The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-12-15


would resolve itself into its original eJe-
ment, and Shot would be shot and Mott
would be not We think, however that
the shot Shot shot shot not Shott but
Mott; anyway, it is hard to tell who was
shot. .a-v.
Here is an item full of suggestion.
One afternoon last week, while the Com
mittee of the American Board of FOREIGN
Missions was busy in the office of the
Board, stranger entered Before long
he turned the conversation upon the sub
lJect OF the recent election, and express
sing his Joy that Mr. Garfield had been
elected to be President for the next four
years said he wished to manifest his
thankiulness by presenting $4,000 to the
American Board, and counting out the
money, he handed it to one of the com
mlttee. He refused to reveal his iden-
tlty, and withdrew leaving the recipients
OF his gift IN quandarv as to his name
and residence. But before leaving he
suggested that it would be an excellent
thing II the business men OF this country
should make free-will offering to the
funds of the Board as an expression Of
their gratitude at the result of the cleo
ton expressing his willingness to be one
of fifty to make the gift $4,000. Here
is new idea indeed What shall be
the response ?-Christian at Work.
HE APosTATEs CREED believe in
the chaotic Nebuls self existent Evolver
OF Heaven and earth, and in the differ
entlatlon OF It's original homogeneous
Mass, Its rst-begotten Product, which
was selt-formed into separate worlds:
divided into land and water; self-organ-
lied into plants and animals reproduced
In like species further DEVELOPED into
higher orders; and finally refined, ration
allied, and perfected in Man. He de-
scended from the Monkey, assembled to
the Philosopher, and stitch down in the
rites and customs of Civilization. under
the laws of developing Sociology.
From thence he shall come again. bv The
disintegration of the eliminated Hetero-
geneousness, back to the original Homo
geneousness of Chaos.
L believe in the wholly impersonal Alb
solute, the wholly un-Catholic Church.
the Dlsunion of the Saints, the survival
of the Fittest, the Persistence of Force
the Dispersion of the Body, and in Death
Everlasting.
Cost OF THE LIQUOR TRAFFIc.-Mr..
William Hoyle, of England, computes
from the custom and excise returns of
Great Britain that the total consumption
of liquors cost that country 9l42. 74i 500
In the year 1875, and he finds a SLIGHT
increase in the following years. Dr.
Young, while at the head OF the Bureau
OF Statistics in the Treasury Department..
estimated the sales of liquor in the United
States for the year 1871 at 5000. 900 600
Some realizing sense of what these figures
stand tor may be gained by comparisons
with other expenditures at about the
same time
The aggregate wages paid by all the
manufacturing establishments in theco
try as show by the Census of 1870, was
only SITE, 584, 343, an excess OF less than
thirty per cent over our drink bill.
The same Census gives us these annual
values OF leading manufacturing indus
| tries:
Molasses and Sugar, 1895 279
Cotton Goods, 177 48o 700
Wooden " 155A0S' 9sS
Boots and Shoes 146 70fS59S
The total value of church property in
the United States is 1854 ,483. 58I, or the
cost OF seven months drinking.
Or, again, the Census states the total
aggregate Of State taxation in 1870. in
Guiding therein all State, Territorial.
Court. and Municipal taxes, as $780,
59l ,52l-not half the direct tax the
liquor consumers lay upon themselves
,Jetdge P5tman
DR.. Pressens6, the French pastor, who
is also French statesman and member
OF the Chamber of Deputies, is anxious
that the Protestant Church of France
should be finally and entirely separated
from all connection with the State. He
believes this to be the only way out of
the difficulties in which the church ia
placed by reason of the Indifference Of
the Government to the Evangelical basis
on which the church rests, and the pa-
tronage extended to the Rationalistio
portion of the Reformed pastors. He
urges upon the reluctant pastors the bold
est measures, and reminds them that
simple trust in the power of truth, and a
heroic self-denial will win for them a
more trustworthy support than the State
can give them He GpJg +bo c.11z...:.