Show GLANCING AT themselves the tile modern christiana christians have I forbears for years past been shouting themselves hoarse while confessing the sins of the tile mormon they have called upon all ill the bo be in the nation to crush atit tile iniquitous practices of the people of utah but they or at tat least some of them stop for a breathing spell occasionally and in the interim glance at themselves in their own mirrors they do not however seem fascinated with their own esso cs very much they have been laboring for gen crat loni to td convert the world to modern christianity felicy will encompass sea and land to accomplish this end but they li have ve made little progress in that direction considering sider si illg the resources it at their command comit they have lacked for neither money mini ministers stem or bibles it is estimated that the number of copies of the bible in circulation has increased from at the beginning of this century to copies now in circulation to say nothing of the religious houses of the numerous sects at home tho the methodists alono alone have nino nine hundred churches in the FJ fiji islands and 1400 schools of a population of about over arc are reckoned as regular attendants tend ants at the churches it is said that idolatry is scarcely known know an and d e cannibalism annibal ism for which these islands were so famous fifty years ago lias has been voluntarily abandoned save by a single tribe within the last fifty years the mission stations of the christians have in increased from to and the number of ordained missionaries lias has increased from to with assistants against 1236 fifty years ago in the celestial empire the christians have converted natives from worshipping shipping wor their little and big gods of wood and other materials to worship an unknown god without any tangibility whatever at home we have now in the united states sunday schools teachers teacher s and Sund Sunday ay school scholars A small number to be sure for alie size and ad population opu lation of the country of the character of man many y of the tile converts to modern christian christianity ity the tile reader may judge from tile fol lowing glance at themselves by their fruits yc ye shall know them the signal published in indianapolis Q ind says that city has sunday schools and saloons As a result in ten years she has had conversions to christ and arrests before die mayors court for drunkenness she has had graduates in the tile public schools and graduates out of the grog rog shops into the penitentiary in san francisco arrests were made for the violation of the sunday law in one day About loO other persons had been previously arrested for the like of offense rense the prosecution and defense of these cases would no doubt replenish the empty purses of a large number of lawyers but it is not the tile intention to bring these offenders enders to trial speaking of the consumption of malt liquor in this country the register the brewers organ says it has increased over one hundred per cent in ten years the same paper says during the year 1880 taxes were paid on WO barrels or gallons this is equivalent to about mugs for every man woman and child in ili tho the country leaving ou out t the females and children this vast quantity represents COO WO glasses a year for each male malo over twenty ono one years years old in the united states at five cents a glass this beer manufacture of 1880 brought or about per capita for every man woman and child this ia is a quarter more than the tile total expense of running the united states govern government men t an eastern paper says in one of tho the christian cities seventeen plain drunks were brought before the mayor in one day it docs does not tell liow how many crooked or t tangle agle I legged 19 ed drunks there had been on the same day the drinking was done and the arrests were made on the sabbath delegate post of wyoming our eastern neighbor a short time since since i introduced a bill into the house of representatives to reduce the internal revenue tax on oil cigarettes the new york herald in an article on this bill says mr post must be an enemy of the human race lie ile could not if he be tried I lait it upon a more certain method of killing off a large portion of the rising generation and of making idiots of the one that is to follow it the cigarette annually kills thousands of children and young men and those whom it does not destroy physically it mentally ruins the herald very properly condemns the bill and thinks instead of reducing the tax it ought to be raised ao so high that it cannot bo be reached at least by every small boy the southern presbyterian je x view ew for 1881 has the following tho government statistics for 1871 may well cause every honorably man mail to mar hang lang ins ilia head with shame and may well fill every patriots pit heart with witha alarm larni tile they areas are as follows let thein be pondered by b every loer lover of his country salaries of all ministers of tile gospel cost of doss dogs support of criminals roes fees of litigation 35 cost of tobacco and cigars soi importation of liquor of grog anro shops whole cost oi of liquor and theio aro the lacta ili in this enlightened nineteenth cen tury tui yand and in in sheso united states one might infer from froin them that we are fast becoming if not already a nation of drunkards and then consider this count rys estimate of tle gospel ministry the ministers of all denominations costing a sum less by millions than tile very v cry dogs of tile land the christian religion must have dropped down to alow a low ebb and must have been reduced to A mry very small estimate by the chris tian community when the people actually think more of the dogs in the streets than they do of the man ministers i aisters of the gospel they paid moro more for the support of tho the former than they did lid for the latter they expended more foi fbi litigation and strife than they did forthe for the propagation of the tile gospel of peace pence and to promote c good will among among men the figures arc are their own we have neither time nor in inclination cli just now to notice more of their pious peccadilloes cadill oes oco or 01 other social evils of the christianity of the nineteenth century but we advise its vota ries riest in the future before opening their lipa lips to spew out their venom against t their utah neighbors to take another glance at themselves cs A WASHINGTO correspondent says sas mr E P studebaker of south bend ili ind is here on his way home from an all extended business and pleasure trip he ile is a stalwart republican and his friends have for some time been urging him to consent to kobca be a candidate for congress he lie lias has refused to become a candidate for any office whatever preferring to remain a private citizen and attend to liis his own business afra affairs irs he ile believes that W H calkins who now represents his district in congress has done excellently and that in 18 1884 he lie will te be honored with the governorship of indiana major calkins he lie is sati satisfied fiad will be returned to congress this fall by a largely increased majority as he lie is very popular I ar at home |