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it happened on the----- and Missis- dericy of the Kansas society. The
Misippi railroad. Yet it troubles following resolution on the subject
him. "It is his business” now. was unanimously passed by the
What Shall We Do.
The horses are stopped on the in­ Convention :
The intelligence of the clerk’s stant, and upon inquiry he finds it
“ Whereas, Governor John P. St.
failing"”to tecord the Prohibition has occurred twenty-five miles dis­ John has been for six years Presi-
hy -.DJir Jaat. tant-
dankjoLthe. KansasState Temper-
Legislative assembly, fell like a telegraphed to the superintendent: ance Union, and now to ou? regret
millstone on the hearts of many ;
“ I will
you five hundred and his own earnest request, retires
not that it crushed the hope for dollars for an extra engine/’
from that position to enter upon a
prohibition, but that some one dear
The answer Hashed back, “ No.” wider field, therefore;
to the heart, who is already in the
Resolved, That our hearts go
“ I will give you one thousand
downward road, may go beyond re­ for an engine.”
with him wherever he may go to
demption before the fell-destroyer is
“ A train with surgeons and plead our cause, and while we re­
wrested froth his throne. But let nurses has already gone forward, gret that necessity which takes
trs remember that "all must work and we have ho other.”
him from us as our President, we
together for good to those who love
With white face and anxious believe that the cause of temper­
the Lord,” and go to work with re­ brow, the man paced the station to ance throughout the United States
newed energy. It is a work which and fro. It is his business now’. needs the services of our gallant
God has bidden us do. And he is In half an hour, perhaps, which leader, and we consent for this rea­
not going to exempt one of us from seemed to him half a century, the son only to retirement from the
doing our utmost Remember that train arrived. He hurried toward chief office of our organization.—
for any act of ours that will cause it, and in the tender found the AZ
- a brother to fall, God will surely mangled and lifeless remains of his
bring us into judgment. .
wife and one of his daughters. In The Sciencè of Law and the
Liquor Traffic.
Now what are we to do 1 When the car following lay his other
Nehemiah speaks of the conspiracy daughter, with her dainty ribs
Blackstone bases all law upon
of the Samaritans against the re- crushed in, and her precious life
nature and revelation. He claim>
btfililing of the Temple, says, “ nev
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cert ain p
ertheless we made otir prayer unto
A quart of whisky, which was because it is direct from God, and
G’xl, and set a watch against them drank fifty miles away by a rail­
day aud night because of them.’ road employe, was the cause of the the interpreters of nature are not
infallible in their systems. Accord­
They prayed, watched aud worked. catastrophe.
ing to the prince of law commenta­
A safe rule for us. Jesus savs, “ If
Whe dares say of this tremen4 tors, no law should contradict eith­
ya abide in me, and my words abide dous question, “ It is not my bqsi-
er nature or revelation. Those
in you, you shall ask what ye will ness ?”— Ex.
statutes, then, which are not in
in my natfie, find it shall be given
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harmouy with the Bible are oppos­
you.” While we are to pray as if Gov. St. John on Temperance.
ed to the fundametitàî ^Tinci pier Tib­
all depended on God, we are to
At the Great Temperance Con­ ia w. There is scarcely a statute
work as if all depended upon our­
vention held at Topeka, Kansas, on in reference to the whisky traffic,
selves. For the Bible, nature and
January l)th and 10th, there was which dues not contravene some of
our own experience all teach us
abundaut evidence that the friends the plainest statements of revela­
that God never does for us what
of temperance had not been dis- tion, and contradict the most posi­
we can do for ourselves. Then
spirited by their recent defeat. tivé ethics of the law.
watch; and “ whatsoever thy hand
Ex-Governor St. John, who preside
There—are many lawyers, but
tindeth to do, do it with thy might.”
ed, said in opening the proceedings: few who understand the science of
And “ if God be for us, who can
•* My friends, I am very glad to law. Wc believe that every states­
be against us.”
find so many representatives of the man in fact every public man,
A S ister .
Aumsville, Ogn. Feb. 12, 1883.
various parts of the State present, should give much attention to
as we see here to-night. It seems what we see proper to call natural
Not My Business.
to me that it furnishes a refutation jurisprudence. In most languages,
of
the oft-re|>eated statement that there are appropriate words, by
A wealthy man in St. Louis was
asked to aid in a series of temper­ the temperance movement in Kan­ which the abstract can be distin­
ance meetings, but he scornfully sas is a mere tidal wave that has guished from the concrete, in the
refused. Alter being further press come and gone never to be seen word law. The Latins used the
again. Thank God the temperance word jus for the former, and the
ed, he said:
“ Gentlemen, it is not my busi­ men and women are actuated by word lex for the latter. Jus de­
principle, and from it they will notes an abstract consideration of a
ness.”
A few days later, his wife and never be moved. These reverses scheme of duty, arising from the
two daughters were coming home that we have met with only teach combination of many laws. It is
in the lightning express. In his us to be ever vigilant. I have faith the genus which comprehends the
grand carriage, with two liveried in God, and in his own time he unwritten, as well as the written
attendants, he rode to the depot, will free eveiy household in this J^w. Lex is a particular law, or a
thinking of his splended business, Union from the accursed slavery of species under this genus. We
would, therefore say, jus gentium,
and planning fox the morrow. rum.
As Governor St. John proposes instead of loges gentium : and Jura
Hark ! Did some one say “ acci-
* dent ?” There are many railroads devoting some time to a general personarjxm, instead of loges per­
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‘ centering in St. Louis. If there temperance campaign in other sonarum.
Lex
is
never
used
abstractly
in
the
Presi-
has been an accident it is not likely States, he has resigned
Temperance Department.
view of jus, when reference is made
to a definite law. A Ito man never
would have said jus comelium in­
stead of lex cornelium; but he*
would have said jus honorarium,,
for this refers to no particular law,,
but to a general system, made up<
tEe “e JlcU of t he' piwldlK “TuT
French the word droit expresses the.-
abstract, and the word loi the con­
crete signification of the word law.
A just Frenchman would never say
loi, but droit de la nature. The
same distinction is made in other
languages, but in English we Lave
only one word for law. We will
consequently, use the expression
natural jurisprudence. We need ire
this country more law of that
character. It is law according,
justice, according to nature. We»
are willing to abide by the decision
of such law, when applied to the
liquor traffic. The law-makers of
a State are perfectly unjust, when
they by statutes impose such a
baneful traffic upon society.
The law of equity can be traced
back to pre-historic, times; and
even during the patriarchal age,
there was a clear distinction be­
tween it and statutory law. In the
book of Genesis, we have moral
and positive laws. The positive
laws of tho Bible are always right,
because given by a perfect law­
giver.
But God himself has
changed positive laws. Moral laws,
however never changed. As God
has changed statutory law, man
should not hesitate to change
human statutes, when the change
is for the good of society. God has
abrogated statutory law ; then man
should eliminate from the statutes,
all laws injurious to the welfare of
the people. It is the par amount
duty of the State to prohibit every­
thing contrary to justice, and in­
jurious to mankind. When this is
done, the whisky traffic will be
prohibited.—J as . A. L owber , in
Worker.
Tobacco in the Public Schools.
The Boston Journal of Nov. 18,
1882, stated that 75 per cent, of the
school boys, over 12 or 13 years of
ago, were habitual smokers of
cigarettes. This called out replies
and provoked investigation, which
resulted in developing the follow­
ing : Mr. Billings, of Cambridge­
port, places the age from 8 to 15.
He had induced more than 3(M) out
of 350 in his school, to sign a
simple pledge to abstain during
1882. About 50 per cent, had
proved faithful.
In the upper
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