Piety And Politics

No ons who has visited the south can escape the impressioii that a deep revoutiou iu opiniou is at work there. For several years it has been their habit to ïold modest, unheralded meetings, mainy in the rural districts, sometimes weekly, sometimes monthly. They are usually opened with prayer, and it is not unusual after harvest time for the llantera to maintain camp meetings a week together. Speaking begins befrweeu 9 and 10 in the morning, and the low deciining sun is still a spectator to hese intense congregations. There is ven a fine illumining vein of religions 'ervor in it all. The opening prayer, ;he political song set to church music, ;he o hour harangne at a stretch, the atriotic cheers, like straks from a new nthvm - these are not the committee ought demonstrations of common camaigns. It is a rising of the people, and n duetime the newspapers will make a iscovery, for they will hear these peole sins;, and after that the ballot. -