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rilK BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: "The Truth About Russia."
Text: "Presumptuous are they, selftrilled;
they are not afraid to speak evil
of dignities."?II Peter iL. 10.
Among: a most reprehensible crew Pefcer
here paints by one stroke the portrait of
those who delight to slash at peoule in authority.
Now we all have a right to criti
?- in hicrh nlafiM Or
low, but the fact that one is high up is no
proof that he ought to be brought down
It is a bad streak or human nature now, as
it was in the time of the text a bad atretic ,
of human nature, that succ *ss of any kind
excites the jealous antipathy of those woo
cannot ciimb the same steep. There never
was a David on the throne that there was
not some Absalom who wanted to get it. i
There never was a Christ but the world hai j
ww and hammer ready to fashion a cross j
n which to assassinate Him.
Out of this evil spirit grow not only individual
but national and international def- !
amation. To no country has more injustice \
been done than to our own in days that are ]
?'* Kof.ira ''Martin f!huszlewitt" WAS ,
printed the literature of the world scoffed at ,
everything American. Victor Hugo, as ,
honest as ,he was unequaled in literary j
power, was so misinformed concerning America
that he wrote.* "the most singular thing ,
is the need of whittling:, with which all
Americans are possessed, it is such that on J
Sunday they give tue sailors little bits of J
wood, because it they did not they woo^ld ,
whittle tue ship. In court, at the most (
critical moment, the ju >ze, whittling, says-. .
'Prisoner, are you guilty? and the accused t
tranquilly responds, wnittling, 4X am not t
guilty.'n j.
Lord John Russell called us "a bubble f
bursting nationality." But our country has j
at last recovered from such caricature, and .
ther e is not a street in any city of Europe c
? *"; tno war ( "America" will not
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win deference. But there is a sister nation J
on the other pice ot -the sea now goiug a
through the process of international do am- t
ation. There is no country on earth so mis- f
understood as Russia, and no monarch more j.
misrepresented than its emperor. IVill it t
not be in the cause of jmtica if I try to set v
right the minds of th >se who comp ?e tils j
august assemblage and the minds of those to
whom, on both sides of the ocean, these ,
words shall come? If the slander of one
person is wicked, then the slander of on? ?
hundred and twelve million people is one 3
hundred and twelve million times more |
wiekedIn
the name of righteousness, anl in b&- 5
"half of civilization, and for the encouragement
of all those good people who have '
been disheartened by the soaudfclization of
Russia, I now speak. But Russia is so vast 1
a subject that to treat it in ona discourse is >
like attempting to run Niagara Falls over
one mili waeei. Do not thiutc th it the very '
naked courtesies ezteuaeu iuo uy iud om- .
peror and empress of Russia have ooaipli- !
aented ms into the advoc icy of that em- '
pire. for I shall present you authenticated j
Facts that will reverse your opinion*, if they
have been antagonistic, as mine were re- '
versed.
I went last summer to Russia with as 1
many baleful prejudices as would make an ;
avalanche from the mountain of fabric it ioa
which has for years been heaped up against
that emoire. You ask how is it possible *
that such appalling misrepresentation* of 1
Russia could stand? X account for it by th? 1
fact that the Russian language is to mo <t ;
au impassable wall. Malign the Unitdd
States or malien Great Britain or Germany !
or France, and' by the next cablegram ttte
fabehood is exposed, for we alt understand
English, and many of our peoDle are familiar '
with German and French. 6ut the Ratsian 1
language, beautiful and easy to those bora
to speaic it, is to most vocal organs an un- 1
Eronouncablo tongue, and if at St. Peters' '
urg or Moscow any anti-Rassian calumny '
were denied the m>stof the world outside of '
Russia would never see or hear the denial.
What are the motives for misreprssenta- 1
tion? Commercial interests and interna- 1
tional jealously. Russia is as largo as all
the rest o Europe put together. Remember 1
that a nation is only a man or a woman on j
a big scale. Go into any neighborhood of
America and ask the piysician who has a '
small practice what he tbinks of the physi-v 1
cian who has a large practice. Ask a lawyer :
who bas no briefs what he thinks of the law- 1
yer who has three rooms filled with clerks 1
trying in vavo to transact ^superabundant
business that comes to him. Ask the minis- [
ter who bas a very limited au lienoe what
he thinks of the minster who bas orerdnwinc
audiences.
Why does not Europe like Russia? Becaufee
sha has enough acrea?* to shallow aH
Europe and feel sbe Daa only hair a meal.
Russia is as long as North and South America ,
put togetaer. "But," says some one, "do .
you meau to charge the author and the leoturers
who have written or spoken against
Russia with falsehoo .y By no means. You
can find in any city or nation evils innu nerable
if you wish to discourse about them.
I sail at St. P^tereoursj to the most eminent
lady or Russia outside of the imperial
family, "Are tao<e stories of cruelty and
outrage tnut 1 bave heard and read about
true?" She replied: "No doubt some of
them aro tru?, but do you not in America
ever have officers of the law cruel ant outrageous
in their treatment of offenders? Do
vounot bave instances where the police
liave ciubbed innocent persons? H*ve you no
instances where people in brief authority
act arrogantly*' I rauiied, "Yes, we do."
Tnen she said; "Why-iioas the world hold
oar government responsible for exceptional
outrages? As soon as an official is found to
be cruel he immediately losea his place." ,
Then I bethought myself. Do the pe ople in
America hold the Government of Wwajngton
responsible for the Homestead riots or
for railroad insurrections, or for the torch
of the villiao that consu-nes a block of
houses, or for t le ruffi im> who arrest a rail
train, making the passengers hold up their
until fha nrtrt 'nfj ora WhV
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then hoM the emperor of Russia, who is as
impressive and genial a man aa 1 hive ever
looked at or talked with, responsible for the
wrongs enacted in a nation with a population
twice as large ia numbers as the millions
of America? Suppose one montrch in
Europe ruled over England, tJcatlani, Ireland,
Prai.c?, Germany, Spain, Italy, Austria.
Norway and 8wedeo.
Would it be fair to hold the monarch responsible
for all that occurred in that
mighty dominion? Now vou must ramem*
ber that Alexander the Tnird reigns over
wider dominion thm al. taose empires put
together. As a nation is only a man or a
i_:_ 1_ 1.4.
woman on t% Olg SUtUC, iCU lUO aaa, nvuiu
you individually prefer to be juiged by your
iaultsor your vircu^s? AH paople except
ourselves have faults.
The pessimist attempting to write your
biography would take you in your weaker
moods, and the picture of you on the first
page of vour biography would be as you
looked after some meanness had been practiced
on you and you were tearing mal.
Now, as I am an optimist, 1 give you fair
warning that if 1 ever write your biography
I will take you as you looked the day your
dividend cane tn twenty per cent, larger
than you ever anticipated, or the morning
on your way to business after your first
child was born, or the morning after your
conversion, when heaven had rolled in on
pai*1 TViq mnof oAAiiroA/1 kAmitn/ttilS
JTVUl OV/UI* fc uv Uivew avvut ow uv/iuuuvuuvfc
all the earth are the pessimists, who,
whether they ju ige Individual or national
character, and whether they wield tongue
or pen, are Ailed with anathematization,
and who have more to say about the freckles
on the cheek of beauty than of the sunrises
and sunset3 that flush it.
It is most important that this country
hnvn rirtat ideas concerning Russia, for
among all the nations this side of heaven
Russia is America's best friend. Toere has
not been an hour in the last seventy-five
years that the shipwreck of ir?e institutions
in America would not have called forth
from all t>ie despotisms of Europe and
Asia a shout of gladness wide as earth ani
deep as perdition. But whoever else faile i
us. Russia never did, and whoever else was
??? P??ia than ??
old government, smiled on the cradle of our
government while yet in its earliest infancy.
Empress Catherine of Russia in 1776 or
thereabouts offered kindly interference that
our thirteen colonies might not go down under
the cruelties of war.
Again, in 1813, Russia stretche 1 forth toward
us a merciful band. "When our dreadful
civil war was raging and the two thunder
clonds of northern and southern valor
clashed. Russia practically said to the nations
of Europe, ''Keep your hands off and
k let the brave men of the north and the south
^ settle their own troubles." I rehearsed
some of those semes to the emperor last
IL
off through a magnifying glass upon a fleet
Ot KUSSian snips. "?? uai arts tut/ uuiui;
there?' I asked, and so every one asked.
"What busings have the Russian warships
in our New York harbor?" Word came that
another fleet of Russian warships was in
San Francisco harbor. "What doe3 this
mean?" our rulers asked, but did not get immediate
answer. In tbese two American
harbors the Russian fleets seemed sound
asieeo. Their javat mouths of iron mmlM
not a word, and the Russian flag, whether
floating in the air or drooping ny the flagstaff,
made no answer to our inquisitive*
ness.
William H. Seward, secretary of state,
asked the Russian minister at Washington
tbe meaning of those Rusji&a ships in American
waters and got no satisfactory re
" w l ?;j I
spooso. Admiral rarragutsmu uj a uu3?au
officer after dining in the home of the eminent
politician, Tnttrlow Weed, that maker
and unmaker of presidents, "What are you
doins here with thoae Russian vessels of
war?" Not until the war was over was it
found out tnat in case of foreign intervention
all the guns an 1 the last gun of thesj
two fleets in New York and San Francisca ;
harbors were to open in full diapason upon
any foreign ship that should dare to interfere
with the right of Americans nortti and
south, to settle their own controversy.
July, sayin?, "You were probably too
pouog to remember the position your father
took at that time," but with radiant smile
lie responded. "Oh, yes, I remember, I remember,"
and there was an accentuation of
the words which demonstrated to me that
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those occurrences naa oitea uoou m
in the imperial Household.
I stood on New Yorfc Bittery during the
war, as I suppose many of you did, looking
but for those 11 ;ets and their presence in
\merican waters there can ba no doubt
;hat two of the mightiest nations of Europe,
yould have miauled in our fight. But for
;hose two fleets the American go vera meat
rould have been to-day only a na-ne in history.
I declare before Go I an! the nation
>hat I believe Russia saved the United
States of-America. Last July I stood beorea
great throng of Eu-sians in the embarrassing
position of speaking to an audi*
mce three-fourths of which could not unlerstand
ray language any more than I
:ould unierstinl theirs. But there were
iwo names that they thoroughly under*
tood as well as you uuc'erstaud them, and
he utterance of those two names brought
orth an acclamation that made the city
tall of St. Petersburg quake from foundaion
stone to tosv"-s, and those two names
rera "George Washington and Abraham
jncoln."
Wow is It not important that we should
'eel right toward that raigaty, that God
jiven friend o? more tnau one Duuarei
rears? Yea. because it is a nation of more
possibilities than any othe , except oar own,
ihould we cultivate its frien Iship. Th?re is
t vast reilm of Russia as yet uaoccunied.
[f the population o; the rest of Europe ware
>oure 1 into Russia it would be oniy parti illy
>ccupieJ. After awnile America will bs so
*ell populated taat the tiles of emigration
Till go the other way, aud by railroads
!rom Russia at Behrin^ straits?where Asia
$omes within thirty six miles of joining
America?millions of people will pour down
;hrou?h Russia and Siberia, and on down
ihrough all the regions waiting for the
avilization of the next cencury to come,
lod culture great harvests an i build mighty
cities.
What the Unite! States now are on the
irestern hemisphere Russia will be on the
jastern hemispaera. not oniy uecsuseui
irhat Russia has been to oar republic, but
because of wnat she vrill be, let us caase the
defamation of all that pertains to that great
imp re. If Russia can affijrd to be the friend
[>f America, America can aff >rd to be the
friend of Russia. And now I proceed to do
what 1 told the emperor and the en press
and all tbe imperial family at thn palace of
PeterhoC I would do if I ever got back to
America, an i that is to answer some of the
calumnies which have been announced and
reiterated an<l stereotyped against Russia.
Calumny the First?fne emperor and all
the imperial family are in perpetual dread
jf assassination. They are practically prisoners
in the winter palace, and trenches with
iynamite have been found du; around the
winter palace. They dare not venture forth,
?xcept preci led and followed and surrounded
by a most elaborate military guard.
* My answer to this is that I never saw a
face more free rrom worri nent than the emperor's
face. Tae wi.iter Dilace, around
which the trencher are said to have been
charged with dynamite, ani in whioh the
imperial family are said i o be prisoners, has
never been the residence of the imperial
family one moment fines the present emperor
has oeen on the throne.
The winter palace has b;en changed into
a museum and a picture gallery an 1 a place
great levees. He spends his summer in
the palace at Pacer no f, fifteen or twenty
miles from St. Petersburg; his autumns at
the palace at Gratschna, and his winters in
a palace at St. Petersburg, but in quite a
different nart of the citv to that occupied
by the winter palace, fie rides through the
treets unattended; except by the empress
at bis side and the driver oa the box. There
is not a person in this audience more free
from fear of harm than he is. His subjects
not ouly admire him but almost worship
him.
There are cranks in Russia, but have we
not bad our Charles Guiteau anl John
Wilkes Booth? ,lBuV says some one, "did
not the Russians kill the father oi the present
emperor?" Yes, but in the time that
Russia has had one assassination of emperor
America has had two presidents assassinated.
_ "But is not the emperor an auto
crai?" By which you m3an, has he noc
power without restriction!' Yes, but it all
depen Is upon what u?e a man makes. 9t his
power.
Are you at. autocrat In your factory, or an
autocrat in your store, or an autocrat in
your style of business? It all depends on
waat use you make of your power, whether
to bless or to oppress, and from the time of
Peter the Great?that Russian who was the
wonder of all time, theemoeror who became
incognite a ship carpeutor that he might
help ship carpenters, and a mechanic that
he might help mechanic*, and put on Door
men's garb that he m ght sympathize with
poir men, and who in his last words siid:
"Mv Lord, I am dying. Oh, help my unbelief!"?I
say from that time the throne of
r> u? *? ??4 ??*.
XtU&bU* uas, JLUl Lliu LLIUoL UCCUWl'U^iOa I
by ralers as beneficent and kind and sympathetic
as they were powerful.
To go no further back than Nicholas, the
crandfather of the present emperor.
Nicholas had for the dominant idea of his
administration the emancipation of the
serfs. When It was found tHat he premeditated
che freedom of the serfs he received
the following letter of threat from a deputation
of noblemen: "Your Imperial Majestv
?We learn that the council and senate of
the empire have before them for deliberation,
with your sanction, the plan to abolish
serfdom throuehout the Russian empire.
We are perfectly willing to abide by your
majesty's decision in this matter an-i to
loyally support your will, but there are in
Russia a large number of small owners of
serfs who are dependent for actual subsistence
on the labor of those serfs, and who
consequently will be left wholly pennilesa
?.nd witnmif, nnv rosnnrnft hv thn nnpratinn
of emancipation. They will thenundoubtedlj
resort to desperate measures, and in the extremity
of their de3piir wilt put the life of
your majesty in jeopardy."
The emperor replied in words that will
last as ion< as history. "Gentleman, if I
should die because of my devotion to such a
cause, I am willingto meat my fate."' When,
under an attaci of pneumonia from exposure
to S3 vera weather in th e service ol
his people, that emperor put down his heat
on the pillow of dust, Russia lo3t as good o
monarch as was ever crowaed. Then caraJ
A Invnn^ai* fKo S3oAAnH fofhai* rvP tha rvfo-onI
xlirAUUUCU vug V? WUU pi uiuii?
emperor. Amid the mightiest opposition
ana innumerable protests, he, with on4
stroke ot his pen, emancipated twenty million
serfs, practically saying, *'G-o free. B i
your own masters, and this Is for you and
your children forever."
On the day he was basely assassinate!
(and 1 will parenthetically say that I saw
his carriage in splinter*, as it loosed when
he stepped trom it, not to save himself, but
to look after some poor people of the street
who had been hurt, and I saw the bed on
which he died, the mattress yet crimson with
his life's blood) ?on the day he was assassinated
he hai on his table, found afterward, a
free constitution that proposed to give th?
ri?ht of suffrage to the people of Russia. If
it had not been for the assassination he
would bave soon signed tbat constitution,
but that horrible violence put thiajjj back,
as violence always does.
What a marvelous character of kin Inesj
was Alexander the Second, the fathsr of the
preseut emperor, so that the present emperor,
Alexander the Third, inherits his benignity.
Alexander the Second, hearing
tUat a nobleman had formal a conspiracy
against his life, had him arrested. Taen the
eyes of the criminal were bandaged, and he
waa put in a carriage, ani for sometime
travolert on, only stopping for fool. After
awhile the bandage was removed, and supposing
that he must by that time have been
almost in Siberia, be fouul that he was at
the door of his own homo. But this punishment
was sufficient.
The same emperor, having heard tha", a
poet had written a poem defamatory of his
empress, ordered the uoat into his presencs.
Expecting great severity, the poet entered
the palace and found the emperor and empress
and dukes and ducheses gathered to*
gether. "Good m >rning," said the emperor
to the offender. "I hear you have written
a most beautiful poem, and I have sent for
vou that you may read it Jto us and we miy j
have the pleasure of hearing it." The maD |
cried out, "dend ma to Sioeria op do au7thing
with me, but do not make me read thispoem
in your presence." He was compelled
to read the defamatory pos-n, ani thsa the
empress, against whom it was aimed, siid:
"I d) not think he will write any more
verses about U3 again. Lit him go." And
so he was freed
And now comes iu Alexander the Third,
doing the best things possible for the nation
whicn he loves and which as ardently loves
him. Bnt what an undertaking to rule one
hundred and twelve million people, made up
of one hundred tribes and races and speaking
forty different languages I But, notwithstanding
all this, things there move on marvelously
well, and 1 do not beliove that out
of five hundrel thousand Russians you
would find more than one person who dislikes
the emperor, and so that calumny of
dread of assassination drops so Bat it oan
fall no flatter.
Calumny the Seconal?It you go to Russia
you are under severest espionage, stopped .
here and questioned there, and in danger of
arrest bug my ODlmon is that if a man
is disturbed in Russia it is because ha
ought to be disturbed. Russia is the only
country in Europe in which my baggage
was not examindl. I carried in my hand,
tied together with a chord so that their
I titles could be seeu, a pile of eight or ten
books, all of them from lid to lid cursing
Russia, but I had no trouble in taking with
me the books. Thore is ten times more diffi'
cnlty in getting your luggage through the
American custom house than through the
Russian. I speak not of myself, for friends
intercede for me on American wharves, and
I am not detained. I was several days in
Russia before I was asked if I hai any passport
at all.
Depend upon it, if hereafter a man be'
lieves he is unc >mfortably watched by the!
police of St. Petersburg or Moscow it is because
there is something suspicious about
him, and you yourself had better, when hej
{n awamm 1 1/*a r ofhar rrnt^i* eilvai* onnnno I
AO Ml UUUJ, JWit niwvi jva 4 oiuet upv/v/tMi *
promise you, aa honest man or an honest
woman, that when you go thare, as many of
you will?for European travel ia deitinei to
change its course from southern Europe td
those northern regions?you will have no
more molestation or supervisal than in
Brooklyn or New York or the quietest Long
Island Village.
Calu-nny the Third?Russia and it3 ruler
are so opposed to any other religion exoept
the Greek religion that they will not alio#
any other religion; that nothing but persecution
and imprisonment aui outrage intolerable
await the disciples of any ottisr religion.
But what are the facts!' I had ft
long ride in St. Pater jburg audits suburbs
witb the prefect, a brilliaat, efficient and
lovely maa, who is the highest official in tha
city of St. Pdtei-a jurg, and wnosa chief
I : i.i ll?I a. T ..!J
UIUUUC&9 bu attuu i tu) ciuuorur. x saiu w
hitn, "I suppasd your religion Is that of the
Greek church?' *\ifo," said he; "I am a
Lutheran." "What is your religion?" Isaid
to one of the highest and most influential
officials at tit. Petersburg. He said, "I am
of the Church of England."
Myself, an American, of still another denomination
of Christians, an! never having
been insi >e a Greet; church in my life uatU
I went to Russia, could not have received
more consideration had I been baptised in
in the Greek church and all my life worshiped
at her alters. I had it demonstrated
to me very plainly that a man's religion la
Russia has nothing to do with his preferment
for either office or social position. TIm
omy questions taken ioto consideration am
honesty, fidelity, morality and adaptation.
I had.not been in St. Petersburg an hour
before I received an invitation to preach the
Gospel of Christ as I believed it. Besides all
this, have you forgotton that the Crimean
war, which shook the earth, grew out of
Russia's interference in behalf of the prosecuted
Christians of all nations in ruriroy?
"But," says 3ome one, "have there not
been persecutions of other religions in Russia?"
No doubt, just as in other times in
New England we burnel witches, anl a-; qre ;
killed Quakers, and as the J>w* in America '
have been outrageously treated ever Bines I
can reinemoer, and the Chinese in oar land
have been pelted, and their stores torn down,
and their way from the steamer wharf to
their destined quarters tracked with their
own blooi. The devil of persecution is in
every land and in all ages. Some of us in
the different denominations of Christians in
America have felt the thrust of persecution
because we thought differently or diJ things
differently from tho3e who w mid, it they
had the < ower, put us in a furnace eight
times heated, one more decree of caloric than
Nebuchadnezzar's. Persecutions in all lands,
but the emperor of Russia sanctions none of
them.
I nad a most satisfactory talk with th*
emperor about the religions of the world,
and he thinks and feels as you and f do,' that
religion is something between a man and
his God, and no one has a right to interfere
with it. You may go right up to St. A&arsburg
and Moscow with your Episcopal
liturgy, or your Presbyterian catecaism. or
your Congregationalisms liberalism, or your
lmmersionist's Baptistry, or any other religion,
and if you mind your own affairs an0
let others mind theirs you will not be molested.
Calumny the Fourth?Russia is so very
grasping of territory, and she seems to want
the world. But what are the facts!* During
the last century and a quarter the
i United States have taken possesion of
everything between the thirteen colonies'
and the facinc ocean, aad i^nglaai, during
the same length of time, has taken possasion
of nearly three million square mile?, and by
the extent of her domain has added two
hundred and fifty million population, while
Russia has added during that time only onehalf
the nu nber of square miles anl about
eighteen million of population?England's
advance of domain by two hundred and
fifty million against Russia's advance of do?
main by eighteen mi'lion. What a paltry
Russian advance of domuin by eighteen million
as compared with the English advance
of domain by two hundred an I fifty million!
The United Staces ani England hal'
better keep still about extravagant and extortionate
enlargement of domain.
Calumny the Fifth?Siberia w a den of
horrors, and to-iay people are driven like
dumb cattle; no trial is affor led to the suspected
ones; they are put into quicksilver |
mines, w.iere they are whipped an 1 starved,
and some day find themselves going around
without any head. Some of them do not
get so far as Siberia. Women, after being
tied to stakes in the streets, ara disrobel
and whipped to death in the presence of
UVlTltUj^ IUUU9. V/LLCUUOiS IIW1 tuou urru
flesh siss under the hot irons.
But what are the facts? There are m
kinder people on earth than th9 Russians,
and to most of them cruelty is an impossibility.
I hold in my ban J a card. Yotisee
on it that red circle. Taat is the government's
seal on a card giving me permission
to visit all the orison* of St. Petersburg, as
I had expressed a wlsb in taat JirecDton." As
the messenger handed this card to ma he told
me that a carriage was &t the door for my
disposal in visiting the prisons It so happened,
however, that I was crowded with
engagements and I could not make tbe visitation.
But do you suppose such cheerful
permission and a carriage to boot would
cava LWjeu txiLvvia t iuo n uin prisuus ul Russia
are such bells on earth as they have been
described to be?
I askei au eminent ani distin^uUhel
American, "Have you vi?itel thj prisons of
St. Petersburg, ani howdo ttuy <Ulf jr from
American prisons?" He renlie I, "I have
visited them, and thay are as well ventilate!
and as well conditioned in every respect as
the majority of the prisoas in America."
Are women whipped in the street? No; that
statement comes from the manufactory of
fabrication, a manufactory th.it ruus day
and ni?ht, so that the supply may maet the
demand.
Buc how about Siberia? My answer is,
Siberia is tne prison of Ru wia. a prison mora
than twice the sizj of tae United States.
John Howard, who did more for the improvement
of prisoners and the reformation
of crim nals than any min tint ever lived,
his name a synonym for mercy ttirou^hout
Caristen lom, declared by voice and psn that
the system of transpirtation of criminals
from Russia to Siberia was an admiraole
|Siau, auvvA/aviu^ vp.u ?u k?.?ww?
than endungeonmeat, aad als> oeciusa ic
wa3 taking all offender* huadrsd* ot miles
a way from their e?i> companions. John
Howard, after witnessing the plan of do
portation of criminals from Kussia to Siberia,
commended it to Eaglan 1.
xi a luau tjimimios umiam iu i\u3^ia uo i"5
not electrocuted as w# electr.>cutj dim, or
chokai to death, by a halter as wj chikj
him to death. Russia is the only country on
earth from which the death penalty has
been driven, except in case ot hi<h treason.
Murderers and desperate villains are sent to
the hardest parts of Siberia, but no man is
sent to Siberia or ordered to any kind ot
punishment in Russia until he has a "fair
trial. So far as their being hustled off in
the night and not knowing why they are
exiled or punished is concerned, all the
criminals in Russia have an open trial before
a jury just as we.have in America, except
in revolutionary and riotous times, and
you know la America at such times the writ
of habeas carpus is suspended.
There are in Russia grand juries and
petit juries, and the right to challenge the
jurors, and the prisoner confronts his accuser.
and. mark this, as in no other coun
try, after the prisoaer has baan condemned
by juries and juiges he may app?alto the
minister of the interior, an i attar that to
the senate, an 1 after that to the e.noeror,
who is constantly pardoning. As I said,
the violent ani murderous are seat to the
hardest part otSiberia, buttha more moderate
criminals to propitious p irfcs of Sioeria,
and those who have only a little criminality
to parts of Siberia positively genial for
climate, for you ou^ht to know, if you do
not know, that Siberia is so Urge and wide
and long taat it reaches from frigidity to
torridity, from almost arctic blast, to climate
as mild as that of Italy.
Run your finger along the map of the
wnrlrt Anri vnu evil! fin/1 t.haf. fcha lnnroah
part of Siberia is on the forty-fifth degree | t
of latitude, and the richest part of Italy is a
oq the same forty-fifth degree of latitude, r
so that Siberia reaches from the furs at tbe r
north to the palm leaf fang at the south.
It has been demonstrated that ninety1 per
cent, of the Russian criminals colonizsd into
Siberia go into a climate milder than New
Yoric?a land songful with birds and em- t
broidered with flora enough manifoli to
confound the botanists. Much oi the soil is a
rich loam, and harvests wait for a plow to (
liberate them.
When a criminal is sent to Siberia, in th& '
vast majority of cases it gives him an op- <
portunity to make a new start under tbe
best possible circumstances. The criminal
is allowed to take his or her family along, j
and that is a mercy so other country grants.
In the quicksilver mines of Siberia?toe
hardest place of expatriation?only on?, j 1
fourth of the miners are criminals. Th< I
other three-fourths go there because they
choose it as a place to earn their living.
After being in Siberia awhile the condemned
go to earning a livelihood, an 1 they
come to own their own farms and orchards
and vineyards, many of these people coming
to wealth, am thousan Is of them under no
inducement would leave those parts of
Siberia woich are paradises for stluority
and luxuriance. Now which do you think
is the best style of a prison?Siberia or many
of our American prisons* When u man
commits a big crime in our country, the
ju ige looks into the frighted face of the culprit
and says,1 Yon have been fonnd guilty; J
I sentence vou to tne penmrentiary ior vou
years." He goes to prison. He is shut in
between tout-walls. No sunlight. No fresh f
air. No bathroom. Before be has served 1
his ten years he dies of consumption or is so
enervated tbat for the rest of his life he siti 1
with folded hands?a wheesmg invalid.
In preference to the shut in life of the 1
average American prisoner, give me Siberia.
Besides that, when offenders come
out of prison in America, what chance have
tjey> Ask the poorly supported societies
formed vo get these peoole pl&css for wor*. <
Ask me, to whom the newly liberated come y
from all the prisons imploring what they |
snail do. No 009 will common Sf them. The j
pallor of incarceration is on their oheek. ,
W ho want? to employ in factory or store a ,
man or woman who, in answer to the ques ,
Hon: "Where did you lire laser- aaouia
make for reply: "State's prison at,Auburn
or Moyamensing?" Now in Siberia they
bare a better chance. They are never spoken
of as criminals, but as unfortunates, and
they are allowed every opportunity of re
trieving tneir lost reputation and lost for*
tunes. . ? I
talked with the President of the National
Society of Rusia for the E location
and Moralizationof the Children oc Siberian
Convicts. The president of that society,
appointed.by tbe emperor, is a lady ot great
accomplishments 'and much sympathy,
which ilia-nines her face and makes tearful
hereree' and tremulous her voice. The
evening I passed at her hoaje in St. Petersbare
was on9 of the memorable events of
my lifetime. I will not attempt to pro ounce
the name of that noble womtn appointed
by the emperor as the President of
the National Society of Russia for the ? lu?
*' j *' i?
CAMoaauu nxuraizAuiuu ui buo vuuui cu ui
Couvicts. Please to name aaj such national E
society in our country, supported by govern- .J
meat, for taking care of the children of j]
convicts. jj
You know. if yon know anything, that '
cherd is no ch?nce in this country for a man !
who has been imprisoaei. or for hii chtl- j
dren. Gol pity them and hasten the time *
when we shall by 9ome national institution f
established by the congress of the United j
States, imitate the mercy of the Russian 1
government toward the innoont children of ]
imprisoned offenders. He who charges
cruelty on the imparial fami y an 1 the no- J
P Dt? iflia hallaa m in art 1 nrtm in a a i
gracious aad banignant as ever Dreattied ]
oxygen. '
Thb raercifal character of the present era- I
peror was well illustratsi in the following
occurrence: The man who suparvisai the
assassination of the father of the present
emperor, standing in the snow that aw.ul
day when the dynamite shattered to pieces t
the legs of Alexander the Second?I say t ne j
man who supervised all this fled from St. >
Petersburg and quit Kussia. But after i
awhile the man repented of his crime, and 1
wrote to the emperor asking for forgiven ?ss e
for the murder of his father, ani pro nising 1
to be a good citizen, an I asking if he raigat I
D ? -? ? AMnanAn noi?^nnar1
WIUO UBU& \AJ 1VU39IQ* J. UD D.U|/Ul ?/* pMtMwavw
the murderer of his father, and the forgiven
assasssn is now living in Rosjia, ualesj recently
deceased.
When I talked to the empress concerning
the sympathy felt in America for th* sufferings
of ttfedrou2;ht-3tru3K raglonS o'Russia,
she eviaced an aosoroin; interest an i a
compassion and an emotion of manner and
speech such as we men can hardly realize,
because it seems that Groi has reserved tor
woman as her gjreat adornment the coronet,
the tear jewellel coronet of tenderness anl
commiseration. If you say that it was a
man, a divine man that came to sava the
wjrid, I say yes; buc it was a wo nan that
^ave the man. Witness all the Miioanas?
Italian. German, Ea?listt and Russian?taat
bloo n in the picture galleries of Christen(Join.
8on of Mary, have meruy on m!
But how about the knout, the cruel Russian
knout, that cjmss down on tae oare
back o( ajonizei criminals? Way. Russia
abolished the koout before it was aboii-shad 8
from our American navy. But how about
the political prisoners hustled off to Siberia? t
Accjrdin^ to the testimony of tne most eel- t
et>rated literary enemy of Russia, only four
hundred and forty-three po.itical prisoners I
were sent to Siberia in twenty years. How a
many political prisoners did we put in prison
pens during our four years of civil war? ,1
Well, I will guess at least one hundred thou- I
sand. America's one hundred thousand politicil
prisoners versus iXussia's four nundred h
and forty-three political prisoners. Nearly
oiithauH fnnr hiimiml and fortv-three of
twenty years were noblemen or people des- c
perately oppossd to the emancipation of the y
serfs. And none of the politic*! prisoners is t
s-mt to tbe famous Kara mines.
For the most part you are dependent for t
?nrormatlon uoon tna testimonv ot prison- J
ers who are sent to Siberia. They all say
they were innocsnt. Prisonars always are *j
innocent. As'< all tlie prisoners of Aonrica f
to-lay, "Gruilty or not guilty?" an J uine- 1
teen out of twenty will pliai ".'lot guilty." a
Ask taen how they like tueir prison, and e
how taey like sheriffs, an 1 how they like ' 1
the government of the United State*, an 1
you will fin 1 th isa priso/iers admire tie au- j
tuoricy tnac arr^sie-i me n an i puunusa
thein just about as much as the po.itical v
prisoairs of Russia like Stojrii. J
But you,ask how will this Kjssophobia,
with wnicS so many hav\J bien bittei and ^
poisaneil, be cure i? By the Uj I of Justica 0
olessia; suc'a books an I pamphlets as are
now coming out from Professor do Aruaui,
of Washington; Mr. Hor ice Cuttsr, of San 8
Francisco; Mr. Morrill, of Englan I, an i by 1
the opening of our American gates to the
writings of some tweaty*four ot th9 Russitn *
authors and authoresses, in some respect as ?
brilliant as the turee or tour Russian autaors .!
olruoHtr lrnnwn?f.h? fcrjinsiAfcinn of fchosft
tweaty-four authors, wbica 1 am authoriz9.1 J3
iro 11 Russia to offer free of charge to aoy fJ
responsible American publishing house that |
will do them justice. _
Lit thes* ttussians tell their own kVory, ?
for they are the only onas fully competent ^
I
co ao me worn, as none Due \rnarleans can
fully tell the story of America, aod as none
but Germans can fully tell the story of Germany.
and none but Englishmen can fully
tell the story of England, and none but
Frenchmen can fully tell the story of
France. Meanwhile lot the international
defamation come to an end. Cease to speak
evil of dieaitie3 merelv b&eauaa thtrv ara
dignities, and of presidents merely bacausn
they are presidents, and of emperors merely
beacuse they are emperors.
And may the blessing of God the Father,
and God th9 Son ani God the Holy Ghost
be upon all the members of the imperial
household of Russia, from the illustrious
head of that family down to the princess,
seven years of age, who came skipping into
my presence in the palace of Peterhof last
summer 1 Glory to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, good will to men!
RELIGIOUS READING.
L [ KK I?f EARNEST.
God takes it for srautedthat all Lis people
ire engaged in work and tas provided a
iulogy suitable, not for one ortwo of them,
>ut for all of them, when their work on
sarth is ended. The Apostle John brings it
)efore our minds in the words, "Ana I
ieard a voice from heaven saying nnto me,
Write, Blessed are the dead who die in the
uord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit,
hat they mny rest from their labors; and
heir works do follow them." All His people
lie in the Lord and all have works to follow
hem to the ht avenly kingdom. But it is
lot enougn to nave works; we ouscnt to
ibound in works, both for the good they
nay do and for the brightness of the crown
liey may secure.
Pi;A YER-MKETING RESOLUTIONS.
1. I will make it a matter of conscience
o attend. "Not forsaking the assembling of
;ourselves together."
2. I will "endeavor to bring others.
'Come thou with us, and we will do thee
;ood."
3. As I enter the room I will osk tbe\
Saviour's presence. "We would see Jesus."
4. I will not choose a back seat. "How
feasant it is for brethren to dwell together
n unity." *
5. I will not so seat myself ns to keep
jthers from the same pew." "Be courteous."
*}. I will hx my intention upon worsnip
md the Word. ''This people draweth nigh
into Me with their mouth, bat their heart is
ar from Me."
7. 1 will lead in prayer. "Ye also helping
ogetber by praying for us."
8. I will otherwise take part. "Teaching
ind admonishing one another." "Confess
four faults one to another."
9. My prayers and my remarks Rball be
?ief. "For God Is in Heaven and tbouupon
iarth; therefore let tby words be few."
10. I will avoid critical thoughts of others
if ho take part. "Judge not."
11. After meeting I will Meet as many w*
[ courteously can. "Salute one another."
'Be kindly afft Qtioned."
1.. As I return home I will maintain a
levout mind. ' Continuing instant in
Jrnyer."
13. By Christ's crace dwelling in me, I
ivill dolly live nslpry. "Not every one
batsaith unto Me. Lord, but be that doeth
be will of My Father."?[Golden Censor.
CHRISTIAN' AMBITION.
A few evenings since I was reading tbe
jreek Testament, when my son asked
wbetber any word in the Greek encouraged
be exercise of ambition and the seekli.g of
lonor. I have found such a word, its
neaning being ambition, the love of bonor,
be love of distinction. It is three times
ised.
I believe we have come so much to regard
humility the cardinal virtue of Christianity
:hat we may have forgotten the Cbrictian
ibould be au bitious. I think he should, be
;ne most amoiuous person uii runu. iu
whom Is tbe promise of eternal life r^poben
Dur to tho?e wbo in patient endurance in
well-doing seek glory, honor and immortality,
than wblch tbcre cannot be a much
ligber ambition ? We sometimes fall into
:be peril of being proud of our humility.
Bumiitv is sometimes only pride turned
wrong side out, just as you turn a garment
ind dye it and refit It A person says: "If
L can gat into heaven at last. I am -willing to
>ccupy a back seat." But Scripture very
certainly indicates that you are to seek not
>nly baralv to get into heaven, but "and so
iq abundant entrance shall be given you
nto the kingdom of God." The back seats
ire all spoken tor, and God wants as to get
is near the throne as pos>ible.
Romans xv., 20, is a most extraordinary
itatement. You roiuht ttiink a man who
wanted to build a house would prefer to
iave a lot where the foundation baa already
>een laid for him. But tbe apostle wants a
ot to build a bouse where tbe sod has not
>een broken. That is not our idea, for when
[ was choosing my field of labor I thought
he opposite. "If I am to win tbe most
louls, let me get where there is a good founlation
of hereditary piety and orthodox
? ? T J- UA?i.,flA T ?rv_
aim." I liiuue mat iuisuuc ucvaun i i*yirehendcd
preaching the Gospel lor success.
>ut not preaching it lor a witness. I don't
iny that we should not prea<-h the Gospel
'or success, but our first duty is to preach it
'or a witness. Our first business is, not to
juild a house, but to huild a highway.?
Rev. A. J. Gorden, D. D.
A PRAYING MOTHER.
The first thing to notice in the life of 8aiulel
is this, that like most good men he had a
jraylng mother. JVhen I was h boy there
van" a lavorite story of mine about a negro
vho 8 t one day on the deck of a steamer
vailing to be sold. He was very wretched
littlnv there with bis face buried in bis
lands, when a stranger came up and asked
lim wbat was the matter.
"We pwlne to be sold, massa." said the
xior negro.
"What for?" naked the stranger.
"Well, you s$e, me disobey orders. Me
>ray too long and too loud, and my massa
twine to se 1 roe. He let mc pray easy, but
vben me gets happy me-be^ln to holler, and
hen me know nothing about orders or anybing
e se."
The stranger was struck with the negro's
tpp&ranee, and as the master came up just
hen, he said, "'What will you take lor your
legro?"
The price was a hundred and fifty pounds,
le was bealtln', the m-.ster said, and the
iMt Vinml on ffie estate. But he cot relitri
>us, ami u^ccl to pray so loui! ibat the master
iad resolved to net rid of him.
Now, the stranger thought it would be a
rcry good thing if lie could get a good negro
o pray for him arid for his family, so he
ought him.
"Has he a wife and family?" the stranger
iski?l.
' Yes," said the old master, "a wife anil
hree children, and 1 will sell them for a
Kindred and fifty more."
The stranger paid the three hundred
tounds. and then going up to the negro,
aid, -'Well. Moses, I've bought you."
"O. hab you. inasj-a?"' and the poor Negro
ooketl very, very sad. He was thinking of
lis wi e and children.
1 ^ maiih Tvtfa ro?i (aa i
' IK8, nuu jvm "I?t ui.u VUIIUIEU, 1UU,
aid I lie stranger.
"Ooil beswyou for that."'cried Moses
' Anil look here." said the gentl- man, "you
an nray as much and as long and as loud as
ou like, only whenever you pray you must
>rav for me and for my wife and chi dren."
"Why. bless the Lord." cried Most*, "me
lab all kinds o' 'commodation, like Joseph
n Egypt."
Tweive months had pone by, when one
lay his old master had come into see to him.
le found Moses measuring corn, and lookup
very happv. ' ! want to buy Moses back
urain," he said: "I can't pet on without him;
very-thing is going wrong, and I've been a
niseraile man.'
"No." sa:d his master; '"I'm not going to
ell Moses to an*body; but I shall give him
?is liberty and let him work for me. if he
vill as a free man; for since he has been
lere, I and mv wife and my children have
bund the Saviour, and everything has proslered
wonderfully. I owe more than I ever
an tell to praying Moses."
'Oh. massa!" cried Moses, with tears in
n his eyes, "me always prays for you, too,
ure. Me put the old massa and the new
jne both together.''
Now, if a man would give three hundred
ounds lor a praying slave, who can tell the
i-orth of a praving mother? Next 10 the
' i- 1 ?kA kn..i :?
r>ve OI Jesus 111 ??ur ue#iu. iuc ucoi miim in
bewor-i i* this?a mother who prays for
is. 1 have heard people say sometimes of a
iov who whs horn heir to a large estate, or
o very much money, "Al?. he's a lucky felow;
he is born with n silver spoon in his
nouth." But very often it was the most
inlucky tiling that could happen. This is 1
be best fortune any child can have?the
leritPgc ot a mother's prayers,
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SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LF8SON FOB
DECEMBER 11.
Lesson Text: "The Apostolic Council,"
Acts xv., 12-29?Golden
Text: Acts xr., 11?
Commentary.
12. This verse introduces u? to a gatheriog
of the church at Jerusalem with the
apostles and elders. Paul and Barnabas
also being present and declaring before
them all tbe wonders which God had
wrought among the Gentiles by them. The
first pari of the chapter tells why the
apostles had left Antoch and the cause of
I this oonncil at Jerusalem. The principal
j point ot dispute was: Cm Gantiles be saved
pj ibhq in unrist, or must they also be circumcised
before they can be saved? Peter
told what he had seen of the gift of God
upon. tL is uncircumcised, and now Paul and
Barnab > tell what they have seen of the
same g. <xze. ,
18. James now sums up the evidence and
gives his decision. James, the brother of
John, had been slaiu (xii., 2), so this must
be James, the son of Alpheus (Math, x., 3),
the author of the epistle of James.
14. In verses 14 to 18 we have a complete
and concise summary'of the purpose ot God
with the church, the Jews and the Gentiles.
The purpose of the present dispensation is |
inn. tae conversion or the worl\ but, as it is
written here, to take oat of the nations a
people for His name.
lo. "And to this agree tho words of the
prophets." While the gathering of one
nody out of Jews and Gentiles on eqaat
terms is not clearly revealed in the Old
Testament-, as Paul testifies in Rom. xvi.,
35, 26; Eph. iii., 5, 6, tae purpose of God to
bless all nations through the nation of Israel
is very clearly revealed; and it is also
written in this connection, "Surely the
Lord God will do nothing but He revealeth
His secret unto His servants, the prophets"
(Amos iii., 7).
16. "After this I will return, and will
build again the tabernac>e of David." The
restoration here spoken of has never vet
taken place, for the prophet says that
when it does take place Israel shall be
planted in their lana and never be pulled
up any more (Amos ix., 11-15). Before this
regathering of Israel ai a nation the elect
church must be completed
17. Alter the conversion of Israel as a
nation, then shall all nations be converted,
for tho time will come when all kin?s shall
fall down before Him, all nations shall serve
Him (Pe. lxxiL, 11). As oao has said, it is
now some Jews and some Gentiles (the e*-eot
church), then it will be all tne Jews (Isa.
Ix., 19-22: Jer. xxxi., 38, 34), and after that
all theGenti'e* (Isa. Ix., 1-3, 11, 12).
18. There is no surprise to God in anything
that co nes to pasa, and lie does notn*
ing that from all eternity Me did not see that
Ho would do.
19. Understanding the purpose of God
James saw that the present election was not
to be by any special connection with Jewish,
rites, but by simple faith in Jesus, and by
His grace whosoever will, without respect to
p?r?ons. may be saved iverses 7-11)
20. He advised writing to the Gentile con*
verts toat having received Jesus, and therefore
being satfed, they should a stain from
all defilements ot ido.atry and uncleanness,
and observe in tbeir eatinjj such portion} of
the ceremonial law as would be for their
health and prove them to be separate from
the heathen about them (li Cor. vi., 16: vii.,
1.)
St. It was customary to read from Mows
?nr? fho nrnnhofi in t.iA svnaorwmA AtTArV
Sabbath day frili., 15, 27,) and Jesus Himself
bad testified that Modes wrote of Him
that ail Scripture referred to Him, and that
He had come not to destroy, but to fulfill
(John v., 46; Lake xxiv., 27, 44; Math, r.,
17) . .
22. Having come to this decision it pleated
the apostles and elders of the church of Jerusalem
to send to .Autioch with Paul and
Barnabas such chiec men as Baraaoas and
Silas, that not only might the Cnristians at
Autioch learn the decision ot the council br
letter, but oIsd by the testimony of these
brethren.
23. Listen now to the letter and hear leading
Jews at Jerusalem addressing Gentile belierrers
as brethren B?hold the grace of God
and the love of the Holy Spirit. What a
contrast to the old saying that the Jews have
no dealings with the Samaritans! I myself
have heard a minister of the Gospel object to
the term "brethren," saying that he felt like
knocking a man down who called him
brother. Snch was not the spirit of the
apostles.
24. Bach troablers and subverters still
live, and pervert the word of God and mystify
the grace of God, going so far as to say
that nntoss we believe as they do or join
their companion we cannot be saved;others
saying that even thoogh we believe we have
something to do before we can be saved, and
nr.hoi-n insint that we cannot know
whether we are saved till we die.
25. The letter testiflos to the love of the
church toward Barnabas and Paul, to the
unity of the'church at Jerusalem in this
matter, and to their great interest in the
Gentile brethren at Annoch. Ail true believers
are members of the one body.
36. Barnabas and Paul are honorably
mentioned because of th9ir sufferings for
Christ's sake. Some of these were mentioned
in last lesson. See a full list in II Cor. xi..
28-38. And yet hoar Paul say, "None of
these things move mo," and "The sufferings
of this present time are not worthy to be
compared with the giory w hich shall be re*
veated in us" (Acts zz., 34; Rom. viii.. 18).
27. Written termous ai e ?ood sometimes
and letters are often very helpful, but a
hu wnrr) nf mouth ri?ht from the
UCOUUiUty vj ?? v. w _
heart is best of all. In this case they have
botl the. written and the spoken testimony.
38. Observe the partnership of the Holy
(Spirit and the church and compare chapter
xiii., 2. Every oae who receives Jesus receives
also the Holy Spirit, and ttye body becomes
His temple, every whit of which He
jealously desiroth for the glory of God (I
Cor. vl." Is), 30: Jas. iv., 5, R. V., margin).
Jesus said to His apostles when He sent
them forth, "it is not ye that speak, bat the
Spirit of your Father whica s;>eaketh in
you" (Math, x., 20). See also Acts xvi., 6,
7, and let us covet earnestly to be completely
under the control of our Blessed Comforter
anrl Guide.
2!). The body being ltept wholly for God
and fully yielded to Him. the Spirit would
take full possession and God be glorified.
There is nothing burdensome in the service
of Christ. "His command ments are not
grievous" (I John v., S). His yoke is easy
and His burden is light (Math, xi.; 30). The
Christians at Antioch were made glad by
this letter and these words from the brethren
(verses 31, 33). Words from God are always
intended to make us glad and give us
peace if we are honestly desirous of walking
I with Him. See Jer. xxix., 11; Ps. xxxv.9
8; I John i., 4.?Lesson Helper.
WHERE THE MONET WE.VT.
A rather curious experiment was made in
Belgium the other day. Tae manufacturer,
before paying his workmen, marked TOO
tfve-franc pieces with a punch, and distributed
the coins ia equal number among
his bands. At the same time he requested
the keepers of the gro;-saops adjacent to his
works to hand over to him the five-franc
pieces marked in the way described. Two
days after the washes were paid more tyjan
three hundred of his silver coins wer0"f received
by the employer. The statisticians
I have wortced out the result, showing that in
laoo fVmn two rlavs each workman had SDent
more than half his salary at tna publia
house.?L3 Matin.
Rumor has it that King Charles of
Roumania will abdicate June 1 in
| favor of Prince Ferdinand, who is
soon to be married to Princess Marie.
King Charles and Carmen Sylva will
j have a combined civil list of $180,000
j annually and the King's private In
com? is S350,000. What a poetess
and a book collcctor, with a Joint incomo
of $530,000, want of a kingdom
Is, indeed, hard to see.
James Talbert, a colored fakir, is
exciting the citizens of Fayette County,
Alabama, by swallowing four gallons
of cold spring water ra as many
minutes. In certain parts of Ken
tucky the quality of Mr. J. T.'s beverage
would astonish the natives
even more than its quantity.
? '
TRMPtfRAWri? .
lijuii juuan vju>
who's afraid?
"Who ia afraid V' the youaf? man said.
And he laughed and tossed his handsome
head.
And the ruby wine from the cup ha drained.
And with many an oath his young lips
stained.
"Who isafraidr Not If he said,
And laughed, and tossed his thoughtless
head.
"Give me a draught that is stronger yet, ?
There are fearful thoughts that I must : >A
rorget
There is death in the cup, I know full well.
1'tro t-aatar? ?lppftHV t.hf\ flfftfl nf hall
Yet give me a draught th-tt is stronger yet,"
He said, "I have thoughts that I must . r'ig
forget." , .
"I am afraid!" the young man said. . ...
"Visions of horror are round my bed!
Mercy's hour I have sinned away.
Death is coming to claim his pray.
I am afraid! afraid!" he cri <*,. ....
With the pitiful words on his Hps be died.
?Joy Allison. "vffij
THE PIRNTCIOUS HABljT O* "K1PFIWG."
Whatever may be the opinion or judgment,
based on experience or rcience, as to
the value or the reverse of talcing some '
form of alcohol with the mealc. there is no
doubt that the custom of taking wine or
Hpinte m uooi yqowccu uioaia auu uu au
empty stomach?In one word the pernicious
habit of "nipping"?is highly injurious.
The morning nip, between breakfast and
the midday meal, which is frequently takes
by domestic servants, nurses, work people
and "City men," ren ters the taker les3 fit .'
for his daily work than he would otherwise
be, and is often the first fatal steD toward '
dram drinking, and the shameful life of the - - ,
woman drunkard, of wt?ch we are hearing
so much at ths present time.
The flushing of the face, caused by the
dilatation of the small blood vessels, usually
induced by alcohol when taken alone, u
symptomatic of what tikes place m the
stomach. The direct action of aicohol on the
mucous membrane is to produce temporary
congestion or blushing of the internal sur- *
Tlift itlM. -
xawo ui nuo owiiUMUi v/uu^coviuu urn* . ,
mately becomes chronic if nips or dra-ns of >
spirits are frequently indulzad in, with the
result that the mucous membrane becomes ,
thickened and ininratii, a quantity oC * ' ;'i'|
tenacious mucus is secreted, the digestive '*
ferment is paraiyzei or deetroyei, an laico*
holic dyspepsia is established.?Hospital.
. QEHKEAL HOWARD OK THE CAJTTEEJf.
Qeneral Howard, in his official report to i,
the Secretary of War, gives the folio iriog ; ,;-?g
important testimony concerning toe "post '!E
exchange," or canteen: ' ' /5-SS
"The post exchange presents the appearance
of a small ooantry store or refreshment
room in ail the premises except in the : room
where beer is served. Tile impression >*
is irresistable that be?r is easily and caeaoiy
procured, so that It is constantly forced upon
the attention of the enlist 3d man. Hie is
always tenanted to indulge in its use. Commandinpf
officers have generally agreed with '' M
me that it woold be well to abolish the sale
of beer entirely and to substitute for it othar
Averages. There seems a lac* of propriety
in having a sOldier in the uniform of the
United (States behind a counter dealing out / ^
beer like a barkeeper in a common resort. :)iM
The commanding: officers without exception
object to this. If there must be bar keepers
in the service they should be hired tor tha
purpose.
"Under the present svstem soldiers appearv V
to be more generally fed to drink and to
offences that go with drinking than under .yjrjg
the old sutler and post trade system. I am*.
strongly convinced by actual experiment , ' ??
that while a few drunks are moderated in
their application by strong beer the remaining
soldiers who fall under the temptatfos
are worse off and that military offences an ' ,1
rather increased in number." 3
In view of this significant testimony, from
the diatinguisned head of the United (Hates
Army, that beer selling is injurious to th?
men under his command, it is to be hoped .V
that the reauisite steps mar be taken for its : 'I.
abolition an early day.?National Tern
perance Advocate.
blood xoxcr. . yNot
long ago, in the beautiful city of T' iit
Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, a doe
university hall was built entirely oat of the
profits from tin sale of a certaia kin i of ale.
Dou tleas it was % gonarooa thin 5 for the v-':'
maker of the ale to <ierote a share of his
profits to a useful public purpose; but the
temperance people of Scotland oriag the-ixh;
peachment against the hall that it ia a mono*
meat to Edinburgh's drancennen.
Terrible pictures of the degra tation of the
lower classes of E ilnborgh, due to the use , ' .
H.lnlr if. nn?n iinvn hr nuidmiti nf '
that city. 1 rov;
"On a recent Saturdav night," one such
resident writes to a Scott&s nawspaoer, "I
had occasion to pass through Caw/ate,
Canongate and tliga street) The scene I vtak
compelled to witness made me aaiver.
"Drunken women, many of thim with
bairns in their arms, jostled mj every few
steps. Gray-haired old m*a filled the air
with drnnken yells and vulgar lan^ua^e. It
grieved me oeyond description to im a
bonny, fair-haired lassie standing hopelessly
drunk at a close monto, tne bntt of tae rude
jesters wno passed Her by.' ^
Such scenes may be se*n in many another
Scotch and Britisa city, 2a i to so n? extent
in American cities as well. Wnile they are
to be seen, saould moaey be accaptei, evan
for oenedcint public purposes, waich is d?*
rived from a traffic waich brings sued disgrace
to ourcivdixitioa?
There are many private "monuments to
drumcenne?" scattered througa ihalaad.
The time will comt, beyonl a doubt, when
there will be scarce one to waora tad sight
of them does not bring a pang of sorrow, ]
and very few indeed to whom they will ever
cause a thrill of pride.?Xoutn's Companion.
? DRINK A!TI> DBIIfK 8KLLBBS.
The War Cry, organ of the Balvation
Armv nrinte the foliowinz:
I have heard all the arguments which are
brought against res oectable men for manufacturing
and selling rum; I hare heard
them violently denounced trotp tne pulpit,
and warmly defended elsewhere; bat
scene to which I was once a witnes* decided
my opinion as to my own duty on this point
?and that is about as far, in a matter of
opinion, as any man can wisely press his j
arguments?i. e., to ois own conscience.
During an occasional stroll in an obscure
part of the town, my attention was once attracted
by the preparations for a funeral in
a small house by the roadside. Wnat induced
me to enter a house of mourning,
where I was alike unknowing and unknown,
is not at present material.
The room that I entered betrayed at a
clAnea the abiect poverty of its occupants.
There was neither car.?t nor fire; the b*i
was a heap of straw, four or five old oroken
chairs constituted all the furniture, and the
windows were stuffed with rajs.
A plain board coffin?whfbh, from its size,
must be that of a caild?lay on two chairs
in the center of the room; a woman, sobbing
aloud, was bending over it; ten or twelve
men stood around in silence, and by a corner
of the d replace. seated on the floor, was
a man in a beastly state of intoxication.
This man, as I afterward learned, was the
father of the child, whom, on the preceding
day, in another fit of drunk*
enness, he had accidentally pushed against
a teakettle over the fire, and the little creature
was so scalded by the water that it died
during the nwht.
After a few minutes' silencei, broken only
by the sobs of the heart-broken mother, ope
of the men, apparently with the intention of
offering to the poor woman the consolation
of sympathy, approached and said to her:
"Mrs. , this is a great affliction."
said the woman, raising lier
streaming eyes from the coffin and fixing
them on the speaker with all the sternness
she could command at the moment, "it is a
great affliction?a - raadul affliction, buc it
is not for you, who give him (pointing to
her drunken husband) his daily liquor, and
take from him the ?meaus of buyiu? our
daily bread; you who knew his weakness
and our poverty, you who yesterday sold
him a dram Whica ma le him murder our
darling child, an 1 to-day, knowing what he
had done, tempted him to drink what makes
him sit there liKe a brute beast, aud the
baoy dead by the side of him. It is not for
you to offer me consolation?that can came
?~ "V\/>>r , n*nA un'll #\na rla cr
only irum <tuu uuuir, ....v ..... w..*,
judge between the ricn man woo sells tha
licjuor and th? poor man wao drinks it."
Motiier? "Why aren't you and
Georgie as good boys as your little
brother?" Young Hopeful?"I guesa
it's cause you'd had more experience
bringin' up boys w'en you commenced
.? M rt 3 "xr
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