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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-12-08

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thinRs tbey aludg iha aunQn AZ villa
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dsla of aonR. Tbe miRhelmaala llrhannd.
b1l aid Dot Eepeat Ha plne& awtr -
died wifhin 4 seek.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-12-08

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Wis uae rses1ily tFAnateRred 10 Dan
Ee1esa, has esua - his nesianatiaa %
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esaasmztian.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-12-08

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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-12-08

AuwAUmR, Dee. TIN TIE csas a
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YANKEE Garden rioters, ths jury earus
In ae0af II O'clock and Feportsa Ne
agFeemsnt. 1hs iadRs sant then hask
for further osliburasioa, and immeai
aisiy len for NankasAa. he viii not
retaEn until evening. Conssqaeatly
nothtnQ can be learned o. tha iuryss
andinR Until that tine. TIE Rsnsfal
opsnion is there vii Be no verdisl
RetteR MaVe Raad Dusy.
WAsHm0roN. Dee. 6-Ths Treasury
DepAFtment today aecs pied an snsr o
cempromso uhai ie kn0Wn as ehs Lea
ter uadervalaati0n case. Mr.. Joan 4 !.
Asss,sE. q Chloago. rsosnily imported a
11snbor Of Saiuahle paintings from
raFls, Whlch we're seized by she Gus
toms ofnesFs because of az allegad Il
temps 20 eRads legal duties. Two in
voices were ased, one for the oansianee
sne ne ether fer tie Cnstora Hoass.
Ihe vAluesof The Raintinns, according
70 the former, vas Sio00, ana aoooraina
20 the latter 500. BY sns terms af the
oompromisa AIR. Lesser viii pay duties
and costs amounting 70 about efe0O
and q penalty OF $500.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-12-08

q ths insolrsnf 6Fm Of L.inoaln, Cham-
neriAin q Co. poFk paskaEs. e which
ne vas q partner, and with She orima
g psf30Ry . having swoxn falsely e
certain eAper1 q Eovarnmane honda.
CcDplaiaAnts are 1ohn p. Squire & Co..
VITA whom dsfeadaals ira hes done
haalnes1 70 NE extena Of nearly el.Ooa
~ and who sttached TIE esaa1s and
ousinem e tka defendants soms years
aRos whe1 the Indeoeedness a tie istisF
aRRreaao1d &5Q0o00 A bearing II he
paE5aEy case began thls marnina.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-12-08
FRRRS AND PLANTS.

A VERY FINE VARIETY or
- cnolc& healthy Fruit Trees and
iic for the faaf trade.
OEdef early. send Tor price list ana de-
crtpuvo cAtaingua % the CisverdaIa
krnn ksr . and PealtrT Yard, seattle.
eeewde2 Wa DAVTS prnn
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-12-08

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pees taia evening foF - puFBam n
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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-12-08

bAE1uEoAK, Dsa. la hfs oosuFrad
early tks moFniDg IA to grame build
inGn en- E1tAw strsst, which were d.
s1EUyed. I1e polioa reae1ed thirieru
peFsons from the buildinea. bat could
nst 6nd Ms. Ann Peek. aged 20 yesrs.
Her body. burned % q egf D, wAs after
ward foand IN tAird- -story room.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-25

Is THE WORLD GROWING BETTER "A
correspondent of the Journal and Hes
senger, discussing the question. answers
it as follows:
Millions of money employed by governments
in founding and sustaining free education mil
lions more in establishing and endowlng and
furnishing schools of higher learning millions
more in establishing and maintaining benevo
lent institutions for all the unfortunate classes
millions for churches open to all classes for the
cultivation of the purest morals; millions for
the publication OF Bibles and religious literature
to be given away sold at the lowest possible
cost; and millions for missionary efforts to lift
up to higher civilization the heather tribes of
men, and the'thousands of humanitles that are
spreading rapidly over the civilized world
breathing good will to men"-all these are
scarcely noticed by the newspapers, and If
noticed it is with no display nor attempt to give
them the Importance which they relatively de-
serve. When we consider all these things, and
the means of locomotion, labor saving lnven.
tions, telegraphs telephones. steam power In all
It's ramlhed applications, sanitary arrangements
In prisons and In war the augmented intercourse
of nations with freedom born of Christian
civilization. and the tendency to arbitration OF
national differences, there Is no room for doubt
about the true answer to the question.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-25
Richmond, Va, w ednesday, August 25.
Central Presbyterian for 1886.

We ask our present subscribers, our
agents, and the ministers in the churches
to aid us in extending the circulation
of the Centred Presbyterian. We do
not ask any one to take the trouble of
introducing the Central Presbyterian
without compensation, and make the
following proposals:
l. Any subscriber who will, with his
own subscription, send the name of a
new subscriber, shall have the paper
sent to the two for 81.
2. We will allow commission of ST.
for every new subscriber obtained who
pays in advance.
There are hundreds of subscribers
who can, each, easily obtain one or two
new subscribers (some can obtain many
more), and we ask them to make the
effort.
The Central Presbyterian aims
1. To be faitl ful representative of orthodox
evangelical Christianity, and of the principles
Of the Presbyterian Church.
2. 1t aims to keep fully abreast OF the learn
ing and Investigations of the day. while uncom-
promisingly opposing the heterOdOx teachings Sc
rife at this time.
3. 1t notices fully every great question that
touches the interest of the Church, or affects
Christianity.
4. It's readers will have the best opportunity
otseeing the Christian view of these. questions
5. 1t allows and invites free discussion, but
only in the bounds of Christian courtesy.
6. 1t gives full summary of religious news
from every Presbytery in our Church, and con-
taiAs also carefully prepared summary of re
ligious news from every part of the world.
Z. It gives choice religious reading, carefully
prepared or selected for the family and for tn
children.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-25
"Ne,o Hauen, April 10th, 1885,"

A NEW FIND, says Mr., Arthur G. Nc
Gitfert, in the Independent, has been re-
Gently made, which promises to be of
considerable Importance. Dr. Schess, q
teacherin the gymnasium at Wurzburg,
found, few months ago, in an old man.
uscript belonging to the Wurzburg
University library, eleven tracts, which
he ascribes to Priscillian, celebrated as
the leader of the party which bore his
name, and which was prosecuted in the
year 3S5 under Maximus. Priscillian
himself and some of his followers were
beheaded, the first heretics punished
by death.
The manuscript seems to date from
the seventh century. One of the tracts
promises to give important information
about the canon. The epistle to the
Laodiceans and other apocryphal wri
tings are freely used, showing an un
certainty about the canonical books.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-25

THE Christian Register, under the
heading, Postponed on Account of the
Mikado," has the following: "This
was the laconic sentence which came
to our office by mail last week. Inqui-
ry showed that the thing postponed
was the installation of a Unitarian
minister. The relation which the
'Mikado' had to such an event was not
at once apparent. The number of Uni.
tartan churches in Japan is very small
That the 'Mikado' should have been
guilty of such breach of etiquette as
to interfere with the installation of an
Unitarian minister, md thus incur the
criticism of the CIV, e0tiaA Register, ap
peared highly improbable. On the con
trary, it seemed more likely that the
postponement had taken place on &C
count of the respect which the Unitari-
ans have for the Mikado' instead of any
disrespect which the 'Mikado' has for
Unitarians. Investigation showed that
this was really the case. Two effer
vescent 'high-tea' drinking English
men, named Gilbert and Sullivan, had
composed q musical and dramatic con-
tradiction in recognition of the 'Mika-
do The rendering of this information
al compliment in New England town
by local company made such heavy
demands upon the resident musical
talent, that when the parts in the ope
ra was filled there was no one left to
fill the parts in the choir. Nor was it
deemed advisable to precipitatea catas-
trophe by setting the claims of an &C.
clesiastical service and those of an ope-
ra in collision. 1t was, therefore, de-
cided to postpone the installation Of
the minister and proceed with the in.
stallation of the Mikado."
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-25
THE MCCALL MISSION in France seems

The MCCALL MISSION in France seems
to be quite a success. Mrs. Mariane j.
Chase, of Philadelphia, President of the
American branch of the association, says
At the beginning of this century Protestant
ISM could not count one hundred and fifty pas
tors it had no Christian works of instruction or
of evangelization. 1t simply existed. To day
1t has list OF one hundred and ffty-fve Chris.
tian workers, and eight hundred pastors to carry
on the work of evangelization among the scat.
tered churches. The annual gift of French Pro-
testants for the support of churches, and Chris
tian work are estimated at $4,000. 1t can
not therefore, be said that French Christians are
giving nothing for the advancement of Christi
anlty In their midst. We have only to compare
their gifts with those of American Christians
whose numbers exceed those of our French
brethren by millions, and it is we'll to remem-
Der, also, that there are very few, if any, rich
Protestants in France. The cross Of Christ in
France is lighted up anew Its light is life.
Over against the dark background Love shines
out from it, and in that Eternal Love is saliva
ton to the uttermost"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-25
THE Preahxterx of Anrnata 90 uh;ah

The Presbytery of Augusta, of which
DIR. Woodrow is member, met at Beth
any church, Georgia, on Thursday, Au-
gust 18th. On Monday the 10th, the
Presbytery took up the charges against
DR.. Woodrow, and on Tuesday voted
(by vote of Ii to 9)-not to sustain them.
This result was generally anticipated, as
the Presbytery mad at its meeting in April
last voted that it could find no ground
for judicial process" This Presbytery is
a small one, consisting of ten ministers
and eighteen churches. The case will
be brought by appeal before the Synod
of Georgia, which meets at Sparta, Ca,
November 10th.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-25


IN the Evangelistic Conference at
Mortified, held by Mr.. Moody, we find
reported the following advice by Mr..
Moody to young men:
More men are ruined in college by bad asso.
elates than in any other way. 1t may be like
cutting off the right hand to give up an ascot.
ate when you love him, but it may be necessary.
Ii 80, don't hesitate We are in the world; but
there is a difference between that and the world
being In us When the world gets in it ruins
your testimony. You have got to come out of
the world
One asks how to begin work among the
heatheDs. Begin to work at home first II you
don't have success here, don't go. Work and
wait till you have it. Take some city for a year
There's Chicago, with ninety per cent of for
eigners in it the Germans, Bohemians. Swedes
and Norwegians. If God don't give you souls
here dontthin you ought to 90 to foreign
lands. Said Wesley, when a man came to speak
about entering the ministry Do you preach
Have you made any one mad Have you con
verted any one2 No then 1 don't think you
have q call to preach Go to work this sum-
mer wherever you may be don't wait to have
the college year begin. Take a school-house,
get an audience together and preach. You'll
soon find out whether you have call OF not,
and whether you will have success in heather
country. Whatever thy hand fndeth to do,
that do with all thy might / don't believe
that there i5 one man before me, but what can
win one soul to Christ IN week if he sets about
it,"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-25

The Je,cish Messenger thus refers to
the large immigration of Russian Jews
to the United States:
"The Russianization of American
Judaism is the problem of the day.
With fountain of three millions to
draw from, it is only question of a
few decades, at the present rate of emf
grafton, when Israelites of Russian birth
will be in the large majority. One fact
is clear: Israel in America welcomes it's
brethren of whatever extraction, but
it wants none of foreign contraction
men who retain foreign fungi as Jewish
principles, and build a permanent
Ghetto on American soil. We are of
the opinion that the old cries of ortho-
doxoy and reform have spent their
force, save in the columns of few
coarse grained Jewish weeklies. The
vital question will now be, America
or Russia, Hungary, Roumania? 1t
behooves Jews of American birth, and
especially younger, college-bred men
and women, to draw more closely to-
gether, to organize their own congre-
cations in a modest way, unless they
would be swamped in near future. 1t
must frankly be admitted that the pre-
ponderance of the foreign element has
done more to disassociate young Ameri-
can Israel from the synagogue than
any other cause. When young Ameri-
can Israelites feel strangers in their
house of worship, there is something
rotten in Denmark"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-25
THE -MINLSTRA TION OF THE
SPIRIT.

To contemporary who supposed
Jesus to be mere man, the most Curl
GUS thing in all his utterances would
probably have been the talk with his
disciples wherein he spoke of sending
a Comforter" to abide with them after
he himself was taken out of the world.
Let us 90 back to Athens and the times
of Socrates, and imagine Socrates, in
his last conversation with his friends,
telling them not to be discouraged,
that it was expedent for him to leave
them, but that after his departure he
would send another Comforter who
should guide them into all truth and
dwell with them forever. What posi-
BILE meaning could they attach to these
words except to suppose that they
were the mere wanderings of an amia-
BILE but disordered imagination, which,
of course, would not have anything
whatever to correspond with the prom
Use when the great teacher was gone?
The idea was such a silly one, if the
speaker was in his senses and was a
mere man. The disciples themselves,
brought up in the Jewish Church, did
not comprehend what was referred to-.
The Holy Spirit was, in all its special
features, a New Testament idea. 1t is
an idea totally foreign to all human no.
tions, and which has no parallel in the
history Of human thought. 1t was a
preposterous fancy, unless it was to be
realised in some remarkable way in the
future history of the Church Off there
was to be a Church in the world.
Now how could such an idea be real
ised? Let us put ourselves back eigh-
teen hundred years, at the period Of
Roman civilization, in the days of Tibe
RUS and Herod, and try to conceive
what we would understand by such an
announcement. 1t would have appear
ed to them, and to Felix, and PLATE,
and Gamaliel, and Joscphus, like idle
talk.
A COMFORTER, the SPIRIT OF TRUTH,
who was to guide the world into all
TRUTH, and that after the CHRIST was
gone There had been nothing Of the
sort IN the course Of human events be
fore. What was it? And what was it
to be?
But, living in this year, 1886, let us
look back and see if there has been
anything in the experience Of the
whole world during these last eighteen
centuries answering to this. Has there
been some new thing in the world since
the days of Christ which the Greeks
and Romans knew nothing Of? Has
the world felt the impact of some su
pernatural influence, changing the as
poets of human nature itself, which the
philosophers and wise men of that pc.
riod had never formed thought of?
We refer in reply to the history Of
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-25

The following is SO smart that we can.
not refrain from publishingit. OF course
we do not endorse what our neighbors
say Of each other:
" Methodsts are not the pious people they
once were '-SOuthern U11ChmGn. The Metho-
dists are unlucky. The Churchmen Of long ago
prosecuted them because they were pious peo-
ple," and the Churchmen Of to-day Whipping
dlssenters having gone out Of fashion) put a
poor estimate on them because Methodists are
not the pious people they once were" It's the
old story Of " building the tombs OF the prophets
by the children Of the fathers who slew the
saints" 1t is true that our people are not as
rigid in discipline az in former times, which
seems to vex our Episcopal brethren. They are
anxious for US to put in a finer serve that more
screenings" may blow their way II we threw
out all our dancing, theatte-going wine bbbing
members, 1t would keep both Bishops busy
confirming "-LAFFERTY.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-25

DREADFUL YOUTHFUL DEPRAvITY.-
a recent number of the ~ Y Herald
contains report OF the murder of Fred.
erick P6ster in Williamsburg, N Y,
which sheds a terrible light on the moral
condition of the children and youth in
many of our cities, says the Herald:
What may be e1li-d the Boy. Grandfather
series of yellow covered novels based on the
highly imaginary doings of bad and precocious
youth, was fairly squalled at the Pf,ter murder
inquest held yesterday in Williamsburg
Here is an inquiry into murder, told in our
local columns, in which the supposed principals
and witnesses-the boy husband, and the child
wife, the murdered boy rival, the boy and girl
companlons-were all under sixteen years old.
Except their actual age there was nothing about
them to denote youth. They were old in
knowledge, IN sin, in social depravity and the
shame of it all, to williamsburg, is that their
siufulness continued and the final crime of MUIR
der was committed openly on the highways,
easily within sight and hearing of the public
and within reach of the police and the strong
arm of the law.
The coroner, commenting on the case
to the jury, said f:
Among all the irrelevant and contradictory
testimony there are two things clear. One is
the dreadful immortality and depravity shown
to exist in some parts Of this city. Witnesses oil
both sexes, some only sixteen years old, have
testified calmly on that stand under oath to i'm
moralites and degradation which brought a
shock to me- as l am sure they did to you. This
testimony is dreadful warning to parents to
keep careful watch over their children. The
other point is that some parts of Mrs. Sault's
testimony are corroborated. She testified that
bar hra fba frorc 81
ousy. 1t has been shown that he was constant
ly following her about, and that she habitually
carried pistol. You will find other corrobora
tive evidence"
The child wife sat silent and almost impass
bic during the hour and quarter that the Jury
deliberated. She id manifest little nervous
ness from time to time and drank water contin
ually. When the jury announced that they
had found her husband the slayer and herself
an accessory to the crime she got up without a
word to follow the policeman who was to take
her back to Jail
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-25

PASTOR III. LAUNE, the missionary
agent of the French Sunday School
Society, says the Sunday School Times,
writes from Paris in hearty acknowl-
edgment of the gain to the French Sun
day Schools through the introduction of
the international Sunday School system
of Bible lessons. He expresses a wish,
however, for shorter lessons, and for
continuous course in the Old Testament
or the New throughout the year.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-08-25
For the Central Presbyterian.
Rev. S. j. Love.


The funeral of this "man of God" took
place in the Central church, Kansas City,
Mo, on Wednesday, August 18th, at %
P. M. With his able ministry two of
your Virginia churches are especially
familiar. He was pastor of the Tabb st.
church, Petersburg, for three years, and
preached the last sermon in that church
before its destruction by fire and subse-
quent removal to the opposite side of the
street. His work in that city and the
mission of the old edifce closed the same
Sabbath night Some of your readers
who are scanning these lines with specta-
Giles may remember all this.
But the old Hebron church near
Staunton, Va, was the scene of his faith
full labors for no less than eighteen years.
In this nervous, restless age when pas
torate of four years is considered the
average-if not long; it indicates much
that this liable minister of Jesus Christ
preached with acceptance to the same
people for so long a period. For nine
years, also, he was pastor of church
near Natchez, Miss, to which he went
upon leaving Hebron.
We are not at loss to understand why
this preacher wore long and well. shall
mention the last cause first. He was the
recipient at Queens College, Belfast,
Ireland, of a splendid education, both
academic and theological, which thor
oughly equipped him for the ministry.
In that famous institution of learning he
graduated with the highest distinction.
But the prime cause of our brothers
long pastorates, | take it, was his godly
character. His piety was not only fact,
but was beyond all suspicion. He was
lust man, faithful man, good man,
man of God.
From the church near Natchez our
brother was dismissed to unite with the
Presbytery of Tombeckbee, within whose
bounds he labored for few years, when
great physical infrmities came upon him
and arrested his pulpit career. Soon af-
forwards he removed to Kansas City, Mo,
and spent the last seven years of his life
in peaceful retirement, being tenderly
nursed and cared for by his devoted wife
and affectionate children. On Monday
night, August 9th, he quietly fell asleep,
passing away without a struggle.
The funeral services were conducted by
DR.. H. B. Boude of Richmond, Mo-, Rev.
E. McNair of Liberty, Mo, Rev. H. G.
Miller, evangelist Of the Presbytery of
Upper Missouri, and Rev. William Frost
Bishop, pastor of Central church, Kansas
City, Mo. The Introductory address was
made by Mr.. Bishop, who sketched the
brothers career from his Scotch-Irish pa
rentage IN foreign land till the close Of
his labors in Virginia. But the principal
address was delivered by his warm per-
sonal friend, Dr. H B. Boude, who great
ly moved his audience by words both
true and eloquent.
The wife and FIVE children survive this
eminent man Of God. One son is prom
insnt physician in Winchester, Va An
other is cotton planter in Mississippi.
Two are druggists in Kansas City. The
only daughter married Robert Bainbridge
of Fredericksburg, Va, who now lives in
Kansas City, Mo. All Of these are chill.
dren Of whom even man of God could
be Justly proud. God bless them.
B.F. w.