III. 'Round the world and 'round it flies; On their dim and hoary walls; SUMMARY OF NEWS. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.-Advices from Europe are to the 26th inst. GREAT BRITAIN.-The American Consul in London has announced that European exporters of cattle to the United States must hereafter obtain a permit from the Commissioner of Agriculture at Washington, before they will be allowed to land stock in America. FRANCE —A report has been presented to the Academy of Science respecting a recent balloon ascension at Mendon, in which the balloon was propelled against the wind, and was easily steered along the desired course, and then was turned and brought back to the starting point. The balloon was cigar-shaped, with pointed extremities, having seats in the car for two persons. The motive power was electricity. It was officially stated on the 21st that China had finally refused satisfaction for its action at Lang Son, and recalled its plenipotentiaries to Shanghai. The French Minister to China had been instructed to inform the Council of Mandarins that the indemnity had been fixed at 80,000,000 francs, payable in ten years, and that unless the demand was agreed to within 48 hours, ending on the 21st, Admiral Courbet would take steps to secure reparation. The French Chargé d'Affaires was ordered to quit Pekin and join the Minister at Shanghai, and the Chinese Envoy, LiFong Pao, was ordered to return to his post at Berlin. On the 22nd, the French Admiral announced to the Chinese authorities at Foo Chow that he had orders to make reprisals, and on the 23rd, the arsenal at Foo Chow was bombarded for three hours, and it is said was destroyed. Several Chinese gunboats were sunk and two escaped. The French fleet, it is reported, was not damaged. A dispatch of the 25th from Foo Chow to the London Times said that the French ironclads entered the mouth of the river that afternoon, that a fort opened fire upon them, and after an hour's engagement the French retired. BELGIUM.-The first clause of the Educational bill was adopted by the Chamber of Deputies on the 26th, by a vote of 78 to 50. HOLLAND.-An International Agricultural Exhibition was opened at Amsterdam on the 26th. GERMANY.-The tenth annual International Convention of Young Men's Christian Associations met in Berlin on the 20th. Count Bernstoff of Berlin was elected President, and W. H. Seagram of London, Secretary. The Emperor William sent a letter expressing sympathy with the objects of the meeting, and regret that his health prevented his attending. The sessions continued from day to day until the evening of the 24th. Topics relating to the practical work of the Associations in reaching and influencing young men were discussed, papers being read by delegates from different countries. Nearly sixty American delegates were present. There appears to be some possibility of a misunderstanding between England and Germany in regard to West African territory, in addition to the questions connected with Angra Pequena. On the 12th ult, the Germans took formal possession of the Cameroons river in Upper Guinea, and the adjacent country. The English traders already established there were much dissatisfied with this action, thinking that England should have taken the river years ago; and on the 28th ult. the British Consul called a meeting of the merchants and local chiefs at Old Calabar, when the native kings and chiefs signed a treaty placing themselves and their dominions under British protection. The special German Commissioner to Angra Pequena, in passing southward to that point along the west coast of Africa, has hoisted the German flag over territory south of the Congo which belongs to some Hamburg merchants. These merchants had concluded treaties with the inland chiefs, who ceded to them their sovereign rights. ITALY.-Reports from various parts of the country indicate that brigandage is again rife. The Government is adopting energetic measures for its suppression. TURKEY.-The Russian Minister has informed the Porte that Russia insists upon the payment of the whole indemnity of £250,000 to the Russian sufferers by the Turkish war, and that the Porte's offer of £50,000 is inadequate. Advices from Armenia say that a serious uprising has occurred at Dersim. The leaders refuse to recog nize the authority of Turkey, and the Government is powerless to compel them. WEST AFRICA.-The King of Ashantee recently died, and 300 of his subjects were killed at his funeral. Another King having been chosen, the Ashantee chiefs have asked that their country may be annexed to the English possessions, on account of his notorious cruelty. DOMESTIC.-The U. S. steamship Tallapoosa was sunk on the night of the 21st inst. off Martha's Vineyard, Mass., by collision with a schooner. The surgeon, Dr. C. A. Black, and two of the crew were lost; the other persons on board were saved by their own boats and by passing vessels. Captain R. H. Pratt, Superintendent of the Indian Training School at Carlisle, Pa., returned a few days since from New Mexico, bringing with him 77 young Indians of the Pueblo tribe, ranging in age from nine to twenty years, to be placed in the school. The next term will open on the 1st of Ninth month, with 400 pupils. Many complaints have been made to the U. S. Land Office against cattle companies on the plains of Colorado, Nebraska, and the neighboring States and Territories, for illegally fencing large tracts of public land for ranges for their cattle, in many cases under fraudulent entries, and excluding or driving away settlers. It is asserted that investigation shows that of the land entries in New Mexico 90 per cent., and in Dakota 75 per cent. are fraudulent. The best lands, especially along the streams, are thus taken. The new postal note, by which sums from one cent to $4.97 can be transmitted, appears to be very popu lar. From Ninth mo. Ist, 1883, when the issue of them was begun at the Philadelphia Post-office, to the 19th inst., 21,421, an average of about 70 per working day, have been sold. There has been no decrease, it is said, in the number of postal money orders sold, The intense heat of several days of last week was followed by a sudden and great fall of temperature, commencing in the Northwest and proceeding eastward. On the night of the 24th, heavy frosts occurred in New England, New York and and parts of New Jersey. Corn nnd buckwheat were damaged in many places, and in some cases potatoes and cabbage also. At Canaan, N. H., on the 25th, the thermometer marked 280, and ice formed near Middlesex, Vt. From The Southern Workman. WHAT WILL BECOME OF THEM? FORT BERTHOLD, May 19, 1884. A recent issue of one of our illustrated papers pictured the return of a young Indian woman to her wild relatives. One cannot but tremble, not at the physical, but the moral danger of the girl, friendless and alone as she seems to be in the picture, and ask how she is to be kept from degradation. There are three considerations not set forth in the picture, which give grounds for hope that she will stand. The first of these is the moral change in the girl herself. If she has simply exchanged the shawl she formerly put over her head for a hat, and learned the use of a fork instead of the fingers and a butcher knife, she will soon fall back again into the old ways with her people; but if conscience has been quickened, and love of good and right things and persons awakened, then we may have hope. What if she does take to shawl and moccasins again, as her poverty, or social surroundings may compel her to do, if in affection, knowledge and purpose she is a different person? It is providential that in our Indian schools at the East as a whole, the moral and positive religious training has been in good hands. The pupils have not been simply white-washed, but instructed in Christian thoughts and principles, and, in many cases, have become such as God will keep. The 72 ............ 74 75 CORRESPONDENCE-Southland College-Cornwall Q. M.-T. H. Stanley on Indians-Acceptance of Correction (E. E. C.)...... 76 School Items A Just View of Emerson.. POETRY.-Appeal...... SUMMARY OF NEWS..... ....... 77 ..... 78 79 79 80 force of Christian principle in the heart is, we know, doubted, but not by those who have personal experience of it. Such believe in it in others, hopes are not ill-founded. They have worked, and base their hopes on it, and find that their worshiped, ate and traveled with returned Christian pupils, and believe in them, notwithstanding many failures. Then there has been a change in the Indian people. They are becoming rapidly more and more willing to accept the new condition of life providentially made necessary to their future existence. One chief who often talks with me, speaks of his daughters being ashamed of his uncouth Indian manners when they return to his home; and, though an old man, will sit like a child at their feet to be instructed; and has for some time been struggling with the question of an entire abandonment of the heathen worship and ways of his life. time. He is one of many, and it is because so many among the Indian tribes are struggling up towards the light, and at some agencies so many are already in it, that we expect the returned pupils to stand against the still abounding evil. But our main hope is in the fact that at most of the Indian agencies, missionary work is going on. In a number of cases this work has now the aid of returned pupils from Christian boarding schools, and as new pupils return they will be enlisted in the war against evil. They will find two parties, and will be of necessity impelled to take the right side. Christian missionary men and women will say to them, help us, find sympathy and strength in us, and many Christian workers from among their own people will say, you have had advantages above us, now help us to overcome the heathen party. We listened to two Christian Indians the other evening, who urged upon the scholars in an Indian school, the necessity of fitting themselves well to help their people, and were before them a living embodiment of their own speech. The great hope for the Indian as for the white man, for the life that now is, as well as for that to come, is the teaching and the living of the word of Christ. C. L. HALL. The question is no longer "Can the Indian be educated?" nor even "How can the Indian be educated?" but, rather "How can we enable the Indian to utilize his education?"-Ed. Southern Workman. PRACTICAL LESSONS NO. 5. The Sixth Query treats of some of what are called "Friends' testimonies"-subjects on which our understanding of Scripture truth differs from that of most other Christian denominations, going deeper, as we believe; in which, therefore, it is our duty to try to lead others on to more light by our example. We are asked whether we bear a faithful testimony against oaths; a hireling ministry; bearing arms, training, or other military services; being concerned in any fraudulent or clandestine trade. buying or selling goods so imported, or prize goods; and against lotteries of any kind. This comprises several subjects. First, oaths. The New Testament teaching appears to us very plain on that point, since our Saviour said in His Sermon on the Mount, "But I say unto you, swear not at all; but let your communication be, yea, yea, nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." The only plea for judicial oaths is, that a man's plain statement is not to be relied on; and they tend to lower the standard of truthfulness. See Matt. v. 33-37, and James v. 12. Hireling ministry is a more difficult subject, though we may find on this also definite directions. There are two uses of the word hireling: First, that found in the parable of the Good Shepherd (John x. 12, 13,) where the hireling is represented as one who cares not for the sheep, but only for his pay; this kind of hireling, all Christians condemn. But the word has also been used, more commonly long ago than recently, to mean simply one who performed stated services for pay; and this is what Friends have a testimony against, in ministers of the gospel. The New Testament allows that those sent by the Lord on His errands, should be supported by their brethren. See I Cor. ix. 11-14; but notice also that Paul says immediately after, "But I have used none of these things." And read also, for The objection to a paid ministry is not so much on account of the support (if it were given voluntarily, and only where needed), as in the minister undertaking to preach at stated times. If he professes to be an ambassador for Christ, speaking His messages, how can he preach at a certain place and a certain hour every week, whether a message be given him at that time, or no? Our difference of view arises partly from not justly distinguishing the different gifts. (I Cor. xii. 4, 28.) A man may feel that he is called to be a teacher of the gospel, using all his natural faculties for that holy purpose. But the preacher -or prophet, as Paul names the office-has a higher calling, even to give the Divine message when, and to whom, it is sent. Read I Cor. xii. 8-11, and xiv. 1, 3, 26, 30, 21. These passages will make manifest that in the early Christian church, the vocal service of a congregation was not performed by one appointed minister, but by any of the living members of the body to whom was given a message to deliver. Military services, settling disputes by fighting and killing, are not consistent with the loving spirit of the gospel, which leads us to endure, to love our enemies, to resist not evil. See Matt. v. 21, 22, 38, 39, 43, 46; Matt, xxvi. 52, 53; Eph. vi. II, 12; II Cor. x. 4, 5; Col. iii. 12-15. of prize-goods, which are, in plain terms, goods Together with the question of war comes that stolen from an enemy. Since we do not believe that human laws can take away the sinfulness of theft and murder, it is our duty to discourage them even when legalized. Fraudulent or clandestine trade, and the buying or selling goods below the market rates because the lawful taxes have not been paid on them, we might expect all Christians to recognize as wrong. Yet there is a looseness of principle and practice among many in these things; for example, in trying to evade the payment of duty on sundry luxuries and gifts bought abroad. The same may be said of lotteries. A lottery is "a distribution of prizes by lot or chance.". If Christian parents recognized that all the grabbags, fish-pools, and other chances, allowed at children's parties and fairs, were miniature lotteries, and calculated to promote love of gambling, they might substitute amusements without these evil tendencies. Do we, when we hear such things proposed, bear a faithful testimony against them, bravely yet in love? There may not be in the Bible any allusion to lotteries, but there is abundant teaching in favor of earning what is needful for this life by honest labor. A CHEERFUL acceptance and conscientious performance of the day's duty is a wonderfully effective means of grace.-Western Christian Advocate. An Extract. THE STUDENT OF THE FUTURE. In 1787 the Federal Constitution was given to the people of the United States for their adoption or rejection, and the good men of the land were trembling lest the choice should fall on the side of anarchy. But there was one argument that weighed more than all that was said on either side in favor of its adoption. At the end of the address to the American people was set the bold and honest signature of George Washington. The people knew that he had all the abilities of Strafford or Richelieu, and that he had also an honest purpose that no temptations could shake, and to his death his yea or his nay counted for more than all the charges and all the slander and misrepresentation of his enemies, and they were many. "Now, when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open toward Jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks to God, as he did aforetime." No bravado, no lofty words, but simply a quiet continuance in the path of duty without any regard to the decree of the King or the dreadful punishment for disobedience. ever-strengthening ability to do it. Knowing that Thus, in the very vanguard of the army of progress, the student of the future will always be found, aiding all that is good and true, crushing down relentlessly all the low and the vile; and his work will not cease till this goodness and truth reign throughout the earth; till justice and honor and honesty are no more mere catchwords, but the real motive powers of action; till the grand principles of liberty, civil and religious, be per. mitted to Catholic as well as Protestant, Pagan as well as Christian, infidel as well as believer, in their logical fullness; till Reason roam unfettered over all the vast region that is rightfully hers; till Faith soar with unshackled pinions to the very throne of God; till man truly feels what an infinitesimal he is in the vast plan of the universe, and yet into what magnificent proportions his mind may be expanded; till he feels the tremendous responsibility of developing that which he has received and of laying hold of the secrets of creation and turning them to good, and yet that all things earthly are worthless compared with the great end of being. Such, in little part, is the verdict of history as I read it as to what the student of the future will be, and toward such, with proper effort, may any student now be rapidly growing.-Wallace, in the Student. Now, the student of the future will have built up a character for himself; he will have by careful effort trained himself to an energetic and fearless pursuance of some great and good end, and from that he will be turned by no threats or dangers, no consequences whatever. He will look upon men of expediency, cowards, dishonest men, with unconcealed contempt; he will be careful to maintain his own proper rights and still more those of others. His word and opinion will be strong towers, for it is known they have never been broken, and never dishonestly erroneous; and in all respects he will nobly resist all tyranny, bravely support all righteousness, carefully follow all truth; a supporter of the weak, a defender of the wronged, a trustworthy adviser, a just judge. He will be a useful man who can adapt himself to the necessities of the present and the future. If he goes into politics, which Aristotle tells us is the noblest of sciences, it will not be with the narrow watchword, "Our country, right or wrong," nor will he take the still narrower view that what is good for him is good for the country, nor will he in his sphere adopt the logic of old Parson Adams, "A schoolmaster is the greatest of men, and I am the greatest of schoolmasters," but he will rather say, with old Roman devotion, "The State is everything-declaration that he is "a disciple of that great critI am nothing;" nay, rather, "The world-humanity is everything; for it the State must sacrifice." Knowing that in the past no one was circumstanced just as he is, while humbly learning from all quarters he will follow none as a model, but, sedulously developing his own powers, will grow up harmoniously and broadly, filling the niche designed for him, doing his duty as duty opens to him, with an ever-increasing work to do and an A BOOK OF ORIGINS. Dr. Pressensé has rendered an important service to sound morals in his Study of Origins; or, the Problems of Knowledge, of Being, and of Duty (New York: James Pott & Co.). His eminent name and previous works suggest the direction of his thought and the conclusions which he would be sure to reach. Yet he makes good his ical school (of Kant) which has renovated our mode of thought." "I am persuaded," he declares, "that, in spite of the charge of skepticism brought against it, it supplies the best element of certainty, an element no less solid than duty itself, enforced at once as a matter of evidence and of obligation." He declares, and believes that he shows, the conclusions of the positivist and of the materialist alike to be unscientific. Man's origin is a mystery, "but not a mystery of shame and hu miliation, but a mystery of glory and grandeur." Nightly in our great cities (he seems to be writing of this land more than of France) we may hear the Boanerges of atheism thundering this credo (the unsustained hypothesis of materialism) into the ears of a listening crowd as ignorant as their supposed teachers. It behooves us, then, to call attention to the fact that independent science protests no less distinctly than spiritualistic and Christian philosophy, not merely against these vulgar saturnalia, but against the premature triumph which materialism claims for itself in its popular manuals of science, written with much fluency and skill,' and in highsounding newspaper articles. It is admitted by all serious thinkers that matter is that which is least understood, because we can never reach it directly, but only through our sensations which modify it. It follows that those who assert that in confining themselves to the material they are on safe and solid ground, really have their feet upon a cloud. It must be understood that independent science, even that which stands apart from all philosophic and religious schools, repudiates the claim of materialistic transformism to assign the origin of life and of mind to pure force." God, who is the source of knowledge and author of being, alone can speak with the authority that can create obligation and establish duty.-Chris. Union. EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.. The Committee having charge of the Fund. whose collection and disbursement were originated by J. H. Tuke, has published its third report. We extract some passages from the (London) Friend: "The number of persons assisted to emigrate this year has amounted to little more than half of that of last year, and this for several reasons. The previous emigration had done much to relieve the over-pressure in the districts; the potato harvest of 1883 was a very good one in the West; and thus the general condition of the people was so much improved as to minimise the inducements to emigrate, though, on the other hand, the very encouraging letters sent home by those who had previously gone, induced many persons to apply for assistance to emigrate. "Then, again, a considerable agitation against State-aided emigration had sprung up. All sorts of absurd stories were circulated, especially with regard to Canada; and the Committee and their assistants were often denounced by name from the pulpits and elsewhere. Such an agitation as this had, of course, considerable influence on the people; yet in spite of it a large number of persons applied before the lists were closed and 2,802 were assisted to emigrate. "These arrangements have involved a vast amount of care, labor, and personal supervision, but have, the Committee believe, been successfully carried through; and it may safely be asserted that none of the emigrants were landed friendless and forlorn to shift for themselves, or have gone to swell the ranks of the pauper invasion' of America of which so much has been said. "The Committee feel justified in asserting that the work which they have accomplished has benefited, not only those who have gone, but those left behind. As regards the emigrants, their success has been most marked, as the Committee learn from private and official reports, and the letters of the emigrants themselves, and they are not merely in a much better position than they ever were before, but have the prospect of a future to which they could not possibly have attained in Ireland. There have been doubtless a few who have not met with equally good success-the wonder being that, out of over 9,000 persons of the class assisted, the number of these has not been considerable-but even the failures' are chiefly temporary, and the people probably not so badly off as before, while, as far as the Committee are aware, no families are in a state of destitution. As regards the condition of the districts and those who remain behind, the Committee would refer especially to the reports, which they fully endorse, and which show that the emigration has been a great relief to the land and to the rates, and that the consolidation of holdings which has ensued has been of the most satisfactory kind. Moreover, large sums of money are constantly being sent home by the emigrants, and are largely applied to the payments of debts. Yet in spite of the improvement made, the poverty of these districts is still so great, owing to the large number of persons occupying minute holdings, that another bad potato crop would reduce many families to a state of destitution, and render assistance again necessary. "In conclusion, the Committee cannot express too highly their sense of the value of the services of Mr. Tuke. It is not too much to say that, but for him, the work would never have been undertaken or brought to a successful issue." RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. RUSSIA. A light appeared in the darkness of the Russian Church when Count Paschkoff, an earnest Christian nobleman, felt bound in his heart to work for the Saviour's kingdom in the city of St. Petersburg. He opened the parlors of his residence to his friends, read on Sunday afternoon and evening the Bible with them, added some good, earnest remarks, exhorting his friends to devote their lives wholly to the Saviour, and concluded by singing a hymn with them and by offering a prayer, in which he remembered fervently his beloved country. With the help of other friends, especially of Count Korff, Paschkoff founded also an evangelical Tract Society, in order to reach his countrymen by the printed saving truth. Nothing could be more de-. sirable for the poor Russians than such a missionary work as Count Paschkoff did. Yet he was looked upon with suspicion from the beginning, was annoyed by the police, was summoned to give an account of himself and of his prayer-meetings. The good and brave man stood boldly in every storm, |