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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-04
Another staIwart.

Washington, 3.-Tbomss Murphy, OF
New York City, who has made frequent
visits to the national capital since Arthur
became President. and who is now here,
is an applicant for the collectOrship OF
New York, and Robertson will be kuper-
ceded al no distant day by Murphy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-04
Arthur end tho Chinese Bill.

Chicsgo, 3.-The Journals Washing
ton: Some Of the strongest opponents Of
the Chinese bill say they believe the
President will veto the bill as it passed
the House last night, but it is generally
believed be will concede something and
sign it, rather than endager the party's
chances on the Pacific coast by further
delay.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-04
MONETARY AND STOCKS
New York. May 8 1892

New York, May 5, 1882.
Money, 2@316; gov'ts generally firm;
Stocks irregular and in main lowe.;
w. U SO; Quicksilver, III; Paeifc,
NJ NJ Mar MsFlp0sa. z Wells Wells. Fargo, l27i
Panama, ll9; D. and r. g., 6I24, Union
Pacific, ll1A; bonds, ll71z; Central
Pacific, 89H; bonds, l161s; Sutro, IL.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-04
The Hand Shaking Business,

Washington, 2.-President Arthuf's
first general card reception took place to-
night. The crowd at the executive man
sion WAS SO great st II p. m. that many
had not had an opportunity to reach the
President, who was receiving guests jn
the blne room.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-04
New YOrk's Evacuation Day

New York. 1.-The Historical Society
will ask the city to cooperate on Novem-
Der 25, 1888, in celebrating the one
hundredth anniversary of the evacua'
ton of the city by the British.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-04
A Cireus Sailed.

New York. s.-The steamer Wyoming
which sailed yesterday, took T. P
O'Connor, NJ. p, Rowell, English pedes
trisn. and several valuable American
trotting horses.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-04
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
Fire.

Newark, n. J., S.-Ths steam FIRE en-
gi1e house and contents burned. Loss,
$4,000.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09
Working and Giving.

We long for the day when every mem
Der of the body of Christ-every one who
processes faith and hope in Hlm-shall be
a generous and constant contributor to
the work in which, of all things, He is
most interested-the winning of men, hu-
man hearts, to himself-when each and
every protesting Christian, unless actual
ly in need of aid, shall be contributor
not only to the support of his own church,
but to the cause of missions at home and
abroad This is our ideal of Christian
life, and of church life. We believe it to
be the part of the ministry to inculcate
this duty, and so urge it upon the atten-
ton of the people that there may be,
from year to year, an increase in the re-
lative number of those contributing to
his best of causes.
And yet we do not entirely sympathize
with the idea, " Not larger contributions,
but more Of them" In our opinion, a
great deal of harm has come from that
problem of the permissible favorite ex-
ercise of showing how much money could
be raised, if every church member should
give ust one cent week" to this, that,
or the other cause. The power of the
pennies is clear enough; the result of this
figuring is truly wonderful. But it is ut
terly impracticable to get all the mem
bership of even one church (unless it is a
small one), to give the penny systemati-
cally; and while the penny idea is before
the mind it is difficult to get those who
ought to give their dollars and their ten
dollars to see their duty, and so the cause
suffers, and the work goes undone. No,
while it is very desirable to get "every
one to do something, and while it should
be the aim Of every pastor and of all
church officers to secure this result, yet
we must never wait for this, and must
not allow those who are able to give
largely for a benevolent purpose to say
within themselves, much less in public,
If all would give as much as l, there
would be no lack of money in the treas
ury Of the Lord" That may be true,
but the failure of the many is no valid
excuse for the neglect or refusal of any
one. What we want is larger co,at7i6w-
tons, and from a large, number of people.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09
Presbyterianism in ENGLAND

DR.. John Hall, of New York, was pre-
sent at the July meeting of London Pres
byteYy. He received warm welcome
and being invited to address the brethren
said that he well recollected occupying
several English pulpits thirty-one years
ago, as the representative of the Irish
Assembly. The ministers were compare
lively few in number then, but it was
impossible even at that time not to see
the important work that lay before them
IN England. He had watched the growth
OF Preabyterianism in England with the
Keenest interest, even when the Church
carried off one of his brethren from the
other side of the Atlantic. There was no
duty on imported ministers, and it was
sometimes gain to bring men from
different parts of the great Presbyterian
world. There was no hope for a church
or congregation unless it was animated
BY thoroughly aggressive spirit. The.
real want was not so much money as
men. If they had only men who would
preach the Gospel and not waste their
energy upon sermons for the times, in
which they onl y imperfectly rivalled the
newspapers and reviews-if they had
such men church need not fear. A
church should try to cherish deep and
united energy, united sympathy which
would make all feel that they were breth-
rem engaged in one common work for the
Lord and Master. On the surface of the
8iooe there was not such field for Chris
Iah effort as London presented. He had
Oeen coming to it for wears. and he mar
Yelled at the thought of standing in a CITY
OF between four and FIVE million inhabi-
tants. There need be no trouble abont
money. If they made it clear to the Law
brethren that they were doing honest ef-
tectlve work, God would move them 70
send the required funds. When thew had
Romanlsm In Protestant guise on the one
hand, and skepticism and godlessnegg Of
q, practical kind on the other, it became
them to be thoroughly in earnest. Thev
should cultivate elasticity. The yerv
existence OF the Salvation Army, with its
Peculiartles and irregularities-its verv
existence and success was testimony to a
great felt need, and perhaps a succession
70 the churches that they should not SO
n ~ rely upon cast-iron as elastic apen-
cles through which to spread the Goenel
OF our blessed Lord. This stirring al
dress drew out not little entbuaIasro
ana the hall, according to the London
christian World, "rang again with fbe
general applause" DR.. Hall left Lon.
9 5 Tor the Continent on the following
oay'-N T. Evangelist.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09
A Bishop in Trouble.

The Romish bishop Gilmour, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, has set his face against
Women's Land Leagues. He rightly
thinks them unfriendly to that retiring
modesty which is at once the charm,and
power of the female sex, and he has for
hidden, under pain Of accommodation
the women of his diocese to belong to
them. But quite number of ladies
have rebelled. He and they have had
1T In the daily newspapers. They resent
his lnsinuatlon as to their lack of modes
ty, charge him with assumption and tyr
amy, defy his accommodation and tell
him plainly that they will adhere to the
League though they be cut off from his
Church. He replies, in imperious terms,
that he will not allow them to be mem
bers OF such an association, and pro-
noun ces them accommodated.
We venture to say that never priest or
bishop has had such talking to as the
Cleveland women have given Mr.. Gill
mour. Their Irish blood is up, and their
American independence boldly asserts it.
self against their clerical despot. The
world moves. The halcyon days of
Popery seem to be gone. In this coun-
try, at least, her people are 10 longer
" like dumb, driven cattle"
The conflict attracted much attention
and the secular journals discussed it with
great interest. The Cleveland Leader
was especially outspokep in support of
the communicated women and in con-
domination of the autocratic bishop. The
latter became exasperated, and published
a letter in the Penny Press charging the
editor Of the LeaaeT with cruelty to his
daughter. The mahgned editor i'm
m1edlately instituted suit for libel against
the damages at $4,000 each.
After the bishop had received legal
notice Of this suit, he republished the libel
IN his own paper, the Cathohc Universe.
The consequence is that another suit for
libel with damages at 5000, will be
commenced against the bishop and his
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09
Ancient Chinese Cohins.

a recent number of the Celestial EN-
plre, referring to discovery of some an
clent graves near Shanghai gives, saws
Nature, an interesting account of Chinese
burial in former times. A man of means
purchased his coffin when he reached the
age Of forty. He would then have it
painted three times every year with a
species Of varnish, mixed with pulverized
'porcelaln-a composition which resem-
bled silicate paint or enamel. The
process by which this varnish was made
has now been lost to the Chinese Each
coating Of this paint was of some think
ness, and when dried had metallic firm
ness resembling enamel. Frequent coats
OF this, if the owner lived long, caused
the coffin to assume the appearance of a.
sarcophagus, with foot or more in thick.
ness Of this hard, stone-like she'll. After
death the veins and the cavities of the
stomach were filed with quicksilver, for
the purpose Of preserving the body. A
piece Of jade would then be placed in
each nostril and ear, and in one hand.
while a piece of bar silver would be
placed IN the other hand. The BODY.
thus prepared, was placed on LAYER of
mercury within the coffin the latter was
sealed, and the whole then committed to
ITS last resting-place. When some of
these sarcophagi were opened after the
lapse Of centuries, the bodies were found
IN a wonderful state of preservation but
they crumbled to dust on exposure to the
air. The writer well observes that the
employment Of mercury by the Chinese
OF past dynasties for the purpose Of pre-
serving bodies ought to form an interest
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09
A Bit of Testimony.

Among some people the idea of
missionary to the heather is that o. a not
very robust sort of person who is not fit
for anything else, and who engages in
his work as the result of vague impulse
OF blind enthusiasm. The venerable DR..
William Dean, of Bangkok, is as compe-
tent as anybody in the world o. speak of
missionaries and their qualifications
From long experience his Judgment is
worthy OF great respect. He says that
while the highest endowments and the
richest culture might be fully taxed and
find ample employment in missionary
work, we need, perhaps, not so much
men of profound wisdom as men for prac-
teal working men of good physical form
and not of a repulsive face; men of sound
health and sober judgment; men who are
less concerned about their wants than
about their work; men who think more
highly OF the approval of God than the
appreciation of men; men who have
enough of the Master spirit, when dis
appointed, not to be discouraged, and
when reviled, to revile not again; men
who have kind words and a good wife.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09
Ears and No Ears.

A clerical friend declares he cannot
give out the commonest notice from the
chancel which is not misunderstood bv
some persons; either they are not listen
ing, or they hear only part of what is
said, or from some reason they hear and
yet hear not And if notice is mis-
understood, how much more a sermon,
which some people declare taught the
reverse of what the preacher said. And
II sermon, how much more the gospel,
which is heard without any intention of
doing what it commands and yielding to
what it promises. When Parson Milton,
on one occasion, failed to make himself
understood by Mark Currier, as he dis
coursed of the angel who came and took
a live coal from the altar and touched
herewith the lips of Isaiah, Mark came
the next day and wanted to know "about
the old colt of yern, you give notice
about In the sermon, that an Indian came
down from Haverhill and took it by the
halter. The parson was too much for
Mark the next Sunday when he gave
out his text-MARK. Mark was on his
feet in moment, when the preacher
concluded his text by saying Mark the
perfect man and behold the upright"
etc. Mark, we are told, kept wide
awake that time, and let us hope got good
from the sermon so specially devoted to
him.
We are told, "Take heed how ye
hear. Gods truth will Judge us some
OF these days. We may make light OF
what we hear; may pay no attention to
1t. 1t is well, or rather it is not well; it
will meet us again-that truth which
we have paid so little attention to here.
When we go to the house of God it is not.
to be amused or bored. We are listen
ing to words of life or death, to which
every hope Of our nature would bid us
listen, as with the desire to escape the
death with which we are threatened un-
less we hear and obey,-Southe17a Church.
man.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09
Recent Publications.

THE CATHOLIC PRESBYTERIAN for July. Con-
TENTS
Jessup, D. D., Beirut, Syria 2 Presbyterian
London Q643-164S), by Rev. A. II. Drysdale,
NJ A., Rochdale 8. John Dury and his Work
for Germany, by Friedrich H. Brandes D. D.,
Gottingen, Hanover. 4. Rationaistic Testi-
monies to Christ by Professor Schaf, D. D.,
New York 5. The Eldership in the Reformed
tier, by Alexander Macleod, D. D., Birkenhead.
T. Recent Books. s. Notes of the Day. g.
American Notes. 10. General Survey. IL.
Open Council.
Published by Arson D. F. Randolph & Co.,
New York.
R1DLEYs' FASHION MAGAZINE for the Sum
mer 1882. New York E. Ridley & Sons, pub
lshers
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09
WILL YOU PLoW?

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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09

Long prayers in public service are not
commendable. From the nature of the
case, they must be of general character,
embracing petitions in which the whole
congregation can unite, excluding much
that is proper in private and personal
supplication. Our Lords Prayer" as
it is called, presents model Of concise
and comprehensive petitions, adapted to
public worship, which in spirit and char
acter deserves to be initiated Public
prayers should not ordinarily exceed FIVE
minutes in length. When they go be-
yond this, the tendency is to WEAKNESS
and Journalism, at the expense of devo-
ton. God looks at the intensity Of desire
in our petitions, rather than the number
of words employed in presenting them.
Methodist Recorder.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09
The Funeral Ceremonies of Yeh

A few rods outside the east gate of
Canton, back from the street, stands an
unpretending Taonist temple. A plain.
unornamented gate opens the way into a
long, narrow inclosure, which leads up
to the shrine. The grounds seem deserted
save that one old Chinaman stands by the
inner gate. He is no door-keeper, but
street beggar. Yeh, the Viceroy of Can
ton, has no door keepers now. We
pass beneath another archway, and up
passage hung with white, till we reach
the apartment of the dead Here at
length we meet a few attendants, and a
Iaonist priest oficiates as our guide. He
leads us into small hall about 25 feet
by 20, hung with blue cloth, on which
funeral inscriptions are embroidered in
white silk. An altar stands in the mid
die OF the room, on which are placed some
dozen bowls of cooked vegetables and
piles of artificial fruit and sticks of burn
ing incense. Behind the altar is tablet
of white silk on which are embroidered
the names and titles of the late Viceroy
and behind this again curtain hangs
from the roof to the ground. We raise
and pass the curtain. and before us stands
the coffin. 1t is a plain box, but of great
size, being II feet in length and 4 in
thickness, each side consisting of a single
slab of hard and costly wood brought
from the Province of SEE Chuen, far
in the interior. Its cost was over
81 500. The man who for years ruled
with a rod of iron-before whose man.
date 100000 heads fell in the execution
ground of Canton, whose diplomatic skill
baftled for years the Ministers of Euro
Pean powers, who when his city was lit
tie better than ruin and desert, could
not fight, and would not yield, lest he
should betray the prestige of the inviola-
bility of Canton, after all his power, skill,
and obstinacy-lies unhonored and al
most unattended without the walls of the
city which he could rule, but could not
Temple Bar.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09

publisher. So that we may expect lively
times in the Cleveland courts.
The bishop, we see, has gone to Rome
to account to and receive orders from his
master, the Pope, but will return in time
to compromise the suits or pay the dam
ages.-&. Louis Presbyterian.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09

Time began with the production OF those
things that are measured by time.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09

Few experiences are more harsh than
those growing out Of misunderstanding.
To be misjudged when one means well, to
be caughtin an eddy Of public condemna-
ton and whirled onward by an excited
public, while attempting in all honesty to
do the world service, is enough to r1lle
the saintliest spirit. 1t is comforting
therefore, to see noble Christian man
whose name has been made the watch
word for crusade or heresy, moving on
modestly, serenely, as though no amount
OF abuse had chafed him.-Golden Rule
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09
A Vegetable Product. onl.

NSSeIaoIe TtOouCC, only
used IN AYERS AGUE CURE, has
proven itself a never failing and
rapid cure for every form of Mala-
rial Disorder, Fever and Ague, or
Chills and Fever. No iniurv fol-
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09

ing subject for consideration and discus
sion IN connection with the history of
embalming and mummy making"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-08-09

lows us use, and It's effects are permanent. It
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and miasmatic regions. The great superiority
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is that it contains no Quinine Arsenic, or min
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Those cured by it are left as healthy as if they
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The direct action Of AYERS AGUE CURE upon
the Liver and Digestive Organs makes it su-
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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1882-08-09
How to be Tall.

Certain doctors affirm that men may
add to their stature, People who drink
limestone water, like the Keniuckians
and Icnnesseeians, owe II probably IA
tho fact that they absorb so much lime
which goes to the making Of their
bones, Oatmeal builds up the bone
aud muscle Of the Scotch.
DR.. Mott said "Fclks who feed up
on good, healthy aud simple food have
the best chance for growing to be tall,
Tallness seems sometimes TO be fam
lily trait, aud runs along through gen.
Grafton after generation but, on the
other hand, tall children very often
grow from short parents, and vice
versa. There doesn't seem to be any
positive rule about il, aud don't know
that there is any mode of determining
from the height Of child At any given
age what it will grow to ut maturity"
There is II belief, however well or i'll
founded, that the height Of the child at
the age of two years is just half the
height to which it will attain at matu-
riIy,
A good way to feel tall is to pay as
you 90, aud nightly take good con-
science to bed with you.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1882-08-09

HUMAN WORK AND HUMAN WASTE.
Work means waste, equally to a
human body and a locomotive engine.
"NIore work, more waste" is motto
alike true of the mechanics apparatus
and of the mechanic himself. Not an
action, we repeat, is performed by us
which is not accompanied by an ex-
penditure of force derived from and ac-
companied by a proportional waste of
substance. The movements of muscles,
the beating of the heart, the winking
of an eyelid, the thinking thought,
entail wear and tear upon the muscles
that work and the brain-cells that
think. Every action necessitates bodi-
ly waste and corresponding physical re-.
pair. Waste, however, cannot of
necessity be single and final process
in living body-unless, indeed, we
we were born with full complement
of matter, and were permitted in the
order of nature to live on the principal
with which we had been provided, in
stead of wisely using that principal as
means of gaining livelihood through
the interest it acquired. That we are
not so constituted is an evident fact,
hence our bodies demand pretty con-
slant repair as a companion action to
that of work, labor, and duty. This
process of repair consists in the recep-
ton of matter from the outer world, in
the transformation of that matter into
ourselves, and in the utilization in the
work and repair of the frame. Such
matter we shortly name food, and the
processes whereby it is converted into
our own bodily substance we term di-
gestion.