The Territorial Bill Passed Congress

and the President signed it the Xina 01 February. The constitution will be adopted the 4th of July, and if the elec tions take place before the organization of the next house, the Republicana will have a majority of three or four members. Tresident Cleveland httle .thonghtwhen he entered the present administration how many good things he would be enabled to do for the opposition, even to the making ofLKepublican The Democratie newspapers are having lovely times in manufacturé lugubrious and would-be sensational tales relative to the incoming administration. Their lories have lost all power of creating a. sensation because they are so tediously common and chestnutty. Yet they shóuld be credited with having improved somewhat upon the enterprise of their ancestry, for whereas the latter had a financial object in view and were rather Etartled into a falsehood these modern pnrveyors of ilegitímate nonsense can evade the truth without any excuse or occasion to stunulate them into such a miachievous and unprincipled course. It won't do them any sood, and no one else any good, or hurCeither morally or materially, and it wouM be just as well for them to save the money they in this way useleshly waste for ink and turn it towards expunging the national debt. That would be a feather in their caps! But the general perversity of their vitiated newspaporial instincts will prevent any such worthy consummation. In his lecture before the Tappan Hall aseociation, Monday evening, Rev. Wallace Radcliff, D. D., of Detroit, expressed some thoughta upon the relation of -Christianity to tbe family, the school and the Sabbath, worthy of consideration by all classes. He thought the great increase in divorces was due chiefly to the emphasis put upon the rights of the individual without an equal emphasis on mutual reponsibility, and the clianged condition of our industries. The conflict on the school question will, he thinks, compel usto give Christianity in an unsectarian form, a distinct and recognized place, orthe public school gystem will go down- a result which all should resist. The Sabbatlfis a preserver of our in8tltutionB, civil and religious. Liberty of conscience does not mean liberty to do anything a man pleases, but the right to believe as one thinks and to ■worehip as one believen. It was urged that the Sunday newspaper is an enemy to the Sabbath. It issecularizing the day. The eviwill be abated when Christians generally are brave enough to ilo what is right. Tiikee are over forty building association societies now in existenca in this state. With honest and efficiënt men at the head of these associations there is no reason why they should not prove great bletsings to the laboring man. They have provided thousands of tasty homes for poor families in Eastern cities that today would be lloundering along in poverty and rented, unhealthy, unpleasant tenement buildings. Some very interesting papers are published in the interets of the6e organizations, giving information relaüve to their management, and showing how to get the best and most convenient homes for the money invested. The association in this city, it is a pleasure to learn, is in a flourishing condition and growing in prosperity. George J. Little, of East Saginaw, is credited with introducing the system in this state. His opinión in regard to its usefulness he expresses as follows : "I believe that these associations will eventually do much to solve-the strained relations between capital and labor by cultivating habits of thrift and independence in the wageearners of the land. Give every workingman a home of his own, and he will see that the labor question has two sidee. Again, I would üke to see in every agricultural county in the land a farmers' building and loan asBoaiation. Many of the henvily mortgaged farms and homesteads of the West might be redeemed in this way."