A FACT. The only men of any note who have openly advocated the principles of what is unfortunately misscalled "Free Love," in modern times, are Percy Bysche Shelley, John Stuart Mill, and perhaps the poet Goethe: than whom it would be difficult to find in the annals of history or literature any three men of more exalted intellect, more refined benevolence, of purer minds, or of more perfect lives. Nor are there any three who in their several departments have left deeper marks upon the thought of their age. Men are just now beginning to find out what inspired poets Shelley and Goethe were, how infinitely superior to all others, as poets, in any age; and John Stuart Mill will be a far greater name a century hence than it is now. In his introduction to the "Revolt of Islam"-one of the greatest poems ever written-Shelley says to Mary he dedicated it: Alas that love should be a blight and snare To those who seek all sympathies in one! In thy young wisdom, when the mortal chain To meet thee from the woes which had begirt it long. No more alone through the world's wilderness, Although I trod the paths of high intent, I journeyed now; no more companionless, Where solitude is like despair, I went. There is the wisdom of a stern content When Poverty can blight the just and good, When infamy dares mock the innocent, And cherished friends turn with the multitude To trample; this was ours, and we unshaken stood! SAN FRANCISCO-A PREDICTION. Queen city of the western world! BY H. WINCHESTER. Proud Empress of the Sea! Thy matchless growth has ever been Triumphant as the free; Thy destiny in years to come Will onward ever be. The mighty cities of the past, Old Thebes, and Tyre, and Rome, And Troy too, with her hundred gates, Have vanished like the foam Of waves upon thy seagirt strandFair Freedom's land and home. 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SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1874. Signs of the Times. The Pullman palace cars have been introduced into England. A report is soon to be made on the resurvey of routes for a ship canal across the isthmus from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Grace Greenwood says she has repeatedly received aid from George W. Childs for charitable undertakings, and that he always thanked her for the opportunity she afforded him of doing good. Garters are going out of fashion, because it has been ascertained that tight garters below the knee interrupt the circulation, cause varicose veins, and sometimes bring on ulcerous sores. Two young women have been arrested in Chicago for swindling. They collected from benevolent persons large sums of money on the pretense that it was to be used for the support of an orphan asylum. Four thousand five hundred characters of the Egyptian hieroglyphics are now intelligible to scholars, and they reveal the evidences of a theological system, based upon a profound philosophical apprehension of the forces of Nature. All have heard of the man who was too poor to marry, but we know of a couple who, after a short engagement, thought themselves too poor to wait longer, when by marrying they could save the expense of maintaining separate establishments. Another cavern containing bones of pre-historic man has recently been discovered in Dalmatia; also one in Switzerland. The latter has furnished the best specimens of carvings of pre-historic animals yet brought to light. No. 7. The 137th asteroid was discovered recently by an astronomer at Berlin. Two Scotch missionaries are trying to evangelize Chicago. They have a hard task. The intention is to have the Paine Hall Building, Boston, completed by next January. It will be a handsome and commodious edifice. The project of making a type metal statue of Horace Greeley, by aid of contributions, has been revived. The amount as yet contributed is about one-half the quantity required. The Sunday Herald says all the denominations are becoming liberalized and out-growing their creeds, which are taken for what they are worth, and not as inexorable guides of belief. It is now settled that Egypt had her written language long before the pyramids were built, together with the main features of her religion, and a well developed political organization. Any geography in use ten years ago would be very poor authority to-day. The changes, not only in the United States, but in Europe, are actually startling in magnitude. Just compare a new map with an old one. The woman suffragists of Michigan ask pecuniary aid to assist in canvassing that State. More than one-half of the newspapers favor the ballot for women, and it is believed the proposition will be approved by the people at the polls. Mrs. Dr. Lozier, of Lansing, is President of the State organization. Father Terry, a Catholic priest in Chicago, recently lectured on Genesis, taking the ground that Moses did not write all of the books, and that none of them are to be considered as historical, but merely as poetry, the crude notions of a fanciful age. He ridiculed the story of the creation, the deluge, etc., and favored the development theory. In consequence he has been deposed by the Archbishop, and assigned to curate's duty in Ottawa. During the present century steam locomotion by car and vessel has been introduced; also communication by telegraph; the establishment of cheap newspapers and a cheap postal system; the running of expresses; the introduction of sewing machines, reaping and threshing machines, photographs, steel pens, matches, and a thousand other articles of daily convenience. Advance steps have followed each other in rapid succession. Great changes have taken place in the religious and social opinions of the people; spirit communication has become an established fact, and the way has been opened for a revolution which is bound to come, peacefully or otherwise, which will be the basis of a great moral reformation. CHRISTIANITY AND INTEMPERANCE. BY DON FULANO. There is just now a great excitement all over this State in consequence of the Local Option Law; and for the most part the very people most interested in favor of prohibition are the pious women and the clergy. They would shut up all our saloons and have us all become teetotalers. It is questionable whether in the present state of the world it would be a good thing for them to have their will; although I quite agree with them that, as far as we can see, the world would be a great deal happier and less criminal if no drop of malt liquor was ever allowed to ferment, if no alcohol was ever distilled. But as a man of common sense I cannot understand their consistency, as Christian men and women. Christ drank wine freely on all occasions, for the Jews called him a "wine bibber." The very first miracle he ever wrought was that at the marriage feast of Cana in Galilee, where he turned all the water that was at hand into wine. You good people who are now so excited about the anti-liquor movement; you who would shut up every saloon in the land and burn every distillery; you believe that Christ was God himself, or at the very least his inspired prophet. You will therefore give him credit for foreseeing the future and for knowing what he was about in all he did. As an inspired prophet and the founder of a great religion, which, as he said, was ultimately to subdue to itself all the nations of the earth, he must have been aware that every act and expressed thought of his would influence throughout all their lives-nay, through all eternity-millions of his future subjects. At the last supper, Christ solemnly enjoins upon all his disciples to take wine as "often as they meet together in remembrance of him," and they were "all to drink of it." So well did the early Christians carry out this injunction that we find St. Paul chiding the Corinthians for leaving the Lord's supper intoxicated, and doubtless many relapsed drunkards of our day were led to break their pledge by the taste of the sacramental wine. God, for good reasons no doubt, has allowed various creeds to rule the hearts and souls of men; they have differed according to clime, race and age. There are, however, now in existence only these, which have ever held any very widespread sway over the habits and thoughts of mankind the Hindoo, the Buddhistic, the Mahomedan, and the Christian. Now in whatever other ways these may differ from one another, the three first all agree with one another and differ from the Christian in the one point, that whereas the Christian religion encourages and enjoins upon its followers to take wine freely; the other three, each of which numbers more real followers than it, all most strictly forbid their votaries to touch fermented or intoxicating drinks under any circumstances whatever, nor can they be prevailed upon to do so till their faith in their own creed has been undermined by Christian influences; and the great superiority of Christian races to all others in the arts of civilization, even when no religious change is produced, is frequently sufficient to lead the simple Hindoo, or Mussleman, or Buddhist, to adopt Christian vices which seem pleasant. The Scotch coffee planters of Ceylon, like Scotchmen everywhere, are terrible fellows for whisky. Each of them employs four or five hundred coolies. The missionaries and the colporteurs labor hard amongst these coolies, who, entirely removed from heathen influences and thinking to please, are often apparently converted. When they have stood high enough in favor to do so, send to the bungalow, been baptized, I have often known those of them who saying: "Will master give me a bottle of brandy and some beer? I Christian now; must drink same as master." And I am quite certain from my own observations-I had 20,000 of them under my medical charge for ten yearsthat they look upon the imbibition of alcohol, if not upon intoxication itself, as one of our solemn sacred rites. Why not? They see our clergy, i. e. our priests, solemnly handing round the cup of wine in our temples, and they see their Christian masters finish every convivial meeting singing "Auld Lang Syne" in anything but steady, harmonious voices, with one foot upon the table and the other no where in particular. These natives, and it is the same all over India, both in the Buddhistic and Hindoo portions of it, become incorrigible drunkards as soon as the missionaries and the influences around them have destroyed their reverence for their old religion. As to what is nearer home I need not speak to you or your readers. You all know, who know anything of the present state of Heathendom and Christendom, that all heathen countries were once absolutely sober; that all heathens were once, what you now want us to become, "Good Templars.' You all know as well as I do that drunkenness is now the rampant sin, the great grandmother of all vice, and violence, and wrong, all over the Christian world. You all know that wherever missionaries carry the religion of Christ-to India, to China, to the islands of the fair Pacific-there somehow or other they carry drunkenness too. You all know that as soon as a heathen continent or a savage island becomes christianized and civilized, as you call it, it just as soon becomes a drunken continent and a drunken island, and indeed in that exact proportion. There is one other curious fact connected with this matter; it is this: Protestant countries are more drunken than Catholic lands, Protestant proselytes than Catholic proselytes, and Puritan communities than Episcopal ditto. Is this because Catholics do not take the sacramental wine, or is it because most Catholic countries are wine growing I never saw so much drunkenness in my life as in the countries, where little spirit is distilled? I cannot tell. Australian colonies, and I never was in any land where folk are so parson-ridden, so orthodox, or so intolerant of advanced opinions. Why just after I left Melbourne, not five years ago, a man was imprisoned for blasphemy Moses! I ask you, is there no connection between that who lectured against the authenticity of the books of cause and this effect, and if there be, what are you going to do about? What's the good of asking us to sign the pledge of total abstinence on your sacramental tables, with your sacramental alcohol in its tasteful tankard, witnessing and solemnizing our sacred bond; the marriage feast of Cana of Galilee, the waterpots of wine before our mind's eyes, and the last words of our Savior, "Drink ye all of it," ringing in our mind's ears? This is probably how the missionaries have tried to teetotalize the Sandwich Islanders, and now instead of the 500,000 Good Templars that Captain Cook found in that earthly paradise, there are about 50,000 liars and drunkards ! ladies and the clergy who are for prohibition would do I am of the opinion, Mr. Editor, that the Christian well to reconsider things a little by the light of the above facts before they go to extremes. |