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EXPENSES OF INDIAN SERVICE.-I am not aware that any report from this office has ever shown just how much the Government contributes from the United States Treasury to feed and clothe the 200,000 Indians who are its wards, outside of the five civilized tribes. The public at large finds from the proceedings of Congress and the public press that $5,000,000 in round numbers have been appropriated for the Indian service, and this gives to each Indian $25. which, if true, would not enable any person, either white or Indian, to live very luxuriously, for it is a fraction less than 7 cents a day. But small as this is, it is by no means the worst feature of the case, because after deducting from the $5,000,000 the money due the Indians, and which the Government only holds in trust for them, and then deducting cost of transportation and other legitimate and necessary expenses, it is found, by a

careful examination of the accounts, that the Indians actually get of the money belonging to the Govern ment, to feed and clothe them, only $7 per annum per capita, or a fraction less than two cents a day for each Indian. It takes from the Treasury of the Government $1,000 a year for each soldier in our army, whose chief business it is to see that peace is preserved on the frontier, while it takes from the same source for each Indian only $7.-Commissioner Price's Report.

GENERAL CROOK, the celebrated Indian fighter, in his address at the last reunion of the Army of West Virginia, said:

"The same lesson of magnanimity to a conquered foe which we learned together in Virginia and Georgia -the same magnanimity that told the rebel he was free, with no badge of tyranny or contempt to rest upon him-we wish to apply to the Cheyenne and the Apache. After proving to him that our Government is strong enough to crush, we are trying to demonstrate that it is generous enough to save and instruct; that after having stricken the shackles from the limbs of millions of the black men, we do not intend to enslave the remnant of the red men. Our object is not to des troy, but to build up; to teach our weaker brother the dignity of labor, and the wisdom of law and order; to instruct his children in the rudiments of our knowl edge, and prepare the race for the dignity of citizenship, and rescue it from the thraldom of vice and vagabondage."

ACCORDING to a recent statement made by the New York Herald, there are more than seven hundred divorce suits pending before the courts of the city of Philadelphia. The statement has startled the Philadelphia papers into a variety of comments upon the magnitude of the evil thus disclosed. The fact presents a strange state of morals in respect to the family.

No. 31,332 ON the title page of the London Times of January 1st of this year marked the total of a continuous series of issues of that journal, which began on the first day of January, 1785. That number includes all the "week-days" in the hundred years be tween the two dates, with six or seven units to spare, which may be accounted for by as many extra issues that have got into the count. The Times started and for three years continued under the prolix title of the Daily Universal Advertiser, which, being found both confusing and cumbrous, was dropped in 1788 for the present name. This is the only change in title or in name of the journal or its ownership in the century of its existence. The paper was founded by John Walter, was continued by his son John Walter, and is now (and since 1847) further continued by John Walter (third) who is son of John Walter (second). These three lives cover not only the hundred years of existence of The Times, but the long interval of years since the first John Walter was born, in 1738-one hundred and forty-seven years. The succession and the other circumstances mentioned are very remark able and probably unique.-Phila. Public Ledger.

A VERY OBLIGING INDIAN.-Dr. C. A. White, Professor of Paleontology in the Smithsonian Insti tution, relates this pleasing incident. Being in the Ute country a year or so ago, in pursuit of scientific facts, he found himself on one occasion encamped some fifty miles from Uintah Agency. Being desirous of sending a letter to his wife in Washington, he entrusted it to an Indian who, he learned by signs, was on his way to the agency. He was not sure that the Indian understood what he desired him to do with the letter, but took the risk of that. His wife received the letter and was surprised at finding it

postmarked Salt Lake City. The Doctor afterward learned that the Indian arrived at the agency just after the mail had gone, and knowing that it would be a month before another mail would be sent out he actually carried the letter to Salt Lake City, a distance of 225 miles, for this white man whom he had never met before, and whose name he did not know. Doubtless the Indian thought the letter of great importance, but where is the white man who would have done as much for his best friend, without the hope of reward or even thanks?-Council Fire and Arbitrator.

WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON.-Wendell Phillips Garrison, son of the late Wm. Lloyd Garrison, has, with the assistance of his brothers, nearly completed the first volume of his father's biography. The work, which will be also a history of the Anti-Slavery movement in America, of which Mr. Garrison was the leader, will extend to three volumes; but the first of these, bringing the history as far as 1840, will be published soon. Mr. W. P. Garrison is well known as one of the editors of the New York Evening Post-Anti-Slavery Reporter.

For Friends' Reviem.

CHAPEL ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.

As up Mount Olives' steep ascent

With patient, faltering steps we trod, The soft, sweet sound of hymnal strains Arose in praises to our God.

Clearer and louder rose the notes

As we neared the peak sublime; "Could it be that human throats

Poured forth these strains divine?"
Soon in full view a simple shrine,

With half-built walls and open door,
Where Russian pilgrims gathered in
Their staves and knapsacks on the floor.
With raised hands and fervent looks
They sang their hymns of praise,
Forgetful of the road they came,

Its foot-sore, hungry, weary days;

From farther north, in strange costume,
Happy to find their Saviour's land,

Happy to pay their holy vows;

An earnest, simple, peasant band.

Down far below flows Kedron's stream,
Beyond, Moriah's sacred mount
Rose full in view behind the screen

Of time-stained walls and Siloam fount.

Low down upon the mountain side
The witness of Christ's agony,
And His disciple's fearful sin,

Lies hoary, grey Gethsemane.
Jerusalem! The Christian's shrine!

Where man met Jesus face to face, Whose streets were trod by One divine, Mount Zion's holy place!

Can we forget that holy land

While life and sense remain?
Where Jesus wrought the Father's will,
And for our sins was slain.

There lived the prophets, there they died,
There fell the Lamb a sacrifice;

The chosen people there defied

Their King, their Saviour's agonies. C. G.

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Why do we greet thee, O blithe New Year?
What are thy pledges of mirth and cheer?
Comest, knight errant, the wrong to right,
Comest to scatter our gloom with light?
Wherefore the thrill, the sparkle and shine,
In heart and eyes at a word of thine?
The old was buoyant, the old was true,
The old was brave when the old was new.
He crowned us often with grace and gift ;
His sternest skies had a deep blue rift.
Straight and swift, when his hand unclasped,
With welcome and joyance thine we grasped.
O tell us, Year, we are fain to know,—
What is thy charm that we hail thee so?

Dost promise much that is fair and sweet,—
The wind s low stir in the rippling wheat,
The wave's soft plash on the sandy floor,
The bloom of roses from shore to shore,
Glance of wings from the bowery nest,
Music and perfume from east to west,
Frosts to glitter in jeweled rime,
Blush of sunrise at morning's prime,
Stars above us the watch to keep,

And rain and dew, though we wake or sleep?

These, O Year, we shall have from thee,
For the thing that hath been aye shall be.
Sowing and reaping, from seed to sheaf,
The waiting long, and the fruitage brief.
What beyond is thy guerdon bright
To us who stand in thy dawning light?

Once more a voice, and I hear it call
Like a bugle-note from a mountain wall;
The pines uplift it with mighty sound,
The billows bear it the green earth round;
A voice that rolls in a jubilant song,

A conqueror's ring in its echo strong;
Through the ether clear, from the solemn sky
The New Year beckons, and makes reply:

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"Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints." Psalm cxvi. 15.

O word of truth and tenderness!

That death from which Christ takes the sting, The death of God's beloved saints

Is in His sight a precious thing.

And we who sorrow for their loss,
Their faithful love, their friendship true,
May know their hope in death, to us
Who yet remain, is precious too.

Our hope, at sight of theirs, takes heart,
Our trust relies with calmer rest,
Their God is ours and we are His;
Our Father doeth what is best.

S. J. T.

SUMMARY OF NEWS. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.—Advices from Europe are to the 27th inst.

GREAT BRITAIN.--Three serious dynamite explosions, the most damaging that have yet been perpetrated, occurred in London on the 24th. The first was about 2 P. M. in the crypt of Westminster Hall, followed almost immediately by one in the Strangers' Gallery in the House of Commons. Houses were shaken for many blocks around. In Westminster Hall, the ornamental gates leading to the crypt were blown from their hinges and thrown down. All the windows on the north and south sides of the hall were demolished. "The concussion shook down from the oak roof the accumulated soot of centuries." As visitors are admitted on that day, a number were present, and one of these seeing a roll of what seemed like clothing, and which was smoking, lying on the steps of the crypt, called the attention of a policeman, who took it up to carry it away, but dropped it, when it exploded, injuring him severely. Several other persons were more or less hurt. In the House of Commons, it is stated. the lobby was demolished, the wood-work of the Peers' Gallery was shattered, and a large hole was made in the floor. The main force was exerted on the side of the room where are the seats of the members of the Government and their Liberal supporters. The seat usually occupied by W. E. Gladstone was badly broken. Had the House been in session the loss of life would probably have been great.

The third explosion was in the Tower, in what is called the Banqueting Hall of the White Tower. This is used as an armory, and many rifles were stored in it. The explosive was placed behind a rack of these. They were twisted and bent by the explosion, and scattered about the room. All the glass and other fragile articles were shattered, a large hole was made in the floor and another through the roof. The woodwork was set on fire, but was soon extinguished. About 60 visitors were in the Tower at the time, including many children, some of whom were cut by the flying glass and splinters. The police prevented all egress from the Tower and grounds after the explosion, until every one was rigidly examined, but no discoveries were made as to the perpetrators. The whole number of persons injured is stated to be, in the Tower, six seriously and fourteen slightly; at the Parliament buildings, four seriou ly and ten slightly. Temporary repairs will be made to the House of Commons, so that Parliament can meet in it on the 19th prox. The damage to the interior of the building is said to be considerable.

These fearful outrages naturally caused intense excitement, not only in London, but throughout the country. The utmost precautions are taken to protect public buildings, suspicious travelers are watched, and steamers arriving in British ports are searched to prevent the importation of dynamite.

A meeting of Irishmen held at Clerkenwell, London, on the 25th, denounced these outrages as cruel, cowardly, and injurious to Irishmen, who will lose employment in England in consequence; and a hope was expressed that the offenders would speedily be brought to justice. It is announced from Cork that the most extreme faction there utterly repudiate and denounce the outrages.

A meeting of crofters of the island of Skye on the 19th, adopted a resolution declaring the concessions offered by the landlords inadequate to meet the crisis. These proposals were, to increase the size of the holdings, to grant leases for twenty years where rent was not in arrears, and to permit a revision of rents as compensation for permanent improvements.

ITALY.-Many villages have been overwhelmed by avalanches, mostly in the province of Cuneo, in the south of Piedmont, along the Maritime Alps. At Frassino, 140 persons are said to have been killed; Rabasso is almost completely buried, many persons have been killed, and over 200 are homeless. More than 3000 men, besides the soldiers, are engaged in exhuming the dead and rescuing survivors, in the province of Cuneo. In some places, persons were rescued who had been imprisoned for some days in partly wrecked cabins. Soldiers are stationed at the entrance of the most dangerous valleys to prevent persons from entering them.

GERMANY.-German colonization is making progress on the western coast of Africa. A German expedition has formally annexed Oglet Brahim, a few miles north of Senegambia. This action is understood to have been taken by agreement with France, which has hitherto claimed a protectorate over that region.

A treaty has been concluded between Prussia and Russia, providing for the extradition of persons guilty of murder, attempted murder, or of committing or preparing to commit acts against the sovereigns or their families; also of persons guilty of the illegal manufacture or storage of explosives. The Journal de St. Petersbourg anticipates that the Reichstag will sanction the extension of the treaty to the whole of Germany.

EGYPT.-A dispatch of the 21st from Gen. Wolseley at Korti, said that Gen. Stewart, with the advance of the relief expedition, had a severe engagement with a part of the Mahdi's forces on the 27th inst. near the AbuKlea wells, about 25 miles from Shendy, at which point the troops are expected to reach the Nile after crossing the desert from Korti. The Arabs were finally driven back, and the British forces gained possession of the wells. Their losses were considerable. Stewart is said to have advanced after the battle, but no later intelligence had been received from him.

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CONGRESS.-The Senate has passed the bill making appropriations for the temporary support of the Navy, as arranged by a conference committee; a resolution asking the President to give his views as to the pres ent status of the Oklahoma lands in Indian Territory; and a resolution, offered by Bayard of Del., that the Senate has heard with indignation and profound sor row of the attempt to destroy the Parliament houses and other public buildings in London, and to imperil the lives of innocent and unsuspecting persons, and expressing horror and detestation of such monstrous crimes against civilization. Edmunds of Vt, introduced a bill to prevent and punish crimes committed by means of explosive compounds. A similar bill was introduced in the House. The House passed a conference report on the bill forfeiting Oregon Central R. R. grants; the Indian, Agricultural, and Army Ap propriation bills. Resolutions were introduced and referred to a committee, asking the Secretary of State for information whether any citizen of this country has been connected with attempts to destroy life and property in foreign countries with which we have treaties; one of the resolutions particularizing the late explosions in London.

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THE

Friends' Review.

A RELIGIOUS, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS JOURNAL.

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For Friends' Review.

In Memory of our Late Beloved Friend, Thomas Harvey, who died 12th mo. 25, 1884.

How shall we speak our grief? No words suffice;
To tell our loss irreparable; so wont

On him to lean, to whom our hearts were bound
Through years of work and love. Now he is gone!
No more shall we behold that face so calm,
Speaking the Peace of Christ; nor hear wise words
From his instructive lips, with judgment filled
And earnest love and truth. His lengthened life
Seemed one unwearied hymn of humble praise.
In business serving God, nor slothful found;
Yet watchful, marking season to retire,
And faithful holding all as steward for Him.
Begun with him* who strove with noble zeal

To burst the bonds that still marred freedom's gift,
Faithful till death, thy service ended not

Till life's last pulse had throbbed. What distant lands
Have seen thy labors! The West Indian slave,
The Mennonite, the famine-stricken Finn,
With Friends at home, and those in Erin's isle,
And last on far Ontario's fruitful shores.
These all have shared thy love and grieve thy loss.
But whilst we mourn, let no distrustful thoughts
Possess our hearts. Thy Lord who raised thee up.
And fitted thee for work, remains unchanged,
Still living, loving, caring for His church.
Brother beloved, how humble was thy walk,
How mean thy view of self, thy only hope
In Him who died, and bought thee for His own.

*Joseph Sturge.

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Address of a Japanese to Women's Missionary Association....... 422 Rural

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EDITORIALS.-Without God in the World-Dignity of WorshipJustice to Employees--War in the Soudan-Dynamite Outrages 424 DEATHS..

Women's Foreign Missionary Association. International Lesson.

A National Temperance League.............................. School.....

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·Independent 428

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POETRY.-That is All-New Year's Eve-"I Dare Not Idle Stand"-Mother's Gift

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Thy evening service o'er, a sacrifice
Accepted of thy Lord, we fondly hoped
For years of usefulness with strength renewed.
But He who called, saw meet to crown thy lite
And bid thee "Welcome Home,"-Oh blest exchange!
For in that rest all-tears are wiped away,
And nought remains but endless peace and joy.
Rest on, loved brother, drinking of the streams
Fresh from the Throne of God and of the Lamb
That satisfy all thirst. Let it be ours
Still held amongst earth's mists, in joyful faith
To wait not idly, but fulfill with love
The daily task, as servants of the King,
In whom alone the church on earth is one
In hallowed commune with the Church above;
To watch, to work, to worship and to praise.
J. B. BRAITHWAITE,

312 Camden Road, London, First mo. 17th, 1885.

So CHRIST gave gifts unto men, first unto his twelve, and seventy, before he was crucified and ascended. And it is also clear, that Christ gave gifts unto men after he ascended, for the work of the ministry, and made some evangelists, some pastors, some teachers, and some prophets, according to the Apostle's doctrine. Eph. iv.

So with these gifts which they have from Christ, since he was ascended, and before, they were to bring people to the knowledge of the Son of God, from whom they had received their gifts, and who was the author and finisher of their faith; and

then to live by that faith in which they had victory and unity; and so to a perfect man, the state that Adam and Eve were in before they fell; and not only so, but to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, which is to a higher state than Adam was in in his first state, which is a state shall never fall. George Fox: Works, Volume 6th, page 22.

HOW TO PROMOTE REVIVALS.

BY D. L. MOODY.

First, we must believe in revivals. I do not see 'how any one who reads his Bible can say one word against revivals. Why, look at the great revivals in Moses' time, and those under Joshua and David and Josiah. Think of the great gathering that Ezra had, when all the people stood in the street all day for a revival meeting. Moreover, every denomination that I know anything about, is the result of some revival. The Episcopalians say that they are apostolic. That takes them back to Pentecost, when three thousand were converted in a single day. The Lutherans proclaim in their very name the great revival under Luther. The Quakers sprang from the revival under George Fox, the Methodists from that under the Wesleys, and more than that, four-fifths of the names on the church rolls to day are those of persons converted in a revival. They make the best workers. They are more likely to hold out. A man converted and entering a cold church is like a baby thrown into a snow drift. But in times of revival the church is warm, ready to receive the new-born souls. I don't believe in spasmodic efforts, when the church rouses for a few days, only to go back to sleep again for a year or five years; but God has his special harvest seasons in nature, why not in grace? The longer I live, the more I believe in revivals.

But second, we must get things out of the way for a revival. When the Saviour came of old, John cried, "Prepare ye the way of the Lord." I believe that in many places the Spirit of the Lord is grieved, and His blessing is withheld, simply because we crowd Him out of our churches. We hold meetings during the week of prayer, and Christians are getting warmed and revived, and the hearts of sinners are melting, but the moment the week is over we clear the way for the sociables and lectures and concerts, things which distract the mind of the unconverted, and scatter their serious thoughts. Shall it be so in your churches this winter, brethren? Will you gratify the eyes and ears of the people around you without making one earnest effort to save their perishing souls? How important it is that the meetings should be continued, that room should be made for the Lord to work. What a wave of blessing would sweep over this country if our churches would all agree to let all these things go this winter, and give themselves with all their might to the work of saving souls!

And third, if we want a revival in our churches, we must pray for it. It isn't great preaching that we want, brethren, so much as it is great praying. The work is the Lord's, not man's; and if Gabriel were to preach to a church six months, not a soul would be revived, not a sinner would be converted, without the Holy Spirit. All our quickening must come from His blessed presence and power. And the earnest, importunate prayer of one person, one poor humble brother or sister who will not let God go without an answer, may call down the blessing. One of the first series of meetings I ever attended was started by a poor, sick man, who, lying flat on his back, became so exercised over the condition of the church that he could not rest. The church was dead, and the young folks around all unsaved. He sent for the brethren of the church, and entreated them to pray for a revival. But they were too cold, and too much wrapped up in the world. Then he sent for the sisters, and begged them to pray, and The Lord revived at last a few of them did so. their hearts. Others were added to them, and when I came they had been before God many days entreating for a blessing. The first night I preached, all was cold. It seemed like beating the air. But that night at midnight the son of one of the elders came down to his father's room, crying out, "Father, pray for my lost soul." The Lord came suddenly to his Temple, and we had a great blessing. Now, is there any one so weak or humble that he or she can't do as much as that

sick man did? You can pray yourself, and per haps you can get some one else to unite with you in prayer, and the Lord will add to your numbers, And once and your own souls will be revived. let the church be set on fire of God, and there will be no trouble about the unconverted. Redhot coals will kindle a fire wherever they fall.

But fourth, and last, not only pray for revival, but work for it. Many folks act as if the verse in the Bible were, "Let him that heareth pray, come." They pray for their friends, their children—they have prayed for them for years, but they have never said, come. "Let him that heareth say, come." How many men in this city to day only need an invitation to bring them to Christ! How many mothers have talked to their children about their behavior, their dress, their studies, but never one word about their immortal souls! “Ah,” you say, "I can't talk to them when my own life is so inconsistent!" And that is true. The less any Christian indulging in known sin says about religion the better; but that does not lessen, it only increases, our responsibility. It is as if a father should command a child to do something, and the child should tie up his own hands, and say, "Father, I can't." Come out from that sin

from all sin-for the sake of the souls who are stumbling over you into perdition. Don't wait a moment. Go to them and confess your unfaithfulness, and ask them right then and there to come to Christ. Would not the Spirit use such a wit ness as that would be?

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