1 "IF then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right 2 hand of God. Set your mind on the things that are above, not 3 on the things that are upon the earth. For ye died, and your 4 life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with Him be manifested in glory.
5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetous6 ness, the which is idolatry; for which things' sake cometh the 7 wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience; in the which ye 8 also walked aforetime, when ye lived in these things. But now put ye also away all these; anger, wrath, malice, railing, 9 shameful speaking out of your mouth; lie not one to another; 10 seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings, and have put on the new man, which is being renewed unto knowl11 edge after the image of Him that created him; where there can not be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondman, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
12 "Put on therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; 13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any man have a complaint against any; even as the Lord forgave you, 14 so also do ye; and above all these things put on love, which is 15 the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to the which also ye were called in one body; and be ye thankful."
Golden Text: "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts." Verse 15.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) What will those seek who are raised with Christ? What does it mean to be "raised together with Christ"? V. 1. Note 1. (2) Upon what will such set their mind? V. 2. Note 2. (3) Why will they prefer things that are above? V. 3. Note 3. (4) What is Christ to the believer? Then what will be the position of the believer when Christ shall appear in glory? V. 4. Note 4. (5) Therefore what is necessary for the Christian to do in this life? V. 5. Note 5. (6) What is the result of indulging such propensities? V. 6. (7) When did those who are now believers walk in those evil ways? V. 7. (8) What do they do after believing in Christ? V. 8. (9) What injunction is here given by the apostle? Why not? Vs. 9, 10 (first part). (10) In what is the mind renewed to produce a "new man"? V. 10. (11) What is said of the equality of believers? V. 11. Note 6. (12) What is it to put on the new man? V. 12. (13) How will such renewed persons treat one another? V. 13. (14) What above all else must they put on? V. 14. (15) What then will rule the heart? How should this blessing be received? V. 15. Note 7.
NOTES.
1. "If."—The apostle is addressing those who have made a formal profession of faith by baptism. In the water baptism there is the likeness of a burial and resurrection. A burial signifies a death, and the raising out of the water signifies a resurrection, or a new life. The rite implies death to sin, and having been raised to life in Christ. "Therefore we are buried with Him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Rom. 6:4. The lesson is predicated on the word "if." If this profession is genuine, and the one thus professing faith in Christ be indeed risen with Him, he will seek those things which pertain to Christ and His kingdom. In short, an earnest seeking after the things of God is the proof that one is risen with Christ into a new life. Rom. 6:3-5.
2. "Set your mind."—Fix your mind, implying a determined purpose to turn from the world. "Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness." Eph. 4:22-24.
3. "Ye died."—A.V., "are dead;" hence the burial. The new life is in Christ, therefore it is safe. Ye were dead in sin (Eph. 2:1, 5), but now are dead to sin. "I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God." Gal. 2:20.
4. Christ our life.—Remember all this is based on the if; if the profession be a reality. Then if we are risen with Christ, He is our life. "The just shall live by faith." Logically His being manifested in glory, all the life that is in Him will be manifested. Then if our life be "hid" in Him now, it will appear at His coming. Said Paul, as he was about to be offered, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing." 2 Tim. 4:7, 8. Thus it appears that the Christian receives his crown at the second advent of Christ.
5. "Mortify."—That is, strictly deny to your body those things which sinful lust craves. This is the only way to overcome these evils. It is often mortifying, or humiliating, to be absolutely denied things that seem very desirable and are within easy reach. But that is the only way in which a thorough change may be wrought in the mind. "If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." Rom. 8:13. "I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection." 1 Cor. 9:27. The body is the temple of the Holy Ghost (chap. 6:19, 20), and as such must not be defiled (chap. 3, 16, 17).
6. "Equality."—The Spirit of Christ is the great equalizer of men. In the world men are constantly striving to create differences between men,—differences in rank, station, possessions, etc. This is because of pride, selfishness, covetousness, jealousy, and their consequent indulgences. But the Spirit of Christ obliterates all these, and the Law of God takes their place in the heart: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, . . . and thy neighbor as thyself." James expresses the blessing of Christian equality in this way: "Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted; but the rich in that he is made low." James 1:9, 10.
7. Let peace rule.—What ruled before conversion? —Enmity, sin, the lusts of the flesh. Before the mind was renewed, or changed, it was carnal. "The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." Rom. 8:7. Sin, "the transgression of the law" (1 John 3:4), rules every unregenerate heart, holding it in enmity against God; but "being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom. 5:1). "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid; yea, we establish the law." Chap. 3:31. "Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof." Chap. 6:12.
HE LEADETH ME.
By Gertrude Humphery
[Gertrude Humphery, in New York Observer.]
THE Shepherd He
Who leadeth me,
No good I lack thro' life's long day;
With Him I bide,
In Him confide,
He leadeth me, I fear to stray.
He leadeth me,
It may not be
In pastures green I always dwell;
But still I say,
Tho rough the way,
He leadeth me, and all is well.
He leadeth me
O'er stormy sea,
Sometimes I walk by waters still.
He is my guide,
Whate'er betide,
He leadeth me—I fear no ill.
He leadeth me—
I can not see
One step before, the way is hid;
The future dim
I trust with Him,
He leadeth me, and I am glad.
MATTIE LEE'S RAG CARPET.
By Mrs. Roxana C. Baker
(Concluded.)
DORA was taking care of her mother, but, as she slept peacefully, the child had sunk down across the foot of the bed, and was fast asleep herself.
Stealthily, Frank Lee took the bottle of brandy from its place and returned to the kitchen, saying to himself, "I will take just a spoonful to steady my nerves." He poured a little into a glass of water, and swallowed it. But this only intensified the burning fever within. When Dora awaked an hour later and went into the kitchen, she smelled the fumes of brandy. How the poor child's heart ached as she saw the empty bottle, and her father lying in the deep stupor of intoxication! But she kept the matter to herself until grandma came. As Mattie slept a good deal during her convalescence, it did not come to her knowledge.
Frank returned to his work, but he felt unutterably miserable, and nothing kept him from Hugh's tavern but the lack of funds. He had as yet too much pride to ask to be trusted for drinks. A few days later, a man who owed him, paid him five dollars, saying as he did so, "I heard your folks were sick, and I thought perhaps you needed it."
Altho he knew that the money was sadly needed at home, nothing short of a miracle would have kept him from Hugh's tavern that night.
Twenty-four hours later, as the twilight was falling, he had recovered sufficiently to drag himself home. His money was all gone, and he felt utterly ashamed of himself, altho he assumed a reckless air before his family.
Every week or two this scene was enacted, only sometimes he stayed longer and sometimes a shorter time at the tavern, but generally as long as his money lasted.
Mattie recovered strength slowly. The dark shadows seemed to be settling down deeper upon her path. She felt quite hopeless again.
The chill winds of November began to blow. And the children had no shoes or warm clothes for winter. Lulu came home from a month's stay at grandma's with new shoes and a comfortable suit of clothes, but this only made the destitution at home more apparent. Dora and Kate could hardly keep their ragged shoes on their feet, while the younger ones were barefoot.
Katie had taken such a cold on her lungs, from getting her feet wet, that she was threatened with pneumonia.
The carpet lay in a corner of the sittingroom unmade. Mattie looked at it wistfully every time she entered the room.
One day after Katie had fallen back exhausted after a severe paroxysm of coughing, Mattie threw herself down on the floor, saying brokenly, "It'll have to be done."
"O mother!" said Dora, quickly divining her meaning.
"I can't stand it any longer to see you children going without shoes and clothes to keep you warm. We had better never have a carpet." She laid her head across the roll of carpet and wept bitterly. Dora and the rest of the children tried to comfort her, but ended by joining their tears with hers.
After a while she grew calm. Mother-love was stronger than any other feeling. "Dora," she said in a tremulous tone, "go and tell Mrs. Harvey she can have the carpet. We are not able to keep it."
So the carpet was sold. It came to fifteen dollars. In her joy at being able to provide shoes and other things for the children, Mattie forgot her grief at parting with the carpet.
She told Frank that evening that she wanted to go to town the next day. He told her he had no money for her, and seemed sorry when he saw how needy they were.
Mattie was not a shrewd woman, and when he seemed kind, she forgot all about his faults and trusted him the same as ever. So she told him of the sale of the carpet, fearing he might scold, and was quite relieved that he did not.
The next morning Frank went off very early without waiting for breakfast.
Mattie had arranged to ride to town with Mrs. Harvey, and made herself ready early in the forenoon. She went to the little stand drawer and took out her pocketbook. She smiled to herself as she thought of the clothing it would buy, and the delicacies for poor sick Katie. She opened it to take another look at its treasured contents. Was it possible! The money was gone. She looked it over and over to be sure she hadn't gone crazy, and tried to think she might have put it somewhere else. But tho she looked and looked everywhere, she knew she put it there, and she felt with sinking heart where it had gone.
When Mr. and Mrs. Harvey called to take her to town, and found them all in tears, the loss of the money had to be explained.
"Where's Frank?" queried Mr. Harvey, suspiciously.
"He went off early this morning to work," faltered Mattie.
"More likely he's down at Hugh's," said Mr. Harvey, bluntly; "if Frank Lee drinks up that money, he ought to be thrashed within an inch of his life."
"O Mr. Harvey," said Mattie, her love and pride aroused, "if he did, he knows what things we need, for we talked it over last night. Perhaps he thought he'd bring them himself to-night."
Mr. Harvey smothered his indignation until he was out of hearing, then remarked to his wife: "Women are such simpletons. What on earth did she show it to him for?"
All day long Mattie and the children hoped against hope, that pa would come home at night laden with the things they needed.
But he did not come that night, nor the next, but it was generally known that he was on a spree at the tavern, and the story of the carpet soon spread.
On the third day the citizens of the village held an indignation meeting, in which they denounced Frank Lee as an unmitigated scoundrel, and ended by raising twenty-five dollars, and appointing a committee to buy shoes and clothing for Mrs. Lee and the children. They also brought in supplies of food and fuel.
That evening Frank Lee came stealthily in through the dark kitchen and went to bed. The sun was shining when he awoke, and he heard the rattling of dishes, and the voices of the children in the kitchen. He was thoroughly sobered now, and he recalled with a sense of shame and degradation, the scenes of the past few days.
How could he meet the rebuking eyes of the wife and children he had so deeply wronged! As he sat on the edge of the bed, dreading to go out, Bertie, smiling and happy, entered the room.
"Pa, breakfast is ready," he lisped. Then glancing down at his feet, "Pa, I've got some new shoes."
Frank took the little fellow up on his knee. "Where did you get your new shoes?" he asked.13
"Why, they give them to me; they give us lots of things," said Bertie.
"Who, Bertie?"
"Why, the folkses. They give us lots and lots, ma and Katie and Dora and all of us. And they said we shouldn't starve if you didn't never come home."
Frank quailed before the unflinching gaze of the innocent blue eyes.
He permitted the child to lead him out to breakfast. No one spoke or seemed to notice him. Silently they sat down to the bountiful repast, but Frank knew it was not of his providing, and tho he tried to brave it out and eat some, the food seemed to choke him. After a few moments of vain endeavor to control himself, he shoved back his chair and groaned aloud.
"O Frank, are you sick!" cried Mattie in alarm.
"I can't bear it, Mattie!" he cried. "I never thought to come to this, to see my wife and children dependent on charity, and all because I've made such a brute of myself. O Mattie, you've been too good—too kind—to me! O, if it were possible for me to reform!"
The haggard, despairing look on his face would have melted a harder heart than Mattie Lee's. In a moment her arms were around his neck, and her tears falling on his shoulder.
Frank broke down completely, and for a few moments they wept together. Then falling on his knees, he cried brokenly: "If you'll help me, Mattie, and God will help me, I'll quit the cursed drink. Pray for me, Mattie. I feel as weak as a baby."
From a full heart Mattie poured out a broken prayer for help. The balm of peace, which ever descends upon "broken, contrite hearts," rested upon them as they rose from their knees. The resolution made in the divine strength, Frank faithfully kept, tho not without some severe struggles, and several weeks' illness.
"Don't give me anything with liquor in it," he entreated. "I dare not risk the consequences."
When he recovered, the Christian temperance people got their arms around him, and drew him into the church. With their sympathy and encouragement, and a humble trust in his heavenly Father, he grew strong to resist temptation. Friendly hands aided him in time of trial, and little by little the family comforts increased.
It is now several years since he reformed, and I rejoice to be able to say that he has become a sober Christian man, and a respectable citizen.
Dora, Kate and Lulu are grown-up young ladies, Frankie is taller than his mother, and Bertie nearly as tall, and Bessie, tho still the youngest, considers herself too old to be called a baby. Mattie has gained her old cheeriness. The deft hands of the trio of girls have made the humble home tasteful and comfortable. There is a carpet on the sitting-room floor, and pretty curtains at the windows. The past is seldom referred to. They are only too glad to consign it to the oblivion of forgetfulness.
MRS. ROXANA C. BAKER.
AMERICA'S DEAD SEA.
Down in Southern Washington, on the great Columbian plateau, at a latitude of 2,000 feet above the level of the Pacific, is the Dead Sea of America. The local geographers call it Medical Lake, because there is a belief that its waters are highly charged with curative properties. It is about one mile long and three-fourths of a mile wide, with an average depth of sixty feet. It has no inlet or outlet, and its level appears to remain the same. There must be salt springs in the bottom that feed it about as fast as the waters are exhausted by evaporation, which is rapid in that country, where the air is so dry and rare. The waters are very heavy and very salt, its density and composition being almost exactly as those of the Dead Sea, in Palestine. No vegetable life exists within a mile or more of its shores, which are a dry, hard clay.
Ruin of Catholic Church, Kirksville, Mo., Cyclone. It was over this church that a woman and her daughter declare they were carried by the wind and landed uninjured in a haystack on the other side. The husband and father was dropped out before the church was reached, greatly injured.
The only animal life is a little turtle or terrapin they call the boat bug, and the walking fish, which is a curious creature about eight inches long, with four fins that look like legs and are used for the same purpose. This walking fish is never seen elsewhere, it is said.—Anon.
CRUEL FATE OF THE EGRETS.
FLORIDA is rapidly losing its flock of herons. The white egret is being slaughtered into extinction for the sake of the beautiful white feathers on its back, which, when plucked and placed on a flinty-hearted woman's hat, become an aigret.
The scale on which the massacre of this beautiful bird is being carried on is almost incredible. An idea of it may be gained from the fact that one egret will furnish only one-sixth of an ounce of plumage feathers, and yet at a public sale in London less than a year ago, more than 11,000 ounces of osprey plumes were offered for sale. This meant that more than 66,000 egrets had been put to death for the sake of their plumes, that some fair dame might be more gaily decorated.
The most lamentable feature of the slaughter of the beautiful and innocent birds is that the feathers grow at the time when the egrets are nesting and breeding. The best plumes are taken from the upward tuft at the back, which is developed at the breeding season, though feathers are, of course, taken also from the wing and the breast. They are common to both sexes, and it is impossible to distinguish between the male and the female. An egret is shot; the few coveted feathers are torn from its back; its body left to rot on the ground, and the young ones perish of starvation.—Boston Globe.
LOVE OF DISPLAY.
By Pentecost Herald
One Great Cause of the Downfall of Girls.
FASHIONABLE church-members will have much to answer for at the judgment when they face the precious souls who have followed their example in worldly attire and have been led to forsake the path of virtue in order to vie with them in keeping up with the styles. Many poor girls flock to our large cities to earn a livelihood and find that their small purse will not equal the demands of this fashionable age, and, rather than fall behind, they yield to the voice of the tempter and sacrifice their virtue to the goddess of fashion. O, what a sad state of things is this! One has but to enter the doors of many of the churches to see displayed in gorgeous colors and immodest designs, all the latest styles, when it should be a place for spiritual worship and deep devotion to God. What an example for the professed followers of the meek and humble Christ to set before a dying world, who must with them stand before Him at the judgment! What an eternity will confront them when these same wayward girls face them there!
Many precious ones who are now outcasts from society and scorned by many professors of religion, would have been noble specimens of womanhood, and living pure, unselfish, and beautiful lives, had it not been for the example of those in the church, who care more for making a display of their fine clothes than saving souls from sin. What a fearful responsibility rests on those who profess to love Christ! Their children and their neighbors' children are following the vain customs of the world, and treading in their footsteps, and being influenced by their worldly-mindedness. The indifference, the pride, and the self-indulgence manifested are keeping many young people from the cross and barring them from heaven. A deep humiliation and earnest prayer are the only avenues through which the Holy Ghost can bring about a radical change in the heart and life on these lines. O, these precious girls who might have been pure and happy to-day if only a loving, tender hand and godly life had come in contact with them! How many professors of religion, like the Levite of old, pass by on the other side, rather than forfeit their social position and reputation to lift one from her fallen condition! Precious souls will be required at our hands if we fail to set a godly example before them.—Pentecost Herald.
FASHION'S SERVANTS.
WHENCE those plumes of snowy white,
That, amidst the diamond's light,
Wave with every zephyr's breath
On thy head, fair lady?
Turn thy fashion-blinded eyes
Where the nesting osprey lies,
Heedless of her starving brood,
Slain for thee, fair lady!
—Our Dumb Animals.
Domestic
Domestic.—The ninth annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans occurred at Charleston, S. C., on May 10. Over 25,000 Confederate soldiers were in attendance......The Illinois Senate Committee on food adulterations reports a large and indiscriminate use of deleterious and dangerous preserving substances used in foods placed upon the market. The work of the committee shows that this condition of preserved foods is general throughout the country.
.....Prof. S. P. Langley, of the Smithsonian Institute, has made another test of his aerodrome, or flying machine. The aerodrome made an upward flight of 500 feet and a horizontal flight of 800 feet; but the experiment was not as successful as that of last year, in which a smaller machine was used. This is the invention for which the Ordnance Board of the War Department made an appropriation of $25,000......Admiral Dewey sailed from Manila for Hongkong on his way home, May 20. The vessel will be docked and overhauled at Hongkong, and will proceed through the Indian Ocean, the Suez Canal, and across the Atlantic......The U. S. gunboat Wilmington entered the mouth of the Amazon River not long ago and steamed toward its source, to determine the extent to which it was navigable. The vessel proceeded into Peru to within 400 miles of the Pacific, and could have gone 300 miles farther but for lack of fuel......According to the statement of the Secretary of the Treasury, there is now in the national treasury $223,000,000 in gold, or $123,000,000 more than the legal gold reserve, and government employees are being paid in gold against their wishes, in order to get a portion of the gold in circulation......The Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes, which was sunk in Santiago Harbor at the time the Spanish fleet attempted to escape, was raised some time ago, and on May 21 was towed into Newport News, Virginia. Great crowds gathered to view this trophy of the war.
International.—There are omens of trouble between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and troops have been sent to the frontiers......The Russian Government has issued an order prohibiting all Jews, even those from foreign countries, from remaining longer in St. Petersburg......France is preparing to give a grand reception to the Marchand expedition when it shall arrive in Paris. The report of the loss of the expedition has been proved unfounded......Instructions have been issued to the burghers in the Transvaal to be prepared for instant service in the field, and work on the fortifications is going on steadily, altho President Krueger and the governor of Cape Colony are preparing for a conference......British troops have occupied the city of Kowloon, China, disarmed the Chinese garrison, and hoisted the British flag. The city of San Chun was also occupied. Both these cities are in close proximity to Hongkong......China has given consent to Italy's occupation of San Mun Bay as a commercial port.
......The Chinese Government has replied to Russia's demand for another railway concession, stating its inability to comply with the demand; the Russian minister has, however, refused to accept the refusal, and renews the demand. Unless supported by some other power China will be forced to yield the concession. Italy, France, and Germany are equally involved in securing these valuable concessions, and England's hands are tied by the recent agreement with Russia in regard to spheres of influence.
The peace congress convened at The Hague on May 18, and has organized its working committees. Its meetings are secret, and representatives of the press are furnished with only such items as the president of the congress chooses to make known. Nothing definite has so far been accomplished, tho the discussions of the members have dealt with arbitration and the rights of merchantmen at sea.
The Trusts.—Another large trust has been formed under the name of the Republic Iron and Steel Company. It is composed of thirty-six large steel manufacturing plants......The Manufacturers Rubber Company was incorporated at Trenton, N. J., on May 11, with a capital of $6,000,000......The American Bicycle Company, a trust, has filed its articles of incorporation in New Jersey, with an authorized stock of $80,000,000. It will absorb a number of large bicycle concerns......Forty-four sash and door manufacturing firms of Chicago have combined, with a capitalization of $5,000,000......A lamp-chimney trust has been organized in Pittsburg, Penn., with a capital of $2,000,000......A plan is on foot for the monopolization of all the Chinese industries in the United States and Canada under one management, with a capital of $60,000,000, and stock in the concern is already being sold......Copperopolis, Cal., a copper mining town, has been virtually killed by the copper trust. The mines at that place have been shut down in order to limit the production and maintain the price of copper, and the town is now almost deserted......A bill has passed the Texas legislature and been signed by the governor, which prohibits, under severe penalty, any railroad company from making discrimination in freight rates in that State.
......The Senate of Michigan has passed a stringent anti-trust bill, and it is expected that it will also pass the House......By the provisions of the Texas anti-trust law, bills for goods purchased from a trust can not be collected in the State......Governor Sayers, of Texas, has announced that he will call a convention of State governors and attorney-generals for the purpose of framing an effective anti-trust bill, to be presented to the different State legislatures.
Casualties and Calamities.—A disastrous collision occurred on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad at Exeter, Penn., on May 12, resulting in the death of twenty-nine persons. Fifty others were more or less seriously injured......A tornado occurred in the Hondo mining region, in Mexico, on May 12, in which twenty-two persons lost their lives, and a much larger number were injured......A disastrous tornado visited portions of Iowa and Ohio on May 17, destroying much property, and resulting in the death of at least eight persons, while fully a score received severe injuries......The schooner Werfa was wrecked recently off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, and all but one of her nineteen passengers were lost......The main portion of Dawson City was destroyed by fire on April 26. There are various estimates of the loss, ranging from $1,000,000 to $4,000,000......The American liner Paris went ashore on the Manacles, off the southwest coast of England, on May 21. All her passengers and crew were saved, but the big vessel is believed to be a dead loss. This is the vessel which became an auxiliary cruiser during the late war and was called the Yale......The town of Porosow, Warsaw, was destroyed by fire on May 21, and twelve persons lost their lives, while 3,000 homeless families are camping in the fields.
Religious.—The annual report of the board of managers of the American Bible Society shows that there have been distributed during the year by that society 1,386,892 copies of the Bible, more than half of which were distributed in foreign lands. Among the new issues are a Portuguese Bible, the Gospels and Acts in Spanish, and the New Testament and Psalms in the language of the Marshall Islands......There are said to be good openings for Protestant missionary work in Cuba and Porto Rico. Tho much of the population is indifferent to religion, on account of their hatred of the Spanish ecclesiastics, the field for real Gospel work is promising......The pope of Rome has solemnly approved a bull proclaiming the present year a holy year......The papal representative at The Hague, where the International peace congress is in session, has left that city by order of the pope, in view of the fact that the pope was not requested to have a representative at the congress......The London Mail has published its decision to discontinue its Sunday edition. The Mail and Telegraph recently began the issue of Sunday editions, and both offices were soon overwhelmed with protests against the innovation.
The Philippines.—The Filipino forces are reported to be badly disorganized on account of the continual pressure of the American army. Aguinaldo has retreated farther to the north with a portion of his followers, where he is being closely pursued by General Lawton. Other divisions of the Filipino army are being pressed by MacArthur and Kobbe. Another peace commission has arrived at Manila to discuss terms of peace with General Otis. The people are said to be anxious for a termination of the war on the terms of the Americans, and are flocking into the territory occupied by American troops.
Cuba.—The $3,000,000 sent by this government to pay the Cuban soldiers has not yet been distributed on account of the difficulty in inducing the Cuban troops to disarm. It is believed, however, that a compromise has been effected, and that the arms of the troops will be turned over to the Cuban mayors of the towns in which the Cuban troops are located.
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