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Review and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 6.

The Antediluvians

Review and Herald

Jan 9, 1866

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 9, 1866

The Antediluvians.

Bro. White: The following article is from the N. Y. Tribune of Dec., 1865, and is corroborative of the testimony found in Vol. iii of Spiritual Gifts, pp. 34 and 92. Those who are unwilling to receive these testimonies given us by the gifts of the Spirit, cannot put aside these witnesses that come from the bowels of the earth.
W. G. B. Albion, N. Y.

Discovery of Wonderful Organic Remains. Proofs of an Extinct Race of Men and Animals.

On Meagher's Bar, opposite Nevada, have been discovered fossils that unmistakably prove that this part of the world was, at one time inhabited by a race of human beings who stood, in maturity, from ten to twelve feet high; and by a species of quadruped at least twice as large as the Asiatic elephant. They were imbedded about eight feet, in what might be termed a close diluvial deposit, and in what the configuration of the country indicates was once the eddy of a river.
As an evidence of the former, we now have before us the jaw-bone—anatomically termed the inferior maxillary—of a biped which is almost double the size of an ordinary human jaw-bone. From point to point of the condyle—the upper projection, where junction is made with the corresponding parts above—this fossil measures fully five inches. It is in a perfect state of preservation—so perfect, that, had it been of ordinary size, one would have supposed that its owner had not made his (or her) exit from this "vale of tears" over 15 or 20 years ago. The enamel of the teeth still remains bright and uninjured by the action of fire, water, or air. Not a tooth is lost. They comprise six grinders or molars (the usual number), and ten others, being sixteen in all. They have been much worn by the labor of mastication; which fact proves that this American Goliath did not cease to use them until they had prepared for his stomach the food of many years, perhaps not until the other functions of his physical organization had weakened from old age, when the utility of the teeth ceased, though decay had not yet marked them by a single perforation. The fact is also a good conjectural argument, that this being belonged to a race similar in their habits to the existing tribes of natives, who, even in their old age, are notable for the fine state of their teeth. The jaw-bone is the only portion of the remains we have seen; but ribs, and other bones were found near the spot, which undoubtedly belonged to the same individual, as they are all of proportionate size. It has been estimated by members of the medical fraternity here, that the hight of this biped could not have been less than 10½, and might have reached 12 feet!
Why, we will be asked, do we suppose these human bones to be the remains of an extinct race? We answer it is a conclusion fairly arrived at by inductive reasoning. It is true, among existing races, there are instances recorded of men reaching the hight of over eight feet; but the record is not positive of any reaching over nine feet. The science of "comparative anatomy" need not be deeply studied to prove that these fossils belonged to a being more than ten feet high. If this being belonged to the existing races, and was a sort of lusus naturæ, or one individual of tremendous proportions among whole nations of the common stature, is it not somewhat surprising that his (or her) gigantic bones should be exhumed in the heart of the continent, having distinctive physical prominence among millions? Why was not one of the myriads of smaller frames, from which the vital spark had fled before and fled after him, found instead? The Caucasian is put down as the tallest of the five divisions of the human family. There is not one of this race, on record, that we are aware of, who attained to a hight of near eleven feet. Such an anomaly might happen; but if it should, many generations would most probably come and go without a parallel. Judging from its size alone, we think the chance of this jaw-bone having belonged to one of the North American Indian race is as one for, to many millions against. But the concomitant circumstances of a fossil having been found with it, which we know is not referable to any species now existing in America, strengthens the theory that in this jaw-bone we have the evidence of a race of human beings that has "gone flickering among the things that were."
The proof of an extinct race of quadrupeds, or of a species at least, that were twice as large as any now extant, is the discovery of an enormous molar tooth, which was found along with a monster jaw-bone. The crown or top of this tooth measures, the longer* way, exactly six inches, and it is four in width; the root, or the part invested by or sunk below the gum, measures over seven inches. The measurement from top to bottom (that is, in its natural position) is between eight and nine inches, being but little greater in depth than in length on the top. Judging from our very limited knowledge of palæontology, the animal which carried this tooth was ruminant and herbivorous. The crown of the tooth is marked by numerous transverse ridges, thickly enameled. The enamel is bright, and in many places as well preserved as if on the tooth of a living animal. These ridges are not deep, and are rounding on the top, indicating adaptability to bruising in mastication, rather than cutting, on the carnivorous, or flesh-eating order. The tooth is partially petrified, and has indications of having been a long while buried. Upon exposure to the air, a fragment crumbled off, and fully half of it is in a state of petrification. Had it not been for the enamel—the most indestructible of substances—and this petrifying process, it is doubtful that its form would have been so long preserved.
This molar may have belonged to the mastodon species, or an enormous type of the elephant. But we are told that a tooth of similar outlines, but three times as large, has been found in Deer Lodge county, in this Territory. Gentlemen in this place have seen it. This would seem to indicate an extinct quadrupedal race larger than remains have yet been found of, in Europe or other parts of North America. The great mastodon skeleton in the Philadelphia Museum, is fifteen feet long, and eleven feet high; but think of a tooth a foot and a-half long, and a foot wide on the top!
The carcass of an elephant was found, in the present century, in the frozen mud and sand of Siberia, preserved in its entirety. Its skin was covered with hair or fur, but all else indicated a bona fide elephant. In 1771, the carcass of a rhinoceros, also, was found in the same regions. The icy shores of the Polar Ocean, in north-eastern Asia, abound, it is said, with the bones of these animals, now only known in the tropics. What mighty convulsion of nature caused their extinction? and how far did its influence extend? Did not the great upheaving break asunder a land connection that once existed between the two hemispheres? One arctic explorer reports having found fossil tropical plants, species of the palm, buried beneath the perennial snows of Kamchatka. This, as well as the Siberian fossils, point to a complete and permanent climatical revolution. May not these facts bear upon the theory of our Indian tribes coming from the Eastern hemisphere? Was not there a time when, with even open canoes, such as the northern-coast Indians now use—they could have crossed?
We leave the subject for the speculation of the antiquarian and the curious. The mammoth jaw-bone and tooth described may be seen, for a few days, in the counting-room of The Post.

“I Say Unto All, Watch.”

By H. More

WATCH is the mandate given all, Heed Christ's coming, wait his call, Till the hour, we know not when He will come, be ready then.
Keep thy conscience pure within, Let nought tempt thee unto sin, In the path of duty live, Then his coming joy will give.
Clothed in majesty divine, White, and radiant, see him shine, King of kings, and Lord of lords, Let him be by all adored.
Ah, the wicked, how they wail, Nought for them can now avail; They have scorned his holy word, Mocked the messengers of God.
Those who deemed his coming near, Saying Christ would soon appear, Have been wild fanatics called, Scorned and mocked by great and small.
Now their oil of grace is sought, None, alas! can then be bought, Raiment white cannot be found, Nor the crownless then be crowned.
Till he comes in kingly state, To reward, with patience wait; Then with joy we'll welcome him, And a crown of glory win.
H. MORE.
Orphan Asylum, West Africa, Oct. 1865.

Justifying God’s Providence

He that is justified by God's grace, will endeavor to justify God's providence.

The Shrew Untamed.

By Editor

South Carolina has not adopted the Constitutional Amendment. What is that amendment? It is a prohibition of slavery. South Carolina is at this moment re-enacting slavery. Behold the proof!
A bird has flown to our office with a copy of the new Carolinian code prepared for the government of the free blacks—a pamphlet which, as yet, is a literary rarity in the North. This code, at the last advices, had passed to a second reading, and was in prospect of adoption. Governor Perry describes it to the President of the United States as "a wise, just, and humane system of the laws for the government and protection of the freedmen." On the contrary, after a careful reading, we pronounce it an evasion of the Constitutional amendment, a fraud upon the black man, a snare for the Federal Government, and an affront to the moral sense of the North. It is a Slave Code, changed only in name. It is as infamous for 1865 as the Fugitive Slave Law was for 1850.
"The master shall have authority to inflict moderate chastisement," says this new code. But is this the language of Freedom? Is it not rather the stereotyped expression of the good old time when men's backs ran blood from the cat-o'-nine? The black man is stripped naked of his rights; the white man carries a whip in his hand; and this is the reinstatement of South Carolina!
"All persons of color," it says, "who make contracts for service or labor, shall be known as servants, and those with whom they contract shall be known as masters." Why so? Free States never say this. A mechanic in the North is not called a "servant." A hired man on a farm is not called a "servant." Moreover, the codifiers have forgotten that the freemen of South Carolina have been spoken to by the New Testament, saying, "Call no man master."
"Servants," it says, "shall rise at the dawn in the morning, feed, water, and care for the animals on the farm, do the usual and needful work about the premises, prepare their meals for the day, if required by the master, and begin the farm-work by sunrise." All this is what Yankee boys do on farms in Vermont and Maine; but would they submit to being commanded to do it by a State legislature? When did the law of the land ever before undertake to say at what hour a free citizen must get up in the morning? Why, then, should not the same law prescribe how he shall clean his teeth and comb his hair?
"Servants shall not be absent from the premises without the written consent of the master." But suppose the premises are a five-acre farm, are the work-hands, after work-hours, never to overtread its edge without a pass? If in Pennsylvania or Ohio, a mechanic wants to go to singing-school on a Saturday night, or to church on a Sunday morning, must he first beg his week-day employer's gracious permission? Such a law gives power to every white man in Charleston to turn his residence into a Bastile for the negroes' perpetual imprisonment.
"Any person who shall deprive a master of the service of his servant by enticing him away, or harboring or detaining him, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and to imprisonment or hard labor, at the discretion of the court." Does this sound like legislation for freemen? Is not this the Fugitive Slave Law over again, with all its pains and penalties?
"It is the duty of servants to be equally civil and polite to their masters." Is it indeed! And does the sovereign State of South Carolina propose to teach etiquette and manners by public law? And will the Legislature assist in the good work by giving lessons in dancing?
"A person of color, who wishes to pursue or practice the art, trade, or business of an artisan, mechanic or shop keeper, or any other trade," must do what?—must simply begin and go ahead, as every Northern free man does?—no, he must "apply by petition to the Judge of the District Court for a license!" If a Yankee should think of starting a dry goods store, or a coffee-mill, or a bakery, or anything but a gunpowder shop, would he begin by suing for a license? If the law should put such a barrier before a white man, would the law stand a week?
"During the term of service, the house occupied by any servant is the master's; and on the expiration of the term of service, the servant shall be immediately removed. O Lord Brougham! Why did you ever say an Englishman's house is his castle? Not even a black man's squalid cabin is his own!
"Persons of color constitute no part of the militia of the State!" But this is an insult to every survivor of Fort Wagner. "No one of them," says the code, "shall be allowed to keep a fire-arm, sword or military weapon." And all this in spite of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, both of which assert the citizen's right to bear arms.
Is there no single redeeming feature in this code of abomination? Yes, there is one. Here it is: "If there be a school, within a convenient distance, in which colored children are taught, the master shall send his young servant to school at least six weeks in every year." Is that a gleam of humanity? Alas! the jewel quickly lost its lustre! At the very first reading of this provision, a member of the convention rose and said: "I am opposed to all humbug, and I move that this clause be stricken out;" and it was stricken out, unanimously and without debate!
This code, from beginning to end, is "iniquity framed into law"—an outrage upon Liberty—a revival of "chivalry"—a piece of malice aforethought against the negro—a scroll of injustice, which we hold up to the contempt of mankind!
And this is what South Carolina means by the Constitutional Amendment.—N. Y. Independent.

"Why Tarriest Thou?"

By John Matteson

“ESCAPE for thy life; look not behind thee.” The prayer of our Saviour was, “Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.” If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” Free from what? “The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” “Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid: how shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” “Whosoever committeth sin, transgresseth also the law, for sin is the transgression of the law.” For this purpose Christ came and died, that sin should not reign in our mortal body. “Thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins.” “Our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.” “God sending his own Son . . . condemned sin in the flesh; that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. . . . The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God.”
Brother, believest thou all this? I know that thou believest. But do you find no strength? “As thy day is, so shall thy strength be.” “Ask and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you.” “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” “Herein is my Father glorified that ye bear much fruit.” Sayest thou, I can do nothing, God must do all? Well, without him we can do nothing; but with him we can do all things. Every means of grace is the gift of God; but it is ours to use them. God worketh in us both to will and to do, and he giveth the increase; but we must also work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. And if we do not plant and water, He will give us no increase. The nobleman delivered to his ten servants their number of pounds, but they must occupy till he comes. And if we do not occupy, and gain some with our pound, the awful sentence will sound in our ears, “Thou wicked servant.” Faith is the gift of God; but we must exercise faith if we want the Lord to increase it.
My brother, are you so easily discouraged? so soon worn out? Have you already resisted unto blood striving against sin? Can nothing awaken, nothing move you? Can you be contented in bondage under the elements of the world? Is it popular fables, or the word of God that we have preached unto you?
Art thou also among “fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken?” Will you not open your eyes to see, your ears to hear, and your heart to understand? Is it in vain that Christ with his blood has sealed the truthfulness of his word, and proved by his death his deep and infinite love? Cannot this love move you, can it not constrain you? Did he live, die, and suffer for you, and will you do nothing in return? Have you these many years served the Devil and the world, and will you not spend a few days in the service of Jesus? Have you been faithful in serving your lusts, and will you now be lukewarm in serving God? Cannot the gentle voice of your Saviour awaken you?
Contemplate for a moment the great love of the Father. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” “Whosoever,” means also you, my brother. Think how it pains the tender Father’s heart to give his only Son for you. See how Abraham with heavy heart and slow step ascend on mount Moriah, to offer up his son Isaac. But Jesus was his Father’s only Son. He leaves his happy home, and bids farewell to the bright morning stars who sang together, and the sons of God who shouted for joy when the sockets of the earth were fastened. And this was for you, my brother. Cannot this love move you? His love to you so great, and yours to him so cold. Are you still contented in your lukewarm condition, which will terminate in being spewed out of his mouth? Have you a heart harder than the rock, colder than ice? Do you still shut its doors against your best friend?
The Father bringeth in the first-begotten into the world. The whole multitude of the heavenly host sing in sweetest harmony mid the stillness of the night. The bright messengers bring tidings of greatest joy, which shall be to all people. Unto you is born this day a Saviour. Do you not hear the heavenly music, the good tidings for erring mortals? Behold the babe lying in a manger wrapt in swaddling clothes. Is this the Son of God who has come to save sinners? Oh, come and see. Here is no royal throne, no golden scepter; but angels throng around. Kings from the east, worship before the child, presenting their gold, and frankincense and myrrh. The shepherds and angels smile; and the Father himself in Heaven smiles upon a world in which a Saviour has appeared. Oh this is a gracious event for poor sinners, and for you, my brother. Come, oh come away from the deceitful lusts of the world. Curse your lukewarmness. Break away from the heavy yoke of evil habits. Away with friends and relatives who hinder my union with Jesus. My Saviour has become my salvation and my song. In him will I live and die. With him will I rise and reign.
Behold the hardships of Jesus throughout life. Hear his prayer on the lonely mountain in midnight silence, while others slumber in sweet repose. For you, my brother, his supplications ascended to Heaven, and will you not pray for yourself? See him in the garden in deep agony. He is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Forsaken by all, he wrestles in the deepest anguish and pain. Heavy drops of blood roll down his trembling flesh. All for your sake, to pay your debt. Oh will you not strive for yourself? Will you not wrestle with a little anguish and tears in your prayers? Can you not find time? Have you so much to take care of in this world? Oh yes, take together your chips, fill your mind with your many worldly plans, go with the world and a lukewarm church, and perish at last with them. Or, take time, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, go with the remnant people of God, and rejoice at last with them.
Does the world despise you? Jesus was spit upon. Must you walk upon thorns? He wore a crown of thorns, which sank deep into his holy head when cruel soldiers struck him with the reed. Does it smart to crucify the flesh with the affections and lusts? Did not his back smart when he was cruelly scourged until his blood flowed in streams? Do you groan under the heavy burden? See how Jesus sinks to the ground as the heavy cross is laid upon his shoulders. Forsaken of God, forsaken by men, condemned as a malefactor, he hangs on the tree, nailed to a shameful cross.
Oh the Lamb, the loving Lamb! He is tasting the bitter cup of death for you, my brother. He dies for your sinful passions, evil habits, many transgressions. And will you still continue in sin? Oh no my brother, say No. God being my helper I will do so no more. Now I will say good-by to the filthy habits of the world. My Jesus has purchased me. I cannot serve sin any more. The Son of God has delivered me from the bondage of sin. He lives and I shall live. He rose and I shall rise. I am weak but he is strong. I am poor but he is rich. I will not, I dare not, let him go till he blesses me.
Brother, "yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry." The morning-star has already appeared. It tells of an eternal day. Soon the Sun of righteousness will arise with healing in his wings. The unmingled wrath of God is soon to be poured out. Men are scorched with great heat, but repentance is found no more. They gnaw their tongues for pain, and blaspheme the God of Heaven. The great tribulation such as never was has come. Destruction goeth forth like a whirlwind. The very air is rent with shrieks and groans. Mourning and despair is seen everywhere. False teachers curse the time when they misinterpreted the word of God, and deceived ignorant souls. Then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn.
But the elect cry unto God night and day. Do you not hear the angels of God coming after you? Now you are to meet the Saviour in the air. Oh, that will be joyful. Sink below my feet thou old and trembling earth. Perish with thy pain and sorrow, thy sin and death. From thy ruins a new earth shall come forth in which dwelleth righteousness. There shall I inherit the land which Jesus the testator in his testament has promised, and by his death enforced. I go to meet the Son of man. Amid the angelic host in the white cloud is a place for me. Brother, will you too go? Have you no time? Are you still busy with the world? Do you still cling to your filthy lusts and bad habits? Brother, I cannot let you go. Come, oh come with us! Do you not hear the angels sing? Do you not see the happy company in white array? Will you not sing with them redemption's sweet song, while angels in silence listen? Oh blessed hour! Oh glorious ascension! Upward, homeward we go to the heavenly city. The pearly gates are opened. The righteous nation enter in. On the sea of glass before the throne of God they stand, and sing the song of Moses and the Lamb. They praise the Father, praise the Son, harping with their harps. Their song is sweet and harmonious as it were but one voice, and yet mighty and strong as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder.
Brother, have you no desire to mingle your voice with theirs? Is not this crown worth striving for? What have you sacrificed to obtain it? Are your eyes tired from weeping, your tongue from much crying? Have you become poor for Jesus' sake, or suffered persecution, or lost wife and children for his name? Have you left home or suffered hunger and cold to serve your dear Redeemer? Are you not ashamed that you love him so little? Not ashamed to love a filthy lust more than the fellowship of God's children? Brother, I cannot leave you. I have prayed to my dear Saviour for you, and will continue to do so. Have you no tears for yourself? then I will weep for you. Do you close your heart? that will open mine wide. Oh steel not thy heart against my love, my prayer. Tear away from the pollution of the flesh. Seek a pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father. Keep yourself unspotted from the world. Does the habit to which you cling so firmly, purify your heart, cleanse and renew your mind? Is not temperance a Christian virtue, and intemperance a vice? Is it not temperance to abstain from everything which is hurtful and useless? But it is written, "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, . . . temperance." "And as he [Paul] reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and a judgment to come, Felix trembled and answered, go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season I will call for thee." Brother, has not your convenient season come yet to hear a word about temperance? "And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we are incorruptible."
Dear brother, open your eyes, and strive with us to be temperate in all things, that we with all the dear children of God may obtain an incorruptible crown. JOHN MATTESON.

Slavery Abolished.

SLAVERY no longer exists on American soil by authority of the government. The following proclamation by Secretary Seward, shows that the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, has now become a part of the Great Charter of the nation:
To all whom these presents may concern, greeting:—
Know ye, that whereas the Congress of the United States on the first day of February last, passed a resolution which is in the words following, namely:
A resolution submitting to the Legislatures of the several States a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States:
_Resolved_, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring, that the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of said Constitution:
ART. 13, SEC. 1.—Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the parties have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
SEC. 2.—Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
And whereas, it appears from official documents on file in this department, that the amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed as aforesaid, has been ratified by the Legislatures of the States of Illinois, Rhode Island, Michigan, Maryland, New York, West Virginia, Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Tennessee, Arkansas, Connecticut, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina and Georgia, in all twenty-seven States; and whereas, the whole number of States in the United States is thirty-six; and whereas, the before specially named States whose Legislatures have ratified the said proposed amendment, constitute three-fourths of the whole number of States in the United States:
Now, therefore, be it known, that I, William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, by virtue and in pursuance of the second section of the act of Congress, approved the 20th of April, 1818, entitled "An act to provide for the publication of the laws of the United States, and for other purposes," do hereby certify that the amendment aforesaid has become valid to all intents and purposes, and part of the Constitution of the United States.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 18th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1865, and of the Independence of the United States of America the ninetieth.
WM. H. SEWARD, Sec. of State.

A Little While.

By M. A. W. Foster

A LITTLE while to journey on, Through toil and through distress: A little while with weary feet This rugged way to press. A little while to bear the scoffs, Which earth's vain children throw; Then we shall land in that fair clime, Which ne'er a grief can know.
A little while to part with friends, And lay them 'mong the dead; A little while with aching hearts This rough ascent to tread. A little while to bear the ills, With which this earth is rife: In a little while if faithful, We'll have eternal life.
A little while to face the storms, Then all our toils are o'er; A little while then we shall gain That bright immortal shore, Where Jesus, and where angels dwell,— Clothed in celestial light, With golden harps and symphonies, We'll praise him day and night.
A little while to watch and pray, And gird the armor on; 'Tis but a little while, and then We'll sing redemption's song! A little while, oh blessed thought! How glad we all shall be, To be from sin and every guile, Forevermore set free!
A little while—oh Saviour come, Thy people long for thee : Come, gather all thy scattered ones, In glorious majesty! Come, quickly come, Lord Jesus come, And take us to thy home, We long within thy courts to dwell, There never more to roam!
M. A. W. FOSTER.
Cooperville, Mich.

Extracts on the Times.

THAT we are living at the climax of wickedness and at the end of the age, is evident from the following quotations:
The N. Y. World of August 16, 1865, gives the following as a part of a speech of Dupin on the report of the Attorney General of France, on prostitution:
"Debauchery does not any longer afflict the sight as it did forty years ago. * You speak of courtesans who appear in public places. Yes, they live fast and go in splendid equipages so as to attract attention. What is high society doing? She looks on and models herself upon them. It is that class of woman who give fashions to the ladies of the great world; it is they whom the latter copy. Such is the example given by high society."
Speaking of woman dressing on credit, in order to keep pace with the fashions, he says, "Whose payment is always fatal to virtue."
Some of the ladies of Paris reply to Mr. Dupin, in defense, thus:
"Mr. Dupin does not seem to know that if honest women dress like fast women, it is simply an attempt to keep their husbands near them: for they know through sad experience how men do love this sort of creature. * More than one among us goes into those expenses to prevent her husband from throwing out money to his mistress."
Rev. O. B. Frothingham, in The Friend of Virtue, on costly religion, says:
"We New Yorkers live daily on the very brink of destruction. All the demons are let loose upon us; the elements of every conceivable disease, thievery, vice in every variety; and the Citizen's Association cannot find ten good men to undertake its gigantic sanitary work."
In the course of an editorial article, intended to show that it is the certainty, and not the severity, of punishment which is needed for the suppression of crime, The Pittsburg Commercial makes the following statements:
"In fifteen years during which the annals of crime in this country have been stained by more than fifty murders, a single instance of hanging has been affirmed by the executive as the measure of extreme penalty due, and there justice was cheated of her victim by suicide."
Says The Congregationalist:
"Crime abounds here [ New York ] to a fearful extent. Indeed, the tide of evil seems just now to be at the flood, and to have reached a point beyond which it cannot go. The columns of our daily papers come to our doors every morning burdened with descriptions of the murders and assaults of various kinds which have been committed between the setting and rising sun. It is terrible to think of the crimes of every die and every kind, almost, which are perpetrated on this little spot of earth. A man goes out here after dark at his peril."
Says The Albion of Febuary 18, 1865, "Mendelsohn's beautiful song, 'It is ordained in God's course,' has been converted into a polka, and published in Prague."
Thus runs the world. A poor prospect of the promised ( by man ) temporal Millennium.
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