e and spread the record of it, that others coming after them
may be encouraged to do likewise. In fact, the more one reflects on
the Wanamaker-Quay holocaust, the more mysterious it seems."

This election of a chief magistrate, that shook the great republic
from centre to circumference, was but a continuation of the corrupt
system that began some years since, and is known to the public as that
of "addition, division, and silence."

This condition of the polls is no menace to our government. That
period is gone. It is a loss of all. The ballot is the foundation
corner-stone of the entire political fabric. Its passage to the hands
of corrupt dealers is simply ruin. We may not realize this, but we do
realize the contempt into which it has fallen. When the new President
swings along Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol to be inaugurated,
upon the side of his carriage should be printed what history with its
cold, unbiased fingers will put to record:

"BO'T FOR TWO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS."

THE PULPIT CULT.

In the days of our Saviour the rich man of Jerusalem would, on a
Sabbath morning, bathe and anoint his body, and putting on fine linen
and wearing-apparel, move in a dignified fashion to the synagogue,
feeling that he was serving God by making God respectable in the eyes
of men.

The proneness of poor human nature to lose in the mere form that for
which the form was created to serve is the same throughout the world,
and through all the ages, evolution to the contrary notwithstanding.
As our physical being is, and has been, and will ever be about the
same, our spiritual suffers little change. When Adam and Eve, leaving
the garden of Eden, encountered the typhoid fever, that dread disease
had the same symptoms, made the same progress to death or recovery,
that puzzles the physicians to-day. That horrible but curious growth
we call cancer was the same six thousand years ago that it is in this
nineteenth century. The sicknesses of the soul are the same in all
climes and in the presence of all creeds.

Said a witty ordained infidel who preached the salvation of unbelief
many years at London, on visiting a business men's prayer meeting:
"Our merchants may not be Jews in their dealings, but they are
certainly Hebrews in their prayers."

The form has survived the substance. We have retained the customs
and phraseology, while losing the meaning. As the rich men of
Jerusalem who on the Sabbath thronged the T