as
to see a woman like her, evidently a superior person, in such a case, and
she gladly promised to be a better woman, but she had been more than once
to the thorn for grapes, and we fear will go again. There was a young
fellow brought up for drunkenness and obscenity, whose fine was paid by
his mother. She looked a decent but poor woman, and one could not but
wonder what she had parted with to raise the money, to keep what one of
the Magistrates called a blackguard, out of prison. But what will not a
mother's love do! These are a few of the cases which made us wonder that
in our town we have so many places, licensed by the same Magistrates, to
sell that which fits men and women to appear in the court to be punished.

We wonder how long it will take to make the English people see that so
long as we allow drinking shops to abound, there will be a necessity for
police and lock-ups, and that it is as easy to gather grapes of thorns as
to expect peace and quietness and facilities for drinking to exist
together?

GOD'S ANGER IS A FIRE THAT
IS AS DIFFICULT
TO STOP AS TO START.

XXXIX. NO BALLOT-BOX.

We see that certain politicians are busy trying to convince those who
have any fear upon the matter, that it is easy for them to vote in such a
way that no one can possibly find out for which side they have given in
their vote. It is positively secret voting. Very likely this is as it
should be, still it is a sad disgrace that such a thing should be at all
necessary, and does not speak well for human nature. Why should it not
be possible for men to vote openly? Because some who have done so have
had to suffer loss. Is not this a blot upon our civilization, to say
nothing of our Christianity?

But while it may be right that men should have the chance of voting
secretly in Parliamentary matters, whether they be Conservatives or
Liberals, we contend there should be no ballot-box for the election in
which men settle whether Jesus or Satan should govern the world. There
are sadly too many, who are like Joseph of Arimathaea, disciples, but
secretly for fear.

WE WANT NO SECRET VOTES.

Say right out which side you are for. If this were the case, there would
be a large number of absentees from public worship next Sabbath; whole
pews would be empty because there is not one of the usual tenants who
loves God, and yet they dare not say openly, I am for the Devil. On the
other hand, if some were to say what is