CIVIL LAW AND THE TRAITORS. DUTIES OF GOVERNMENTS AS STATED IN THE BIBEE. And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I re quire it. and at the hand of man ] at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man’s blood by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God made he man. — Gen. ix., 5, 6. The text is a part of the law of love as given to Noah after the flood ; and shows, Ist. The great value God Bets on human life; 2d. What value man should set upon it; and 3d. What governments should do for its protection. This passage is remarkable for its brevity and extent. Itß doctrines are: 1. That God forbids suicide; that he will hold each one accountable for the manner in which he treats his own life. 2. That beasts which meddle with hu man life must be put to death. 3. All men are required to have a very tender regard for the life of man. Man must not do anything, directly or indirectly, that will destroy or shorten human life; hence selling intoxicating drinks, drunk enness, and debauchery are forbidden. 4. At the hand of every man’s brother especially, will the life of man be re quired ; brothers in any sense must take care of the lives of their brethren. 5. The person, or man, or woman, who kills must be put to death. This is the rule, from which (with few exceptions) there is no escape. This law is not ceremonial and transient, but is Morab, and of perpetual obligation. It is a law of nature, and of both justice and mercy 6. The duties of governments: “The magistrate must punish murderers; whoso sheddeth man’s blood, whether upon a provocation, or having premedi tated it, (for rash anger is heart-murder, as well as malice prepense—Matt. v. 21, 22,) by man shall his blood be shed-, that is, by the magistrate, or whoever is appointed to be the avenger of blood. There are those who are the ministers of God for this purpose, to be a protec tion to the innocent, by being a terror to the malicious and evil-doers, and they must not bear the sword in vain. Rom. xiii. 14.” ( Henry’s Notes.) To the Buie, that all who kill must be put to death, the following exceptions are generally taken as allowed by scripture and natural law: 1- The killing by ac cident, when due care has been taken, 2. Self-defence. 3. Civil war, when to preserve good order and the majesty of the law, it becomes necessary to resort to arms. The modern doctrine, that capital pun ishment is always wrong, (though it has been held by many good men,) is in the face of Scripture and of common sense. Civil government is an ordinance of God; it is a part of the remedial system, for re straining evil-doers; it is a system of brute force, the objects of which some times cannot be secured but by the taking of life. When a man rises against good laws and against the lives and rights of his fellows, reason dictates that he has forfeited his life, and the good of commu nity demands that the sacrifice be made. This infidel fling against the Bible shows that such men know, but dislike its teachings. ’ The London News says, “ If Mr. Davis is to be saved, it must be by the exercise of a magnanimity of which no state of European Christen dom affords an example.” To us, this is strange language, for we could hardly conceive of a more aggravated act of re bellion against God, or a higher handed contempt for human rights and the dig nity of law, than to pardon such a rebel and traitor as Jeff. Davis. A traitor “ is one who actually wages war against his government.” Judge Marshall. But to wage an unjust war against any people is to perpetrate murder, and the murderer must die. No power oh earth can legitimately pardon the premeditated and wilful killing of innocent persons. The pardoning power in governments can only be rightfully used in saving persons from a wrong sentence. Just courts and juries may be imposed on and pass unjust verdicts, hence the pro priety of a redressing power; but to per vert the law by taking it out of the hands of civil courts for the pardon of a bloody murderer and traitor, is treason against the world. See Num. xxxv. 33. “ So ye shall not pollute the laud wherein ye are ; for blood, it defileth the land ■, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.” Jesus Christ did hot shed his blood to atone for the sins of nations, as such, but for individuals. Nations sin when the laws, customs, and public acts are in direct violation of God’s laws. Nations sin in two ways. 1. By renouncing the true God and following false gods. 2. By perverting government from its right use into an engine of fraud, injustice and direct violence or oppression. When rights are violated and innocent blood shed, such crimes can only be removed by the shedding of blood, or by national suffering. We know of no reason why Jeff. Davis (aside from himself) may not exercise faith in Christ, repent-to ward God, be pardoned, justified, sanctified, and go to heaven; but if this were all true, and if it were manifest that he would never sin on earth again, still his relations and liabilities to the Govern ment would not be changed; he is a murderer, he has shed much innocent bloody he must die. This crime, so far as it relates to government, God will not forgive, and it is blasphemy for man to THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN. THURSDAY. AUGUST 10. 1865. attempt it. Num. xxxv. 3: “Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a mur derer—but he shall be surely put to death.” 2 Kings ludv. 3,4: “ Surely at the commandment of the Loud came this upon Judah to remove them out of his sight, for the Bins of Manasseh ac cording to all that he did; And also for the innocent blood that he shed, (for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood) which the Loud would not pardon.” Here was a noble family of murderers that Goof would not pardon, but they muSt be removed out of his sight. Saul was commanded to slay Agag, but he spared his life; for which he was de throned, disgraced, and his life and kingdom taken from him. Joab was a good and great general, true to his king and country, but he shed innocent blood for which he was taken from the horns of the altar and slain. And shall the arch traitor Davis, who has been guilty of ten thousand murders go unpunished? If a man bums a house and takes one life thereby, he must die; but if he tears up a country, destroys millions of pro perty, and takes hundreds of thousands of precious lives, and that, too, for no honorable, but for the basest of purposes, then (though he has defied and trampled down all law) he is an honorable man, and it would be an act of “ magnanim ity” to save him from the halter; yea, much more than any State in Europe could boast! The thought is monstrous; and we are not afraid that our President will act thus. God has not provided a heaven or hell for nations. True they have a body and a soul, but their beginning and end is here on earth. So all their re wards and punishments must be here ; if they sin it is here, and here they suf fer. Righteousness may exalt a nation while many of the people are exceedingly wicked, and sin may be the reproach and ruin of a nation, while many of the people are pious before God, and will enjoy a home in heaven, having been washed in the blood of the Lamb. The sins of rulers are visited on the people because they approve or bear them. Retribution is God’s plan as it relates to governments, and he never stops till he has dene his work. If this nation refuses to punish Davis and those immediately associated with him in trea son and murder, then does this nation assume their guilt, and God will as suredly take it at its word; and the blood of others must again flow to cleanse the land. “God judgeth among the gods.” Psalm lxxxii. Sound national policy is to believe God, and to be controlled by his law. Confess the true God, receive the true religion ( Christianity ) and carry out its precepts. Then there would be no sys tems of oppression, no slavery, no land monopoly, no rebellions,-and no traitors or murderers to punish with death; but love and good will would control, every interest- of man, all persons would have true liberty; a full share of the soil; the avails of their labor; the benefits of a good government; the consolations of the Gospel of Christ, and a hope beyond the grave. Thus shall "the saints reign with Christ.” W. M. S. Cedar Rapids, July, 1865, [The above, as the reader will see, is from a writer who has studied his points, and feels himself firmly planted upon them. We do not, however, see how the Bible makes out for any man a better right to “ a full share of the soil,” than to go to work and earn it.— Editors.} DEATH GAIN. But how can death prove gain to any one ? It is not the state of.reward. It is the reward of transgression. Had there been no sin, there would have been no death. Death entered our world by sin. The best of men have died, because they were sinners. None but sinners die. Every thing in nature fears death. The very mentipn of its name is fright ful to many. Death is an enemy, and nothing but an enemy. The Word of God never speaks of it as a friend, but as an enemy—“ the last enemy.” One of the very great glories of the resurrec tion will be, that the glorified will be able to shout, “ 0 death ! where is thy sting ? Death is swallowed up in vic tory.” If death is an enemy, by which we are for a time conquered—if it is not till the resurrection that we can cry, “ 0 death! where is thy stifig?” how can death be gain to any one ? It is gain, .not in consequence of the separation of the soul and the body, but in spite of it. There is One who is stronger than death, and who can, who does, cause all things to work together for good to those who love God. So that even the enemy, death, is made to work for good to those who love God. Trust ing in Jesus, we need fear no enemy nothing that can possibly befall us. The state of death is an unnatural one. Our natural and only desirable state is that in which God has created us, and that in which we will be after the resurrection. But death is gain; for we learn of the dead in the Lord, that they are comforted. Absence from the body speaks a great loss; but presence with the Lord a greater blessing. Death is not a of reward; it is a bearing of the badge of sin till the resurrection. But let the guilt of sin be removed, and it is delightful for either the disembodied spirit, dr the restored whole man, to be present with the Lord. But, reader, all will not be comforted. While Lazarus was comforted the rich man was tormented. Death is not gain in comparison with the glorified resurrection state. No, far from it—far from it. But it is gain in comparison with the state of humiliation to which sin has reduced us. This is a state of probation ; that of rest. Here we suffer all that is consequent on pro bation or trial. There, we shall enjoy all that is consequent on a state of rest. Here, without are fightings, and within fears. There, the race is run, the battle fought, the victory won; and they are waiting the crown and the kingdom. There, all those things, which constitute this world a vale of tears “ are felt and feared no more.” I know the Bible says very little about the state between death and the resur rection ; and, therefore, it becomes ns to say but little. But we may believe, that there will there be no more sorrow—no» more sighing—no more pain. Death has gained one victory over the re deemed, but it will be a short one, and the last. When the righteous rise again, there will be to them, “no more death.” When the saint dies, death has done all it can do. It will then be the end of trials. 0 then, is it not gain in com parison with the trials of earth ? Will it not be gain to have experienced the last pain—to have shed the last tear; —to have felt the last anguish and sorrow of heart? Will it not be gain to be beyond the power of temptation—to have gained a complete and final victory- But above all, will it not be gain to be'present with the Lord ? But again, I would remind you, reader, that it is only respecting those who. have overcome through the blood of the Lamb, that we can say death is gain. There is no gain to those who reject Christ. Their unbelief turns everything into loss. It turns the very atonement into loss to them, life into loss, death into loss, heaven into loss. Gain what they may of earth, they are nothing but losers. Look then at yourself, at the require ments of God’s word, at what you must be in order to be gainers, and then ask yourself, will death be gain to you? Can yon'look fearlessly on death,, feeling that it is but little you can suffer from it? Do you confidently feel that you have in Jesus,a friend, who. is.,stronger than death ? and who can, and who' will, convert even death into a blessing to you ? James Kerr. AWAY FROM HOME. At Port, Plain, about fifty-five miles west of Albany, we were introduced to all the mysteries of cheese making. This business is no longer confined to the dairyman, as in former' years. There are large factories now established at convenient distances, to which the far mer carries his milk. The milk is weighed, its richness tested, and 'the owner receives credit accordingly, and at the end of the season claims his due proportion of cheese, or of the money that accrues from the sale of the entire dairy. This arrangement is very con venient to the dairyman, as it saves im mense labor at a small expense. The cheese, thus made, varies less in qualify than that manufactured on the farm; and for its average excellence, uniformity in size, and general appearance, com mands a higher price in the market. In the course of our inquiries we learned that it requires five quarts of milk to make one pound of cheese. Yhe article is worth at present fifteen cents a pound. So that after paying'for its transmutation from a liquid to a solid form, the farmer receives less than three cents a quart for his milk. We know, as a fact, m our own experience, that it requires about fifteen quarts of milk to make a pound of butter. Thus, during the past winter, the milkmen of Phila delphia have been demanding and re ceiving sixty cents for the quantity’of milk required to make fifteen cents worth' of cheese, and one dollar and eighty cents for the quantity required to 4 inake one pound of butter. It is evid'ent from this that the price should , never have raised above the old standard; and that at six cents a quart, both the farmer and retailer were receiving all they had a right to ,: demand, according to every principle of honorable dealing. ~ And this leads me to write a few words in regard to high prices generally. Our recent war has undoubtedly created a reason for an advance in the cost of every article of consumption,.but every intelligent person knows that prices have been inflated beyond the extent required by the law of necessity, and that large classes of men have become enriched by legalized extortion. A few very familiar illustrations will exhibit the spirit that has pervaded the whole system of trade. One day last winter, we said to a lady in the market, what do you ask fpr your butter ? The answer was, eighty cents to you,. I have sold some at a dollar. Why, a dollar ? asked we, amazed at a degree of cool presumption that would have been amusing had it not been so expensive,— that is certainly far beyond its value. Oh, I have been compelled to do it, was the ready reply, in order to save it for my customers. The truth was, she Would not have saved a single pound for her. customers, if chance pur chasers had paid at the rate of a dollar a pound for all she had. We tnrned away, resolved net to eat butter, until we could obtain it for less than eighty cents. On another occasion' we_were expostulating with a farmer in regard to his exorbitant charge for the same arti cle, when he replied,- laughingly, you will give it to us, and what else can we do f This explained the whole secret. When an article is not superabundant, there .are consumers enpugh who care not what they pay; and producers have been emboldened by the prevailing high standard of prices to go beyond reason and honesty in their demands, and have been enabled to practise an easy extor tion up<jn those whose purses are always well filled, —and thus the poor man has been compelled to submit to the same extortion, or deny himself the ordinary articles of food. One more illustration will exhibit, in a somewhat amusing light, the length to which this avaricious spirit has been carried. The Philadel phia house-wife knows the advantage of buttermilk in making biscuit and griddle cakes. This article used to be sold at two and a half cents a quart, and the farmer found this disposition of it more profita ble by far than to give it to the pigs. Butwhengold was quoted attwo hundred, buttermilk went up to five cents; the old rate was found to be absolutely ruinous. All right, said the consumers, and smil ing -good-humoredly, paid the price. Perfectly satisfied, said the producer, and, smiling good-humoredly, pocketed the money. But there was one fellow excelled his compeers in the “ eye sin gle” to his own interests, and with a countenance as bland as if it were en gaged in an honorable transaction, had the impudence to ask eight cents a quart, and undoubtedly obtained it. We in quired of him whether he had churches and preachers in his neighborhood, and left him to interpret the question as he might. ! But high prices are not confined to Philadelphia markets, as the traveling portion of the community well know. In nearly all the principal hotels, there is a disposition to adhere to the highest rates of charge. The evil would be remedied if the people would remain at home. But this they will not do. And so we have the moderate demand of four dollars and a half, and in some instances, five dollars, a day for board. To illustrate the enormous profits that are realized, it is said that the proprie tors of the -United States Hotel at Sara toga, will be able to rebuild that edifice with the gains of a single season. Let us look at the figures. I have just read in one of the daily papers, that this hotel is to be rebuilt at a cost of font hundred thousand dollars.. It will accommodate two thousand boarders. These, at four dollars and a half a day, with the in evitable extra charges, will pay to the proprietor at least seventy thousand dol lars a week. In ten weeks this would amount to seven hundred thousand dol lars, affording , clear profits enough, we venture to say, to pay for the new build ing. There is a refreshment saloon at Sara toga Lake, whose profits last season are said to have reached the sum of fifty thousand dollarSj and there is every rea son to believe the statement. What is the remedy for these impositions ? and when will they be at an end ? : . C. A. g. “UPPER” PENNSYLVANIA. Mr. Editor :—ln looking over your' paper and reading accounts of visits to. the Sea Shore, I thought some" of your readers might be interested in an.: ac count of a, visit to the mountaihs of Pennsylvania. It will seem a long dis tance away to those'who live’where they breathe salt air; but the ride to/Cressoh is through so beautiful and varied a country, that the traveler is sorry when his j ourney is over. I chose a slow train from. Harrisburg, that I might fully enjoy the wild mountain scenery, with its primeval forests, deep dark gulleys, and peaks / that seemed to touch the heavens. It would be in vain to at tempt tojiescribe the scenes that passed in' rapid succession. Church’s picture of “,the Heart of the Andes,” and Bier stadt’s “Rocky. Mountains,” might have Ween painted without their artists travel ing further than the centre of Pennsyl vania. Two views seemed so familiar, that I felt I must have seen them before, and memory carried me back to the time I stood and wondered before those works of art. We arrived at Cresson just as twi light was fading into night. The lights from the hotel and cottages shining through the tall dark trees, gave the hillside the appearance of fairy land, and our first impressions were very plea sant. A large good natnred negro took charge of our baggage, and a smaller one followed us up the hill, and brought the proprietor of the house to welcome us.' We were soon pleasantly fixed, my friends in cheerful rooms in the hotel, I at one of the cottages, the gulst of an old friend. The-mountain air seemed to dissipate all the weariness of our.ride; and after washing off the dust, and'en joying a good supper, we looked over the'grounds. Following one of the numerous plank roads, we looked at some of the neat cottages, with their pretty porticos, each ,of them filled with bright faces, radiant with health and happiness. In the distance, we watched the high mountains growing darker and darker, and we felt that we lay down that night among the “everlasting hills.” And we awoke in the morning, as the sun was bathing in a flood of light those mountain tops, to thank God, he had made the world so beautiful.' Two weeks passed only too quickly at Cres son, for there were warm, kind hearts among the guests, and though strangers, we felt “at home” at “ The Mountain House.” There were ministers there, and every morning, those who wished, gathered together in one of the parlors and attended family worship “ one family,” though from every State in the Union. The morning- hours we passed, some times in strolling oyer the walks so wildly beantiful; sometimes in setting on thd portico, content to breathe the air that brought to us health and strength, and watching the happy faces of the myriads of little children who laughed and played upon the green hillside. And I thought as I looked at their rosy cheeks and bright eyes, of the pale faces I had seen but a few days before in the hot crowded streets of our cities. We brought away from Cressonmany pleasant memories, and we hope, when again wearied with the heat and toil of city life, to seek that’ cool retreat, and breathe new life and rigor in that pure untainted air. ' “IT’S THE ONLY DAY I HAVE.” BY THE BET. THOMAS ALEXANDER, U.A. If you put to some men the question which Nehemiah addressed to the nobles of Judah, “ What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the Sabbath day ?” you are often answered by “ Why it’s the only, day I have.” Many regard this as a com plete reply to the rebuke for various forms of Sabbath-breaking. Reader! do you? You have a snug family party : servants are kept from the public worship of God,, toiling, and preparing for it-: the day and the evening are spent in mirth and idleness; your happiness and hilarity aie greatly in creased by the consideration that you are losing nothing in the way of business, that it is a clear saving of time; and you meet a remonstance by—“ It’s the only day we have.” Or, on a Sabbath morning you set off to the country: you hire a conveyance, or take your own if you have one, and break the rest of man and beast; you disturb many quiet church-goers, and forsake the worship of the God who made, and is support- : ing you: and when remonstrated with on your return, you reply that y.ou are busy. all the week : that business makes constant demands upon you; and then you finish with “ It’s the only day I have.” What a wretched delusion, mockery, and lie have we lts the only day you have ? Why it’s the only day you' have not. “Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the Sab bath of the Lord thy God.” If you “hape" it, you have it as the thief has the property of another which he. has stolen. The six days you do have, for God gave them to you, that in them .you might, labor, apd do all your work, but the Sabb,ath-d%y you have not, for Clod kept it ltd himself. If you want a day for any lawful purpose, you can “have” it by taking bne of’your own six days, and at a little .inconvenience, using it for that endbut,’ unless . you choose de liberately to rob ;God, the seventh day you do not “ hpe”" 1 except for the public, and private, worship of God, for works of mercy and loyfe done for man’s good and God’s glory: i ! VYhSt ;a fearful amount of robbery of Godiyconstantly going on! How' tempt irfg is fhe .devil’s bait to add the profits of a seventh, to those of the six days by keep ing oppn shop on God’s.'own holy day. You who. act’.thus rob God and your neighbor at the'same time : for an honest man dare not open his shop on the Sabbath; and you, who. neither fear God nor regard man, thus snatch at the profits which ought to be spread over, the shops of a ,whole... neighbor hood on lawful days—profits,.thateome from buyers as fearless of God; and as regardless of man as yourself. The curse of God is upon yonr gain. Filthy lucre l You find it so easy, moreover, to write letters oh business all the week, and to write up all the letters of mere pleasure, and friendship on the Sabbath-day, and thus to lose no tame of your own by this simple and, meanwhile, easy expedient. Nay, but how save 'you it ? By robbing God. Then, exercise in the open air, which you cannot have all. the week rounds without robbing yourself of one of your own. six days, you can have on the Sabbath. Yes! but how? By robbing God. The country too you cannot see without injury to yourself by the sacrifice of a day's pay, or without risk to your business in your ab sence, on any of the six week and working days ; but here stands ■ the quiet Sabbath all ready to your hands.- - True, God has laid claim to it, and said, thou shalt not; July 27. but at this you must not hesitate, if you would enjoy yourself! The six days, more over, are often so filled up with business, work, toil, to minister to pride and luxury, that the Sabbath is needed for reading up outstanding news and the like,- so that the Sabbath-breaker may not fell utterly be hind the general intelligence of the com munity. Thus, in plans for the future, and a review of the past, in sloth, in care less ease, and mere bodily rest, is the Sab bath robbed from God, and misapplied, like all other stolen property, by man. Is not this drawings bills on Eternity at a fearful discount 1 Will a man rob God ? Can you be respectable who do so? Devils may rob God, but will a man? Reader, will you ? THE AMERICAN WOMEN. The June number of Sours at Home has an article on “ How to Treat our Wives,” which those who think that love is not an essential element of a true mar riage will do well to read. The article is too long for insertion in our paper. The following are the closing paragraphs:— “ The American woman _is what the American man requires her to be, and what American institutions and influences enable her to be. There is constant and fruitful effort on the part of men to secure for their daughters and for general female society the best advantages for education and cul ture; and these same men do this with wives in their homes who are treated little better than housekeepers. They are not regarded as partners; they are not treated as intimate and confidential companions, of position, identity of interest, community of aims, affectionate and consi derate tenderness and respectfulness of de meanor, thorough sympathy' that shows itself in aU private and family intercourse, certainly do not prevail between American husbands and wives, when regarded in the Yery respectfully, H. Howard. aggregate. Some will be disposed to deny this who only see life under some of its more favored phases; but those who are acquainted with all classes, in city and country, cannot fail to recognize .the truth fulness of the statement. Women are denied the sympathy and society of their husbands to a shameful extent. They are kept in a position of dependence, and made to feel their dependence; they are made to ask for money for their personal use, and compelled to feel like mendicants in doing it. Their are multitudes of wives, supposed to be well married, who never approach their husbands for money without a sense of humiliation. Now any man who com pels the woman of his love to do this, insults her womanhood, degrades her, denies essen tially his. marriage vows, and does his best to kill out her respect for him, and to make the connubial bond an irksome one. A wife who is made to feel that she is .a beg gar, is no longer a wife, except in name. A wife who is compelled to feel that she has no rights except those which her hus band accords to her from hour to hour, loses her spirit and her self-respect, and becomes a menial in feeling and in feet.” THE SABBATH SCHOOL SUPERIN- TENDENT. A correspondent of the S. S. Times, giving an account of a Sabbath School Convention in the city of Milwaukee, says of the speech of R. G. Pardee :—The exordium I did not hear, but the first sen tence that struck my ear made a deep im pression—“ Superintendents, never over shadow your Teachers.” In armies the gen eral addresses the colonel, the colonel the captain, the captain the men. Honpr your teachers,, foster their influence, specially the weaker. Never ignore any class. In this'City are 25,000 German children —let none be neglected. Study human nature— study character—the fiery Peter, the loving John, the noble Paul, the practical James, the envious Rachel, the mighty Deborah— all these have their fee similies in the Sab bath school, and each case needs its peculiar management. The superintendent should never be obsti nate and fitful, but he should be decided and positive. He should not stand at his desk a snow-capped mountain, or move around the - Sabbath-school room like a floating iceberg. His decision should not make’ him any less cordial and genial. The superintendent-should possess perfect self control—never show the least im patience; if. he cannot govern himself, he cannot govern his school. No one fills the bill—the superintendent is here described as gathered from many, taking the excel lencies of each. Ten years spent in a vil lage of 3,000 inhabitants enabled the speaker to view things from a country as well as a city standpoint. In that Village they had teachers’ meetings, which were invaluable. - The superintendent of the Sabbath-school should be the best man in the parish. He stands above deacons, class leaders, wardens; stands next to the his position and power only second to the pastor’s. The superintendent should select his teachers with great cafe. Arranging classes requires great . wisdom and caution; so in making changes. Take time-—confer with those concerned—have a fell understanding with each one—avoid friction—take things patiently and cooly. ~By forcing things, you may- tear the school to pieces. AN IRISHMAN’S DESCRIPTION OP IRELAND. A gentleman was staying near Dublin; and was going the round of all the notorie ties encircling that noble city in an Irish car,:: “Pat,” said he—for all drivers in Ireland by a kind of peculiar felicity are related to the patron saint—“ Pat, is it true that* you. have no venomous creatures in Ireland?” “Is it reptiles your honor manes ?” asked the driver. “It is," said my Mend. “ You mane toads and tad poles, wasps and wiz!B&s, adders and avil spirits, your honor ?” • “Just so," said my friend; “ Arrah, then," said Pat, “ let me narrate to your honor’s goodness how that blessed St. Patrick, the best gift and the only one Scotland aver gave to ould Ire land,—a great gift, your honor, and one which has exhausted all Scotland’s good ness to ould Ireland ever since. But I was sayin’, your honor, how the blessed St. Patrick, by his miracle of a prayer, blessed his adopted country above all other coun tries, and banished for aver all venomous creatures, so that they naver have been seen any more. But I would not tell all the truth to a worthy and good gintleman such as your honor must be, and a wise one too, seein’ you tuck my car to ride all round this city of saints, —if I did not further narrate, that whilst all the venomous cra tures are gone—the whole brood of them— they have all entered into the spirits of the paple.. And so, your honor’s goodness, we have the croaking toad in the great Parli ament man, croak, croak, croakin’; the hissing sarpint in the great man, always hiss, hiss, hissin’ at the Sassenach; and the stingin’ wasp in the pratin’ praste man—God bless his riverence—ever sting, sting, stingin’ all around him, the poor Protestant and the poor Papist too, when he cannot pay his mass money.” THE CHURCH Of CHRIST. The church of Christ was designed to represent him on earth} and to minister to all the moral needs of the human race. Her work, then, is not done when she sends out preachers; when she exhibits sacra ments and liturgies; when she sets up churches at home and mission stations abroad. She must grope her way into the alleys and courts and purlieus of the city, and up the broken stair case and into the bare room, and beside the loathsome suf ferer. She must go down into the pit with the miner, into the forecastle with the sailor, into the tent with the soldier, into the shop with the mechanic, into the factory with the operative, into the field with the farmer, into the counting room with the merchant. Like the air, the church must press equally on all the surfaces of society; like the sea, flow into every nook of the shore line of humanity; and like the sun, shine on all things foul and. low as well as the fair and high, for she was organized, commissioned, and equipped for the moral renovation of the world. —Bishop Simpson.
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