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BIBLE THOUGHTS.

"None shall appear before me empty.-Exodus
xxxiv 20.
There must be redemption price in the
hand of every one who draws near to God.
Not that God needeth any from US, or
ssketh any recommendation from US save our
wants and unworthiness. But while His
grace says, 81 will love them freely" His
righteousness must be seen and recognized
in the manner in which the free love gives
vent to itself. Righteousness insists on q
ransom or redemption.price. This We must
bring at all times when we come to the God
of righteousness. We have no redemption
price of our own to bring; but We have one
provided for US, the completed ransom of the
cross, which is at all times at our disposal,
and in all circumstances available for US.
1. We can not come empty handed to God
This is the law of the sanctuary. 1t was the
law of the earthly tabernacle, much more OF
the heavenly. No mpty-handed worshipper
can be admitted. To this law there is nc
exception. We must either stay away OF
come with gift.
2. We have no gift of our own to bring
The gift that would be acceptable must be
perfect, without flaw or blemish; and we
have no such gift in our possession. Moth
ing less than perfection can be presented tc
God or be accepted by Hin.
8. God has provided gift for US He
has put into our hands the ransom money
the redemption which is not only perfect
but infinitely precious; such as we know
He can not but accept. The redemption
price of Calvary is presented to US that We
may come to God full-handed. We are tt
make use of it at all times.
4. The name of the well-beloved Son o.
God is our recommendation. We fill oul
hands as well as our mouths with it when VIZ
come saying "for ChriSts sake" When VIZ
try to come to God in virtue of goodness OIL
earnestuess in ourselves, pleading the fervol
of our prayers or the excellency of our per
formances, we are coming mpty-hsnded
for that which We are bringing will not FL
the hand. But when we consent to be treat
ed on the footing of anOther's goodness, and
when that goodness is perfection, then VT
come with full hand, and are sure of &C
ceptance and blessing. Take as your gift tc
the Father, Christ Himself, and that will suf
fee. Nothing else will do. Ask to b'
treated on the footing of what He is, and o.
what He has done, and all is we'll.
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"Thou Never Gavest Me a Kid. I"

President Carlisle says: "There are per-
sons whose entrance into the religious life
has been gradual. Here, for example, is a
timid, conscientious young woman. She has
feared God from her youth. She has never
known season of deliberate, avowed care
lessness or prayeressness. Her wishes,
hopes, aspirations, and purposes, all have
reference to Gods service and kingdom
Yet she has never been visited with such Q
marked and dramatic conversion ss that
which fills the prodigal's heart with a strange
rapture. And now, in all the tumultuous
joys Of revival season q season which hel
prayers aud forts may have helped to in.
troduce), she sits apart. She is not happy
as others are. She does not murmur. But
there will rise ins.inctively to her lips the
question, Why are these returning prodi
gals met with an exuberant feast, while
never had kid given to me?' Or, here is
young man, WHO has been shielded from
gross vices and iIreligious living. He does
not remember q time when be lived without
prayer, yet he cannot positively date toe
prayer which had life and power unknown
in all that went before. He has prayed fol
his young companions, and to prayers ha:
added entreaties aud expostulations. Now
these friends, who a short time since were
living contentedly in sins which shocked him
to think Of, are rushing past him in rapture
which he has never known. For them the
fatted calf is slain. Il is natural in such q
case for the suggestion to arise: 1t were
better for me to swing away into grossest
sins, so that when | did return it would be
palpabe and self-evidencing. Better to be
an outbreaking, disobedient prodigsl, and
then come back with pomp and circumstance,
than to be only commonplace, obedient
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Our Book of Church Order.

The Presbyterian Banner, in speaking Of
"Revision of the Discipline, as now 60.
iug forward under the supervision of CON
mittee appointed by their Assembly at Pitts
burgh, pays high compliment to our "Book
of Church Order" in this language. "It is
PreSbyterianism of the highest and pureat
kind, and the logical relations of all the parts
of the Book, the clear statement OF principles
and duties, and the emphasis given to the
Covenant of God, and to doctrine and disc
pline as an institute of God, removes it the
farthess from the modern liberalism thai
would let everything drift as it pleases, or fly
at loose ends in the wind. There are some
things in it would prefer to see otherwise
but, on the whole, it is far in advance, as 6
"Book of Church Order," of anything tina
has appeared in this country"
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son. This temptation is often felt by sons
of Christian parents. Cases like these will
be more common when home-trsining and
Sunday School teaching become more effec-
tive. Conversion will always be indispensa-
bic. But conversion does not always come
with observation.
With what divine tenderness would Jesus,
if on earth, deal with cases like those now
before US! How much of His Spirit should
ministers now have, that they may be Christ
like in the touch they giveg' 4
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BRAZIL.
STEPS TOWARD RELIGIOUS LIBERTY.


| By decree Of the Secretary of State,
dated the 9Th of this month (September,) it
was determined that Sin all cases, when in
the acts of the executive power it is neces-
ssry to.administer an oath, it shall be done
in conformity with the religion Of the person
taking it" 9
| The direct reference of the decree is pro-
badly to custom in many of the courts Of
substituting "Horas Marisnas'' Ia Catholic
devotional book containing lives of the saints,
etc., for the Bible in administering oaths,
and shows desire on the part of the gov.
ernment to avoid wounding the feelings of
Proteatauts who are called upon to take an
oath. The principal object of the decree,
however, seems to have been to act as feeler
of public opinion, and to prepare the way for
more decided steps iu the immediate future.
By the same decree night.schools for male
adults were established in connection with ali
the primary schools in the city of Rio de
Janeiro, in which grasuitous instruction will
be given in all the branches taught in the
day. schools, with the notable difference, how.
ever, that those who are not Catholics will
not be required to attend the course of re.
ligious instruction or be examined upon it.
This change is very significant, as in the
public schools heretofore very large part
of the time has been given to learning by
heart the Roman Catholic Catechism held by
the conservatives for the last eight years.
We have reason to expect that the liberal
Senate, in conjunction with the liberal Cab
met, will soon take some decided steps to.
wards the religious liberty which seems to be
demanded by all classes of society.
The farmers aud planters are not usually
as advanced in their views as the profession
al men, but ct recent Agricultural Con.
gress," composed Of representative farmers,
called together by the Emperor from all
parts of the empire, to deliberate upon the
best means of advancing the agricultural in.
terests of the country, it was resolved that
emigration should be encouraged in every
possible way, and that for this purpose there
was immediate necessity of laws, giving
I. Liberty Of worship and religious
equality, both social and political.
go. Civil marriage, without prohibiting
religious ceremonies to those who might wish
them.
"3 Civil register of births and death.
"4 Secularization of the cemeteries under
municipal control.
SIN other words, removing all existing
civil, social, or political disquali6cations from
those not protesting the religion Of the
State"
These resolutions were passed with the
greatest enthusiasm and applause, and were
universally commended by the secular press,
so that it is hardly probable that they will
be disregarded by the new legislative body
about to assemble, many of whose members
have individually announced their approval
of the proposed change.
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formance of duty, we're ;oftep foremost il
their dspire to serve her, and gain her esteem
| We shall miss our Governors noble,wife
Her walk was along that strait and. narrow
way which leads upward, and as she went her
eyes we're fixed on things above. We need
such women in our high places, to influence
our young girls, to add salt to society, and to
keep mp the old traditions of wifely duty and
constaucy of devotionJ of mOtherly love and
patience, and of abounding faith and charity.
Church and State will both mourh her and
sympathize with those whose losseinsher is
irreparable. For herself, we need shed no
tears. She
'sWhen the bridegroom with his feastful friends
Passes to bliss at the mid hour Of night
Hath gained her entrance"
NJ G Presbyterian.
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The Education of After-Life.

Spend, if possible, one hour each day in
reading some great and good book. The
number of such books is not too many to
overwhelm you. Every one who reflects on
the former years Of his education can lay bis
finger on half dozen, perhaps even fewer,
which have made lasting impress on bis
mind. Treasure up these. 1t is not only
the benefits which you yourself derive from
them-it is the impression which they leave
upon you of the lasting power of that which
is spiritual and immateral. How many in
all classes of life may say of their own expe-
rience that which was said in speaking of his
library by one who was my own earliest lite
rary delight, Robert Southey:
My days among the dead are passed;
Around me behold
Where er these casual eyes are cast,
The mighty minds of old;
My never-failing friends are they,
With whom l converse day by day.
My thoughts are with the dead with them
live in long past years;
Their virtues love. their faults condemn.
Partake their nope and fears,
And from their lessons seek and find
instruction with an humble mind.
But it is not by books, whether of liters-
ture or science, that the self.educstion of
after-life is assisted. When Joan of Arc was
examined before her ecclesiastical Judges,
and was taunted with the reproach that such
marvellous things as she profsssed to have
seen, and heard, and done, were not found
written in any book which they had studied,
she answered in spirit akin, and in some
respects superior, to the well.known lines in
which Hamlet replies to Horatio. She re.
piled: my Lord God has book in which
are written many things which even the most
learned clerk aud scholar has never come
across" Then there is yet the deeper edu.
cation to be derived by those who have senses
exercised to discern between good and evil,
from the great fux and reAux of human af-
fairs, with which the popularity of our times
causes all to become more or less conversant.
One of the experiences which the education
of life brings with it, or ought to bring with
it, is an increasing sense of the difference be-
tween what is hollow and what is real, what
s artificial and what is honest, what is per-
manent and what is transitory. "There
are, says Goethe, in a proverb pointed out
to me long ago by Lord Houghton as sum-
mary of human wisdom, "many echoes in the
world, but few voices" 1t is the business
of the education of sfter-lfe to make US more
and more alive to this distinction.
Stanley.
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DO WE WELL TO MOURN .

Yes grieve it can be 40 offence to Him
Who made US sensitive or loss to know;
The hand that takes the cup filed to the brim
May well with trembling make it overflow.
Who sends Us sorrow means it should be felt;
Who gave US tears would surely have them shed
And metal that the l." furnace doth not melt,
May yet be hardened all the more instead.
Where love sbounded will the grief sbouud2
To check our grief is but to chide our love;
With withered leaves the more bestrewed the ground,
The fuller that the rose hath bloomed sbovel
Yes grievel tbs nature's--thst is, God's-behest,
If what is nature called is viii divine:
Who fain would grievs not cannot know how blest
1t is TO sorrow, and yet not repine.
Spectator 5. d.
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MEMS hearts and lives must come up to
Gods law, and comply with that; for God 8
law will never come down to them, or COM
ply with them.
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GRACE and glory are attainable by all un-
der the gospel; there is an offer, and prom
ise to those who shall accept the offer.
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GRACE to separate from eVil-doers is one
of the things that accompany salvation.
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TIE COMPETENCY OF JUDGES.

FOB TIE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-04

NEW York, February 2.-Cotton-Quiet
PRA stesdS et ii l:lGahl $ $s;iSei; l,,
spring 81 %, No. 9 Chicago spring 81 %, ex
ira white Michigan 81 A. Rye-Quiet;
western 70a79c. BarleY-Quiet but firm;
No. 8 western to arrive at Ole. COrn-FaiI
demand; ungraded western mixed 45a52c,
steam mixed 54n55c, yellow western SOC,
Oats-Western mixed Sia35c, white west
ern 35xa37c. Sugar-Firmer; fair to good
refining 7Ha7Hc, prime nc, refined firm
er at 9Isa9Xc. Molasses-steady; New Or
leans 25a5Oc. Rice-Quiet and steady.
Whisky-Qniet but firm ut 81 %.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-04

The DAILY ISTELlIGRNCER gives all the teIe-
,.iaSir anil general news o6tainable by any other
g,PPU,I II h, emphlticAlly the best and COM
.,t., rItsr 10 the State. Il docs not admit any
i.iO, ibI5 is columns unit for the eye Of ladies
.,sl,Jfrn. We Invite trial Of It, u only for one
oath AIM md challenge comparison with any ether
piprr In the otAte. .-.-. =. ,...,..,,.
,,risI Ind carefully edited, giving all the impor:
i,nI beE, Of the week. intellgenuy collAtod and
s,,'p,l together with stories, choice mis- .ellAne-
". ,,sIpg matter, etc, and 10 adapted especially
I. bs ps, and tasiej Of farmers and villages, rs
,iis,1i All OtherI who cannot Afford or take time
,',s,I a daily newspaper. It's advertising space Is
,s,"ssly limited. - that II Is published for the
k.Srft az liz readers, aud gives large amount Of
IN reading matter In every Issue. Tbs Market
IA TnlnCial TcpOrtS Of the WEEKLY INTKLLI.
oTycEE arg prepared With great care and accuracy,
I'D ,Tr Alone worth dozen times the price Of the
pIPef. -, .r,L.. o,,,I., =, ,h.I,-v,,,.
oFSCER ,shi free on application.
AIlfrs ali communications 10
FREW d CAMPBELL,
Publisher Intelllgeneer,
wheeling, W. Va.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-04
Chicago,

CHICAGO, February 2.-Flour-steady
and unchanged. Wheat-steady and In
fair demand; No. 2 Chicago gilt edge at
81 031 regular, 81 OK cash and February,
81 03K March, No. 8, 9S1sc. Corn-Dull
and prices shade lower at 3S1sc cash and
February, S9NaS9kc March, 4l%c May.
0ats-Dull and prices a shade lower al
233Sc cash, 231Sa2394c March, 26sSc May.
Rye-Steady ut 50Hc. Barley Inactive
aud lower at 4S I<a49c. Pork Dull, weak
and lower at $40 90 cash, $40 721ial0 70
March, $40 S7ISal0 80 April. Lard-In fair
demand, but at lower rates at 81 22x cash,
81 % 1<a7 70 February, 81 3211Ia7 IS March
81 45 April. Bulk Meats-Fair demand
but at lower rates; shoulders SIC, short rib
S. 45, short clear So 90. Dressed Hogs
Dull and shade lower at 81 20ai 20
Whisky-Sl o..
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Petroleum Market.

PITTSBURGH, February 2.-Petroleum-
Crude firm and active at 81 939la1 95 al
Parker's, for immediate shipment; refined
at l2c Philadelphia delivery.
OIL CITY, Pa, February 2.-Petroleum
The market opened firm and excited al
81 70 for crude United, and rapidly ad.
vanced to 81 so, with sales declined Il
81 FOX, which sales afterwards rallied and
advanced to 81 IS, closing at 81 SIX. Ship
ments yesterday 81, 323 barrels. The sales
today aggregated nearly half a million bar
rals
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-04

BELLAIRE LocAIs.-The Coltax lee
ture at tho Disciples Church OH Friday
evening last netted tho handsome sum OF
nearly $50.
The funeral OF LycurGus Agstin, Esq,
took place from the Disciples Church
Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock. a
host of mourners escorted the remains to
ia final resting place at the City Gene.
terry, The deceased was man OF high
cultivated abilities and devout Chris.
tian and kiud.heArted citizen. HeleaVes
behind him wife and two children.
The revival ut the N. E Church is to
be continued this week. About twenty.
five conversions are reported, and more
will probably JOIN that deyout cause b =
fore the final meeting.
The shipment. Of "stOck" last Saturday
from here, East, We're as follows: To
Baltippre, sheep 900, hoga .lO0, oEa.eNr
load OF horses aud three Of cattle; seven
car loads Of cattle TO Washington, Pa,
and two to Fairmont, W. Va.
The rolling mill and nail works here
start up in a week from to-day.
1ne TekldktE ~ huC NiASoS AASSUS oHS"
ed the arrival Of over one hundred guests
(trSusienU during the week.
Prof. De Lille gave performance in
his spirit manifestations, last Saturday
evening, not to n very large audience but
a very lair representation OF his superior
skill in the mystery Of "Ihe slight oil
hand" =,
Precautionary measures against small
pox would nov be in order.
Mr.. j. II. Naylor, the newsman, receiv,
ed fine lot Of valentines, commlcal and
fancy, to suit all tastes and answer all
purposes.
Ne. J.E. Bundy, the jsweler, sold Out
hiS stock few days since, and left for
the Buffalo habitations In Kansas.
The Presbyterian mite" society meets
at the reSidence Of Mrs. Stewart on GRAY
Ell hall, this evening.
Another wholesale liquor establish
ment IL to be opened 10 old Bellliro
shortly. JED.
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a Test Case Proposed ON the Sub
iect OF Future Punishment.

Chicago Iribune.-An Illustration may
serve our purpose in stating Mr.. Beech
he W. and i z GES os aEsE n fFS sn
who has led an exemplary life. lie has
always been peaceable, law.abiding, in
dustrious citizen. he has been charlta.
bly, disposed, and has done great good to
his fellow -man. He has won the respect
and admiration OF the community in
which he resides. He Is not, however, q
religious man. lie has not been convert
ed. His heart has not been changed, and
he Is looked upon by church people as
unregenerate. Some night, while on his
way hOmeward, he Ia set upon ~ poor
McConville was the other day, and muir.
dered without provocation or cause by a
drunken bloodthirsty desperate, who has
long been the terror Of the community.
The degraded, brutal wretch is arrested
and Is put upon his trial. By some mir.
acIe the technicalities Of the laws and the
decisions Of tho lenient and maudlin
Judges do not assist him to escape. He
is found guilty and ia sentenced to be-
hanged. In the interim between his trial
and his execution he meets with a change
Of heart and experiences religion. He
goes to the gallowS singing psalms, shout.
ing glory, praying, expressing to the
crowd his new.fOund peace Of heart, and
enthusiastically anticipating his immedi.
ate entrance into the New Jerusalem.
Now, II we are to accept the OalVinistic
doctrines literally az the Calvinists would
have US accept the Scriptures, the victim
OF this murderer is plunged into the
abyss OF hell by the murderer's knife,
there to suffer for endless ages the tor.
ments Of the damned, because he was an
unregenerate man, while the deaperado
himself, having been regenerated, goes to
heaven, and, with harp in hand, or vigor.
ously waving his palm,branch, looks
down with cOmplacency upon his unre.
generate victim writhing in the torments
10 which he sent him. Now, Mr.. Beech.
er does not believe in this disposition OF
the two men. He does not believe the
murdered man went 10 hell because he
was unregenerate, nor that the murderer
went to heaven because he was regenerate.
We would like TO put this same case be-
fore our Calvinistic clergymen, and TO
ask them what they really believe IL the
future destiny OF the murderer and his
victim. It Is fair test case, and we should
like TO know their views without bubble
or evasion.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-04

CINCINNATI, February a. Cotton :
Quiet but steady at l0Hc. Flour-Steady
and unchanged. Wheat-Dull; red 81 l2l
11S. Corn-Higher at 40a4lc. 0ats-De
maud fair and market firm at 2Sa3lc. Rye
Steady and In fair demand at 56a5Sc
Barley-Dull: sample lots of spring at S6l
40c. Pork-Quiet and steady at Sll 90
Lard-Steady with fair demand; steam
81 30a7 39hi, kettle 7IzaSc. Bulk Meats
Dull and nominal. Bacon-Easier; S. 25a
6 65a7 ssh. Green Meats-Dull and prices
shade lower; shoulders s. 40, sides IS 15s
5 20 hams, IL lbI average dull ut 5fab9lc
Whisky-Steady and in fair demand a
81 o..
HoGs-Quiet and firm; common s. 40s
375, light 50 soaS 95, packing s. 9Oa4 O5
butchers 81 Q5a4 10.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-04

CHICAGO, February2.-The DrOpers' Jour.
nal reports:
CATTLE Receipts 600; shipments {, 800.
Steady and strong; no extra here; few
choice S. 0Oa5 %, fair to good shipping
81 O0a4 SIX; no stoekers; butchers scarce;
cows So 25aS %, bulls 50 l2ISaS l21f, steers
50 25a3 90. Yards cleared.
HoGs-ReceiptS $1,000: shipments 5000;
packing dull al So 75a3 90, choice heavy
shipping s. 9Oa4 90, light fairly active.
SnEEP-Receip,s $50; shipments 500; IN.
changed; range s. 95a4 so.
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Toledo.

TOLEDO, February 2.-Wheat-U nseltl.
ed; No. / white Michigan held at 81 22X,
extra do held at 81 2Sk, amber Michigan
spot held Mt 81 22x, seller March SI2i,
No. 2 red winter spot and seller February
81 IS, seller March held at 81 81, No 5
red 81 10. Corn-Quiet; high mixed 461fc,
new No. 2 spot held at 42c, 4lXc bid sci.
Ter February, Il &c seller March, 4Sc new,
rejected $50, Oats Dull and nominal.
Hogs-$I IS for light, 81 IS for heavy.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-04

PHILADELPHIA, February 2.-Flour-
Steady and unchanged. Wheat-Dull; am.
Der 81 Sal 81, red 81 29al 80, white 81 S5a
40. Corn-QuiGt; yellow at 54c, mixed
53Ac, February sic, March 54l<c, Oats
bull; white western at S6aS6Lfc, western
mixed and State S4XaS5Izc. Rys-Dull
at 6sA7ac. PtOviSions-Quiet, but steady
and unchanged. Petroleum-ln good de.
manh; refined l9c, crude 9Xc. WHISKY
SlOS.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-02-04

RAILROAD BosDs-steady, except for
coal road issues, which were strong.
STATE BoSDS-Dull.
SToCKs-The market was exceedingly
dull during the entire day and weak in
tone until near the close, when an advance
OF 1Sa3 per cent took place. Erie opened
at OK, advanced TO 9A, closing at 9H.
ohios opened TX and sold up TO s, which
was the closing price. Lake Shore opened
at 90 and closed at 6l4, after having ad.
vanced to 62H.
The transactions aggregated only $4,000
shares, OF which 1900 were Lake Shore,
$500 Lackawanna, $500 st. Paul, 2,40O
Erie and Q 100 Northwestern.