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The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-12
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Patents granted to the citizen. oi
IrNo, tor lac week cuding Juh T.
'~Ni, and Reported lay -. +. Bead. u-
torrcy i'm patent cases Gtt Fourth
stree, northwest Washington. Il. G.
lconidu~ I Akin, Fort Worth. farm
gate No. 5.l,ll5, samuel -. Blake
Dallas, braves and pantaloou. 34i.-
ilG. Chas H. Davis. Dallas. BuStlc
number 52l, 5NE John Dunclow. Post
Oak Grove, Manufacture of dydrnuti,
ccmcut, number 32L5e9. y. f. Eek.
man, Austin. washing machine, mum
Der 52l ,G99: l.. T. fmbry. Cursicnua
rock drclling and we'll boring ma
chine number 5ol7vo. II. II Payne
ConrcyilIc, mole trap. number 81
go, T. j. Nnrbrough \ j. VI. Nkcr
Burns city animaI-powcr number
H2l.~1G
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-12
DIED.


At the Esqu.iuc ran u4tr CoWmbu> Ga
SUNDAY muruin-. Juis iN~l. nj q OIL. rlpCk. Al
ice IlHce Levy. wife of Ed"un % Levy. of
Waco. Texas aged 30 NtuS
The deceased Wa~ the only surviV-
Ing daughter of the late lIonorabl,
luciOue Place, of New Orleans la,
and the -i,trr-im-laW of ourcstccmcd
fellow citizen. Lionel &. Levy Esq
Only n few weeks since hr brought
her to his home on the E-miiuc
hoping 10 alleviate her suffering, ant
possibly protract her precious life
but the RUTHLESS messenger WAS incN
orable, aud mini-terrd to hy tender
loving hands her frvcrrd brow
cooled by the soft summer air with
III" ruslling of green leaves and notes
OF song birds III her ears. in the early
quiet OF a sabbath morning her p urt
spirit WAS waited home 10 rest ctcr-
nat The funeral ohSrquic- were per
Iorncd by RcN. Dr. Hunter, OF the
Episcopal church. in which She wa, a
communicate and her remains were
deposited AT 3 O'Clock Yesterday in
the lovely Evergreen Home, the pri-
waite cemetery of Major H.. Moses.
on the E-qujliue She leaves Il de
voted husband aud SIX mothcric,.
boys to mourn her loss. Her suffer
Ing was of long duration, hat her end
wA- peaceful and She passed away
but u, from one deep Iccp to
another.
sight dew. h"uot more gently To th'
Nor weary worn ou' wilma, expired mon,
u'bn ul,,vn "a. ,lit, from. tl4n E,in,r.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-12

Ladies' shoes and slippers all going
at 81 sacrifice. bccnsr T. llnl,rr want.
to quit the shoe, business. Go there
nd see, you can bus IWo pair at tho
Gsn of eau pair j.. llahrr.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-12
"A GREAT SALE O. COLLARS
MISSES!
COLLARS FOR FOR BABISE
Morning Largest Assortment OF COllA
COLLARS FOR BABI


line of Lace. received and low prices prcva all
Amy DESIRING would do to wish r
pnrtlurnt this week. w" Lac
Ladies Underwear still uslit, oI.
long At soc S"mclin" nice in 6ic thcnloc, fully s t
l4ld Ladies' NIGHT ty,ldr,
Hubbard Calico wrappers still going soc. "S N
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-12

Notwithstanding that our Fan ale inaugtCd Ia Mrc WA, u We
IllEh MI ~ GO therefore
discount of be from marked price ON every tan
hc closed We will exhibit on entire sorI on
NcokWcar reductions on former
pcp
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-12

Ladies, Mic, Children II full, worth be
Ladies'. Misses children would be ,lcapa
Ladies' Misses and children at he bargain
Remember all fresh desirable price
" iii buy tIcm
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-07-12
SHALL WE RISE

10 the Editor of 'hc Examiner
Allow me through your column
to -ay word for Waco, my home
and my pride, In order to Sc
cure for Waco the support and
hearty co-opcrntion ol 5000 baptist,
of Texas and Nn endowment of SluU,-
600 for Waco niNor~ity Waco must
raise 100000. ~ one of the soliciting
committee. | have been engaged in
raising this sum. In my effort, to Sc
cure contriuuti rs. have found what
seems to me want of appreciation
of this moment Ul peril to Waco. |
use the word peril adYi,rdly, for ii,
think If Waco loses this Opportunitl
for her advancement, then gone is hci
pride and boast a, the center of cdu.
cation in 1cNa- What l. il that holds
people in Waco and the admiration
of every Vi~itoI> In what /, Waco
most WjdrlH known and best adVcr
tI-cd, | venture to answer, aud with
ont fear OF contradiction; her schools
and churches. VIII our people hold
the advantages we now have and Sc
cure Others, wrcatcr ana grmnder, III
the near future, by raising this SO
GOO, or will they stand by inactive UNI
Ill the opportunity i- gone; It IT not
well to remember that opportunities
are sensitive visitors, ,Iightcd ON their
visit call they rarely, II ever, rcturnI'
II were better for Waco that II Cy-
clone should strike her and destroy
100000 worth of property than that
She should fail to raise this S2u.OOO
The damage douc by the storm would
soon br rrbpirpI but ~ no can p.ti -
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uiNIING ptRui HIIlUNtD.


WI tht " s'u'hfs hNt btN ttpbTt
Fishing Good.
Professors +. T. Maddu and j T..
Crcsap. and Nc-~r~ VIII rauTum
Mad,ln, John 'laIlcy. H. Frank Cupcn
and. Chester store .rcturnrd yesterday
from a several weeks haunt over the
counties west of Waco. They went
fifteen miles west of Brady CITY, hut
found game scarce. and there rctract-
ed their steps holncward. In all they
Travelled about 500 miles The party
report fishing splendid ana they had
better luck taking fish than in killing
game. All hNd most delightful
time, and returned home sun burnc,
md healthy. tapcn learned TO toe All
expert shot with his Winchester, an,
lac could Kill prairie dog almost
every shot That is they supposed h,
Killed them rs the dogs nlWaN- tell il
their burrows after he shot
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

The Foreign Missionary says: "In
the Home for Chinese Girls in San
Francisco are thirty-six waits. mostly
slaves, rescued from those who had
purchased them for the worst of pur-
poses, By their industry, in various
forms, these girls support Bible wo-
man in Canton. AS permanent and
visible results of the blessed work of
this Chinese Home there are now in
and around San Francisco seventeen
young families, formed by the mar
riage of such rescued girls to Christian
young men. Thus the blight and de-
graduation Of Chinese womanhood in
California have given place to settled
and virtuous domestic order which of
itself proclaims the gospel with silent
eloquence."
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

HE SCALE on which we do business
in the 10Th century is illustrated by a
comparison of the England of Queen
Victoria's time with that of Queen
Elizabeth. A few weeks since mon
ster ship-of- war, the " Benbow," was
named, says an English paper, by Mrs.
Gladstone, and launched at Blackwell
with the usual ceremonies. Lord
Northbrook described it as larger than
"the whole British navy in the time of
Elizabeth" 1t is a vessel of more than
10000 tons, and with more than thirty
steam engines, machine guns, torpe-
does, etc.
This one ship could have defied the
Spanish Armada. And yet that little
England Of Elizabeth's time had Shaks-
peare and Ben Jonson, Lord Bacon,
Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser,
Sir Walter Raleigh, Lady Jane Grey,
etc.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

The Catholic Mirror maintains that
England will remain sturdily Protes-
tant. "No apostate nation" it says,
"has ever been received to the faith"
Now France has been declared "apos-
tate" Germany, under Bismarck, GER
tainly is. So is Holland, Sweden, Nor
way. Even Italy has imprisoned the
Pope in the Vatican. The United
States, the immense Republic of the
West, is Protestant, and thus apostate.
We are glad to be informed, on good
authority, that these nations will never
be received into the "faith" of Rome.
PRESBYTERIAN.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York

A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Times says: "There were a good many
things combining to make the lot of
the Old Testament revisers wee bit
unhappy. Along with the necessity
for close application and the strain
upon their nervous systems there came
an Astounding shower of suggestions
from cranks. A minister tells me that
members of the revising committee re-
ceived hundreds of senseless, not to say
impertinent, letters from people of
whom they had never heard Really
humorous phases attached to some of
this correspondence. One man, a
preacher too, is credited with having
embodied his critical suggestions in a
modest hundred pages or so of closely
written manuscript. And another cor
respondent of the opposite sex made
an eloquent plea against any change in
one particular verse in Proverbs be-
cause it had been a favorite with both
of my dear husbands, who are now
dead"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15
Richmond, Va, Wednesday, July Is.

WE WISH to remind our subscribers
that the price of the paper is reduced
to $3.50 to those who pay in adUance.
We can be justified in this reduction
only by receiving prompt payment and
also large increase in our subscription
list.
We ask those who are in arrears
Qook at your labeD to settle for the
past as soon as possible, and enter the
next year with the advance payment,
at the reduced rates $3.50. 1t will be
best for them as we'll as for us.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

In Germany, says the Lutheran, there
has been an unprecedented increase in
the number of University students during
the last decade. From a population of
45, 5000 there are $4,000 students at
tending the universities, while in Eng
land, with total population of 10000
600, there are about 5000 students at
Oxford and Cambridge The govern
ments of Germany display great zeal in
the cause of education. They watch over
the Universities with sleepless vigilance,
pay rs per cent of their expenses, and
literally drive students within their
walls by making them the only doors of
admission to the learned professions and
to the higher departments of the Civil
Service. During the last few years there
has been "a sudden crowding to theo-
logy," the number of divinity students.
especially of Protestant students, having
been increased in remarkable degree.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

The PRoTEsTANTs of France are only
handful in comparison with the whole
population, but they are more numer
Gus than some suppose-being esti
mated at 100000 to 100000 They
have made progress since 1909, at
which time there were only $50 Pro
testant pastors in France, whereas now,
after the loss of Alsace, there are $40.
1t is also true, says the Journal Re
ltgieur, that the Protestant minority
occupies an important position in pub
lie life. In every department of human
activity Protestants have acquired a
distinguished place.
AS to ecclesiastical organisation,
French Protestants are divided into
three groups; the Reformed Church,
the Church of the Confession of Augs-
burg, and the various Independent
Churches. The Reformed Church is
the most considerable, comprehending
about 100000 members. Its connec-
ton with the State deprives it of the
free action that might render its de-
cisions even more effective than they
now are. The Church of Augsburg
Confession has lost three fourths of its
members by the annexation of Alsace
to Germany. 1t counts about $4,000
adherents, with 80 pastors.
The Independent Churches number
from $4,000 to 10000 members; the
most numerous is the Union of the
Free Evangelical Churches with about
30 pastors. These churches represent
with courage and irmness the princi-
pie of the independence of the Church.
but their direct influence is restrained
by their numerical weakness.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

The st. Paul Globe says: " Miss
Helen Gardner is to the female world
what Ingersoll is to the male creation.
She is a feminine infdel who is going
around lecturing to women, telling
them reasons why they should not be-
lieve in God. Sheis described as be-
ing very pretty little woman, with
dark hair and eyes and very white be-
ringed hand. There is one serious de-
feet in Miss Gardeners oratory which
destroys the effect of her rhetoric and
will doubtless cripple her efforts to de-
stroy the Creator of the universe. She
talks through her nose. No woman
with nasal accent to her speech was
ever known to be a favorite with her
sex"
Perhaps that is the reason God gave
Miss Helen Gardner this particular
nose-to prevent her from doing mis-
thief
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15
THE FIRST ATTACK ON CHRIS
TIA WITTY

TLANITY.
The earliest literary opponent of
Christianity was CELSIUS, Grecian phil
osopher, and the friend of Lucian of
Samosata Called the Voltaire of ancient
times), who was his contemporary, and
probably the younger of the two, (and
the author of the Peregrinus). They
both lived in the reign of Hadrian and
the Antonines, and both were highly
accomplished men. Both assailed
Observation-Disclosures with the weap-
ons of raillery and ridicule CELSIUS with
argument. About the year $50, CELSIUS
wrote his work entitled "The True
Word" which has been, to great ex-
tent, preserved in the writings of ORR
gen, who made an elaborate and able
reply to it in eight books. In large
part of this work CELSIUS personates a
Jew, for he had not only made himself
familiar with both the Old and the New
Testament, but he evidently conversed
with Jews and obtained from them their
views with regard to the new religion
which had gone forth from Jerusalem.
1t is interesting to notice the points
made at this early day, by Jew and
Gentle, against Christianity, not quite
hundred years after the publication
of the Gospels.
GLOW could we" says the Jew,
who had told all men, there would
one come from God, who should pun
ish the wicked, treat him injurious
ly when he came?" "For what reason
could we reject him?" "Why should
he not be acknowledged by them, who
had long before expected him?"
In another place CELSIUS says the
composers of the genealogies of Jesus
were very extravagant in making him
to descend from the first man, and the
Jewish kings, and he thinks it very ex-
traordinary that the carpenters wife
was ignornant Of her high original.
(Here we have a most important in
cidental testimony to the fact that the
Gospels of Matthew and Luke were
then in existence and recognised as au.
thoritative by the Christians of that
day..
In another place CELSIUS argues that
Moses and Jesus do not agree-that
Moses encourageth the people to get
riches, and destroy their enemies but
the Nazarean man delivers quite con-
trary laws-nor will he allow men to
take more care for food, or treasure,
than the ravens-nor to provide for
clothing so much as the lilies-and to
him that is smitten once, he directs to
offer, that he may smite again"
He complains in another place that
it is saying of the Christian books
that, "God was sent to sinners, and he
asks, But why was he not sent to
those who were free from SIM What
harm is it not to have sinned?'
lie says Christians argue miserably
when they say that the Son Of God is
the Word himself . and do not show
him to be pure and holy Word, but a
miserable man, condemned, scourged,
and crucifed"
(Here is a most explicit reference to
Johns Gospel as an established au-
thority, which some Of our modern
critics will not allow to have been
written till the last half Of the second
ceutury).
p 1t is curious to find the following in
this writer of the second century
Notwithstanding the many divisions
and contentious which there are among
them, you may hear them all saying,
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

SOME of the churches in England have
been troubled with cranky preachers
from abroad. We have sometimes been
afflicted with the same evil. The Chris.
tiom Nondon) says:
The Epistles to Timothy and Titus are an
ProPriate reading for the present time. Lay
hands hastily on no man is timely caution.
Pious or un-pious cranks, who are played out
In America, or other parts of the world, come
to England and promulgate profane and old
wives fables, and creep into houses and take
captive silly women, who are ever learning and
never able to come to knowledge of the truth.
The Apostle said:
The time will come when they will not en-
dure sound doctrine but, having itching ears
will heap to themselves teachers after their own
lusts, and will turn away their ears from the
truth, and turn aside unto fables
That time has indeed come. We have crazed
men, foolish men, designing men, at home, and
we import them from abroad, whose cratic
utterances will work mischief unless true minis
ters of Christ hold fast the form of sound words
themselves and exhort their hearers to hold
them fast"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

HE PLATFORM of the French Social
lists, says the Presbyterian Banner, while
it has some absurd and impracticable
things, lis after all by no means as rev.
dictionary as had been expected 1t
proposes that all questions of constitu-
tional revision shall be settled by pop
ular vote; the separation of Church
and State; the gradual abolition of
standing armies; the free education of
children and their free sustenance when
not otherwise provided for; the grad
ual abolition of the public debt; the
prohibition of the employment of chill
dren under fourteen years Of age in fac
tories; the adoption of a system of
prison reform; the abolition of the
Presidency and the Senate; the estab-
lishment of progressive income tax
the legal equality of legitimate and IL
legitimate children; and the reorgani-
sation of the Bank of France. These
are the principal features of their de-
mands as published
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

IT is no answer to the question, Why
are you Presbyterian? to say prefer
that Church to others. Such reason
may suit the lips of a young person
who has few ideas and superficial prin-
oiples, but it will not satisfy the serious
and reverent mind. Mere personal
preference is altogether insignificant
however effectual it may be in deter.
mining the church relations of large
number of people. 1t is flippant, un-
intelligent, and unmanly reason for so
important decision.
A far better reason is found in a
statement that careful study of the
Bible has convinced us that this Church
is nearer to its standard of truth than
any other. A n an may hold this opin.
ion without bis ofry or prejudice. 1t
involves only Is elements of dissent
from the views ls others. One relates
to doctrine, the other to order. 1t is a
great error of our people, in town and
country, that they imagine all illusions
to these matters contrary to good taste
and Christian charity
One reason why so many of our Young
people torsake US is that they are taught
to consult their own taste, and are not
instructed from the Scriptures. The
same cause interposes a great obstacle to
the existence of a colored Presbyterian
church. That portion of our population
is in almost total darkness concerning
our distinctive principles. Other dogmas
and other methods have been urged upon
them until the masses of them are beyond
our reach.
What we need is little less assertion
of preference, and little more expression
OF coav5ctson. We must learn to advocate
our system on scriptural grounds, not in
a sectarian, but in catholic spirit.
Without this resource, we are liable to
be regarded as little better than in
truders in many communities. A mere
multiplication of sects is poor task for
Christian labor. A church that exists
for no other reason than to accommodate
the spirit of dissent had better disband.
Our organisation has grand mission
to conserve Scriptural truth in matters
OF doctrine, polity, and worship. 1t is
easier to maintain our position on the
ground of principle than of mere human
exPediency. A Auotuating standard pre-
vents stability, and tends to an indefinite
multiplication Of sects and parties.
Nothing is more fatal to the unity Of
Christendom.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

THERE have been rumors for some
years that the Yankees proper were
all dying out. The Irish, it was said,
were threatening to occupy Massachu-
sets. The old Puritanism too of New
England was all disappearing. The
production of nutmegs had greatly di-
minished. The latest phase of this
general decay is commented on by DIR.
w. @. Prime in letter to the Journal
Of Commerce. He says the Connecticut
River is drying up, owing to the fact
that the SHOWS are no longer held by
the spongy MOSES of the forests, which
have been cut do wn to supply the de-
mand for timber. Hills that were once
forest covered are bleak masses of rock,
and manufacturing companies in the
Connecticut Valley have everywhere
found it necessary to make artificial
reservoirs. In hundreds of valleys,
says DR.. Prime, where water was abun-
dant in former years, the water line in
the ground is now below the reach of
ordinary wells. We always thought
there was an overstrain in Boston, and
now we have the result. Westward
the star of empire holds its way. This
is the way, in part, that Babylon lost
its prosperity-drying up of the Eu-
pirates.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15
Minutes of the Assembly

Will be ready for distribution on or
before July Oath. A free copy is ordered
to be forwarded to each minister of the
Church. The remaining copies will be
for sale at so cents each, and can be pro-
cured by addressing "The Presbyterian
Publishing House, Columbia, S. G.
JOSEPH R. WILSON, S. Clerk.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

NEITHER Con NOR MAsTER-that is
the title of a new Nihilist paper re-
Gently started in Brussels. But how
are they going to get rid of a God and
a master? Their earthly masters they
propose to assassinate; but they will
find it harder to get rid of tho King Of
kings. Men must have master some
where, and we cannot get out of his
reach. The attempt to rebel against
him, Of which we see so much in this
day, will end like the affair of Lucifer.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

THERE is q Baptist church of sc ven
teen or eighteen members at Nablous,
Palestne-the ancient Shechem, with
a congregation of 100, Sunday School
Of 40, day school Of 100 Mohamme-
dan girls, and a house of worship
called "Zion Upper Chamber Baptist
Chapel"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

For the more complete organization
Of Christian work in China theological class
has been formed, the instructors to be our Pres
byterIan missionaries of the Cheefoo and Tung-
chow stations, only about fifty miles apart. The
course Of study is comprehensive, and if any
thing too exacting for the present needs Of the
church. Probably about half dozen will en-
ter the first class, thus forming the beginnings
Of a native pastorate in North China.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

Nor only our readers in Richmond,
but many others will be grateful to
Rev. P. B. Price for the interesting
sketch of the Third Presbyterian
church of this city, and for the edify-
ing incidents mentioned in it.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

The stir made in Chicago by Christian
men to prevent racing on the Sabbath
day has been productive Of good results,
and last week one Of the Judges Of the
Supreme Court granted an injunction to
restrain racing on the Sabbath at the
West Side Driving Park.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-07-15

SAM JONES calls the german hug.
ging set to music, and run by spider-leg
dudes"