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The Cruelty of Atheism

He who would undermine those four
dations upon which the fabric of our
future hope is reared, seeks to beat. down
that column which supports the feeble
ness Of humanity let him but think a
moment and his heart will arrest the
cruelty Of his purpose. Would he pluck
It's little treasure from the bosom o.
poverty Would he wrest its crutcl
from the hand Of age, and remove from
the eye Of affection the only solace Of It's
woe? The way we tread is rugged 9
best; we tread it, however, lighter by tiA
prospect Of the better country to whi,b
we trust it will lead. Tell us not it will
end in the guilt OF eternal dissolution. G
break of in some wild, which fancy NAV
Eli up when she pleases, but reason is "
able to delineate quench not that beam
which amidst the night Of this evil world
has cheered the dependency Of all il'
requited worth, and illumined the dark
ness OF suffering virtue Uackenzic.
justification by faith lays the fourda
ton OF our title to salvation but by con
fession we build upon that foundation.
and come at last 10 the full possession Of
that to which We were entitled.
True grace hates monoPolies, and lovas
not to eat It's mJIse.s alone.
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Several new Australian and American
subscribers were announced, making the
total strength of the Institute 900.
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Talk in the Free Church Assembly
Scotland.
REVIVAL AND EvANGELIsrIc WORK.

LoCOIidnQ).
REVIVAL AND EvANGELIsTIc WORK.
In the course Of the discussion on the
report on religion and morals, reference
was pade by various speakers to the aids
in revival and evangelistic work sup
piled by the mission of Messrs. Moody
and Sankey and the agency Of the Sal
walton Army. The work Of Messrs
Moody and Sankey was universally com
mended, but more reserve was displayed
as regards the proceedings Of the Saliva.
tionists. Nobody spoke unkindly or de-
precatorily Of them, but in the view OF
one or two Of the members their peculiar
methods of working prevented the idea
of cooperation or Identification. The
principle of action suggested and com
mended by DR.. Andrew Bonar was that
the Sdlvationists should be left alone to
DO their own work in their own way.
When John, he said, told Christ that
some one was casting out devils in His
name, Christ said, Let him alone" let
him 60 on doing it, but He did not say,
" Go and do likewise. - Applying this
rule Of action to the question under con-
slderation, DR.. Bonar concluded Free
Church onlookers were not to 90 and do
as the Salvation Army did, but let them
alone. However, DR.. Nicholson, Of Lin
lithgow, frankly acknowledged the good
work accomplished by the Salvationists,
and warningly remarked that although
he felt an anxiety as to the future de-
velopment of the movement he could
conceive of nothing more likely to in
crease this danger than that ministers of
the gospel of any denomination should
lit up finger against them, or throw
cold water upon them, or discredit them
In any way. But perhaps, the best thing
said in the debate was Principal Browns
quotations OF Mr.. Dale (of Birmingham
three reasons for not speaking against
the Salvation Army-viz that they
reached class that none else could
reach that they reached them with the
right article, and that they reached them
to good purpose.
The Princess Louise
A London correspondent writes Prin.
cess Louise, after a sojourn Of nearly two
years, leaves on Thursday, in the Sarma-
tan, for Canada. Although the unfor-
tunate accident which belel her Royal
Highness in November, 1879, when she
was thrown out Of a sleigh, was the
primary cause Of her re urn to England,
there can be no question that the social
exile Of Ottawa is little to her liking L
think it was the late Lord Milton who
described Canada as the Great Lone
Land and even its busiest cities must
seem as the wilderness and the solitary
place to a princess who can see no society
whatever such as that to which she has
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the United States Army, assisted by
splendid native volunteer soldiers, be-
sides swarms of men, the refuse of the
earth,-PoTtuguese, Spanish, Italian,
German, Irish, Scotch, English, French,
Chinese, japanese. white, black, olive,
and brown. He laid down life for life
with this hireling host, who died for pay,
mourned by no one, missed by no one,
loved by no one; who were better fed
and clothed, fatter, happier and more
contented in the army than ever they
were at home, and whose graves strew
the earth in lonesome places, where none
go to weep. When one of these fell, two
could be bought to fill the gap. The
Confederate soldier killed these without
companction, and their comrades buried
them without tear.
The Confederate soldier fought the
cries of distress which came from his
home,-tales of woe, insult, and robbery.
He fought men who knew that their
homes (when they had any were safe,
their wives and children, their parents
and sisters, sheltered, and their business
affairs more than usually prosperous;
who could draw sight drafts, have them
honored, and make the camp table as
bountiful and luxurious as that of New
York hotel. He fought a government
founded by the genius of his fathers,
which derived its strength from princi-
pies they formulated, and which per-
suaded its soldiers that they were the
champions of the constitutional liberty
which they were marching to invade,
and eventually to destroy
The relative strength of armies be-
comes matter Of secondary Importance
when these facts are considered. The
disparity of numbers only, would never
have produced the result which the con-
bination of these various forces did,-the
surrender Of the Army of Northern Vir-
ginia.
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with gift of money. Men are so en-
crossed in their own selfish pleasures and
selfish tolls that they have no time for
the work left them by the Divine Master.
They give literally and without stint,
and fraudulent recipients Of their indis-
criminate bounty flourish by the side of
honest and useful agencies. The man
who, with his own hands, and voice and
influence and money helps his fellowman
is filter for the kingdom than he who
tries to bride his conscience with the gift
of millions to be scattered far and wide
in charity. One of the pastors, whose
words on the subject were lately quoted
in the Times, lamented the absence of
what we may call the middle class in
society. And it must be admitted that
we have been taught to look for practical
benevolence in this middle class rather
than among the worldly rich or the care
ridden poor. The very rich are engross-
ed in their riches. The poor are bur-
dened with their grinding poverty. And
if the man of wealth opens his heart to
the sorrows and needs of the poor, he
gives money-the least that he can give.
What the churches need, according to the
report of their pastors, is new and per-
sonal dedication of their members to in
dividual work for their Master And to
give money is not to give ones sell"
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be strengthened, though in reality weak
ened, because every such double or treble
coincidence shows that pure condolences
can always be recognized among any
numbers taken either at random or from
any set however determined Thus,
among the various distances, dimensions,
periods, &C., within the solar system, or
rather among the numbers representing
these, there are multitudes of coinci-
dences purely accidental, though only the
astronomer perhaps, may be able to dis
tinguish those which are accidental from
those which are real.-Te Gentleman s
Magazine.
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Voltaire.

Noltaire was beyond all doubt very
great artist and thinker, but there was
ever harlequin side to his life. This
must be known if you would arrive at
any sound understanding of the mar.
His innermost aspirations were ever for
truth, Justice, and liberty but his ad-
ventures are more like those Of PoIci-
nello than any which occur in real life.
| am always of two minds about Voltaire
IN reading his life or his writings You
are one moment full of admiration; the
next you are inclined to throw the book
down in fit of disgust, more probably of
aughter. The man was bundle of in
conslstencies. He was the sublime and
the ridiculous bound up in a single vol
ume. 1t Is only by taking note of the
society in which he lived that you can
form an idea of the man. l have said
the eighteenth century in France was an
age without religious faith or political
principle; it was an age of highly pol
lshed manners, but without decency or
honesty. If Voltaire-more shame to
him wrote "La Pucelle," fine ladies
were ever craving for sight of it. They
would read it IN society, not handle it in
the shamefaced way of modern ladies,
who slip French novel with yellow
paper cover under the cushion of the
sofa when visitors are announced. They
rejoiced in the dirt. In Germany or
France it was the same thing. Serene
margravines and princesses enjoyed La
Pucelle. Our own fine people (remem-
Der Walter SCOTS story about Mrs. Aphre
Behn) were not so very pure in their talk
or their reading, but doubt if transla-
ton Of this Maid of Orleans after Val
talre s fashion could have been read aloud
even then to a select circle, or later, in
Horace Wal poles set. Of course, there
were good women in France, but the tide
set desperately against them The French
line ladies thleved and cheated at Marie
Leczlnskas or at Marie Antoinette's
table. They were constantly caught
playing knavish tricks, for which, had
they been men, they would most right
eously have been kicked out of the room
at Monaco IN our day. MERCER writes
Les femmes du rang lie plus distingue
trchent quelqueiois au jeu avec une tran
guile audaoe: Giles ont en- meme temps
effronterie de dire a celui don't elles ont
place Iargent sur une carte uui gagne
qu'elles n ont pas mis-" Scandals such
as these occur at all times and in all
countries, but in the Paris of the eigh-
tenth century they were of everyday
occurrence amid the women of society.
Mile. de lEspinasse would not have
cheated, probably, nor Nine. Geofrin,
nor Nine. d Epinay, nor Nine. dHoude.
tot, nor score OF others of whom we
know something, but the bulk of the
women did so. Decency or honesty was
not In them.-The Nineteenth Ce1a,urv.
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A Lesson.

In the summer of 1878 1 descended
the Rhigi with one OF the most faithful
of the old Swiss guides Beyond the
service of the day he gave me, unconsci-
ously, a lesson for life His first care
was to put my wraps and other burdens
upon his shoulder. In doing this he
asked for all but chose to keep back a
few for special care. soon found them
no lite hindrance to the freedom of my
movement, but still 1 would not give
them up until my guide, returning to me
where | sat resting for a moment, kind
ly, but firmly demanded that I should
give him every thing but my Alpenstock.
Putting them with the utmost care upon
his shoulders, with look of intense sat
lsfaction he led the way. And now, in
my freedom, [ found 1 could make dou-
bic speed with double safety. Then a
voice spoke inwardly: 90 foolish, will
full heart, hast thou, indeed, given up thy
last burden? Thou hast no need to carry
them, nor even the right" 1 saw it all
in fash and then, as 1 leaped lightly
from rock to rock down the steep noun
tain side l said within myself, "And even
thus will [ follow Jesus, my Guide, my
Burden-bearer. [ will rest all my care
upon him, for he careth for me. Sarah
SnllEeY
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Pyramid Prophecies.

Tradition and history agree in assign
ing the building of the Great Pyramid
Qike that of the other pyramids) of
Ghlzeh to a monarch or dynasty, not
moved by any specially unselGsh purpose,
but, on the contrary, ready to sacrifice
large sums OF money raised by cruel
taxations, and the lives Of many thou
sands OF laborers cruelty impressed for
the work. The memory of the despots
who built the pyramids was held in hate
and adherence by the Egyptians, for
what seemed to later times most adequate
and sufficient reasons. Men could not
however, but admire the wonderful
masses of masonry thus raised at the Dor
der of the Egyptian desert, so massive
as to resemble the works of nature 90
stable that they remain after thousands
OF years scarce touched, beneath their
surface layers, by the storms Of heaven,
or by the movements of the earth, or by
the destructive work of man. Even now
1t may be questioned whether, any
amount Of labor which all the rulers Of
our day could impress for the work
would suffice to destroy these monuments
OF Egyptian tyranny without the aid of
gunPowder, dynamite, or other methods
OF scientific destruction. 1t was never
held, however, even by the most ignorant
Bedouin, that the pyramids contained
hidden knowledge of any sort, still less
that they concealed prophetic intima-
tlons. Yet when Mr.. J. Taylor, taking
the best measures Of the Great Pyramid
known in his time, found, or seemed to
find, in that edifce, the solution of the
Ito many mystical problem of the souar.
ing OF the circle, birth was given to the
doctrine, shortly to develop into marvel
ouB proportions that the builders of the
Great Pyramid concealed within its once
goodly casing profound mathematical
and astronomical knowledge-nay. such
knowledge as without Divine aid thew
could never have acquired. One by one
all the tr1umphs OF science since the time
of Calico have been found to be antici-
pated and revealed in the structure OF
the Great Pyramid. The science of the
next century lies equally in this mysteri
Gus structure, concealed now, but TO be
revealed there when-well, when 1t has
been otherwise discovered. ! speak with
some, knowledge of the subject, though
not acquired precisely as the pyramida-
lists acquired theirs, when l say that
there is not discovery effected during
the last thousand years, or which can by
any possibility be effected during the
next thousand years, which may not be
shown by their methods to be embodied
In the structure of the Great Pyramid
or Of any other pyramid, or in st. Peters
at Rome, or st. Paul in London. ANY
number you please may be found with a
little patience in any one Of these build
ings, and every scientific relation may be
indicated by number. Then, among
numbers so found, many will be repeated
In different ways, and 50 the apparent
evidence from coincidence will seeminrlv
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The wEsTm1SsTER REVIEW for October. Con.

The WESTMINSTER REVIEW for October. Con.
tents:
River Pollution Count Struensee and Queen
Caroline Mathilde Socialism; The Poetry of
Mrs E. B. Browning France-The Chamber,
The Gambetta Ministry, and its Successors
The Jubilee Of the First Reform Act The
British Association for the Advancement of
Science Parliamentary Procedure Contem-
porary Literature. ETC.
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Found Drowned-A Poem; The Great Sessoort
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To persevere in ones duty and to be
silent is the first answer to calumpy.
WASHINGTON.
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-07-06
MY PICTURE.

How many times. as through the room 1
Without a thought of other days at all,
lift my eyes, and straightway l am standing
Before her picture, hanging on the wall,
Almost IT seems her pleasant voice is calling.
And l am fain to answer, YES, 1 hear"
All earthly sounds shall be to me as silence
No answer comesI Ihush my breath to listen:
But still the eyes, with patient, steadfast
gaze,
Look into mine; they pierce through flesh and
spirit;
Ihow my head, and blush beneath thei- rays
For she is wise with wisdom that appalls me;
The solemn secrets of the grave she knows;
And high DER me, by Gods own hand uplifted,
Through wondrous ways of His own Heaven
she goes.
Beyond all change, and safe from Times
mutation,
And grievcd no more by earth's foriorn COM
plants
Thou pictured face! dim semblance of my
mothcri
How dost thou look among the crowned
saints?
So fari so far! Once If 1 family called you,
Or laughed or wept, you were SO quick to
All else might fail, my mothers love was
certain.
Now dying, cen your touch 1 must forego,
Thou there, There, and 1 know not what spaces
Beyond the graves green width divide us
two;
Nor of the times u%ncounted and unmeasured
That must go Ger me ere l look on you.
But I shall find you'll am coming, motherl
Sometime; somewhere, when His great will
is done.
And / am fit to stand once more beside you.
~Toyourhigh place L shall have leave to come.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-07-06
Sunday Marriage Engagement Valid.

An opinion was filed a few days ago
in the Supreme Court, in the case OF
Charles Markley, q bachelor of SO years.
against whom Eliza Kelsering, a maid
en- of SO, obtained a verdict of 1898. 10,
in the Lancaster County Court, for
breach of promise of marriage. The
parties in this love affair lived in May
town, Lancaster County. An engage
ment of mIrri ,ge took place on Sunday,
the 10th day of August, 1879. The
courtship had beet very short, and was
minus the warmth of heart usually dis
played in such pre'iminaries. Indeed,
the engagement was spoken OF as q most
extraordinary affair. Markley pur-
chased his lady love a number of pres
ents, and seemingly prepared for the
wedding day. What fire was in his
heart, however, suddenly cooled, and
one evening he told Miss Kessering,
who was a seamstress, that he was too
old and lame to get m.rried. He gave
as q reason that his father was lying at
the point of death, and it would not be
proper to marry under such circum-
stances. His sweetheart never spoke to
him again, but st~raightway instituted
proceedings to recover a balm for the
afiiction Of her heart. The jury before
whom the case was tried was a business
like one, and, by their verdict, they cal
culaued to the very cent the injury Miss
Kessering had sustained. Markley's ap,,
peal to the Supreme Court was based
upon several reasons, the most import
ant of which was that the alleged con.
tract of m lrriage had taken place on
Sunday, and was, therefore, invalid, the
same as any other contract, business.
like or social, made on that day. The
opinion of the Supreme Court in sus
tanning the verdict of the jury says that
there was nothing in any of the assign
ments of error to warrant a reversal
The case was properly submitted to thu
marriage was entered into on Sunda'
could not avail, in view of the evidence
which was overwhelming. to the effec
that the engagement had been subse
quently recognized by Markley.-Read
ing (Pd.) Times.
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An Extraordinary Marriage in Georgia
and its Sequel.

It seems that one Louis B. Fosky, a
young man about twenty-five years of
age, had been playing the devoted to
Miss Martha-daughter OF MIR. Wade
Evans-for s6ffie time, whenever an OPP
portunity presented itself, although she
was a child under twelve years of age.
Indeed his attentions to the girl had be-
come so marked as to arouse the sus-
picions of her parents. and to cause them
to be on the alert. But Monday last, her
father being engaged in shearing sheep
at his brothers, a short distance from
his home, Miss Martha took advantage
of his temporary absence and met her
would-be liege lord at Mr.. Tom Ben
nett's, a neighbours house, about two
miles from home. The necessary license
had previously been obtained, and the
Justice of the Peace, j. G. Thompson,
was sent for. Upon seeing the extreme
Youthful and childlike appearance of the
would-be bride, it is said that Judge
Thompson declined to perform the cere-
mony until assured by Mr.. Bennett, at
whose house they were, that the father
had consented to the marriage, and that
it would be all right.
Judge Thompson then proceeded to
tie the knot, and about ten minutes after
the couple had been pronounced man
and wife the vexed father, who had
been notified of his daughters absence
from home, appeared upon the scene.
The groom was standing in the door
way. and, as the father, wild with
anxiety. attempted to enter the house,
the groom drew a pistol, and, it is said,
snapped it at Mr.. Evans, ~whereupon
Evans ran upon Fosky, seized the pistol,
and wrenching the same from his hands,
proceeded to pommel him with it e
the head. Fosky succeeded in getting
away from Evans, however, and ran into
the house. The girl-bride in the mean
time had gone out the back door, aad
was walking in the direction of the pa
rental home she had abandoned a short
time before. The groors. seeing her
movements, attempted to follow, but
Mr.. Evans leveling the pistol upon him,
which he had but a few moments before
wrenched from his hands, commanded
him to stop, which he did. Mr.. Evans
her overlook his daughter and acnon
panied her home, where she still -
mains.-EastnsGa fGa-J Tsasep