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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1888, VOLUME XXXIH.
Anion!
I cannot say,
Beneath the pressure of life's cares to-day
I joy in these;
But I can say
That I had rather walk this rugged way,
If Him it please.
.1 cannot feel
That all is well when dark'nlngcloudsconceal I
The shining sun;
But then I know
God gives and loves; and say, since it Is so,
Thy will be done.
I cannot speak
In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek
Show I am sad;
But I can speak
Of grace to suffer with submission meek,
Until made glad.
I do not see
Why God should e'en permit some things
to be,
When He is love;
But I can see.
Thongh olten dimly, through the mystery,
His hand above!
I do not know
Where falls the seed that I have tried to sow
With greatest care:
But I will know
The meaning of each waiting hour below
Sometime, somewhere!
I do not look
Upon the present, nor In Nature's book,
To read my fate;
But I do look
For promised blessings in God's holy book,
And I can wait.
I may not try
Tokeepthehot tears back, but hush that
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And I try to still
Each rising murmur, and to God's sweet will
Respond "Amen!"
Two Way* !' Doing: It.
I drove with my husband to our
nearest town, not long since, and
leaving me at the principal Btore in
the place, he went to attend to some
business further on. After making
some purchases I sat down to await his
return. Most of the farmers within
six or eight miles deal at this store,and
to-day there were many coming and
O. My attention was attracted to
ry-goods counter, where a pleasant-facea
little woman was looking at
some black dress goods. Her husbaud
was standing near.
"Now, Sam," said she, "this stuff
is 40 cents a yard, and this," holding
up another piece, is 60 cents; it's much
better than the other piece, but I guess
the 40-cent goods will do me.
The man came and examined both
pieces in a very interested way, and
said:
"I think, Sallie, you'd better take
that at 60.cents; you don't often get a
new dress, and you ought to have a
good one."
The little woman was still more
pleasant looking as she told the clerk
to cut off the dress.
"Sallie," said the husband, ?"I'm
going to buy you one of those red table-cloths."
"Sam," said she in an undertone,
"they're beautiful, but can you afford
it?"
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for her.
As they went out, I said to myself,
"True enough?'a good husband makes
a good wife'?two such happy looking
people, and love and kindness the
cause of it!"
My meditations were cut short by
, the entrance of another couple?agrutf
looking old fellow, and a pale, careworn
woman.
"Now, hurry up, Mary," said he
"I've no time to be foolin'."
Then Mary said she would like to
look at some cloth. She selected a
piece that suited her, but when the
man heartl the price he at once objected.
"Get something cheaper than that"
said he.
"But," said the wife, timidly, "this
is for Tom's Sunday pants."
"I don't care," said he, "I won't pay
so much."
So she was obliged to take an indifferent
piece at a lower price. After
purchasing a few groceries, the husband
said:
"Come on; I suppose you've got all
you want?"
"yes," said she, looking wistfully
around, "but I did want some apron
gingham."
"Nevermind that now," was the
answer, "I'm in a hurry," and out
they went.
Ah ! thought I. here is a poor wo
man made unhappy by a brute of a
man who never allows her the pleasure
of going shopping with a little
money of her own. She works hard,
without any reward, not even kind
words. Ab ! this must be the kind of
farmer's wives who become insane.
Then I wished I were a good fairy who
might put money in her pocket to buy
all those things so dear to a housekeeper's
heart.
The arrival of my husband aroused
me from my reveries, related my experiences
to him, he laughingly remarked
:
v "Just like a woman to see and hear
so much."
"And," said I, "I feel like beating
that horrid man, and I suppose that's
like a woman too."?Janet.
Using Big words.
The National Baptist tells a story of
a city minister, who after preaching
for a friend in the country, was told by
the latter:
"You have given us a very good sermon,
with one exception, aud that is,
you used some words our people don't
understand."
The former thought the- latter was
certainly mistaken, and asked what
single word he had used that all could
not easily understand.
"Why," replied the other, "you said
'felicity' instead of'happiness.' Now,
all our people know what 'happiness'
is, but a great many of them, I am
sure, do not know the meaning of
felicity.'
As the preacher doubted this, the
country minister said, "There comes
one of our plain, sensible farmers ; we
will ask him."
And as the farmer came up he said,
"We were just speaking about a word
?the word'felicitycan you tell us
what is its meaning ?"
"Why, yes," said the farmer; "certainly
I know what 'felicity' is; it is
something inside a pig, though I don't
know exactly what!"
Gathering >"utx.
After gathering the nuts, in a week
or ten days after, pick them over, using
only the sound ones, and destroy all
wormy ones by burning them, as the
destruction of the nuts will be the
means of destroying the inst-cts that
might do damage another season.
Often after cooking a meal a person
will feel tired and have no appetite;
for this beat an egg until light., stir in
a little milk and sugar, and seasoc
with nutmeg. Drink half an hour be
fore eating.
A More Excellent Way.
It all came about through Johnny's
dropping the syrup-pitcher at breakfast.
The tablecloth was spick span
clean, and his mother had risen with a
miserable neuragic headache, and
Johnny wasn't as careful as he should
have been, of course, when in his hurry
he tipped the pitcher which in its
fall overturned a very full tumbler.
And so, in another haif-minute, tbere
was an island of syrup set in a small
pond of ice-water! All the circumstances
which I have enumerated were
too much for ordinary maternal patience.
"Johnny, you are a naughty, careless
boy ! You may have no syrup on
your cakes this morning !"
Johnny's eyes opened in astonishment.
1
"Why, mamma, I didn't mean to do 1
it!" 1
"But you are always doing things
with such a rush. You make other
people a great deal of trouble and labor,
and then you say, 'I didn't mean '
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A cloud of very gloomy character 1
had suddenly fallen over the group at |
the' pleasant breakfast-table. Just
here, in the confusion consequent upon 1
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sister, who sat opposite Johnny, struck
her napkin-ring sharply against the
salt-box standing by her plate, thereby
overturning the dainty little china de- '
vice. This incident being of so tri- 1
vial a nature, nobody made comment, '
until the rebellious and tearful John- ]
ny exclained: Kate has been careless, \
too, mamma, and you haven't blamed
her a bit. Sha'n'tshego without sy- 1
rup, too?"
"It isn't anything to tip over a salt- !
box," remonstrated the little girl.
"Whata silly thing to memtion,
Johnny!" added the mother.
But somehow, almost before the re- 1
mark had left her lips her conscience '
had disputed its truth. ' *
"Johnny," she said suddenly, "will !
you excuse me for speaking as I did? 1
It was because the clean tableczoth J
was soiled and the spilling made such 1
confusion and so much work, that I 1
was discouraged. But it was an acci- 1
dent, and not my little boy's fault.
You did not mean to do damage, any 1
more than Kate when she hit the saltbox.
You can see that yours was a
much more trying accident, and it was
hard to be pleasant over it; but I was 1
really blaming you because there was
syrup in the pitcher, and not for being 1
careless in tipping it, as I said. Kate's
salt-cellar didn't have any syrup in it,
yon see, only salt, which did no damage."
The picture before her was chaotic,
but Mrs. Way succeeded in smiling
brightly on Johnny's eyes, and added;
"I am sick this morning. I didn't 1
sleep well last night. You know how
I dislike a soiled table-cloth?so, on
the whole, won't you try to excuse
me?" i
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face wore, but smiles carried the day i
very speedily. . <
"Now, children, interposed their
father, "since mamma has been so very
polite, and has apologized so beauti- j
fully, don't you think a small boy and
girl, not very far away, ought to be
very careful as to their manners at i
table, and run 110 risks of tipping 1
pitchers and tumblers and salt-cellar :
and making ugly spots on clean tablecloths?"
"Yes, sir," said Johnny, with great
emphasis.
"I'll try," added Kate.
That morning, as the children were 1
on their way to school, Kate said in a i
thoughtful way, with a tender accent 1
in her voice : "I think mamma is 1
just the sweetest mother in all the 1
world. She is always sorry when she
does wrong; just as much as she wants
us t9.be."
T< .which somewhat confused grammar
of his sister Johnny responded
with earnest loyalty, "Yes, and she
owns up right out loud, too, I tell you!"
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Church Music.
A n Eastern mmer eives the follow
ing, which is a good and will deserved
hit at a senseless practice among some
singers:
An .estimable Christian lady sends us
thefollowing truthful hit on choir singing,
which we commend for general
practice:
"Speaking of anthems reminds me
of the story of two old British sailors
who were talking over shore experience.
One had been to a cathedral
and had heard some very fine music,
and was descanting particularly upon
an anthem which gave him much
pleasure. His shipmate listened for
awhile and then said : 'I say, Bill,
what's an anthem?' 'What!'replied
Bill,'do you mean to say you don't,
know what a hanthem is?' 'Not me.'
'Well, then, I tell yer. If I was to
say to yer, " 'Ere, Bill, give me that
'and-spike," that would not be a hanthem.
But was I to say: "Bill?BilL
giv?giv?giv?giv me, giv me that?
Bill, give me, giv me that hand?handspike?spike?spike?Bill,
giv?give
me that?that hand?handspike, handhandspike,
spike, spike, spike, ah?
men; Bill, givemethathandspike,spike,
ah?men!" That would be a hanthem.'
"
This reminds us of an incident once
reported from Baltimore, in which a
congregation of colored people were
the actors. The female singers were
in the gallery, the males below. All
ready, they began : Females : "I want
a man?I want a man?I want a mansion
in the skies." Kesponses by
males: "Oh Lord send sal?send sal?
send salvation down!" Yet such
twaddle is in many places passed off
for worship and divine service.
Strange, is it not? /
a ttnv Who Didn't Know When He iras
Happy.
A little fellow weut to a party.
They had plenty to eat. When all
wire joyful he was crying. A ladysaid
to him :
"My little man, what's the matter?"
He bawled out, "I can't eat any
more!"
"Well, then," said she, "put something
in your pockets."
"I've got 'em full?"
"Well, haven't you some room in
your bosom under your coat?"
"That's full, too!"
' "Well, perhaps if you go out and1
1 take a walk you will get hungry and
can eat some more."
"Been out!"
"Then," she said, "I don't see any
i help for you. There's nothing for
; you but to cry and make yourself misi
erable."
i 80 she left him blubbering.
There are many little and big folks
who don't know when they are happy.
Eating Lemon*.
A good deal has been said through
the papers about the healthfuluess of
lemons. The latest advice is how to
use them so they will do the most good,
as follows: Most people know the benefit
of a lemonade before breakfast,
but few people know that it is more
than doubled by taking another at
night alpo. The way to get the better
of a bilious system without blue pills
or quinine is to take the juice of one,
two or three lemons, as appetite craves,
in as much water as makes it pleasant
to drink without sugar, before going to
bed, In the morning, on rising, at
least half an hour before breakfast,
take the juice of one lemon in a goblet
of water. This will clear the system of
humor and bile with efficiency, without
any of the weakening effects of
calomel or congress water. People
should not irritate the stomach by eating
lemons clear; the powerful acid ef
the juice, which is always corrosive,
invariably produces inflamation after
awhile, but properly diluted so that it
does not burn or draw the throat, it
does its medical work without harm,
and when the stomach is clear of food
has abundant opportunity to work
river the svstem thorouehlv. savs a
medical authority.?Hartford Times.
Old Clothe*.
It is a mystery to many people bow
scourers of old clothes can make them
almost as good as new. Take for instance
a shiny old coat, vest, or pair of
pants of broadcloth, cassimere, or diagonal.
The scourer makes a strong,
warm soapsuds and plunges the garment
into it, souses it up and down,
rubs the dirty places, if necessary puts
it through a second suds, then rinses
it through several waters and hangs it
to dry on the line. When nearly dry
be takes it in, rolls it up for an hour or
two, and then presses it. An old cotton
cloth is laid on the outside of the
:oat and the iron passed over that until
all the wrinkles are out; but the
iron is removed before steam ceases to
rise from the goods, else they will be
shiny. Wrinkles that are obstinate
are removed by laying awet cloth over
them and passing the iron over that.
If any shiny places are seen they are
treated as the wrinkles are; the iron is
lifted while the full cloud of steam
rises and brings the nap up with it.
Cloth should always have a suds made
specially for it, as if washed in that
which has been used for white cotton
or woolen clothes, lint will be left in
the water and cling to the cloth. In
this manner we have known the same
coat and pantaloons to be renewed
time and again, and have all the look
and feel, of new garments. Good
broadcloth and its fellow cloths will
bear many washings and look better
every time because of them.
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Protecting: Animal* From File*.
At this season of the year the annoyance
caused to animals by flies and
mosquitoes often amounts to positive
agony, and at all times, in what is callrwl
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prevent the stock eating enough to
keep them in good condition. The
animals will stand in the water or pass
the greater part of the day in the shade,
rather than expose themselves to the
sunshine, going out to eat only when
iriveng by^hunger. They quickly lo3e
flesh, the flow of milk shrinks, and a
loss is incurred that cannot be easily
made good again. At all times a good
feed of grain is beneficial to stock, but
it is especially so when flies are annoying,
since it will do much to prevent
shrinkage ot flesh and milk. Horses
and milch cows may be protected, in a
great measure at least, by wiping them
all over with a sponge dipped in soap
suds in which a little carbolic acid has
been wixed. Bulls confined in stabfes
often suffer enough for the attacks of
flies to drive them half mad, and there
is no doubt that the continued fretting
caused in this way develops a savage
dispositian. The most satisfactory results
have followed from sponging with
soap suds and carbolic acid mixed a
Jersey bull confined in a stall.
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What are yon Good For ?
"Children," said Mr. Browm, "what
is my watch good for?"
"To keep time," the children answered.
"But suppose it can't be made to
keep time, what is it good for?"
"It is good for nothing," they replied.
"And what is this pencil for?"
"To mark with," said the children.
"But suppose it has no lead, and
will not mark, what is it good for?"
"Good for nothing."
"Well," said Mr. Brown, "what is
the use of my knife ?"
"To cut,"answered the little ones.
"Suppose it has no blade," he asked
again; then what it the knife good
for?"
"Good for nothing."
"Tell me, now," said Mr. Brown,
"what is a boy or girl good for? What
is the chief end of man?"
"Oh, that's Catechisn," replied Willie
Brown: "To glorifiy God and to
enjoy him for ever.'"
"Very well; if a boy or girl does not
do what he or she is made for, what is
he or she good for?"
And the children all answered, without
seeming to think how it would
sound, "Good for nothing."
Dear boys and girls, if you are not
seeking "to glorify God and to enjoy
him for ever," is it not just as if you
were good f#r nothing?
The Bock well Never Dries.
In a village on the Welsh Coast, the
people are obliged to fetch all their
water from a well.
A stranger in the village inquired
of a lad, "Is this spring ever dry?"
"Dry? Yes, ma'am ; very often in
hot weather."
"And where do you go then for water?"
"To the freshet a little out of town."
"And if- the freshet dries up ?"
"Why, then we go to the rock-well
hicrher ud. the best water of all."
"But if the rock-well fails?"
"Why, ma'am, the rock-well never
dries up?never. It is always the
same, winter and summer."
So, spiritually, every other brook
may be dry; every source of earthly
comfc rt fail; but he who looks to the
"Rock of Ages," will And a well of
water "springing up into everlasting
life."
We should not wait until spring and
fresh?t, brook and wayside streams are
dry, but should at once away to the
"Rock-well which never fails." There
you may sing:
"Well of water, ever springing,
Bread ol Life, so rich and free:
Untold wealth that never failetb,
My Redeemer 1b to me."
Friends are as dangerous as enemies.
To the Reftcac.
Along the shore when storm-clouds fly
The life-patrol farers though the night,
Until across the blackened sky
He sees the signal rocket's flight;
Then clear rings out
His warning shout,
"Ho, mates I the life boat for relief!
, A ship has struck upon the reef 1" I
Upon the etorm-swept sea of life
Thy brother's barque sinks 'neath the wave;
And wilt thou leave him to the strife,
Nor even lift thy voice to save?
Nor let thy word
For help be beard,
Then with a willing band and heart
In that soul- rescue bear a part.
An Important Step.
Senator John Sherman of Ohio introduced
into the United States Senate,
Thursday, June 14, a concurrent
resolution which he reported from the
committee on jroreigu xvtmuuus ui
which he is chairman, providing "that
the President be and is hereby requested
to invite from time to time, as fit
occasions may arise, negotiations with
any government with which the United
States has or may have diplomatic
relations, to the end that any differences
or disputes arising between the
two governments which cannot be
adjusted by diplomatic agency may be
referred to arbitration and be peaceably
adjusted by such means.7'
This is the measure which was proposed
by Andrew Carnegie and others
at a meeting of friends of arbitration
in Boston, during the visit of the British
Peace Deputation. It is in substance
what was contemplated by
many of the petitions sent to Congress
by the friends of arbitration throughthe
country. As will be seen it opens
the door to all nations on the same
ground that It was proposed to make
an Anglo-American Treaty. Thus a
wider scope is given to the principle
which some thought had first better
be confined to the English-speaking
race.
Senator Sherman being a prominent
candidate for the presidency was immediately
assailed by those afflicted
with Anglo-Phobia for attempting to
nullify the retaliatory measures of
Congress as to the fisheries, and by
Senator Biddleberger, claiming to
represent the Irish, as opening the
way to negotiation rather than war
with Engand on account of her alleged
injustice. He of course threatens
Sherman with defeat at the polls.
Senator Hoar is reported to have said
?oTfiftt.lv to his credit?"that it was
simply in the line of general arbitration
for the settlement of international
disputes, and that it had no bearing
on the fisheries question, and that
surely the present dispute between the
United States and Canada on the fisheries
question was not in view when
the committee directed its chairman
to report the resolution. He said that
for years there have been thousands of
petitions received annually from
churches, societies, and thousands of
people throughout the country in favor
of arbitrating international disputes
which now result in war, and that
this was simply a step in that direction."
The Resolution passed the
Senate.?American Advocate of Peace
and Arbitration.
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"What, speaking in quite unofficial
' language, is the not purport and upshot
of War? To my own knowledge,
for example, there dwell and toil, in
the British villiage of Dumdrudge,
usually some five hundred souls.
From these, by certain 'Natural Enemies'
of the French, there are successively
selected, during the French war,
say thirty able-bodied men: Dumdrudge,
at her own ezpence, has suckled
and nursed them; she has, not
I without difficulty and sorrow, fed them
up to manhood, and even trained
them to crafts, so that one can weave,
another build, another hammer, and
the weakest can stand under thirty
stone avirdupois. Nevertheless, amid
much weeping and swearing, they are
selectd; all {dressed in red; and
shipped away, at the public charges,
some two thousand miles, or say only
to the south of Spain; and fed there
till wanted. And now to that same
spot in the South of Spain, are thirty
similar French artisans, from a Frencn
Dumdrudge, in a like manner wending;
till at length, after infinite effort,
the two parties come into actual juxtaposition
; and Thirty stands fronting
Thirty, each with a gun in his hand;
straitway the word 'JFire' is given; and
they blow the souls out of one another;
and in place of sixty brisk, useful
craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses,
which it must bury, and anew
shed tears for. Had these men any
quarrel ? Busy as the Devil is, not the
smallest! They lived far enough
apart; were the entirest strangers;
nay, in so wide a Univsrse, there was
even, unconsciously, by commerce,
some mutual helpfulness between
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Governers had fallen out; and, instead
of shooting one another, had the cunning
to make the poor blockheads
shoot?Alas, so is it in Deutschlaud,
and hitherto in all lands; still as of
old, "What devilry soever Kings do,
the Greeks must pay the piper!"
Reverence.
There is no virtue, no grace, in postures
and attidudes. This truth we do
not question. But if we refuse to express
reverence, we shall soon cease to
feel reverence. This also is a truth.
It is not enough to be interested, in a
general sense, in the services of the
sanctuary. "God is greatly to be
feared (reverenced) in the assembly of
the saints and in the congregation."
True reverence, real worship, will express
itself somehow, as long as we
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Starve expression, and how long will
the feeling endure? We are persuaded
that it has declined in many if
not in most of our congregations. It
is greatly to be wished that it mieht;
be revived. But in order for it to become
a fixed habit of our souls, we
need to adopt suitable methods of expression.
We should feel more like
praying if we adopted some attitude
of prayer. By kneeling, bowing the
head, covering the eyes,?by some
bodily action or or attetude expressive
of reverent adoration,?we shall be far
more likely to cultivate the true spirit
of devotion.?Dr. Bushnell.
Chcnp Irrigation For a Family
Garden.
Take emptied fruit-cans, place the
open end on a hot stove a short time to
remove the top, punch about foursmull
holes in the edge of the bottom, set
them half their depth in the ground,
and plant your seeds around them.
Fill with water or liquid manure as
often as need be. Cucumbers and the
like will take a quart can full every
day it does not rain. No baking of
surface, no weed-seed, and speed in watering
are some of the advantages.
Preachers ns Bible Readers.
Strong preachers have ever been
Bible preachers. The old reformers
drew their weapons from the heavenly
armory. The sermons of Bunyan, and
Baxter, and Flavel, and men of their
stamp, were full of God?instinct with
living doctrines. Their very garb was
after the Scripture pattern. Whitefield,
us a custom, read the Bible with
"Henry'h Commentary," day by day,
on his knees, praying over every sen!
tence, line and word, Edwards and
! Davies were mighty in the Scriptures.
Of Chalmers it has been said that his
sermons "held the Bible in solution."
Preacbers who saturate their sermons
with the Word of God never wear
out. The ruaii na which they briDg
is pure, and sweet, and freshly gathered.
It never cloys. God's Word is
deep, and he who studies it will ever
have something new. He will never
be dull, for the words of the Bfble are
strong words, and its images and descriptions
are flowers of elegance. Apt
citations clench the passages of the
preacher's discourse, and give sanction,
dignity, positiveness, authority,
to it. And they shed light into his
subject, like windows in houses.
TRuths well Spoken.?The Lancaster
Ledger, of the 14th instant
says:
That we are living at too great an
expense to meet our honest obligations,
is a fact patent to any causal
observer. At our present speed of living,
to keep up appearances with our
neighbors, it takes a sizable income'
to satisfy the wants of even a small
family?spring suits for the boys and
sping bonnets, handsome dresses and
ribbons for the girls.
Nor can we lay all the blame of extravagant
living on the boys and girls,
for besides parents are to blame for
yielding to such extravagance on their
children, many of them dress beyond
their means and allow th'eir creditors
to suffer. How many men strut in
fine clothes, when if they could not
have swindled the merchant out of
them with fair promises, would now
be wearing their old suits with a
patch on their shoes and a rent in
their hats? Debtanoys some people
to almost madness, while others appear
to have no conscientious scruples
and consider themselves honest. .The
country will never get any better, generally,
until our people learn to live
more economically, and make an effort
to Dav their honest obligations.
Don't grumble.?Don't be a grumbler.
Some people contrive to get
hold of the prickly aide of everything,
to run against all sharp corners and
disagreeable things. Half the.strength
sent in growling would often set
things right. You may as well make
up your mind, to begin with? that no
one ever found the world quite as he
would like it; but you are to take your
part of the trouble and bear it bravely.
You will be sure to have burdens laid
upon you that belong to other people,
unless you are a shirker yourself; out
don't grumble. If the work needs
doing, and you can do it, never mind
about that other who ought to have
done it, and didn't. Those workers
who fill up the gaps and smooth away
the rough spots, and finish up the jobs
that others leave undone?they are the
peacemakers, and worth a whole regiment
of growlers.
Keep your temper.?Calm dem?annr
under nrovocation is wisest
and best. A ruffled temper is no help
to any body. The greater the offense
the more need of considerate decision
in respect to it. Haste here is waste,
Be slow to wrath. Conquer your irritability.
Learn to speak as quietly
and calmly to a thraetening foe as to a
loving friend. He that ruleth his own
spirit is greater than he that taketh a
city. Time will come when you will
be thankful that you held your anger
in check. Harsh words and fierce
deeds never yielded their speaker or
doer any permanent satisfaction. God
has endowed us with reasoning faculties
with the design that we should use
them. Storm and bluster seldom have
any reason in them. Thoughtfulness
and consideration are becoming to the
Christian. The only vengeance the
man of God may indulge himself in is
that of charity in return for wrong,
and kindness in exchange for violence.
If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he
thirst, givejhim drink. Good deeds by
you will be to him like coals of fire on
his head. They will melt him down.
But perform your good deeds in the
right spirit. Let not vengeance be
your motive. Angry charity may
prove a Doomerang.
Great men are not great all t>ver,
wisely says The Lutheran. There
never was a pine-board that did not
have at least one little knurl. You find
it, and you easily press a hole into any
man's greatness. One might think
that preachers, statesmen, Christians,
and civilized people generally, when
affronted, would be so aloog their intellectual
level. But big men often
bring their heads down to their feet,
and in livid rage inspect an ant that
crosses their path, while the more
ordinary pass the trifle and have heads
up to enjoy the beauty of sky and
mountain. "We must learn in this
life to be stronger ;than onr circum|
stances. If people pick at you, and'
say all manner of evil against you,
just pass it off by saying?birds always
peck at the prettiest cherry. Man
must be himself, and no trouble or persecution
dare master him.
f!nl. T. W. Hiccerson. who occupies!
the front rank among literary men,
writes in Harper's Bazar, "I felt like
taking down the swords from above my
fire-place aud hiding them away forever,
when firstcalled upon to explain
to my little girl wbat they meant and
for whattliey stood." Better take them
dOw nand beat them into plow-shares or
some smaller implement of husbandry.
Those swords stand for patriotism and
self-sacrifice for the nations sake. But
to reach these objects, so dear to good
men, they must cut and stab and hack
and wound and kill. We would rather
put above the fire-place the hoe
with which a father tilled the ground.
There is no necessity that loving
fathers or loving mothers should open
to the tender minds of little girls and
boys such horrors, except they would
horrify them.
If when thou makest a bargain,
thou thinkest only of thyself and thy
gain, thou art a servant of mamon.
Seek goodness; but let greatness be
thrust upon you. An itching for
greatness will breed a moral cancer
that will eat out all goodness in the
soul.
A Life of Trust.
Do not dwell upon remote events;
this anxiety about the future is contrary
to a religious# state of mind.
When God bestows any blessing upon
you, look only to Him in the comfort!
you receive, and every day on the I
manna that He sends you, as the Isra- j
lites did, without making yourself any
provision for the morrow.
A life of faith produces two things.
First, it euables us to see God in everything.
Secondly, it holds the mind in
a state of readiness for whatever be
His will. We must trust to God for
whatever depends upon Him, and
only think of being faithful ourselves
in the performance of our duties.
This continual, unceasing depependence,
this state of entire peace and acquiescence
of the Soul in whatever
may happen, is the true, silent martyrdom
of self. It is so slow, and
gradual, and internal that they who
experience it are hardly conscious of
It. When God deprives you of any
blessing He can replace it, either by
other instruments or by Himself.
Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof
;;the morrow will take care of itself.
He who has fed you to-day will take
care of you to-raorrw. ? We shall soonam
maa wv>/nil fKo VtOAtfAn
CI DCC tnc IllflllUfl lail uvm vuv u<x?*gu
in the desert than the children of God
shall want support.
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An anecdote is told of a native of
Madagascar, who had embraced
Christianity,.and who was asked by
a sea-captain what it was that first, led
him, to Decome a christian. "Was it
any particular sermon you heard, or
book which you read?" "No, my
friend," replied the chief, "it was no
book or sermon. One man, he a wicked
thief; another man, he drunk all
daylong: big chief, he beat his wife
and children. Now thief, he no steal;
drunken Tom, sober; big chief, he
very kind to his family. Every heathen
man get something inside him,
which makes him different, so I became
a Christian too, to know how it
feel to have something inaide me to
keep me from being bad."
"It will do!" is the common phrase
of those who neglect little things. "It
will do!" has blighted many a character,
blasted many a fortune, sunk
many a ship, burned down many a
house, and irretrievably ruined thousands
of hopeful projects of human
good. It always means stopping
short of the right things. It is a makeshift.
It is a failure and defeat. Not
what "will do," but what is the .best
possible thing to do, is the point to be
aimed at. Let a man once 'adopt the
maximum of "It will do." and he is
given over to the enemy; he is on the
side of incompetency and defeat; and
we give him up as a hopeless subject.
Rules for availing sins of the
tongue : 1. Reflect on the number
and enormity of these sins. More
than half the sins of the world are
of that class. 2. Avoid the company
of those who speak unkindly of other
people. 3. Cultivate the habit of
speaking of things, not of persons.
4. Bead James III once a week. 5
Charge yourself at night t? recall-the
uncharitable things you have said daring
the day. 6. Appreciate the difficulty
of avoiding this sin, and ask Qod
to help you.
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Perhaps the love of fame may torment
thee. Consider how soon all
things will be buried in forge tfulneas,
and what a bottomless chaos exists
both sides of tbee; how vain is the
applause or* mob of mankind, and
how utterly devoid of judgment they
are; in short, within how narrow a
space this fame, of which thou art so
greedy, is circumscribed. For the
whole earth is a point, and how small
a nook In it is thy dwelling, and how
few are there in it, and what kind of
people are they who will praise thee ?
It was said of Hannah Mooore that
when she was told a tale against another
in her villiage her . usual reply
was, "Come, we will go and ask if
that be true." . The effect was something
wonderful. The tale-bearer,
taken aback, would begin to say,
"Well, perhaps there might have been
a mistake," and to beg that no notice
be taken of the matter. But no; the
good lady would go there and then,
taking the scandal-monger with her,
to make inquiry and compare accounts.
If au tale-bearers could be
treated in this way how few tales
would be told.
There is nothing like business for
enabling us to get through our weary
existence. The intellect cannot sustain
its sunshine flight long; the flagging
wing drops to the earth. Pleasure
palls, and idleness is "many gathered
miseries is one name." But business
gets over the hours without
counting them. It may be very trying
at the end; still it bas brought the
$ay to a close sooner than anything
else. _ _ '
We are like Southern plauts taken
up to a northern soil. They grow
11?? 1?x foillnnr nt
tDCrC UUl LLLtJJf ttlc ell yt aj a Jiuxiu^ v?
their flowers. The poor-exiled 6hrub
dreams by the native longing of a
splendid blossom which it has never
seen, but is dimly conscious that it
ought somehow to produce. It feels
the flower which it has now strength
to make in the half-chilled but still
genuine iuice of its Southern nature.
That is the way in which the ideal
life, the life of full completions,
haunts us all. We feel the thing we
ought to be beating beneath the thing
we are.?Phillips Brooks.
Ah! the time, the thought, thesouLs,
that things of the world comsume and
spend. How they hinder the actings
of faith upon God, interrupt our sweet
communion with him, abate our love
to his people and, induce us to act like
those who are the most unlike him.
Is it not true that many professing
Christians are so much taken up with
earthly things that they scarce any
leisure to look up to heaven, or after
Christ, and the things that belong to
their everlasting peace?.?Thomas
| Brooks, 1870.
You TVill &ot be Sorry.
For bearing before judging.
For thinking befor speaking.
For holding an angry tongue.
For stopping the ear to a tattler.
For being kind to the distressed.
For being patient to all.
For doing good to all men.
For walking uprightly before God.
For lending to the Lord.
For laying up treasures in Heaven.
For asking pardon for wrongs.
For speaking evil of no man.
For being courteous to all.
The True Bread.
BY REV. J. P. KESTAR, M. D. M
"I ax the bread life."
Jesus, the bread of life
Desceuded from above,
Come, "hungry, starving souls and feat
On bis eternal love.
Come unto lilm and live.
No longer pine and die,
For he. toe bread of life will give, 4
To all who will apply.
Perishing sonls, draw near.
Nor longer stay away, .
The pleading voice Jeena bear, '
Who calls yoa day by day. "'H?#
The poor, the low, may oome,
And claim a portion too, , SMSS
Of angel's food sent down ftom heaven. , M
The bread of Gk)d, most true. .
Short Hermans for Week Bays. . |S
Never wash raisins, wipe them with :
a dry cloth.
The brave mail is an inspiration to
the weak, and compels a following.
Curses are like processions; they
return to the place from whence they
came. :<$?
(iod denies a Christian nothing but 0'"?gjg
with a design to give him something 1 ;
better.?Cecil.
Never did any soul do good but it. ' ^
came readier to do the same again
with more enjoyment.
There is nothing like settling with
ourselves, as there is a deal we must do ??
without in this life.
He that never ohanged any of his
opinions never corrected any of his ' 'ifM
mistakes.?Bishop Hall.
To smile at the jest which plants a" ^
thorn in another's breast is to become : >/;
a principal in the mischief.
Nothing is so contagious as example;
we are never either much good or 3i|
much evil without imitators.
The nerve that never relaxes, the
eye that never blanches, the thougra^^l
that never wanderes, are the h&rbm- 4
gers of victory.
There are mysteries of Providence
as well as of faith, and many are as
much troubled to interpret what God
doeth as what he has spoken.
If Satan doth fetter us. it is indifffcr- |
ent to him whether it is oy a cable or
a hair; nay, perhaps the smallest
sins are his greatest strategemg.~-.FWBestlessnes
and fretfullnee hinder
godlinesg. The very restless will never
be very godly; the very godly "will
never be very restless. ,rBe still and ; i
know that I am God."
In honor prefering one another; is a
lost star from the galaxy of . modern
sainthood. After I am served the rest
for you, has been submitted for it, as
better suited to the changed order
ef thjngs.
We do not shake off our yesterday? ; ^
and sustain no furthur relation to :
them; they follow us, they constitbte. ^
our life, and they give accent and /?*
force and meaning to our preaen^rW ^
needs.
If you can live gently, patiently,
unmurmuringly amid all your ;3<
frets and irritations, day after day,
that is heroism. That is your tasK. ' -M
You are to resolve to do" it f No one
not even God will d? it for you.
He is a good wagoner that can turn
in a little room. To live well in abundance,
is the praise of the estate, not ,?
of the person. I will study h?w to
give a good account of my little rather .:;'S&
than how to make it more.?Bishop- 1
Never quit yqur hopes. Hope is '
often better than enjoyment. It-is .
certainly a very pleasant and healthy
passion. A hopeless person Is desert- .^18
edbyhims?if and he who forsakes _
himself is soon forsaken bv his friends
and fortune.
Nothing is bo uncertain as general ^ *
reputation; a man injures' me from
humor, passion, or interest; hatea me
because be has injured me; and speaks
ill of me because ne hates me.
The influence of money on a man
will be according to the man's state of
mind ; according to the condition of
his heart and affections, his estimate
and plan of lift.
A lot of people who sigh and groan *$ ?
and talk about the "dreary outlook"
only need to have their windows washed
with a bit of soap and, dried with a
flannel rag.
There cannot be a more worthy im- ,*$8
provement of friendship than in a fervent
opposition to the sins of those
whom we profess to love*
The tu rkey should be given full range
now, as there are no crops they can
ViqThenrwill flnil a lnrorn rv/irUon - 'ai
of their fooid^ and a larsre flock can be ^
raised at a very small cost if given ;/; ffi
plenty of room.
A Boston family went off on a tit
tion. and the neighbors saw a cat in the
window and heard it mew piteously. c;
The Humane Society broke into the
house, and rescuea the feline from
starvation. It was plaster of Paris
cat.
If you are a habitual soolder, look > 4&1
about you, and see how little of good
you have accomplished and how few
friends you have.
I wonder if "the way" people get
with them l9n't something to be aocountable
for. What if the Lord Al- < -%
mighty did so by us? What if He '/$M
had "a way," too, that hadn't any ' ^
sunshine, nor any pleasantness, nor \a|
any rest in it? He might grind us
round so somehow, I dare say; and
give us our daily bread notwithstandng.?
Whitney. ~ *
"How greedy you are!" said one lit* .s ' .??
tie girl to another, who had taken the ""
best apple in the dish?"I wanted
that apple."
Whom Life Has Disciplined.
The middle aged, who have lived V '
fliolr ofrAnmat hllfc
UllUU^U UiVli CV1V?evw.
are yet in the time when memory is .'3g
still half passionate and not merely
contemplative, should surely be a sort
of natural priesthood, whom life has *
disciplined and consecrated to be the
refuge and rescue of early stumbles. :v
and victims of self despair.
It is feared by some Democraticpoli- c -s
ticians that an Anglo-American treaty
of Arbitration may not please a certasn
class of Irish voters whose poll- " ^
tical creed is solely "Anglophobia." It . .
is feared by some Republican politicians
that an Anglo-American Treaty
of Arbitration would be construed as ?|?
"Anglomania" by those intense native
Americans the chief article of whoee ^
creed is hatred of England on aoe&unt
of former wars. Hence the reluctance :.'?v
of these politicians to favor a measure,
which both, mildly at least, approve.
The United States House of Representatives
has passed a bill creating a
board of arbitration in the matter of
strikes.
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