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A TTORN ' Ei T T •-1T LAW, W V At.o 1'% , •. v. iii attend t.. ail Lininr+~ culrn~trd It/ , :lre in 'Bradford. suliivait grill Wyoming rwintit , li. tinier with }.q. ;11..v19-71. HALE & PATTON . . gent for (*4)NIEI"Fit MUTUAL:LIFE IN.:4SRAN(.I 4'031 - PAN - Y. rr No;i4; ' iritt. & Pat; 1;f1ilg, '2 , ;-7 • 1J it: G. • 02.1:11I'MWN. I,:il'.ll)F4.lofr -1' ry:ats rttronl, - • t , y Ma V•,•11 , 1111 eel Lr I.•i 4.r. _ I. . - OVEIITON ATTOR ,r S ATILAw, - naling en fitit, co-part ofr,r th.•ir prTge,sional !o tho pabiir. 5p,.r131 attrniloo given to =or-lio , s in Ih' an .1 itt•zi , :er', , I '..urts. ERTON. dle. ELSIIREF ATADIJ.I. & CALIFF, AT L.W. r A. " ft! NV,,11 - - Woo P. fir.t otoor,outtiof tht• Fir,t MADILL. .1. N. CALIF!' Sz. 111-SSF,LI,'S MEE= INSURAN'VE A GEN . O Y, °N V NV . - TT , 4I:NEY U. I•11M \ T. :I • : NI. tII' I= 11.7•NI11.: 11• S IGNF. D. A 111 - 11t= TEr"t I) LDER. to 1 fOrin ho 4.1117,40; of Towanda. an4l vlrlpity. that Win rj,. particular atp•utt.•. to .I.r.ovinz designs fot all w.mhor p 111.11,!. .1o1( n.. • ~I. l voti for teas , - .o 4.111,0 ;It no.loehrt..- N. E. o ah•l En7:o;,•th qrrots. • .1. F. FLENIING. 1;•.0 311. Totratllla. Pa. • C'. BIXBEE.. - CARRIAGE 47 OPA IN*I: AND DECOIZTET:. Al-o man „r -r of kgrilatnental Slam Carol, a few , . 4,1” 111,111:rown-At ITT W. KING,SI3I-lil, 1:.% E , TATF„ LI F. I:F; 'A CC I DENT I Stntt , St TowANI)A.p.t NSUI: NCE GENCY. VI- orim,,,,c 1`72 .IND - FIRE TRIED 111 , 1. - .7\ IX. • . . 111:1: 4- 11.\ NTS. 1: • , 0. A. BLA BK. • _ F s N T QNA BANK TtIWASLA FUND . . hi-41;:irik offer, UNOiF.II.' FACILITIES for tr, tan.-.a.rtiou of a ;;ENETZAL BANKING BrSINESS v11:1:- , E , T PAID ON DEPOSITS AccoirthNG Tcl `Plr I AI, f.1.1,1t IF: 1; 1 VE.!: TION OF AN I, prEcti: • Parties wishing to SEND MONEY to any part of r• rnited State...s, England, Ireland, Scotland, or :.•• prinPipal cities and towns of Eurnpe. can here , I:Afts for that porpwe. PASSAGE TICKETS . T , , 'r (mm the Old ,CottntrF, by titette.t steam or •. , 11:1.11:;*..al-n'ays on hana. .. • littiUGHT ort:tt , AT I:EDITED RATES 'rice paid for U. S., Bonds, Gold and Silvci roWEI:L. Presidentr—' o I C . • Tut: LITTLE STORE 'ROUND TIM CORNER' I the btsi, piaci. In TPwalltU to buy goal —CIGARS. AND TOBACCO, at low iates, Remonber 31 ERCCIWS pLocE, oppogite . COURT HOUSE • srczilor THE "INDI AN SQUAW - arr29•74 • 7im 10,00 it.9o ICo - c7:l — zs":cio I 20.00 I $.OO =1 • 8. W. ALMORD, Publisher. 80.00 110.00 AYLOR & T-,. TOWANDA . , PA W EEK, c 'Aticons, GINGIIAMS I bENIMS ; COTTONADES, SHEETINGs MII,SLINS. JEANS. T, lOW AS; AE;I'A !MEM 4\' Y .125,000 50.000 N. N. BETT, Cashier LUNN VOLUME XXXVL Taylor & Co. ARE OPENING NM A LARGE VARIETY OF Am) FLANNEL SHIRTING& Which ,will he ottered at extremely low prices. • ! ill - assortment of Cloths and Cassimeres, of the latest fall styles._ - Plain and Fancy Dress Uciod, Black Goods. Black Silks. Cabs, mid Chil &cies :`rocs. - • PLEASE CALL AND EXAMINE. TAYLOR <gro. TONCallib. Scptember 16, 1875 ~TEW E -A. Jl, GOODS - : THIS WEEK. POWELL A. CO. Wo :aro +',•.r rtrooil lug our tiria ill-taw...la or FALL GOODS, 'Which Includes all the latest styles lu DRESS GOODS. SHAWLS, CASSIMERE-S AND SUITINGS, TIES, HOSIERY, DRESS TRIMMINGS, AND NOTIONS. Also a large.stock or El DOMESTICS, CALICOES, GINGHAMS, BLEACHED MUSLINS, TABLE LLNENS,TOWELLINGSi FIANNELS, &C. Fine assortment a goods, at low prices, tneyery Department. POWELL & Co. sepg-tf. THE NENETY ANT) HMS. • 'firm were thirty and nine that eaten• by. In the shelter ofltie fold; But one was out on the hilts_ twat. Far off from tlo gates of gold. Away on the mountaln&wthl anil bare:. • Avray from the tender Slnsiterd's care. -Lord, Mon lukst. here thj Moots and nine 1 L Are they not enough for thee ?" liat/the Shepherd made answer; "This of Wet! Ilan wandered away frotn tne And although the rtod be Mutt! and s I go to the desert to had t y eherit- glut bone rot the ransomed ever knew Ifo'te.deep were the craters crossed; N - swhow dark was the night the Lord listswil (tiro found his sheep that was lost. Out la the desert he heard Its ery.r. , Sick and helpless and ready, to die. ' • "Lori]. witenee'are those blnotV-arops all the iraY That mark out the mountain's track?" "They were shed. forohe who had gone &lei Ere the sistetaterti could bring . Mitt hack," "LorA, Whence are thy bet RO rent. and tore'e' "They ate piereetl to.hight by many a thorn." And all through, the mountila thunder-iiVen; And up from the rocky isteeit t Thefe rosea • ery to the gate Ni heaven : "Ite16160! tinitul my sheep:" And the .614 tis echoed Around the throne: MrkStet Yor.tirl.'Lbr..l brings bark hi. owni .—Aa aping by Mr. Santry: Tut pßoanwrioN PARTY. Jaae - Ci. Swisshelm flows How it is ,Possible to be All Bight on tlie,TemeFranco Quation, and at The Same Tide Remain fine to Republican Reformer. - - - - , To the Editde Of tk. Pitisinirg - C' m*reiatl GoVernor Ilartranft and- I have never setteled our disagreement about Suratt. So I have a personal grievance to settle with biro.," and someday, if we get time, I anibound to fight out our old fight on that same .old - line; but, nevertheless, and not withstanding, he seems to, have made a, very good Governor. j The, best interest 'of this State and Nation seems to me to demand his're-electlon, and the attempt of the temperance pebple to defeat him -because he did notrise the, veto . power to prevent the repeal of the local-option law is treasonable as well as suicidat In tentionally- or unintentionally, .those people who are aiding to bring the .old Democracy back into power are joining with the traitors who are cursing the boot Cause, .atid those ranee people who indirectly vote for the party which repealed the local-option law, in order to punish thiose who 'passed' it -and failed to' maintain it arrainst_siKe n rwhelming odds, are killing their own cause. -Gdvernor Manua was not elected on a temperanke platform; and, as a llopublican, was in honor bound to, preserve. the power and prestige of the party which elected him. That party sustained a crushing defeat:, mainly through the intemperate ac tion of temperance people. Through this action the enemies of temperance came into power-in the -lower" house orthe Legislature, and used -their power to repeal the friendly legisla tion of the party lie represented. For him to have interposed his veto against the reactionary. flood which had swept over the 'State must have. had a disastrous effect upon the onnization he was in honor bound to serve; or heot least, had good reas on to believe that suchi would be the case, and those who complain that he was false to a solemn obligation in order to .render a' doubtful and precarious service to a cause no matter how good,lare simply urging the old Jesuitic doctrine of the duty of doing evil that good may come. GovernorJlartranft must be polit iCally blind, and quite unfit for the poSition he is in, if he does not know that the continuance-of the Republi can-party in power is- necessary to the' Maintenance of the UTrion on a basiS of freedoM of the slave._ What ever hopes we, might once have had to the-contrary, the past year leave no room for any other conclusion. \o doubt this has been his eonvic lion ever since the war, and if he had failed to use all lawfulendeavors to secure its ascendancy, -he would have been a traitor to his country.. It is.difficult to, see that his veto of the objectionable bill would have rendered any real service tp the tem perance cause. Telnperance people had shown so much dissatisfaction with the law, had gone so far outside of it in their efforts to suppresS in temperance, that he or any.' one else might easily conclude that they cared little forit, and that, like all former laws for the prOrmotion of tempeance, it had been weighed in , the balance and found wanting : but no matter what was his opinion; or what--were the facts in the case, his first duty was to -save the party which lilorte proposed to enforce the dearly-bought issues of the war. I= CLOTHS, GLOVES; We must have a, country and a government before ewe Can decide what men shall or shall not drink, or Under it. First see ,to it that they do not pull the house down be fore you turn your attention to sweep ing and (lusting it. Some of my friends say 'to . me: "How is it that you, an old. Aboli tionist, are not working fo temerper anec;when the slavery of intemper ance:fa so much worse than Southern bondage?" The assumption that am not working for temperance because I am not; and have -not been t praying on street ',corners, and am opposed to the. re-eleotion of the old Democracy, is .very -like the - lessons my good friend Oliver Johnson used to read me t because I was sustaining the Constitution. Still, we abolished slavery under the Constitution; and it is pOisible I might be a friend of temperance without kneeling in the mud to pray at, or for, rumsellers, or workinc , to defeat a* party which gave some years of my life to build up, and'which I now consider esseri-. tial to the existanee of our Govern ment, I was glad when women be gan the , 'crusade, and -glad •of the spirit with which they carried it 'on. By that movement thousands of women were aroused to feel that they have some responsibility for= the political evils-which surround them. I am heartily glad, now, to see that so many of these women- have taken a good 'step forward, and are trying to reach an evil by Making votes. , =I e *Oteilti Vority. Pi*:l 4l aitcott Principles—an Able Letter Prom the Veteran NEM TOIVANDA,I3OFORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 7, 1815. i am glad exceedingly, that sq many of our best and noblest women have plunged boldly tntO the old "Stygian pool" of polities. It is nearl3i thirty years since.' stepped down and in, and, until the crusatkrs, I seemed to be the only Woman in the arena; so it Is with a full appreciation of the circumstances that I tveltoVAti the thousands who hakv tkille tort,' side *With it WWI There is no doubt in My mind that they will yet tiq good work in this most important field of human effoit; but it is not strange that a veteran who has otitlivell many a well-fought field, and many a seem; ingly crushing defeat; sholld see more sides to the battle than present themselves to the euthusiattb gaze of a raw redruit ; ;and I *oil to *omenth*omenespecially Who, are labor irt in this third party movem nt, in taiTying your one idea into Oolities you have not the Vantage ground that We bad. n the anti-slaverl strug gle. Law is the organization of brute force. Southern slavery was orga nized'brute force. We fought it with its own : weapons. The: slave was •deprived of freedom byl brute force; he was hunted With Mood hounds, caught, inatmeled, held ht der the lash, Ihd the: slaves Of the South been enticed to become 'slaves by wiles, no matter how cunning, and had it been optional withF 'them to contiitue slaves or .be free.,l I do not think . 1 should have neglected my own business to_ prevent 'theii free 'don, of choice. I certainly :;.hould not have invoked thedaw.to pivVent the slave•-catcher chrittiting thbiti Into subjection, On .the ether haild, if the liquor dealers shcaild make laws -which authorize, them to 'chase men with 'bloodhounds, catch, manacle, and drag them into their dens,l then force open their jaws, pour their "liq uid damnation" down their throats, aiid fOrcibly abstract the money from their pockets, I shall bind myself to dO my utmost endeaviii to have that law repealeti, and to, meet force with force ,in rescuing their •,victlins; but my mind is not clear Its to . bow 'the moral, or immoral, forcesaised dram sellers are' to be met by the physical forces represented in legal. Time was that I hoped much from theta, bat experience leads to the conch' , sion that; it would be very unwsie to blear Or e‘'en ri9lt ally serious loss to any, good cause in the hope , of Check ing drunkenness by prohibition. JANE - 0; SivissuUN ---- I SPEECH OF HON. G. A. GROW 1, —• ~ At the great Mass Meeting in Philadel phia on the 2.51.11 inst., lion. GALCSI,I.% A. G now delivered the following able and eloquent speech. For several year's Mr. finow has been occupied in businesit pe,r suits, and only enters Ole political field now that he realizes t tlie great danger wide! threatens the country throxrli in thienees of the Democratic leaders '? We commend the speech to the eareftil pe rusal of all candid men : Fellow Citizens: Accept my grateful acknowledgments for the cordiality of this greeting. Withdrawn for years from all paricipa 'ion in politics, wholly absorbed in indus trial pursuits, I come before youthis!time, on the invitation of your committeel only from a sense of duty such as every good citizen owes to his country. With views unchanged on all questions of national ad ministration, I shall call your attention Only to a brief consideration of the pilau chi] questions forced into the party?ssties of the day, leaving all discussions o State policies and qualifications of candidates to those who are to follow me. When the ir repressible conflietbetween freedoni and slaVery, which for almost half a century shOok the republic with its earth q uake ' throes ended in the emancipation of ' a race, I hoped that the whole people, with out partisan rancor or sectional bate, would turn their undivided ittenthin •to the encouragement of the industrial Inter est, the deVelopment• of the natural re sources and the promotion of the lalior of • the country. We had then just passed specks: fully the third of - the three great stages !inci dent to national distance. In all nation alitid a people have first to carve o p t a national existence. That our fathers did iu the revolution. Neit, they have to prove their ability to maintain their po- sition at the fireside of nations by repell itg all external aggressions. That !was done in the vindication of the inviolabili ty of American citizenship when,in The war of 1812 we scouted the lion' of the proud mistress of the seas front our shores., Next they must prone their ability to themselves against themselves, by suppressing all domestic violence r . The grassy mounds of half a million_ hero martyrs will stand forever a monument of that achievement. In each of these trials the great requisite of the nation was ithe heart of oak, a nerve of steel. [Applause] - The institutions of free elective govern ment are again ou trial. The capacity of man for self government is now to pass it‘severest test in this issue forced upon the country by the Democratic party of Ohio and Pennsylvania, whether the peot, pie have honesty and - virtue enough to: -discharge faithfully all national obliga tions by self-imposed burdens of taxation, In this trial it requires for the successful issue only the common honesty that lbf::. longs to uncorrupted human nature. THAT TIIEREI . D.tS BEEN CONTRACITIOS NMI), The first assumption, that there {has been Wcontraction of the eurrency r is!not true in fact, for there has been no Con traction. What do we mean by curreney? It is that which is used to make ;the exchanges of commodities and propeity. It may be paper, it may be coin, or both. Today we have in currency, all paper, threeJumdred and eighty-two millionsi of legal tenders, in round numbers, $50,6110,- 000 of fractional currency; of bank circu lation, $345,000,000; making the wh i 4e circulation medium to-day $777,000, . There were $74 0 ,00 0 , 0 00 in 1873 , S 6 V 000,000 in 1867 and $31,2,000,000 18 . We have a greater volume of circulation today than at any preceding period in the history of the country, and more ill. double, that of any period previous tp 1860. So that the present disaster to t' business of the country cannot be the suit of a contraction- of currency, and if general bankruptcy is threatened" it is not from this cause. WHAT FRODLtED THE r.ucic. Whit:then has produced this depression in business?, First,. the war that deiitrcii , cd so largely the productions of industry, in calling from every branch of busines men to the field to uphold the ... standard a the Republic. The war increased prices by making a greater demand, which stim ulated production. That; of itself, .841. ; ulated the productive industries over a previous period. The enhancement of prices was still further increased by the issue of ; large amounts of irredeemable paper. These two things stimulated all the productive industries, but when the war ended and the men from the field went to work as producers, these indru tries still continued their production, anil thus they tilled the markets of the corm try with a large sar...les,or products, and, thejlemand not being equal to the supply, the production went On until Abe stock . . .1 , 7 '":1-.':.7,..:' . ' '' . ..1 1 ". .. :. 1- .+ , . .1 .; , ' : C , 1 1 :It :,..,U / I • . t , • . . . , . . . DUNS or Dittct oiATtok FitOM 42q qttAllTltti RE? was too large to be carried by the manu facturers and producers. Hence came the first great failure, that of the Sp es,' satielt ttnpttlreti the business confidence of , the country, with store houses filled from cellar to garret with products for_which there was no market: Vi hen productloWis, larger than demand, prices of uerdslty Alts" t ailil 4hen prices 11,4.11 thets be bithtt ettrian meitt, of products, or the manufacturer himself must sub m 4 to large losses in continuing.- DepresMon in business came from over productio. stimulated first by the war, and then bi inflation of the cur rency. , MUT ON ONII PRODUCTION ON DUNI NUM There bras itoo much of everything. When confidence is. uinbountted n surplus of product lift bb itir Middle, but when tontidenie is :Mica shaken credits are restricted, and then comes stringency in the market; land depression in business.. The railroads feel the effect first; when production is diminished; because there areless prcidtfcti to transport from the points of prothibtion to the marts of trade. There n* Ibisikinell td bandit the goods in all their trainiii, and-there are fewer-men employed to carry them to the consumer. When confidence is -shaken men coin menet) economizing, and when that be gins a general panic, as it is called, spreads over the land. There are forty millions of people in the United ,States, half males, men arid boys, and 'half fe; males, women and rirhis Supposing that each wilinati aid girl has one dress less this year than last year; calling the aver age for each dress ten yards,' that makes two hifndred million yards less wanted this yet than last. If each man and'boy buys bne coat less this year than lie had last year, as there are twenty million of men and boys, if we rail the cost of each coat on an average ten dollars each, then there is two kindred million of dollars less in the demand for Manufactured Pro ducts of that description. So in. every other class of commodities used by a pea pie the demand is diminished immense ly When eVetybo4 ColnhieaCe's• lo e4ono. mite. The railroads, not being supplied with the traffic they had before, on ac-, count of this.kind of reduction, have less earningtand consequently less profit op. their business. And this is tree of every kind of busineis, The manufacturer of woolen goods; making less cloth, buys less wool, and the producer of Wool is thus deprived of a mar; ket fot his product ! Tim manna& tnrer of iron makes less, so the producer of coal must curtail his production ; and so through all the avenues and chan nels of labor and business.' The railroads fail to pay the 'interest upon their bonds where they are built in sparsely settled parts of the country; because those diS,t tricts feel the stringency most. The de; nand for manufacturing products, falling off leaves a supply of these products on the hands of the manufacturer. Then folloVr &Nits or bliSitlei4 htitikcs, unabbi to carry their' large stocks.i • This iti the cause Of stagnation in the productiobs in almost every industry. Confidence and credit are shaken by the failure, until moneyed men - refuse tO loan except on the most undoubted. security, and no money seeks an investment any channel of productive industry, for everything_ there is overstocked, and it seeks no new enter prise, because of the uncertainty of our currency, till it is brought to a specie ba sis.- Hence the large amount of idle gap; ital. It only requires about five per cent.' of the amount of actual exchanges to be in money, but without confidence it re quires the hundred per cent in money to do the business. WIIVMONEY IS CIRCULATION Everywhere We have over-production, want of confidence, and an irredeemable paper circulation twiCe as great as it over was before in the 'history of the country, and greatly in excess of-the present wants of trade. But where is it? In the banks, of _course. When the bank makes a $lOO bill how does it get out into circulation? By some man who deSires to buy commodi tiei, desires to go into business, to devel op resources: Some man makes a loan of the bank . and i gives - his note, payable at a future day, and receives this $lOO bill. With it he buys $lOO worth Of cloth ing. The num thatisold the clothing buys $lOO worth , of boots with the mony re ceived for the clothing. The matr-that sold the boots buys $lOO dollars worth' of hats with it. The man that sold the hats owes the batik $lOO, arid carries that same $lOO bill back to,. the bank and pays his debt. The bank has transferred the debt from the man who sold the boots to the man who just bought the clothing, and thus three men have $3OO worth of troll erty that has . ,been` exchanged between. them by the use of a single $lOO note, and the note is back in the bank again, and stays'here, until some one desires to use it in a Similar way. If the man that has • the clothing cannot sell it, ho has to "car ry them,''' as it is called, or if ho lands no purchaser before his paper matures at the bank, then he fails, because he cannot pay his debt to the bank for the money he borrowed: Hence, to-day, the industrial interests . of the country, having piled - up the enormous amount of goods awaiting purchasers, find themselves with these goods on. their hands un l a I),ein meet their engagements. The mo ey s not taken front the banks, for thela e . , Viithat no one desires to invest in the commodities. The banks, if theyfollow their legitimate business, do not go into the marts of trade to buy property. They furnish exchanges for doing that by others, and for the risk of furnishing exchange is what they charge their interest." , They deal in inter 'est bearing paper', and it is from, the.in terest on money which they furnish , for others to make exchanges they derive that profit which they pay Unit' stockholders. So when currency, is not for bu siness it remains 'with those who issue it. And that is the case to-day. So, 'while 'them is plenty of paper money there is no call for it by business interests, hence is is scarce in circulation. THE SEE VICE 31011EY PERFORM How is Money used in tee business trans. actions of life? Here are-two pieces of paper.' Otte is stamped "one dollar," the other is stamped "one hundred dollars ; " yet .the two pieces of paper are of tho same size, the same general appearance, and intrinsically are of indentically the same value—no more, no less. In-the transactions of business, which is but an exchange. of 'property or com modities, paper or coin is used to facili tate the exchange and is called a circula ting medium. Without a circulating me dium, trade and commerce could not be carried on, except by the exchange of the commodities themselves. So that if a man who manufactured hats, and that was the only commodity lie had, and ho wants a horse, if there was no (as it is called) circulating mediums, the only way he could get a horse would be to make hats enough to buy one, and :limn find it Man who had one that suited him and who was willing to take hats for the horse. Then he would deliver the hats and take the horse. But the difficulty of finding a man that would want so many hats at once, for the mirchaser of the hats • could only dispose of them to some one- who had some commodity be might want,equal in value to one or &Mae even number of them, for the bat could not be divided. lgo it could only be exchanged for a com modity of equal value. COIN AND PAPER CONTRACTS The difficulty, in fact alMost imposibil ity, of carrying on trade in that way in duced the adoption of some , medium of exchange that should be recognized by all, or of some certain value at which it should be received for horses and bats, or in exchange for any other species of prop erty. Hence comes a circulating medium called currency. It ,may .. be paper, or it may be coin, But if it is paper, as the paper has no intrinsic value, or compara tively none,it is only worthiif the promise it bears is taken off s what it would sell for to be manufactured into some ether form of paper. So a paper currency has no value except in its promise. So when ==4 MIII you receive a paper dollar in payment of a debt duo you, that debt is not "paid. you have only changed debtor's' . Instead of the individual of whom you reedited it owing you, it is now the maker of the pa per who the de ,t, akd - that Velltin ues to be the otte till the pOrAett Who fetch theCper promise reCeives tittletlnt in col ~ ornb kind 'of ItPt prullPrik it a .00, the payment of a debt than a payment in , pa. per? The coin represents the actual la bor necessary and indispensable for its production ; first, in taking the ore from' the, bowels of the earth, and, and all the subsequent labor necessary to convert it into coin, and the world coments and agrees that that amount of labor is worth and it could none procured at a less cost than the ntrlqopt stamped upon the coin. So through the flighted 'World it lids that real intrinsic value, for the reason that it is impossible for it to be produced fur a less sum. And besides. it has the same value, or nearly so, for use bathe mechan ical arts that it has for coin: The cost of - paper, that ' is; its, intrinsic value, is.comparativeli nothing. 'lt costs no more, to maim a $43000 bill, thnn a $5 One,!. The printing-press changeii 'the . amount of the-promise ssmply by chang ing the numerals that mark it. The coin dollar needs no 'endorser. The paper one is 'worthless without it: The 'corn dollar runs through the commercial world by its own inherent strength, and hears upon its Taco its real value. The paper didlar has not strength to stand' alone andbears u'on its fate billy a tfOlnis( Which; if its fulfillment is indefinitely postponed, is a s. worthless as the rags of which it is made. Irredeemable paper, established as a cir culating medium, is the direst curse that ever paralyzed the energies of a nation or palsied the arm of industry. A coin dollar represents a certain weight 'of metal) . afid that sane weight of metal you can exchange in the cat - abet:vial 1101.10 anywhere for an equal weigh tof• the - same metal in the coin of 'any country, and it is wit subject to . ruinotts depreciation. and is indestructible It may be worth a lit tle more il one E.'onntry !Imo in another, by raison of cost of transportation, , n it the difference is trifling, and it is really worth its value weight for' weight• the world over. • Hence it has been wade the commercial, nations of the world ale currency to represent real values. - The currency we now use represents a premise in the shape of a national bank note : a prothise resting upon the assets of.the bank and upon the United States bonds deposited to secure ltc relonmticm; ; Po* with a Government treasury hulk? It is 'alien upon nothing. It is. not a wort lie gage upon an. thing, for can you sell any farm, rriage or horses on a fail man'sWre to pay a t asury note of..the United States,? It is only upon good faith.by the people; and that is just what is on trial to-day. , : _ • WHAT.CREDIT ~ TO GIVES THE PAPER iicivEt? „ Ohio and Pennsyivatia call can people to the consideration of, this is sue, and the liana box is to fix the Char aCter of credit to be given to this paper representation. Paper representation ,based ,upon coin. for its • redemption has this advantage with all people—whenever a want of con fidence falls dpon a community its effects are less, with such currency, for it is d Cir culating medium based on a gold value, and interchangeable the world over. But, treasury notes will be affected in the esti mation of money circles by every election held in this country, until they are made payable The Democratic party of Pennsylvania. propese to change the - :Natiomsl currency and substitute for r it. the legal tender treasury notes:. To add to the $382,000,- 000 already issued $345,000,000 more to fill up the circulation that the National banks now have, making.' $727,000,060 of treasury notes to be issued, and not one of these protected by a coin dollar,unless it • is proposed to fill the treasury with's'727,- 000,000 of coin to be held to redeem them. Without that what security is there they "would not depreciate, as all large issues of irredeemable paper ever, have done, from the Mississippi scheme adopted by the regent Orleans, the assignats of Louis XVI., and the Continental monerof our fathers. Even now the dollar of this republic, in the zenith of its power and boasted great ness; is worth ten s cents' less in our own markets than the dollar of poor Mexico, rent by dissensions - and torn by revolu tions for sixty years. In the transactions of business, in trade and commerce, is it wise for us to disre gard the wisdom of the ages and tlia ex perienie of all time? if it were a good policy to change our - bank currency into treasuryuotes,. could it be done without a breach of good faith upon the part of the Government? THE PLEDGE OF FAITH'. I quoteethe pledge of the Government Made to its creditors in the Act of ;lithe 30th, 1804 : - • SEcTros 2. * *- * Nor shall the to tal amount of United StateS notes issued or to be issued, ever exceed four hundred millions of dollars. - 'lAlso Act of February 25th, 1862, au thorized the legal tenders and provided that all duties on imported goods shall be paid in coin, and the coin so paid shall be set apart as a special fund and, shall be applied as follows : First—To the payment in coin of the interest on the bonds and notes of the United States. Second—To the purchase or payment of one per centut* of the entire debt of the United States to be made within each -fiscal year after the first day of July, A. D., 1862. • EFFECV ON LAnon The evils of irredeemable paper fall. heaviest upon labor, for the dealer in commodities takeSinto consideration the 'liability of the fluctuation in the price of gold, and he,must add , to his price to guard against loss in that way. Thus it passes.through the hands of all the deal ers, until it reaches the consumer. Ho has nothing but his labor to sell, and he doesn't fix the price of that ; lie has no way of making up this additional price he pays on everything for this risk in the fluctuations of the price of gold. So the result of irredeemable paper to him is the same as. if the money he gets depreciated while in his possession. For instance, he takes a silver dollar, and. while he has it ten or fifteen cents is worn; off, so when he passes it lie can get - ,only eighty-five or ninety cents for it. IThe national banknote is to-day sent out to the world. It is uo lien upon any thing, remember; no mortgage,upon any thing except a promise to pay; and it only his credit because of faith in that prom ise. Whether that faith be given or not is the issue of the hour, and the American people have to decide it at the ballot-box, for they are now called upon to determine whether or not they amsufficiently patri .otio to submit to self-imiqlekd burdens of tatation. , . THE INFLATION The results of changing this currency into national bank- notes would be that you increase the volume of irredeemable pape.r, depreciate the paper, and the day would come when, as predicted by the Democrats, when greenbacks were first issued, the currency would be as worth less as Continental money, especially if a portion of the American people proposed to repudiate it. This inflation movement is an attack upon the credit of the nation, anklet it be understood in money circles, that the American people are about to break their pledges on resumption if they continue an inflated currency of irredeem able:PaPer, and the consequence will be that the bonds of the. Government held abroad will come home to be sold at what ever•priee they will bring: The deprecia tion of paper will bring with it a depre ciation of the Government bonds; and with It bankruptcy and wideipread ruin. Why should not the • Government do as every debtorAoes, commence Sometime to paY, its Over-due notes? That i$ all that is askedz--not that it should pay them all ' too*, or tomorrow, but that they should WE 'l:.-7•17, fir J7.--i.r...,:,i......." •.-. • , ..-:--.'.' -,,,, :, ... -..-. I - AF 7 ' 1 , 1 i ..,..„ - eomnience. - What credit; I wOuld like to know is given to you as individuals? If you glife your .note to-day for: what you bUyond whenit matures you propose t 4 *ienevf it indefinitely, how long 'will yen have any credit?; • - . , • ; • . EFFECT OF FREE-BANKING.: It it a duty of tin General Govermnent prdtitie for the people it etnind and se 7 urs tir e ud. ethig itictlittta.- The: States are kohl t emittinchiSS Of eredk and It was always qiienitli . 4 #hether State a banks were • constitutional, fof the States themselves could not make bills' Of, credit, how could they authorize any body else to do it ? It being • the duty: of the General GoVennnent"to coin . money and fir. the •value thereof and. sapmvide a; late, secure and rellablecirculati rig media nr for thh peclplei in what way can it best disdnirp that duty? 'Not, In my ,Jude tboutil by converting Half lilt(' Mt- itn-inensq banking institution; but by requir; ing f raii it does now, ample security to pro'• tect tf)e bill holder against loss and allow any otic to bank that will furniSh the Fe- Curityi That destroys all monopoly in banking and ,furnishes all the elasticity it tieetls+,l, What eVilk would result froin an attempt by tliii llOferrment_to rszillate the volume-of currency so P.Cbti it equal to the watitS of trade ? - ONE MAN' POWER OVER ifoxEl ,--- - - - - Whir could determine w hen tolunie of money; is equal to the wants iof, trade? Qne Man at W:Olin:4on must be elutlied •dith the power of determining If he is to have the eupetvislott of issuing the curren ey.fOr'o.lib etßuttep Mere be honest and ever so intelligent could he determine and regulaie that - as well as 'the wants of the husinelisitself. under a free banking sys tem, Iliac if more currency . was wanted, And itscoUld tie profitably employed, self -interoit.woUld furnish the desirettaraount by ett Otercise of banking. facilities? That Woultilsave the extreise of .wt vast • and danget4AN a ptliltr HA iiil*l),t , to -LEVl late the country by one man. , 'the tiem oerati party' in the days of its glory, mi ller the lead of its:heroic chieftain, won its proudest . triumPli in warring - upon the !tamers of such a power conferred on iliac brit diremtors, and . for la tut - trier of n'eentiiry it was VlZ:ln.t4its . oUt almost eve ry politilal battle-field undet 1)0 Illntelarti of hard limey, and no regutifor of currency except, the wants of trade 'itself. Tile free natal banking systeM furbish cs suelt a regulator without the cortigat ; hig.inttuence of a:government bureau. lone Man to say.wlifn to issue [more cur, Fenny, .when to contract, would be a . most dangerous power, even in the 'hands -of tiie stricica!itP , rstyf ci would bp the, official One man to-nay writ nrfother to;. MorroW, and it would be a woOder was not In Some way controlled by money broker* The'dillicnitylo-day iii Overn ncnt affairs is to get than honeSt enough to, 'pay put five thousand dollars of "public Money ;without cheating: [Laughter and applaufte.) i The Clovernment L.; the poorest of all inttrunietttolftlai fi!lr the transaction of blisinegs. I'ltE moot nEttoic • ViAiiill,t96; • IA paity.with such a policy, _a - policy that if carried into the administration of MO government -Would cover it with •dis honor and make its name a hissing and a brword among the - nations, appeals to the vot4r for the support of its Candidate beptuse,as Judge he pronounced the sen tience ofl the late im felons t> onvicted by a jury in Ids:court. Has public.virtheiti our day fallen so low that, for the diScharge byian Official of the plainest and most common Of his efeiy-day duties the high est homrs'.of the State itft to be laid at his feet 1) If so, - then indeed is the litlt- L loci. for the-future of the Republic gloomy and sad.e. Forages the world paid homage to the stern virtue and inflexible manhood of the Unman judge who, in obedience to ditty, condemned his only child to death, then resigned his position; and, broken hertrtedo, returned to his humble home. This well-merited homage is paid to the heroism that could in obedience to public duty silence the pleadings of the - holiest affections that tendril around the heart. , Butt if the highest. honors of the people are to bestowed for the simple dis charge of the plain .iluties of every-day life,! what need then should be • awarded to hint who, bidding adieu to kindred and. all that i 4 near and dear, and. taking ,his young lifiin.his • hand on the tented field where sliO, and shell fall thick and fast,. strewing the ground with dead and dying comrades; perils all in defence of the life of tlie Republic ? policies,•principles and measures of iulmtnistratiou in a government like ours are paraniount to all, personal considera tions. 31en are indispensable, it is true, in administiting Governments ; • yet in the great movements of the people—moral. social or iSolitical—the individual is swept along by the tide as waifs •are borne •on the bosoni of the mighty vleep when it is stirred by!the tempest and the storm. TflE 11 . 1.;Tir OF THE UOUR. • The grave duties of the hour arc econo my in public expenditures„ honesty and fidelity in lidnainistration, and - the return, of the cuiteney tcrfa specie, baSis, so as to save the public credit froni dishonor, and, thereby lktliten the burden_ of taxation;.' and• Place the industries of the country on a solid and sure foundation, thus • ena- . bline, labor to enjoy -the fruits of its toil.; Jo addition, the higyest patriotism de mands that we do all in our power ,to aid in building up the broken Commonwealth, whose fields were wasted and homettdeso lated iin the havoc of war.: AU nations have had 'their day of. disaster. For long Yearsitbe soil of Englanj was red wits the blood tif her best citizens' in the war of the Roses, yet the star of her empire, though t betiming through the mists of civil War; still shines on with undimmed lustre. A. party' vlctorions in a:carnival' of blood eaunOt, in.this age, conceit itself into a, partylof p4rpetual hatei. Hates and 'ran cora must, of course, some day have an end. 1 • Standing, then, by the green graves of the ' fallen JheroOs of both sections, and dropping altear' at. the disconsolate , fire side where !affection still mourns the un returning brave; let us bury With •the he roic dead ;the animosities engendCred in the 6nfliet, and, while pointing to' the' past as a beacon warning for. the future, let uslremeMber that toe are all Anierican citiZens r , gl , Orying in the traditions- of a common ancestry, and vying with each other in deeds of patriotic devotipn for the advancement of the greatness and . glory_ ()f • the republic, and henc6, forth bound together as one people, hombgene ens irt ideas and institutions, fro in the gulf to. the 'lakes, and from ocean tolocean with' one union and one destiny now and forever. [pima applause.] I- .1- • Tax foltOwing is thd creed WI by - the recent Conference.in Iloi which, eight Old Catholics, _t4 Greek Catholic's, twenty Angll and ahonti fifty Christians of i . denoreinations took part.: • I In rega.pl, to the Holy Ghoit;we a the doctrine of JOhn of Damaseusi the old undivided church, it -is con in th&folloiving propositions: 1. - The Holy Ghost proceeds fri Father as - the Beginning, the .Caus( the source of the Godhead.' . 2. The Holy Ghost proceeds frd Son, beCauge iu the Godhead there it one Beginning- and one Cause,. o which; all that .is in the • Godhead ceeda.!. ~ .i -..-,, ,: - 3. The Holy Most proceeds fro Father thrdugh the Son. . . -! 4. The Holy Ghost is the image 1 Son,, the linage of the Father; wive from the' Father and abiding in, th as a power Which emanates. froin'hi 1, li. Tho Holy Ghostis the personal eme• nation: of the Father, belonging t the Son, but uOt from the San, becaus it is the breath of the month of the GQ, head which!speaks the Word (Logos). - O.- The Holy Ghost forms the nee-, tiori et,tha, Father , and the Son, a d is connected ithreugh . the Son livitlf the ~ Father.; 1 ~ =I , $2 per wenlam In Advance; , a NUMBER 18. • -- • • d IlvtLtE slain brnm r • Among - the &Wes of• the Republi-11 eats - patty, - for !the performance bf which it 'stands pledged :before the world, are the following: ! ! To preaerve the national Union,..' and prevent: the disciples of the Cal• holm doctrine of State Rights froth obtaining perwer:, .• 11.• To maintain 'the ton.stitntiOn,, iisforse the larivs, in a spirit Of justice. . • • a. To 'protect; every citizen, secure to:him the enjoyment of •libl 'political rights and privileges. To matte freedom a.. reality, by . securing t.o all law-abiding :citizens, freedom of apee(lll . ; free:lota • of press; .-freedom .of ballot. 5: To proiltW ; iiiieral system of education, by ;,establishiti•i• Free Schools thrOugliOnt,tile 6. To reinove, I t fis - ralv as poSsible all , class or race predju!ces. and to de velop a spirit of :rivalry. having for ; its tinsis, merit and manhod. • 7. TO s'oore ei!onong in the public expenditnreS, an liortest• collection, of the' revenues, and . a faithfulAA im partial perfOrmanee of public duty. ' 8. To, reduce the burdens of tax ation, national, system • of re trenchment, by the !protection - and oneotoragement of horati industry, and by a Sotiiiit FiSsteti* of currency. • • 11. - To elevate the sVorhing man, • by setting A gotid , example in the employment! anti payinent of lab Or. , 10. To encourage; and develop the :twit:Altura' interests of the nation, ; by a 'wise and liberal system of in, tcrital ifHp'rottretits. that will belie, tit the people thid 10(4.44 them froth monopolies. ; I L To setain• t*or honest sand in: dastrions .- settlers the. public lands, and to eneoutagir emigration to: the e 4, tied Siontli, by liberal, home stead laviS. 7 i 12. TO r estabiisli Nat-urn:Al feeling tetweed . the North and the 7,ontit, making bethseetionsmutally depen dent upon mach other;L by enacting equitable laws ; anal by fosterin't, , and rewarding. that spirit of, loyalty tlhich .begetS true patriotism, and On which the : ' flit,nre safety of the tnicin : 1 , depends. These are among the sacred dtit4e of the Republican party. To rightly perform then], will require, in the future, aS:iu;the 'past ; the hearty co operation ; of good men.. every where. No - local jealousies should come lie . tiFeen the citizen and these' saero duties. '2llteti Witt , have proven un faithful to the people aild lo their trusts, mist be laid aside but the great -party 'of liberty and, lustier. must not be sacrificed. Its-banners must be borne alcift in ' and its princiulessnterwoven in our laws and civilization. Its past record, is it record. of human fidelity to the ricL, blest attributes of humanity.. It •reads like 'a Chapter of Seripture4 tic% in Wisdbin ; fffil of earnest plea; dings for.Divinc justice: To destroy such a' party, in Order. to totted a few faults- ' or, to satisfy private' mal ice, would be to apt out the sun, be cause a few : spots Have been discoyer-. ed ati its surface. • Purify the parkt-;, select the best amen , for office ; strengthen it iii et'ery weak point ; ;make. it again,a ;living., vitalizing , power in ; the land ; and it will be, come, the instiiratiOn that shall lead, the nations the world to a higher plane of civililation..! TIIRRE„ are those who are driven by thelardtimes i tolthOughtlessly ex press the, Opinion that* change even .to Democracy' would be for the bet ter. They :, do net come to this•con clusion.by any iirocesS of reasoning, but, as one would invest in a lottery. The times being, hard, they think "something,: may 'be, will turn up by taking the fearful chanCes of a cfiange . They -take' their - chances in a lottery in which there is not. single prize. Democracy has: carried the country: - t,l a dozen - w orse panics than this. All the hard tiMes that have come to us is chargeable to. Oi's party which ; tipw again seeks to get into power, not because it presenfi a good plat-; form' or sountl . policy, but simply be cause some . Weakeople think that a change erenlo Democracy might help us somewhat. Canvass well the chances you take before you commit the deed. Thii is the same Demo- Cracy that used every effort .to ruin our country. If it had not been for the very partyyou now seek to change from; you would,have neither eonntry credit or work. Among the innumer able array jof employes of the gov ernment is therp here and there a - dishonorable rascal? How Much worse would it be if `you opened the flood gates to the hungry Democracy to fill their erimeiateci. coffers? Gov. JE4ELL has given another evidence oil his fitness for the posi tion of a Cabinet officer, by prcividing I. • • fast mad trams on th trunk lines. The mails are, now carried from ...Siew York, to Clkaigo in 26 hours. Gov. JEWELL is one of those oilicials who t• i t 1 t give their nne,, aen s and energies for the benefit: of the people. I : NOTES ON THE INTERNATIONAL X,ESSON,S. OCTOBER IQ, 1875. ST. 'ions - xiii: 1-9 , 7'-dOLDEN.T.E..*T;' r.lllLir7 , . 11:5.; ,forth ian, at reuty scans, other FOLTIaII QtrAETE.R. NO. /I " Here begins the third main part of the gospel of Johnsetting foith the glori fication of Christ :as the suffering High Priest and the -victorious Sing. It is sub divided into three sections. The first treats of his private glorification in the midst of his disciples; the foot-washing, the parting discourses, and, the sacerdotal prayer,. chaps. - .trill- xvii; the second, his public glorification in his passion and death; chaps. and !six; the third, his full glorification in hiS resurrection and reappearance 'among his disciples, as the pledge of his abiding presence to the end of time; chaps. xx and (Schad. 1 The time of-the; footlwashing was the evening before the,cruciflition; "Such an evening occurred but oncel in the.world's history—the fulness ofeteinity itself nwt condensed into afew fleeting moments." The place was the "large upper room" injornsalem in, which Christ met with his disciples to observe the Passover. The owner of the house has been . identified Iv some with Joseph 4t 4Timathwa, by ccept as- in , hied the , and I the • only •It of Pro-. am ftlio ding Soti ME I: f 1 1 } o l ni He :Wis. certain disciPle;_!arkld v:14., " .1 •"germs* feast 41 ,tlur, I over.".- That!,;; asle*Plained In fore beginning to eti the .- f*Juil.i:mcAl. .They l liad - taken their : : jilrices on th 6 linit were ready partake IltitsulY• ppi-whei this incideni occulted. /"Jesm 2 knowing that ids liOr was Owing' that, be shetdd deinst I.lyr MI6 world i(1 the Father.."specia 'muse "or; the inuni• •. IlfriCe of leis death seized hii 3 Oiind. .This inflame.il his love to Ads " irpflove)l his own Iv* , were ii the loved , them unto thi: Ile slunv , his unfailing, increasing love at ° tbr . 1 ! very encland crisis ? 4. his life by Nr:tshing feet.l • What selflenuneittiori 1 U , ifOrgot himself as tlia end . (11a• ricer /the MOO , warmly 'JO C10 1 ; 1 411 14: Cattt@ 4ftti to Ist ininisten.Nl woo, tot • 1,41 111/1/ISter. ti ' • ,„ ~. . I " I s V . O ur: rarr.usavermort t hrst Iclause is Ineorreet." :f it should :read either - , 'and su pper leaving, "±)t.. ""sui=•,:`: TI • f; • r•-iclv l ply being . " E r lamb and the nnleavenec i l brewl, op - . !the table-4 they had not becnn to l ea M t :it. Why this break h'nit delay - in the'ol;- i . e.err.knee?. , " The deSit having alreallS' ! ""I.!:Ctit et! It inio the heart) rtilat dull:b.•• ,sthrgested .. (put int*, ,ne heart) I:ft:alio% the son or S' icon, ,'iota} knew j from thil3 fact tlpit lii !I—it. , was very mai., • Winn; he Ivonlit ' : 1.14 he must du quickly;. If h.it;wouhl te+ tibi his self-denying • hu inust Might dit to prevent. Itenee. ‘‘lie riseth rot I stliper, - etc; v.:. it-is interesting to. [ trace the development .of the iiuy in thr mind or dtidast. First4he DeVit. or ..suggested the' th'inght . I.)Eltravai,. This Judas harboredlr some ilay.4 the pUrpoSe to'betray r,Was noel (kilned. in ' 1 - • i I til this That slay evening; v.; , r f ".• • It i••• trtie that. udas had 'ebvetianti.4l - ,mtith tdr - • Pitests on Tue . slaY;•litit lie did -not s iris will entirely to S'ltan,.mitil:this over tiight. (Compat+ • (V. 3). •t‘ Jesus ktf?•wing,- etc: .-Tli;• . although Jesus knr"iv that the Fatli(4 . had given things' id' hinfitito his hamis. • etc." This is added ir enhance the'ty',;.' r Ond condescension oriVie act. .Coimccon i• prtiesistent giai . y--"tli'at he forth from 054 his Combs' nti , ' diatorial imp•giying to God''', lie yet lininbled tvasli the fi•ki'. ..... ...-o mgrs It o, of his-disciples, and ev:en of hi lay meth ! tlatin,- , ' at' that Very Ilittlit his betray:Al; thilips ii; 6-7. - 11 , , • -'_ ' - , - :,; ' (V. 4). "He risetl:( from the siwifcf . :: //It, form the - icinell .I•ltere 14t,waii re4;',it.'l big proparsf4vy to .;ating. the l'asch:,:i, 1- Meal: "and laycth ankle his outer g:it ntent,' his muffle ... 1 4 .1 it0 4: t; f ies e ril...,ll. Robinson as a Ltrge plece of WOotiSen+th4 • nearly square, which Was %clapped :, - 11*:!:1:iti. the body or fastened bout 'the sliouhlej -4 The tunic was worn tind e r this. --Thurlj I i. , . no necessity to V.31)111tle ii111.0e.:31.155 lit VI:1, I ally divested, 'himself, as the - trasest ,::I, slaves." (Schaff).- : 4 ,1 .Ind taking a . towel Ihe girded himself." Towels were alwayl ii)vided in Oriental: iOuses_Ter the pur- Ipose of wash,:, in , " the :feet .after ; xvalkita4. ' the: feet and one of .tbese, neat at hand, iit-the 'fur l , 'Milled rootm'Jesns tiMpped around lils; - I waist. ' ' • Then he ponl:eth water into the ' bison" --the large Opper 4/flStfll lyide, i *ilia Oriental bousesla:re alWays providd ed—"and began to Vv,:asii- the - - disciple s 'l 'ff , ..it." To wash the fek was the work (4 1 , ' sla Veg.- As they had `nn servant, it . I ...,!. 1 . , came sinue Ons of the 'disc:intik to do this service.. !Mt no one in'rere.4l7'smteWlieri"-- I ; , Ilieretcona , s in Lnki„ , x341:!2:',... - 17.i • V e iv e •!;- -1, , would seem -to_ point to • this- as the I,l'l'y i [ , place. Ilegi.trding iC a. 4! a menial servii-,l r eacht - one claimed ' preOuinetto over Li, '. broiher.spostle. ' With: his - clear 'exposi.: 7 ' titi 'rf Chriiliati greatness, .Teints himself ' ; rose from the triclinium, ' , axing. '.:l :int ; -- 1 among you as ,he that, nervetit." • • 'A.:a!, - I ; after the washing was bone he 'gently le -1 bu L ted their', pride atidantbitiOn (v. i 4): 1 _. , ,lyr e , also ought to wash one''sair)ther%. feet." ' • t l', 1 ,, .With whom did 'he *begin ?Oot with..- l Peter, as Augustine and mann Catholic I exegetes think, for thi?,is oppo-st d to v. 6, ; ' . : Clir) - solont - - 'and other 4, -stipp4 that be began with4uclas: Weshould conject u re ' John, as he - reclined' nearest to Jesus 011' thecouch., . • 1: - '-' . • • V. 6: "Ma thug waSit 4,41/ filet? '' A l ' ,-4 . - 4 protest Loin no ,doubt ioi . revefence, :nal f yet displaying Petetelsr4haracte*tic ::elf , .' ! will. However 'great this .revetence- foir,-. theil,ord, he should hale allowed him to'- 1 act-Iris pleasitro without asking any ow's-, tions. Still: Jesus Is - tender :and gentle. , v. -,"4" "Whatl do thou knowestnot, now. I - 1 but thou shalt learn herfafter." ?, ."Flutt I do" includes (1) the srashing itself a.:l ' lesson of huiltility and,' ve, ii... PA; (2) its symlolical . Meaning, i . 9-10 (3) the great act of love, the a sumption of the H fopti of it servant. "He eafter" (literally'' "after, these") may m'lm afteria witil...' and so was terminated With the Saviour's explanation, Vs. ,12-17; or it may: refer to ' the illumination by the Holy Spirit on the' day of Tentae,Ost. Perhaps if We unite. both, we, shall cemeneartest the truth. ..',.. V.B, "Peter saith unto hitti,.,'lleyer.. ' never forever: shalt. thoti wash 'nay feet..'' Here Peter is without excuse. Ilis'firSt protest may be U.Seribed to rcver6nce,. but ! - this impetuous, positive,l forcible; r'efusal 'can condo only . from ,a Perverse,. wicked; self-will. Even aftev'tho Lord's exiitana - lion and proriiise,. he will not stilt:MC' He • , knows better than Jesus: : i Compare Matt. xvi:22. - " Jeins , ansivered him, if I wash - thee' not," &c I Here i's' Will against will; . ',Christ's agai :longer Peter : 'S li i If- ,lie' refuses - any : l ~ longer he separatesllimgelf utterly I . ,I . . and forever from his 3la'ster. He 'becomes -, J: ' • - guilty of unbelief and disobedience. He 1 . , ..1: , . proves-that the same mindis. not in him iwhich is in Christ Jesus ' Hence, - he can havex no part,With s hrist l ', :choosesll4 on the other hand his - part :,With Judas; the . :',.art lof natuni, instead ot''grace. 1 V. 9, "Not my feet onlyi but my hank and my heaff,;','• This is'. tin. expression of .- entire subjection. , lie I l eannot bear -Jo' think' of - eschision from 1 the fellowship land'ini . ese nee .- * his lordj So he resists • .; no longer. Hut as .is generally the ease -1 with i violentl reaction- h 0 goes too ' flu.. • tell-Will still `reveals ai least the skirt of er garment. -=. He 'wants ail the uncovered partS i of his holy washeit, . /le . goes be yond 'phrist's:;esign. Ile slows that he . , does not comprehend the_SYnitelic import Of ellrist's net. Hence; the: - en tl : _g e eor, 4 i . rectionk in v. ,40. Several - , explanations have teen given - of this vis e. The choice, lies between .tiwo. 1. AS fa Man coming Out 4 a bath ls clean altogether, so the tlisciples Were 'Clean thro" ; faith in Christ's word, I(ch. 15Z; but as in passing from lire bath the fectbecome soiled with dust; Which only , 'needs to to , Wiished • away in Order to complete cleanness; se . in their aifter+perienee pride will adhere to their iiiinds, which only needs retnoilal by low- i li.trundedriess 2. The i . )disciples were clean' : call except Judas) ,lieltuse lathed irtJestfs' blood ! " Thro' the washing of re geuerapon their.sini•wereall removed and only I el.eausld; they 'were not y j,ustilled but also sanctified thro' faith in eh** it._ But each clay 'hrings new slna. Hence they' have need only,to wash 'them aivay- 7 -the -Sins #4at cleaYel . -to their - daily walk—and then they are altogether clean:- Compare, tile Petition of "ihe Lord's gayer: ."Fer:'• give atS'our debts,','—i. C.iOur daily debts' or sins: The lar is, u oubt,: ,the true , . 1ip14p.410u., EA ME
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