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.... The Rev. J.P. Sandlands, Brigstock: England, is contributing a series of articles to The Christian Advocate on "The art of Speaking and Reading." He points out many faults and makes some excellent suggestions. He is not always right, however, nor is his meaning always clear. Take the following as an example:

"Most clergymen distinguish in their pronunciation between prophecy and prophesy. There is no more reason for making such a distinction here than there is in such words as practise and practice. We do not pronounce the verb practize and the noun practiss. Then why distinguish between the noun prophecy and the verb prophesy, and mispronouncing [sic] prophecee and prophesy? If it be examined, it will be found that in all these cases where a distinction is made in pronunciation between the very and the noun the spelling in the same. We havae a good example in pres'ent and present'. The spelling is different in prophesy, and so this reason does not obtain. We may ask, What other does?"

What does he mean to say? if he means to be understood as saying that there should be no distinction in pronunciation between prophecy and prophesy, he is wrong, as both American and English authorities would tell him.

....No dime novel ever told such an awful story as that of the slaughter--shall we not call it execution?--of the Tollivers in Rowan County, Kentucky. These men had been allowed to terrorize the county for years. When there was danger of these men being arrested for one of their murders they had by violence got one of their number elected police, justice and then they killed their enemies under pretense of resisting arrest, going through all the necessary forms of law. At last a mob, if we may call it so, of over a hundred men met and inflicted summary vengeance, after which they carried the bodies of three Tollivers twenty miles to the old Tolliver graveyard and buried them. That whole mountain region of Eastern Kentucky and Tennessee and Western Virginia nad North Caroline, needs at least one good church and school in each county just to civilize it.

....Here is another item in the line of inter-denominational fellowship in Connecticut, which may be compared with the Naugatuck incident. At Watertown, on a late Sunday evening, Mr. Cunningham, the Episcopal rector, planned a memorial sermon and desired to increase his choir for the occasion. One of the pastors expressed a wish to omit his service and attend. The other was equally ready, and Sunday found the three congregations filling the house, with members of the three choirs filling the organ loft, and all joining in the Whitsun evening service, with some additional patriotic hymns. The Rev. Mr. Pelton of the Congregational church and the Rev. Mr. Rippere of the Methodist church, by invitation, occupied the usual places for ministrial guests, and each read a lesson of the usual service. No complaint from the bishop is expected.

....Governor Hill has suffered a good temperance measure to become a law for which, we suppose, the good people of this state should be duty thankful. It is the Curtis measure, which does away with the anomaly of allowing the sale of liquor in quantities of five gallons or more in communities where licenses are not granted. The Governor, whose state papers are undignifiedly partisan, obeserves that this was about the "only temperance legislation of the recent session of any particular merit." The bill forbidding the sale of liquor in the Capitol and to keepers of the Willard Insane Asylum were regarded by those not in league with liquor selling as having some "particular merit," but the Governor vetoed them. His bid for temperance support comes late and too undisguisedly to avail him.

....The Voice asks us how we would propose to disentangle Republican and Democratic parties from the saloon connections. We fully explained the method in the editorial referred to by our contemporary, which actually copies the paragraph. It is, brief, to nominate third tickets, wherever the candidates of both parties are saloonmen; and to support candidates of either of the old parties whose position and record are right. By this policy, if a party of nominates the right kind of men it is supported, if not it is antagonized. Bur The Voice says, this "means guerilla warfare." It means that good men will only vote for good men. If that is guerilla warfare it is highly commendable. The Voice has a tender conscience for one of the most notorious of bushwhackers.

....The fact has been published that Miss Wolfe, at one time, gave by her will a million dollars for the Cathedral, and then withdrew it. If we are not mistaken, her reason was not any cooling of ardor for the Cathedral, caused by the fiasco of the Gardeu City Cathedral, or by any other reason. She simply was not satisfied that the scheme was being properly pushed, and it was her plan to put the money into the hands of a trustee, Dr. Nevin, of Rome, then abroad, who would push the project. She sent for him, but before he reached the country she was dead. She had tried, when she found what was her condition, to compete the transfer through her agents here, but did not succeed. This is a great loss to the project, but not a really serious one.

....On the 7th of April, 1888, it will be just a hundred years since the first settlement of white men was made in what is now the great state of Ohio. On that day Gen. Rufus Putnam, with about fifty men, landed at the mouth of Muskingum River, on the site of what is now Marietta, to found the new colony. The Ohio Company had appled to Congress to purchase land, and bought a million and a half of acres. This enterprise interested the whole country, and was the immediate occasion of the passage of the celebrated ordinance of 1787, which gave the new settlers such a government as they desired. Out of this beginning grew our great Northwest territorial expansion, and it is suitable the centenial should be celebrated in the Marietta next year.

....Our compliments to The Presbyterian which see "pious simplicity" in our praise of Dr. Huntington's sermon on the proposed Cathedral. It says:
"DOES THE INDEPENDENT really suppose that a Cathedral, whose pulpit will be shut to all ministers ordained in the good old Congregational way, whose collegiate clergy will be forbidden (as Episcopal clergymen are to-day) by a restrictive canon from recognizing officially the validity of the ordination of its own Dr. Storrs, is going to hasten the coming of the Kingdom of God?"
We understood precisely what Dr. Huntington meant. He made it clear enough that he detested the narrowness which would forbid Dr. Storrs to preach in the Cathedral. That is just what he meant in the passage we quoted.

....We find no fault--far from it-- with Maurice Thompson's article this week on "passion in Poetry and Fiction." We turn to our own files to see what we have said, and find the following on Tolstol's "Anna Karenina," showing how different is its motive from that of the French novels which depicts crime:

"In Toistol's novel there is distincly, almost pitilessly, taught a solemn lesson, which works of fiction touching on a similar moral proposition do not often so convey to-us--that sin, willfully deliberately commited, carries its own punishment with it, and that the man or woman who succumbs to temptation and strays from rectitude, must at least be prepared to receive bitterness of soul and death as its wages."

....The Irish had a good opportunity to do a wise and generous thing on the occasion of the Queen's Jubilee. They are accused of being disloyal to the Crown, and it is evident that many, if not a majority of Englishmen believe it. If they had adopted an address to the Queen, expression their good-will toward her as the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, they would not have prejudiced their cause, but would have strengthened their position before the English public, It is the English public, be it remembered, that must settle the Irish question; and the occasion would have been a good one for a good-tempered protest against coercion.

....Her is The Pilot making most erroneous statements about the Dawes Indian Severalty Law. It really looks now as if that little Council Fire society in Washington, which somehow is in the interest of Indian corruption, had got hold of the Catholic papers, and was using them for its purpose. The Pilot says the Dawes law, contrary to the treaty, takes the Sioux Reservation from the Sioux and divides a part of it up "without the consent of a single Indian." Of course this is not so. That law expressly requires their consent in accordance with the treaty, without which "this act becomes of no effect, null and void."

....High ritual is supposed to be very artistic, esthetic, and all that. But we fear its literary reputation will fall if it is to be judged by a hymn on "Reverence at God's Altar," sung at St. Andrew's church, Baltimore. The rhymes are beautiful. We give the two first verses:

"Fasting from food, at early dawn
Go forth to meet your Lord,
Where hovering angels throng around
The Altar of their God.

"A reverence to that Altar made,
The Cross devoutly marked
Upon our bodies; called to be
Pure temples set apart."

....Dr. Cunningham, of St. Andrews, Edinburgh, has been lecturing on the feasibility of uniting the Established Churches of England and Scotland, by federation if not incorporation. The difficulty about Episcopacy he proposes to get overm by getting all to recognize every minister of congregation as a bishop, and to call him so; and he suggests that a beginning might be made at once by an exchange of pulpits, and by the passing of a Mutual Eligibility Act. If our bishops will taks the view of the "historic Episcopate," their propositions for unity will be very favorably considered.

....We would not put Herbert E. Clarke's remarkable elegy in memory of his friend Philip Bourke Marston, which we print on page 26, by the side of Milton's peerless "Lycidas," for that has a ring of triumph, a heartsome courage of loss, such as sorrow very seldom has had the strength to assume. Much closer does it come to tha tother admirable elegy of our own day, which, perhaps, comes next, but longo intervallo, to "Lycidas," the "Thyrsis" of Matthew Arnold, which commemorates his friend Arthur Hugh Clough. Certainly it must take a very high rank in the short list of monodies.

....We do not believe a word of the report from South Carolina that the Negroes are forming assemblies of the Knights of labor to demand a dollar a day for their work and that they "threaten murder" to accomplish their demand. They have just as much right to combine as white mechanics have. The South is not yet ready anywhere to allow that the Negroes are free to make contracts, and when they combine for living wages they are resisted by force. The whites, we are told, "have organized a cavalry company for protection"! Protection indeed. It is for intimidation.

....The present method of discrediting all laws interfering with the saaloon business on Sunday is to designate them "Blue Laws."It is an appeal to public opinion to remove all restraint on saloons. If the saloons are allowed to have their way they will become the arbiters of liberty. Our merchants, whose lines of business are some benefit to the world, do not raise the cry "Blue Laws," because they are not allowed to open their stores on Sunday. It is only those whose business is a curse who protest against restraint in one day in seven.

....Our statistics of the Moravians were taken from a table published in the Moravian. The Moravian kindly points out some errors in our count which, when corrected, relieve the Church from the charge of having lost in ministers and churches in the past four years. There has really been a gain of one church and three ministers, as our contemporary informs us. its list of ministers was not, it appears, complete. Its correction is made on the basis of the moravian "Text-Book."

....A Minnesota Presbyterian paper complains that "the Northwest is ignored again, as usual," that
"Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Dakoa, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington Territory, Alaska and Minnesota are not of sufficient account to have a place on any of the boards of the Church. We had on representative on the college board, but are now deprived of that. one elder is appointed to the Pan Presbyterian Alliance, but no minister."
Now that is not worth fretting about. Fancy Paul saying that!