WHAT IS PROSTITUTION? Moses Hull in the Crucible, tells the following story of a woman who came to him for sympathy and advice concerning the cruelty of a brutal husband. Moses says: She had bothered us for three days with doleful stories of the treatment she was constantly receiving from her husband. He got drunk. he beat her, kicked her, never allowed her any privileges, not so much as that of asking a friend to tea, or even of going to meeting. He was a slave to his own passions and made a slave of her. After our patience was exhausted with her doleful stories we said to her: "Why do you live with such a man? I would not remain under his roof one hour." "Why," said the lady, "I live with him for a home; he supports me." We responded, "That is the lowest kind of prostitution. If you must sell yourself for bread and butter, why not sell yourself a night at a time, to the highest bidder? That would be better than a continued slavery, especially when one is enslaved by one they hate." In a moment, as we anticipated, she was in a rage. "What! demand of her, a respectable woman, to let herself out for money! Tell her that she was no better than a street-walker! it was an insult not to be tolerated." Yet such was the fact. She was nightly gratifying the lusts of the man she hated. She did it for her daily bread, and the law told her she did right. Poor fool. She believes the law, and enslaves herself and hates prostitutes. Common prostitutes have the power to say no; a power she dare not excercise. Again we say the worst of all prostitution is that covered by law. BRIEF EXTRACTS. Living much in the eye of the public has a bad effect on character. Few men cr women can do it, and come off unspoiled. Has the government a right to refuse a married woman individual protection, and leave her no redress except through her husband? One luxury is within the reach of every man who is not afraid of poverty-the luxury of speaking his own thought instead of echoing another's. Is there any right, necessity or sound policy in treating a woman as other than an individual? Clearly, no end which society demands of peace, permanency or purity is gained by such a course. The indulgence of ambition and the experience of popularity breed conceit and vanity, and an aggravation of self-concious personality, in all but the very greatest natures. The more applause we have the more we want. It is an impertinent and unwholesome curiosity which would seek to unearth and publish and discuss secrets that had better never be revealed, or to meddle with concerns of private life that have no necessary connection with public good. It is none of our business how our neighbor lives,— what he eats or drinks or wears, or thinks or says or does, -so long as he is just and kind to us; nor is it any more the business of the public how the individual lives in private, so long as all his relations and responsibilities to society are properly discharged. We have and abundance of lecturers, but very few lecturers that are worth hearing. Many lecturers and platform speakers continue to talk, and many authors continue to write, long after they have ceased to have anything worth saying, simply because they have become so infatuated with a public life that they cannot be content with a private one; they continue to live on a reputation, since they are not satisfied to live on character. A universally becoming gored dress may be worn six or seven inches from the ground with trousers for walking and working suits. If twenty women, of good figure and good taste, in this or any other large city, would agree to make and to wear short skirts and trousers, all people, men and women, would be so won by the neatness, elegance and comfort of the mode, that we should have a dress reform as thorough and speedy as the most earnest of us could wish. Thousand of young men are being educated at this moment by the various churches. What for? In order that they may be prepared to investigate the phenomena by which we are surrounded? No! The object, and the only object, is that they may be prepared to defend a creed. That they may learn the arguments of their respective churches and repeat them in the dull ears of a thoughtless congregation. If one after being thus trained at the expense of the Methodists turns Presbyterian or Baptist, he is denounced as an ungrateful wretch. Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason that if you think the church is right you will not investigate, and if you think it wrong, the church will investigate you. The consequence of this is, that most of the theological literature is the result of suppression, of fear, of tyranny, and hypocrisy.-R. G. Ingersoll. There is no saying more degrading than this: "It is better to be the tail of a lion than the head of a dog." It is a responsibility to think and act for yourself. Mosting. people hate responsibility; therefore they join something and become the tail of some lion. They say, "My party can act for me-my church can do my thinking. It is enough for me to pay taxes and obey the lion to which I belong, without troubling myself about the right, the wrong, or the why or the wherefore of anything whatever." These people are respectable. They hate reformers, and dislike exceedingly to have their mind disturbed. They regard convictions as very disagreeable things to have. They love forms, and enjoy, beyond every thing else, telling what a splendid tail their lion has, and what a troublesome dog their neighbor is.-R. G. Ingersoll. Americans have an inborn liking to "show off." We are not satisfied to do our best quitely and unpretendingly, but love to challenge attention to our deed. What a fuss is made about the maternal functions? It never seems to occur to masculine minds that most women their best work after that age. are past child-bearing at forty; and women of culture do Women from fifty to seventy stand on an equal footing with men, as to sex, and periodicity," or child-bearsuffer no disadvantages from “ Nature has unsexed them, in these respects, and during those twenty years they are as vigorous as men of that age. Every human being should take a road of his own. Every mind should be true to itself; should think, investigate, and conclude for itself. This is a duty alike incumbent upon pauper and prince. Every soul should repel dictation and tyranny, no matter from what source they come from earth or heaven, from men or gods. Besides every traveler upon this vast plain should give should be taken. Each is entitled to the honest opinion to every other traveler his best idea as to the road that of all. And there is but one way to get an honest opinion upon any subject whatever. The person giving the opinion must be free from fear. The merchant must not fear to lose his custom, the doctor his practice, nor the preacher his pulpit. There can be no advance without liberty. THE HINDOO SCEPTIC. I think till I'm weary with thinking, Said the sad-eyed Hindoo king, And I see but shadows around meIllusion in everything. How knowest thou anght of God, Of his favor or his wrath? Can the little fish tell what the lion thinks, Can the finite the Infinite search? Is the thought I think a thought Or a throb of the brain in its bars? For aught that my eye can discern, Your God is what you think good, Yourself flashed back from the glass When the light pours on it in flood. You preach to me to be just; And this is his realm, you say, And the good are dying of hunger, And the bad gorge every day, You say that he loveth mercy, And the famine is not yet gone; That he hateth the shedder of blood, And He slayeth us every one. If He were content when I was not, You say I must have a meaning; So must dung, and its meaning is flowers. What if our souls are but nurture For lives that are greater than ours? When the fish swims out of the water, When the bird soars out of the blue, Man's thought may transcend man's knowledge, And your God be no reflex to you. -[ENGLISH SPECTATOR. THE INDUSTRIAL BROTHERHOOD. We give below the objects sought to be attained by this organization, which is to become to mechanics and other working men what the Patrons of Husbandry is to farmers a means of self protection, It has our best wishes for its success. The Order is under the Presidency of Robert Schilling, of Cleveland, Ohio. The Deputy President for the State of California is William Dunn, of Sacramento. The Order is now established in thirty-two States of the Union, and is in a flourishing condition. The purposes of the organization are as follows: I. To bring within the folds of organization every department of productive industry, making knowledge a standpoint for action, and industrial, moral and social worth-not wealth-the true standard of individual and national greatness. II. To secure to the toilers a proper share of the wealth that they create; more of the leisure that properly belongs to them; more society advantages; more of the benefits, privileges, and emoluments of the world; in a word all those rights and privivileges necessary to make them capable of enjoying, appreciating, defending and perpetuating the blessings of republican insiitutions. III. To arrive at the true condition of the producing masses in their educational, moral and financial condition, we demand from the several States, and from the national government the establishment of bureaus of labor statistics. IV. The establishment of co-operative institutions, productive and distributive. V. The reserving of public lands, the heritage of the people, for the actual settler-not another acre for railroads or speculators. VI. The abrogation of all laws that do not bear equally upon capital and labor, the removal of unjust technicalities, delays and discriminations in the administration of justice, and the adoption of measures providing for the health and safety of those engaged in mining, manufacturing and building pursuits. VII. The enactment of a law to compel chartered corporations to pay their employes at least once in every month, in full, for labor performed during the preceding month, in the lawful money of the country. VIII. The enactment of a law giving mechanics and other laborers a first lien on their work. IX. The abolishment of the contract system on national, state and municipal work. X. To inaugurate a system of public markets, to faciliate the exchange of the productions of farmers and mechanics, tending to do away with middlemen and speculators. XI. To inaugurate systems of cheap transportation to faciliate the exchange of commodities. XII. The substitution of arbitration for strikes, whenever and wherever employ. ers are willing to meet on equitable grounds. XIII. The prohibition of the importation of all servile races, the discontinuance of all subsides granted to national vessels bringing them to our shores, and the abrogation of the Burlingame treaty. XIV. To advance the standard of American mechanics by the enactment and enforcement of equitable apprentice laws. XV. To abolish the system of contracting the labor of convicts in our prisons and reformatory institutions. XVI. To secure for both sexes equal pay for equal work. XVII. The reduction of the hours of labor to eight per day, so that laborers may have more time for social enjoyment and intellectual improvement, and be enabled to reap the advantages conferred by labor-saving machinery, which their brains Dr, E. E. Dodge has removed to 123 Ellis street. DR. BANCROFT's treatment for Dyspepsia and General Debility has benefitted me more than all the medicine I have used for many years. C. A. BRONSON, 519 Sycamore street, Milwaukee. Dr. Bancroft's office is 204 Montgomery street, San Francisco. For the very best Photographs go to Bradley & Rulofson's Gallery, with an elevator, 429 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. Those suffering from that most annoying of the minor miseries of human life-s cold in the head-or from catarrh in any form, should try Dr. Evory's Diamond Catarrh Remedy. Just try it-that's all. Sold at this office, and by all druggists. Send Austin Kent one dollar for his pamphlets on Free Love and Marriage, etc. He has been seventeen years physically helpless, confined to his bed and chair, is poor and needs the money. He sends four or five well-written essays for one dollar. His address is AUSTIN KENT. Stockholm, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Box 44. Farmers, do you know that the Babcock Fire Extinguisher is a sure exterminator of gophers, squirrels, etc., and that it will effectually kill insects on fruit trees, with little trouble and scarcely any expense. One charge of the machine will exterminate all the squirrels in a hundred-acre field. A new machine can be purchas-d at this office at a reduced price, in perfect order, and with six charges. Address COMMON SENSE," 236 Montgomery street. COMMON SENSE PUBLICATION OFFICE, NO. 236 MONTGOMERY STREET. COMMON SENSE can be purchased at the following places in this city: Patton's, 773 Market; Snow's, 319 Kearny; Sharp's, 236 Montgomery, and at this office, 236 Montgomery street, up stairs. Price of single copies, ten cents. OL. 1. A Journal of Live Ideas. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1874. Signs of the Times. To abuse Tilton is not a good way to defend Beecher. An early eruption of Mount Etna is predicted by scientists who have watched the indications for years. The Scotch people have shown symptoms of degeneration in cases where they have abandoned the old fashioned oat-meal for butchers' meat and tea. A potatoe dealer in London has written a book of poems almost equal to the literary curiosity published by Bancroft last year, Songs of the Sandhills. Jas. Freeman Clarke says the old Syrian shepherd used to go before, and call his sheep after him, but the modern teacher of religion follows his sheep with a whip. The Kingdom of Heaven, a monthly journal printed in Boston, was, it is claimed, established by the angels to prove that Spiritualism has prepared the way for the second coming of Christ. No. 20. The best enamelled cloth in the world is now made in the United States. It possesses in a remarkable degree the appearance of real leather. Justice Field, of the U. S. Supreme Court, has decided that Chinese women (complained of as prostitutes) cannot be forced to return to China against their will. M. Godin's establishment at Guise accommodates nine hundred workmen and their families, cost $400,000, and pays six per cent. interest on the money invested. A Methodist Conference has been held in Rome. Twenty preachers were present, representing as many centres of religious labor, and reporting 1,007 communicants. The N. Y. Herald and the Post are discussing the question Spiritualism is making very rapid progress in England. The latest phase of manifestation is the painting of pictures, in colors, the white paper being placed in a drawer without brush or paint. The North American Turner Bund, which includes all whether women are most in danger from the wickedness of the Turners in the country, have resolved to take an active part in politics. Their platform repudiates both of the old political parties. Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic canidate for Governor of New York, is a distinguished lawyer and an old Tammany Hall politician. He is very wealthy. Governor Dix will probably be his opponent. The Secretary of the Treasury has instructed the Director of the Mint to take the necessary steps in his department to procure statistical information regarding the product of the country in gold, silver and quicksilver. Queen Victoria has concluded to pay the Prince of Wales' debts, amounting to 600,000lbs. Her son claims that these debts were incurred by his taking upon himself the court receptions during the Queen's retirement. Bishop Merrill and wife of the M. E. Church, a late importation in California, the Evening Post says, treated Mrs. Van Cott discourteously, refusing to take her by the hand. Mrs. Merrill "turned up her nose" at the female Wesley. Walter Ness, who went from England to superintend the working of collieries in Central India, says there are millions of tons of magnetic iron ore on the surface, in the Warorar District, yielding over 70 per cent. of metallic iron. He has also found coal in quantity there. ministers, or ministers from the wickedness of women. Miss Isadore Pratt, of Massachusetts, has succeeded in gaining admittance to the Royal Art Academy, at Berlin, but, being "only a woman," her name does not appear on the roll of students. Silicium, which was once regarded as an impurity in cast iron, has taken rank at last as an indispensable element in that metal when destined for conversion into steel by the Bessemer process. Thomas K. Beecher, in a letter to the Christian Union, says of his brother, Henry Ward: "Of his personal truth, purity, honor and piety I have never had for a moment a doubt that was based upon trustworthy information." Henry S. Olcott, one of the editors of the New York Sun, visited the Eddy family in Chittenden, Vt., and wrote four columns descriptive of the spirit materializations he saw there. He was fully convinced of the genuineness of the manifestations. A reporter of the New York Herald, in a recent interview with Foster, the medium, was told by an intelligence purporting to be the spirit of Shakespeare, that most of the world renowned plays were written by Lord Bacon. It is a well known fact that when a liar goes to a medium, he generally recieves lies in reply, therefore the value of this communication depends much upon the character of the interviewer. [For Common Sense.] THE USE OF SPIRITUALISM. God is to be an object of awe and reverence, surely comfort and freedom will not be enhanced by living continuimagined possible. The Corn Hill Magazine, in Thackeray's time, favored ally in his actual personal presence, if such a thing can be Spiritualism; for Thackeray was a Spiritualist. But it was not found to pay, and when he died the Corn Hill became strongly anti-spiritual. A sapient writer in its columns, lately commenting upon Prof. Wallace's able articles in the Fortnightly, says, in words which several California papers have thought worth reprinting, and which the editor Overland Monthly once more re-echoes, that on Wallace's own showing it is not worth while to examine into the claims of Spiritualism, because such examination must either end in the exposure of a delusion, or else in the loss to us of all that the world has hitherto hoped for in the future state. By which the writer can mean nothing other than the orthodox heaven or hell, although he goes on to explain that it will be a great disappointment to him and millions of his fellows to learn that they cannot hope to see or to live in the presence of God and Christ, and that they will not necessarily be any less foolish and frivolous when they awake on the further shore than they are This is not true: let the writer speak for himself. The world at large, nay even the Christian world, does not feel with him in this matter. here now. Scientists-beginning first in Germany-have been now for so many years engaged in destroying the foundations of all belief in the spiritual, in uprooting all trust in revelation, that Christians themselves have no longer any firm hold of their professed beliefs, whilst a very large proportion of the masses all over the Christian world, both in Catholic and Prodestant countries, seems to have gravitated into utter Materialism or undisguised and unthinking Heathenism. Francis W. Newman, under the heading "Prospects of Christianity," in his beautiful book "The Soul," published in 1860, thus speaks: "As for England and Scotland it is notorious that a horrid Heathenism has taken firm root in our town population also, and that millions have cast off all reverence for any claims of authoritative religion." This is far more true in 1874 than it was in 1860, and America may be included in the statement. What men need above all things to be now persuaded of, what millions long and yearn to be assured of, is the simple fact that they will live after death. If the writers are ignorant of this fact, they know little of the present and past history of the human mind, and are quite unfitted to write upon the subject. The objection raised and re-echoed by these writers to an enquiry into the claims of Spiritualism, is most frivolous and absurd. Even if Spiritualism be a delusion, if it be the symptoms of some unheard of and fearful mania which is spreading at such a terrible rate over the whole civilized earth, attacking chiefly our most intelligent and our most sensitive, it is surely worthy of examination as portentous of a general epidemic of insanity. But if its commonest and simplest facts are true, it is worth while to know, even through the veriest twaddle, that our friends assuredly live again. Millions of our fellow creatures would regard the evenings of whole years well spent in interviewing twaddling spirits, just to be assured of that one fact. It is just as unreasonable to suppose that a man by merely passing through the insensibility of death, should be cleansed of all his folly and impurity as that he should wake up a new man after a night's repose. Neither can I understand the nature of a man who holds it a loss that the righteous dead do not live with God and Christ. Many more perfect and more amiable characters than Christ have lived, and do live amongst us now. And if That mediums and spirits tell us nothing consistent and reliable is not true. All spirits of all shades of creed who have been in a position to know, communicating through mediums of all varieties of religious opinion, have, without any exception always agreed in describing the future state-as far as they have gone-in precisely the same terms as the Buddhists described it hundreds of years before Christ, and since these descriptions have almost all been made independently, this is itself strong presumptive evidence of their truthfulness. As far as they go they agree with the Buddhists, but none of them profess to have any personal knowledge of any sphere or heaven above the seventh, yet they all say that they are aware such do exist. The Buddhist teachers enumerate two more sets of heavens above the first series of six, one of sixteen and another set of four, above which is Nirwana. Now the Christian seer, Swedenborg, in two of his visions, states that he met with Buddhist spirits in the other world, and found them in a heaven far more exalted than any of those reached by the Christians. Moreover it is natural that it should be more easy for spirits in the lower spheres to communicate with denizens of this world than for those more exalted, further removed, and in a more etherial condition. I should expect to find that only the spirits in the lowest spheres can produce any physical manifestations, and I believe this to be invariably the fact. Hence the preponderance of twaddle, lies, foolery and nonsense at most seances. When such crowds of fools, liars and rogues leave our great cities daily for the other side, is it wonderful if many are found there when we go in search of them? Truly I think the wonder would be if it were not so. The editors and writers referred to as endorsing the opinions of the foolish writer in the Corn Hill, will not even meet with the sympathy of their readers, although they have, no doubt, been partly influenced by a contrary hope. The following passages cut from the pages of an excellent and popular novel by Rhoda Broughton, are far more in accord with the general feeling of both the Christian and Heathen world of to-day in all civilized countries, and everyone who reads them will feel that I speak truth. The heroine is bending over the death bed of her favorite sister, and says: "As the man lives so shall he die." As Barbara has lived so does she diemeekly-unselfishly-with a great patience, and absolute peace. Oh wise men! oh philosophers! who would take from us-who have all but taken from us--our blessed land, the land over whose borders our Barbara at that smile seems setting her feet-you may be right-I for one know not! I am weary of your pros and cons! But when you take it away, for God's sake give us something better instead. Who, while they kneel, with the faint hand of their life's life in theirs, can be satisfied with the PROBABILITY of meeting again? God, God, give us certainty. Nay, freinds, our Barbara is not at all afraid. But which of us, I pray you, could go with such valiant cheer to meet the one prime terror of the nations, as she is doing? Our Barbara is asleep! to awake-when? where? we know not, only we altogether hope that when next she opens her blue eyes it will be in the sunshine of God's august smile-God, through life and death, her friend.” Again, Christianity teaches that a belief in creeds, and a simple acceptance of propositions, wipes out all past crime and its consequences-which is clearly false-substitutes a whipping-boy to bear the punishment of the believer's transgressions, and ensures for him an eternal futurity of infinite happiness, intelligence and virtue, without any reference to his present qualifications for such a state of perfection. I do not know that whipping-boys have ever been found to be necessarily promotive of virtue in those for whose benefit they have been provided; certainly they have not in this case. Spiritualism and Buddhism teach that from the natural consequences of ignorance, crime and folly there is no escape; that every transgression of antural law necessarily brings its appropriate punishment, and that there is no royal road to happiness but by the assiduous cultivation of virtue, whether in this state or the state to come. Since Christianity has clearly been so great a failure, perhaps it may be worth while to try upon the world the effect of a diametrically opposite system of teaching. Yours faithfully, MEDICUS. [For Common Sense.] ABOUT THE TRINITY The multitude cannot be aware of the freedom of conversation between educated and thinking men in their confidential moments, on religious subjects. The dogmas of the day are ridiculed by those who outwardly give in an adhesion to popular theology, while in their hearts, and private conferences they are regarded as absolute nonsense. Many a popular belief is thoroughly absurd when reason is brought to bear upon it. Perhaps no doctrine is more prominent in the religious world than that of the Trinity. Let us see what sort of a test it will bear. It is asserted that the Godhead consists of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost-three in one-and that the three rule the Universe. The son is the Savior, and, according to some, equal to the Father; sent to suffer and be sacrificed for the salvation of men &c. Why such a sacrifice should be made, of the best man of all, is not clear to any rational mind, and when we come to think upon the subject we find insuperable objections to the truth of the dogma of the Trinity. Thus, most educated and thoughtful men can come to no other conclusion than that the myriads of orbs that nightly are seen in the heavens are inhabited by intelligent beings like those of earth. The telescope tells us that some of the planets are strikingly like the earth in climate, and the revelations of Spectrum Analysis have rendered it probable that all the spheres are composed of like materials. If this earth needed a Savior, can any one assume reasonably that the inhabitants of another globe ought not to need one as well? And if one is granted to us, is it not consistent to suppose a like boon has been given to them? Further, if one is given to them, the Trinity becomes no longer a Trinity, but the Godhead is enlarged to infinity as the orbs of the heavens are infinite in number. We will suppose that the wise men on some great central orb were possessed of full knowledge of our theology, and suppose in their lectures to crowded houses they should point to our little planet, a mere speck dimly seen away off in space, and tell the assembled multitudes "the people on that insignificant star are so foolish or self important as to believe that they have produced a being who is one third of the Godhead that makes the destinies of all these millions of worlds, most of which are thousand of years older as well as a thousand times larger." Does it require a great effort of the imagination to hear the guffaw such an announcement would produce? This doctrine of the Trinity arose among a people that believed in the geocentric idea that the earth was the centre of the universe, and the largest and most important member of.it-and the doctrine ought to have gone by the board when the heliocentric truths of Galilleo were promulgated. The dogma of the Trinity, and that of the earth having every other world dancing around and making obeisance to it, originated in the same era. One is as devoid of reason as the other, and both should be allowed to go together with the trumpery of the past. They are so consigned by all untrammeled thinkers. TRUANT. PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS. The A letter from a reliable gentleman in Santa Cruz gives an account of a seance held there last week by Dr. Crawford, of 704 Howard street, San Francisco. Dr. Crawford, who has recently been used by the spirits as a medium for the ring test and other physical manifestations, accepted an invitation to visit Santa Cruz, and give a seance. meeting being open to the public, was attended by a number of boisterous young men, whose noise, commenced at the very opening of the seance, must seriously interfere with the manifestations; consequently the money paid was returned at the door, and the meeting dismissed. On the next evening perfect quiet prevailed, and the manifestations were entirely satisfactory, even to the skeptics, who admitted that the medium could not himself have performed what was done. He was securely fastened, and in this condition, the ropes remaining intact, the rings were placed on his limbs and around his body, inside the ropes. His coat was also taken off while his hands were tied. The coat was thrown on the feet of a lady who had mentally asked the spirits to manifest their powers in some way to her. When the coat was removed one of the committee was stooping behind the chair, and had hold of it, and says Dr. C. did not raise up or stir in his seat. Our correspondent continues as follows: After this Dr. C., standing near a table, upon which there was a small silver bell, a gentleman placed one hand upon Dr. C's. head, and the other upon his left shoulder, and Dr. C. clasped both of his hands around the gentleWhile standing thus, in the dark, the bell man's arm. first tinckled a moment over the table, and was then The man says that he knows placed in Dr. C's. mouth. the Doctor did not stir, and could not have placed the bell in his own mouth, and the whole committee agreed that he was so tied that he could not get his hands out of the rope and replace them. The whole exhibition was eminently satisfactory, and we know that no human aid was given. Now if Dr. C. was not aided by spirits, as he claims, will some one inform us how the thing was done? Dr. Crawford has returned to the city, and may be found at his room, 704 Howard. ORDER OF EULIS.-A few weeks since it was stated in this paper that Dr. P. B. Randolph had authorized the organization in this city of a branch of this secret Order, of which he is the founder. We have since been informed by a letter from the Doctor, which has been mislaid, that the Order is not new, it being a branch of the Roscicrucians, a very ancient organization. He further says that it is contrary to the policy of the Order to make any public announcement concerning it; nevertheless, having made one statement which was in some respects incorrect, we venture to try again, try being one of the mottoes of the Order. Rev. James Lynne was struck by lightning and killed, while standing on the bank of Skunk river, Iowa, reproving wicked boys for bathing on the holy Sabbath day. The Sunday school teacher explained the matter by saying God so loved the holy man that he took him up to heaven in a flash of fire. |