Earlier text: The CommentaryIN London Cowper asked a cabman to drive him to the Thames, intending to throw himself into the water, but before reaching the river, the cab stopped, and when Cowper asked what was the matter, the driver said: “The devil is either in the horse or cab; I cannot go on.” This brought Cowper “to himself,” and on reaching home he turned to the passage in Zechariah speaking of the fountain opened for sin and uncleanness, and wrote the well-known hymn:— There is a fountain filled with blood, etc. The second verse was in the original:— The dying thief rejoiced to see,
That fountain in his day,
And there have I, though vile as he,
Washed all my sins away. Heavenly Love and Human Infirmity
By Maria Hare
WHEN we are most filled with heavenly love, and only then, are we best fitted to bear with human infirmity, to live above it and forget its burden.—Maria Hare. Regularity in Eating.
By Dio Lewis
If there is one table-law about which all persons are agreed, it is that our meals should be taken at stated and regular periods. People may differ about vegetarianism, about sweets, about pies and cakes, about tea and coffee; but I have never met a person who would insist that regularity was of no consequence—that it was just as well to take two meals to-day and five to-morrow; to take dinner at one o'clock to-day and three to-morrow, and five the next day. Without understanding the physiological law, all are agreed that regularity is important. A long journey by rail does not derange the stomach because of sitting in an unventilated car, for the traveler may occupy a still worse place in the pursuit of his business at home; neither is it because of the character of the food furnished at the railway lunch rooms, for the food at home is often worse; but the stomach derangement which nearly always comes with the long railway trip is, in great part, to be traced to irregularity in the times of eating. In a recent trip, we took breakfast the first morning at half-past nine o'clock, the next at seven, and so with the other meals; only one day we had no dinner at all. When we reached San Francisco we were all suffering from indigestion; some were conscious of no discomfort in the stomach, but not one of us escaped the dullness and depression of spirits which come of imperfect digestion. Among the table-laws, this one of regularity is pre-eminently important.—Dio Lewis. CHICAGO has 3,700 saloons, and each of its 600,000 people pays an average of $30 to keep their proprietors from starving. This same city squanders $30,000,000 a year to corrupt and debase and turn men into fiends, and scarcely $3,000,000 for regenerating them.—Sel. —Cholera is still causing a good many deaths in Italy, daily. —Editor Cutting has been released by the Mexican Government. —It is said that muskrats damage the Erie Canal $50,000 worth every year. —A large number of seamen are now on a strike in San Francisco and Oakland. —A branch of the Salvation Army has been organized in Chinatown in San Francisco. —Some cattle from England, in quarantine at Quebec, are afflicted with pleuro-pneumonia. —It is stated that forty-nine tons of snails are consumed daily in Paris during their season. —Bishop John Sharp has been deposed as a Mormon Bishop. He renounced polygamy before the courts some time since. —Prince Alexander, of Bulgaria, has been deposed, it is supposed through Russian influence. The country is almost in a state of civil war, and all Europe is greatly agitated. —August 27, another American fishing vessel was seized in Canadian waters for alleged violation of the custom regulations. —The mob at Belfast, August 23, routed the police with stones and wrecked the barracks, which was defended by twenty policemen. —August 27, the Republican convention at Los Angeles, Cal., nominated John F. Swift, of San Francisco, for Governor of the State. —The strike of the car drivers on the Broadway, New York, street car lines has been compromised, and the men have all resumed work. —August 27, another submarine torpedo-boat was exhibited at New York. It worked successfully, making one dive of nearly two miles. —The twenty-five gypsies recently landed at Castle Garden, New York, were sent back to Europe on the same steamer by which they came. —On the 23d inst. revolutionists sacked the town of Villaldama, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Seven men are reported to have been killed and several wounded. —Nearly three-fourths of all the imitation butter made in this country hails from Chicago, where last year about twenty-five million pounds were made. —The Bulgarian revolutionists have been overthrown by the friends of Alexander, and the Prince has been asked to return and resume his authority. —Now that Rhode Island has adopted prohibition, it is said that saloon men are putting up buildings, to be devoted to their traffic, close to the line, in all the large towns which border on that State. —A certain sort of tobacco blindness is on the increase. The Lowell (Mass.) Citizen says that the victim is so affected that he can't see that he is puffing smoke right into the face of the person nearest him. —August 24, Mayor Gardner of Cleveland, Ohio, refused to grant the Anarchists of that city the use of the public square for a meeting. He told the committee that he would prevent such a meeting if he could. —A man in Pittsburgh, Pa., recently committed suicide because of intense suffering from a disease of the stomach, which, it is said, was due to the use of an anti-fat compound, by which he reduced his weight twenty pounds in six weeks. —A new oil field has been discovered in Pennsylvania only sixteen miles from Pittsburgh. One well commenced flowing at the rate of 500 barrels per day and the flow rapidly increased until it reached over 2,500, or more than 100 barrels per hour. —It is stated that the death sentence in Kansas does not by any means doom a murderer to death. The warrant must be signed by the Governor, and as yet no Kansas Governor has ever signed a death warrant. As a consequence, there are now thirty death-sentenced prisoners in the penitentiary. —A few days since, as a couple were about to be married in a Chicago church, the lady discovered that the man whom she was about to marry had been drinking. Quietly leaving his side she took the license from the minister, and tossing it in her intended husband's face, walked from the room. —August 23, all the employés on the Broadway, New York, car lines struck against a change in the time table. The change increased the number of trips per day from five to six, but made no increase in the pay of the men. On the 24th 1,100 men were paid off by order of the superintendent, who says that he will have nothing more to do with them. —Affairs in Ireland are in a very unsettled condition. It seems that the Government is preparing for coercion on a large scale. This will of course result in fresh agrarian outrages. Five hundred policemen and troops have left Birr to assist in evictions on the estates of the Marquis of Glanricard in Galway. The Birr branch of the National Land League has given notice to tradesmen not to supply the eviction agents with provisions or means of conveyance. —At Mandalay, Burmah, August 24, one of the embankments of the river Irrawaddy burst and in a few moments a large district was flooded to a depth of from four to ten feet. Quite a number of persons were drowned, and many thousands were rendered homeless. The flooded district had within its territory many food-supplying stores and all of these were swept away. The result will be an approach to famine among the homeless people. The river will not fall sufficiently to permit any attempts at reconstruction of the broken embankment until November. —The late Simon Samson left $50,000 to be devoted to the improvement of the condition of the Jews in the Holy Land. —The Lutherans are going to build a church in Jerusalem. More than $80,000 has already been collected for the purpose. —Chicago University, with its valuable buildings and grounds, has passed irrevocably from the possession of the Baptists. A debt of $210,000 was what crushed it. —Pope Leo XIII. is going to erect a beautiful monument to Pope Innocent III. Well, if there is any one man more than another to whom the Papacy owes a monument, Innocent III. is the one. —The society of Friends, or Quakers, seems to be slowly dying out. The whole number of members in Great Britain is only fifteen thousand, which is less than half the total recorded at the beginning of the present century. —Dr. Philip Schaff, the church historian, has been spending the summer in Berlin, attending lectures at the University there, and studying, in the Royal Library, the sources of what will be his history of the Reformation period. —“The Pope has received a letter, couched in the most respectful form, from the Prince Regent of Bavaria, assuring the Sovereign Pontiff that he would regard it as his chief duty to protect the Catholic Church.” This is another triumph of the crafty policy of Leo XIII. for the restoration of the Papacy. —The Evangelical Messenger states that in the United States “nine-tenths of the contributions to foreign missions are given by one-tenth of the church membership, while only one-half of the membership gives anything. The average amount per member is fifty cents per annum—one-seventh part of a cent per day for the conversion of a thousand millions of heathen!” —The Watchman very aptly says: “Some ministers in this time, as concerns their theology, remind us of the woman whose dress was not quite clean enough to wear, and not quite dirty enough to wash. They do not believe the old theology firmly enough to be able to preach it with power, and they do not believe the ‘new theology’ enough to be able to satisfy their consciences with it.” —In Wales, the farmers have refused to pay the tithe rent that is laid upon them by the Government, in support of the clergy of the Established Church. About nine-tenths of the Welsh are Dissenters from the Church of England, and they have at last grown tired of paying a tenth of all that grows, for the support of men who preach for the aristocracy. There has been some rioting, and serious trouble is feared. 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