvtu, v> ^w>>u
Carolina, has a companion from New
Jer.-ey of that name, and Mr. Heed, of
Maine, will not want his name and vote
confounded with that of the Democrat
from North Carolina, who spells his
name Reid. Mr. O'Neill, from Philadelphia,
is a Republican. The other O'Neill
is .from St. Louis and a Democrat. Be:
tween Mr. Thomas of Illinois and Mr.
Thomas of Wisconsin there need be no
doubt as to their political views, for both
are republicans. Mr. Millard of New
! York and Mr. Miller of Texas, are of opI
posite politics, the latter a Democrat.
I Iowa and Nebraska furnish two Weavers.
Of the 310 members only one will be
Heard in the present Congress, and that
is John T., from Missouri.?1\ew York
Herald.
The great Mexican volcano Popocatepetl
has just been remeasured and
found to be 17,800 feet above the sea.
The crater, which is completely obscured
within by sulphurous vapor, is about
two and one-half miles in circuit and
1,000 feet deep. The entire center of
the top of the mountain seems to bo
solid sulphur, which is deposited at the
rate of a ton a day.
" P1PITTIU?
Beeclier 011 the Lesson of Love?
" Self-Culture" ? Pulpit and
Press.
Mr. Talmage's regular Sunday sermon not
being forthcoming, wo give the following
resume of sermons preached by three prominent
ministers?Revs, flenry Ward Beeclier
and Charles R. Baker, of Brooklyn, and Rev.
R. Heber Newton, of New York:
JYir, needier on tlie Lesson of Love*
The deepest emotion that man could experience,
said Mr. Beecher in his sermon, was
loving. There was a wide diirerenco between
it and liking or admiring. Love was the
bright star about which all nature was revolving.
At present we were seeing the early
morning of love. Other ages would see the
brightness of the dawn and of the noontime.
The supposed proper Christian query was,
"Do you love Christf" and the orthodox answer
was, "I humbly hoj:e I do." ''I humbly
believe he don't." said Mr. Beecher. Such
talk was cant. He despisad the man who
signed himself, "Yours, in the love of Christ."
How should ordinary men bo able to love
Christy There could be established an ideal
of Christ by the study of His life, which
could be admired and love.l just as the poet
or the painter or the warrior studied their
ideals in past age?, made themselves familiar
with them and came to admire and love them
as personalities.
But feeling was only the stream that
turned the wheel of operation continually.
Love transmuted into conduct was love still,
but in another form. Even the mother love,
at first a (lame, changed into a careful attendance
upon the child, a making it comfortable
and happy. So it was with the love
of Christ. The true way to love Him was to
transmute love intD conduct and obey all the
commandments of God.
But the reply to this is, "I have no love to
begin on." This was the troublo with the
average man. But as emotion could be
transmuted into conduct, so conduct in turn
could be transmuted into love. A good many
years ago Mr. Beecher aroused the ire of a
Boston preacher by saying that the practice
of moral duties would produce morality and
love. The criticism of the Boston preacher?
' 'tpl-in wn? in cnm? r?<snr>i'>fcs vapv t.ill and oth
ers very small"?was that Mr. "Beecher'ureed
insincerity at first in order to develop truth.
The answer to that was that a child had to
creep before it could walk.
Conduct generated the reason of the conduct.
A great clod wLo came from the country
ani violated all the rules of good society
might sneer at the suggestion that ho put on
lighter boots and more fitting raiment, and
satirical.}* inquire whether refinement was a
matter of clothing. But very soon, when ho
had changed his garb and tried, in a mechanical
way at first, to subscribe to society's
usages,"he would appreciate the logic of those
I usages.
God came to men through godlikeness?
through those elements in the;r nature that
were like His own. If a man would love
Christ he must go to school and ltarn how;
he must acquire tho9e godlike elements in the
school of trying and keeping the commandments
of God. It would be verv easy for him,
Mr. Beecher said, to till his church even more
than it was. Ho could have a revival and
work his hearers up to a high pitch of religious
enthusiasm and let them go away with
the impression that all that was needful was
to come into ti.e ark and then let the flood
come. In that way there could be vast additions
to the membership of the church, but
would there be any increase in grace? Not a
bit.
Dr. Newton on ''Culture.'?
The Rev. R. Heber Newton, in All Souls
church, West Forty-eighth street, Now York,
preached his last sermon of the series on
"Culture" to a very large congregation. <;lt's
aids to the moral and religious life" was the
subject selected. Culture, the preacher said,
outflanks the carnal man and indirectly, but
-* ?ii- *?a. 4.1? n r 1
most eiieciuatiy, whits against me nt-su. ueuu
this brute man up on the plane of spiritual
being, open to him the delights of intellect,
pie noble joys of thought and imagination, the
ricli resources of knowledge, the heavenly
pleasures of the worship oi truth and beauty,
and you free him from the absolute slavery
; of the appetites and passions. What monstrous
animals were our dear ancestors of a
few generations back! Seo those flaxenhaired,
blue eyed Saxons of our motherland
a thousand years ago feasting over whole
bullocks, draining deep flagons,
stuih'ng and swilling until they drop
asleep under tlse table, and then going
i forth in the morning to butcher one another
i by way of giving themselves "a constitu!
tional" against another revel! We talce our
pleasures now in the library and the museum,
the picture gallery and music hall. That
mighty bruto of the Saxon period has grown
a head and his vast body lias shrunk in the
process. To convert good society to purity
and the proletariat to sobriety one thing
would be found of immediate influence?a
little more intellectual life.
Culture is an antiseptic to worldliness.
Vanity Fair is open here in Now York all the
year round, except when it adjourns to Saratoga
and Newport. We must needs all pass
' * 1- -*i. 1 u.. 1 u..4> iP
! uirougu its uvtiiiuub uuu uy its uuuius, uui, ll
i we would not be seduced into tarrying amid its
j fascinations, we must have before us some noi
ble aim, in whose pure, high light the garish
! glory of the scene shall pale into the cheap brilI
lianco of tinseled pleasures and spangled
' splendors, as of a stage when the gas is
j turned out and the daylight steals in. Or.e
cannot seo the intrinsic shallowness ami baldness
and vulgarity of the court of Mammon
unless he can look down upon it from
the Olympian circle, where Horaor, Plato,
Circero, Dante, Shakespeare, Bacon, Darwin,
Emerson, and the glorious hosts of the immortals
walk the heights ot being in the discourse
of the gods. A little high thinking
and deep feeling will make one content with
very plain living. Science, which the church
denounced and banned, has emancipated religion
from the dungeon of superstition and
lias restored it to the sunshine. How has it
come to pass that men have ceased to believe
In tlia t.prrnrc nf mprlinfvn.1 ht>]I ^ Thav
havo simply outgrown such a conception.
The churches go on repenting the old langungo
about false religion, claiming still a
monopoly of grace, but church members live
enough in tha great world of thought toknow
that virtue grows in India as in England;
that faith and hope and charity blosiom in
Japan as in America.
If ycu want to rise into a noble and gracious
religion, a serene and sunny faith, cultivate
your mind at the same time you are
feeding your soul. Deepen your inner life in
a mission, and then widen your outlook in a
generous course of reading. Adjourn for ten
years, my young friend, all questions about
dogmas and sacraments, and give your spare
energies to some systematic self-cultivation;
and you will find these questions, like the letters
which Napoleon used to keep for a month,
have answered themselves. You will have
climbed out of the valley whore men strive
over such matters, upon the bill-top, where
the steeple of the meeting house is no longer
tho centre of t'.io panorama, but whore, above
the broad and breezy sweep of earth, the
stars shimmer and tho h?avens open. Culture
has a very impressive bearing on ono of
the prime duties of religion. Our whole
I inner being carries over into the future
life intellect as well as conscience.
We are to capitalize immortality with mind
as well as with character. Until of late the
intellectual aspect of immortality has been
wholly overshadowed by its moral aspect. A
man may wander through the New Jerusalem
much as he once wandered listlessly through
London or Nuremburg, seeing in heaven little
more of its real beauty than he once saw
of Switzerland's glories. O119 may remember
a town by its hotel, another by its madr-nna,
each having found there the provision for
what ho took with him?a stomach or a brain.
A man may yawn in heaven, nn 1 when he
has seen the golden streets, and the pearly
gates, think that helms "done" the new Jerusalem,
or those pearly gates may open to
him an npocalvpse of elory and every step
along the goldon pavements be buoyant with
the rapture of delight,' overy g'imDse a something
to come back and to study with an exuberant
joy that knows 110 satiety. Swtxlenborg's
instructive teaching on this point have
been well followed up by the higher teaching
of spiritualism.
Moral Rcftponslbllily of tlie Press,
At the Church of the Messiah, Greene and
Clermont avenues, Brooklyn,the Rev. Charles
R. Baker, pastor, preached the last of a series
of public Sunday lectures on prominent questions
of the day, his subject being "The
Moral Responsibility of the Press."
The reverend gentleman took for his text
Phillppians, iv., 8?"Finally, brethren, whatsoever
things are true, whatsoever things are
honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure, whatsoever things are
lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;
If there !be any virtue and if there be any
praise, think on these things." The human
race, said the preacher, had reached its manhood
in the nineteenth century. It was remarkable
that the advance had not been
carried on in one unbroken line of heredity?
that the lino in which progress first manifested
itself did not carry it on and up to
completion. Greece gave to the West what
it had received from the East. God gave it
to the Greek to awaken and develop
in us the instinct for beauty.
He gave it to the Greek to
awaken and develop in us the instinct for
law and order. He gavo it to the Teuton to
awaken ana develop mus tnesterner sense or
responsibility?the more sensitive conscience.
The advanced humanity of to-day had in it
these three elements combined?love of the
beautiful, respect for law and order, and the
sensitive conscience were combined.
In producing tliese characteristics, or
ralher in developing these latent instincts,
there was in each ageaspecial agency. There
was the drama among the Greeks and there
was the pulpit among the later Romans.
The drama had been the principal educator in
the one case, the pulpit had been the principal
educator in the other. As the drama
suffered by the rise of the Roman power, so
the pulpit suffered by the invention of printing.
In the last mentioned stagje of development,
the Germanized stage, the present
stage, the special educative agency was the
press. The rule of the editor of a great newspaper
was more real, more absolute than
that of any president or any bishop. To
know Greek life it was necessary to read
the Greek drama. To know the latter
form and character of Latin life it was necessary
to read the masterpieces of the Latin
pulpit. Bo to know the character of modern
life you must resort to the files of the newspapers.
It was a peculiarity of this teaching
which reflected from day to day public
thought and feeling; that each reader found,
or thought he found his own thoughts, his
own feelings. If you know which of the
dailies a man reads you can easily guess at
his opinions.
With power comes responsibility. In proportion
to the influence exorcised by the
press in ^shaping men's thought?, in molding
men's characters, so was the responsibility
of those who manaee the Dress. For cood
or for evil, for time and eternity, editorial
writers and managers of newspapers were
influencing millions of people daily. They
could not get rid of the responsibility. A
man who would preach the Gospel was justly
called upon to examine himself as to the rectitude
and unselflhness of his motives. How
much more should the editor, who spoke to
thousands for the clergyman's unit! It was
a question, therefore, for managers and
owners of newspapers to consider
how the next age would judge thejpress.
We know how the present ace judges the pulpit
of the past. It was churged against the
pulpit that it shielded itself behind the age
and taught nn average morality, Did not
the charge apply to the press of the hour?
How it confounded questions of religious
principle and questions of criticism! How it
winked and leered at the fall of a professed
Christian, as if to say, "They are all alike!"
How it caught the irresponsible behind the
impersonal! It was charged against the pulpit
of the past that it intruded into the family
and made a cruel use of family secrets. Did
not this charge apply to the press of to-day?
What little pity was shown to family misfortuno!
It was charged against the pulpit of
the past that it was the mouthpiece of party
spirit, that it tended not to peace and truth.
How open the press was to this charge! In
the light of the newspaper how different
was the man elected from the man
a candidate! It was further charged
against the pulpit of the past that the lives
of its occupants were impure and that yet
they taught. Was there no unclean mote in
the eye of the press? It was admitted that
i n?Aoo in fliA i'aww MotiirA nf ifa wnrlr
I'liu piOOO, 1U kUD * CI J UOiVUlO V4 * W.I >f VAtt)
had to relate much of which it could not approve.
But there were two ways in v? hich
such work could be done. "Wickedness could
be rolled as a sweet morsel under the tongue
or it could be treated with disgust aud abhorrence.
The preacher in conclusion said he was
anxious not to be misunderstooJ. He was
not arraigning the press. His object was to
remind owners and managers of newspapers
that they would be judged by the coming
age as they judged the past. There were
good mon among them?some of the best
men. It was a noble calling?none nobler. It
was destined to have its heroes, just as there
had been heroes of the Greek drama and
heroes of the Latin pulpit. But there could
be no enduring success without truth and
purity.
Temperance Nolos.
According to the British Medical Journal,
the king of the Belgians is a "nephalist,"
or teetotaler.
Chinese firemen are now employed, it
is stated, on all the Glen line of steamers
trading between London and China. The
engineers, it is added, were averse to
employing Asiatics, but were compelled
to do so on account of the unreliability,
through drink, of the British firemen.
Tim infi. i^nnpml Mr.nicllan frave his
testimony of total abstinence, from a
military standpoint, as follows: "Would
all the officers unite in setting the soldiers
an example of total abstinence
from intoxicating drinks, it would be
equal to an addition of 50,000 men to
the armies of the United States."
Whisky Changed the PIcttiro
The other day wo noticed him a3 he
came across the bridge, with his wagon
full of cotton, and chickens, and eggs.
He found a ready market lor his produce,
and we thought how happy his
little ones would be when he returned
home in the evening with toys, and
dresses, and shoes, and food for the
morrow, and somo clear money in his
purse. "We thought we could see his
wife standing in the doorway to give
him a cordial greeting on his return, so
desirous were we that he should make one
contented and happy. We could almost
see liis cheerful lace as lie returned 10
his family after a day's absence. So we
thought and returned to our work. * * *
But eventide carac, and he passed by our
window again, lie had nothing that
we thought he would have. The bed of
his wagon was bare. ]Nro little shoes,
nor toys, nor dresses, nor food for the
morrow, nor mouej in his purse, we dare
say. The poor man was drunk. He had
changed, or whisky had changed him.
This changed our thoughts of his hoinc.
We could see the children shrinking
from his approach, and the wife so careworn
and sorrowful. She could not
meet him with the pleasant smile with
which she had hoped to greet him. lie
was b:caking her heart and preparing to
make paupers of his children.?Alabama
Baptist.
From Beer to Wlil<''y,
Switzerland has been ' "encouraging"
the drinking of light wines and beer
nmnno- her neonle uutil it ha3 bo?ot a
r? A - - L - w
lhirst nnd creatcd aa appetite which
will not be quenched, and a3 a natural
and inevitable consequence all kinds of
liquors are drank and drunkenness
everywhere abounds. The federal council
have felt called upon to frame more
stringent laws against "whisky," but
still leaving beer and wine to kindle the
fires and keep them burning. 2,1)00,000
people consume 50,000,000 gallons of
wine nnd 100,000,000 quarts of beer,
and in addition to this a large aad increasing
amount of whisky. Beer is the
most dangerous beverage, for it leads
the innocent and unsuspecting on to
danger and destruction.?National Temperance
Advocate.
IIMPERiKMPABTim
A Better Way.
In ancient days the young were wont,
With rosy garlands crowned,
To sing their bacchanalian songs
The festive board around,
"While wine inflamed their father's hearts
And roused thoir senseless mirth,
And left them viler than the brutes
That crawl upon the earth.
But we have found a better way
To give our parents joy;
We spurn the wine-cup from our lipsIt
charms but to destroy.
What though it seem so clear and bright,
So fair and sweet a thing?
It hath at last a serpent's bite,
The deadly adder's sting.
It turns the ruddy bloom of youth
To blight and foul decay:
And, what is worse, it takes the glow
Of innocence away.
Oh! give us but the crystal springs,
The air and sunlight free,
With love an J truth, and who will then
Be happier than we?
?J. E. Hood, in Temperance Banner.
Tn Favor of Total Abstinence.
Many have supposed that total abstainers
have become so because they
felt within them a terrible temptation to
drunkenness. Now, I do not believe
that one total abstainer in a hundred has
adopted his practices for this particular
reason; and yet it is surely a great
thing that there is ono temptation, at
any rate, from which we can be absolutely
and forever exempt; and I, for
one, do not feel so entirely self-satisfied
of security as to feel no pleasure in the
thought that I am exempt from the
temptation which the good Father
Mathew said in consequence of it he had
seen the stars of heaven fall and the
cedars of Lebanon laid low. These,
however, are not the reasons why most
of us have become total abstainers. We
have looked into the field of history, and
from the day when that disgraceful
scene took place in the tent of the patriarch
down to the records of yesterday,
we see that drink has been to the world
a curse intolerable in its extent and interminable
in its malignity. "We
see that aven ancient writers like
Lucretius have dwelt upon the dreadful
degradation ot drunkenness. "We see
that ancient nations like the Spartans
have done their very utmost to save their
.sons from this terrible seduction. I
never could make out why it is that so
many persons try to represent total abstainers
as being for the most part plebeian
and ignorant persons. "If it be
so, so it is, you know; if it be so, sc be
it." But at any rate we total abstainers
can appeal in support of our resolution
to the books of the most refined, to authors
the most fastidiously delicate, and
to statesmen who are least of all wedded
to our particular convictions. I should
like to refer you for a moment to some
of the standard books in history which
prove, as decidedly as can possibly be
proved, how much the human race has
gained fiom the productioo's of those
who were not professedly temperanco
men. Turn to the vovage3 and travels
of Charles James Fox; read there the
harrowing language in which he describes
how drink affected the statesmen
and literary men of that day, which was
an age of gout. Turning from travels back
to Sir Henry Havelock, see how he pictures
the difference between a siege
where soldiers had no access to drink,
and the siege of Lucknow, where they
had. Turn, again, to Sir John Ivaye's
history of the Indian mutiny and see
how, on the very day after our troops
had effected a lodgment at Delhi, England,
in consequence of the universal
drunkenness of the victorious army, was
within an ace of absolutely losing her
Indian empire. Turn, again, to Kinglake's
"History ot the Crimea," and see
how he pauses in his history to point out
the fact that British troops were brave as
lions and gentle as Christians until, and
only until, they became once more liable
to the degradation that drink wrought
amongst them. Turn, again, to such a
book as Mr. Leckey's <4IIistory of I
European Morals," and all of you will
see I am appealing not to books written
in behalf of the temperance cause, but to
literary works, and you will read that
Leckey fixes upon the year 1721 tt3 the
most prolific in calamity to the English
natioD, because gin at that time had begun
to be introduced to our people, and
spread like an epidemic. Turn to
the ? testimony of Bishop Benson,
Bishop of Gloucester, the friend of
"Whitefield, who was the most !
eminent bishop of his day; he spoke
with clear and smphatic testimony to the
effect which these ardent liquors had
upon the people, making the English
people cruel and inhuman, and gradually
chaaging their very nature. Or. again,
take the speech of a man who was the
most polished gentleman of his day, tho
famous Lord Chesterfield, who, in speaking
of the giu acts, said they were acts
calculated for the propagation of disease,
for the suppression of industry, and for
the destruction of mankind. "Why,
ladies and gentlemen, I could heap
together such testimonies from almost
all the great writers in the whole range
of English history. Shall I go back
two hundred and fifty years and quote
once more what Shakespeare said: "Oh,
thou invisible spirit of wine! if we have
no other name by which to call thee, let
us call the Devil." Need I quote tho
authority of Milton in his magnificent
lin es:
"Bacchus, the first from out the purple crape
Crushod the sweet poison of misused wine,
After tho Tuscan mariners transformed
Skirting tho Tyrrhene shore as the wind listed
On Circe's island fell. Who knows not Circe,
The daughter of th^ sun, whose charmed cup
w noover uisieu ms ujji lyuc sun^u,
And downward fell into a groveling swine?'
?Canon Farrctr.
Ten thousand persons were arrested in
Boston last year for drunkenness, and it
is estimated that but one druukcu person
in four was arrested. In Boston
there are 2,850 licensed places where
liquor is sold, or one to every 135 of the
population. Beside these there are
over 1/200 unlicensed places.
* "
My Mother.
I think of Thee
When summer clouds are flying.
Tho blue beyond them ljing,
Emblem of purity,
Faith and all constancy
Is not more true to Heaven, than I to TheA*
I think of Thee
When nil the world is resting.
And sleep my sense investing,
Sends visions bright;
And darkening night
With all its terrors, flees at thought ot Thee. ]
1
I think of Theo
Within this heart, my Mother,
Thy place yields to 110 other.
And still and rile
'ihrough nil my lifo,
Shall be the memory nnd love of Thee.
?Charles E. Perlcinu
RELIGIOUS READING. ; ji
Help Upwards.
I shall never forget the feelings I v >
had once when climbing one of the
pyramids of Egypt. When half way
up, my strength falling, I feared I
should never be able to reach the summit
or get back again. I well remem- ;<i-J
ber the help given, by Arab hands,
drawing me on farther; and the step I
could not quite make myself, because
too great for my wearied frame, the
little help given me?sometimes more .
and sometimes less?enabled me to go A
up, step by step, step by step, until at
last 1 reached the top, and breathed
the pure air, and had a grand lookout
from that lofty height. And so, in
life's journey, we are climbing. We
are feeble. Every one of us, new and
then, needs a little help; and, if we
have risen a step higher than some - ^
other, let us reach down for our brother's
hand, and help him to stand- be- ^
side us. Anct thus, joined band in
hand, we shall go on conquering, step
by step, until the glorious eminence '
chnll ho (rninprl Ahf hnw manv nntfrl lVv=
help in this world?poor aftlicted ones; - v ,.3s
poor sorrowing ones; poor tempted
ones, who have been overcome, who
have been struggling, not quite able to M
get up the step; trying, fall- yfj&p
ing; trying, failing; trying, desponding;
trying, almost despairing!
Oh, give such a one lu?lp, a little
kindly aid, and the step may be taken, _v|
and another step may then be taken;
and, instead of dying in wretchedness
at the base, he may, by a brother's V'|$?
hand, be raised to safety, and finally
to glory! Your mission is to be Christ *:|?j
to such, to take such by the hand;
"for, to you, to live is Christ."?Bishop
Simpson.
The Apostle's Rule.
An honest Christian reserves his
strictest judgment for himself. Selflove
will suggest excuses, and even '
tempt a man to ignore his own faults,
or at all events to change their names;
lxnf ?i jnnromo IrtVA r?f riorVi tonnqnpqci
MlIU M UU|/1 VUIV *V ? W V A VW V
such as ought to possess the Christian
mind, keeps conscience at work, and
enjoins self-judgment and self-correction.
Then, as to the comparative seriousness
of faults, there is a strong tendency
to regard one's own misconduct
with leniency, though meting out a
hard censure to similar delinquency
in others. Ours is the mote or
chip and our neighbor's is the
beam. But when the Spirit
of Christ enters into us all this is
changed. Ours is the beam; our iniquity
is great; our fault is heinous. r-l
Vie know what checks and warnings
we have had to keep us from it, what
remonstrances of conscience, and what
impulses and examples to counteract
the evil temptation. And yet we ara
at fault. Nay, we have persisted in
what we know to be wrong till it has
acquired the force of a habit, neutralizing
good, and unfitting us to
exert a healthy moral and religious
influence on others. The beam
is in our own eye. It is our neighbor
who has the mote or chip. So
at least it should appear to U3 in the
judgment of charity. By this it is not
at all meant that we are to make light
of evil, or out of good nature to affect
not to see what is censurable. It is
not charity, but a morbid feebleness of
the moral nature, which cannot bear
to condemn anything but strictness,
and glibly excuses or lightly tolerates
conduct that is vicious or dishonest.
Nothing in our Lord's teachings may
or can be construed into a sanction of that
species of leniency which makes
all its allowance on the dangerous
side. On the contrary, it is required
by our loyalty to Him and to the best
interests of society that we endeavor
to maintain ourselves and pro',
moto in others a moral tone that is
brisk and vigorous, honoring the
virtues of truth, justice and purity,
and reprobating the opposite. But
there is no reason why this tone of
rigorous discrimination between good
and evil should not bo combined with
a gentle and charitable judgment of
the character and motives of our
neighbors and fellow Christians.
"Have fervent charity among your,
selves, for charity covereth a multitude
of sins." Such was the rule of
the early Christians, and it is as much
In force as ever.?liev. Dr. Donald
Fraser, London.
Prayer is an act of friendship. It
Is Intercourse; an act of trust, of hope,
of love, all prompting to interchange
between the soul and an infinite,
spiritual, invisible friend. We all need
prayer if for no other purpose, for
that which we so aptly call communion
with God. AVe all need friendly
converse with Him whom our souls
love. "He alone is a thousand companions;
He alone is a world of friends.
"11 * *? '~1?? Am tirlio if ii?oa tm
Utll IIJ till IIU V Ci. i\HO ? >V llHb XU tT (IO
be familiar with God, who complains
of the want of friends while God 13
with him."?Phelps.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Experience is the extract of suffering.
Gentleness is a sort of mild atmosphere
and it enters into a child's soul like tho
sunbeam into the rosebud, slowly but
surely expanding it into beauty and
vigor.
No man ever sailed over exactlyjthe
same route that another sailed ovcrjbeforc
him. Every man who starts on {the
ocean of life arches his sails to an untried
breeze. ^