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FEBRUARY 18, 1880

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MOSES—'‘The Great Statesman, Legislator and Poet.

SUMMARY REPORT OF REY: G. w. HODGSON S

LECTURE.

The audience in the Market Hall last night was a large and good one. His W or- ship the Mayor was Chairman. Before in- treducing the lecturer, he said he thought the ** Women’s Benevolent Society, under whose auspices the lecture was to be deliv- ered, should coinmand the sympathy and assistance of every geod citizen. For it 1s a Seciety formed to aid poor -persons— more particularly women—by furnishing them with work, and thus enabling them to aid themselves and keeping them from the degradation of subsisting on the gifts of others.

Rev. Mr. Hodgson, on coming forward, arid the consideration which had induced him to occupy the honorable position to which he had been invited by the Women's Benevolent Society was, that the cause is a good ene. He had selected *‘ Moses” as the subject of the lecture, because he had himself long felt that ef all the great men ef sacred and profane history, Moses held by far the foremost place. The history of Moses has both a divine and a human aspect. He proposed, on this occasion, to regard it from the latter point of view— not because he thought it the most import- ant; but just, as in a great poen, it is sometimes of great advantage to analyze it to examine each line and word in it—in order that a clearer perception may be had of its beauty as a whole, so it may be of advantage toc nsider the true and noble life of Moses from the lower, human point of view. Regarded in this way, the career of Moses exhibits a great, true, practical work, done by a great, true and practical man. The scene opens in Egypt—-fit theatre for such a drama. Eyypt was, even in the time of Moses, an ancient land. The pyramids were to Moses what they are to us—-yenerable monuments of a hoary an- tiquity. In his time the records of Egypt ran back for centuries. It was then the centre of the world’s civilization. Now, all is changed but the great features of nature. In this ancient and highly civi- lized land lived the Hebrews. It is the habit of many to think of them as a depray- ed race—a nation of slaves. But it takes a great nation to produce a great man ; and little men could never have been led by a great man such as Moses was. The spirit of greatness was in the Hebrew nation. If depressed, it was but for a time; and it rose te the oceasion when called to do great deeds. It appears that Egypt was, before the time of Joseph, overrun by nomadic trives led by men called Shepherd Kings. These wrested the sceptre from the ancient dynasty. But after a time they were driven eut and theformer line of rulers was restored An alliance was then entered into between the restored rulers and the Hebrews who were given the land of Goshen, and by reason of their military spirit were expect- ed to protect the restored rulers from any further incursions on the part ef the enemies who had been deposed and driven ever the Egyptian border. They were then admitted to many privileges and allowed to worship the God ef their fathers. But as the rulers of Eyypt began to feel secure in their power, they grew jealous of the Hebrews who would not conform to their usages and religion. A Pharoah arose who knew not Joseph. The Hebrews were ai- tacked and persecuted. Thei rcivil power was completely broken. In suck circum- stances Moses was born. He was nurtured and educated in the court of the King of Egypt. He improved the opportunities of his yonth and turned the instruction he then received to good account in the great deeds of his later years. No doubt he heard his people reviled by the Egyptian courtiers. No doubt he heard schemes for their humiliation ; and he seems tv have gradually withdrawn himself from the court of Pharoah, filled with the idea of emancipating the Hebrews from the power of their oppressors. One day, in his indig- nation at the wrongs they suffered, he killed an Egyptian. The next, he re- proved two Hebrews who were at strife. These two actions, at the inception of his career, afford a key to his life. They exhib- ited his intense hatred of wrong and his great love for lis people. But in the ardor of youth he had made a mistake—he had struck too soon. The Hebrews were not yet ready tostrike for liberty. He had to flee to the wilderness and wait for forty long, weary years. Meanwhile he was under- geing a heavy discipline. Like Alfred the Great and Joan of Arc, in obscurity he was being prepared for the glorious work of liberating a nation. His heart was all the

while with the afflieted people in Egypt. He always considered him- seif aud his family strangers in the land in which he found refuge.

But he learned to recognize that his help was in God. He became filled with the theught of God. A common wayside bush blazes for him in the divine light, and he hears the com mandjto do work the which he

has, from his youth longed to do. Strange that now he shrinks from it. Now he deesn’t want to goto the rescue. His cry

is, “Who am I that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt.” ‘‘O my Lord | am nox eloquent, neither heretufore nor since thou hast spoken with thy servant, but | am slow of speech and of a slow tongue.” There is no better sign that ® man is fitted for great public duties, than his perception of the responsibility and difficulty they involve. What, is it possible that there ever was a man who did not seek for power—a man who did not ask for place? Imagine Moses writing a modern election eard—asking the free and independent electors to elect him to represent thew ; premising that he would, if elected, do what they wished lim to de? Some people ridicule the ilen of a man succeeding to power by

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to exercise ; he has been born to the place and educated with view to his oecupation In great crisises of a nation’s his- man may be spontaneously, as it were, elected by his fellows to command them and lead them eut of their difficulties. This is the highest and best ferm of elec- tion. The electors may select a man te re- present them, and elect hlm without exer- tion on his part; and this is honorable. But the lowest way in which a man cau obtain a position of power and influ- ence is by his geig round from door to door soliciting the people to elect him, and offering to act, in his office, according to their pleasure for the time being. The true leader shrinks from his position be- causs he has grasped the idea of what the place lays upon him. In this light, the conduct of Moses, when called to deliver Israel, shines out very grandly. The great and wenderful events which followed the acceptance of the charge laid upen him were secondary to the struggle in the mind of Moses while lying in the desert. Being slow of speech, Aaron accompanied Moses to de the talking ; but, as in most cases, the conduet of this talking man appears to very poor advantage beside that of the man of action. The Israelites had crossed the Red Sea, had sung their song of tri- umph, and were encamped before Sinai. Moses was in the meunt. He was about to give to the people the Law, written by the ‘finger of God.” While descending with the tables of stone, in company with Joshua, his ears were greeted with strange sounds. Joshua thought there was a noise of war in the camp. But Moses said ‘* Not the veice of the shout of - conquerors, nel- ther the voice of the cry of the conquered, _.but the noise of singing do I hear.” They ran together to the spot ; and there feund the people dancing round their golden calves. What had the eloquent man been doing. He had been weakly yielding to the clamor of the multitude. The man ef action cried, ‘‘ Whe is on the Lord’s side ?” gathered the men of his tribe around him, ordered them to gird on their swords and punish their sinning brethren. But when he had demolished and scattered the idols and vindicated the true God, he retired again to the mountain ; and there his prayer was, ‘‘Oh, this peeple have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet, now if thou wilt forgive their sin ; if net, blot me, I pray thee, from the book which thou has written.” Such was his sense of justice that he must severely punish his erring people; and such his love towards them, that he was willing to lay down, not his life only, but his immortal soul, in order to obtain fer them the forgiveness of their offended God. Like all great men, Moses had to suffer much misrepresenta- tion. Even his own brother and sister were jealous of him. But how grand and magnanimous was his conduct when, after the return of the spies and the refusal of the people to enter the promised land, he wandered with them forty years in the desert. They were not yet ready to go in and possess the land. Those who came out of Egypt (including himself) must pass away ;a generation born in freedom, must arise before the nation could be fit for its inheritance. He might then have left them to wander and die in the desert. He might have gone away to Egypt. But he was true to his duty; and for thirty eight years he led them, and bere with them, even when a large portion of them had relapsed into idolitary. -

We now come to speak of Moses as a Legislater. All true laws must be based on the Will of Ged; and this was the spirit in which Moses legislated. Laws founded on anything else must inevitably fail. This is the primary cause of the failure of all our bank- ruptey laws. It is right that a man’s mis- fortune in business should not always press him down. Butif the law recognizes the right of a man who buys $100 worth of property to pay for that property with $75, $50, or $25, and permits him afterwards to aceumulate wealth without requiring payment of the debt in full, it recognizes a breach of the 8th commandment. Such a law cannot, there- fore, give satisfaction. If our modern leg- islaters would but legislate in this matter, in the spirit in which Moses iegislated, they would, in all probability, succeed in imaking a good law. Moses gave a land law to the Israelites. Under it, all the land was strictly entailed; but persons were precluded from holding large estates ; and they could not divide their estates into very small farms; for every fifty years the estates reverted to the heirs of the original holders. The Mosaic system contained features similar to those of both the French and English systems, while it did not admit of the extremely large estates of the latter or the extremely small estates of the former. But it had nothing in com- mon with the American system, under which every one may give, sell, or mortgage or re- tain their lands just as they please. The family was the central idea of Mosaic Legislation, and the land laws were made with the view of holding-together the family. of the abolition of the Leasehold Sys- temas it existel on this Island.

years, there have been short crops and var- ious losses to the farmers ; and we

consequence. But is it likely when fw’ times come to our farmers, as come they will, that Mortgagees will remit a large percentage of their interest ? The lecturer

questioned whether farmers whe hold (their farms under mortgage are in as good & position ag those who hold them under

lease. The lecturer then called attention

to the ursury law of Moses—under which a Jow was net permitted to receive interest

for meney loaned to one of his own nation.

While the leeturer did not object to a fair

is much can be has not to

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The lecturer had been in favor

But he had heard that many of the persons who had obtained freeholds under the present law are now mertgaging their lands. In England and Ireland, during the past few

“ate), heard of numerous remissions of f@ied 74

interest being paid by persons accommo- dated with money, he thought it monstrous that the machinery of our Courts should be put into operation for the purpose ef wring- ing from poor men interest at the rate of twenty, twenty-five, and even fifty and hun- dred per cent. The law did not compel the payment of bets or liquor bills ; and he thought it should not compel the began of extravagant charges of interest. Jn the selection of men for the public service Moses strove to get men of ability. He made no enquiries into a candidates politics. He had no fears for ‘‘ theparty.” In this regard the lecturer spoke very strongly in favor of a permanent non-political Civil Service, in which men should rise from the ranks in proportion to their ability.

The lecturer spoke of the poetry of Moses in glowing terms; but we are obliged to eut short this report. After he sat down, the Chairman complimented him, saying the lecture was ‘‘one of the best he ever listened to.” On motion of R. R. Fitzgerald, seconded by A. Stronach, he was formally tendered the unanimous thanks ol the audience.

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A Ltnorsy summary of Prefesser Caven’s

lecture will appear to-morrow.

Bosvon Mixep Pickves, in bulk, 20 cents per quart, at Hall’s Fish Market.

Cark& Cop CRANBERBIES, and Baldwin Apples, at Hall’s Fish Market.

Rewemper the great clearing-out Sale of Dry Goods, Ready-made Clothing, etc., ete., at Join Kelly & Co's, to commence at il o'clock, to-morrow, the 18th, and to continue from day to-day until the entire Stock is clearei out. Bargains may be expected.—W. D. Srewarr, Auctioneer. {f 17

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LECTURE. MR. E. J. HODGSON

Has consented to deliver his Lecture upon

FRANCIS OF ASSISI,

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Tuesday, 24th February Next,

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St. Peter’s Schoolroom, AT BIGHT @ CLOCK. Adnission 15 cents. Tickets for admission

ean be cbtained at W. R. Watson’s. Feb. 18, 1880.

APPLES. (\ BARRELS BALDWINS & RUS- 100 heen CARVELL BROS,

Sole Leather.

700 SIDES LOGAN’S BEST,

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50 Sides - No. 2. ; CARVELL BROS.

‘TA A.

CHESTS, 55 half-chests,

Strong and: Excel- lent flavor.

CARVELL BROS

Molasses.

| G5) 20 Bois, | Bright Molases We CARVELL BROS.

SUGAR.

PACKAGES (Hhds. and Bbls.) White Granulated, Bright Porto Rico, Barbadoes, Cuba.

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CARVELL BROS. Feb 18, 1880—2w ws

| PBA SOUP.

P REPARED with Pea Flour and seasoned aud flavored with the finest herbs and seasonings, to which is added Liebigs’ Baxtract of Meat, making one of the most nutritious dishes that can be obtained.

A 25 cent Tin will make 3 quarts of thick Sou.

For sale at

BEER & GOFPF'S.

Feb. 18, 1880.

For Sale!

FIRST-CLASS **King Bird Colt,” three years old. Apply at EXaMINER

Office. [f{ 18, 3w 2aw

~ Labrador Herring.

(ye CATCH OF 1879.

Smoked Salmon, Salt Tront, ‘* Herring, ** Shad, ‘* Halibut, ‘* Mackerel.

At HALL’S FISH MARKET, Feb. 18, 1880—tf

Herring. Codfish.

i FOR CASH, —

50 bbls. Herring, 100 qtls Codtish, 200 bags Salt.

ts D. SMALL, Hlead Queen’s Wharf, opposite I. C. Hall's.

Tc Fisheries and Factories,

Os TON AMERICAN MANILLA MAR. * LIN (Tarred and White), Cotton Lines, Twines, Leads, Hooke, Bait Mills, Fishi Anshors, Cotton Ducks (light and heavy), 1 coils Manilla Rope, Hemp Rope, Wire hon, Paints, Oils, Tar, Oakum, Ships Chandlery. Saii Making, Light;Ducks for Boats’ Sails,

D. SMALL,

Jan, 21, 1880—tf

$3.

FEBRUARY ! I8soO.

STOCK-TAKING.

E hereby inform the pub- . lic of this city, and the Island generally, that previous to Stock-taking, we have re- solved to clear out as much of our Winter Stock as possible. We are aware that at this season it is hard to get people to buy even at reduced prices; but in the face of this difficulty we have made up our mind to adopt ‘full measures, and sell our Wool Goods and Dress Goods at a sacrifice.

Our Goods have been very cheap all winter, as the run of trade we have had fully testifies. Our store has become the resort of those Ladies who know how to make a penny go a long way, and who know a cheap article when they see it; and when we say we are going to reduce the prices of our Dress Goods and Trimmings, we know we shall be believed. We are particul- arly anxious to clear out our present Stock, in order to intro- duce as much of the newest style of Dress Material as possible, and at the very lowest prices. We shall make special prices on Black Cashmeres, Black Meri- nos, Black Cords and Lustres, Lustrines and Brilliantines, »

Our Fancy Wool Goods will be sold at less than cost. .Our Stock of this class was the larg- est, most select, and finest in the city, and the remains of it will be sold at a great sacrifice.

Blankets, Quilts, Horse Rugs,

&e., will. be cleared out at great Bargains. _ We make no apology to the Tea-drinking public for drawing their attention to our fine flavored and rich Teas, 32, 36, and 40 cents per lb. They are receiving the highest praise, and those who use them, strongly recommend them to others. Our trade in this article is growing rapidly, Tea appeals to the most subtile of the senses, and as the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so the proof of the Tea is in the drinking. Friends, try it.

83, QUEEN STREET,

TREMAINE & METCALF.

@h’town, Jan. 21, 1880.

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Fire. Marine. Life, HORACE HASZARD, General Insurance Agent,

REPRESENTING

‘jommercial Union Fire Assurance Company. of London, England ; Capi- tal £2,500,000 stg.

British-America Fire Assurance Company, of Torente, Ont.; Capital (paid up in full), $500,000.00.

Sun Mutual Life and Accident In. surance Company, of Montreal.

MARINE INSURANCE ALSO EFFCTED,

Office, South Side Queen Square. Ch’town, Feb. 17, 1880—1m eod

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Canadian Pacific Railway,

Tenders for Rolling Stock.

foe. sony will be reseived by the under- signed up to foon of MONDAY, the 23rd PEBRUARY instant, for the immediate sup. ply of the following Rolling Stock : ~~

4 First-class Cars.

2 Postal and Baggage Cars. 60 Box Cars. 60 Platform Cars.

Drawings and specifications may be seen, and other information obtained on application at the office of the Engineer-in-Chief, Pacifie Railway, Ottawa, and at the Engineer's Office Intercolonial Railway, Moncton, N. B.

The Rolling Stock 40 be delivered on the Pembina Branch, Canadian Pacific Railway, on or before 15th of MAY next.

By Order, F. BRAUN,

Secretary.

Derr. or Rattways & CaNALs, fe 164i 2aw

Ottawa, 7th February, 1880.

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MAIL CONTRACTS.

ENDERS addressed to the Postmaster-

General, will be received at Ottawa, un- til 12 «’clock noon on FRIDAY, 12th MARCH NEXT, for the conveyance of Her Majesty's Mails on proposed contracts, for four years, from Ist April next, over each of the follow- ing routes, viz. :—

Barrett's Cross and Park Corner,

Cardigan Bridge and Let 56,

Cardigan Bridge and Railway Station,

French Village and Mount Stewart,

Georgetown and Launehing,.

Georgetown anid Murray Harbor North,

O'Leary Station and West Cape,

St. Andrew's and Railway Station.

Printed notices containing full infermation as to conlitions of scan contracts may be seen, and blank forms of tender may be ob- tained, at the Post Offices at which the ser- Vices commence and terminates or at the office of the subscriber.

W. W. McLEOD, Asst. P. O. Inspecter. P. O. Inspector’s Office, Charlottetown, {f 18 30th January, 1808, 3i

COLDEN SYRUP.

Very Choice. 8 CTS. PER POUND,

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BEER & GOFF'S.

Jan. 13, 1880.

Valuable Property for Sale,

Tc FARM lately owned by John and Peter Meikle, situate on t 23, ia Queen’s County.

For further particulars apply at the office of Messrs. Hoveson & McLeop, Charlotte town.

Jan. 9, 1380—sed

COOKED >

CORNED BEEF

Most Eeonomical for Family Use, being More than Twice its Weight of Uncooked

Sold by the lb. and in Tins, BHER & GOFF'S.

Jan. 13, 1880.

Valuable Property for Sale,

YO BE SOLD, all that part of Town Lot No. 74, in the first hundred of Town Lots im

Charlottetown; having a front of 67 feet, Dor- chester Street, and running back 80 feet, to§ gether with the buildings thereon erected.

For further icu apply to Messrs. Hopason & McLxop Charlottetown.

Sept. 15, 1879,

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