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Human Jud gments.

Jesus never mentioned any of earth's great
men (so-calleD with words of praise. There
had been great conquerors before his time
like Alexander tho Great, but he new a.
luded to them. There had been pbiloso-
pliers, like Plato and Aristotle and Socrates,
but he never spoke of them. Rich men had
received the notice of their fellow men, but
he never mentioned them by name None OF
those of whom human history speaks most
largely came in for word of commendation
from him or his apostles in later years. This
should bid us pause, and make us stop to
think whether our human judgments are not
totally faulty. Have we not put the seal OF
greatness where it does not belong.
In what respect is the world better today
for the existence Of the rich man like Croesus,
Of conquerers like Alexander, of hiloso-
piers like Plato, of authors like Cic nro?
What really valuable thing should we lose
had such men never existed? Gather all ihe
conquerers of the world together, and say
whether they have been as useful to the
world as one John Bunyan or one John Wes-
ley. Put all your philosophical books to-
ge her. and declare whether they have ac-
complished as much for humanity as the
epistle of Paul to the Galatians. Match Bis
marck and Luther and judge whether poll
tician or preacher has the best of it in the
long run. On the other hand, if you blot
out Abraham, Joseph, Moses David the
singer, Elijah, Isaiah, John the Baptist,
Paul, from human history, you usher in
blackaess Of darkness-A. +. Schautter.
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NOMINATED FOR OFFICE.
Prominent Names Sent by the
President to the Senate.
Nearly All the Leading Diplomatic
Appointments Made.
Twelfth DAYS Nominations.

President Harrison has sent the following
nominations to the Senate:
Postmasters-John Sumingsby, at Bar
Harbor, Me-. Augustus j. Hoitt, at Lynn,
Mass. Suydanl F. Wheeler, at Hancock, N.
Y; Richard w. Oldfeld, at Haverstraw, N.
Y; Lewis r. Williams, at Long Branch, n.
j.; Burt G. Drake, at Gainesville, Fla; Or.
lando B. Happy, at Mayfeld, Ky, VIM,
Jenney. at Mount Clemens. Mich.
CasSius NJ. Barnes, OF Arkansas, to be Re.
ceiver Of Public Moneys at Guthrie, Indian
Territory; John I. Ollie, of Indiana, to bs
Register Of the Land Office at Guthrie, In
dian Territory.
Charles E. Monteith, of Idaho, to be agent
for the Indians Of the Nez Perces Agency in
Idaho.
The nominations Of John G. New to be
Consul-General to London and Lewis Wolfy
to be Governor of Arizona were confirmed
by the Senate.
The nomination of Murat Halstead as
Minister to Berlin was reported favorably to
the Senate by unanimous vote Of the For
eign Relations Committee, and the Senate
proceeded to vote upon it. It turned out
that five Republican Senators voted against
him, together with oil the Democrats, and
on that vote he stood rejected.
A motion was Immediately made by Sen
ator Sherman to reconsider the vote, and on
this motion debate went on until the Senate
adjourned.
The five Republicans who voted against
Mr.. Halstead's confirmation were ingalls,,
Plumb, Teller, Cullum and FarwelL
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SnatchinS at a Straw.

In striking contrast to the obliyiousnesS OF
liquor men and their sympathizers to the ter
rible figures that stare them in tho face,
showing the monstrosity of the liquor crime.
is the ridiculous persistency with which they
parade any figures which seem to favor their
side. In the Voice of December 13 we e1-
posed the fallacy of certain figures taken
from the statistics of the British Medical As
sociation, showing that even confirmed ine-
briates were longer lived than total abstain
ers. Yet these figures, so twisted as to sup
port this ridiculous conclusion. are still being
industriously circulated, notwithstanding
the fact that the Committee of the British
Medical Association, with the facts before
them upon which those figures were based,
summarized the result of their investigations
in regard to the effects Of the use of alcohol
in the following language:
"That habitual indulgence in alcoholic
LIQUORS beyond the most moderate amount
has adistinct tendency to shorten life, the
average shortening being roughly proper
toned to the degree Of indulgence.
"That, Of men who have passed the age OF
twenty-five, the strictly temperate, on the
average, live at least ten years longer than
those who become decidedly Incorporate. -
Voice,
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Temnerance News and Notes.


1t is said that 80, OF o people go to bed drunk
in Glasgow every Saturday night.
Bands of Mercy are being formed in con-
nection with the Loyal Temperance Leglons
of Ohio.
A Kentucky W. G. T. U. woman recently
said she had six unanswerable arguments III
favor of prohibition-her six sons.
In one court of London twenty-seVen OUT
of twenty y-eisht cases OF attempted siiiclae
within a short time were traced directly to
drink and the twenty. eighth was doubtful.
DIR. Daniel Dorchester is responsible for
the statement that distillery firm wltnln
three miles of the Massachusetts, state
House has a contract to furnish "0.W gallons
of rum daily to the African trade Tor the
next seven years.
Professor Kovalevsky, Of the Chair OF
Mental Disease at the University OF hhar
koff. Russia. has published book IN Which
he strongly denounces the giving OF alcohoLc
beverages to children and sniarses on the
propriety of not administering alcohol as
medicine without first ascertaining whethec
the patient has All alcoholic dlatheslS.
The W. C. T. U. of Columbus, Miss, re-
Gently sent All earnest request to every
CLERGYMAN in the place to preach sermon
on "The Evils of the Open Saloon" The
plea was considered in the ministers meeting,
and the chairman made answer by note
saving that the ministers, after prayertul
consideration of the request, deemed it ''in-
expedient to comply"
Mrs. Mary A. Lathrop, Of Michigan, who
has been dubbed by her admirers 1.-THE Daniel
Webster of the feminine world" has poor
opinion of saloon keepers. In lecture at
Pitttsburg she said: ''Cannibalism is decent
compared with the saloon business. l have
more respect for a savage who will XIII
missionary, cook him and eat him, than Tor
a man who will allow the liquor business Dc
cause il will lessen his municipal taxes"
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THE LABOR WORLD.

MASSACHUSETTS silk operators average $H
weekly.
BoILER-MAKERs in San Francisco average
$3.50 day.
The miners st Wellington, British Colum.
b!a, are on strike.
THBsoap. stone industry of Vermont is in
aourishing state.
chill has decided that the heathen Chi
nese must not come.
The Amalgamated Union Of American
Carpenters has 454 branches.
STEEL rails have grown in weight from %
pounds to the yard to 9Oand 100.
SAVANNAH (Ga-) colored men refuse ia
work in gangs with Italian laborers.
THE New York silk manufacturers have
granted ten per cent advance in wages.
SAN FRANCISCO clerks are supporting 9
movement to have stores closed on Sundays.
A TES-THousAND spindle cotton mill, ia
cost 100000, is to be put up at Waco, Texas.
OVER 10000 men, women and children ara
employed in the tobacco industry OF Ne"
York city.
THE labor movement is spreading through
out Germany. Many strikes are reported In
the provinces.
PLENTY of farm hands are to be had In
China for Sl2 year and women for two
cents per day.
The Sons of Labor is an opposition order
to the Knights of Labor, which has been
started in England.
OLD miners assert that in eleven years
there has not been so continued period OF
dullness as at the present time.
THE coal miners of Indiana have agreedto
join the new organization entitled the Ma
tional Progressive Union of Miners.
THE Laborers' Protective Union Of Jersey
City, n. j., has engaged physician with
yearly salary to attend sick members.
A QUARTER OF A MILLION plows were
turned out in Louisville last year for the
Southern trade, and their manufacture gave
employment to 1000 men.
THERE is said to be a great demand for
help of all sorts in South Africa, and thou
sands of artisans and mechanics OF all kinds
are wanted at good wages.
THE French Chamber of Deputies recently
enacted law prohibiting the employment
of women at any sort of labor between the
hours of 7. N. and 5 A. N.
THE workingman's blacklist law, which
passed the Indiana Legislature, provides
that such employers as may blacklist any
workingman shall be fined $50.
ACCORDING to reports given at the
Womans Congress in Detroit, 3,O0o, 900 OF
the women and girls of this country are en-
gagged in work other than domestic.
THE coal miners, as rule, live in rented
houses, the monthly rent of which averages
from S6 to IS, leaving not more than So at
best with which to support their families.
The total immigration from Hungary and
Bohemia last year amounted to 16, $685. most
of which found its way to the coal fields.
coke ovens and iron mills of Pennsylvania.
A BILL recently brought into the States
General of the Netherlands by tho Minister Of
Justice, makes provisions for the prevention
of excessive labor Of youthful persons and
women,
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TEMPERANCE.

Song Of Drunkards.
1--WE come, we come with sad array,
And in procession long,
To join the army Of the lost
Three hundred thousand strong.
HOur banners beck'ning on to death,
Abroad we have unrolled;
And Famine, Care, and wan Despair
Are seen upon their fold.
eye heard what music cheers US on
The mothers cry that rang
So wildly, and the babe that walled
Above tho trumpet's clang.
"We've taken spoil; and blighted joys
And ruined homes are here;
We've trampled on the throbbing heart
And fouted sorrows tear.
"We come, we come-we've searched the
land,
The rich and poor are ours,
Enlisted from the shrines Of God,
From novels and from towers.
"And who or what shall balk the brave
That swear to drink and die?
What boots to such, mans muttered curse
Or this, that spans the sky?
"Onwardl though ever OH our march
Hang misery's countless train;
Onward for hell--from rank to rank
Pass We the cup again.
"We come-of the worlds scourges, who
Like US have overthrown?
What woe had ever earth like woe
To our stern prowess known!
"We come, we come to fill our graves,
On which shall shine no star,
To glut the worm that never dies,
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!"
National Adrocute
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The Anchor of the Soul,

Walking, on day one summer, through
the vast navy yard of Portsmouth, England,
7 came upon street called Anchor street.
There side by side, in long lines, were laid
multitudeS of the hughest anchors. You could
not look at thosc immense and graphing
flukes and mighty iron shafts, without q
very real feelin:, Of n resifuF mastery over
tides and storms. With her cable fastened
to one OF those great anchors, and with that
anchor getting grip on the bottom of the
sea, 10 lee shore could threaten, or devastat-
ing breaker harm the gallant ship.
Do you remember how in the Epistle to the
hebrews we are told of the anchor of tho
soul? The anchor Of the soul-wEat steady,
masterful word is this amid the tossings and
the changes and the dashing uncertainties Of
our lives!
And will you notice q popularity of this
anchor of the soul? We are told it entereth
into that within the veil The veil i'll the old
Temple was the symbol of separation be-
tween God and man. And in this scripture
about the anchor of the soul, the veil stands
for whatever distance, or mystery or sinful
ness may divide and binder us from God and
hide Him from us.
The great navigator Sir Francis Drake
made a voyage round the world III the ship
Golden Hind,- little vessel of but q hun
dred and twenty tons. At last, after an abb
SellCe vi INo yeaio eiiu leil Hisii.iS, ITO
dropped his anchor in Dcptford harbor.
The or ut Queen Elizabeth refused to
summon him to her palace to make
him knight but went herself to
Deptforl, and, sta ding with her royal feet
on the deck of his little hut triumphant YES
sci, laid the sword upon his shoulders, and
hadc him stand before her hcEceforth Sir
Francis Drake. The great queen knew how,
right royalty, to reward those who added
glory to her crown. And she gave him a
crest lie might wear proudly ever aftcr-a
ship in full sail with cable running up to
Heaven an emblem of the Divine guidance
whic,, had helped him to do the, till then un-
heard-of decd
Sir Francis crest is kind of picture Of
the Scripture word about this ~ Choir of the
soul. For this anchor of the soul is not
flung into any sea-bottom; does not 20 down
into any shifting worldly pl &C or thing.
But upward tn s anchor of the soul is cast.
The hawser which holds this anchor passes
up and through the celestial spaces, through
every veil Of any sort hiding the face of God,
and there in the place of TIL s'lecteSt Di-
vine Presence, the fukeS of this anchor of
the sorl seize and hol TO the very Duttrcssrs
of Gods Throne; and this anchor to Gods
Throne keers mosred even a poor human
soul
Not like ship driven of the storm, and
flung into tho black jaws of cruel reefs,
whert the breakers dash and t. /, need any
of us be. For we may have hope which is
rs an anchor of the soul, both sure and stead
fast and which cntcrcth into that lin the
veil-"Thc Brook IN the Way by Reu.
JTuHdnd IIOm,
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Fourteenth Days Nominations.

NOlrCccuCu DdyS NOuiIitdIlOuS.
The President sent the following nomina-
tions to the Senate:
John T. Abbott, Of New Hampshire, to be
Minister to the Republic Of Colombia.
Edwin e. Tsrrll, Of Texas, to be Minister
Withdrawn-John W. Bergman, Post
master at Versailles Ky.
To be delegates to the conference between
the United States of America and the Repub-
lies of Mexico, Central and South America
Hayti, San Domingo, aud the Empire of
Brazil, to be held in Washington in 1882
John B. Henderson, of Missouri; Cornelius N.
of Maryland; Clement Studebaker, Of Indiana;
7. Jefferson Coolidge, of Massachusetts,; Will
lam Henry Trescott, Of South Carolina; An
drew Carnegie, of Pennsylvania; John Il: q.
Pitkin, of Louisiana; Morris NJ. Estee, of Cali
fornia, and j. H. Hanson Of Georgia.
Postmasters Edward NJ. Bliss, Spencer,
Mass; Ira L. Hicks, New Britain, Conn. !;
Henry Flood, Elmira, N. Y; Samuel S.
Moore, Elizabeth, N. j.; Cornelius S. Gould,
Penn; WIN. H. Zufall, Myersdale, Penn; ;
Robert A. Love, Warren, Penn; Robert s..
Barker, Lock Haven, Penn; David D. P.
Alexander, Apollo, Perm: Thomas Dawson,
Rockville, Nd; Chas. II. Walker, Frost
burg, Md
The Senate has confirmed the following
John Hicks, Minister to Peru; George Z.
Loring, Minister to Portugal; Robert T.
Lincoln, Minister to Great Britain; Allen
Thorndyke Rice, Minister to Russia; Thomas
Ryan, Minister to Mexico: Patrick Egan,
Minister to Chilli; Robert Adams, Jr., Minis.
ter to Brazil Lanzing 3. Miner, Minister
to the Central American States; w. L.
Scruges Minister to Venezuela: w. O. Brad
10Y, Minister Resident and Consu-Gcneral to
Corea
W. S. Upton, Marshal for the Eastern
District Of Tennessee; Tyre Glenn, Marshal
for the Western District of North Carolina;
Marion Erwin, Attorney for the Southern
District of Georgia. George Chandler, Of
Kansas, First Assistant Secretary OF the
Interior; George B. Ferguson, Collector Of
Customs at Belfast Me-
Receivers of Public Moneys-Cassius E.
Barnes, at Guthrie, Indian Territory; Jacob
v. Admire, at Kingfshsr stage station,
Indian Territory.
Roberts, at Kingfsher's stage station; John
/. Ollie, at Guthrie, Indian Territory.
Postmasters-William r. Demond, Cor
ham, N. H.; Andrew D. Cayles, Statesville,
After about two hours debate the Senate
rejected Murat Haistsad as Minister to Ger
many by a vote of 2j to 10.
The vote was taken on motion to lay on
the table the motion to reconsider Thurs
DAYS vote Of rejection. Two Democrats,
Blackburn and Call, voted with the Rspub.
licaps for reconsideration, which was vote
to confirm.
Twenty-Five Senator's all Of them Demo.
Gratis except Messrs. Quay, Teller, ingalls,,
Plumb, Evarts and Dawes, voted for his re-.
lection. Mr. Cullom was pairei for the re-.
lection of Mr. Halstead and Stanford, Stew
art and Jones did hot vote There were
eleven Rspublcans in all who would have
voted 10 reject the nomination had their
votes been needed.
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Lost in Sight of Home.

A few months ago, during one Of the Sc
we're storms that visited Colorado, young
man perished in sight of home. In his be-
wildernent he passed and rspassed his own
cottage, to lie down and die almost in range
with the slight in tie window" which his
young wife had placed there TO guide him
home. All alone she watched the long night
through, listening in vain'for the footsteps
that would come no more; for, long be- ore
the morning dawned, the icy touch Of death
had forever stilled that warm,
loving heart. The sad d"ath was
made still sadder by the fact that he was lost
in sight of home. How mHny wanderers
from the Fathers house are lost in sight of
home, in the full glare of the Gospel light!
They have the open Bible, overflowing with
its calls and pre- mises, the faithful warnings
from the pulpit, The manifestations of Gods
providence, all tending to direct their steps
hcavenward, and yet from all these they turn
away, waiting for the more convenient sea-
SIN, and are lost in sight of the many man.
sions.-FortUard.
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The Saloon a Deadly Curse.

No one can doubt that we need the church,
the school and the factory, but in the light OF
our present civilization no one Will set up
claim for the saloon on its own merits One
has said the saloon is the heaviest clog IN the
progress of our country. Every evil that
curses our nation to-day flows to a great e1-
tent from the saloon. 1t is the prolific source
f1cs in tears, groans blood, vice, misery ana
death 1t drags in dishonored graves a hum
dred thousand human being annually:
Is it any wonder that Gladstone declares
the saloon to be a greater evil than war,
pestilence and famine combined! Why, IN
the presence of such desolation as this, war IS
q white winged angel of peace, pestllencs
healing fountain and famine table of plenty.
The saloon has been compared with the
deadly Upas tree, which not only kills those
who touch it, but sends out its terrible olson
even to those who erdeavor to shun IL.
If we consider the saloon from moral
standpoint it is curse. 1t is the direct cause
of three-fourths of the Sabbath breaking,
profanity and gambling. 1t desolates q
million homes, and transports men eesoai ;.o;
the bounds of reason into tho seas OF d!ssl-
patton and ruin. 1t makes 800 maaacs and
sou, 600 criminals every year. 1t is the sa-
loon in which million mon have lost their
self-respect, their health, their character,
their all Mon with defiled clothing, wrecked
hopes, starving children, empty purses, lost
manhood, the product and support OF inc
saloon. But yet this monster cries out LOT
State and National authority to ply its dread
full work, saying: "Lcense me to SOW the
seeds of shame. License me to make widows
and orphans. License me to write disgrace
upon the fair forehead Of helpless innocence.
License me to befog the mind to paralyze
the reason, damn the soul. License me to
incite tine ed-handed murderer to his terri
bic deeds of deadly violence" But the sa-
loon gets all it asks for.
II IS a financial curse Nine hundred and
forty-five millions of dollars are spent over
the till of the rumseller. More money than
we spend as a nation for all civil service,
army, navy and Congress.
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Civilization Will Not Always Mean
Rum

That the Indians are capable of civilization
has been abundantly proved by the Chero::
KEGS. There are about $4,000 of them, OF
whom half are full blood Thirty-tive per
cent, of the national income is spent upon
schools, and fiftesn per cent. upon asylums.
They have O written language, and claim
that every citizen can read and write. BE-
sides the common schools they have four ox-
celent academies, and each child is allowed
a large sum each year for its schooling.
Think of city among us with %, ,0o1 inhabit-
ants thus equipped for education! They lack
one mark of civilization, however, they have
no saloons, and boast of less drinking among
them than among like numbsr IN any
other community. By this sad lack some of
our statesmen may be discouraged with re-
spect to further attempts to civilize the red.
characterization Standard.
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A Radical I:emedy Required.
The Poor Children.

Have we no pity for the poor, miserable
children? Is thsre no voice strong enough
to plead "like angels, trumpet-tongued,
against the deep dannation Of their taking
offY'-of these children who. in the language
Of Southey, are not Sd much born into the
world as damned into the world, damned,
predsstined, as it were, to live lives of dis
ease and degradation, because of the drink
in the midst of which they are brought up
and of which they have the hereditary
taint in their very veins.-Cdnon Farrar.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
The Sayiour's Sympathy.

The Saviour's sympathy.
While the storm was fiercely blowing,
While the sea was wildly flowing,
Angry wind and angry billow
Only rocked the Saviour's biilow,-
Jesus slept.
But when sudden grief was rending
Human hearts in sorrow bending;
When He saw the sisters weeping
Where the brothers form was sleeping,
"Jesus wept."