to attend;"the man elect- inks he cannot, should at that another may be ap- 'his place. Fam afraid the : 80 highly re il t the conference, 3 Jwould tend to the deepening | spiritual life could be considered, and I am sure would bring a blessing, and {prove a refreshment to all. As iron fehatpeneth iron, so our converse, one with another, and our comparison of Jmethods of work, and of difficulties in our work, together with a devotional study. of God's Word,--would, 1 am persuaded, make us stronger, wiser, better stewards of the mysteries. of God. ---- Prosperity Of Country. The good hand of our God still scat- ters over our land, still deals frosiously with us, 'Bountiful harvest followed bountiful harvest, until, | fear, some people are beginning to J think: that it 'could not be otherwise: that it is to the improved methods of ajtticul tue, which are now employ- od, y are indebted for these har- ests. In other words, that it is their wisdom and the mi Rita. wlth 4 which ve gotten iv. w y ore i that it is God who gives alone, whe ean give the incrotue 5 2 grea any peo ose si of the source of their Phorm, ih! assign to secondary causes, and, so are ss and thankless and imistio inclined to: growl a grumble, They can't see their way to do more are {for their church or for their clergy- Jmen, than they have heen doing, no matter how ditle Jhat is; they thik there is a time - coming, T| Jhansi bad time coming sun ia Shining to-day they imagine it may be cloudy to-morrow. Or if therd has heen a good harvest this vear, there; will probably be a bad one next, and so they must not make any pro- mises. They try to be miserable them- selves, and to make as many other < {people miserable as possible. "You jeannot grumble about your crops this jVvear," a city friend once said to a farmer, as he pointed to the magni- ficent fields of waving grain, which spread in all directions, whitening un- to the harvest. "No," growled the farmer, "but such a crop is terribly wearing to the soil ! The fand will not get over it for some time." "What a magnificent crop of turnips vou have got," said a visitor to another farm- er. "Oh," came the reply, "it is far too good, 1 don't know what to do with them, Tt.is a nuisance to have a crop like that. We can't use them, and there will be waggon loads of them this 'spring, 'which we will % | have to get rid of." Still God bears A patiently with us, His thankless and wayward: children, and causes His sun to shine upon the. ovil, and the good, crowns the year with His good- ness. anc-makes = Hig 8 to drop t wo oe from ten to twelve all, Just think of it! ody wants to vots, to be lism Of " Materialism ( The age in or ve ba baa dues J thing rhe tl int Sr dad, present at that w of money; be a kind of | the value or worth of anything, is tha busines. Lsup- | what did it cost, could, you that way, or [get for it? | 3 is thus es- urable- disease which | timated. we money "know th is only valuable for eyo can buy, ; ean and the thihgs it are only valuable' as they' tex to life, or in actual living, and: life by' the number of things it #écumulates, and supply its Soot: Jet © we reverse these things by the amount of money which they cost. We judge a city by its buildings, not by the character of its inhabitants; a university by its en- dowment, rather -than by jts curricu- lum, or its students, or the work it accomplishes; a church: by its pew rents oly Tile ul 0s mommerent "We <n "of 'its A eo men successful who have made money, no matter what. they have lost in it. It is a preguant fact, that the only time Christ called a man a was in describing a 'certain type re "i --- fk great le Po may gather hore. they: contain and act and thankfully, as Re who are so highly favored. © muatige of Pesce. st of all. we have cause for de ule ihat the great na- 4 ing, . to have drawn \ '| flict, which A and osed the whole of Europe. 'The (British lion was thoroughly aroused, more than once, by liberties which 4 were taken with him; if it had not beea for the calmness of the king and 'his counsellors, and displayed, 'and the influence he exert. ight have been engaged in a has given us the bless. ing of peace, and, therefore, of pros- -| perity. : pover to get wealth, While men ma, = plough and sow, it is God, and God and i it © el, we m war; but G a million of men courage the admiration of lands. fhience in the worl most advanced laid aside all light and know the "Land of the Righteousness really barbarous; The real director o "The pisec of it in ignorance; may be plastie, in abject poverty. which for centuries the darkest hours the tide of reform cannot be held bac her people, providence of or good, this terri brought Ru ious liberty, The visit of the terbury and ecclesiastical, from the weight strong personality, right time, geniality, his not only to kinshi chur into con nited States, and whose general come to attend. whether in French ind him. The departure estimable wife, regrets from all brought into conta Earl tl e8 to be one of and popular has reevived a ever he has gone, when an occasion ada can lift lines and unite in Country, or for wrongs, which one. party, but hy the hope- that a sweep cleaner Servatives have a ly heritage, only wise i tion, realize their live up to them, t of thei Soon returning to so long. at and kick, d, the conservatives the Connéetion with Manitoba. P, by many a with on its merits, Uberal party hi ave will Holy Synod" is procurator, a layman, the creature of the czar, who uses the church as a machinery, make it such, it is necessary to keep and that the clergy are But the darkness, political those just before the dawn. insurrection may and work awful havoe, and many lives and much the American people and to do the right after the his term of office, called throughout the dominion, friends of all with whom themselves in their r falling out by the way, nd of 'opposition, and the liberals came into question of provincial pr into War In The East. "Fhe awful war between Gabi Japan, still continues, by which over i have been sl ) ed. The sympathies of the x world go out to Japan, who is fi ing for her existence as & na- + tion+ Her in. have shown a and 'heroism which aré really wonderful, and the leaders. of her arm- ies, both by land and sea, a skill and generalship which havé won for them the people The Japanese are, indeed, a wonderful people in many 'respects, dnd are destined yegoto exercise a large in- d's history. matter of education, even at the pres- amt time, they are in the van with the methods «ither Europe or America. in rise manifests government but few of the character istica of Christianity; small value on human life 'and liter- ally grinds the face of her poor. The church in Russia is the mere tool of the government; it is not self-governed. f what is the they has rested eountry, must soon he lifted- darker days may still be in store, for night are Anarchy run riot, of the yet whie k. must soon be alleviated. She has gone through a time of tra: vail, hard and trying, the hour of de fiverance, surely, is near, and, in the God, Who overrules evil ible war, which has 8 ssia low, will be [all probability, a means of to the whole land; ua means | her People will obtain--if not at once, at least eventually--civil both of his his ability things his approachableness, his pure and godly life, won, himself, but into closer 0 to England, and to England's , the American people, who came t with him. Canada was very brief: he Bo loaned to us by the convention Wherever he went, Quebec, or lish Outasio, he left a savor of good ---- Advent Of Governor-General. of Lord Minto and his completion of forth classes of th ct, affairs, he the most successful of our governors, hearty welcome wher- "ama Political Conditions. It is a satisfaction to know r arises, or seems to arse, to call for it the peo hle the service the . both--hy and conservatives Joining hands new. broom than the old. Fhe con- certainly entered into and if they day and responsibilities, and here will be the lean a which + therefore, we may all thank God and take fourage. As in the pro: ince, so in the dominion; in 896 were overthrown, power, on rights, in te schools for § scarded | uestion was dealt ow, however, the : aside were di set volved bcfore the patience he Russia and They have national conceit have assimilated the best to be found in every nation. - Thus, seeking ge, this people Rising Sun,' surely find the true Light, the Son of upon them with healing in His wings, and Japyn will yet be a Christian nation. Russia, while nominally Christian, is she sets property, but has set 'in The miseries of the lives of the teeming millions made, in hy which and relig- For the days of the nu< tocracy are numbered, and its arbi trary and selfish rule is at an end. Visit Of Primate. Archbishop of Can- to this continent, while made for no political or ecclesiastical pose, exercised a very. strong and vantageous influence, political He literally took by storm, Apart office, his His visit was church in the whose guest They made ! His succestor--- Grey--a brother of Lady and no stranger to Canada, o dians, has entered upo, der the happiest auspices, intelligent grasp of 0 his duties uns we paity correction : seem to exist. in the government of Province, was brought about--not by 3 they occa- But if they should grow oubtless grit and tory will again unite for purposes of dis- show, that the govern: country must be on with clean hands 'and pure hearts; ly, speak: a con- aughter- of al} In the use in and for of > will But in her but called present To kept on that -though destroy of blessing: pur- ad- to say at the to sim- he was, he han in Eng- sincere - people ey were Minto, r Cana promis- that of Can- of their of The this liberals in might are genera- no need or cold carried ity are treated') o sy clothed in the faded tattered tives in sirable; thig provincial. rights, as really . as original act." Party influence, and made \ rs legislation, Suppor men wi ing ly, have as much right t parliament itself. Even it cal resentatives of and in the matter, wi have the bitrary éohstruetion' upgn the stitution, and to petrify that struction by federal 'law, so people, for all time, institutions, tention ght If "there is to be this" niatter the. narrower limits of than to make jt tion Before such legislation! a whole should he heard, and voice; the interested, speak, . For Sir Wilfrid Laurier, I have the highes should = be t respect and as well as able man, authority, and is not free; he church demands for the the North-West. He played great tact 18 certainly work, we have nothing to say, attention of late to the thes dominion cgenerally; and this, we most We respect his but it matters emphatically whet who he is, in the polities .of , Protestant, worthy of the or creed more than to another. schools, the whole: matter, I and unalterably dopposed . to told that in the already' © representatives speaking - twenty-five guages.' and holding a of. different. fal ins the edmmion * school. Thropgh agency, the foreigners who ing iMd the terfitories ean sentiment 'best developed. ple talk common wcheol; who know least. who ean hélieve Whis will say men oi var country; largely educated in these whobls, any godless mark deft on What has been the the many nationalities the United States have: into one doubtedly, the common school. rangements: could easily whereby the day, hy the members oft hid flock, 'by and the ministers moral right well, so indeed have schools, for the great "chance to the it taken as its grit. and vince. of where rallied to hesitated, and long, that tory, out silent thought. it was Some but no. it was wnot dead, it only, like -the Trightan © who fallen into: the less." Presentiy - it awoke: "like refreshed. with, wines end of the provin *) by he Wy thes schipg D ¥ i established.' t a or Fh fant always yote as a , unit, and so between. the rtd) on question, 1 ym: very. much go le; tt the matter, and: politic the province who, do not sp a because it' would go, telling how that , JUNE 20. ihtenance 'of provin- inten stands, as one ments, worn by eonserva- rg Via less than a { wdt is true, a eom- Bin Pagedyadt is but compro- mi are. invarighly bad and unde- i. gompramise infringes on drawn into line, for the time being, of the present 0 in Shel heart of hearts, arc opposed to it; but a feel- has been aronsed in the country, which the people of Canada, gencral- 1 discuss as the politi- the territories, e' federal ministers were at one right to say that it is wijust to put an ar- there shall be denied to the western the power 'to determine the character of their' local as whether 'or not there shall be separ- ate schools in those provinces, it is better to let the people there fight it out hy themselves, to keep it within the provinees, a dominion ques- shonld bo enacted, the people of Canada as would be no uncertain sound in their People of the two provinces allowed personally, deepest regard. I believe hime to be a thoroughly honest nnd conscientious, but he is under risked his reputation as a 'Statesman, and the interests of his party, in Be- half of scparate schools, which ~his provinces and eloquence Presentation of the. subject. The papal ablegate was brought over--it is said, to settle differences which existed amongst. members of his own church. As is: engaged in that he has heen undoubtedly, devoting lis affairs to aping of its legislation, and against, protest. church and his office, foreigner can be call wed to interford this country. No name, throughout the Jengih and breadth of this great dominion, would wish': td deprive | his Roman: Catholic fellow citizens, of any t. ox privilege "he desires or claims for himself, but we object to class legisiation, and to the granting of, privileges to one. sectic As regards the question' of separate which isiat the bottom am absolutely them! This dominion. is-made up of beopls of diverse races. an a seligionse 1 am a Woe there arg great variety of oligos Betioft The most power- ramentality for moulding them together and Canddignizing theny are pour- best assimilated," anda Canadian national Some peo- about the 'godlesiness of the well-talk is cheap; they often talk most ahd talk Toudest, Tn the light of fatts Suth 4 stafeiment ? that 'the 'men and" wo- who have heen them ? means by which existing béen blended homogeneous whole ? Un- be made, religious: instrudtion could be given at.ctrtain hours; Without in- terfering with the ordinary 'work the Ronran priest cletgyman of. the Church of England. of other religious bodies, without any clashing whatso- ever. Tf thé Roman Catholics have a to 'separate schools those provinces, ' sq have others the © Mormons, who have purchased a large tract of territory in Alberta, and would prob- ably like to have their own separate ropagation of their beliefs. The premier's bill presented a, conservative party to which it did not rise. Had motto a national school and religious eqirdlity for aly, of the pro- | Quebec, would have overy- its standard; but it for dead, killed perhaps with joy, 'which can sometimes kill, ns well as grief. pity; merely "spache- out of sleep. though mot like a giant opposed, not separate schoals, but the coercion general Pro without losing: rt of ne of Quaker; © cit hee sap- pointed. e a warily and irrevocalily commit » Separate schoals, . hd has po pL 1 wantt® Québec's support, and raid to oppose "that province. ich, oi "tektions, like this, or 'to fay ib is C| betwean . the pot and the kettle. It js pease {o hear a i, 3H 4 BA abou AL within: it "to Ehow, hut and things which would * seri wrong to resisted, which sets strongly in a direction, where there aré abyssmal depths of moral turpitude, 1 lived for twenty-five years in that province, and know all about education" there, and the kind of justice which is meted out to the minority. The minorit /_pay in- to the provincial treasury the larger proportion ef the incond of the pro- vince; they are the large porters, The taxable wealth too, of the TO vince, is held by English-speaking rople, who are for the most part, rotestants; and from¢ the money re- ceived from these sources, grants 'are would ignominionsly hurl a being, . 'With no reckoning made huma hea For He says, "I have the keys gatiye, and His alone; to take awgy the life which, He has oparted, an He has not committed the right sc¢hool, where the greater portion of the time is taken up with learning the catechism. and the distingtive doc- trines of the Church of Rome. Now, 1 am saying nothing against these doctrines, but I ask, Would ay honest, thoughtful - Roman Catholic say that Protestants, under these con- ditions, have nothing to complain of, and are treated gs Roman Catholics would like to be treated thémselves / God, to pronounce the sentence, or t carry out the judgment of death u; on our follows, * The guiltiest in th nocent in the eyes versa. ajipearance, but' God 'judges from th heart; from the motives and purpose and intents which, are there, and H representation; as it now exists, pre- vents a proper representation of the people. The electorate of the country acting in the name' of a man as the nomineé of the party, and the members of that party, like a | the presence of the searchér of heart flock of sheep, are supposed to fol- | and no stones were cast. low, and to vote for him, though he may not be the man of their choice at all. Tt is time that such a state of things should he abandoned, and the all in guilty, as they stood there would do well our Lord said to about the hen wh owed a thousand talents, and had inc a change. The members of hoth =ar- ties. in. this. synod, should join hands to overthrow the system' now Yogue, servants, . who owed 8 1 pence, and instead of" radiating | th iw ent, he took him by the throat, ---------- demanded payment at onde, and be Roughness In Sports. There is g spirit of lawlessness and recklesswess abroad; which cares little for. the interests of others, or even for human life; this has entered into, and in some places, almost taken pos- session of our sports, so that what Should develop manliness and a sound body and mind, oftentimes now, be- gome mere exhibitions of roughness and brutality. - The lamentable death of the young hockey player during the past winter, and 4 young man not on ly tried for his life, because of it, but, doubtless, going through the remain. der. of his life with a sad remembrance and a troubled conscience, should arouse a determination throughout the country that all such roughness must end. The trouble is, that many have indulged in sport, not for sport's lessly 'cast him into prison, main there vutil the debt to the man, the fall, but the mind and characte of God. and so there is Blood: thirsti ness, the domination nature, You also remember our tive statement to the Pharisees, teaching the indissoluble nature the marriage relationship. He was re a commandment, " not satisfied with his wife, he migh write out a bill of much, to prevent them more; 50 it was with polvgamy, soi was with capital punishment. "The times of this ignorance," If there is éne crime more than an- other, for which severe punishment should BE meted out, it is for the crime of adulterating food, or drugs, Yet this is very frequently done, and those who are guilty of it are crim- inals of the worst kind. Oftentimes now, one buys not only an inferior article, to that which he. thinks he is purchasing, but one which will be positively injurious to him and his family. This, comes from the desire to make money, quickly, to get rich in 4 day, to get' without giving, Now, it is the duty of the church, and churchmen, to protest. and fight against this state of things; to teach the young the wrongfulness of it all, and the degradation of character to which it inevitably leads. It is a po- sitive injury to the country, which will soon have a reputation abroad for unreliability and untrustworthiness to the idolatry of the heathen. "Goc overlooked, everywhere to repent.' The desire for retaliation, and bloo of man, and so prominent @ feature in the laws of all primitive nations be stamped even by God HimseM, and vet be left free. Man's free will, God wil never bind. And so, it being impossi ble to raise him to the highest level ble. Impossible to teach him, that un der all sacred, and must never for communitios, and tribes, and na- tions. But it will doubtless be asked by some who believe in capital pun- ishment, and are conviction" that it is wrong, "Did not God command, that 'whoseever shed- deth man's blood, amd that every effort will he to stamp ont the eyil, the evil doérs, made and to -punish The Craze For Young Men. If Dr. Osler, about whose head such a storm Ras gathered, by what he was 'reported to have said about old men, (the advisability of leading them off to a lethal chamber, and quietly chloroforming them), had really said this, he would but have put into words, a very widespread and unrea- sonable opinion- hin exists, both in the world and in the church. Every office, every business, wants a young man. In public estimation, grey hairs 'indicate incapacity, and seem to brand | with as evil results as a crime, Whenever a parish becomes vacant, over that ?" He did, and for the reas emphatic terms than those in which He authorized a man to put away his wide, and yet, our Lord distinetly says this was not His original intention, His highest purpose towards men, but only a condescension towards them, because of the hardness of their hearts. These are inferences of course, but now look at facts. Was not Cain a murderer, and a murderer of the a ! 2 deepest dye? Yet God both. assured there is a cry for a young man; and | pin of protection, and hedged hi Ek am thought both unreasonable and | wu round about, so that he should Snleiud, Shed I do not griint , the § be "safe from his fellow-man, Cain in- request. Experience, success, i ability, tuitively realized from his own feel- scholarship count for nothing. The ings, what would be - the 'fed. callow youth is preferred everywhere ings of his brethren toward$ him, and to the grave and Teverend seignor, how, unrestrained, they would surely take his life. Now this was God's de liberate act, and the expression of His mind towards the first 'murderet, a man who had slain his own brother. The blood of that brother, it is to be noted, is represented as orying from the ground, not to man, but to God, Who alone had the right to avenge it. For He has said, "To We' helongeth Vengeance and recompense.' He sparéd | Cain doubtless, that he might have an Capital Punishment. I have been asked by a number of people, my Views with regard to cap- ital = punishinent (the infliction of which, has been so frequent in sur country), and whether 1 think it is in aecorGance with the Word of God, and the principles of Christianity. 1 have no hesitation in sayifig publicly, 1 dq not think it is. or "In the begin- ning, it was not so." "Christ willeth opportunity to repent and turn from not the «death of a sinner, birt would | And all his sins and imperiections on his a." into the presence of the great Judge of all (before that.J udge who alone has the right to do so), dp His mercy and forbearance, has summoned him there, deathoand the grave." It is His prero- any other. Vengeance and res 1butien, eyes of God, are not infrequently in- of men, and vice Far God 7 judges not as, man judges; man judges from the outward sail "Whosoever hateth his brother is instibe, aye, | and of religion, too, which has 'so of The advocates of capital punishment, ponder over what him. an "hundred mercy of which he had been n reeipi- and cause the man could wot pay, he merei- Io was phid. | You remember: our Lord's eommentary on this conduct, and His judgmnt on Mankind. not only. lost the rights of citizenship in the kingdom of God by of . the animal Lord's posi when of minded by them that Moses had given that if a man were divorcement and | resist. give it.to her, and put her awav, (these are facts of histor sake, but if not directly, at least in- "From the beginning; He says, "it under the gallows. directly, for purposes of gain. The | was not so. Moses, He said, did this The criminall statist gambling spirit of the age, is in it. [hecause of the hardness of men's | elaborately set forth, g st hearts, He suffered them to do so Just as justice has bien tem Food Adulteration. from doing in the words of St. Paul at Athens, with reference but nes ecommandeth men revenge, so natural to the fallen heart and barbaric tribes of men, could not out,--I say reverently,-- man God would raise hia as high as possi- circumstances, human life ix be taken away, He would make it as sacred as possible. He would hedge it around | the degradation, and a and the alle hantsouter, aud with many barriers, and impress the unmanning of him, wl onest, Pos pid will sulter, a1 glad idea that Ife was only to be sacrifie- | his liv ing by taking the | 4 afl Fp oninion Government ed for life; and this law "was not | ers. Not only is it a fray the la af rd ¥ investigation only for man as an individual, but | and hardening, and erimi ] 2 $ y not very open to! by man shall his | mit murder in.its ¢ oak blood be shed,' and how can vou get must dome, and every Christian ' on T have mentioned, but in no more | its coming, when no ga His sins: and' tear i ain 3 elsewhere, to right, because ° the | have all men to be saved, and vome (his own sad oh Vis a ren, frog party calls for them. Those who em: { to a knowledge of the truth," Yet men, | onséquerices of gy 2 the fearfy} ark on< the stormy sea of politics, | who call themselves Christians, with< snd that we might hen Rainst Gog, soon find that expediency, and not | out one thought as to the value of a [was not the will of God ht, thet it patriotism, must' be their guiding | soul, . or of that. eternity which lies | ning, that man should." the. begi star, and that there is a current ha beyond the present sphere of existence, | ing of Blood into | ie Ui 1s n 1 take to be the clea Word of God. Now in | 88 10 whether the takin cially, is in accordance ciples of Chiistianity 1 "| Bemert it is not. A r ands} little difficulty 5), pr | tion. Ih so far as Christ expression of {he Min of | Christ, its influences | Ings with, the very ) st y | hardened of the human ol | ever be remedial and not O tianity has no pf right to of 0 , A work, 'and acknowl, Hh Pod ity made' for elementary and superior proportionate to the awfulness of the | even with the worst: of a ailurg, education, according to population, | crime of having murdered a 'being, | its efforts shonld never nals; and with the result, therefore, that Pro- whom God has created in His OND God, Who - 5 Jone. C85, unt] testgnts receive one-seventh, and Ro- | image and likeness, and whose life, | Whose long-suffering, if ;. . % and man Catholics, six-sevenths. of the | therefore, is sacred, belong to God delaying to I rt ten, in money granted, and He will repay. - The law of cap- | ungodly, i to Wo hi x on the Then further, thesschool taxes on all | ital punishment, which is unquestion- | their salvation. shall Hi, aid as for business and commercial corpora ably, not only an infringement of | eriminal to his. a¥connt, 1 a the L tions, (although more than three Divine, laws, but a surpation of . i {'church, 'if she be trae : iristian fourths 'of the money invested in they, | vine rights, "a heritage to us fron' a ther Master, aid her (iq Sit of belongs to Protestants), ds put into | darker, and a barbarous age, | delibératelv gi¥e' up an bon = never what is called a 'neutral panel," and | and a Jower level af both In: TAS hopelessly depraved 3 _ being these taxes are divided according to tellsctuality and spirituality than ty. 'even be ht a 5 2 par. population, with ihe result that the | our own; to-day calls "loudly |i hurling "hivit Gut of If Pinel, minority, which provided the major { for repeal, The punishment meted out er fit 'to live. There % 10 long: portion of the money, gets less than | by man to his fellow man, should al® Ion gone BY, when cn ay; not twenty-five per cent. Then, in rural |. ways be: remedial in purpose, never nominally Christiah Fr land in then districts where there are only a few | penal. Every child or man jx Under | als wire' treated in oo 1a A Protestants not numerous enough to sentence of death from the highest of whith our presen « om support a school of their own, it is {all tribunals, or. through the bouhd- lightenment, shrinks om a question whether to sell out, and {less morcy of God, has had the sen. | Wore: not. only: cone gts move away, which is generally being | tence reprieved; ang consequently we | 4. mutilation and Seat, done, or to send their children to a {| 8reé not in a position, in the eyes ¢ the poor body of infin {stich as hanging the spectacle for reprobation | some cross road, Wher thy, could see it): with a stake driven consigned' to death, went, "without the clergy." In other Words, (he made to punish the man | send him not ) e r and the through o hs o only to youl ; ove possible to hell, the place prvparal not National schools are very different. | a murderer. You waember. what our | man, even the worst men, but There a secular education, "which will | Lord *said to 'the Serities 'and Phar: for the devil and his ar ' qualify for any position in life, can be sees, when they dragged a poor guilty Thank God, that day for got, without any 'interference what- | creature into His presente, whom the acer, and thank wl, the day will ever, with the religions belief of the | law of Moses declared wo tthy of death. come when capital punishment, under children. Speaking of polities, party } They were carrying outa daw. and y any circumstances, will have forever. . Christianity | and Christianity, which i ten heen wounded in the hothe of its the world, will conquer and over- are not properly or really represented friends, 'Let him that is 'without sin | come the spirit which now maintains in parliament. A convention, managed | among vou, cast the "first stone at punishment, as some sav, for the de. often by a few schemers, brings out | her." Their comsciences brought them fence and protection of it nv that there is wh 3 First, because whatever God's appointment, or at in accordante with His mi can never be needful, or « 0 | any purpose: Secondly, »- | are strongly against su voice of the people, generally, he thing to pay, to whom his Master tion, and not unreasonahl heard; and a few determined men in | freely forgave the debt; and going | mind of man naturally conclutles every county, would soon bring about | forth forgiven, met one of his fellow: | if: human society, composed of men, can, under the name of law, take e | man life, then in the sight of there cannot be such sacredne be- longing to it as some would se ar » | such a terrible sin for the evilly dis- posed. individual to take it away; he regards it as a crime perhaps, but only one with other To such, { the imfluence, of the death penalty, T be ¢rto Be not' & déterrent against murder, but an incitement to it. Now, as to facts; When have there been so many executions in 'this country, and in the neighboring republi s within Tr fow 7 Com sentences hay the last few death prie.ed; and when he ere been so many murders ? An execution is ine variably followed, somewhere in the land, by a murder the punishment for crimes in England, when in of that country did crin ahound ? A mania for t | which men could not, At a public ev vears atively on mirey, society in efery g t | elevated, and crime die » La:tly, we have a to crime in the empl ling executioner. Such 1 tian of law and of it robs it of all its ma been the result 7 At first 1! tures, ready to tak léw-being for mone tection of law, were vetformed their wor in dis uise, but now pire in human form, | masked, going up | try, from place to ! hangman. It is a degradation fc ti and a retrograde step it and morals; a lepro fair name, that is being ti cultured by those in au hes no right to help to th | tion of a single soul, 1 pla | this man, but it will ha { upon others also. So long as capital | punishment rémains, the law sh ad compl its own officials to carry ou { its sentence, or resign tl office; an allow no man} as a hircling, to com- nami The day . 3 s asten should do what in him lies to hast lows shall be erected in' our land. As we ok lat , the many shadows made bY such instruments of death, by whi h our country has been disfigured, lot 2 eat and take heed to what the Word | of God says, "From the beginning, * was not so.' The Sacred Scriptures. joken a! In previous charges | have J some length about the reverent which we should hold the sacred is tures, 'and 1 may be pardoned if 11° fer to it again; and cmphasize it on the present occasion. For a tim tome, when the ridicule and dispar ment, which formerly, was only ha r from the lips of infidels, or heat bs is now heard from ministers™of je Word, against that Word. There bof lately been sent tq, 1 suppose, fide clorgyman of the Church of Eng ne | throughout the world, by a = oC = stitiited comimiftee, comprised o Th number of the elergy in Eng! ne (some of them bearing distingul® 7 names, and holding important pe tions), a document which was wba "private and confidential," ® d Se (Continued on page 7.) rip. has Oxfords With Snap, Style and Comfe Our New Spring Lines have universally" admired and are g trade winners. We have them suit for all occasions. See our range Ladies' Shoes at $2. Hl, JENNINGS, King Wines and Liquo In our large and new asso: stock of Ales, Wines, Liquors we think that we h everything to meet the dema We guarantee entire satisfact as to prices and quality. Agent for the well known *¢ spatch'" Scotch Whiskey. JAS. 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