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DWIGHT L. MOODY has turned Senator
James M. Scovel of New Jersey, a politi
clan of thirty five years experience. from
the error of his ways and set him up as
an evangelist. This is one good deed in
a naughty world. II Mr.. Moody would
but take the contract to convert the
whole fellowship of politicians what
wealth of prayers would be concentrated
on his effort!
Five and a half millions for it's
churches, six millions for it's amuss-
ments, one hundred millions for its grog:
This is the rate at which New York City
is coming into the kingdom. Let the
journals of civilization and other proph-
cts OF the new dispensation either blink
the liquor problem or else pour elaborate
ridicule on the ideas and efforts of the
reformers.
in these days of the appointment
of commissions to inquire into every
thing under the sun, we should like to
see board of experts employed upon
the task of finding out whether the in
fuence and tendency of the large insti-
tutions of learning in this country are.
on the whole, tributary to intellectual
sanity and moral health or not. They
certainly do deal of mischief and set a
demoralizing pace for the smaller COL
leges. There is not a spot in the earth
where the evidence that we are only
semi civilized is so ample and irretuta
BILE as in the great seats of learning.
"A writer in the New York Post, who
speaks from inner sympathy as well as
from personal knowledge, assures US
that Prof. Huxley twas neither an athe-
ist nor materialisi." 1t is a significant
circumstance, certainly, that it should
be thought necessary to put in such a
disclaimer on his behalf. 1t reflects, un-
consciously, the fact that Prof. Huxley's
attitude towards theism was so uni
formly oppugnant as to produce on the
public mind the impression that he re-
pudiated the idea of God altogether.
The reservations which he here and
there made in his controversial articles
left no trace on the mind of the general
reader. Apparently he was as Jealous
for strict and pure naturalism as Won
Holbach or Hobbies.
Prof. Huxley't place in science must
be determined by scientific men. That
it will be foremost place among the
savants Of his own generation cannot be
doubted. His prominence before the
world, however, was due much more to
the share he took in popular discussions
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tion for relief from the rule of men
who seek office as highwayman seeks
his victim for what he can get out of
him. Danger drives the patriot into
confederation for self-protection. The
press and the school and the pulpit
and the platform begin to glory more
and more in the American flag. Yes,
the flag, our flag, becomes more and
more the rally-cry of the nation. Its
royal folds become more and more
eloquent as the years go by. Its am
pie and billowy expanse invites the
generations to find protection under
its shadows. 1t bids us drop the
party hatchet, the spoilers bludgeon,
the robbers knife, and the politicians
low cunning, and bear up like men
this ensign and glory of the nation.
A mans political opinions in some
offices are important, but what is
more important in every Office, in
every position of trust, is an affirma-
tive answer to the question, is he cap
able-is he honest-is he reliable
is he patriotic? With such men in
Office the government would be sea-
soned with that Righteousness which
exalteth nation" With such men
in Office our hearts would be full of
the incense of thanksgiving and of an
inspired love of our country. Roy
ally would our souls mingle with the
patriotic choirs of the land:
"Great God! We thank thee for this national
home,
This bounteous brth-land of the free!
There wanderers from afar may come
And breathe this air of liberty,
Still may her flowers untrampled spring,
Her harvests wave, her cities rise
And yet, till time shall fold his wing,
Remain earth's lovliest PARADISE
With such men for office we should
hail and absorb as our own the per-
grafton of our greatest orator at Ply
mouth Rock: "Advance then ye fu-
ture generations! We greet your
accession to the great inheritance
which we enjoy. We welcome you to
the blessings of good government and
of religious and political liberty. We
welcome you to the treasures of sci
ence and the delights of learning.
We welcome you to the transcendent
sweets of domestic life-to the hap
piness of kindred and parents and
children. We welcome you to the
immeasurable blessings of rational
existence, the immortal hope of Chris
tianity, and the light of everlasting
truth.
LA GRANGE, ILL,
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THE BAOOALAUREATE SERMON AT
BUOHTEL COLLEGE.

DR.. Cone took his text from Cor inthians XIII
81: "Desire earnestly the greater gifts" Follow
ing are extracts:
GAIL men recognize some attain
ments, achievements, as greater than
others. Some things which we strive
for are great in themselves. They
serve no subordinate end. They are
ultimate, complete in themselves.
Such things are character, obedience
to the voice of duty, purity of heart,
fidelity to conscience. Other things
are great only for the ends they serve,
such as physical culture, the reading
of good books and many other sub
ordinate things.
Conspicuous among the greater
things are the ends of education. 1t
is certain that the intellect takes the
lead in the development of man. 1t
gives us knowledge; facts which are
poured in through all the avenues of
SENSE lTOLu Luo uuiHcIoo WHICH, lb lull
of facts. These constitute the pabu-
lum of the soul, and so intimate is the
relation between the different parts of
our nature that we cannot expect a
high moral or religious development
without the intellect has first been
developed in high degree. History
shows us that meagre moral and re-
ligious results always attend meagre
religious and intellectual develop
ment.
Nov, the importance of the intel
lectual ends has always impressed
the thinkers and philosophers of the
world. From them we have the max
i'm of philosophy: In the world there
is nothing great but man; in man
there is nothing great but mind 1t
is because of his intelligence that
man is the lord of creation and the
ally of God. 1t is through the culti-
waited and trained intellect that man
has arisen from the low level of be-
stiality and barbarism to his present
high plane Of civilization and enlight-
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Summer Outing Papers
III.
Visit to Mount Vernon-The Old Garden
and its Old Fashioned Flowers The
Mansion and Its Various Rooms-Rel-
les. etc.
MRS. sHERwooD's LETTERS.

WASHINGTON, June 26.-No fairer
spot is to be found in the vicinity of
Washington for days outing, than the
historic grounds of Mount Vernon. This
fine old mansion home and last resting
place of the Nations greatest hero, sits
on the bluff overlooking the Potomac
river, on which to-day many fairy like
sails are skimming, like winged crea-
lures. under the bluest of summer Skies
Once week we had promised to give
ourself days outing instead of taking
the usual conventional vacation of a
month, and the first day off was spent
at this shrine of patriotism.
1t was not our first visit. But ever
and forever, the charm OF the place is as
fresh and tenderly sweet as it was the
first time seen. Whether one enters by
the usual route, or by the less fire.
quented one on the electric cars from
Alexandria, is no matter. Either way it
is the one trip which all women declare
to be the best of all sights" to be seen
in the vicinity of the capital city,
Mount Vernon is old, but not left to
show the ravages Of time. Old things,
old places and old people, we'll cared for,
have a charm as beautiful as new things,
new places, and young people. 1t all
depends.
The Old Garden.
From the garden gateway to the gang
plank at the rivers brink, every spot of
ground on this place is under the eye Of
those who see that it is not allowed to
drop into decay. nor look neglected. En-
tering the old garden. which is about an
acre of ground surrounded by brick
wall and fence, one begins to feel at once
the quiet charm of this old place. 1t
wears its honors with dignity. The
landscape garden remains still as George
and Martha Washington planned it's
dear delights over hundred years ago,
just like other live folks do their ample
grounds in these degenerate days. The
high box hedges, cutting it up into al
leys, squares and oblong beds, 60 well
clipped and vividly green, are just as
they were planted by their old gardener
in days of yore, for this was Washing
toms ideal home which dwelt in his
mind a clear vision of beauty, as he
made his many campaigns. or served the
nation as it's first President. On his an
nual visits the work of bringing the
vision down to dwell with men went on,
and one has no difficulty at all in sum
moning his august shade, figure in
periwig and shorts Of buckskin. or Mar
tha's ghost from out the past. TO lead
the way round this most bewitching Of
old gardens in their company.
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Finally wish to call attention to
another of the greater things which
are to be sought, and / would call
that moral earnestness, or, if you
please, moral enthusiasm. The ra-
tional conviction which is capable of
verification; that permeating human
life is the Eternal who loveth righte-
BUSINESS, the Eternal that is ourselves
and is in the whole of life and social
order of men, and we in and part of
it, so that this rational conviction,
this conviction of a sanctified reason
once laid hold of by human intelli-
gence, creates an enthusiasm for this
most invaluable and holy thing
mankind. This rational conviction,
that is moral earnestness.
"Given this cultivated intellect,
trained intelligence, characters
grounded in righteousness, and this
moral enthusiasm and earnestness to
crown and complete it all, and you
have the greatest things that are to
be sought in life. And to you, my
young friends, 1 would say that you
have begun to seek for the greater
things in seeking for an education.
And you have found in your expert
ence what 1 have tried in broken
way to present to you today, that all
that you have achieved has been
achieved through and in principles,
character, rectitude and fidelity to
duty, conservation to the divine ends
of life. The friends who love you can
wish for nothing better for you than
that you continue in this way. Con-
tinue the education which you have
begun. Continue to hold fast to the
eternal right. Make this basal prin
ciple of character fundamental in all
your doings, on which your success 8
must always depend"
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CONTENTS.
CHICAGO, SATURDAY. JULY 1s, 1895.


Page One.
Editorial Briefs,
Baccalaureate Sermon at Buchtel College.
Hopeful Signs in the Political Firmament.
Summer Dating Papers.-U.
Page Two.
Sermon: Hearts-Ease.
DR.. Lyman Abbott and Bishop Spalding.
Literary Vignettes.
Selections.
The Sunday School Lesson.
General Convention Receipts.
Page Four.
EDITORIAL:
Summer Travel and Vacation.
Benton Harbor Dedication.
DR.. Canfield's Address.
Personal. etc.
Page Five.
Church News and Correspondence.
Dedication at Lam0nte, Mo.
Page Six.
The Family Page, Farm. Garden and Dairy
Page Seven.
Our Boys and Girls.
Page Eight.
Church Notices and In Memoriam.
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HOPEFUL SIGNS IN THE POLITICAL
PERMANENT.
BY REV. A. A. THAYER, DID.

While this is an era of great sins,
it is hopeful sign that this is also
an era of great political reforms.
sThe air is full of the reform idea.
From one end of the country to the
other people are seeking relief from
corrupt political and social conditions.
AS nation we are seeking salvation
from the things which mean certain
destruction, if unchecked" "There
is revival in the land. 1t is called
a revival of civic patriotism, a revival
of municipal righteousness, a revival
of good government. To the citizen
this revival means clean streets, bet.
ter laws better enforced, honest courts
of justice, honest officials and purer
politics" It means league offensive
and Defensive of therighteous against
the wicked, of the patriots against
the traitors, of the well-intentioned
against the rascals.
But will gentlemen and patriots
say that political reforms areimpossi-
BILE? To say they are impossible is
the surest way to make them 80. In
duce the sick man to believe that he
is verify incurable and you have COW
cred nineteen n-twentieths of the way
to his death. How shall the soldiers
win the battle when every man is as
sured that it is already lost? Poll
tical courage is the great yitalizing
force in reform. Courage is both
rain and sun to the growth of victory.
And how can we lack the courage in
face of the examples of New York and
Chicago9 If we can rout the devil
of corruption in the inner citadels of
his domain, how much easier the VIC
tory in the outskirts of his power.
For myself, l have great hopes of
the success of the new organiza-
tions of civic federation which begin
to grow into prominence in all cor
ners of the land. The National Chris
tian Citizenship League was already
extended and powerful enough to in
spire hundred thousand clergy to
fix the attention of their hundred
thousand congregations upon these
patriotic matters on the ante Fourth
of-July Lords day. This of itself is
an inspiration toward better things.
All the political or civic fraternities
are aiming at substantially the same
reforms that should quicken the zeal
of all Christian fraternities. These
reforms embrace items as follows: To
prevent, by personal efforts, the NOM
ination and election of corrupt candi-
dates in all parties, and the enact
ment of corrupt laws in city, State
and Nation. 2. To secure fidelity on
the part of officers intrusted with the
execution of laws. 3. To extermin-
ate the saloon as the greatest enemy
of humanity. A. To purify the cleo
tive franchise. 5. To promote the
study of social wrongs and remedies.
6. And in general, to seek the reign
of whatsoever things are true and
honest, are just and pure and lovely
and of good report.
Now all these things are cheering.
They are encouraging because the
heart-throbs of all good citizens beat
in harmony with them. The universal
political prayers of the country petit
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
EDITORIAL BRIEFS.

BY PRESIDENT I. M. ATWOOD. D. D.
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Every year the tourist and the Con.
vention delegates visit Mount Vernon
and the tomb of Washington by the
thousands. but it remained for the order
of Pythians to inaugurate a curious
tribute of respect ~ on the occasion of
their grand encampment at the capital
couple of years ago. Some one of them
idly or not--threw in his Pythian
card, which fell on Washington's sarco-
phagus, as he looked through the
grating into the sacred sepulchre, and
Immediately shower of Pythian paste
board few over the heads of the eager
throng about the grating. Possibly it
meant as much as though they had
covered him with flowers. But Aunt
Emily smiled sympathetically after these
guests had departed, as the guide
gathered them up muttering; "Well,
this beats me! wonder if ought TO
make out list of these cards for the
old General and keep them until called
for. or dump them into the fire at onces
We can't have clutter round here, no
matter what they meantl"
EMILY L. SHERWOOD.
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At banquet given by the Society Of
Authors to Walter Besant to compli-
ment him on his knighthood, in reply
to Hall Game remarks, Sir Besant said !:
eff were made a knight in recogni-
ton of any writings of mine, then I
should have to look around and ask
where are the men of higher rank? I
should be very much honored indeed by
being thought worthy of a knighthood
in letters, but where, one would ask,
can we find the baronets, the barons and
the earls of letters? Where, for instance,
is his grace the Duke of Boxhill? Where
is the Earl of Wessex? Where is the lord
of the Hebrides? Where is the lady of
the Beleaguered City? Where is Lady
Fauntleroy? Where is my Lady Els
mere! Where is the Earl of Man? Where
is my Lord Thrums? Where is the Earl
OF Bfattleboro, VT? Where was the
Marquis OF Samoa while he lived? The
honor, sir, must beg to insist upon, is
in reality conferred upon this society
itself. 1t is the virtual recognition of this
society. 1t is, to use Lord Rosebery's
own words, for services rendered to the
dignity of literature And these serv-
ices would be futile were it not for our
own organization. Sir, we may be Rad
ical Or Tory or what we will, but let us
remember that Lord Rosebery was the
first prime minister who ever gave a
thought to the dignity of literature-the
first who ever recognized that litera-
ture is profession at all. -
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WHITE HEAD.

Sometime ago the PRESS published a
biographical sketch of Mr.. g. Z. Randall
a native of Portland, but now of Eas
Boston, who has gained some fame as {
writer of pleasant verses. and also severa
| specimens of his verse. Mr.. Randall now
sends us one of his latest compositions
entitled 'EWhi to Head" which is pub
lished below:
Dear grand and towering old White Head,
on thy brow stand once more,
And with tear-dimmed eyes watch the
foaming waves break ON thy rocky
shore:
No spot in all this earth so fair, more
dear to this heart of mine,
Than this towering Cliff by old Ocean
kissed, grown gray with the touch OF
Time;
For here the old sweet tale of love, to my
hearts fond Queen told,
Long years ago at a twilight hour as the
sun set in clouds of gold
REFRAIN.
Dear old white Fl ead, % where the wild
waves dash,
Naught more dear to this heart of mine
Than this towering rock, where the sea
gulls rest,
Grown gray with the touch of Time.
For a few short, blissful years she was
my dear, loved, happy bride,
And We oft came here. in summer hours to
gaze DER the waters wide;
All life looked then go bright and fair
to both, as we talked and planned
For each others good in coming years, as
we sat here hand in hand
Alas those hopes were meier realized,
twas the will of Heaven above
Tocall from me my Darling One and
end our earthly love
Long weary years have passed since
then, my hairs now tinged with gray,
And tracings OF Times pen are plain on
cheek and brow today;
Yet oh, my love, my youthful love, it
seems but yesterday
That here our hearts were joined in love,
to hold eternally.
Oh! my love, my long lost love, in life's
declining day
How much realize what I lost since
thou vast called away.
And now, old Cliff, I must say farewell,
tho my heart still bids me stay,
But must take life's work again an6
| wander far away.
I know not if in life again I may stand
| on thy breezy brow,
And watch the white sails passing by
and the waters ebb and flow;
But this know, while memory lasts ant
where'er my feet may tread,
| I'll not forget this hallowed spot. tn,
brow of old White Heal
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and would not waitsfor the orders of the
ruler if the are anxious for a JeJad
against the hated Christians.
Ii the sultan should attempt or if any
part of his dominion, independent of his
orders, inaugurate a holy war, it be-
comes the duty of every Christian ma
tion to take prompt action in the proteo-
tion of the helpless people that will be
exposed to every kind of outrage that
the devilish ingenuity of the Moslem re-
ligion will contrive to invent. Personal
interests and ACKNOWLEDGMENT should be
promptly laid aside in the cause of hu-
mainly.
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ISLAM'S GREEN BANNER.
How Holy War With All Its Horrors is
Proclaimed
&C. L. SIMPLIFY in Baltimore Sun. }

&C. l.. SIMPLIFY in Baltimore Sum-
AS the interests Of the Christian por-
ton of the universe are now conferred in
AN effort to relieve the distress of people
of Armenia, an Asiatic province of the
Turkish empire, and as rumors have
been current that the troops of the Sultan
now concentrating in that province for
the ostensible purpose of putting down
an incipient rebellion of the miserable
people have displayed the green ban
ner," which means holy war; it will
be of interest to trace as far as possible
the origin and meaning of ''jejad" OR
''holy war -
1t is understood to be a Mohammedan
doctrine that jejad, or holy war, can only
lie proclaimed by the Shiek-ul Islam,
the religious deputy of the Sultan, by
the personal order of the sultan himself
The proclamation is performed by un-
folding the sanjaksherif or flag Of the
prophet, which is made of green silk,
with a crescent at the top of the staff, to
which is attached horsehair plume.
This flag is deposited in the Mosque of
ST. Sophia, at Contantinopb 1t is not,
however, the original flag of the prophet,
as that ensign was white, and was made
from the turban of the Koreish which
Mohamet captured. For this some time
later, was substituted black flag, made
of the peuticoat of Ayesha, the favorite
wife of the prophet, and in whose arms
he died.
Omar, the second Moslem caIiph, OBJ
tanned possession of the flag by conquest,
and it passed subsequently into the hands
of the Abassides and the Caliphs of Bag
dad ard Kalmira, and was brought to
Europe by Amurath III. and deposited
in the seraglio at Constantinople. When
the flag was changed in color from black
to green is not known, but according to
the doctrine of Mahomet, the sultan and
his deputy have tbs sole authority to
unfurl the flag over Constantinople and
proclaim "holy war; war against all
Christendom, and one in which every
species OF atrocity is perpetrated in the
name of the prophet on the unbelievers
The unfurling of the green flag among
the Turkish soldiery, if there be truth
In the report, may not be from tho orders
of the sultan. as there is q large element
of the Mohammedans, particularly those
o. Arabia and the Holy, Land, who do
not recognize the legitimacy of the claim
of the Ottoman Turks to the caliphate,
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