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cc j E quq ins WAY; OR, THE CHILD'S GUIDE
TO FEAVEN"--is one of Mr. E. P. Hammond's
attractive and practical books for the young. Its
object is more particularly stated in its dedica
tion which reads thus :—" To the dear children
in England, Scotland, and America, where it has
been our privilege to point little ones in the way
to heaven, this book, about Jesus and the Holy
Land, is affectionately dedicated by the Author,
with the earnest prayer, that it may lead many
of you to love Jesus, and that it may assist those
of you who have found Him to love His precious
word, and to cling to Him, and to do all in your
power to lead others to trust in him, who is the
Child's guide .to Heaven.'
" Jesus the way " is peculiar in this respect.
It has a double object. Its first great ain't is to
arrest the attention of its youthful readersshow
them that they are lost sinners—and POINT THEM
TO JESUS, the only one who can lead them in the
way to heaven. At the same time it gives a
brief history of the author's travels in Palestine.
All its illustrations and stories are connected with
that Land, and thus it contains much informa
tion with regard to Bible scenes.
This book only requires to be known to be
come a great favorite among the little folks. It
is well illustrated. It should haye a place in
every Sabbath school in the land, and those who
ure seeking to lead children to Jesus, will do well to
study it and see how Jesus is " LIFTED UP,"
for that often is the one great secret of all suC
cess in winning souls to Christ.
It is published by the Sunday School Union
in London, and by T. Nelson and Sons, N. Y.
THE SEPTEMBER MAGAZINES.
—Atlantic Monthly :—Contents :--Why Hen-,
ry Jones did not go to Canada. Wtis Reichen
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The True Story of Lady Byron't3' Life. Jacob
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Woman's Trip to Owaha and 'Beyond: Confu
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The First Cricket. Gabrielle de Bergerac In.
Log Rolling at Washington. The Genius of
Dore. A Poetical Lot. Boston : Fields ; Os
good & Co. •
—Harper's Magazine. Contents : Photographs
from the High Rockies. The Eye and the Cam
era. Out in the Streets. Border Reminiscen
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Brazil. Bob White. In Quiet Days.. A Brave
Lady. Change. An Author's Meni,ories of Au
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Half. The Progress 'of Electricity. Leander
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Timothy : Part X. Editor's Easy Chair. Edi
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—London Quarterly Review for July. Con
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Keble's Biography. The Argument of Design.
The House of Conde.. The Royal Engineers and
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in the Vapours. A Year and a Day, Part .I.V.
The London Art Season. The Lords and the
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—Theological Eclectic for July :—Contents :
Chillingworth's Religion of Protestants, from
the Contemporary Review. Baron Bunsen, from
the Sunday Magazine. The Annihilation of the
Christian Church, translated front the Beivis de
Glaubens. Monthly. New York and Cincinna
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LITF,B,AAY
—A manuscript has been found at Bury. St.
Edmonds which it is said contains an interesting
account, addressed by Sir Isaac. Newton to
Ffolkes, of the discovery of the poiver of gravi
tation. Nothing is here said about the fall of an
apple having anything to do with it; in fact, the
account differs in many respects from the ordi
nary tradition, and as coming from Newton's lips
is worthy of belief as the true account. This
volume with other M.S.I treasures, is now in the
posession of Nr. William Rsynbird.
—Charlotte , Guillard was the first notable fe
male printer. She wasin- buainess for fifty years
in Paris—from 1506 to 1556—and was celebrated
for the correctness of her books. Women were
employed and commended as compositors' in Italy
as early as 1481. t,,
—A. life of Jane Austen, the novelist, by her
nephew, the Rev. J. Austen -Leigh, Vicar of
Bray, is announced in London. The ; " Memoirs
of Miss Mitford," are in pieparatioa by the Rev.
Guy L'Estrange and the Rev. Mt. Harness. Dean
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1869.
Hook will soon add to his series of" Lives of the
Archbishop of Canterbury" a biography of Car
dinal Pole.
—The following is said to have been M. A.
Bronson Alcott's first attempt at poetry
When thou approachest to the One,
Self from thyself thyself must free ;
Thy cloak—duplicity—cast off,
And in the Being's being be.
—An important historical work on Calvin has
recently made its appearance, the interest of
which is enhanced by the fact that the author,
Prof. Kampschulte, of the University of Bonn,
is the first Roman Catholic expounder of the
great Protestant reformer.
—An interesting discovery has been made by
Mr. Wynne, in preparing the catalogue of the
Rengwrt MSS., in the Peniarth Library, in Wales.
He found a quarto volume, entitled " Legendary
Lives of Saints," written not in Welsh, but in
Coltish, It proves to be a very important addi
tion to the scanty remains of ancient Cornish
literature. No mention is made by any writer
that such a boOk had ever existed. The Cornish
is now a dead language. It has affinities to the
Welsh,' but . was mote' closely related to, the
Breton.
--Whatever else may be said of. Mr. Pollard's
late boa, it can' never be denied that it was
written by a petfect gentleman.' The author's
description of Mrs. Jefferson Davis sufficiently
attests his claim to 'be regarded as a chevalier'
without shame and' without reproaCh. Mrs., Davis,
according to Mr. Pollard, " is a braWny, able
bodied woman, who has much more of masculine
mettle than feminine grace. Rer complexion is
tawny, even to the point of mulattoism • a
woman loud and coarse in het. manners, and ' full
of social self-assertion." The South for half a
century has been char„6ing the North with a lack
of good breeding; and we venture to say that in
all the North nobody could have been found to
write and then print' a description of, a lady's
person so complimentary
. as this. There are, it
must be confessed, certain graces of character in
which we are still deficient.— The Tribun e .
—The Howard University.at Washington has
been presented with .a copy: of Bunyan's "
grim's Progress," complete, printed in the Chinese
language. .T,t was brought frmia China by .a negro
sailor.
—The Ath,enthum sayg Mr. Henry Kingsley, (a
Broad church novelist,) is about to assume the
editorship of The Daily Review, a leading liberal
Edinburgh newspaper. The Review has hitherto•
been the organ of • Dr. Candlish . and • the Free
Church.
—Every one who cares for the best ~interests
of
literature, will be well satisfied- to learn that
the Athentzum.(Lorzlon) has ,at length passed
from the contrqi of My. W. Ilepwoyth'Pixon.
had acquired an unhappy notoriety for, gross in
justice to anthors, espeeially to such authors as
dared to, write on subjects already appropriated
by. Mr. bixon. It was habitually censorious and
unjust. The ,new,,,edtor ia..to be Sir. Charles
Dilke, t4e proprietor of the, paper and = >member
for Chelsea in the House of Commons., He is
the authOr of the workGr'eater,Britain, published
last year, and although ,a young man has already
made-a avorable iznpression.—,The .N Y. Tri
bune.
—Gustave Dore has just completed a series of
sketches in, London, coinprising scenes from
fashionable and unfashionable life. He , began at
Wapping, the resort of sailors,." pimps," - and the
lowest of the low, , and ended in the , " court sub
urb" of'Kensing,ton. His sketches are intended
to illustrate a new work by Mr. Blanchard Jer
rold, the son of Douglas Jerrold, , a man well quali
fied to portray life in the metropolis he has so
frequently explored.
--Capt. Thomas Medwin, the cousin and bi
ographer of Shelley, and himself an author of
some pretensions, died recently in England, at
the age of eighty.
—The materials fora ", sensation book" have
just been discovered in the'private diary kept by
Lord Palmerston. It is said - to be very copious,
and to contain, sketches and recollections of all
the chief personages with whom the noble Lord•
had been thrown into contact during his un,
usually long life. The announcement will be re
ceived witl:c. dread by many of the veteran states-
man's friends, for he had a way of finding
out the weak side of a man's, character, and a droll
trick of revealing it, which made him a terror to
those who placed themselves in his way.
iouttantriuo.
DOES THE CHURCH. DO ALL SHE CAN
FOE OIERIST ?
The undeveloped resources of the Church,
if brought into. activity, would probably
double the efficiency of the Church imme
diately. One half of the membership is
dormant, except in the very hest Churches.
The apathy is fearful and scandalous, and
misrepresents Christ even in His on house.
One of the reasons for this state' of things
is the want of the systematic organizatiou
of our entire force. •
In most of our churches there is no dis
tinct field set apart for the women of the
Church. They have to' obtrude thelr labors
upon the Church, or do nothing. To remedy
this evil some of our best Christian women
in Philadelphia and Other places have united
in foiming societies intended to aid the pas-'
VA- in the work of the systematic visitation
of the poor, the needy, the sinful. The rea
sons for organization fbr such a purpose are
numerous, and apparent everywhere, and
we need not' dwell upon , them. Our wo
men, in many places, feel that they must
work for Christ, and that if they do not
they will lose their own souls. They know
they have povier which is not well directed,
and would be glad to be placed' in such re
lationa to the Church and the world that
they. can satisfy their own longings.
Besides the women there are many other
members of the Church who are mere 'camp
followers. They never bear arms, never go
into, battle. They are consumers and, not
proucers, and are an incumbrance and not
a help. Until these men can be waked up,
and put into the field, we must suffer from
their weight and bad example. It should be
a matter of earnest consultation between
the pastors and their most faithful advisers,
what means they can employ to get every
man to work.
We have studied with great interest the
causes of backsliding after great revivals,
and we have seen the work go on is this
wise :
During a revival only a part of the mem-,
bers do anything, and hence, it often hap
pens that some ,grow cold while others are
seeking Christ. Many are brought into the
Church, and never put to work at all. They
are adjudged to classes—sometimes not even
that much is done—after that no distinct
duty is assigned them; they find themselves
useless appendages, and after a while the
preacher scolds them for unfaithfulness, and
they leave. Often an injurious and absurd'
fear lest we tax the young converts too
much leads us -
, to neglect them almost en
tirely. ,If they have means we do not ask
them to,give for fear of offending them; if
they have talents, we allow them to be,
quietly hUried.: Many a revival wherein
hundred
,accessions have been reported is,
soon diesipate.d,"„and scarcely anything can .
be, found of its „remains. That some .cruel,,
Criminal neglect of these newly converted;
souls is the cause in far too many instances,
we have no, doubt.' ,If these lambs were,
watched over with,due care, they would not
stray away., The utter worthleseness,
many classleaders is aosnost painful obstacle
in the way of the Church. We. speak, Of;
course, of, four own, Church. The dead. dea r ,
cons, and, elders of other churches fully,
match our leaders.
If we had for leaders men who longed for
souls who would be most watchful , shop,
herd;, over tho,se„conanaitted to their care,
what a power they, would be": Here: is a
man to whom the pastor entrusts the special
care of from twelve to twenty souls. What
4 work is this for .11:riy man filled with the
love of Christ! He is the leader, the ex
emplar, the faithful friend, the loving 'coun
sellor. ,Re is to drill, these like a captain '
would .a company. Many an army has been
defeated through the, negligence, or ineffi-
Ciency, or cowardice of a single, captain
Our Church organization is admirable if
we would only adhere to it. The Minister,
should drill the leaders, should fearlessly
change thein , or dismiss them and ;he
e
hos men or women`, who would make goOd,
leaders he. should trust them with this high,
commission.
~We hear,some talk as though ,our •class
meetings were 'obsolete, or as though they
deserved to be discontinued. We would re
gard,this will an irreparable' evil, fatal , both ,
to our piety, and' efficiency as a ,Church.i
What would, be thought of a general who,
on the ,field of battle would order that,his
captains and lieutenants should be dismissed,
and that the , colonels should :comMand r
watch over, maneouvre and lead to the charge
the whole regim.ent:witiont a•single , subor,
clinate to assist them? Instead of giving up'
our classes should organize them more
closely; insist upon attendance' more urgent
ly, endeavor to obtain the services ,of suita
ble leaders, and put our ,whole force into
the field in the 'highest stat,e of'efficiency:.
Many a church is,only a mob, not an army.
Some ministers have 'great zeal in revivals;
but no sill, in organization.; they, gather,
in the crowd and leave.them, demoralized.
God will hold , us responsible if we
let poor
souls backslide for want of work.—We must
attend to the work of organization, and keep,
every department of, our work in a state,of
the utmost, activity and efficiency.
Our Undeveloped resources would, if pro
perly employed, soon be brought into active,
service, and the whole field would be swept
by revival power. Our force of a million
gives us probaVy, not more than five hurl,
dyed ;thousand who ; work at all, and not,
more than half of this number who are filled
with zeal, : for the salvation of souls. Oh
that. God would, help us •to devise means to
induce• every member to work for Christ
Central Christian Advocate. ,
LUTHER, AT ROME.
'ln the, close of the reign of 3:alias,. Luther
visited Rome. The poor monk:worn with
penances and heavy toil, was sent upon
some business connected with his convent;
to the Papal , court. He crossed the Alps
full of faith, and stirred by, a strong excite
ment. lie was about to enter , the classic
land, with whose poets and historians he
had long been familiar; he was to tread the,
sacred soil of Virgil, Cicero, and Livy. But,
more than this, he saw before him, rising in
dim majesty, the Holy City of , that Church,
from whose faith he had never yet ventured
to depart, whose supreme head was still to.
,him almost the representative of Deity, and
whose princes and dignitaries he had, ever
invested with an apostolic purity and grace.
Rome, hallowed, by the sufferings of the
martyrs, filled with relics, and redolent with
the piety of, ages, the untutored ,monk still,
supposed a scene of heavenly rest. ".Hail, :
holy Rome I" he exclaimed, as its distant
towers first met his eyes. His poetic dream
was soon dispelled. Scarce had he entered
Italy when he was shocked and terrified by
the luxury and license of the convents, and
the open depravity of the, priesthood.' He
fell sick with sorrow, and shame. He conk
plained that the very air of Italy seemed
deadly and pestilential. But he wandered
on, feeble and sad, until, he ,reached the,Holy
City, and there, amid the mOckery of his•
fellow-monks, and the blasphemies of the
impious clergy, performed. with honest su
perstition the minute ceremonial of the
Church. Of all the pilgrims to that, dese
crated shrine none was so devout as Luther.
He was deterrained,,he said, to escape
,the
pains of purgatory and win a plenarff,
dulgence; he dragged his frail form on his
knees up ; the painful ascent of the Holy
Stairs, while ever in his ears resounded, the
cry " The just shall live by faith." He
•heard , with horror that the head of the
Church was a, monster stained with vice;
that the eardinal4 were worse than their
master; the priests, mocking unbelievers;
and fled, heart-broken, back to his German
cell.—Barper's Magazine.
PULPIT PEDANTRY.
There are occasions in the pulpit when
some allusion to the original of a text, seems
indispensable to even a popular exposition
of a passage. And yet, for the preacher to
say thiki- text reads so in Hebrew, or so in
Greek, iounds to most hearers as pedantic.
Perhaps people' have become hypercritical
and hypersensitive on this point. There is
undoubtedly a happy medium; and there are
ministers who can refer to the original, with
'such`'simplicity and delicacy, as to avoid
,
even the appearance of empiricism, and at
the seine tfine, without weakening the con
fidence of the` epiiii:Eion reader in the English
iersfonfof the'Bible: " '
`"the Bxv. C:Srnudtcrt, in a recent lecture
to'his stnderitti Icin 'Biblical exegesis, gives ,
some ad m Cautionary . co un p erh ape
a little too
,rcinitsiCyliut neverthelesS !good
and s'aiiitarY. Alin i ng - other things' he says
"Avoid all pedantry.. A's a general
it may be' observed that those' 'gentlemen
wh'n;know the least Greek are the most'shre`
to air their. ~rags of learning:in/the pulpit;
they u;iiss.pp,,chance of 3aying, ,‘ The Greek
is so and It makes a man an inch and,
a half taller' by t a•-tdciJiiiiietei; if he everlast
frigly lets "fall bits'of Greek and•H'ebrew;
and , evety tellir:the'peoplel'tbe tense of the
verb, and the ,_case. of• the noun, as I have
kuopla,so,me sig., Those who have no learn
uig uStiall;);r make' a point of displaying the
pegs On:ibieh learning Oughtto hang. The
whole process 'ofi interpretation is to be
carzlied on your study; you are not to
show your congregation the process, but to
give the result irlike a good 'cook, who
would neVer think of bringing up dishes,
pans,:add rollinepin,and spice box into
,t/lie dmin bat withoutbatentation sends
up%he.feast. •
"Do not needlessly amend our authorized
vefsion. It is fahlty in many places,,but
still it is a grand work, taking it'for all in
and it is unviirieo'be Makin every old
lady ili`stru'stithe Only Bibld she can gee—
or whatis , more •likely, distrust .you 'for
hg.out her cherished treasure. Correct
where correction must be for•truth'S sake,
bat ''never fOr the Vaiti 2 klorious diSplay of
yokr critical ability.m=_Luiheran Observer.—
MIESIONABY
..!.. '. . •
--LFortY-pq sla v gs Tergeapturedbytho'British
ekniser§:iinthb'we§e bdaseof Africa during 1868,
of which ,tVirty:one Iliad slaves 'on board; 742
slaves,! in. all; being liberated: -
—Miss i ,filart of the
. United Presbyterian. mis
sion in `gypt, was lately burnt
. to death while
trying to seal a can of petroleum. Two natives
perished with her.;' , She was a lady of deep and
earnest piety, a converted. Jewess. 'She had
bored w,ithanueli success in Cario for about twelve
years. „
:=Th'e Moravian - mission in Greenland is more
than 'oneihundred and thirty years old. The ef
fects of Christianiedueation are evidenced in the
secular as well as . the religious culture 'of! the
people. A Greenlandic grammar, universal his
tory, natural history, geography, and history of
missions, are among' their . works; a, dictionary
is ready, for printing, .and
.a new translation of the
Scriptures is almost completed. One of the
churches contains 47Q baptized persons —7 7 ,,e Pe
riodieal Repbrts'say: "The missionari add their
work have heen.violently objected to. Actuated
perhaps, in part by sentiments less.pure than they
themselves suspect, some
,persons connected with
the Danish adutinistration profbss to have
discOvei'dd in Christian missions the main if, not
the sole cause of the alleged impoverishmerit of
the, natives: ;.it might not be difficult tofind else
' where ,the ~causes of this , deterioration. Still
there is much, apparent 'plausibility in the ,asser
tionsmade adewhile,their authors so far rel3tl on
irt
theflueilee theii own statements, as to urge'
the expulsion of the missionaries.' In the case of
'a miiision which offers! so - little, that is inviting,
and 'the laborers in which have so little to; cheer ;
thetd in- their toil, these ungenerous accusations
constitute anew and peculiaidi strong claim' on
Christian sympathy. it' is very plea Sing to state'
.that this-has already 'been accorded in a quarter,
prrceeding from which it is likely to be, under
, the Lord's blessing influential for good. The
Royal College of Missions—a
. priviledged body in
connection with the established Lutheran Church
'of Denniark—h*tbrough its officials, expressed
its appreCiation of the labors of missionaries
in Greenland, and its- earnest,depreciation.of any.
hindrance,thereto.!' ,
—lt is Characteristic of the Chinese, that the
chief mandarins in Fuh'Cliau aie reported'; to
have issued dards - in"grand style, inviting all the
missibnaries to' a 'splendid banquet, in token of
their. good ; will ; ;.and' have issued proclamations
en favour: of ~ t lte missionaries, : giving=, them and
their converts full' protection, and i saying that
their character and'Objeas are good ;' while
ati-the Sa'tnet time reported 'that they 'have {mil'
vately sentiout: orders to oppose. the miSsionaries
in - all the}rl eflerts [ to secnre rooms and
~ chapels,
and similar nedessities, for their work.
correspondent of The Boston Traveller
froth Japan :
The united testimony 'of ail missionaries who
have resided :in 1 China: and Japan, goes to !eatab-:
dish this fact ; ,,that the injustice and violence 8 . 9
commonly,perpetrated by,sailors and the classes
of foreigners who visit these countries, are, to
da,y, the - mdat i serions hindrances• against the'pro
gress.of true Christian civilization with which
theyare obliged to .contend; and they are forced
to give up their labors in sea-,port towns, and ,go .
into the interior, because there' the natives liaye
not, becauSe of repeated' wrong and violence, had
reason to distrustall foreigners. British bayonets
forced opium uPon China; and to-day that fact
acts, afe,,an almost. insurmountable :hindrance. tto
the labors of English and American missionaries
China,apan welcomed foreigners with open
artna until bf bitter ekperience she came tobe-
lieve that those same foreigners came to plunder
them, and then she did just what America would
have done in similar circumstances—she expelled
them ; and it has cost much blood and treasure
to open her doors again.
Of course, I do not mean to say that all or even
a large number of foreign residents in China and
Japan are lawless or violent—on the contrary,
the majority of them are intelli g ent, Christian
people, wbose.influence is for good ; but I mean
to say just this, that there is a class here who
forget that a gentleman is such always, even to
ward "niggers" and heathen, and is just and
gentle in his words and deeds, especially so to
wards those beneath_ him, and those who forget
this bring reproach upon all foreign residents
here.
GIANTS OP OLDEN TIMES.
in' one of ' his recent lectures, Professor
Silliman, the, younger, alluded to the dis
covery of an enormous lizard, of eighty feet.
From this the Prefessor inferred, that as no
living specimen 'of such magnitude has been
found, that the species which it represents
has degenerated.- The verity of his position
he rather singularly endeavored to enforce
by. air allusion 'to the well-known existence
of giants of olden times. The following list
is the data on Which this singular hypothe
sis is based : •
The glint exhibited at' Rouen, in 1530,
the professor says, measured nearly 18 feet.
Gorapius , saw a girl that was 20 feet
high.
The giani Galabra, brought from Arabia
to Rome, under Claudius Caesar was 10 feet
Fannum, who lived in the time of Eugene
11, measured 112 feet.
The Chevalier Scrog, in his voyage to the
Peak Teneriffe, found-in one of the caverns
of that , mountain the head of Gunich, who
had 60 teeth, and was not ; less than 15 feet
high.
The giant , Farrogus, slain by Orlando,
nephew of Charlemagne, was 28 feet high.
In 1814, near St. Germain, was found the
tomb of the giant Isorent, who was not less
than 30 feet high.
In 1590, near Rouen, was found a skele
ton whose skull held a. bushel of corn, and
whose body must have been 18 feet high.
The giant Bacart was 22 feet high ; his
thigh' bOnes were found in 1803, near the
river Moderi.
::1n 1823, near the castle in Dauphine, a
tomb whs found 80 feet long, 36 wide, and
8. high, on which was cut, on gray stone,
these. words :—" Keutolochus Rex." The
skeleton was found entire-252 feet long,
10 feet across the shoulders, and 5 feet
from the breast-bone to the back.
Near Palermo, in Sicily, in 1516, was
found 'the skeleton of a giant 30 feet high,
and in 1550, another, 35 feet long.
We have no doubt that there were "giants
in those days," and the past, perhaps, is
more .prolific, in producing them than the
present. But then history of giants during
the olden time was not more remarkable
than thatsof dwarfs, some of whom v, ere even
smaller-than the Thumbs and Nutts of our
time.
—A' 'keen,' earnest Quaker says : " I once
crossed the mountainsof 'Pennsylvania in a stage.
Three 'or Sour of us became engaged in an earnest
conversation oil the temperan ee, q uestion. One
passenger did not join with us. He was coarse
and buriy in appearance, but was well dressed.
He was restless and uneasy, and after shifting
and twisting kir a tine, he could endure it no
longer. Assuming .a magisterial air, and a com
manding tone, he thus delivered himself: Gentle
men, I wish you to understand that I am a
liquor-seller. But I would have you know that
I keep a respectable house. I don't sell to
drunkards, nor allow loafers to lounge about my
premises. I sell to respectable people, and to no
others.'" Said the Quaker in reply : C. Friend,
that is 'the inest ;damning part of thy business.
If then -would'st sell only to drunkards and loaf
ers, and thus help to• kill off the race, we would
soon reach an end. .But you take the unfallen
and maspeeting, and make drunkards of them.
And when their, character and money are gone,
you kick them out and hand them over to the
low groggeries.—. R. Snyder, in the Earnest
Christian.
The great festival of Juggernaut was held at
Secampre in July. It has fallen into great
disrepute. The crowd attracted by the spectacle
was small,' The cars Were dragged a short dis
tance,: by`-hired men, and then left half in a
muddy. ditch,, with the idols still in them and
the flags flying. When the priests urged the
people to pull, the irreverent populace cried out,
"Why don't you come down and pull your
selves?" 'NobodY was crushed, nobody was hurt
and only three men got drunk !