principles of international law, and rests upon | the country is the corruption of the ballot. I will be continued throughout the length and a basis of alleged facts about which we could But the most startling illustration of the extent breadth of the land until it will be known and not expect that our opinion should prevail. It and power of political corruption and bribery shown that decent and honest people everymay be admitted that Russia could transfer to is the career of the Louisiana Lottery Com- where abhor every form of gambling, and are the United States, at the time when we pur- pany. The meeting just held in New York, averse to the giving of legislative sanction to chased Alaska, only such rights as she herself and its appeal to the honor and patriotism of such criminal practices as fraudulently enticing possessed in adjoining waters. But what were the country, have shown the character of the hard-earned money from unintelligent fools those rights? Did they make of Bering Sea a lottery, and the peril and disgrace which who hope to acquire wealth speedily. mare clausum ? Analogies are little helpful, threaten a State of the Union. It is substanfor each nation, in cases anything like parallel, tially a question of the subjugation of the has held, of course, to the view which, in that State of Louisiana to a fraudulent monopoly particular instance, promised it the greatest which secures and maintains its power by coradvantage. And we ourselves had a very ruption. There are no limitations upon the different idea of international rights and priv-grant, no penaltes for its abuse. It is put beileges in the waters of Bering Sea when they yond the regulating power of the Legislature. washed only Russian territory from the view The good name of the State, its public and that seemed both natural and necessary when private morals, the liberty and prosperity of its the development of great values in the Alaskan citizens, are all involved. Like Tammany Hall seal fisheries had given us a personal stake. in New York, the necessary tendency of such a thoroughly organized system of corruption is to extend itself, and by the nature of our institutions it becomes a National concern. The statement of the situation is the most forcible appeal. The Committee say, truly: "It is

LOUISIANA'S VOTE IN 1876.-In his speech at the anti-lottery meeting in Chickering Hall, New York, Nov. 12, Mr. Abram S. Hewitt

said:

A single State can determine, and has determined, a Presidential election. The vote of Louisiana determined a Presidential election. That vote was offered to me for money, and I declined to buy it. That vote was sold for money. I make no reflection upon parties when I make this statement. I simply call your attention to the fact that when the machinery of a great State gets into the hands of traders and jobbers the great Government of the United States, with all its powers, its post-offices, its public lands, its educational system, is at the mercy of the jobber and the thief. Mr. Hewitt's reference was to the election of 1876. He was Chairman of the Democratic National Committee in that year.

of the Nation.

The evils it inflicts are numerous and great. It impoverishes the many that it may enrich the few. It incites the gambling mania, America's National bane and peril. It is now attempting to bribe a sovereign State by an unparalleled corruption fund of thirty-one and a quarter millions. It thus demonstrates its read iness to corrupt whosoever is corruptible in press, Church, or Legislature.

It assumes the lying maxim that "every man has his price," and the only service it has rendered to the community is in the demonstration which the heroic resistance to it has offered of the unpurchasable integrity of those of our fellow-citizens of Louisiana who are engaging in a life-and-death struggle with it.

We call upon the people of the Nation to extend these patriots their sympathy and their financial aid. We demand of Congress, without regard to party affiliation, the passage of such further laws, under the provisions of the Constitution respecting the regulation of inter-State commerce, as may be practicable to prevent the transportation by private corporations of the advertisements and the tickets of the lottery company and the money of its victims.

Governor Francis T. Nicholls, of Louisiana, sent the following telegram in response to a message expressing the sentiment of the meeting: The fraternal greetings sent by the citizens of New York to Louisiana, bidding her godspeed in her fight against the lottery, are profoundly appreciated. Many thanks for them. That the people of Louisiana will be true to themselves, to their fellow-citizens of other States, and to the obligations of probity, justice, and right, I fervently hope and confidently believe. Harper's Weekly (New York), Nov. 21.Undoubtedly the greatest evil which threatens

into partnership with a gambling hell, what Baltimore Sun, Nov. 14.-If the State goes effect will it have on the general Government? In close contests we may assume that the vote of Louisiana would always be up for sale, and terms could be made with Congress for the removal of restrictions which have been imposed. In this view the lottery becomes a political factor of National importance and farreaching effect. Indeed, the municipal Government of every city is more or less affected or even to some degree dominated by gamblers, and these gamblers are all agents of the lottery. Every citizen is interested in the suppression of the lottery, no less upon grounds of patriotism than upon those of public morality.

destructive of the sacred sisterhood of the
States that one of their number should, for a
pittance of revenue, charter a piratical corpora-
tion to prey upon the ignorance, the credulity, THE LOTTERY VICTORY AT THE DEMOCRATIC
and the cupidity of the citizens of all the
others, and station its creatures throughout the
land to violate their laws."

PRIMARIES IN NEW ORLEANS.

New York Staats-Zeitung, Nov. 13.-The lottery victory at the Democratic primary elecNew York Times, Nov. 14.-No greater dis- tions in New Orleans was complete, but not honor could be done to any Commonwealth surprising. The corrupting influence of the than to incorporate a gambling house as an swindling institution upon public opinion peneintegral part of itself. It was by such an in-trated so deep, the local newspapers with one

"He who

corporation that the Grand Duke of Baden in
old times, and the Prince of Monaco in more
recent times, accepted a European disrepute
as the price of their revenues. That the peo-
ple of an American State sbould accept a dis-
honor is an outrage that may well excite to
indignation the honest men of Louisiana. A
protected and legalized gambling house can
afford to bribe high. The bribes offered to
Louisiana are actually very great, but com-
paratively they are pitifully small.
sups with the devil needs a long spoon," and
it might be expected that those Louisianians
to whom honor and money are commensurable
things, and who are willing to sell their own
good name and that of their State, would insist
upon getting a better price for the article than
it appears they are willing to accept. What-
ever price they are able to exact is the price
of their infamy. The honor of Louisiana, or
what there is left of it after the ravages of the
carpet-bagging politicians and of the Louisi-
ana Lottery Company, is in the keeping of the

or two notable exceptions showed themselves to be so contemptibly mercenary, and the attain its ends, that the antagonists of the lottery company lavished money so freely to monster were from the very outset fighting for a lost cause. Now there is at hand the serious danger that the next move of the lottery vention and reward Judge McEnery with the demon will be to pack the Democratic Connomination for Governor. McEnery is the Judge of the Supreme Court of Louisiana whose voice in formulating the decision in the celebrated Lottery case turned the scale in favor of the "concern," in that it formally and legally brought before the public the Constitutional Amendment submitted by the Legislature for the renewal of the lottery concession. If the lottery can now make its McEnery Governor of the State, it will be able to secure the ratification of this Amendment by the people. To quiet the scruples of the country folk with the filthy lucre of the professional than it has been to ease the consciences of the gamblers will hardly be a more difficult task Louisianians who refuse to sell themselves or their State at any price, and who compose "intelligent citizens of New Orleans. In such circumstances the American people outAnti-Lottery League. It is a patriotic duty for every American to give them all the assist-side the State of Louisiana can do nothing ance in his power.

the

The Epoch (New York), Nov. 13.-There is is no little danger that this infamous bargain may be ratified at the election next April, for the lottery company will use every corrupt means to carry its end, and unfortunately the large and uninstructed negro vote of the State is in its favor. The poorer colored population is besotted by the lottery, and its voters are apt to be venal. So far as possible the public sentiment of the whole country ought to be brought to bear to rescue Louisiana from the abasement with which she seems to be threatened.

more than, by holding mass-meetings like the Chickering Hall demonstration and entering a determined and energetic protest, make a last effort to bring the people of Louisiana to their senses. It is a fight to avert a National disgrace.

New Orleans Times-Democrat (Lottery Organ), Nov. 13.-The boodle cry is as absurd as that about registration. It is made simply because the Antis have no excuse and can offer none. They tricked the farmers with the story that they were very strong in New Orleans. They tried in vain to conceal their weakness, but the parish committee finally forced them oût. Then it was that their vote showed what

New York Herald, Nov. 13.-Think what their parades and their meetings had already two or three million dollars corruptly used that the saintly party consisted mainly of wind. demonstrated-how very few they were ard can accomplish in the way of legislation The boodle story is a gross slander perpein the way of purchasing votes. Given trated on New Orleans and its citizens, simply this enormous money power, the managers because its people will not accept the dictation of the Louisiana State Lottery would be of "the little band of fanatics" and pharisees, almost in a position, by buying doubtful States, to sell the Presidency to that candidate who who devote their whole time to admiring their should bind himself to let them use the United own virtue and slandering and denouncing the States mails as they pleased, and in whatever rest of the world as corrupt and dishonest. concerned the lottery to do their bidding. Surely there is food for serious reflection in this Louisiana Lottery business!

American Hebrew (New York), Nov. 13.-
We trust that this campaign of enlightenment

A WORSE EVIL THAN THE LOTTERY.

Boston Traveller, Nov. 13.-With great force the [New York] Tribune presented the peril to American civilization through an iniquitous

institution, in whose profits the State of Louisi-per hour, and will change the hours of the | the Church at large, and as we hope, upon all ana is a partner, and said most pertinently: normal working day. The recognized hours parties to the present controversy. The extent to which the lottery has damaged Louisi- have been 54 per week; the men struck for 47 Christian Union (New York), Nov. 14.ana, the character of the fight it is making there, the hours; it is said that the working hours will be The real ground of the action of the majority tremendous political power it has acquired, and the reduced to 50 per week, that is, five days of is doubtless correctly interpreted in the declamethods it is now employing to prolong its life, are not nine hours, and five hours on the Saturday, or ration attributed to the Rev. Charles Cuthbert appreciated by the people of the country. If the people knew the facts as they really exist, it would not within two hours of the much longed-for eight Hall, of Brooklyn, whose Presbyterian soundtake long to dispose of the lottery. The situation pre-hours day. Some 40 years ago the working sents a National danger, to end, unless the moral sentiness no one will question, that the Presbyterian ment of all good people goes quickly to the aid of Lou-hours in the building trades were 60 hours per Church ought to be broad enough to include isiana, in a National disgrace and a National wrong. week. The men first of all won a short day the entire range of theological thinkers from We believe it to be impossible for the Tribune on Saturdays, leaving work at 4 o'clock; then Dr. Briggs to Pusey House. It is an indicaor any other journal to use words in denuncia- came the I o'clock conceded in 1860-61; sub-tion of that breadth which is so characteristic tion of the lottery, wherever located, so strong sequently came the 12 o'clock, and a decrease of our times, and against which the late-lingerthat we cannot indorse them, and we, there- of half an hour on other days in the week. For ing spirit of the sixteenth century intolerance fore, shall rejoice if public opinion can be so the future the hours will be 50 at 1od. per contends in vain; an indication that loyalty to fired up on the subject that even Louisiana hour, until a further effort may effect the long Christ is taking the place of creeds and hiershall hear and respect. But every word wished-for eight hours day. The concession archies as the only true bond of union, and uttered by the Tribune, and every argument of eight hours by the bookbinding trade has that the Church is tardily learning the meaning adduced, is applicable, with immensely in- doubtless had some influence in this further of the apostolic declaration that where the creased force, to another iniquity [the saloon] concession as to working hours. Besides spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. in whose profits the State is a partner, which which some of the "unskilled trades," as they absolutely does more mischief in a week than are called, have secured an eight hours day, Christian Intelligencer (New York), Nov. is possible to the worst form of lottery in a such as the gas-workers and others, so that the II.-The Old and New Testament Student for year, and as to which the Tribune and the rep- more skilled trades are encouraged to seek the current month, in a paragraph (p. 307) on resentative people of New York are practically similar privileges. The eight hour shift in the trial of Dr. Briggs by the Presbytery of silent, if not acquiescent, although the evil is mines is not unlikely to be effected at an early New York, speaks of the case as right at their own doors, and cannot escape date, even without the aid of legislation. The shameful partisan warfare." It seems to us their observation. We do not mean to single tendency is in this direction. Probably the that there is no excuse for such language. It out New York as peculiar in this matter, for first effort will be made in the Yorkshire coal-appears that some of the members of the Presin fact we fear that jnst such a spirit is spread fields; then will follow Lancashire, and prob- bytery consider Dr. Briggs's utterances in all parts of our land. Plenty of indignation ably Derbyshire. The state of uncertainty in plainly at war with the Scripture and with the for iniquity whose seat is remote and plenty of which the coal trade is will rather help in this standards to which he is bound by a solemn tolerance for that which is close at hand seems direction. If some reasonable compromise engagement. This being the case, it was certo be largely the spirit of the representative can only be effected as regards overtime in tainly their privilege, if not their duty, to men of the day. cases of real emergency, the concession of the have the matter investigated by ecclesiastical eight hours would not be long delayed.-authority. How can there be anything "shameful" in such a procedure? And where Engineering (London), Nov. 6. comes in the plea of partisanship? There are those who dissent entirely from Dr. Briggs, but consider the prosecution unwise. And this is all that can be said against the persons who instigated it. They may have made a mistake, but they who call their course shameful have made a far worse mistake.

THE CHICAGO

POLICE AND THE

MRS. O'SHEA'S LOVE.- What a pity that she loved him," is a remark that has been made on the conduct of Mrs. O'Shea. What a

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one of

as

ANARCHISTS. New York Volkszeitung (Socialist), Nov. 13. -The Chicago police have delivered another of those strokes of genius in the execution of which they so admirably show an understanding of how to unite stupidity, idiocy, and inso-pity, we would rather say, that she did not love him. Love is not selfish-love seeketh lence into an effective whole. The Chicago not its own. We cannot go beyond that defiworkingmen held their usual November celeThe Observer (Presb., New York), Nov. 12. nition. If she had only loved him enough to bration last Wednesday evening. It goes leave him alone (and that sort of love is prac- relieved many minds as to his personal faith -While the answer of Professor Briggs has without saying that, according to custom on all ticed to a greater extent than many suppose) and made them think that he should not be such occasions, the red of the wage-workers' the world might have received the benefit of a revolutionary movement appeared exclusively spectacle it stands greatly in need of the held for trial, it has not formed as yet any part in the bunting and flags used to decorate spectacle of a great man consistently and conwhatever of a complete, exhaustive, judicial the hall and the speakers' platform. This the tinuously great.-Wives and Daughters (Lon-consideration of the main question that concudgeled guards of the Garden City found unen-don, Canada), November. cerns the Church, namely, whether the inaugudurable. They wanted another row, and deterral address is in harmony with the Westminismined to provoke it in the most offensive manter Confession and the Word of God. It has ner. Accordingly a handful of them broke. seemed good to the Presbytery to leave the into the hall, and categorically demanded that whole matter to other and higher courts. These the American flag be produced on the stage. bodies may be equally reluctant to make any The assurance of these gentry, who, without so decision in regard to a matter so important. much as the semblance of justification from the DR. BRIGGS THE NEW YORK PRES- If this is the case, then the Presbyterian

letter of the law, had the effrontery to give peremptory orders to an assemblage of free American citizens," was in harmony with the impudence of the whole proceeding. There was little lacking to enable the police to accomplish their object-the provocation of a scrimmage, to be followed by arrests, prosecutions, etc., in order that they might again pose as saviors of society. The thinking persons in the gathering happily succeeded in preventing such a result. But we confess that if in a moment of extreme excitement, carried away by passionate access of righteous indignation, some one had recklessly fired into the group of insolent intruders, the act, while cer

man.

RELIGIOUS.

BYTERY'S ACTION.

Church must depend on other influences than the wisdom and authority of its representative accordance with the Scriptures and its own bodies to determine what is and what is not in

standards.

The case has been appealed, and may come up
Christian at Work (New York), Nov. 12.—
a year hence. But passing that-and much
may be left to the softening process of time,-
we believe the Presbytery has done wisely in United Presbyterian (Pittsburgh), Nov. 12.
taking its action, whose effect cannot fail to be-Dr. Briggs, in his publications, especially in
for good upon the whole Church. It makes his famous inaugural address, has taught doc-
for catholicity, without sacrifice of fundamen- trines which, if words have a meaning, are dis-
tal doctrine, and no less generously than justly tinctly out of harmony with the Westminster
it accepts a minister's own explanation of Confession of Faith. It is true that, in the
doubtful terms: certainly it does not treat him long and able paper which he read before the
as a perjured witness whose testimony can only Presbytery, and in which he objected to the
be excused after cross-examination and cor- sufficiency of the charges and specifications in
roborative evidence. We may
add that form and legal effect," he did modify his
opinions concerning future probation, the ful-
of the Church and reason as sources of author-
fillment of predictive prophecy, the infallibility
ity, and the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures,
as these opinions are expressed in his writings;
but he did not in so many words disavow any
of them, or premise that they would not have
a place in his theological instruction. He said
he was sorry if he had written anything which
grieved his brethren in the Lord; if he had gone
further and said that he retracted every utter-
ance which grieved his brethren and that it
would not be repeated, the action of the Pres-
bytery in dismissing the case would have been
wise. As it is, the matter is not ended.
appeal has been taken to Synod, and the case
will have to be acted on by the higher courts,
whose members are not in danger of being un-

tainly unwise and productive of grave conse- though the prosecution has been dropped
qnences, though not at all a "revolutionary
deed, would have been a spontaneous exercise have not been discharged, which will leave
the committee who presented the charges
of justified retaliation, that would have been them still in force to present charges before
morally approved by every feeling working- the Synod, should the Presbytery fail to dis-
For such an act would have been purely charge them. As Dr. Briggs went before the
spontaneous; as a deliberate, planned, organ- Presbytery with the taint of the Assembly's
ized act it would have been irremediably fool-
censure upon him, he now goes before Synod,
ish. As the case stands, the Chicago police should the case be brought before that body,
have merely succeeded in infusing a little un-
on appeal, not only with the stain removed by
expected activity into the Chicago working- the action of the Presbytery, but with a ver-
men's movement. Again the motive that seeks dict in his favor. With much that Dr. Briggs
evil brings forth good.
has said this journal, as its readers know, is
not in agreement, and it firmly believes in the
exceeding unwisdom of some of his rasping
phrases. But men are not made heretics by
these, and we rejoice at a result whose effects
will be for lasting good, as we believe, upon

CONCESSIONS TO WORKINGMEN IN ENGLAND. -The award of the arbitrator in the case of the carpenters' and joiners' strike will probably increase the men's wages by conceding rod.

An

Living Church (Prot. Epis., Chicago), Nov. 14. Many churchmen will breathe a sigh of relief at the news of the acquittal of Dr. Briggs at his recent trial for heresy. There was a 'rumor which had an air of probability, that upon being convicted and dismissed from the Presbyterian ministry, the professor and his friends were likely to seek admission into the [Protestant Episcopal] Church. Aside from the question of his views on the subject of inspiration, eschatology, and the like, there is a growing feeling that it will not redound to the lasting benefit of the Church to convert it into a cave of Adullam. Every experienced

must pardon the true followers of Christ if the
solemn farce in which Brother Briggs has been
a central figure provokes a smile.

THE INFIDEL DEDUCTION.

faith." Schürer, on the other hand, maintains that it is not a question of faith, but a problem of historical investigation. When faith rests upon the Bible as an infallible book, criticism is inevitably shattering; but when it rests upon the facts of religious consciousness it has no more effect upon the criticism of the Bible than it has upon that of Shakespeare or Homer.

Canada Presbyterian (Toronto), Nov. 11.-It The Truth Seeker (Free Thinkers' Organ, was not the Presbytery that made the trouble, New York), Nov. 14.-This is called a victory it was Professor Briggs himself. The men for Professor Briggs, but it is rather an avowal who try to scuttle the ship are the troublers of religious cowardice, and an awakening to not the men who try to stop the leak. It is THE WORLD'S FAIR STRUGGLE-A the fact that any disturbance of Presbyterian quite true that heresy trials in our day do a "standards" would probably result in a very CRITICAL SITUATION. vast amount of mischief. It is painfully true unpleasant shaking up of the creed and a final The Presbyterian (Philadelphia), Nov. 11.that they leave ugly scars. It may be sorrow-loss of many more men besides Mr. Briggs. We must not give up the battle for a Sabbath. fully admitted that the ordained servants of The defense made by Professor Briggs was closed Columbian Fair at Chicago. A combi God never appear to such poor advantage as technical. It traversed the form rather than nation of local, political, and financial interests when they are ranged on each side of a heresy the meaning of the formulated charges, and of the strongest and most determined character trial, but let the blame for all these bad results while he explained his position he retracted is at work to throw wide open the doors of the be laid on the shoulders of the man who com- nothing, and is to-day a self-confessed heretic, Exhibition on the Lord's Day. Nothing but pels his brethren to try him. and the Presbytery, by dismissing the charges, the ceaseless and persistent activity of patriots man who does not believe the and Christians can defeat this active and mighty allows a We have sent in numerous protests, Bible to be what Presbyterianism claims it to force. be, to remain in the church and to teach the which have made little or no impression to be the future de- on the managers; now let the stand be young men who are It shows very plain- boldly taken that no encouragement and supfenders of their faith. cares less for the port will be given to the enterprise by ly that the Church substance of its faith than for the forms Christian exhibitors and Christian patrons of church unity. It must be very much if it is to minister to the degradation of our frightened at the prospect of a heresy trial. Christian Sabbath. We must be decided and The comments of the secular press upon the re-active. Our cause may be lost through indifsult of this trial are not less significant than ference. Our petitions have been laid upon the result itself. They show that the press the shelf and our moral pleadings have been recognizes clearly the position in which the ignored, and there remains nothing further for Presbyterians found themselves, and they tell us to do than to let those in charge of the unthe Presbyterians plainly that as a matter of dertaking know that it will not be patronized and policy they have done well, but that they have sustained by the Christian public if it is to be weakened their religion in strengthening the made an occasion for desecrating and repudiaChurch. It is generally recognized-and the ting our American Sabbath, which has been the recognition is also recognized-that the old source of our greatest civil as well as religious Christianity is gone, and matter how blessings. Better far that the Exhibition severely the sects may claim to stick to their prove a complete failure, than that it should recreeds, they do not dare to make them an issue. sult in an European Continental Sabbath. The 'Higher Criticism and the "New regard the situation as critical, and think that Theology" have won, and if ever this case all interested in the Sunday question in connecshould be tried on its merits Dr. Briggs would tion with this National institution should make be probably acquitted, though without ques- their voice heard, not only through religious tion he has left the Westminster standards. associations, but by personal letters to the John Calvin would have made mighty short members of the Exposition as well as to members of Congress, so that the Fair shall not be work of him. opened under Governmental sanction.

country priest knows that

accessions

to

are

his parish growing out of dissensions in
some neighboring religious society
not of the most desirable kind, and
that his work is more likely to be hindered
than advanced by an increase of numbers
which is due, not to conviction that the teach-
ings of the Church are true, but to discontent
and faction in another community. Further-
more, when men have been occupying an im-
moral position in their own denomination,
where they have been insisting upon their right
to preach and teach a doctrine contrary to the
formularies which they have been content to
sign, it is extremely doubtful whether they will
accept the teachings of the Church with any
better faith. Is not the habit of playing fast
and loose with solemn pledges likely to follow
them into their new surronndings? It seems
to us that it is time to consider whether it is

well to allow men to come to us on the under-
standing that the Church is a field for free
lances and because they suppose that inspira-
tion, the doom of the impenitent, the atone-
ment, and the like, are open questions
amongst us.

no

AN INSTANCE OF THE PROGRESS OF

CRITICISM.

Christian Register (Unitarian, Boston), Nov. 12.-The Gospel of John has been for the last seventy years a battle-ground for New Testament criticism. From time to time the position of the contestants has changed under the mass of proof and argument that has been arrayed on either side. Concerning the external New York Christian Advocate (Meth. Epis.), evidences no better work has been done than Nov. 12.-It has been quite clear to us from that by our own late Prof. Ezra Abbot. But the first that the particular offense of Dr. internal evidences have come more and more Briggs was more in the manner and spirit of his into the foreground of discussion; and it is presentation of his views, and in the inferences these which Prof. Emil Schürer presents in his naturally drawn from them, than in what he article in the Contemporary Review, the most actually held. He is dogmatic, he is unguard- recent contribution of importance to this discussion. The world of scholarship is not yet ed, his statements are often unbalanced, and he is needlessly offensive to the brave and ready to bring in a unanimous verdict on this honest defenders of the traditional views of issue; but in the seventy years which have the Bible. These are grave faults in a theo- elapsed since Bretschneider's work appeared a logical professor. The man who trains young great change has come over the attitude of the ministers ought not only to have sound and Church in regard to such questions. Once settled convictions, but he ought to know how they were hardly recognized as proper for disto declare them, how to make himself thor-cussion at all. One's orthodoxy was imperiled oughly understood. These things in such a trial as that which was pending in the New York Presbytery would, however, not tell against him. He was not to be tried as a pro

fessor, but as a minister.

not merely by answering the question as to
the genuineness of the Fourth Gospel, but by
raising it. But now, as Dr. Schürer says,
"The most orthodox believers can no longer
disregard the fact that even the Biblical writ-

ings are literary productions from the hand of Catholic Mirror (Baltimore), Nov. 14.-Pro- man, which have risen under conditions quite fessor Briggs, according to the judgment of similar to those of other ancient documents, the New York Presbytery, is no heretic. The and are, therefore, to be examined after the misguided brethren by whom the eminent same method." This can be said more freely theologian was adjudged guilty of unorthodoxy in Germany than in this country; but Schürer must have forgotten that the "confessions has occasion to note that "the attitude assumed and standards" which are supposed to form toward Biblical criticism is still one of continthe bulwark of Presbyterian doctrine are elas-uous mistrust, and there is always an inclinatic as well as uncertain. Professor Briggs's tion to treat the questions which arise, not as Presbyterianism may be peculiar, but we know questions of historical science, but as questions now that it is not heretical. Presbyterians of faith to be determined by the postulates of

We

ST. TORQUEMADA. Nov. 11.-A Catholic Congress, sitting at LeoChurch Guardian (Prot. Epis.), Montreal, poldi, in Galicia, has made an unheard-of request. It is no less than that twenty saints, duly canonized and scheduled in the calendar of the Church, should be deposed. All twenty were admitted by Pius IX. or his successor, the present Pope; but as they include Torquemada and a friar who is accused of most unsaintlike practices, the request is intelligible enough. How it can be met is a much more difficult question. An infallible authority cannot rescind its own decrees without stultifying the declaration of infallibility.

Pittsburgh Christian Advocate (Meth. Epis.), Nov. 12.-In all the history of the Roman Church there has probably not been a greater monster of cruelty than Torquemada. He was the head of the Spanish Inquisition, the most thoroughly organized and systematic institution of cruelty of which history contains any record. It was the agent of the Romish Church, and he was its appointed leader. The records of its deeds of heartlessness, the lists of its tortured and murdered victims are simply appalling. The crime against which it directed its energies was heresy, refusal to submit to the Catholic Church. This was the crime which inspired its zeal. And Torquemada was its chief, the blood-thirsty and relentless chief. His conduct should consign him to infamy. Offenses not one-thousandth part as great as his have blasted the names of men and women forever. But the Roman Catholic Church canonizes him! He was her faithful servant. His life was given to her promotion. The manner in which he did it is no matter. And this is the Roman Catholic Church of to-day!

MISCELLANEOUS.

PRESIDENT HARRISON'S THANKS-
GIVING PROCLAMATION.

to be to demonstrate that the aborigines are | shabby, but it is to be shabby and pretentious
unfit to govern themselves, a privilege for the same time. How many men one sees on
which they have long been vociferating-Is Broadway wearing Prince Albert coats, brown
not this a fair picture of the state of things in pot hats that have seen better and warmer
Ireland? Is there any island in any sea where days, trousers sprung at the knee, shoes un-
the inhabitants seem less capable of self- fortunate at the heel, and a magnificent chrys-
restraint and conformance with the usages of anthemum to invite the passer-by to the com-
civilized, or even semi-civilized, life? Hayti, bination of decrepit garments and blooming
inhabited by blacks, at least maintains auton-button-hole. The man who has not good credit
omy, and its wars are marked by battles where with a good tailor should kindly skip the
men are killed with powder and ball, and not flowers.-Truth (New York), Nov. 14.
mangled by fist-and-club brawls. Samoa has
her rival kings, who contend with armies
that fight and leave slain, and the bronzed war-
riors scorn the yells, the confusion, and the
shame of cowardly, purposeless, resultless
scrimmages in the streets of their villages. No
savages out of Ireland seem to be wholly
devoid of the sense of dignity.

By the President of the United States, a Proclamation. It is a very glad incident of the marvelous prosperity which has crowned the year now drawing to a close that its helpful and reassuring touch has been felt by all our people. It has been as wide as our country, and so special that every home has felt its comforting influence. It is too great to be the work of man's power, and too particular to be the device of To God, the beneficent and the allwise, who makes the labors of men to be fruitful, redeems their losses by His grace, and the measure of whose giving is as much beyond the thoughts of man as it is beyond his deserts, the praise and gratitude of the people of this SOME favored Nation are justly due.

his mind.

public congregation, the renewal of family ties about our American firesides, and thoughtful helpfulness toward those who suffer lack of the body or of the spirit.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

BOSTONESE ART CRITICISM,
VERY OPTIMISTIC.

AN INDISCREET WORLD'S FAIR FUNCTION

tem. Butterworth is a bad case of the Ohio

Democrat, Nov. 13.

ARY.-Ben Butterworth, one of the well-paid officers of the World's Fair, has invoked the just wrath of the Catholic clergy and laity by He an indiscreet speech at a club dinner. said that if he owned Italy he would auction off all the madonnas and crucifixions with which that country abounds, and build schoolhouses with the proceeds. He explains that what he meant to say was, that he would sell Now, therefore, I, Benjamin Harrison, Presall the art treasures of Italy for school purident of the United States of America, do York), Nov. 14.-There are distinguished citi- There was no necessity for offending the religBoston Correspondence of the Critic (New poses. The explanation does not explain. hereby appoint Thursday, the 26th day of No-zens of Boston, and gentlemen fond of art, as ious belief of millions of good people in order vember present, to be a day of joyful thanks- well, who do not indorse Wendell Phillips's to make the very poor point at which Mr. giving to God for the bounties of His provi- harsh criticism of Boston's statues. dence, for the peace in which we are permitted the other day at Young's Hotel, and undis- of Italy, whether religious or secular, are They met Butterworth was aiming. The art treasures to enjoy them, and for the preservation of mayed by the fact that looking down upon those institutions of civil and religious liberty them from the wall was the honored face of pretty good schools in themselves, and if sold which He gave our fathers the wisdom to de- the silver-tongued orator and critic, proceeded they would simply pass from one set of owners vise and establish, and us the courage to pre- to lash his judgments vigorously with their to another, without benefiting any school sysserve. Among the appropriate observances of snapping comments. Benjamin Franklin from the day are rest from toil, worship in the his lofty pedestal in front of the City Hall. man abroad, and at his worst.-St. Louis Globelooked for all the world, declared Mr. Phillips, as if he " were ogling the school-girls as they passed down School Street "; but Mr. HamilTHE HIGH Roller and THE HARD-HEARTED ton A. Hill of the Bostonian Society main- VICE-PRESIDENT.-Vice-President Levi P. Mortained that this statement was an outgrowth of ton is a hard-hearted man. He has not the the critic's vivid imagination, and compared least consideration or feeling for the poverty of the allusion with a recent criticism he had a millionaire "high roller" who finds it imheard of the equestrian statue of Washington possible to make both ends meet on an income in the Public Garden, wherein the horse was of $40,000 a year. Charles P. Palmer, son of roundly abused because he had no tongue. the late Courtlandt Palmer, sought the diverThis same statue, so well-known as one of the sion of investing in sundry "flyers" in stocks most noted of Thomas Ball's designing, was for several years, and the Vice-President's praised, at this gathering, by the sculptor London firm gave him credit for margins to Franklin Simmons as one of the best he had the tune of $68,000. For years Mr. Palmer seen. Mr. Simmons insisted that Boston, has tried to save a few dollars from his paltry on the Score of monumental income to repay the Vice-President, but he was ornament, could compare favorably with the cities not able to do it. Vice-President Morton has AN ANTI-IRISH EDITOR GRASPS A of the Continent and was ahead of London. at last invoked the aid of the courts to compel Mr. Simmons could speak with authority by Mr. Palmer to forego a few of the necessities virtue of his experience, his Longfellow statue, of a "high roller" and pay his debts. Verily, his soldiers' monument in Portland, Me., and there are thorns even among the roses strewn his Roger Williams monument in the capital along the path of a "high roller."-New York at Washington being widely known. His allu- Herald. sion to the statue of Edward Everett was favorable, although that is the one which reminded Phillips of a baseball player in the act of catching a high ball. The Hon. Frederick W. Lincoln said he knew the position was a natural one for Mr. Everett to assume, and it was the position taken for the picture which the orator always regarded as his favorite. This reference to the natural rather than the artistic feature of the statue led another speaker to point out that the hang of Mr. Webster's clothes, which has been so criticised, modeled from a pair of trousers once worn by Mr. Webster himself"! Thus did these gentlemen, who have done so much for the Parker memorial, demonstate the error of the criticism against Boston's artistic taste.

Done at the city of Washington this 13th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth.

By the President:

BENJAMIN HARRISON.

JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State.

GREAT OPPORTUNITY.

San Francisco Argonaut, Nov. 9.-Civil war among the aborigines of the Island of Ireland has again broken out, and is attracting some attention from the civilized world. The storm centre at present is a place called Cork. One night, last week, a battle raged in and ensanguined the streets of this settlement. The English Government, which holds a protectorate over the island, having wisely deprived the natives of fire-arms, the latter possess only rude clubs, stones, and the weapons of nature wherewith to contend, yet with these, in the battle of Cork, they did such execution (such is their ferocity) that no fewer than ninety-two of the natives were borne to the hospitals, provided by the nation which rules the barbarous island, to have their wounds dressed. How many more savages, with bleeding scalps and cracked bones, were carried off the field by members of their respective tribes, to be cared for in their huts, cannot, in the nature of things, be ascertained. It appears that the natives are just now divided into two hostile factions. The chiefs of these warring barbarians, in order to fire the hearts of their wild followers, mount stumps and therefrom deliver harangues. So soon as one of these orators shows himself, the hostile savages make a fierce advance upon him, which is instantly met with equal violence by his partisans. For many years it has been the custom of the foreign and protecting Government to interfere and prevent these singular and sanguinary conflicts, but latterly the policy has been adopted of letting the creatures fight it out when they are so disposed, the result being great effusion of blood and hopeless anarchy. The purpose of this change of policy is presumed

was

ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF THE CHRYSANTHEMUM.-The chrysanthemum blooms this fall more gorgeously and more gigantically than ever. The immensity of some of the chrysanthemums worn by some of our gilded and plated youth almost frightens the beholder. The gilded who toil not, neither do they spin, are able to carry any weight of decoration, and chrysanthemums of the commoner varieties are too common for them anyway. It is the plated youth, whose plating is worn off, that needs advice as to the use of chrysanthemums. A man needs to be thoroughly well dressed before he ventures to wear a flower. If there is any shabbiness in his raiment a flower will call attention to it. It is no disgrace to be

OBITUARY.

DONN PIATT.

Chicago Herald, Nov. 14.-Donn Piatt's death ends a busy, notable, and successful life. He figured in many fields and distinguished himself in all. Having fought in the war, where he was promoted to the rank of colonel, he returned to civil life to take up the pen in the cause of democracy. It is as a trenchant and fearless political writer that he made his most brilliant and enduring reputation. His cutting attacks upon leading men of his day, whose methods he did not approve, made him a terror to evil-doers. Colonel Piatt was a great man among Washington correspondents and newspaper writers in the period_following the war. He had a keen nose for Republican corruption and jobbery, and he exposed the distinguished rascals of the Grant era most vividly and entertainingly. He was an ideal lance in the journalistic field, without fear and without reproach. Nothing could stop him from telling the truth when he once obtained possession of the facts. After he became too old longer to stand the strain of active duty in his favorite profession he retired to his home in the country, where his remaining days were passed in the rest and quiet which he had so well earned. Donn Piatt was one of the great American newspaper men, and his name stands well up toward the top of the list.