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LIVING

FOR OTHERS.

T has been said, and that truly, that a man when he lives rightly lives not for himself alone, but for others. His chief advantage, as well as his chief happiness, and these two are never separated, consists in doing good. One who locks himself up from his fellows, who glories in the greatness of his own sordid Self, knows not what true contentment is. We despise a man who, though thousands may be dying in want, clutches his ill-gotten gains all the more tightly; with the perseverance worthy a nobler cause he hoards up his silver and gold, but assuredly they will canker and corrode on his hands, and when he enters that general home, where all sooner or

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1899.

ARTICLES OF FAITH OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

1. We believe in God the Eternal Father, and in His Son Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.

9. We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.

8. We believe that, through the atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.

4. We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: First, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of Hands for the Gift of the Holy Ghost.

6. We believe that a man must be called of God, by "prophecy, and by the laying on of hands," by those who are in authority, to preach the gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.

6. We believe in the same organization that existed in the primitive church-namely, Apostles, Prophets, Pastors, Teachers, Evangelists, etc.

7. We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, etc.

8. We believe the Bible to be the word of God, as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.

9. We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.

10. We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion will be built upon this (the American) continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth, and that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.

12. We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.

12. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates; in obeying, honoring and sustaining the law. 13. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul, "We believe all things, we hope all things," we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, Lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these hinge. JOSEPH SMITH..

Much concern is being felt by the Presbyterians because of the slow growth of their church. In a meeting recently held to discuss Mormonism one minister declared that the Mormons had made more converts last year in the southern states than the whole of the Presbyterian church.

The following is the Presbyterian report:

For the year ending April 1, 1898, total number of communicants, 975,877.

For the year ending April 1, 1899, total. 983,907, an increase of only 8,030. Their Sunday school is decreasing. Membership for 1898 was 1,034,164. For 1899 it was 1,029,229, a loss of 4,935. Statistics for the past five years show a continued decrease. The net gain of members is as follows: For 1895, 26, 907; for 1896, 20,802; for 1897, 17,195: for 1898, 14,966; for 1899, 8,030.

not already learned, that "he who multiplies possession multiplieth trouble," and that the one single use of things which we call our own are that they may be his who has need of them.

He does well who provides for his family; he does better who, in addition to this, feeds the poor and helps the needy, but he does best of all, he most truly lives, who assists all and scatters broadcast intellectual treasures. What we give we keep, what we keep we lose; this seems strange, but God has so designed it, for He says, "to him that hath and uses shall be given more, and to him that has not employed shall be taken even that he hath." In suffering for our fellows there is a pre-ordained satisfaction comes to us that is greatly in excess of the suffering born, that satisfaction of knowing that we have done our duty will recompense an hundred fold. In our lives, then, we can assist in forming the lives of others. "We are taught and we teach by something about us that never goes into language at all." If, then, our lives be good, we must of necessity exert and influence for good upon the society we live in, each act creating an impression just as we would fold a piece of paper and leave a crease therein: true we may change the folding, but we cannot eradicate the crease. Just so we make impressions upon the mind, the sum of these impressions is what we call character and is what God and the angels know us to be, while reputation is what men and women think we are.

While in this mortal life of ours,
We form the life that is to be,
Our habits frame our characters,
Our characters our destiny.

If our character indicates then what our destiny will be it needs little comment to impress the necessity of doing our duty and helping others to do theirs. He who does good lives, he who helps others to do good doubly lives. Many a moderately great and good man has been made all the greater and better simply by the mighty force of a kind word, a little deed of kindness, or by a pure and unselfish example.

Many a life has been reclaimed from an apparent doom to destruction by these "sweet tones of the heart," kind words. Many an honest, conscientious youth, in his efforts to achieve success, has been pushed over into the dark abyss by the force of a cruel word or a scowling countenance. Often in our selfish desires to secure our own advancement, regardless of others or their losses, we lose our own interests, like the surly dog in the story, which, having a piece of meat in his mouth and coming to a brook, seeing his own shadow and thinking it another dog, let go the meat he held to atempt to procure the meat from the other, but in this covetous procedure his own meat fell

into the stream and was lost. He there fore not only failed to obtain the mea: from the other, but in doing so lost the means of enjoyment he already had. Let us then be up and strike out for whatever is right and manly, never trying at the expense of principle to be popular. but only trying to do our duty and hel; others to do theirs, and let each of us say with Longfellow:

I live for those who love me,

For the hearts that love me true,
For the heavens that smile above me
And await my spirit too,

For the human ties that bind me,
For the task by God assigne dme,
For the bright hopes left behind me
And the good that I can do.

THE MARCH

OF PROGRESS. ish Boer war.

HE leading question apparently engrossing the attention of all is the BritThe world generally are interested, as it may involve grave complexities, which the prognosticators of the time predict with great assurance.

It is true that before the end, great wars will devastate the earth. Empires will fall, and all despotic and corrupt governments will be done away with.

Many ideas have gone forth about this Boer question, and each side has their sympathizers, the Boer, on account of his weakness, naturally gets the most sympathy. But the fact appears to be that the Boers, who are of Dutch origin, are nomads and directly opposed to cr ilization. They are also living about 300 years behind the times, not having advanced from the Protestantism framed

during the sixteenth century. They are their government. also bigots, fatalists, and despotic

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has The Anglo-Saxon British croached upon the domain of these Boers and compelled them to migrate north. where they have formed a commonwealth beyond the river Vaal, called the Trans

vaal.

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The British, who, through mighty, have been one of the great civilizing factors in the nineteenth century, have secured through their explorations. almost entire control of Africa. They de sire to push a railroad from Cairo in the north to Cape Colony in the south, and otherwise civilize the dark continent.

Their progress has been impeded to a great extent in this region by the native Zulu and other tribes, who have been subdued, and now the only obstacle that stands in the way of this progressive spirit of the times is placed by these semi-barbarous Boers.

After diplomatic measures failed, the only alternative, "war," was declared,

and the rapacious Boers, who have exacted such high tribute of all who entered their domains, is destined to end as a government.

Just as well stop with a teaspoon the rush of the Mississippi as stop the progressive spirit of the times, which God has put in operation, preparatory to the great day of His coming.

It is true the Boer is a natural hunter. and a good fighter, and no mean adversary to cope with, and he has proved his skill by his success at Majuba Hill and Laings Nek, but the superior skill and the intelligence of the British will assert itself in the end, as they are known by the world generally as a progressive race.

Africa will be opened up to the world, with all its wonderful resources.

To date, the British have had signal success, the defeat of the Boers at Mafeking, Glencoe and Elandslaagte only heralds their ultimate victory.

Thousands of troops are now en route to South Africa, and if the Boer fails to recognize the civilizing leaven operating throughout the world, eliminating a despotism and corruption. They, like Spain, will become a nation of the past, for barbarism must cease.

MORMON LOYALTY.

HE POST, of Paris, Idaho, prints the following: "The Latter Day Saints of Evanston gave a grand banquet in honor of the eight Mormon volunteers of the Wyoming regiment, members of the Evanston ward, who returned from Manila with the Idaho boys."

And yet there is continually emanating from some sources that the "Mormons" are not patriotic or loyal. From one small ward they furnish eight volunteers whose service speaks for itself. Then when honorably discharged are received with open arms. Patriotism is not unlike charity, begins at home. People who live in glass houses should be careful not to throw rocks at others.

DOES THE WORLD KNOW GOD?

ELDER BRIGHAM CLEGG.

There is an old axiom that two things cannot occupy the same place at the same time. This is not only true of the concrete, but also of the abstract. Fill the heart with the shadow of prejudice and hate and you drive out the sunshine of love. Like water and oil, hate and love will never mix.

In I John, fourth chapter and eighth verse, we find this gem of truth recorded: "He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love." We can realize how essential it is to know Him when we weigh the words of St. John, seventeenth chapter, third verse: "And this is life eternal that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent."

The sin, the strife, the contention and wretchedness among struggling humanity today is due to the fact that God is practically unknown. If the world but knew God, and understood His attributes and realized the countless blessings He daily bestows upon His ungrateful children they would undoubtedly love Him. If they loved Him they would, as the Master says, "keep His commandments," and this would mean an end to sin, with "peace on earth, good will to men." We are told that the fruits of love are joy, peace, long-suffering, Godliness, etc. Love, truly, is the only key which unlocks the pearly gates of heaven. A gaze at the condition of the world today, even among professed Christians, reveals the sad fact that God is little known. Hereby shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye love one another. Behold Christianity, with her numerous creeds, like many armies, warring with each other. Church against church, brother against brother! The infidel army gazes at the struggle with a smile and beholds Christianity fighting a losing battle. Slander, ridicule and envy are the darts being hurled from pulpits over which hangs the motto, "Love one another." Peep into the grand church edifices and behold the rich sitting in their velvet pews while they are being preached to heaven on the "flowery beds of ease" by the hireling clergy who "divine for money and make merchandise of the souls of men." Gaze in the cold, pitiless streets and behold the thousands of wretched mortals perishing for food and

thirsting for the word of God, with many honest hearts beating beneath ragged garments, starving for the word of God. Religion creeping more and more into an aristocracy, charity beginning not at home! The aim of the church seemingly is to gain membership. The mammon of the world seems to be the dollar. Queen Intemperance, King Vice and Madame Popularity are the great rulers and man their slaves. and these alone will make us free! Truth, knowledge, love,

Causes produce effects. Let us look for the causes of the world's condition, and perhaps this will reveal remedies for the effects. The church is the door of the great sheep fold through which man is supposed to pass on his journey

heaven.

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But how are men being induced to serve God? Is it through the How only correct method of love? many are being daily scared into the church by the "fire and brimstone" sermons of sensational preachers! Many, too, join for policy's sake or for popularity. Many are coaxed or join through sympathy. Not a few are pressed into the Lord's service (?) by intense excitement and wild enthusiasm displayed at shouting camp meetings. The mourners' bench claims its share of the list of joiners, while graveyard stories of the minister have captured scores. Many, on the impulse of the religious periodical spell, forget to investigate principles and to some degree crush thought and stifle reason. Oh, how many go through forms of worship through a superstitious dread of death rather than a love for God? Getting into a church seems to satisfy many.

Redeemer, our model of perfection as He hangs upon the "cross of Calvary." The cruel nails in hands and feet and the mock crown of thorns upon His bleeding brow. He calls for drink and is given vinegar and gall. While his multitude of wicked persecutors sneer and deride Him He gazes at them with pity and compassion. Knowing He is innocent, His expression being, "Father, thy will not mine be done." Oh, what a heart of love it must have taken in the fearful agony of death to gaze at such persecutors and then with eyes turned heavenward in dying breath to whisper 'Father, forgive them, they know not what they

do."

Such Christians as would

Such

If the character of God is understood man would truly love Him and follow Him. It would make Christians in name and nature. die in the lion's jaws, or fiery furnace, rather than deny the Master. Christians as would leave father, mother, sister, brother and all for His sake. Such Christians as would perish, if necessary, for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Such Christians as would "bear the cross to wear the crown," realizing that on pure love for God and man hangs the law and prophets.

Salt Lake Stake Divided Into Three.

A step of unusual importance to the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints of Salt Lake county was taken at a meeting of the First Presidency and Council of Twelve Apostles held today. It was nothing more or less than a division of the Salt Lake Stake into three separate and distinct Stakes.

Man will ever be a stranger to God as long as God is a stranger to man. To love God we must not be taught that He is a myth, a great monstrosity, filling all space "without body, parts and passions." Worship a being of this kind and we worship simply nothing. We must keenly feel that God is our Father -one who loves us and has tender mercy for His children. Not look at Him as a great monster who delights in our destruction and misery and who expects us to bow down and serve Him as a slave would crouch beneath his tyranical master's lash. We must know that every commandment of God is wisely given for our individual good here and hereafter. Not to satisfy the greed of the one we worship. In trusting on the mercies of our Master we must know, too, that justice cannot be robbed for mercy's sake. We must think and be taught what Christ did freely and willingly for each of us. How we would love a man who, if we were strolling through some dark alley and some fiend should attempt to pierce our hearts with a dagger, and some man should hurl the wretch to the ground and send us home safe to our loved ones. Such a friend we would always love. Yet how much greater friend is Christ to every man than he who protected our lives. Christ not only offered His life, but gave it for us. By His sacrifice we may all obey His laws and live not for a few years in a cruel and cold world, but eternally in His heavenly home. Picture, we must, our blessed

when a general expression was had. It was the consensus of opinion that the Salt Lake Stake-the largest one numerically in the Church-was too large to give the best results under its present organization and that a division would be highly beneficial to all concernedtherefore the action.

The two new Stakes that are to be carved out of the Salt Lake Stake will be known as Granite and Jordan Stakes. The first of these two will comprise all of the territory in Salt Lake county south of Tenth South and east of State street, while the latter will embrace all of the wards lying west of State street and south of Tenth South.

This, it will be observed, leaves all of Salt Lake City and county north of Tenth South in Salt Lake Stake. In the readjustment of lines several ecclesiastical wards are cut in two; and both Granite and Jordan Stakes clip off sections of the city. The work attendant upon this revision will be arduous and will require considerable painstaking and care, as well as time, to consummate fully.

Among those who are mentioned for presidential appointments are Frank Y. Taylor, of Forest Dale, for Granite Stake, and Orrin P. Miller, of Riverton, for Jordan Stake.

Be guided by principle rather than popularity, by conscience rather than expediency.-Gibbons.

French Protestants wil attempt to do some evangelizing during the Paris Exposition.

TITHING A TEST OF FIDELITY.

Remarks Made at Mount Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah, September 3, 1899.

BY ELDER JOHN HENRY SMITH.

Our conference thus far has been one, I believe, of great profit to the Saints who have assembled, and I trust that the young people will cherish the remem brance of the privilege they have enjoyed of shaking the hand of the President of the Church and of hearing his voice admonishing them to be good, industrious, and thoughtful in the performance of the duties of life. Words spoken profit us but little unless they arouse within us thoughts that lead to proper action. The visit of President Snow and his brethren upon this occasion is one that should be long remembered by the people of this Stake of Zion. The influence of the Holy Spirit under which they have spoken to you should have made a deep impression

upon your minds.

This Life But a Prototype.

It is impossible for us to separate the conditions and experiences of the present

tered among the nations. It has been necessary to gather the people from the ends of the earth. It was no idle dream that burst upon the vision of the Revelator in times past when the words went forth: "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." It could not, however, be accomplished simply by the announcement of the Revelator. The sturdy, unyielding and unfailing efforts of the Priesthood of God in this dispensation, to whom was committed the requirement to travel, from land to land and impress upon the minds of the children of men the sacredness of this duty, and that the day was near when tribulations and calamities would burst forth upon those who knew not God and had rejected His holy Gospel. They who became impressed with this, under the influence of the Spirit

that actuated the utterances of the servants of God, had the way pointed out to

representation of their standing in the Church of Christ.

Tithing a Test of Fidelity. My brothers and my sisters, I trust that you will remember the words of the Redeemer, "By their fruits ye shall know them;" and one of the clearest and fullest witnesses of your fidelity to the truth is obedience to the law of tithing. By this your names are registered in the records of the Church, and you are in a position where the common judge in the house of God and the President of the Stake may subscribe their names to the document that shall open the door of the house of God to you and give you the companionship of the Saints in the various sections of the country where you may desire to reside.

And this is the

only register within the reach of the officers of the Church that demonstrates fully and surely your belief in the principles of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. You may be living a life of wickedness without it being observed by the Bishop, but it cannot escape his attention that your name is or is not registered in the

book which records the evidence of the faith and devotion of the people. There

fice.

names on the registry that God has established, so that when you shall want some privileges in connection with the

before us. Our Father in heaven has es

tablished laws for the government of His children. Obedience to those laws by His children will be the means of their future acceptance by Him. Each one of us should be ministering to the end that our names may indeed be written in the Lamb's book of life. It would be foolish for a child to think he could be acceptable to the teacher in the school room if when the teacher pointed out the alphabet he should say, "Yes, yes, I believe it is a good alphabet," but made no effort to impress upon his mind the formation of the characters, so that he might understand them perfectly and be able to utilize them. The same thing is true in regard to all the duties of life. Little benefit would be realized by us to stand outside of a beautiful garden and gaze upon its flowers, its fruits and its vegetables, and have our senses awakened to the fact that some one had been industrious and had earnestly striven to beautify the earth, if we ourselves were pining away through the lack of development and the exercise of energy and wisdom on our part.

The Law of the Gospel

of husband and wife, of parents and chil

the sacredness of that call to come out from among the nations of the earth, sold home and its furnishings and by their labors and struggles planted themselves in the place which the voice of God declared was the one for them to occupy.

Saints Judged by Law.

God gave the law of gathering; He gave the law of baptism for the remission of sins, the law of the imposition of hands for the conferring of the Holy Ghost, and all the laws necessary to the perfecting of His children. By these laws the Saints are to be judged. The Revelator saw that "the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." We should remember that the Apostle, the President, the High Priest, the Teacher and the Deacon are to be judged by Him who shall judge both the quick and the dead. I know of no place where so perfectly and thoroughly is represented the faith of the Latter Day Saints as a whole as upon the records that are kept by the Bishops of wards, of the tithings of the people. If a resident of this ward desires to change his home to another section of the country, he goes to the Bishop and asks for a recommendation. That recommendation carries with it to the ward where the individual goes as a member the assurance that he has not only been baptized and confirmed a member of the Church, but it presupposes the fact and the Bishop who gives the recommend fails in his duty if it does not-that he has paid his tithes, and thus fulfilled that obligation by which his faithfulness and his conviction to the truth is manifested to the circle in which he has been moving as well as the one he joins anew. I am fearful, however, that in many instances men and women who have carried these certificates of standing, have borne in Gathering Dispensation. their hands a falsehood instead of a truth, To develop the work our Father has es- and were the records examined upon tablished, to accomplish His purposes in which the Bishop bases or should base his regard to the children of men, it became judgment, the Bishop himself would pernecessary that His word should be scat-haps be found stretching the truth in his

is claimed by those who spake in wisdom in the ages that are past and gone, to be "the power of God unto salvation." And in order that the children of men may put themselves in harmony with their Master's wish, they enter this school room of His, and it should be their aim to do His bidding and keep His commandments. Not a man who has become impressed with the sacredness of the mission of the Redeemer of the world could feel in his heart that he was performing the part assigned to him if he refused to obey the commandments given by the Savior to the children of men as the means by which they should be made acceptable to Him and receive the benefits of the atonement offered by Him in their interest.

with the evidence that your conduct has been in harmony with the will of Gol, so far as this can be shown by the record. It may fail in some instances; it may not show in their fullness the conditions of men's lives; but as a rule it furnishes strong presumptive evidence as to whether a man is obedient or disobedient to the requirements of our Father. If men do not pay their tithes and their offerings as a witness of their devotion to God, you may set it down that there is something lacking in their conviction of the truth of the Gospel. I bear you my witness that this is God's law. It is written as a law by and through which you and I will be judged when God shall make up His jewels. They that fail in this will find their names blurred and their place in one of the low seats in the mansions of our Father.

bless the world by the good deeds we perMay we keep the faith, fulfill our part, form, and hold sacred the obligations and contracts into which we have entered with our Heavenly Father, is my prayer in the name of Jesus. Amen.

A Case of Healing.

Sister Ella Lee, writing from Safford, Arizona, tells how her child was healed through the administration of the Elders. Medical skill was unable to alleviate the pain of her suffering child. When the child had relapsed into unconsciousness, when the "death rattles" could be heard a long distance, and the heart only fluttered, the Elders were called and their action was approved by the presence of heavenly beings, which assured those present that the child was not dead and would recover. Today Sister Lee rejoices in the presence of this child. Again the power of God asserts its superiority over the wisdom of men and proves to us that Jesus Christ's promise that "they should lay hands on the sick and they should recover" is as effective now, to those who believe on Him, as it was when our Savior said "thy faith hath made thee whole."

A MESSAGE TO GARCIA.

By Elbert Hubbard in the Philistine. We copy the following from the October number of the Era. Many people wha read the Star will not, perhaps, have access to the Era, and being strangely impressed with this article, we wish others to enjoy like feeling.-Ed.

In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out on the horizon of my memory like Mars at perihelion. When the war broke out between Spain and United States it was very necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the insurgents. Garcia was somewhere in the mountain fastnesses of Cuba-no one knew where. No mail or telegraph message could reach him. The President must secure his co-operation, and quickly.

What to do!

Someone said to the President, "There's a fellow by the name of Rowan who will find Garcia for you if anybody can."

Rowan was sent for and given a letter to be delivered to Garcia. How "the fellow by the name of Rowan" took the letter, sealed it up in an oilskin pouch, strapped it over his heart, in four days landed by night off the coast of Cuba from an open boat, disappeared into the jungle, and in three weeks came out on the other side of the island, having tra

versed a hostile country on foot, and delivered his letter to Garcia, are things I have no special desire now to tell in

detail.

The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the Eternal! there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college of the land. It is not book-learning young men need, nor instruction about this or that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies; do the thing-"Carry a message to Garcia!"

Gen. Garcia is dead now, but there are other Garcias.

No man who has endeavored to carry out an enterprise where many hands were needed but has been well nigh appalled at times by the imbecility of the average man-the inability or unwilling ness to concentrate on a thing and do it. Slipshod assistance, foolish inattention, dowdy indifference and half-hearted work seem the rule; and no man succeeds, unless by hook or crook or threat, he forces or bribes other men to assist him; or, mayhap, God in His goodness performs a miracle, and sends him an angel of light for an assistant. You, reader, put this matter to a test: You are sitting now in your office-six clerks are within your call. Summon any one and make this request, "Please look in the encyclopedia and make a brief memorandum for me concerning the life of Correggio."

Will the clerk quietly say, "Yes, sir," and go to the task?

On your life he will not. He will look at you out of a fishy eye and ask one or more of the following questions:

Who was he?

Which encyclopedia?

Where is the encyclopedia?

Was I hired for that?

Don't you mean Bismarck?

Is he dead?

Is there any hurry?

Shan't I bring you the book and let you look it up yourself?

What do you want to know for?

And I will lay you ten to one that after you have answered the questions, and explained how to find the information, and why you want it, the clerk will go off and get one of the other clerks to help him try to find Garcia-and then come back and tell you there is no such

man.

Now if you are wise you will not bother to explain to your "assistant" that Correggio is indexed under the C's, not in the K's, but you will smile sweetly and say, "Never mind," and go look it up yourself.

And this incapacity for independent action, this moral stupidity, this infirmity of the will, this unwillingness to cheerfully catch hold and lift, are the things that put pure socialism so far into the future. If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all? A first mate with knotted club seems necessary; and the dread of getting "the bounce" Saturday night holds many a worker in his place.

"You see that bookeeper," said the foreman in a large factory.

"Yes, what about him?"

"Well, he's a fine accountant, but if

I'd send him up town on an errand, he might accomplish the errand all right, and, on the other hand, might stop at four saloons on the way, and forget what he had been sent for."

Can such a man be intrusted to carry a message to Garcia?

We have recently been hearing much maudlin sympathy expressed for the

wanderer

"down-trodden denizens of the sweatshop" and the "homeless searching for honest employment," and with it all often goes many hard words for the men in power.

Nothing is said about the employer who grows old before his time in a vain attempt to get frowzy ne'r-do-wells to do intelligent work, and his long, patient striving with "help" that does nothing but loaf when his back is turned. In every store and factory there is a constant weeding-out process going on. The employer is constantly sending away "help" that have shown their incapacity to further the interests of the business, and others are being taken on. No matter how good times are, this sorting continues, only if times are hard and work is scarce the sorting is done finer-but out and forever out the incompetent and unworthy go. It is the survival of the fittest. Self-interest prompts him to keep the best--those who can carry a message to Garcia.

deformed is no less to be pitied than a physical cripple; but in our pitying let us drop a tear, too, for the men who are striving to carry on a great enterprise, whose working hours are not limited by the whistle, and whose hair is fast turning white through the struggle to hold in line dowdy indifference, slipshod imbecility, and the heartless ingratitude which, but for their enterprise, would be both hungry and homeless.

Have I put the matter too strongly? Possibly I have; but when all the world has gone a-slumming I wish to speak a word of sympathy for the man who succeeds-the man who, against great odds, has directed the efforts of others, and, having succeeded, find there's nothing in it; nothing but bare board and clothes.

I have carried a dinner-pail and worked for day's wages, and I have also been an employer of labor, and I know there is something to be said on both sides. There is no excellence, per se, in poverty; rags are no recommendation; and all employers are not rapacious and high-minded any more than all poor men are virtuous.

My heart goes out to the man who does his work when the "boss" is away as well as when he is at home. And the man who, when given a letter for Garcia, quietly takes the missive without asking any idiotic questions, and with no lurking intention of chucking it into the nearest sewer, or of doing aught else but deliver it, never gets "laid off," nor has he to go on strike for higher wages. Civilization is one long, anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted; his kind is so rare that no employer can afford to let him go. He is wanted in every city, town and village-in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such; he is needed, and needed badlythe man who can carry a message to Garcia.

Work of Missionaries.

(The following report gives an idea of Protestant missionary work.-Ed.)

The report of the treasurer made to the fifty-third meeting of the American Missionary Association shows receipts for the year of $297,691 and expenditures $296,810; balances, $871. Among the expenditures were:

Work in the south, $192,812; in Porto Rico and West Indies, $3,908; among Indians, $37,572; Chinese, $13,971; foreign missions, $4,435.

The report of the executive committee shows that the association has located a school at Santruce, Porto Rico, near San Juan, and will locate another at Utuado.

Reports of missionary work were as follows: Southern church work, number of churches, 211; number of ministers and missionaries, 140; number of church members, 11,398; added during the year, 1,447. Fifteen new churches were added and six dropped.

Tonight this man walks the streets looking for work. No one who knows him dare employ him, for he is a regular firebrand of discontent. He is impervious to reason, and the only thing that can impress him is the toe of a thick-soled

The report says: "Reviewing all mission work from the beginning, we find that nearly 20,000 Chinese have been reached in the mission service of Christian churches on the Pacific coast and north, 2,600 of them having become