Rev. W. J. Gosse, of Lansing, Mich., delivered a temperance address in our church last Saturday evening to a large and appreciative audience. His discussion of this question met with the hearty support of all who heard him.
Mr. Gosse goes down to the foundation of the work, giving the liquor traffic no quarters, not even as medicine, believing drug shops but grog-shops in disguise, leading thousands down to ruin. He is the only public advocate of temperance who takes the enemy by the horns, and advocates his overthrow by the strong right arm of the government. Such have been his views upon this subject, we understand, over twenty-five years. May the great Head of the church sustain him in the noble work which he is so ably prosecuting. And may the day come when temperance will be accepted as an important branch of Christian labor, when every disciple of Christ will practice it in all the methods of living, making the “body a meet temple for the Holy Ghost to dwell in.” This gentleman gave two discourses next day (Sunday) in different places in our city to respectable audiences.
Quarterly Meeting Notice for Oakland, Wisconsin
By A. Olson
Notice.
Those coming by railroad to the general quarterly meeting of the T. and M. Society to be held at Oakland, Jefferson Co., Wis., the 14th and 15th of February, 1874, will stop at Fort Atkinson on the C. & N. W. R. R. Teams will be there on Friday to take them to the place of meeting. A. Olson, Director.
Notice of The Millenarian, a Monthly Serial
We have received the first number of The Millenarian, a monthly serial, 16 pages, devoted to the doctrine of “the personal return of Christ to our earth,” and “his literal reign over Israel and the nations” during the thousand years. Published by H. V. Reed, Chicago, Ill. Terms: $1.00 per year, in advance.
A BANKRUPT WORLD.
France is at the head of the list of public debts with a burden of $5,000,000,000, the sad legacy of the German conflict. Great Britain follows with $3,750,000,000, and the United States comes third with a debt of over $2,000,000,000. The aggregate public debts of all the governments of the world amount to the enormous sum of $20,000,000,000, a figure so vast as to be almost incomprehensible. If a man were to count it as rapidly as he could handle it, dollar by dollar, he would not finish in fifteen centuries. When we come to add to this the debts of States, provinces, municipalities, villages, corporations, and individuals, we have a mountain of debt perfectly appalling. And the worst of it is that, though nations and individuals are bankrupt, they are going on piling up more liabilities year after year. Wealth, which is the product of labor, is completely outstripped in the race. Some day this enormous bubble will burst. Then comes the deluge.
Census of 1870 and the Colored Population
THE vital statistics of the census of 1870 show that there are at present nearly five millions of colored people in the United States, most of whom are, of course, located in the South, and that the negro race has increased about 400,000 persons since the census of 1860. The character and status of this great mass of freed men and women will be amply discussed in the various papers of “The Great South” series now in course of publication in Scribner’s Monthly and their songs, their sermons, their ceremonials, their political meetings, and their traditions and superstitions, will be shown by the labors of both pen and pencil.
Restoring the Balance Through Happiness Given to Others
By Mrs. Diaz
WHEN a person is very unhappy, that person should go to work immediately to “restore the balance” by bringing as much happiness to others as he has lost himself.—Mrs. Diaz.
Religious Troubles in Mexico.
A LETTER from the city of Mexico, Nov. 15, gives the annexed account of cruel outrages occasioned by religious fanaticism:—
“On the 6th, the villagers of Quentia, San Luis, Ocotopec and San Lucas assembled, and entering the town of Tejupilco sacked, burned, and destroyed various houses and the property of all such persons as had taken the oath to respect the new laws of reform, committing abuses which my pen cannot depict. In the afternoon, the Indians captured and reduced to prison the Gefe Politico of Temascaltepec, the unfortunate Adrian Varela, and the Tax Collector, Rumualdo Dominguez, who, having been horribly martyrized, were assassinated in the Mina de Plata, and their bodies having been stripped naked they were thrown into the river near by.”
Two days afterward, a sufficient military force arrived in the place, and gave pursuit to the Indians, whose village was reduced to ashes. The Indians rallied in such numbers, however, that the troops were forced to retreat, the savages shouting “Death to the Protestants! Long live religion!” The account further states that the Municipal President of Auguagueno, on account of his acquiescence in the laws of reform, was seized by the revolters, and having been covered with pitch was set on fire, and, while living, suffered the martyrdom which the Inquisition of old applied to its victims. While the flames were consuming this unfortunate man, the savages danced around him. The scene of these outrages is about sixty or seventy miles north-west of Mexico city.