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FOREIGN.

—The State Department at Washington has received announcement of the death of U. S. Consul Gibson, of Beyrut, Syria, of smallpox.

—Private reports state that the number of persons killed in the disturbances in the interior of Armenia, two weeks ago, was not less than 5,000.

—In London, on the 21st ult., a large amount of cordite was discovered hidden in a hollow pillar of a house inhabited by Russian Hebrews suspected of Nihilism.

—A delegation of United States labor society representatives are now in Mexico studying the wage question and the cost of living. They report that every facility is being accorded them by the authorities.

—St. Petersburg advices state that United States capitalists are negotiating with the Russian Government for the establishment of a rapid steamship service between Vladivostok, the Siberian Pacific Coast port, and San Francisco.

—Archbishop Martinelli, the newly-appointed apostolic delegate to the United States, was to sail from Queenstown on the 27th ult., and will therefore arrive at his destination the latter part of this week. His headquarters will be at Washington, D. C.

—A Lima despatch, of the 23rd ult., says: “Advices received here from Cuzco, Peru, say that several days ago a mob was formed to attack the American missions in that city. The sub-prefect called out the troops, and after some work prevented the impending trouble.”

—An outbreak of bubonic plague is reported at Bombay; 800 victims had died up to the 24th ult. The bacillus of the disease is said to be identical with that which Professor Kitasato, the distinguished Japanese physician, discovered during the Hongkong visitation last year.

—The Methodist Episcopal Missionary Society is contemplating the establishment of leper asylums in India, expecting to receive government aid in the work. It is said that lepers can be seen almost everywhere in that country, and the care of them has become a very grave question.

—It is claimed that one of the Moody and Sankey hymns, which has been sung by the Christians of Armenia, is responsible for some of the Turkish hatred. When the Armenians sang, “Onward, Christian soldier, marching as to war,” the Turks interpreted that they were preparing for a crusade.

—A Constantinople despatch of the 24th ult. says: “The following fresh discoveries have been made in an Armenian church near the Ecole Centrale, at Galata: Three bottles of nitric acid, two bottles of sulphuric acid, fourteen bottles of glycerine, two vessels for the manufacture of explosives, some printing type, and some threatening letters.”

—The Russians are said to be displaying great activity in the northeastern part of China, and are placing the country in a condition for defense. Russian engineers have been busily at work at Port Arthur for weeks. That important place was left in a bad condition when the Japanese abandoned it at the close of the war with China; but the Russians are now placing everything in good order.

—Notwithstanding the fact that the Turkish Government has long been styled the “sick man of the east,” it is now conceded that it is stronger from a military standpoint than it has been in fifty years. Mr. Gladstone says: “For more than a year I have been puzzled over the diplomacy of six powers. They have been laid prostrate at its feet. There is no parallel in history to the humiliation they have so patiently borne.”

—Advices from Havana, by steamer to Key West, state that on the 21st ult. eighty-seven Spanish troops were surprised by insurgents, near Havana, and all but five were killed. These five had been seriously wounded, and left for dead; but they succeeded in returning to the city. The captain-general gave orders to the newspapers not to mention the affair, and the next morning a little revenge was had by executing five insurgent prisoners in the presence of 2,000 spectators.

—The effect of the Armenian troubles on the people of that nationality in Constantinople is thus expressed by a correspondent of a London journal: “The total Armenian population of Constantinople is, or rather was, 160,000, of whom about one-third were able-bodied males, a large proportion being unmarried men. Of these 53,000, about 4,000 have been massacred, 1,000 have disappeared, 4,000 have escaped by consular aid, and at least 20,000 have been deported by the state, so the male Armenian population of Constantinople is reduced by nearly three-fifths, from 53,000 to 24,000.”

—Of the insurrection against Spanish rule in the Philippine Islands, advices from Manila by steamer say that Cavite is occupied by 15,000 insurgents. Over one hundred monks have been murdered in the islands since the breaking out of the insurrection. Many of the victims have been fastened to trees, their clothing having been soaked with kerosene oil and ignited, and have been burned to death. Rich natives are being arrested daily. Documents have been seized by authorities in which are given the names of the President and various other officials of the proposed republic.

—This has been a season of disasters in Japan. A fire in the city of Kobe, August 26, destroyed millions of dollars’ worth of property. Just after this fire, severe storms destroyed 4,300 houses in the Gifu Prefecture, together with about 500 lives. In other provinces more than 2,500 lives were lost by floods, which were preceded by terrible earthquakes. At a later date, a regular series of earthquakes shook the country in the Rokugo district. Disasters were especially severe at Hatava, Senya, Takanashi, Yokohori, Yokozawa, Nagashida, Shimizu, and Fujiki. In some places the hills cracked, fires broke out in some places, and waters poured forth in others. At Rokugo, over 1,000 houses were overturned. All this in addition to the awful tidal wave, which, earlier in the season, deluged a large extent of country and destroyed some 30,000 lives.

DOMESTIC.

—On the 26th ult., the Northern Illinois College, at Fulton, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000.

—Following a custom of long standing in Europe, there is being held in San Francisco, this week, a meeting of the Episcopal bishops of the Pacific Coast.

—The orange and lemon yield of the southern orchards of California, it is estimated, will yield only a half crop, owing to severe weather late in the spring.

—In a fracas resulting from an attempt to arrest a Philadelphia saloonkeeper, on the 22 ult., for selling liquor without license and on Sunday, one man was killed and five wounded.

—An English syndicate has purchased the great Chino Ranch, in southern California, and proposes to locate upon it a European colony of 2,500 people within the next year and a half.

—Last week the people of Anderson County, Ky., turned in riotous force and destroyed all the turnpike toll-gates in the county. A year ago a vote had been taken to make the turnpikes free roads.

—On the 24th ult., at different points in New Mexico, five men were hanged for murder. Four others were to have been executed, but were, for some technical reason, granted an extension of time.

—Acting Secretary of the Navy McAdoo has forcibly reminded the lieutenant-commander in charge of one of the large cruisers, that swearing at, or harsh treatment of, enlisted men by officers of the navy is in violation of the regulations, and will not be tolerated.

—A Kansas City despatch of the 23d ult. says that eight representatives of local and foreign brewers comprising, a brewers' combine, were to-day held by the United States grand jury, charged with violation of the interstate commerce and conspiracy laws in fostering the trust.

—The formal opening of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad is to be celebrated at Fresno on the 5th inst. The line is 125 miles long, connecting at Stockton with water transportation to San Francisco. The people all along the route are rejoicing over what is deemed a permanent competing line.

—“The worst storm in ten years” is what the telegram says regarding the rainstorm in Colorado September 22 and 23. All the railroads suffered loss from washouts, and the main irrigating canal, which supplies the farmers in the valley around Grand Junction with water, was almost destroyed.

—The San Francisco Board of Health proposes to take a decided stand against making that city a dumping-ground for lepers. One was recently sent there from Mendocino County, and one from Los Angeles. There are now about a score of lepers in the city pest-house, in various stages of the disease.

—Gen. Nelson A. Miles, commander of the U. S. Army, is now on a tour of inspection of the Pacific Coast defenses. Extensive additions to the defensive armament of the harbor of San Francisco is said to be in contemplation. Engineers are already at work on fortifications for the defense of San Diego Bay.

—A fierce whirlwind and waterspout swept over Long Island Bay, on the coast of Rhode Island, September 24, turning over a yacht, some bathing-houses, many trees, and finally playing havoc in the corn fields. Sand from the bottom of the bay, at a depth of three or four feet, was hurled into the air, leaving the water, for some distance, almost double its usual depth.

—The Missouri Military Academy, near Mexico, was entirely destroyed by fire on the 24th ult. The loss on the building was $75,000, besides which there is a heavy loss in personal effects. Twenty-one students were injured, but none fatally. As the fire occurred early in the morning, while a hundred students were in bed, it is remarkable that all escaped alive, as many of them were obliged to jump from second or third story windows.

—Humanity under excitement is well illustrated by the following despatch from New Orleans, under date of the 24th ult.: “James Hawkins, a negro, slapped a five-year-old white child in Gretna last night, and officer Miller swore out a warrant for his arrest. When attempting to capture him about midnight, the officers fired into a crowd of negroes, killing Alexander and Arthur Green. Hawkins was later lodged in Gretna jail, but a mob broke the door down, took the man out, hanged him and threw his body into the river. Gretna is in Jefferson Parish, just across the river from this city.

—In consequence of the striking miners’ having begun the work of destroying property and rioting at Leadville, Colo., the town is now under martial law, and is occupied by troops. It is thought this virtually breaks the great strike, and miners are coming from other parts to take the places of the strikers. An idea of what martial law means may be gathered from the fact that a newspaper correspondent is under arrest for publishing the proceedings of a citizens’ meeting, after being ordered by the adjutant-general not to do so. The commander of the militia is absolute monarch for the time being.

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The Financial Question.

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Men versus Institutions.

The things for which the lover and champion of liberty has ever striven are the rights of men, the protection of mankind. That was the cry of the latter half of the last century. The same language is now used by the latter-day "national reformers," only the term "institutions" has been substituted for that of "men." Laws are demanded to protect the "American Sabbath," and nobody knows what all. Laws for the equal protection and defense of humanity without regard to race or creed, always mean liberty and progress. Laws for the protection of institutions or days are, at the best, opening wedges of tyranny and oppression.

THE INQUISITION.

By Editor

WE reprint elsewhere two articles on the Inquisition. The first is by Arthur T. Pierson, D.D., editor-in-chief of the Missionary Review of the World. The second is by a Roman Catholic layman, James I. Conway, in defense of that noted tribunal. It appeared in the Catholic Mirror of August 29, the organ preeminently of the Roman Catholic Church in America. The writer's prominence is sufficient to secure for his article the position of first page. We hope that these articles may be read in the light of the Gospel. Some of the more prominent and crucial statements of Mr. Conway we have printed in bold-faced type. The Italics are as we find them. Where the writer has used Italics and we have used bold-face, we have placed his Italics in BOLD-FACED CAPITALS.

Some Points Worth Noting.—It may be well to note especially the following in Mr. Conway's article: (1) He not only admits, but contends, that at the time of the Inquisition all were Catholics, "king and subject, prince and peasant, rich and poor, priest and people, all believed her [the church's] doctrines not only to be true, but incapable of being false." Therefore the Roman Catholic Church was responsible for all that was done.

2. Mr. Conway contends that as "all statesmen and public officers were at the same time Catholics, it is most easy to understand that they enacted laws and punishments in keeping with their religious convictions. To put it briefly, in those Middle Ages there was the greatest union of church and state. . . . The state then, as it should now, protected and defended her holy bride from danger," etc. We may therefore expect, according to Mr. Conway, and presumably Catholics in general, that if this government should come into the absolute control of Roman Catholics, the Inquisition would be restored, that one who was counted a heretic by that church would be "diligently sifted out and indicted," and his heresy would be considered prima facie evidence that he was "in opposition to the spirit of the laws and customs of his country, . . . a disturber of the public peace, and an underminer of civil society."

3. That if the "heretic" was open and bold enough to declare the honest convictions of his heart, and warn men against what he thought to be evil, he would be "punished to the full extent of the law," and that as of old "it was not only not unjust, but even obligatory and praiseworthy for the Catholic Church . . . to exclude from within her sacred fold [the country or the world] those who sought to prey upon the innocent lambs," etc., so it would be now. This of course means death or extermination to the greater heretics.

4. The only means the Catholic Church knows by which to purge the church from hypocrites is the Inquisition,—"a difficulty which, as all will agree, could be overcome only by an Inquisition." We would suggest that the true Gospel method is much more effective, and never causes physical injury. The gospel of force, the gospel of the Inquisition, seeks to prevent hypocrisy, but in her methods the brave and the noble and the honest suffer, while the time-serving and cowardly become hypocrites. This method of preventing hypocrisy, a method necessary to the Roman Church, results in increasing it.

5. While it is contended that the Spanish Inquisition was "purely secular," the responsibility of the church is trebly admitted in what Mr. Conway says: (a) That all—rulers and people—were at that time Catholics; (b) that the inquisitors "were priests and prelates and theologians of the church, and were for that reason under the jurisdiction of the popes;" (c) that "because the Inquisition was instituted to try people on matters of faith." The church was therefore, according to this defense, trebly responsible for all the evil done by the Spanish Inquisition, which indeed grew so evil that the humanity of Catholics rose above their religion and abolished the "Holy Office."

6. That all that was done—and it was all done as a matter of religion—is justified by this defender because it is against the state, civil society, etc. It is by the same means that persecution has always been justified. The fiery furnace of Daniel 3, and the lions' den of chapter 6, were not opened for heretics because of religion, or religion alone, but because of the state. The word of the ruler was defied. The crucifixion of our Lord was not because of "blasphemy"—he was guilty of that and worthy of death, said the priests, but he was guilty of crime against the Roman state, an enemy of Caesar. The Jews, the Moors, the Christians, who suffered in Spain—whether to the number of twelve thousand or two thousand, matters not so far as the wickedness of the thing is concerned—suffered because they were enemies to Spain; and "the Inquisition purged the Spanish nation of the plotting Jew," and Moor and Protestant.

7. It is the same now. Protestants are justifying Roman Catholics and the Inquisition to-day. Earnest, devout, humble Christians, who worked the same days of the week as did Jesus of Nazareth, who observed the same day of the week as the Sabbath as did he, have been arrested, tried, fined, imprisoned, and forced to work on the public highway in the chain-gang, the whole thing instigated, incited, and pushed through by professed Christian men, not of course as a matter of religious persecution; O, no! but because these Christians violated the laws of Arkansas, or Maryland, or Georgia, or Massachusetts, or Tennessee! True, some state laws in the interests of religion, dead letters in the case of almost everybody else, were technically violated, but the animus of it all was religious bigotry, for the faith, as truly as in the days of the Inquisition.

It seems at first glance a marvelous thing that Rome will defend the Inquisition in this "enlightened nineteenth century." Many think that she has passed far beyond this. But it is her boast that she alone is infallible and makes no mistakes. Such evidences as the article we are reviewing continually multiplying, ought to open the eyes of all who are not willingly blind. And when professed Protestants, by the same principles and arguments, justify the same course of procedure against religious dissenters, it seems to us that every Christian and lover of liberty should be aroused. When "Christian Citizenship" or "National Reform" principles rule in this country, we shall have the Inquisition restored. Its principles are already crystallized into law.

Presumption Is Not Faith

A young man at Defiance, Ohio, recently attempted to walk on the water to show that his faith was as great as that of the Saviour. As might have been expected, he illustrated the lack of faith shown by Peter, and went down. But his presumption was not honored by the Lord, and he was allowed to drown. Ambition to display supernatural power is not faith.

We Are Glad with Them

By Editor

We Are Glad with Them.—The Americus Pen reports that the white jury commissioners of Bibb County, Ga., in a recent revision of jury list to serve in the Superior Court of that county, placed the names of thirteen colored citizens thereon. This is just and right. Education is doing much for the race; and not the least among educational influences are such well-conducted papers as the Americus Pen. May it be ever a benefit for its people.

What Is Its Area?

It is well sometimes to take in the length of a thing as well as its breadth. There are many views and paths in these days which seem to be exceedingly broad and liberal, but how long are they? They give our unbridled selfishness room wideways, but for how long? The way of right and duty and truth and God seems to our frozen, selfish sight narrow, but it ends only with eternity. It is broader than it seems, even "exceeding broad," and it is infinitely long. But taking it the way it seems, would it not be well to pause and compute the area of the paths or fields waiting our choice?

The Sabbath Upheld

By Editor

An eastern religious paper has the following:—

"The Sabbath Upheld.—A paragraph now on its passage among our exchanges says that 'out of fifty thousand English clergymen invited to preach in favor of the Sunday opening of museums in England, only fifty-nine consented, and half of these were Unitarians.'"

But this is not in favor of the Sabbath, but in favor of a counterfeit to the Sabbath. And even then it is but a negative evidence. When our Sunday-law friends ask clergymen to preach in favor of Sunday laws and Sunday observance, how many respond? But let the reader remember that a Sunday sentiment in all cases where knowledge obtains, is not Sabbath sentiment. It is sentiment in favor of tradition as against God's word.