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New-York tribune., 1878-04-26
TEMPERANCE ZEAL AROUSED
FRANCIS MURPHYs EARNEST APPEAL.

AIMINd TO UNITE THE CHURCHES In TEMPERANCE
EFFoRT-AGENCIEs OF REFoBM-ENFoRcING
NEw-JERsEY EXCISE LAWS.
Francis Murphy. the temperance speaker ad-
dressed an immense audience in the Church of the
Disciples last evening. He described the misery to
which drunkenness had brought him, and his vic
tory over his appetite. This address was given in
connection with an effort to unite the churches in
temperance work, for which meetings were held
during the day and evening. There is increased
activity at present in enforcing Excise laws in some
parts of New-Jersey.
New-York tribune., 1878-04-26
Special Notices.
Belmont Collection.

Belmont toHecuOn
on PUBLIC Exhibition,
for the benefit Of the
HOUSE cF REST FOR CONsUMPTINEs, fremont y. Ya
YOUNG woMEN'S AID ASSOCIATION, 20 BOnd-st.;
HOME FOR THE BLIND, lith-st.
On Thursday. Friday and Saturday Of this week from
II. TO p. m.
ADMISSION so CENTS.
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POSI- Oace >otice-The the week ending
SATURDAY, April 81 1875, will close at this oice on
az 3 a. m, Europe, by steamship Montana
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bv steamship Russia Queenstown; on THU RSDA1, at
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New-York tribune., 1878-04-26

Mans Mission Earh.-A thorough Medical Treatise
Confirmed Disabilities may be removed Tbe
experience years study, observation and professional
practice showing the agencies that will insure Restored Man
hood Strengthened Vitality aud sound conditions OF Heath,
have been impaired by OyefaNed powers statement
Obstacles Marriage and OF the means by which they
can be removed ma zoe currency postage samps)
Address Secg MUSEUM Anatomy scionce l46 Bdway,N.I
New-York tribune., 1878-04-26
DIED.

An Notices Of Marriages mtst Be ipdorJsi with ~
adne and address.
New-York tribune., 1878-04-26
SUGGESTIONS AID ARGUMENTS.

COFFEE-HOUsEs AND OTHER AGENCIES IN TEMPER
ANCE WoRK-A GLANCE AT FRANCIS MURPHYs
LIFE.
To unite the churches of this city in active
temperance work the object of meeting Of repre-
seDtatves from various religious bodies in New-York
held yesterday afternoon and evening in the Church Of
the Disciples I'm Madison-aye There were about eighty
people present in the afternoon, among them the Rev.
Drs r. S. Macarthur and L. Z. IngersOl the Reys
Messrs W. L. Sabine, w. C. Steele, Austin B. Brown,
George g. Payson Halsey W. Moore Father j. V.
McAIanara and Professor W. VI. Evans
The Rev. Mr. Steele OF Brooklyn, presided, and stated
the object of the meeting. There singing OF famil
lar hymns, pnd then the Rev. DR.. f. p. lngersoll, or
Brooklyn spoke OfTemperance and Social Life. Persons
who 20 to the bad from drink. be believed began
their downward career in social life, and there
fore in social life the reform should begin. Next
followed a running fire OF threeminute speeches.
Mr. Garland said he had walked from Eleventh-st and
Ayenue-A. aud disgusted Mt the small attendance.
He did admire people who afraid Of getting
wet; his part he willing TO be martyr anyhow
aud anywhere He felt like sitting down and weeping
william NJ Evans replied that it too bad that those
who had come should be scolded, and the chairman
cneercd up Mr. Garland by telling him that
all great n oral movements had small beginnings.
The people in the audience, who had seemed some
what pressed by the smaness of their number began
to be engoned by these remarks, and after brlei
speech by Dr. A B. Elliott, of Troy manifested much
interest in all that was done aud said.
Dr Elliott, among other things. suggested the follow
ing eptaph for King Alcohol:
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New-York tribune., 1878-04-26
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-21
The Buyer and Seller.

The old italian proverb says, "The buyer
has need of an hundred eyes, the seller of
but oDe." The one eye needed by the seller
is to see the money, doubtless; and, assuredly
in these latter days, the buyer has need to
look about him. To get the highest price
for the least value is the object Of every
one who sells to hide flaws, to impose upon
those who are ignorant of the goods they
are purchasing, to tell any falsehood that
will make a sale, appears to be the rule OF
trade. Misrepresentation and misstate.
ments drop from the lips of men and women
who consider themselves eminently genteel,
and belong TO congregations of various sects
"This is all silk, lady" bursts spontaneously
from the lips of a saleswoman who exhibits
black, cotton lace scarf; and Every
thread linen," is the description which the
house-keeper receives Of towels into whose
composition not thread of linen enters.
The fbs told in secondclass dry goods stores
are so enormous that they argue love Of
lying on the part of the statesmen, and utter
idiocy on the part of the buyers. Why
should any one desire to make the state
ment that all the goods in his establishment
are sold at cost price, or expect any one to
believe that he entered into trade for the
purpose of clothing the community A
fair profit is the right of all who sells 1t
is the motive of his selling. "Upon my
word am giving this away" imposes upon
nobody. Why IL is so often uttered is a
mighty mystery, and must remain So Then,
too, If one desires a certain style of collar,
OF scarf, of veil, of shoe, quite in the mode,
and well known to be So and inquiries for
the article at a store where they do not hap
pen to keep it, the negative to the question,
Have you so and so ?" is always followed
by the remark, Nobody wears those now /;
they are entirely out of fashion," We will
say nothing about the bad taste of the com
ment but the utter want of truth is gen
orally displayed is surely astonishing.
doubt whether the sales made by these fibs
are large enough TO pay for them for most
women are obstinate, and when they want a
certain thing nothing else will content them.
But even if they do "pay," in the mercenary
sense they must give the person uttering
them habit of Acknowledgement make
him less trustworthy employe, and so less
valuable to the employer at whose desire he
transforms the honorable act of sale and
barter into trickery performance, in which
one party is swindled and the other is a
swindler.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-21

We take the following from the Sunday
afternoon: Concerning the value OF Mr..
Bryant's services to his country, pulpit and
press have spoken with wonderful unanim-
ity. The fact that this rather shy and schol-
arly gentleman, to whom the brutality and
noise of the public arena must always have
been painful, kept himself through all his
life in close connection with political affairs,
and strove to infuse into the strife of parties
larger wisdom and gentler sentiment, is
a fact that will reflect upon him everlasting
honor. Like Milton, he was as much a pat
riot as a poet, and he did not imagine that
fine endowments absolved man from the
service OF the state. Some English dlehante
wondered that the author of Thanatopsis "
could descend to daily political journalism
But the lofty moral sentiment, aud the Sc
rene hope and courage which find express
sion in that poem, do not come amiss in
daily journalism. We trust the day may
arrive when exclamations like this of the
English critic over the conservation of the
highest gifts to the public service will be
confined to barbarism."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-21
Dancing.


The Chief of Police of New York says
that three-fourths of the abandoned girls in
that city were ruined by dancing. Young
ladies allow gentlemen privileges in dancing
which, if taken under any other circum-
stances, these gentleman would be reported
as improper persons. | have a sister who
has passed away. On marble block it is
written, "Willing to be absent from the
body and to be present with the Lord" |
had rather go there with my sighs, tears,
flowers and prayers, and visit that little
grave as shrine, than have her present in
the body and see her one night in the dizzy
and promscuous ballroom. 1t requires
neither brains, good morals nor religion to
be good dancer. 1t leads to bad society.
never saw such vicious crowd of young
men at our college as on night when there
was to be ball. 1t won't mix with re-
ligion any more than oil and water will
mix. As the love of one increases, the love
Of the other decreases. How many eminent
Christians are distinguished dancers As
certain as the atmosphere around the ther-
mometer at zero will freeze things, as GER
tain as the wind that is bellying the sail will
drive the boat, so certain will dancing freeze
the religious sentiment out of the soul; 1t
will drive its devotees away from the church
it is wind that blows in that direction
No dancing is spoken of in the Bible that
was done by divine authority. In ancient
times the sexes danced separately. Alcohol
is the esprit of beverages. Take it out
and the young men of the land would as
soon seek beverage in the swill-tub as In
the saloon. So sex is the spirit of the dance
Take it away and let the sexes dance sepa
| rately and dancing would shortly be out OF
fashion. Parlor dancing is dangerous. Tip
pling leads to drunkenness, and parlor dan
cling leads to ungodly balls. Tipping ant
parlor dancing SOW to the wind and botf
reap the whirlwind. Put dancing in thu
crucible, apply the acids, weigh it, and thu
verdict of reason, morality and religion is
Weighed in the balance and found want
ing."-Rev. s. j. Tomiinson, Indianapolis.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-21
The Hidden Power.

"The measure of the power of church
in the community is not the eloquence of its
preaching, nor the attractiveness of its
music, nor the numbers that throng its sane
tuary-it is the amount of godly living which
it brings to bear upon the life of the world.
The great need of the church to day is not
that more Joseph Cooks should defend it
against the attacks of scientific infideity
not that score of Moodys should go from
city to city drawing the masses to their tab
ernacles--the grandest boon that could be
given TO the church would be that every
church-member should really live the gospel
he processes. What we need is revival of
that spirit that sent the early Christians
everywhere preaching the word, that made
them count not their lives dear, that caused
CELSIUS aud others TO sneer at the fact that
the most illiterate and vulgar of mankind
were Jealous preachers of the gospel that
enabled Justin Martyr to write, We can
point out many who, from overbearing and
tyrannical men, have been changed as by a
victorious power, when they have seen how
their neighbors could bear all things, OF
observed the singular patience Of their de
frauded fellow-travelers, or come to be ac'
quainted with Christians in any of the other
relations of life' 1t was the resistless might
of Christian living that overbore the philos
ophy OF Greece, and proved more than @
match for the prosecuting power OF Rome
And Christian living has the same resist
less might still. Let the churches be sweep
by a spirit that is willing to suffer the loss
OF all things for Christ, and materialistiC
PHILOSOPHERS would melt away in its pres
ence, and neither intemperance, nor corrup
ton, nor heathenish snperstitions coulc
stand before its onward march.-Selected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-21
" "Ye Shall Find Rest"


Augustine once said 81 can read many
great truths in the works of Plato and Aris-
totle, but can find nothing there that is so
important to me as this promise II does
not need TO be read, as some have supposed,
in the sense of perfect and unchanging Sc
curity or freedom from all causes of trouble.
In that sense, no one finds rest to his soul
in this world of conflict and trouble. But
it means, rather, the finding OF the true
centre aud tendency TO it, like that of the
needle, which, though never motionless, is
ever drawn towards its POLE. So, rest unto
the soul is more and more the privilege
and the attainment of those who, wearing
Christ's yoke, learn daily of him as a
Teacher, confide in him as Saviour, and
initiate him as true example OF life. II
we can know anything of the design OF our
natures, by observation or by experience, il
is certain that they were made to be nur'
tured and ennobled and comforted under
the influence of such forces as meet us in
this relation of our Lord Jesus Christ. Man
does not and cannot rest until he is at peace
with himself, both as TO the past and the
future. But in Christ he finds rest-resi
from conflict with self, from doubt, from
distrust and from lfcondemnation-a res
which reconciles.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-21
The Other Train Coming.

As train was passing over New England
railroad it struck a broken rail. The con-
ductor felt the shock. He knew car was
off the track, and sprang for a brake. 1t
was his last brave service The crash came,
and he was picked up, poor, mangled
wreck his skull had been broken. He made
out. however, TO utter these words-the last
utterances of faithful, loyal soul" Put
out the signals for the other train p Some
where down the track he knew another train
was coming, laundering, crashing along,
dashing faster, faster, faster and there was
his train on the track Out with the sig
nails, out with the signals another train is
comingl That was his last injunction.
The other train, that other train, | am
saying to myself, the generation that is fol-
lowing us the boys and girls that are press
ing hard after us, coming along faster,
faster, faster, just ahead OF whom we are,
only perhaps to be in their way, a hindrance,
an obstacle, and possibly the occasion of
their ruin. What need of care, what need
of caution, what need of restless vigilance
for their sake, in speech, in act, in look, in
gesture want nothing to escape me that
will be an obstacle in their way. If we are
on the track, blocking it, if we are in the
way, let us take ourselves out OF the way as
| soon as possible
"What will you take2" was the question
asked an observant boy at table, and refer
ring to the beverage he might desire.
81 will take what father takes" The
father had received from the waiter glass
of Intoxicating drink.
The father heard the boys remark, SCI
aside his glass and called for water. ii,
saw the other train coming, and cleared tn
track for it at once.
think the saddest of all experiences i
the consciousness that an opportunity 70
right doing has been lost. 1t brings q sa,
look into a mans face TO know that he ha
set an example, bad in itself, and hopeessl
followed by others.
We know OF an empty train that came t
a stop on a down grade, the station havin
been reached. In the absence Of an oflicia
the train broke loose and went crashing dow
the track TO meet the steamboat express
Some one chased the runaway cars, but coul
not oyertake them TO put on the brakes. TIL
opportunity for the arrest OF the train ha
/ gone. There was collision that night.
o, souls on the track fathers aud mott
ers your opportunity in behalf of you
boys and girls is to-day-now! Don't let
slip from you.
+. We are not only TO have clear track fC
;. the next train, but In every way we are
make and keep that track suitable for ii
travel Of the coming generation. lle
comes the work of the Sunday-school teache
to get the uneasy, rambling feet of chill
hood over into the roadway of the vel
,. best life.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-21
Our Need OF Sympathy.

There is no human being strong enough
TO stand alone. We must have sympathy,
and in our Joys and sorrows alike we turn TO
those who understand us, and therefore can
give us help. 1t is a mistake TO suppose
that the worst and hardest ills of life are
those which affect material interests. Long
ago the wisest of men said, Better is a
dinner of herbs where love is than stalled
OK and hatred Herewith" To spend ones
days amid uncongenial associates, to have
ones motives misunderstood, and ones acts
regarded as foolish and mistaken-this
would be misery indeed. Because to many
man and woman there comes some meas
ure of such an experience, it is necessity
of happiness that the person who desires to
surmount adversity shall have at least one
sympathizing friend. There is Just one in
the universe of whom we can be always sure.
Our Saviour is touched with feeling of
our infirmities." Go TO him when we will
carrying what burden we may, telling what
secret heartache soever that presses us down,
we shall receive comfort and encourage
ment. The hymn says;
Earthly friends may fail and leave us,
One day soothe, the next day grieve us,
But this Friend will ne er deceive us,
o how he lovesl
hciC hiC tiioSc Wuo htcu W Dc icuuluutu
of the strength that can be obtained by this
drawing on the sympathy of Jesus. Lean
ing on the Beloved, we come up out of the
desert lands of life. 1t may be that the
solid ground seems almost stricken from be-
meath our feet. 1t may be that those around
whom our affections were most tenderly en-
twined have proved unworthy. Dear voices
which were melody in our ears are hused.
Hopes droop. Faith falters. Peace is borne
down by the tempest. We do not compre
hend mems methods. We are desolate and
forsaken, and we are ready to yield to de-
spair. Thrice blessed are they who have
never, even remotely, felt the pangs of such
soulbitterness as this. They are few Most
people go now and then through deep
waters. When the time comes for us to
taste draughts against which the lips rebel,
let us recall the Master and his precious
words, "The cup which My Father hath
given Me, shall not drink it ?" Let us rest
with trust unshaken on the certainty that
his love lasts always, that he never loses
sight of us for moment and that to the
very end we may be sure of his presence and
his sympathy.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-21
Moses Last Look.

The end was at last come. 1t might still
have seemed that triumphant end was in
store for the aged prophet. His eye was not
dim, nor his natural force abated. He had
led his people to victory against the Amorite
kings he might still be expected to lead
them over into the land of Canaan. But so
it was not to be. From the desert plains of
Moab he went up to the same lofty range
whence Balaam had looked over the same
prospect. The same, but seen with eyes
now different The view of Baaam has
been long forgotten but the view of Moses
has become the proverbial view of all time
1t was the peak dedicated to Nebo on which
he stood. lie lifted up his eyes westward
and northward, and southwark, and eastward
Beneath him lay the tents of Israel ready fol-
the march and over against them, distinctly
visible in its grove of palm-trees, the stately
Jericho, key of the Land of Promise. Be
yond was spread out the whole range of the
mountains of Palestine, in its fourfold mas
ses all Gilead, with Hermon and Lebanon
in the east and north the hills of Galilee
overhanging the lake of Gennesareth; the
wide opening where lay the plain of Es
draelon, the future battlefield of the nations
the rounded submits of Ebal and Gerzim
Immediately in front of him the hills OF
Judea, and amidst them, seen distinctly
through the rents in their rocky walls, Beth
lehem on its narrow ridge, and the invincibl,
fortress of Jebus. To him, so far as W,
know, the charm of that view lay in the as
surance that this was the land promised Il
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and to thei
seed, the inheritance-with all its varied
features of rock and pasture, and forest ano
desert-for the sake of which he had borne
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-21
MONTPELIER, VT, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1873

Ipassed recently large rabble of boys in
vacant city lot They were noisy and
rough. What more important work asked
myself, than to labor for that age and class,
the generation coming2 Through the Sun
day-school, the Bible, the church, we are
to open sure, blessed way for their feet.
Our opportunity is to-day. Did not Vol
taire make the age of five the limit inside
which character substantially is settled ?
AT any rate, that limit cannot be set with
safety very far ahead. | don't want to be
so absorbed in the cares and pursuits Of my
generation as to forget the next. want TO
think of, and plan for, and work for the
generation coming-that other train on the
track. As the Lord helps me, mean to
think more and more of the interests of the
children-the other train that is coming
Sunddy-School World.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-08-21
HumOrsOme Waits.

WHEN mans upper story is without ten
ants, his mouth will announce the fact.
A TRAMP with wooden leg justified his
mode of life the other day upon the ground
he was stumping the state.
"WHAT's that man yelling at ?" asked an
Illinois farmer of his boy. "Why," said the
boy, +" he's yelling at the top of his voice"
SPRIGGINs says he once prevented severe
case of hydrophobia by getting on high
fence, and waiting there till the dog had
gone away.
ais that the second bell ?" inquired a
gentleman of a colored porter. No, sab;
that am de second ringin' over de fust bell.
We hab but one bell in dis establishmum."
"CoME, don't be timid," said a couple of
foolish snobs to two mechanics q" sit down
and make yourselves our equals" Wed
have to blow our brains out to do that was
the reply.
81 SHOULD Just like to see somebody alb
duct me-" said Mrs Smith at the breakfast
table the other morning. "H'mi so should
|, should |, my dear" said Mr. Smith, with
exceeding earnestness.
What are you about ?" angrily exclaimed
a country editor the other day to his wife,
who was touching up her complexion before
the mirror. "Only getting up my "patent
outside DEAR" was the reply.
DEACON PILKINs said to himself, " Fal-
staff asks, What's honor ? as though IL was
hard to tell. But let my wife sit behind
another woman in church, and she'll tell
what's on her in less than two minutes"
JOSH BILLINGS says ." The popularity Of
the fly is that he returns to the same spot I;
but it is characteristic of the mosquito that
he returns to another spot. Thus he differs
from the leopard, which does not change its
spots"
"WHAr would you say if you should see
the Indians coming right down upon you
now 2" asks an Oregon paper. Haven't
given the question much thought, but it
strikes us we would say Excuse my back. "
Detroit Post.
BEFORE beginning the second psalm for
the day, Glasgow minister reached down
into his pocket and took pinch of snuff.
Even yet he cannot understand what there
was in the first verse of the psalm to make
the congregation smile when he read, My
soul cleaveth to the dust"