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lions were narrow and price changes. through
The later market retained as its chief charac-
teTistic the early dizziness. Prices held firm
Throughout the midday session. The close was
duh. but with a generally steady tone. and final
Total transactions were estimated as about To-
o. shares.
About 100 shares Of Greene Consolidated Cop
per cold at 27LzH21Ac. Northern Securities sold
shares OF Houston on sold at aoii- san Francisco
Traction preferred sold at stqss7s for DO shares.
and the subs sold at lO3isalg3 for about $4,000
worth. United States Steel IS sold at AhB9ti. for
10. and Peoria and Decatur sold at II for leo
shares.
New York. June 6-Conee-Spot Rio dull: No..
lures opened steady with prices unchanged to
> points lower, the decline being in sympathy
with disa ppointing cables. In conjunction with
light local liquidation and short selling. Big
receipts were reported at primary points. while
the spot situation at home showed no Improve
ment, the movement being heavy and prices
easier. Investors orders were few and far be-
tween and prices reached a new lower record
<or the present season. The market. closed
,ady. with prices net unchanged to 3 points
July at SOC: Eept- a-l1c; Oct. 5-I5c: Noy.F525c.
Dec. soc; Jan. SOC: Feb. 5.45c: March s.5oc;
May 5.Gc.
New York. Jure s.-Suear-Raw firm; fair
refining 2Ac; centrifugal ss test 3 7-i0c; molasses
sugar = +-i6c; refined firm; crushed 5.I5c; pow
dered 4.75c; granulatsd 4.e5c- Molasses steady:
New Orleans. La. June s.-susar steady: open
kettle 2hG3 3-lec; do. centrifugal 3a3l4c: eentnf-
dull: Centrifugal sSlse-
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Houston OIL stock Sales.

Houston, Tex. June The are orders out
for some big blocks OF stock, but the price limit
IS too low and trading 10 restricted in -conse-
quence- AnSlo-American. 40 at &c: Export
OIL and Pipe. 200 at 25ci G~ermen-American. 500
At Sc: Merchants and Mechs1ics. ZOO at NC:
800 at 2Sc, 800 at 2ac: Lucky Dime.
200 at sc: National OIL and Pipe, 400 At 14c; Sill
yer Dime. l.025 at I0c; Maid OF Orleans. LOO
at 1nc; San Jacinto. 300 at SC 200 at TIsc.
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Wool.


Dry steady. Dy heavy lie; Texas
average l3A Texas light l2c: fallen I36lfc;
ratire and Arkansas l3%c; No. ! native I4c;, No.
2 native 12Ql2iac: bull IOc: culls 7I2c. Dry-salted-
Round heavy he: round light i0zc: sailed No. !
Pic; salted No. 2 l01c. Horse hide-Dry sc.
Green-salted-WesteTn round nc; Southern TIC;
selected No. l &c; selected No. . &c; part cured
&c per ID. less: uncured Ic per 10. less; cured
less. Bull &c less than COW hides.
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LAX SHORE. NEW YORK AND
UDSON RIVER, BOSTON AND q
n AND OHIO RAILWAY
Train. Depart Arrive.
lndIanapois Express .....-...- Il u am $50 pm
New York and Boston Limited. $50 am .s45 nm,
Kntckerbocker Special New
York, Boston. Washington.
Baltimore and Philadelphia. 1900 am s;l5 nm
Sattcon and Alton Accommo-
dalton t4:2o pm s'i5 pm
Boston, New York. CincinnatIt,
Washington. Baltimore and
Philadelphia ....--.-..-..... s:s pm 80 am
AIton-Leaves 1890 a. m. s5:+S D. m. Arrives
$50 a m, 'i:i5 p. m.
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SPECLAL
saies were: Gold Eagle. 1850 shares at 1oc; In
dependenee. LOO at e: National OIL and Pipe.
Beaumon OH Mineral. u.0oo at &c: Lone Star and
Crescent. 25 at s1c: Ground Floor. 50 at SEC:
Continental National. 3,5o az 1oc: Buffalo. 500 at
&c: Drillers. l.25o at SIC: Dividend. 1850 at &c:
Palestine-Reaumout. 100 at Doc: OIL quoted. Z. n.
b.: Gladys No. l 3c: No 2 96c. Shipments by
rail- 1871 cars. by water III cars Total for month
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IRON MOUNTAIN

southern Lines.
Paducah Mail and Express
MuTphysboro. Carbonate and
Ms1o3 I'D am ia pm
New Orleans Fast Mall-Cairu,
Memphis. jackson. Tenn,
and Texas Express, Nash
willie, Atlanta and Jackson
vile 81, am .7:,4 pm
st. Louis Special-Calro Mem
phis and New Orleans. ss !, an sis pu
Marion, Cairo. Sparta and
Chester .-.--"--;-;.-. 1850 pm n:1 am
Accommodation Muphyshoro,
Marion and Crsal Springs. $50 pm Il: ~ am
New Orleans Limited Cairo,
Memphis; Dixie Flyer-Nash-
VILE. Atlanta and jackson
vile l0:i5 pm s.s3 am
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compared with Last Friday. Trade on his kind

compared win LAST Friday. Trade on this KIND
Eel steers. l:9y "a -" loSIsteers ayerasing
ssIes ar e. e. 81 ~ . ''u Tn 6nsi,y % y g 90 n ~
shh s and the weights Fanssd rom h32l to L5ss
s547 a, with IN. bu!k Al IS Or IN tI' 'Ns va"
M Zee stetrs: ~ 70 -! IEs-The steers IN
fuil range was s. Sc 80: IN. b,Ik sid ar & SD
: Beer Steers. 100 70 11sa his The ranrassnta-
e Ttr tD Tom !; xi55 ~ 10 =. ~ ~ b, G[ s tSGas !, 81 q IN ~
c.to. During the p~-ryio1s s.eeE the fIii rang
Rutchsr Steer e't 81 81 70 ' sg5 i Sntl A. . ri, Di@g 1s1ea
81 4 s us .St T,g Nh -. tr 'I:a Ok ta!@s at
butcher stun IN sac. the Jalk az which Mere ~
iisff. as istaii n5E.+s ,,.-c - W. rri"d an, y" a. W. III
outside infuerea Ma. pra t.rsI,v na,bi,r ~ ri.
put trade on the s.oxest. du.isst basis Of lie
week. ard the close Is the lowest al the season
On the Light green helfers aul straight grass
Al soft stun received a bad JacEset this week.
in a q~gandary about quot ne IT, feSlIns n vas
so serious that shippers were generally dissr-
hut trade was SnIv in Inc Viz ri,5 o.Sa- rnsTtsts;
and in harmony wi'h a situation that inyariaSiv
year. I'll S'''eS S'-1 al this season Of the
h~.,c-s sold her. tEis wasE I = G D1a ST~s ana
ana choi5 <is 6Tot36ia ar nam 5E SSFieAy TS Sry h5 i2t
WitSiin 81 5d ~ a., hs% nZfl |@uid not now bring
s aiiHG ai5 caliiTs ,b are lo. soa rs m5.5 . m a65,, some ONE
theS- az. outside oIrorar1,s %. II -
steady in cases 10 iGaI5c lower With camm6n
l5Ug-c lower Sbiia M buI, M
vI-tualIv steody u5tb : wH. .. Inc ca.ves SOLO
,nes. van '"s II "sisn'y
Cows Te,rars and NU,a5 ro.s u
q full range Of ssT5 - aHd c6TSs a, go , 81
.LsgS N.ts EAR 20 good. best full loads selling
4.s5. bulk II the heIfeHs at siia5 * TSiI az ~.
previous zaek ~ b,,ILs q DIElhE INC
K 25a{ : $50 "ulS OF Az me COWS sold a,
butcher cattle s5If fr5m - So q ~ b, Ike
81 .5IIs5 -i '-''H'"-'' the buik AT
Veal calves Veal calves so,5 ,,-ro
s5.5jTs % per loo ms and he -rI ~ IaEke!y a.
was S3=JI6.5l e- 4' 'ed4S
Bulls Stays ard Oxer-Tba bur,s col, ~. g, ga
.. The bulk at t5.55T4 %; stays and M. a. a. Sos
stCrEs- IA arrivals In the
with a few followers We're a.oIt cleanaI mn
s Tfaferi DG urine f ina Ss. to ,. diii29se II + esasids.a55Ste
s4f Dest ir almost two months, Feeding steers
have sniGv.j a LyIts,S S WIN rlgEt weight
week e! a sfa4a GTLland AND are closing the
S s,In4 Ega4ss of stocksrs ere practically at a
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New York Curb Market.
SPECIAL

New York. June 6-The curb market TODAY
opened quiet and dun and with quotations max
ing only nominal changes from the previous
close. Dealings were in small volume and were
confined to a few issues. In these the tran5ac-
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RFPI-RIJC SPECIAL

SPECIAL
by express comprised the fresh offerings thi.
morning. While the market cleaned up closely
night was placed. to arrive. at lie for fowls
geese unehansed: Pigeons a trine easier: Pig
Dressed Po~uitry-Receipts to-day $50 pkss. Re
1 to z cars 1,G ffSm the so9thEest an" While fTHn a Few tI annai
lots from Northern Missouri also came forward.
Up slowly at u on average prime dry-picked Iced
fowls. and several lots that arrived mere or les:
to 1c per ID. Under quota lions. FTesh-killed broil,
yellow chickens were wanted. a great pToportIop
was small and had to be forced out at a con.
g2Sc; while sc was rarely exceeded on scaidsd.
and I5c for hens on desirable lots. one ca= o.
frozen fowls arrived which graded under fancy
dry-picked 26g2sc: Western. scaIded. 22as5c. sc
other change in quotations.
Butter and Cheese.
I paek sssf. 2 sSSssi,ss. STATE ss.s GARY ls34szas; cream,
ages: irTssdiiar; fancy large. e edss,RIs s se;o i RaSS,
tafse, White; lSs S;o, fsnsy small: new State full
i0sc. FANCY small white
chiSages III; Jqne Smsqster steady; cr.amer-
PhliadelDhIs: June Butte aalc lower: extra
&c. Cheese steady: New York full creams. pine
small Ike: do. fair to good 1oIs aIlc.
EGGS.
REPUBLIC Eel
New York. June s.-~Eggs-Receipts to-day Sis
cases. Sales on the exchange this morning were
OF % cases Northern Indiana frsts at 1sxc
mark. and 300 Northern Iowa at iSc inspec.ors
average of. which business was about in line
with yesterdays figures. which. we're used 10
govern the trading from store in the business,
Demand was light generally and receivers we're
obliged to store a great deal OF stock, probably
$1,000 cases, out OF this weeks arrivals. South
ern eggs from all points were rot wanted unless
at bargain rates. Dirties and checks were dull
and weak. Quotations unchanged.
Chicago. ILL.,. June 6.-Eggs easier: fresh $50
15sc per doz-
Kansas City, Mo. June Eggs firm; new No.
2 white wood cases included. 1c doz.. loss OF;
Philadelphia. June Eggs firm: fresh nearby
1Ihsc. loss OF: do. Western ISc, loss on: do
Southwestern T7hc. loss of: do. Southern l6c,
loss on.
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B~utter-ecarcs and firm. Quotations.: Creamery
Extra 35ese: nFsta ls9isc; seconds isaiTc.
D~airy-Extra p91sc; hrsts 1501ec; crease lc.
Lsdie- paekef-Extra ue: nrsts $50. Country
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Train.
Cincinnati. Louisville. Wash
iHEcon. Baltimore, Philalcl-
ph.a and New York Express
Cincinnati. Louisville, Pitts
burg. Washington. Baltimore.
Lnuad-lrhla ana New York
Fast Mail
Cincinnati Accommodation 800
Cincinnati. Louisville. Pits
burg. Washington. Baltimore.
Philadelphia and New York
Royal Blue Limited ....
Flora Accommodation ......
Flora Accommodate ......
Flora Accommodation -.
West Baden and French Lick
Springs. via AcnoH Route o..
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RIRLINGrnN

Train.
For Hannibal, H. & St J.
points, Quincy. KeOkuk and
burlington .....
Local TO Hannibal --
For Quincy and North .-..
For -. Paul. Minneapolis, via
East size line. Illinois and
N3Scpnsln
The BurIington-Northern Pa
cihc Express, for Kansas
city. st Joseph. Northwest
Nebraska. Black Hills. Wye
ming, Montana. y asnInEtOu.
Puget Sound. Portland and
oregon
TWIN JTty Express. for Mime
apO!ls. st. Paul and Iowa -.-
The SebTass> Colorado EX-
press for Denver, Colorado,
Utah and Pacific Coast. via
81 Joseph
Local TO Burlington .....-
For Northern Iowa, St. Paul
and Minneapolis -..
For Illinois, via East Side line
10 Rock Island and Clinton.
For Dubuque and La Crosse
FOR Kansas city. Council
B!uns. Omaha. ST. Joseph.
Denver. Nebraska. Colorado,
Utah ard Pacific Coast 1890.
Local FOR Hannibal .....
For Alton-Leave "a a. m.
caiiy: l0:S a m. daily: l:S0 D
cav 800 2. m. except Sunday:
sunday $50 p IT., daily: 7:4l
D m. daily: HIS ?. m, Sunda
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COTTON BELT

ST. LOUIS
Train
Arkansas and Texas Express
via Bismarck and DeltaJ.....
Arkansas and Texas Fast Mail
Via Bismarck and Deltal.....
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Train. Depart.
Valley Park Accommodation Is:Q am 7
Valley Park Accommodation $3.50 am
Pacific Accommodation ...-..... rs 80 am
Texas and Kansas Mail. for
Paris. Dallas. Ennis. Hous-
ton. Galveston. Carthage. Jop-
lin and 's:5 am
E EsHsS f Pax Rcsam@o4s,lon:. III &: :s pm pm : I
Meteor and Worlds Fair Spe-
cisi. for Springfield. Carthage,
joplin. Wichita, Vinita. Okla
homa- Denison. Sherman. Dali
-Brownwood -------.-. .2:@ pm .
valley Park Accommodation t+:lo pm
Pacific Accommodation .--....-. 1874 I'm
Valley Park Accommodation. Ts:5, pm
Valley Park Accommodation. T7:s nm
Texas and Kansas Limited. for
Eureka Springs: Fort Smith,
Paris. Dallas. Greenville. En-
MS, Corsicana. Houston. Gal
weston Austin. San Antonio.
Burton and the West.-.:--. .s:S pm
Western Express. for Spring.
field. Vinlta, Denison. Shsr-
man. Oklahoma. Carthage,
Joplin and Neodesha.-.-..-...'To:p pm
IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
Train Depart
Rock. T-Earkaua. Dallas.
Fort Worth and Abilene. ss:o5 am .
De.ia- Columbus and Cairo Ex-
Fast Day Express Dallas.
tonic. Houston and Galveston en- pm =.
Texas. Mexico II California
Special-Dallas. Fort Worth,
e. Paso. Los Angeles. GAL
.reio. :.--~-~-~~.~e-... $50 pm i.
Memphis Exnress-.........-.... $40 pm
FOURTH STREET AND CHoUTEAU Az
De Soto and Bismarck Accom-
medallion $50 nm .
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RAILROAD TIMETABLE
ST. LOU IS TINE.

Arrivals and Departures of Trains al
Union station.
'DaIly. E-Saturday and Sunday
tDaiiy except Sunday. unIy.
-SunIav only. Except Monday
t+SGtuTlay only. s'Da!ly except Saturday
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81. Louis Curb Market.


= DVuHH OuTU MATk0t
wheat-July sold at s5tQes@c; puts ssHGsszs
10 csikc: calls Disd70Nc to s0jkc, Corn-Juiy soft
at sozo: puts eoSc; calls slhc.
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The Visible.

New Orleans. La, Juns 6.-Secretary Hester
statement OF the worlds visible supply Of cotton
shows a total OF 2,s53.03l bales. against 5,lis.S SO
last year. OF this the total Of American cotton
is 1884. OBJ bales. against 2.cS5,sis last year.
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Prices on Change.

The following tables show the range Of prices |
On future and cash grains:
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RAILWAY.

81 LINES
Train. Depsrt Arfv>
The Belt Special. except Sunday sis am ss:5s ON
Princeton, Louisville. Lexink-
Ton and way stations, Chat
tanoOga, Rome. Atlanta. Ma
con and points in the South
cost 80 an 10 Nm
Mount Vernon commodat t5:64 pm e34 an
Princeton. Louisville. LXing-
ton and way station. Knox
VILE. Asheyille. Chattanooga,
Rome. Atlanta. Augusta
Charleston. Macon and all
points In Florida and the
Southeast ..........-....... 's:1s pm T:37 am
ST. LOUIS, X. c. AND COLORADO r. I.
CFrom Union Station.)
Train. Depart. ArrtvA
I0i and Ioa Mail ard Express
Belle. Mo-. and intermediate
points $50 am 'sS7 Pm
(From Forsyth JuEction.)
Train Depart AntyA.
points $50 Pm sTdo an
100 on Friday. Saturday and
Sunday, runs through to
Belle. No ------.-----.-------. 80 pm -
14 on Saturday, Sunday and
Monday arrives from Belle.
40 ------. IT'D an
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UNION STATION.

Drnart Arrive.
"a am .sS IN
4i:4I am T5:35 pm
800 am .7:re am
.2:l5 pm :I0 pEl
:fs pm ss:S5 pm
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Depart Arrive
1850 am t1e:1 am
$3.50 am ISIS am
IS 30 am HE'S pm
's:5 am C-W pm
u:io pm HOES am
ftl:sS pm tti:30 pm
2:1 pm Tf:3o am
f{:l9 pm ts:40 am
1874 IN T7:p am
1853 pm t6:l5 pm
r:9 nm -7:l0 pm
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II. & O.. S-w. r. r.

Depart Arrive
'2:o5 an 'ls5 pm
sos pm RS am
-: "A am f6:52 pm
800 an 5:s5 pm
f5:4r pm fs:32 am
Is Us am $3.50 Pm
1856 pm +l0.32 am
$3.50 am '5:B pm
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$50 pm 80 am
$40 pm 800 am
UTEAU AVENUE
$50 nm $50 am
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ST. LOUIS AND HANNIBAL RAILROAD.
via Wabash.b

l.. II. & ST. L. RY. Henderson Rou
Train. Depart Ar
Fast Nail-Owenstoro. Clover
port. Louisville and the East SIS am ~
Eastern Express Ovensboro.
CloverpOrt, Louisville and the
- 20 Gl -
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CHICAGO, PEORIA AND ST. LOUIS
RAILWAY-NC., p. & ST. L.


y RAILWAY
Depart Arrive
800 am 7:E pm
$40 am 100 an
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l.. d y. r.. +
VASDsLIl

jefferson City. Columbia. Boom
VILE. Sed4lil. Kansas. Indian
Territory and Texas Express.
Missouri. Kansas. Indian Ter
TlIuTy and Oklahoma FLYER.
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EST OF PITTS
RAILROAD
Depart Arrive
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theologies, or for creed revisions, or strange
combinations
The Presbyterian Church in the United
States is staunch ship, well braced and tim
bered, and to its sails have come the breath of
heaven. 1t sails to-day course directed by
the truth and providence of God May there
be no hand laid upon her helm to turn her
out of that course! When her flag is taken
down and its compass no longer makes true
guidance for its sailing, it will run ashore on
rocks or shoals on either hand. Her safety, her
integrity and honor, and most of all, her con-
quest of the future for Christ depend upon her
fidelity to the principles which belong to her
very existence.
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On Sunday Laws.

SENATOR HoAR, a Unitarian of Massachu-
setts, forcibly states the position of conserva-
tive citizens with regard to Sunday laws:
Experience has convinced a majority of our
people that a rest from labor of one dav in
seven is not only desirable but essential for the
mental and bodily health of men and women
in general A great many persons think that
that day Of rest ought to be devoted to a con
sideration of spiritual interests, of the relation
OF man to his Creator and the hopes of future
state. to the religious training of the young
and the religious improvement of persons of
mature age. The State has the RIGHT. think
to secure this period of rest by law. There IS
the same right to do it that there is to secure
the quiet of the night
Il do not therefore, undertake. in advocat-
ing moderate and reasonable Sunday laws. to
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July l6,

Maker, and the object of his hatred, indigna-
ton and wrath. They are declared to be false,
adulterous, unclean, shameful Idolatrv issnot
an honest reaching out of the soul after God,
Dut wicked rebellion against him, and is sin
like murder, theft, witchcraft 1t is in all its
degrees and forms denounced as a guilty de
parture from the love and worship of lust
and holy God, whose claims are absolute and
universal, and felt in the conscience of every
man.
1t is still the truth for all nations and for
every soul of man, neither is there salvation
i'll any other; for there is none other name
under heaven, given among men, whereby we
must be saved! In this belief we hasten to
carry the gospel of Gods love in Christ to
every nation and preach it to every creature.
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The True and the False.

lr is a popular fad of the day to talk of COM
parative religion. In the many religions of
pagan lands, ancient and modern, the devotee
of evolution and human perfectability processes
to see the nations honestly seeking after God
We are asked to give Our respect and synpa-
thy to the benighted heather peoples in their
struggles after light. Our own Christian re-
ligion, we are told, is only another form of the
same religious effort, product of evolution,
later and higher development, and one that
will give way in time to something yet higher
and nober. This is the talk to be found in
much of modern literature and entering our
Christian communities and homes in fiction
and in verse. 1t is not just, we are told, to say
that our religion is true and other religions are
false, as all are the result of the same human
need and desire.
But it is abundantly shown by the best of
scholarship that the history of the worlds re-
ligions has not been progress from lower to
higher forms, but that to the contrary, it has
been history of decline. In Egypt, China,
India, the earlier conceptions of deity and hui
man relations and obligations were the Hottest
and purest. Humanity, left to itself has be-
come more and more degraded in its religious
conceptions and practices
Some things are to be learned no doubt
from study of the religions of the nations 1t
is written deeply in them all that man is a re-
ligious being, and needs a religion to satisfy
the cravings that are universal deep and
urgent. No people has been found without
some religion or its beginnings There is
everywhere the sense of superior being and
accountability. There is the confession of sin,
and the need of something to atone and pro-
pitiate And there is the apprehension of
judgment to come. All manner Of schemes
have been devised, high and low, spiritual and
sensual, humane and cruel wherewith to satisfy
and give peace. And on them all is written
disappointment and insufhciency One of the
greatest lessons of comparative religion is the
awful need of a revealed religion religion
that God himself devises and declares
To all this descanting on the evolution of
religions, on the truth that is in the pagan
religions, and the temporary value of Chris
tianity, the sufficient answer is the word of
God. The supposed evolution of religions
among men is distinctly contrary to the Scrip
lures. They are everywhere condemned with
severity and even with contempt and ridcule
The religions of Canaan, Egypt. Babylon, AS
SYRIA are declared to be rebellion against the
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The Past and the Future.

IT is fully conceded by all, we suppose, that
the church, and our church, lives for the benefit
of the future We are not set for the defence
of the past but for the conquest of the future
for the kingdom of God. Whatever our past
has been, its events and its accomplishments
its great men and their counsels its progress
its delverances and its testimonies, they are
of Importance to the church to-day only as they
concern the future. That man is a Bourbon
and an encumbrance whose heart is fixed upon
the past, and demands that the future be only
was the past. And that man is radical
and peril who looks only upon the future,
and requires that we forsake and forget the
past altogether.
Each man is to-day what his past has made
him. All his power for tomorrow consists of
the forces which his past has gathered up in
him.
Our deeds travel with from affair."
And what we have been makes us what we are"
Our church is as truly what its past has
made it. That past is the church's character,
and its power. The truths of its Standards in
doctrine and in polity, its history of struggle
tentions and its testimonies, its literature and
education, its missions at home and abroad
these make the life of the church. its character
and quality and power; they are of the sub
stance of the church's being; they are its dis
tinction among churches; they are its weight
and its force in the world to-day; always re-
mennbering that its supreme life and power are
the Spirit of God.
To ignore that past, to forget that character,
to deride belttle or ridcule the truths and
principles for which our church lives and has
its being, is assault upon its life and robbery of
its force.
We are not Bourbon when, in our zeal for
the future service we render to Christ we
affirm that there is past that is wrought into
our being, and that there are principles for
which Our church testihes that are of the very
substance of its life to-day and its hope for
victory on the morrow. 1t was born for truth
and principle, and its honor and usefulness
have been in its fidelity to its birthright Our
church has a character. and it must not be lost
by any socalled spirit of the age" and its
distinctions must not be swept away by any
movements" for advanced thought for new