inflicted upon the colored race by tors. To sum up the resultant situations on I Sam. xv, 2, 3. Did God give their white brethren. tion-a race conflict would be has- the command there recorded? If he Some of the leading clergymen who participated offered some pecuthe liar prayers, ostensibly to Throne of Grace, but these appeals were of such a character as to arouse a suspicion that they were largely The pedirected to the people. titioners drew vivid pictures of the horrid wrongs that had been perpetrated upon and that are constantly being committed against the colored people of this country. Among the elements of these portrayals were appalling butcheries, in which neither men, women nor children were spared, "every glade" having its tale of murder and woe. These prayers were really graphic, the wrongs referred to being delineated in strong and vivid lines. tened. of religious M. E. C. did, did he not command to do a cruel and wicked deed from revengeful motives? If he did not, and Samuel and THERE WAS NO PRAYING. the writer of the Book of Samuel supWith a rush which almost amount-posed that he did, is not their mistake ed to a whirl, the first legislature of about the character and dealings of South Dakota effected an organiza-God so serious as to render them untion of itself and of the govern- trustworthy teachers mental machinery of the new State. truth? At precisely half past twelve o'clock on Tuesday of last week two branches of that body met. In the house the call was read, when, without the loss of a moment, the members elect were sworn in by Chief Justice Tripp. By an almost unanimous vote S. E. Young was made chairman. The passage which troubles "M. E. C." is as follows: Thus saith the Lord of hosts. I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and ut terly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. Here is the reply of the Christian Union: "The passage evidently enjoins re The He briefly remarked that there was no time for elaborate speeches, and closed by saying, "Thanks." The chief clerk and sergeant-at-arms were quickly In these times when a race con- elected, when a messenger was disflict appears to be impending-patched to notify the senate that the taliation for hostilities four hundred many thinkers say it is inevitable house was organized, and ready to years past. The war (on banditti) was public utterances of the nature of witness the installation of State probably justifiable. The motive appealed to (revenge) was not. those expressed at Chattanooga are officers. Almost simultaneously a phrase, "Thus saith the Lord," does calculated to hasten if not to pre-like message was received from the not necessarily denote a direct divine cipitate it. One of the men who senate by the house, and both, in command. Compare II Sam. xvi, 10. prayed informed the Lord that He a body, proceeded to the front It often means no more than "it is worked through human agency. It would be a black day for the country if the colored people should, through agitation of their religious instructors, get imbued with the idea that they are the human agents empowered to execute the will of Providence, and that in that capacity it was incumbent upon them to inflict vengeance upon the perpetrators of the wrongs alleged to have been committed against them, and to wipe out the entrance of the capitol building, right," or "it ought to be." In any The assumption that God ordered the destruction of the Amalekites at During the entire proceedings of the day, which certainly were Lot destitute of an element of solemnity the hands of Saul, because of what in the minds of reverent, thoughtful their ancestors had done four huncause of their afflictions by a pro-and patriotic people, seeing they dred years previously, which is the cess of extermination. A suggestion that has been offered before was renewed at theChattanooga meeting-the formation of a League for mutual protection, of the entire colored people (those of negro blood) on the American continent. Should such an organization be effected, and unity be maintained in it, it would prove a powerful factor for good or evil. There are many chances to one that it would take the latter direction, because of existing political conditions. At present, in case of a crisis and the precipitation of a race conflict, the colored people would soon go to the wall. They are now in an unorganized condition, and are therefore weak and helpless. Let them be solidified, however, by such a League as that suggested, and there were the inauguration of the exist- The absence of all recognition of basis of M. E. C.'s" questions and of the Christian Union's reply, is unjustifiable. True, the Lord says He remembers the crime of the race committed four centuries before, but He does not say, nor intimate, that it is to expiate that crime that the children of the twelfth generation— allowing three generations to the century-are to be slain. Is it not true that the enmity of Amalek towards Israel, begun treacherously four hundred years before, had been manifested almost continuously since? Is it not presumable that the Lord purposed the total destruction of a race, who, for four hundred years had to His sought destroy people? Does not profane history teach that the Amalekites had, for generations, practiced the crimes of Sodom and Gomorrah, and that they "Kindly answer for me a few ques-had become a hopelessly corrupt and A SCRIPTURAL PROBLEM. their influence would be tremendously increased. They could A CORRESPONDENT writes as folthen also be made more readily the lows to the Christian Union: prey of demagogues, and conspira depraved race, wholly incorrigible, and utterly unyielding to the influence of morality and civilization? Four hundred years is a long time to wait for a nation to repent; and if, at the end of such an extended of the obnoxious and oppressive test oath law. Now the Governor wishes Congress to set aside the repealing statute and let the original one which it wiped out stand as if it had never been interfered with. To probation, it is. found to have sunk comply with such a recommendadeeper into wickedness and filth tion would be, in eflect, for than when that probation began, Congress to follow suit of the Idaho it may well be asked if wisdom and and former Arizona solons and justice do not demand that its per-enact a statute of a class prohibited petuity shall cease. by the Constitution. The two verses quoted from It appears from the general stateSamuel do not purport to give all of ment of the Governor on this subthe reasons why the Lord had de-ject that the basis of his suggestion termined upon the destruction of is that the "Mormons"are presumed the Amalekites; but they do contain to possess the balance of power bea plain intimation that the wicked- tween the two political parties. For ness of that race dated back at least this horrible offense against the four hundred years. Only a sum-party who may possibly not get their mary of the reasons why the Lord votes, a large class of upright citizens sent the deluge, and why He rained ought to be disfranchised. This is down fire upon the cities of the indeed a most reprehensible docplain, are to be found in the Bible. trine, and one of which its advocate But if the whole truth were known ought to be heartily ashamed. it would be understood that the doomed races had sunk so low in wickedness, and had so long resisted every appeal of repentance that the justice, wisdom and holiness of God all combined to demand their extinction from the earth, that it might no longer be corrupted by their presence and abominations. According to the prophetic Scriptures, the Lord will yet use, for the purification of this earth, means similar to those He resorted to in ancient times, viz., the destruction of wicked nations. A BAD RECOMMENDATION. IN HIS report to the Secretary of the Interior, Governor Wolfley, of Arizona, makes a recommendation in reference to the "Mormon” portion of the population of that Territory. He follows suit of the Utah Commission, and takes a position inimical to the most honest, industrious and loyal part of the commonwealth in which he holds an official post. SAMOAN AFFAIRS UNSETTLED. that Germany will not go to war with the United States over Samoa, and especially the election of Mataafa by the Samoans where the only possible occasion of war is themselves, and so she will maintain a strictly neutral position. She certainly will not run the risk of embroiling herself with the United States for the sake of upholding Germany in what is really such an unim portant matter as the election of a leader in Samoa. The Samoan kingdom is now the ward of the three nations, the United States, Great Britain and Germany, and the question of kingship has become one of secondary importance. Another dispatch says that it is believed Bismarck will follow out his policy of conable than the idea of his protesting against ciliation, and this seems much more prob the election of Mataafa. The treaty can not be ratified until Congress meets, and, in the interim, it is safe to say that the great chancellor will be much more inter the election of a King of Samoa, and that the buildi g of railroads from Moscow to the western frontier of Russia will worry him a great deal more than Mataafa succeeding Malietoa. ested in the movements of Russia than in A DECIDED CONTRAST. WE take Governor Francis F. Warren, of our neighboring Terri ACCORDING to late associated press tory of Wyoming, to be not only a dispatches, there is still a possibility gentleman possessing a keen apprethat the labors of the Berlin confer-ciation of justice, but also of a conence on Samoan affairs may come to siderable degree of originality. It is naught, though it is much to be an indication of ordinary mental hoped that such may not be the cast and caliber to join, without re case. It is stated that Germany will gard to justice or truth, in a common object to Mataafa as king, though clamor, especially when it takes the he is the undoubted choice of the shape of a popular howl, against Samoan people. Upon this subject any class toward whom the snaps the San Francisco Chronicle of the and snarls of the unthinking and 18th says editorially: undiscriminating multitude are turned. To take an independent position under such circumstances, and stand by the light of indisputable facts, treating the shrieking of the rabble as the whistling of the wind, The Berlin correspondent of the New moans be confirmed, Germany will protest, After the deportation of Malietoa the Germans undertook to set up a pup- ruler of Samoa. Mataafa, a relative of upon States intervened, Germany restored Ma- degree of moral courage. The Chief Magistrate of a man capable of taking that stand; Wyoming gives evidence of being therefore we are attracted toward him with a feeling of respect. But why speak thus concerning the Governor of Wyoming? It is as much what he has not done as what he has performed that draws forth these comments. Quite a the people by force, there would have large proportion of the population of ben no trouble, or, at least, no bloodshed. the Territory in question are LatterAs matters turned out, after the United day Saints, commonly designated "Mormons." Governor Warren, in he has abdicated and has indicated Mataa making his late annual report to the fa as his choice to succeed him. What government, had a good word to say business, then, has Germany to protest? for his people. What he did do in The understanding is that the treaty nego-connection with that report was to Samoa and if this be the case Germany has class the whole population as one. nothing whatever to do with the choice of a He did not make "flesh of one king by the Samoans. class and fish of another," but spoke of them as an entirety. Had he been governed in the matter by exampled and popular clamor, and if As a matter of course his recommendation is exceedingly unrepublican. The Territorial Legislature enacted an anti-"Mormon” test oath law, similar to the oue now existing in Idaho. This statute was tried and found wanting in all the elements of decency, common sense, justice and constitutionality. The result was that a better view of the situation brought repentance, and that condition superinduced a desire to make amends for past wrongs perpetrated. These healthSo far as Great Britain is concerned, the ful tendencies probability of her supporting a protest made by Germany in this matter is infini the repeal by the Legislature' tesimally slight. England knows very w culminated in tiated at Berlin secured the autonomy of rule, and an advocate of centraliza- Christian Union, all of which we The contrast between his course and that of Governor Warren throws the latter forward in a most favorable light, as a man of fairness and independence. his sense of justice had been blunted, The contrast between the report of Governor Warren and that of Gov says: JUDGE DEWOLFE, of the district court, whose jurisdiction embraces Silver Bow County, Montana, is a In any case, it shows, as here used, Democrat. The returns of Silver a defective moral judgment, and that Bow precinct showed that only four Samuel's teachings, like those of all or five men voted the Republican the other Bible Saints, must be ticket. When this showing became brought before the judgment seat of known, about a dozen men made Christ for revision and correction. affidavit that they had voted the This is a remarkable concession straight Republican ticket, where-to the enemies of the Bible, who upon the county commissioners continually reiterate the assertion threw out the precinct. Judge De that "defective moral judgment” is Wolfe forthwith issued an alterna- displayed by the men who wrote it. tive writ of mandamus, to compel In prominence, learning and ability the commissioners to count the the New York Christian Union is whole vote. The hearing on the probably second to no religious jourwrit was set for Nov. 7. nal in this country, yet it thus ex. plicitly admits the questionable character of the moral judgment of one of the greatest prophets ever raised up to be a mouthpiece of God to man; and by intimation includes all "Bible Saints" in the same ad mission. In the same number of the Christian Union from which the above is taken, an attempt is made to enlighten a correspondent who asks: As the world was not created in six days, how could the Sabbath have been instituted by God on the ground that he had rested on the seventh day, as stated in the Fourth Commandment? Do you believe that the commandments and all the laws in the Pentateuch were given by God or, written by Moses? C. P. M. Soon a rumor gained currency ernor Wolfley, of Arizona, in re- that Russell Harrison was attempt spect to the point herein ing, or would attempt, to induce his treated, is strongly marked. The father to remove Judge De Wolfe latter selects a part of the people of and appoint a Republican in his his Territory and proclaims himself, place, prior to Nov. 7th, that the for political purposes, their enemy. hearing on the alternative mandamProbably it did not occur to him at us might take place before a court the time but it is nevertheless a in sympathy with the Republican fact that in assuming this attitude, party and the present administrahe also became the enemy of the tion. The New York World has dewhole commonwealth of Arizona. nounced this proposition as revoluHe asks the general government to tionary, and has permitted itself to step in and, within the confines of become somewhat exercised over it. his official domain, strike a blow at The supplanting of Judge Delocal rule. The repeal law, which Wolfe with a Republican, between wiped out the abominable anti- now and Noveinber 7th, without Mormon religious test oath, was further ground for such action than passed by the law-making represen- has so far appeared, need not be tatives of the whole people of Ari- feared. President Harrison has too zona. If we recollect aright, the much sense and principle to commit passage of the measure was nearly, such a combined blunder and crime. if not quite, unanimous. It The merits of the Silver Bow conwas signed by Mr. Wolfley's test will, in all human probability, predecessor in office and be-be investigated before the judiciary came law. Now comes the as at present constituted, unless present Governor and informs some occurrence should take place the General Government, through for which President Harrison could the mind and conscience to see truth the Secretary of the Interior, that then on wise be held responsible. and feel its imperativeness. The SabLegislature and Governor of Arizona bath is of divine appointment, “made were semi-idiots and did not know for man," as Jesus says, required by their business. He asks the Govthe physical and moral nature which ernment to undo the work of the OCTOBER 22 we made some com- God made. That Moses should see local legislature, thus aiming a blow meats upon "a scriptural problem" this law, written in our nature, and at home-rule in his own Territory. which a correspondent had pro-assign a fanciful reason for it, only Thus he offers an insult to the peo- pounded to the New York Christian shows that he was like the rest of us ple among whom he holds an im- Union. It related to the destruction in being better able to see what is portant official position. He does of the Amalekites by Saul, accord- right than to give the reason for it. not want them to have the privilege ing to a command given by the Alof transacting their own business, mighty through the Prophet Samuel. he evidently being a foe to home One sentence in the reply of the A BAD RELIGIOUS TENDENCY. Following is the reply: Many of them proceeded from Moses' successors, building on to his work, and so were only involved in or developed from, what "the Lord said to Moses." What God said to Moses He probably communicated, as now to us, inwardly. by enlightening If what "the Lord said to Moses" was communicated in the manner described by the Christian Union, larly reduced every year until the present year, when to Mr. Goschen is due the credit of bringingit for the first time for many years below 700 millions. The total amount of the debt at the close of the last fiscal year was £693,it was at the commencement of the 989,633, or nearly 150 millions less than Moses did not talk with God face to each financial year from 1836 to 1889 face as one man talketh with an- the aggregate gross liabilities of the other, neither did the Lord write State, as represented by the nominal upon tablets of stone with his own funded debt, the estimated capital value of terminable annuities, the unfinger, the ten commandments and funded debt, and other liabilities in give the record to Moses. All such statements of Holy Writ are to be estimated assets and the aggregate net respect of debt, together with the rejected. The command to keep the liabilities and exchequer balances. present reign. Sabbath day holy was not the word The return also gives the gross and net The same return also gives an exof an actual, living,speaking Deity; expenditure charged on the consolid-haustive cash account, showing the it was only the perception by a phil-ated fund on account of the national total issues out of the consolidated debt and other payments in respect of fund for the annual service of the debt debt for the ame period. The return |—in other words, its annual cost for is a continuation of the return which interest and management-and this Sir W. Harcourt obtained in 1887. osopher of a principle in nature which it would be well for man to observe, and the "reason" assigned by Moses why the Sabbath should be kept holy, was only a "fanciful" one. It was easier for him to see that the Sabbath ought to be kept thau to give other than a "fanciful" reason why it should be. Ishows that while the charge in 1836 ended the 5th of January, 1836, the At the close of the financial year national debt, or, as it is officially described, the aggregate net liabilities of When we reflect upon the forethe State, including the nominal going figures, and in connection amount of funded debt, the estimated with them consider the condition Thus more and more ground is be- value of terminal annuities computed of the bulk of the population of the ing given to the infidel by the pre-in 3 per cent stock at par, and the un- United Kingdom, and the prospects tended defenders of the Bible. funded debt, amounted to £845,489,577. of a European war, we may well Compromises without end are being In the following year it was reduced doubt the immediate liquidation made with objectors. Truly, "Bible by about £400,000, but in 1838 it stood of the liabilities of Queen Victoria's Saints" have need to be saved from at five millions less, and a gradual country. What grinding of and their modern friends, who grow lions a year is visible down to 1853, ment of such public debts means, decrease of from a million to four mil-suffering among the poor the paymore and more willing to betray when, for the first time during the pres- in countries which have no lands them. ent reign the debt was brought below £800,000,000, the actual figures on the fifth of January in that year being £798,962,551. In 1854 it had diminished by nearly ten millions, the amount being calculated in that year to the fifth of April, but in the financial year ended the thirty-first of March, 1855, the outbreak of the Crimean war sent it up ten millions, and further £25,000,000 to a total of £826,in the following year it increased by a 002,754, while in 1857 (the year of the Indian mutiny) another £700,000 was added. After this year, however, our finances began to improve, and although at first it was only gradual, yet each year a substantial diminution of the debt was effected. In 1858 it was reduced by four millions, and in each of the two following years it became five millions less; but in 1861, the year That same Christ before whose judgment seat the teachings of Bible Saints must be brought for revision and correction, according to the Christian Union, gave the command for the destruction of the Amalekites; and while He was in the flesh He repeatedly endorsed the teachings of the prophets. Never once did He attempt a revision of the teachings of one of them, so far as we are authorized to state. If a command to destroy a wicked nation shows "a defective moral judgment," what is to be done with certain predictions and threats of vengeance made by the Savior Himself? The tendency, even among the ultra religious, is either to reject or to neutralize the significance of the plainest and most vital portions of the Scriptures, in response to, and by way of compromise with, infidelity. FINANCES OF GREAT BRITAIN. in which the revenne estimate of the year was the largest on record up to that time, the debt increased from for sale, nor other undeveloped re- IOWA DRUGGISTS COMBINING. THE prohibitory liquor legislation of Iowa is rather stringent in the requirements it exacts from druggists. They must give a bond in the sum of $1000, not to sell liquor in violation of the law, and must obtain a petition signed by onethird of the freeholders of the precinct, before obtaining a permit, which must be renewed annually. £812,904,106 to £813,880,323, and in the PERSONS having a statistical turn of mind will be interested in the enough, when the bank rate was following figures relative to the pub-raised to nine per cent it was relic debt of Great Britain, which are duced by no less than nine millionsfurnished by the London Times. It the largest reduction in one year durappears that every man, woman and ing the present reign-and was once child in the United Kingdom owes more brought below 800 millions, the actural over $65. The debt of Great Britain is about double that of the United States, and is more than three times the amount per capita. A parliamentary return has just been issued showing at the close of figure being £794,667,096. occurred. With the exception of one Since this year nothing abnormal has Each druggist has his circle of year, 1869, when the Abyssian war friends, and if that guild throughout (which cost £9,000,000) absorbed the the State combine in an effort to whole of the surplus revenue except secure certain modifications of the some £30,000, the debt has been regu-law, they will probably be able to influence the nomination and election of a good many members of the legislature, and make themselves a power in the politics of the State. This looks like an added menace to the prosperity of prohibition. NON-PROGRESSIVE RELIGION. W. S. BEAN has an article in the cope with questions which other ie- reference to the burning of "The ance IS THIS KIDNAPPING? of some witnesses who about On Sptember 18th, at 5:15 p. m. Peking was startled by a ruddy glow in the sky toward the south of the city indicating a fire of some magnitude in that direction. Upon inquiring among the natives it was learned that it was the Temple of Heaven. The fire was ON October 221, Mr. Hobson, a not quite out at 4 o'clock this morning, Presbyterian Quarterly entitled Bib-deputy United States marshal, oper- and the temple is a heap of smolderlical Theology. It strikingly ex-ating in the third judicial district of ing ruins. Previous to the fire Peking hibits the weakness of the sectarian Idaho, the court of which is now was visited by the heaviest downpour Christian churches, by defining the in session at Blackfoot, went to of rain that has taken place this position of Bible theologians in conLogan. His object in so do- year, simply a deluge for tra-distinction to that of the advoing was to secure the attend-one hour or s», flooding nearly every cates of scientific development and building and house in the city, and advanced thought. He admits that were wanted in the case of T. E. making many of the roads impassable. biblical theology is necessarily non- Ricks, whose trial on a charge of The great downpour in Kong Kong could not have been worse. This delprogressive, in view of the declara- unlawful cohabitation was set for tion that the canon of scripture is Oct. 24. uge was ushered in by a shower of Deputy Hobson brought hailstones of about half an inch in declared to be full, and no more can with him a writ of attachment is- diameter and like pieces of glass, so be added. There being, from the sued by Judge Berry of the court hard and transparent were they. The strictly theological standpoint, no named, for two lady witnesses, who, wind also chopped round from one new revelation, there can be no new however, had had no previous notice quarter to another with remarkable light upon the doctrines of sin, grace nor intimation that they would be rapidity. This deluge of rain taking and redemption. wanted, and hence had shown place before the fire burst out has creIn view of this position the battle disposition to no evade testi-ated the belief among the Chinese that ground of the Bible theologian fying. At the instance of Com-the fire was the work of heaven, but must be the defense of those funda-missioner Goodwin, Deputy Whet- the foreigners believe that the light mental doctrines. His function is stone, operating in the first judicial merely expository and not inventive district of this Territory, arrested or constructive. Mr. Bean very the two ladies, who were taken beproperly remarks: "There is little fore Commissioner Goodwin and danger that any serious revolution bound over to appear before him the will be effected by this process." following morning. The facts in He might have added, with as the case we glean from au account much force of consistency, for the of it given by the Logan Journal, same reason, that there is little which says: prospect of the churches retaining They were arrested on no charge, their hold upon the people. They are in danger of being swamped in the sea of doctrinal stagnation. brought before our own Commissioner on no charge, bound over on no charge, to appear before him on the following The churches are forced to take day to answer no charge. "It was a one of the two positions defined by question of binding them over or Mr. Bean-that of mere defense of sending those two women to jail, and certain cardinal doctrines, or, on the by--I was not going to send them to other hand, of joining hands with jail." So spake our own Commissioner, the advanced thought advocates. and he spake as one having authority. They have declared The plan is,according to Commissioner against Goodwin, when the ladies appear before any more direct light from heaven. Having themselves closed to the care of Deputy Whetstone. Mr. his court this morning, to commit them the door of new revelation, they have nothing left but to defend what has already been revealed, or merge into the mass of those who do not accept of revelation at all. The rejection of new revelation seals the doom of what is called Whetstone will persuade them to go to This is how the matter stood last the ladies. This appears to be an extraordinary course to pursue in order to obtain from one Territory witnesses who are wanted in another. modern Christianity, for it has no o'clock (when we had a short, sharp ning of Wednesday morning at 3 thunderstorm with incessant flashes of lightning) was the cause of it. It would be dangerous for a native to hint that it was the work of a man. One individual says it is the fault of the young Empress, because she is all fire," and there has been nothing but trouble since the marriage. BREEDING HORSES. UTAH is rapidly forging ahead in the matter of raising horses. We had here, from the earliest settlement of this region, a splendid foundation upon which to build races of draft, all-purpose, or trotting horses. The Spanish stock, which formed the bulk of our horses in this coun try until within recent years, possessed those qualities of courage and endurance so necessary in any breed, and which are, in fact, the main virtues to be sought in a race of horses which it is proposed to breed up. That native Spanish stock is hard to break after the fourth or fifth year, only proves it to be lacking in intelligence; for the more intelligent a horse is the more easily may it be subjected to the will of man. Docility, merely a form of intelligence, is imparted to the horse by crossing with better blood, and by thoroughly breaking and training generation after generation. From now on, horses are destined to be an important product of this Territory, and to constitute one of |