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Ion W< an< of ? tak tiol our tha and hav plat i * Isfi god the day V suit are sion drei ill it out the and ate and mon stud the our tern dooi for Chu grea pera knoi in tl prim feari of tl cent’ tern the foun cleri< < créât icisir - and strar and and « catty Nc ' for E evils well i remet the C vineb is full formi the pt Chun haust mean in W them, vanta *. rrrRTRTiAdSr r- her -A-IZD ■ cerned from two or three off-hand ufactures,” he Writes, “ enable us to how increasingly precious it becomes extracts from Stanley’s recent let move oh, and win the love of the every tíme. I have been studying ters to private friends. " So far Congo nations.” Human experience the lives of the patriarchs, and I am there have not been any angry shows that trade is usually the most more and more impressed with the words exchanged between us and responsive to its advantages. Yet Richness and beauty of the Old the natives,” he says; "and the best to the Christian, to the man who Testament.” Contrast this language of al) is, the most conservative sees in conquests of the unenlight with the flippant talk of the chiefs seek our alliance, and furnish ened human soul moral gains which “Prince of American Preachers,” us with carriers. About 400 na outweigh the percentages of Com and judge who is the more worthy tives convey goods for us now, merce, there is, or ought to be.. a, of respect as a religious teacher where it took us nearly a year to peculiar interest in the opening of The truth is that such want of grav induce the most stubborn ones to the great centre of the “ Dark Con ity, sincerity and reverence in some brilliant preachers has done more give us one.” And again : "I am tinent.” safer here than you are in London. “ When you consider its magnifi to degrade the pulpit than all their A revolver or a rifle I never look cent tributaries [the Congo], which splendid talents can do to elevate or at scarcely.” And still again: "You flow on either side, giving access to adorn it.— Christian Irddligencer. “will read in my book,1 Through the civilization to what appeared hope Original Contributions. Dark Continent,’ about the * infur lessly impenetrable a few years ago, iates of Irebu.’ Fancy the change the reality of the general utility WOMEN HAVE RIGHTS when I am appealed to by them to and benefit to these dark tribes and ENOUGH. - stop an internecine war.” nations fills the sense with admira MRS. V. A. GILLAM. This testimony has appeared from tion.” This is Mr. Stanley’s appeal time to time during the past few to the ledger of trade. What shall It seems to me that there is very months, which copfirms the fact Christian men say to the spiritual little being done to oppose the that Stanley’s mission, under the opportunities and conquests, to Woman Suffrage movement. Those auspices of the Belgian Association, which the indefatigable explorer in favor of it have been laboring has resulted in the complete pacifi has opened the door ?— Christian at for years to convince the people cation of the important region in Work. that it will be a benefit to them, which he has been operating. The and we have been sitting idly by, importance of this tract of hitherto T he W hole B ible .—"You are as it were, doing nothing. If every unknown country may be estimated not going to lose the Bible, for you Christian woman would take the from the fact, stated by Stanley, don’t read it now. Few read it all. Bible for her guide, and study it as - that, " the population of the Lake I'hear now and then of a man who she ought to, I think she certainly Mautumba district, one of his latest has read it through and' is still in could see that " voting ” is not a discoveries, is so dense that were it good health.” This is what Mr. part of her duty. If we do all that uniform throughout the Congo Beecher said to his people last Fri we are required to do we will have basin, we should have about 4Q,- day evening, and it is this kind of our hands full, without trying to _ 000,000 souls, or fifty-five to the talk that lowers the tone of rever take the .men’s work away from square mile.” ence for the Word of God, which in them. So far as I know, the lead The substance of Mr. Stanley’s many quarters is too low already. ing ones who are advocating Wo letter to the British Association It may be a sad fact that too few man Suffrage, are women that care may be forcibly stated in his own read the Bible all through, but more for political honor than for a language : " It was Livingstone, an everybody ought to do so, and they true religious character ; and they Englishman, who discovered this would then understand better what have made many an innocent wo river; it was Anglo-American money revealed religion is. Mr. Beecher’s man believe that it is right, and which explored it and made it language is calculated to produce that it is a privilege they have known; it was international money, the feeling, in young minds es hitherto been denied. Like Eve, partly English, which began the pecially, that much of the Old they are holding out the tempting task of making it useful to all the Testament is useless lumber, trash, fruit, and making it appear as love world.” Hence he appeals to the and that they need not read or ly as possible. And while they are Christian and commercial sentiment study ic. “Still in good health,” enticing the men to partake, they ef the British public, against the after reading the Bible through! are laying, by their actions, that designs of the Portuguese, which It sounds very much like vulgar they are mere capable of ruling would deliver the country to " hell slang. Has Mr. Beecher ever than men are. They would likely and slavery,” and the ambitions of known anybody to get sick and die deny it, but if they did not think the French, as represented by M. from the reading of God’s Word ? so, what would be the use of their de Brassa, which, however, accord Is it a rare thing to survive the becoming politicians? "Actions ing to the latest reports, have been perusal of the whole sacred volume ? sometimes speak louder than completely overthrown by De Bras Why, some men have even .written words.”. They will tell you that se’s bad management. But that .commentaries on it and are "still some women are more capable of good will come from the triumph of in good health.” We fouud the making laws than a good many Stanley is now certain. late venerable Dr. B. C. Taylor one men are. That is no doubt true, The importance of the Stanley day in his study with his Bible be but that is no argument in their explorations ought not to be limited fore him. " I have made it a prac favor. If a woman is blessed with to the interests of trade. It is to tice,” he said, " for many years past superior talents she ought to use |hese interests that Mr. Stanley to .read Qod’s blessed book "through them to a better purpose. There is chiefly appeals in his communica at least once every year in regular nothing more noble in woman than tion to the British Association, course. I am now going through it to raise her children to be respect r English goods, products, and man- for th© third time this year, and 0, able, religious men and women. «MZAWTWXtturtuiL'ti'itwlr.tWt'Wai «nt.rtx ivwTtrtxwt'rtrUTTOn’iw’W’WiWrtvnsnvtrtrtWtfit*. rnwtnwwtnvraftwtwcwiwivwt* on .««n.rtwwtwrrficrhvuwrt » --------- —_........ • I«» ...——.—. And if we teach our boys good honest principles, (and teach them to have nothing to do with any intoxicating drink), they will go out into the world better calculated to make and enforce laws than we are. A good many of our best men have attributed their success in life to the teaching of a good mother, rm i • • v £ __ man; but our work does not stop here, we have more or less in fluence over our husbands and others around us. While we are doing our own duty, we are also helping others to do theirs, and we can do it without taking the reins in our own hands. I have heard preachers say their wives helped them to preach. How did they help them ? Not by going into the pulpit with them ; but by encour aging them to go, and by staying at home and taking care of things there; and by using their influ ence jn many ways, for the good of the cause their husbands were ad vocating. We can all find more to do than we have time to do, if we will only look around for it. We should try to let our actions through life, be such, that they willj^e ap proved of by our Heavenly Father, and thus be prepared to ^inherit those mansions which our Savior has gone to prepare for those that love and serve him. Now I must say a few words to the men. ff you love peace and harmony at home, and wish to maintain the respect and protection for your wives and daughters they now receive from men, let me ex hort you to shield them from the coming evil by using your influ ence against it. Christian women are now honored and respected far above the lower class of men; but if they go to the polls to vote, they will be placed more on an equality with them, and will be treated more like men than they are at present. ~ A man can mingle with the lower class of. his own sex without re ceiving any taint upon his charac ter, but it is not so with woman. I am not in the habit of writing, but my heart goes out in sym pathy for all true women; and it is the interest I have in them, and in the cause of my Master, that has prompted me to write what I have, for I cannot look upon the subject of Woman Suffrage in any wav but what it seems to me that it will bring evil instead of good. May the Lord help us all to choose the right vzay, and to walk in that straight and narrow path that leads to life everlasting, is the prayer of your sister. McMiauvilUi Or. _ . .
