Show HOUSE NOT GOSPEL FREE the problem that cornea comes very near being uppermost just juat now in religious circles in the east lie Is whether the church shall be free or not the champions on the negative side aide of the question quei tiou tell us ua that it if the church were made free too many of the people who enjoy its privileges privilege a forget to contribute as they ought for its if sup support such auch people taking it for grant ed that because no pews or sittings are owned or rented the institution has no need of support r t from ro in contributions but is independent d e n t of public aid through certain resources of which the public is not informed by way of enforcing their argument the opponents of the free church call attention to dr talmage balmages Tal mages Is great tabernacle which is staggering under a huge burden of indebted indebtedness neso and the future of which in consequence is in so eo much u uncertainty one of the lady members of ittie the congregation said the other day that not more than five percent of those who throng to hear bear dr talmage preach put any money into the basket 91 it is not contended that there are very many of the free churches which have so sad a story to tell as has the brooklyn tabernacle and the advocate of the free church system point out that under better and closer economy dr talmage would be in a more hopeful condition they insist that I 1 though bough there is much discouragement coura gement in the way the real problem is how to make the average person realize his bis full duty in the rn matter atter sa s1 the question of the church being free h having avi ug already beav decisively answered in the affirmative by the great majority of those concerned in other words they claim that the point now ia a how to upon tipon the devotee that the church itself is free but the word of lite life is not free farour for our part we confess that if the pa positing of the plate and the basket does not sufficiently remind the worshipper wor shipper of the fact there is going to be some difficulty in hitting upon A robere that will than last years and almost the smallest on record the march government report is really the chief bull reliance it may result in his complete discomfiture but it is not likely that the agricultural bureau will go back and increase its crop yield figures if it does not do that then it is inevitable that it must announce an unusually small farm reserve the united states produces annually about twice as much wheat as it needs for home con emption and of course such avast a surplus cannot all find storage besides it is one of our chief exports and thus becomes a source of revenue from abroad in this matter we have no equal and steady competitor russia might be but for fonts its instability not reducing producing enough some seasons to keep starvation away from its own people peoples s doors while india though more reliable is much farther away Brad bradstreets shows that the yield of the former this year will q not be heavy but that of india will be quite abundant and the argentine republic which is about now in the midst of its harvest time to is to be a very free shipper and altogether the visible supply while not equal to what it has been is pronounced ample the efforts of those who seek to bull the market maet that 1 Is to rates raise the prices by showing that thai there is a great falling off in the supply are thus not likely to succeed if there to is any other present or prospective bullish factor in the wheat trade aside from ravages of worms or effects of the oer ber 12 says the paper quoted it is not easily perceived available supplies here and abad abroad based on the rate of consumption are sp ao patently parent ly ample growing crop conditions abroad are in the main not dot unfavorable and the outlook does J not favor heavily increased ex ports from the united state so ao that unless we find farmers 1 wheat bins very low indeed much mach lower than ever before there appears to be no price lover lever in sight there is another cause however for the low price of wheat besides its ito abundance as has been previously pointed antea out in these columns and that re id the low price of silver there seems to be an affinity between the two products for certain it is that when conditions ge eer orally are normal tile the two rise and fall together so nearly equal as to indicate sympathy the movement either way is gauged to almost precision |