Earlier text: The MissionaryBoycott the Saloon, Enemy of Labor
By Christian Evangelist
WHILE the Knights of Labor have their hands in, we suggest that they "boycott" the worst enemy that labor has ever had. We hear of them boycotting merchants, manufacturers, street-car lines, and even a tobacco factory, but we have never heard of them boycotting the saloon. Yet the last tyrannical monopoly demands as a tribute one-third of the wages of labor in this country, and gives worse than nothing in return.—Christian Evangelist. Intemperance and Crime
By Lord Baron Kelly
Two-thirds of the crimes which come before the courts of law of this country are occasioned chiefly by intemperance.—Lord Baron Kelly. —The funded debt of the city of Philadelphia is $60,525,120. —The Fitz-John Porter bill has been signed by the President. —"Will Gladstone win?" is the question which is now agitating Great Britain. —June 29, four men were drowned near Boston, Mass., by the capsizing of a yacht. —The cholera is greatly increasing in Brindisi, Italy, and the surrounding villages. —It is estimated that there was a decrease of $9,000,000 in the public debt during June. —The English elections, so far as they have been held, are rather unfavorable to home rule. —The Troy, N. Y., foundrymen, after a strike of four months, have returned to work at old prices. —July 2, three more fishing vessels owned in this country were seized by the Dominion authorities. —The Tem and Bega Rivers, in Hungary, have again risen, flooding the surrounding country. Two villages have been destroyed by floods. —San Luis Obispo County, Cal., comes forward with some oats measuring over ten feet in height, and challenges the State to make a better showing. —June 29, the business portion of the town of Independence, the county seat of Inyo County, Cal., was totally destroyed by fire. The loss is about $400,000. —At Santa Barbara, Cal., June 27, an infant was poisoned by sucking a green veil that was used for the purpose of screening the cradle. Remedies were applied and the child may recover. —A hail-storm in the Pecos Valley, N. M., is reported to have killed 2,000 head of sheep belonging to one man. A number of cattle were destroyed, the fruit beaten from the trees, and corn and wheat laid low. —It is stated that the "Act repealing the pre-emption and timber-culture laws will without doubt become a law at this session of Congress, and the Desert Land Law will be either partially or wholly repealed." —The sewerage system of the House of Commons, London, is so bad that an explosion occurred there a few days since, caused by pent-up sewer gas. A workman who happened to be near at the time was injured by the explosion. —Now that French princes have been expelled from the country, "concealment is thrown aside, and the intention to overthrow the republic is publicly acknowledged by the Royalists at clubs and hotels, and in the streets and newspaper offices." —A strip of country, twenty miles long by two miles wide, around Inkster, Dakota, was pounded by a terrible hail-storm on the 26th ult. A Norwegian church near Grafton was blown into kindling-wood. The damage to crops is estimated at $50,000. —A most disgraceful affair occurred recently at Bogota, United States of Colombia, being nothing less than a street fight between Minister Charles D. Jacob and Dr. King, the new consul-general and secretary of legation, both representatives of this Government. —An order has been issued at Madrid, directed to the Governor-General of Cuba, that the American flag in direct commerce with Cuba and Porto Rico shall be in every respect placed on an equal basis with the Spanish in the conduct of articles that are the products of or proceed from the United States. —At Chicago, July 2, District Assembly 24 of the Knights of Labor passed a series of resolutions calling upon all local assemblies of the district to expel Anarchists who may now belong to them, and ordering them to admit none of the ilk hereafter. The Assembly has over 110 local assemblies on its roll. —A San Francisco paper says: "The Chinese Government evidently puts no faith in the cry, 'The Chinese must go.' It is to have permanent quarters for its legation in Washington, having arranged to build a Mandarin's palace on a block of ground there, the whole property costing half a million dollars." —Affairs in Ireland are assuming an alarming phase. Evictions continue to be enforced, and agrarian crimes continue in the south and west, while the recent fatal riots at the north have revived the most bitter feelings between the Orangemen and Nationalists, that will, it is feared, lead to more bloodshed. —Spurgeon's tabernacle, in London, has a membership of 5,214. —J. A. L. Wilson, of Philadelphia, Pa., secretary and treasurer of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, is said to be a defaulter to the extent of $500,000. —Five of the recently convicted New York boycotters were sentenced July 2, to terms of imprisonment varying from two years and ten months to three years and eight months. —July 2, an explosion at the Atlantic Giant Powder Works, situated between McKainesville and Drakesville, N. J., resulted in the loss of ten lives and injury to ten or twelve others. The loss is very heavy. The concussion was felt distinctly for twenty miles around, and the glass in houses five miles away was shattered. —It is announced in New York that Drs. Valentine Mott and A. F. Baldwin, of the Carnegie Laboratory, will soon be prepared to inoculate hydrophobia patients according to the Pasteur system. The first patient will be the seven-year-old son of Dr. Newell, of Jersey City. Dr. Mott will shortly inoculate himself, to prove the harmlessness of the method for a healthy man. —It was thought last week that, under instructions from England, the Canadian Government would abandon its offensive claims, and that the fisheries trouble would be speedily and amicably settled; but it is now officially stated that no change has taken place in the policy of the Dominion Government, and that "it is now, as it has always been, the policy of the Government that any United States fishing vessel found fishing or preparing to fish, or known to have fished, in Canadian waters, shall be seized at once and without warning. The twenty-four hours' warning is applicable solely to United States fishing vessels found hovering within the limits." —In consequence of the recent decision of the New York courts that boycotting is conspiracy and therefore illegal, the Knights of Labor of that city "have decided that in future all boycotts must be carried on secretly, and there must be no further parading of men up and down the sidewalks in front of places of business, nor will the open distribution of circulars announcing the boycott be countenanced. When a boycott is declared, a notification to that effect will be quietly forwarded to the several unions and local assemblies. Meantime, money will be raised as a defense fund to protect those against whom proceedings may be instituted. Caution is enjoined in all future attempts, even by the secret boycott, to break up the business of any firm or corporation. It is also determined to elect men to the next Legislature who will pledge themselves to procure amendments to the existing conspiracy laws so that boycotting may be conducted publicly." —The Iowa Congregationalists have licensed a woman to preach and take a regular pastoral charge. —The corner-stone of a Baptist denominational college was laid at Highland Park, Oakland, Cal., June 30. —Dr. Newman Hall has nineteen Sunday-schools in connection with his church in London, in which there are 5,600 pupils. —The Presbyterian clergy in Maryland are agitating a change in the State Constitution's proviso debarring ministers from holding seats in the Legislature. —The Dean of Winchester states that in England and Wales there are 600,000 Sunday-school teachers, and 5,200,000 scholars; that is, one-fifth of the whole population are in Sunday-schools. —The Waldensian Church has now 15,000 communicants, 59 churches, 36 missions, a seminary, a college, a female high school, a grammar school, 3 hospitals, an orphanage, a trades' school, 250 primary schools, and publishes several periodicals. —Says Rev. Wm. A. Lloyd: "The practical ungodliness of intelligent and reputable people is an effective commendation of atheism, and [is] largely responsible for its gross and dangerous development among the ignorant. Ungodliness is incipient atheism, of which anarchy is only the fuller unfolding." —In his Baccalaureate sermon at Trinity College, Connecticut, Dr. Morgan Dix said: "In our day it looks as if the foundations of Christian education have been undermined so effectually that even the great towers are ready to fall. Large numbers of educators, in revolt from their old faith, are engaged in experiments of which no one can see the end." —A "Gospel Wagon" has been started by the Central Union Mission of Washington, D. C. This wagon, which is an ordinary omnibus, containing a cabinet organ, six or eight good singers, several persons to make addresses, etc., visits three centers of non-church-going people every Sunday afternoon, and its occupants hold a meeting and invite their hearers to the mission. —Professor Lyman, of Yale College, is quoted as saying: "Spiritualism is growing in the world. It may surprise you to know that within the limits of civilization over one hundred journals are devoted to the theory. Spiritualism has many distinguished devotees here, in England, and in Germany. Members of the British nobility are believers, as are eminent British University professors and scientists." —In a paper entitled, "Present Necessity for a Restatement of Christian Beliefs," read before the Cleveland Church Congress, by Daniel Curry, D. D., we find the following truth, which too many refuse to recognize: "The student of church history is well aware that large and influential portions of the churches of the Reformation were but partially emancipated from the traditions of Romanism—especially in respect to the character and design of the sacraments—the nature of the church, and its 'binding and loosing,' and as to the right of personal free thought in all religious matters. It is also known that at the present time not a few who bear the name of Protestant are still held in that form of bondage." —The Christian Union, in replying to a lady correspondent who says that she does not like to go to church because she does not find sermons interesting, says, among other good things: "Dismiss from your mind the idea that the first duty of a preacher is to be interesting. That is the first duty of a novel, but not of a sermon. The first duty of a sermon is to be profitable. Of course if it is interesting also, so much the better; but if it is merely interesting, it is no true sermon. . . . You do not ask your boy whether he finds his school interesting, but whether he finds it profitable; you look to his teacher not to entertain, but to instruct him. Perhaps if you set yourself to find some thoughts that will help you to be a better woman during the week, from the uninteresting sermon, you may find them even in a very poor one. It is not always possible to find them; but we are sure of two things: one, that the failure of a hearer to get any profit out of a sermon is quite as often the hearer's fault as the preacher's; the other, that the best way not to get profit is to look for interest." With all of which we heartily agree. MONTGOMERY.—Died of consumption, June 23, 1886, Mr. Francis E. Montgomery, of Ranchito, California. 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IN our Home Circle department is a selection entitled, "How to Save the Boys." It is a bit of excellent advice to mothers. We endorse every word of it. And yet there seems to be something lacking. It seems to us that this thing of favoring the mother with all the good advice, is becoming rather stale. It is to very little purpose for the mother to try, in the attractiveness of the home, to compete with the attractiveness of the public places, so long as the father spends the time in public places that he ought to spend at home. It is to very little purpose for the mother to try to supply at home the animated and hilarious companionship which might be sought by the boys away from home, as long as the fathers seek such companionship at the club, and other questionable places for which the "club" is only the shield. The father's example in these things weighs vastly more in the minds of the boys, than all the mother's precepts can be made to weigh. We endorse the advice to the mothers, but in it we would join with them the fathers. Let the fathers help to create the attractiveness of home, rather than that of the public places. Let the fathers spend their evenings at home instead of at the "club." Then the mothers will not be so heavily handicapped in the competition with the public places for the possession of her precious boys. Then, too, it is probable, the mother will be able to dispense with much of the excellent advice with which she is now so freely favored. A Specimen Attack.
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WE have received a little sheet called the Liberal, published in a town of that name in Missouri, the object of which is to fight the Bible and to teach people that there is no God. Here is how it "upsets" the book of Jonah: It attempts to make the Bible narrative ridiculous by showing that what it imagines to be the account is impossible. Taking the statement that Jonah was three days in the whale's belly, it gives the following figures to show how fast he must have traveled: "Across the Mediterranean Sea, 2,300 miles; West coast of Africa to Cape Town, 6,700 miles; Cape Town to Cape Guardafui, 4,200 miles; Cape Guardafui to Tigris River, 2,000 miles; up the river to Nineveh, 450 miles; total 15,650 miles." Then, true to its name, it gives the whale a liberal allowance of twelve hours for rest and refreshments by the way, and thus calculates that it must have traveled four and one-fifth miles per minute! We can't imagine why the writer did not make the whale go around Cape Horn also, then up the Atlantic, through the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Obi, up the Obi River as far as it was navigable, and the remainder of the distance overland. That would have made the narrative seem more absurd, and would have been still more unlike the Bible account. If the Liberal writer had ever read the account he would know that Jonah's going to sea was in running away from Nineveh, and that after the Lord had commanded the fish to cast him back on the land, the word of the Lord came to him again, and he went to Nineveh. The necessary and only inference is that he was cast upon the land from which he took ship. Certain it is that the Bible gives no ground for the ridiculous assumption that the whale carried Jonah up the river to Nineveh. This is a fair sample of infidel objections to the Bible. Those who attempt to throw discredit upon the Bible, usually exhibit their own ignorance and viciousness, and make themselves ridiculous. "Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in Heaven."