Good Qualities to Have. FACTS CONCERNING A MAN WHO SUCCEEDED IN BUSINESS. He was industrious in youth. He entered business life when at the age of seventeen. He had no place in his thoughts for dishonorable deeds. He endeared himself to his father. He did his duty, no matter what men said. He had composure under trying indignities. He spent his nights in thought and his days in labor. He had undue advantages taken of him. He was willing to begin in a menial position. He could stand the closest kind of scrutiny. He soon discovered to others that he had a high character. He strove to please, and was consequently trusted. He grew into a place of commanding responsibility. He was good-natured and evenly balanced. He placed a high premium upon his honor. He knew what it was to have reverses. man. He was executive in his very make-up. He had a prime characteristic that of faithfulness. He aimed to enlarge the affairs under his charge. He sympathized with men in their business difficulties. He knew how to unravel business tangles. He thought of himself last when helping others. "We are glad to note, by reverential articles in the New York Herald and the San Francisco Examiner, that St. Peregrinus has passed the United States Custom House, and is now installed in St. Anselm's Church, at One Hundred and Fifty Third avenue, New York City. When the saint was hoisted ashore in his sealed and padlocked box, a United States customs inspector was about to open him up to see whether he was dutiable or not. But Father Gerard Spielman explained to the inspector of customs that 'the canon rule of the Roman Catholic Church required that the seals of a sacred relic should be broken only in the presence of the highest ecclesiastical authority, whose duty it is to pronounce upon their genuineness.' The inspector thereupon let St. Peregrinus pass. We do not quite see why. The customs inspectors on the New York docks are not governed by the 'canon rules of the Roman Catholic Church,' but by the regulations of the United States Treasury Department. These are so strict that the ordinary man cannot even get a hatbox through without opening it. Why, therefore, was St. Peregrinus permitted to pass? This strikes us as an invidious distinction. Evidently the Roman Church has a pull with the Custom House. "It is not so much permitting St. Pere He found men ungrateful for help given grinus to pass free that we object to as it is them. He was needed finally for a place no one else could fill. He was not afraid to pass examinations on required capabilities. He outlined a far-reaching business policy. He impressed men that he possessed rare merit. . He became secretary of finance in one of the renowned nations. permitting him to pass unopened. It is not probable that St. Peregrinus could be considered dutiable. Neither in the McKinley nor in the Wilson tariff is there any mention made of dessicated saints. But in the name of those American citizens and citizenesses who are forced, when landing from European steamers, to open trunks and boxes, to delve into their deepest recesses, and to drag into the garish light all sorts of He enjoyed great public favor and prefer- feminine wearing apparel, some of it of a ment for eighty years. most intimate nature, we protest against such discrimination. Let all dried foreign saints, and all parcels, portions, or integumenta of dried foreign saints, be subject to as severe inspection as are the impedimenta of living American sinners. "We are told that St. Peregrinus has the rare distinction of being the first of his brand to enter the United States whole. Most dessicated saints are shipped here in sections, the other portions being used to work miracles in other cities and other lands. As the respectful Examiner says: "This is the first genuine entire body of a saint ever brought to this country, although, of course, there are already plenty of relics here in the shape of fragments of saints and certain of their belongings.' The wrist-bone of St. Anne, 'the grandmother of God,' will recur most readily to the minds of our readers in this connection. When parts of this lady were shipped to this continent, the Argonaut mentioned the fact at length. There is a thumb-bone of St. Anne's, if we are not mistaken, at the Church of the Redemptorists in New York, where it is engaged in curing people of all sorts of minor maladies, but the larger and more effective fragment of St. Anne is the wrist bone, which is now working in a Quebec church, where it cures even fatal disorders with the utmost certainty and dispatch. "What possibilities in Peregrinus! He is the only entire dessicated saint ever brought to this country. It is true his healing quali ties have not yet been passed upon. Archbishop Corrigan, however (as we are informed by the respectful New York Herald), 'has examined all the documents, authenticated the relic, and approved of its being exposed to public veneration in the church itself. This, then, is the preliminary step. St. Peregrinus is to be placed in a shrine în the Church of St. Anselm. When there, it remains to be seen what he can do. We have already given the fairy-like history of St. Peregrinus, his martyrdom, his burial in the catacombs, his subsequent wanderings around Southern Europe as a nomadic saint, and his final enshrining in Bavaria, where he slowly dessicated and grew in the odor of sanctity. If he is any kind of a saint at all he ought to be able to do more than the fragmentary saints already shipped to these shores. If with the thumb-bone of St. Anne the priests can cure functional disorders, what can they not do with all of St. Pere grinus? Why, even although dessicated, he must weigh over one hundred pounds. We shall look with much interest for accounts of the miracles to be performed by Peregrinus when he gets to work."—Argonaut. THE FUTURE OF MORMONISM. The statehood convention which is in session at Salt Lake City to frame a constitution for Utah, contains a large majority of Mormons. The announcement of this fact seems to have created some disquietude among those who have always been accustomed to regard the Mormons with dread and aversion. But since polygamy has been eliminated from the Mormon theory and practice, there remains nothing that a land of religious freedom like ours can properly interfere with. There is no sound reason for apprehending a union of church and state in Utah, and very little reason for supposing that the Mormons can much longer maintain their effective majority of the total population. The growth of the so-called "Gentile " element has been formidable in recent years, and it will doubtless be yet more rapid in the future; while, on the other hand, there is no ground for the opinion that Mormonism will be the one creed of the descendants of Mormon pioneers. Under State institutions, Utah will tend to become assimilated with the general life of the country. It will lose its peculiar Mormon characteristics, and the Church of the Latter Day Saints will itself tend to become more like other churches in creed, in forms, and in methods. Mormonism was a strange phase of Western life which in its very nature was destined to be transient. With the admission of Utah as a State, the transition from peculiar to normal conditions will be much accelerated. For a long time Utah was a singular anomaly. It was absolutely ruled by the leaders of the Mormon Church, under circumstances which were wholly out of accord with the constitution and laws of the United States. That period has happily passed away forever-From "The Progress of the World,” Review of Reviews. 8 Merrill, Wis., 5 Sunnyside and Mt. Idaho, Idaho, 16 15 6 Aug. Kludt, W. M. Hays, C. W. Burnett, F. A. Muller, F. R. Euslin, T. M. Coffey, N. C. Mallory. Central City, W. Va., Tahlequah, Ind. Ter., Aberdeen, So. Dak., Home Mission Appointments. "How shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach, except they be sent."-ROM. 10: 14-15. IN JULY. The following appointments were made: Rev. Jesse M. Green, Petaluma, Calif. Victor Sandell, Wilmington, Del. 46 Anton Nelson, Morris, Ill. Nis Tychsen, Oakland, Calif. 44 H. P. Anderson, Dell Rapids, So. Dak. H. E. Norton, Dell Rapids, So. Dak. D. L. Parker, Oneida, So. Dak. Amos Robinson, Elkins, W. Va. The following teachers were appointed: Spellman Seminary, Atlanta, Ga.-Miss K. McLeod, Miss 1. J. Rodgers, Miss F. E. Putnam. Benedict College, Columbia, S. C.-Rev. P. B. Guernsey, L. C. H. Biggs, Mrs. M. A. Guernsey, Miss M. V. Ashton. Wayland Seminary. Washington, D. C.-Miss E. M. Wagg. Chinese School, Oakland, Calif.-Mrs. L. P. Baker. Chinese School, Spokane, Wash.-Miss. F. I. Allen. The following in June and July: Mrs. J. G. V. de Estrada, City of Mexico, Mex. Rev. W. H. Sloan, City of Mexico, Mex. Fernando Uriegas, City of Mexico, Mex. Yankton and Scotland, So. Dak., 33333 66 John H. Milburn, South McAlester, Ind. Ter. Alfred Folsom, McAlester, Ind. Ter. W. H. Shank, Claremore, Ind. Ter. A. Mudge, Roswell, N. M. Miss Helen F. Clark, New York City, N. Y. 64 W. L. Archibald, Minto. No. Dak. Chas. H. Brooks, Page, No. Dak. H. H. Hewitt, Ellendale, No. Dak. J. B. Sundt, Fargo, No. Dak. F. R. Euslin, Cooperstown, No. Dak. C. C. Williams, Tower City, No. Dak. Cyrus Sullivan, Cavalier, No. Dak. Peter Mitchell, Crystal, No. Dak. E. C. Myers, Wahpeton, No. Dak. L. J. Dyke, Lawrence, Kan. L. H. Holt, Guthrie, Okla. Ter. W. R. Chandler, Tecumseh, Okla. Ter. C. W. Morrison, Yukon, Okla. Ter. T. A. Whitaker, Newkirk, Okla. Ter. Job Ingram, Kingfisher, Okla Ter. G. W. Hicks, Oak Dale, Okla. Ter. P. H. Romine, Sac and Fox Agency, Okla. Ter. Robert Hamilton, Kingfisher, Okla. Ter. D. N. Crane, Anadarko, Okla. Ter. E. C. Deyo, Fort Sill, Okla. Ter. C. A. Wooddy, Portland, Ore. 66 E. R. Roberts, Florence, S. C. BOOK NOTICES. We desire to call the especial attention of our readers to a brief history of the Richmond Theological Seminary, with reminiscences of thirty years. work among the colored people of the South, by the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Corey. It is a striking pen picture of one of the most deeply interesting phases of American history. No one can read it without being profoundly impressed with the manifest presence of God in the overthrow of American slavery and the elevation to American citizenship of a race of bondsmen. It is not often in the world's history that "a nation is born in a day." Dr. Corey and his noble co-workers in the discouraging and herculean task of establishing Christian schools for the education of the Negroes emerging from a bondage that enslaved both soul and body, and of thus helping to prepare them for the marvelous career of physical, intellectual and religious liberty into which they were so strangely, so suddenly, and so Providentially ushered, are to be heartily congratulated on the triumphant success of their sagacious, patriotic, self-sacrificing Christian labor. We are very glad that Dr. Corey has written the book, and we wish his example might be followed by other workers in this great field. Material for such valuable historical records now available, may soon be lost forever; and it should be put into per manent form before it is too late. ELEMENTS OF CHRISTIAN CHARACTER. By A. J. Gordon, D.D. Pamphlet. 12mo, 31 pp. Price, 10 cents. Philadelphia: American Baptist Pub. lication Society, 1420 Chestnut Street. HOW CHRIST CAME TO CHURCH. 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