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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1889. VOLUME XXXIV. NO.!ll.|?|?
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The First Tangle.
ISY ANNA JIUKNHAM.
Once in an Eastern palace wide
A Utile child sat weaving.
So patiently her task she piled.
The men and women at her side
Flocked ronnd her, almost grieving.
"How Js it., little one," tbev said,
"Von always work so cheerily ?
Yon never seem to break your thread.
Or snarl and tangle it, instead
Of working smooth and clearly.
"Our weaving gets so worn and soiled,
Onr silk so frayed and broken,
For all we've fretted, wept and toiled.
We know the lovely pattern's spoiled
Before the King has spoken."
The little cirl looked in their eyes.
So full of care and trouble;
And pity chased the sweet surprise
That filled her own. as sometimes llles
The rainbow in a bubble.
"I only go and tell the King,"
She said abashed, and meekly.
"You know, he said, in everything"?
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Him all our troubles weekly!"
She turned her little head aside;
A moment let them wrar.gie,
"Ah, but." she softly then replied,
"I go and get the knot untied
At the first little tangle!"
O little children?weavers all!
Our broidery we Rpangle
With many a tear that need not fall,
If on our king we would but call
At the first little tangle!
"Be Ye Goin' to Burn the Bridge
Anyway."
It is said that out west a train ran
against a farmer's calf, and doubled it
up so that it wasen't worth much as a
calf afterwards. The farmer sued the
company, but lost. Coming away
from the court-house he said to a deacon
of a church, "I'll get even with
the railway company."
"How so?"
"I'll get even, if I have to do them
damage. I'll burn the bridge yorder,
tonight."
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feet. He mentioned the circumstance
to his wife, who, when night came,
insisted upon doing something to prevent
the crime.
"He was only joking ; I'm sure he
won't do it," said the deacon.
"But we must do what we can to
stop it," said she.
So they set out, and found the man
sprinkling the bridge with coal oil.
He drew out a match, but the wind
extinguished it. Finding he had no
other matches, he spied the deacon
approaching.
"Let me have a match, deacon."
The deacon horrified, refused to become
a party to it, and endeavored to
dissuade the man.
"Come, now, there are lots of matches,
and if you don't give me one, I'll
get one elsewhere; but I'd rather give
you a dollar for a match than delay
this business," said the man excitedly.
"My dear sir. think "
"I'll give you a dollar; come, be
quick interrupted the man.
,fBeye goin' to burn the bridge anyway
?" asked the deacon, slowly fumbling
in his vest pocket.
'Yes, I am."
The wife caught hold of the deacon's
coat tails to pull him away.
"Now come, wife. It's my duty to
look out for an honest penny. I'm
the one that's to support" the family.
My taxes are pretty heavy, and I
must lighten 'em by every buisiness
like method and wrenching himself
from the grasp of his helpless wife, he
handed the match over, repeating the
question?
"You be a-goin' to burn the bridge
away ?"
"Yes," said the man.
"Well, then I wash my hands of the
whole business," suid the deacon, as
he backed away. 1
A moment more, and the structure
was in flames. Wlio in the sight of
God and eternity, is the most responsible
for the burning of that bridge?
And yet the attitude of thousands of
Christians on the liquor question is
that of the deacon. That wliich lightens
taxes appeals to them with tremendous
logic. "The business will
be carried on anyway, and we might
as well get what* financial benefit there
i3 in it." God have mercy on soch
sordid co-workers of iniquity. So far
from washing their hands of the whole
business, in the flippant way they im
agme, the day of judgement win reveal
the awful fact, their palsied hands
won't wash.
When Women Should Marry.
Probly the best time for the average
civilized woman to marry would be
any age between 24 and 36. It is not said
that no woman should marry earlier
or later than either of these "ages; but
youth and health and vigor are ordinarily
at their highest perfection between
those two periods. Very early
marriages are seldom desirable for girls
and that for many reasons. The brain
is immature, the reason is feeble and
the character unformed. The considerations
which would prompt a girl to
marry at 17 would in many cases have
very little weight with her at 24 At
17 she is a child, at 24 a woman.
Where a girl has intelligent parents
the seven years between 17 and 24 are
the period when mind and body are
most amendable to wise discipline,
and best repay the thought and toil
devoted to their development. Before
17 few girls have learned to understand
what life is, what discipline is, what
duty is. They cannot value what.is
best, either in father's wisdom or in
the mother's tenderness. When married
at that childish period they are
like young recruits taken fresh from
the farm and the work shop, and hurried
off to a long campaign without
any period of preliminary drill and
training, or like a schoolboy removed
from scnool to a curacy without being
sent to the universitv or to theological
hall.
Who can help grieving over a child
wife, especially i( she have children
and a husband who is an inexperienced
and possibly exacting boy-man?
The ardor of his love soon cools; the
visional* bliss of her poetical imagination
vanishes like the summer mist;
there is nothing left but disappointment
and wonder that what promised
to be so beautiful and long a day
should have clouded over almost before
sunrise.?Hospital.
Jessie had kept a journal ever since
she could write a letter; but she would
not let any body see it.
One day her mother asked her why
she would not let any body see it.
She said "I have a secret, mamma."
"But you must tell me all your secrets.
dear," said her mother.
"Mamma," said Jessie very softly,
"I have a secret with God. God helping
me to be a better girl; and I am
writing in my journal what I have
done every day tbat will please God."
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Company Manners.
BY SENEX SMITH.
"I wish that we always had company
at our house," said little Jennie Brown
to me the other day.
"Why?" I asked.
"Because mamma is so pleasant and
smiling Jien. If I go into the parlor,
she says, 'Jennie, my clear, come and
speak to Mr?. Smithbut as soon as
the visitors are gone, she says: 'Jennie,
you lazy girl, what business had
you to come in while I was talking
with Mrs. Smith? You know that
you ought to have been shelling the
peas.' And then she shakes me, and
keeps scolding at me, and tells father,
when he comes home, what a good-fornothing
girl I am."
I was sorry for Jennie. And I fear
that she is not the only little girl that
would like to have company, because
mamma is so much kinder to her before
folks than when they are alone.
How cruel it is to lavish our smiles
and kind words on mere acquaintances,
and treat coldly or unkindly those
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happiness depends so largely upon our
treatment of them. An Apostle exhorts
his readers to "show piety at
home," and he might have aaded politeness.
Indeed, truly pious men or
women will not have two kinds of
manners, but'always be patient and
gentle, whether at home or abroad.
On this point I have just heard.
A GOOD STORY.
A young lady to whom John Wils?n
was engaged, was visiting at his mother's.
John had a bright little sister
who became very fond of the visitor.
One day when they were alone together,
the child said: "Miss Jones, I
wish that you would stay at our house
always." The prospective bride, with
a sweet blush, responded, "Do you
like me so well that you would be glad
to have me for a sister?" "Yes," said
Anna; "but that's not what I was
thinking about. When you are not
here, John is horrid. He scolds us little
ones and bangs us about all the
time."
Miss Jones was startled. She had
thought that John was a particularly
amiable young man. She had noticed,
with great satisfaction, how kind he
was to the younger children when in
her presence. Was it possible that this
was all put on? She would not for the
world marry a man who was really
cross and harsh to such a little darling
as Anna. She determined to investigate
the matter. She managed to be
present, but unseen, when John came
where the children were at play in the
barn. As soon as he was near enough
to be heard, he cried out angrily:
"You little brats, you have no business
here. Get out of the barn this minute.
or I'll give you a good trouncing."
That was enough for Miss Jones.
Such an elder brother would not be
likely to make a good husband.. The
engagement ring was returned, and
the bride-elect went home feeling that
she had made a providential escape.
John's lesson was a severe one, but
he deserved it. I advise all the girls to
tind out how their admirers behave at
home before they swallow their taffy
and say "Yes." A coarse-grained and
brutal man may put on fine clothes
and fine manners, and thus try to get
a wife; but as soon as the honey-moon
is over the old nature will assert itself,
and woe to the woman who has become
his slave for life !
And if that young man, who has
been trained by a loving mother in a
true home, wants to secure a wife who
is amiable as well as beautiful, let him
try to find out what kind of a daughter
or sister she is. If she is not gentle,
kind, and patient in the old home, she
will not be in the new.
When First Known.?First jury,
970.
Pins made, 1450.
Needles used, 1545.
First cast iron, 1544.
Affltrhoo mnHo
Surnames used, 1162.
First newspaper, 1494.
Coal used as fuel, 1834.
Lead pencils used, 1596.
Window glass used, 614.
First gold coin, B. C. 266.
Tobacco introduced, 1583.
First steam railroad, 1830.
First wheel carriage, 1559.
First postage stamps, 1840.
Kerosene introduced, 1826.
First illuminating gas, 1792.
Electric light invented, 1874.
Iron found in America, 1815.
First insurance, marine, 1533.
First American express, 1821.
Musical notes introduced, 1338.
Latin ceased to bespoken, 580.
Bible translated into Saxon, 637.
Gunpowder used by Chinese, 80.
Bible translated into Gothic, 872.
Photographs first introduced, 1802,
Old Testament finished, B. C. 430Emancipation
proclamation, 1863. j
Paper made by Chinese, B. C. 220, !
Bible translated into English, 1534.
Japanese Politeness.?When,
guests arrive, say for dinner, the politeness
of paradise is let loose. With,
great apparent hesitation they enter,,
bowing low with their hands on their
knees if they are men, or dropping on
their knees and touching their foreheads
almost to the ground if they are>
ladies. The first Japanese salutation,
corresponds exactly to the Norwegian
"Tak for sidst"?"Thanks for the
pleasure had the last time I met you."
mis, nowever, is due memerest Deginning
of Japanese greeting. A conversation
something after the following
style ensues
"I beg your pardon focr my rudeness
on the last occasion."
"How can you say such a thing
when it was I who failed to show you
due courtesy?"
"Far from it! I received a lesson
in good manners from you."
"How can you condescend to come
to such a poor house as this?"
"How can vou, indeed, be so kind
as to receive such an unimportant person
as myself under your distinguished
roof?"
All this punctuated with low bows
and the sound of breath sucked, rapidly
in between the teeth, expressive
of great expressment.
Look once again, poor heart, into
thine own bosom, and see whether
thou findest not some strength sent into
thee which thou didst overlook before.
This may be, yea, is very ordinary
in this case when God answers
our prayej not in the letter, or when
the thing itself is sent; but it comes in
at the back door, while we are expecting
it at the fore; and truly thus the
friend thou art looking for may be in
thine house.
It is easier to pretend to be what you
are not than to hida what you really
are.
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The American Revolution.
BY JOHN HEMMENWAY.
Moboeracy was greatly strengthened
by deeds done in the time of the Rev
olution.
The destruction of three cargoes o
tea in Boston harbor by men disguisec
as American Indians, I blush to say
has been and still is, highly approved
by thousands of our people who desire
to be known as our most virtuous
Christain citizens; and many whc
have favored and engage in the violence
of mobs point in justification oi
their principles and conduct with pride
to the "patriots of the American Revolution."
The Revolution has given us one day
in a year on which common sense,
temperance, and religion are grossly
insulted. How many on that day ol
uproarious and vain martial show and
Earade and burning of gunpowdei
ave lost their limbs and their lives,
and many have on that day first begun
to be drunkards. It may be truly said
that more folly and vice prevail on the
fourth day of July in our country than
on any otner day in the year. The
Philanthropist may well shudder with
horror when that day of revelry arrives
and sincerely rejoice when it is
past.
In our consideration of the Ameri
can Revolution, we must not lorget
that it has greatly increased a military
spirit in our country. The military
spirit is directly contrary to the
Christian spirit. That great and good
man, the late Dr. Wayland, President
of Brown University, argues very
ably in his Elements of Moral Science'
that "the cultivation of a military
spirit is the cultivation of a great curse
to a community."
I cannot refrain from giving in this
place the sentiments ana feelings, on
a military spirit and life, of one of the
very best ministers of the gospel of
modern times, the Rev. Leigh Richmond,
of England, who died in 1872,
author of the tracus, "The Dairyman's
Daughter" and "Little Jane, the
Young Cottagers," which have had a
very extensive circulation, and done
much more good than all the military
books and biographies of warriors that
have been written since the advent of
Christ. Mr. Richmond at one time
saw with much sorrow that his youngest
son was pleased with military parade
and inclined to a soldier's profession,
and he said, "Anything but
this, anything but this?the very mention
of a military life Alls me with
horror. I cannot bear to think of a
child of mine engaging in scenes of
bloodshed and destruction. No consideration
could extort my consent."
To his daughter we wrote; "There
is a subject which often hangs heavy
on my spirits, I mean my poor dear
son's inclination for a military life.
Hating war as I do from my very heart
convinced as I am of the inconsistency
of it with real Christianity and looking
on the profession of arms as irreconcilable
with the crosDel. I should
mourn greatly if one of my boys chose
so cruel, and generally speaking, so
profligate a line of life. I could never
consent to it on conscientious grounds,
and therefore wish, this bias for the
profession of arms to be discouraged.
I dislike and oppose it with my
whole heart.
Now let us remember that if there
had been no Revolutionary War we
have no reason to believe tnere would
now be any military schools nor any
navy iD our country, and peace would
have prevailed throughout our land,
which would now be a paradise of
beauty and of love. It may be safely
said that the American Revolution
was the great blunder and crime of the
eighteenth century. And had the
leading minds among the American
people in 1776 been, as they ought to
nave been, of the spirit of William
Penn, aud above all. of the spirit of
Jesus Christ, founder of the Christian
religion, there would have been no
war between American and Great
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more glorious in true glory it would
have been for America and mankind,
as well as for honor of a people professing
to be governed by the principles
of Christianity?true Christianity,
which never allows of doing evil that
good may come, and which is always
willing to suffer wrong rather than do
wrong.
It is truly amazing that any intelligent
person claiming to be a follower
of Christ, the Prince of Peace?believing
in loving enemies and returning
good for evil, holding to his "golden
rule," "As ye would that men
should do to you do ye even so to
them," should for once seriously presume
to justsfy the crimes and
cruelties of the war for the independence
of the United States.
i wm Dnag me suDject nume uj my
own bosom in all candor as a Chrisian
and a patriot. I am now about 70
years old, and lived for about 49 years
with one of the best women for wife
that God ever gave to man. I am
blessed with four excellent Christian
children. We were all born and we
still live in the United States of America,
except the dear wife and mother,
who five years ago left her native land,
full of peace and love, for the ^yorld
of everlasting peace, where "love is
the joy forever." Now I may safely
say that I have had my full share of
all the nappiness and the glory that
have come to my country in consequence
of the American Revolution,
and I deliberately say, standing as I
do near the eternal world, that all the
happiness I have enjoyed as coming to
me through the effect of the Revolution
has not equaled the sorrow I have felt
for the death of a single man, either
American or Britain, that fell on the
field of battle or was shot as a deserter
from either army ; and do not covet
the feelings of any man who will coolly
say that the war of the Revolution
has paid him for the destruction of one
human life. These words of an eminent
statesman of the old world have
lived deep and bright in my memory
forty years: "No political change is
worth a single crime, or above all a single
human life."
Had I room in this article on the
justice and consequences of the American
Revolution, I might speak at
length on the vast sums or money
spent in our country for war purposes
and as the fruits of war since 1775 in
supporting armies, in the building vessels
of war, in forts, in destruction of
property, in waste of time by soldiere
in the vigor of manhood, and in pensions,
in all amounting to many thousands
of millions of dollars, a sum so
vast as to defy a clear comprehension
of. Could this all have been spent for
the best interests of the people in a
perpetual peace, our land would now
be an Eden of moral and natural beauty?for
be it remembered, as I have
siad, that we have no sound reasons tc
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believe that our country would ever
have seen the war of 1812 with Great
Britain, or the Mexican War or Civil
1 War, if there had been no Revolution
ary War.
The more I have studied the history
f of the American Continent and of
I Europe since the middle of the eigh,
teenth century, the more I am conI
vinced that the American Revolution,
! though approved by the most of the
! wise and good men of the country was
> truly a great blunder and a great crime
from which our country and Chrisf
tendom will not recover* for ages to
s come.
Before I close I must allude to the
fact that our Reyolution has. had a
r powerful effect in kindling the fires of
, revolution and war in Mexico and
r South America. Those parts of Amerf
ica copied the example of our country,
[ and as they professed "fought gallant
ly for liberty," but not being an intel,
ligent and virtuous people their liberty
i did not prove a real blessing to them;
I and what saved our own country from
complete moral ruin and a wretched
evil government was, not the power
gained or kept by the sword, but the
religious ana virtuous principles and
characters of our people, maintained
after the war.?Garland, Maine, December
lg, 1883.
A Voice from the Sand wich Islands.
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Take courage, then, beloved brother;
take courage, all ye sonn of peace.
"Let the children of Zion be joyful in
their King." Put on the "Breastplate
of Righteousness" and the "Helmet of
Salvation;" grasp the "Shield of
Faith," and draw the "Sword of the
Spirit." These weapons are not carnal,
but they are "mighty through
God."
We preach no war gospel to the Hawaiian
8. No war of nations, of races
or of sects, and God has honored the
"gospel of peace" and truth. We
have enjoyed profound peace in this
once savage and blood-soaked land for
fifty years. Professed Christian ships
ana Christian fighters have often come
here to draw our fire, and they have
, drawn it to their discomfiture and
shame. When they threatened, we
prayed. When they drew their flashing
sabres/ we unsheathed "the sword
of the Spirit." When they "cleared
decks for action," removed tempions
loaded with infernal missiles, and
lighted the Tlutonic match, we opened
the batteries of the Law and Gospel
upon them, and discharged park after
park of heaven's high artillery.
Thus, and thus only, have the batteries
of our foes been silenced, and the
"Prince of Peace," the great "Captain
of our salvation," has slain his enemies
"with the sword of his mouth."
While the vast armies of enlightened
and boasting Christian nations are rolling
and raging like ocean waves under
the lashings and howlings of the
tempest, and while they are soaking
the earth with human gore, and causing
it to tremble under their infernal
charges, and toss up its awfnl wails of
anguish and terror to the heavens, we
are permitted to tut m peace unaer our
vines and fig-trees, with "none to
make us afraid."
If Christian nations will let us
alone, or if they will come to us only
"in the fulness of the blessings of the
gospel of peace," these islands will
"learn war no more," and never again
will "violence be heard in our land, or
wasting or destruction be seen within
, our borders." "Peace and good will"
constitutes the very essence of the gospel,
and when men love and practice
the right, there will be true peace.
Hitherto, "the nations have been
mad !" and that madness has infected
and paralyzed the churches. But the
day is breaking. The long, sad, dreary
night of selfish ambition, of cruel hate
and revenge, is passing slowly away,
and the glorious sun of righteousness,
so long obscured by the clouds and
hustling storms of human passions, is
coming forth rrom tne aarjtness 01
ages to "shine more and more unto the
perfect day."
I do long to see the whole church
arise and shine in the light of God. I
long to see all her ministers "put on the
armor of light," and all her members
walking "as children of light." And
I long to see all who love peace, give of
the silver and cold, which God says
"are mine," to help this blessed heaven-born
work.
When Christians will give onetenth,
or one-hundredth, of what they
give to support the cruel and diabolical
art of war, for the cause of peace, that
blessed angel will again come forth
from heaven on joyful wings, and proclaim,
amidst the acclamations of
countless hosts of earth and heaven,
that, "peace on earth" is an accomplished
fact. God of eternal love, hasten
it.
I long to see all the children of our
Sabbath-schools throughout Christendom
instructed in the principles of
peace, and thoroughly permeated wi th
this radical gospel doctrine. I fear
that this kind of teaching is, in many
cases, too much neglected, if not, in
some schools, ignored; aud, instead, a
national vanity, and a false patriotism
inculcated.
It is a sad and painful sight to wit
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children in view of the gilded trappings
and glittering show of military
glory. Did holy or fallen angels first
deck and paint a military review?
And who are those who attempt to
throw glinting light over a battle-field,
while they throw a mantle over all
that is ghastly and infernal ? O, that
art would cease to paint in false colors,
and the limner dip his pencil only in
the light of heaven.
She Awoke too Soon,?"For forty
long years have my good old wife and
I traveled hand in hand adown life's
thorny road," 9aid old Deacon Gush at
an apple-paring party the otber evening,
ana in all those years not one
single harsh, hasty, unkind word has
passed our lips when speaking to each
other. Isn't that true, mother ?"
Mother had quietly fallen asleep on
the sofa by Mr. Gush's side, and as he
laid his hand caressingly on her shouli
der she gave a little snort of defiance
and said, sharply:
1 "Get up yourself and build the fire
Sam Gusli. I built it last, and I'll see
, you in Guinea before I'll build it this
> morning, you?oh?oh?I?I?why,
i where am I ? I guess I dropped off to
, sleep."
And I guess you'd better have stayed
, asleep, Lizy Gush," hissed Samuel into
her ear as the crowd around the sofa
1 made a rush for the door and dark
k corners, where giggliug and tittering
, could be indulged in freely.
If I am faithful to the duties of the
! present, God will provide for the fu>
ture. >
Six Short Rales.
As Brownlow North lay on his
death-bed he enjoyed, according to his
own confession, "perfect peace." To a
by-stander he said : "You are young,
in good health* and with the prospect
of rising in the army ; I am dying,
but if the Bible is true, and I know it
is, I would not change places with you
for all the world." Mr. North wrote
the practical counsels which follow :
1. Never neglect daily private prayer;
and when you pray, remember
that God is present, and that he hears
your prayers.?Heb. xi. 6.
2. Never neglect daily private Bible-reading;
and when you read, remember
that God is speaking to you,
and that you are to speak ana act upon
what he says. I believe that all
back-slidings begins with the neglect
of these two rules.?John v. 39.
{!. Never let a day pass without trying
to do something for Jesus. Every
night reflect on what Jesus has done
for you, and then ask yourself, What
am I doing for him ??Matt. v. 13?16.
4. If ever you are in doubt as to a
thing being right or wrong, go to your
room and kneel down and ask God's
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cannot do this, it is wrong. Rom. xiv.
23.
5. Never take your Chirstianity
from Christians, or argue that, - because
such people do so and so, therefore you
may.?2 Cor. x. 12. You are to ask
yourself, How would Christ act in my
place ? and strive to follow him.?John
x. 27.
6. Never believe what you feel, if it
contradicts God's word. Ask yourself,
Can what I feel be true, if God's word
is true ? and if both cannot be true, believe
God, and make your own heart
the liar.?Rom. iii. 4; 1 John v. 10,11.
Restlessness.
I know of nothing in our own day
more painfully and surely indicative
of the interior wrongness of our life
than the inability every-where manifest
to rest and be quiet. No life was
6ver healthy and strong in which
there was not a central rest, and something
to support and feed that reet.
But in our day the question, "What
shall I do next?" is asK before we have
well finished that which went before.
And so much of our activity is blind,
purposeless. It is merely wasting and
consuming time. There is no virtue
in it, and no intelligence in it; consequently
no profit. Life does not become
purfied, or strengthened, or enriched,
or made happier thereby. It is
simply squandered. Now, all this is
not simply wrong; it is foolish. It is
not simply harmless activity; it is the
activity that comes from internal hollowness
of nature. We congratulate
ourselves on being the most "alive"
people in the world, which means, in
Slain English, the most restlessness.
!ut mere restlesssness has no inherent
virtue or goodness in it. It simply den/>l/ui
fVio nnaoMainn r?f vitftlihr. vhiflh
vitality may be altogether uneducated
and untrained. In every useful life
there must be internal rest. There
must be something believed in so firmly
and so continuously that it holds to
itself the mind and the heart. Therefore
it is that the apostle says, "Be ye
steadfast, unmovable."
Keep Still.
Keep still. When trouble is brewing,
keep still. "When slander is getting
on to its legs, keep still. When
your feelings are hurt, keep still, till
you recover from your excitement at
any rate. Things look differently
through an unagitated eye. In a commotion
ence I wrote a letter, and sent
it, and wished I had not. In my later
years I had another commotion, and
wrote a lbng letter; but life had rubbed
a little sense into me, and I kept
that letter in my pocket against the
day when I could look it over without
tears. I was glad I did. Less and less
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It geemeu necessary to bciju it. jl woo
not sure it would do any hurt, but .in
my doubtfulness I leaned to reticence,
and eventually it was destroyed.
Time works wonders. Wait till you
can speak calmly, and then you will
not need to speak, may be. Silence is
the most massive thing conceivable
sometimes. It isstrength in its very
grandeur. It is like a regiment ordered
to stand still in the mad fury of battle.
To plunge in were twice aa easy.
The person who complacently admits
that any favorite sin is his "besetting
sin" may be sure that no sin so thoroughly
besets him as a certain willingness
to be beset by any sin. And yet
most persons seem to feel relieved of a
certain burden of responsibility when
they have catalogued an evil desire, or
habit:, in themselves, as their besetting
sin. Because they speak of it as their
besetting sin, they seem to regard it as
a possession necessary to the completeness
of their character as a sinner. If
the discovery and stigmatizing of one's
besetting sin, means a fixed determination
to exterminate it, that would be
one thing. But if it means, as too often
it does, that it is to be accepted and
borne with as one of the natural constituents
of every human personality;
that the possessor of it has labeled it
and put it by to keep as a part of his
moral cabinet; that every other weakness
and fault and sin is to be eradicated
while this is to be let alone so as to
fulfil the supposed necessity of a sin
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Her uuviu^ a. uesebiiiig niu,?tuai to
quite another thing. Let us realize
that there is no more virtue in besetting
sins than in other sins.
Teach the Colts.?Colts can be
taught by mind as well as children,
and this is the first requisite. A colt
that will obey a moderate tone in the
stable will obey the same outdoors, but
confidence is the one thing needful. A
colt should be curried until he is used
to the comb and brush. Should be
made acquainted with the pitchfork
and convinced that a fork is harmless.
Should let you poke the handle under
or over him, or rub his back with the
round side of the tines. If I accidentally
prick a colt, I at once tell him I
am sorry, and rub the spot with my
hand. Ropes, straps and cloths should
be laid, dragged and thrown across the
colt's back carefully but persistently
till he will hardly notice them. Then
blankets and robes may be used. If
you want to roll a barrel through the
stable, don't take the colt out, but go
ahead of the barrel, never behind it,
and gradually get it near enough for
the colt to smell it. If he finds a few
oats on the head of the barrel, he will
never be so much afraid of a barrel
again. Umbrellas and overcoats
Bhould be used in the same way, and
then when your colt is old enough to
hitch up you will have a safe horse.
['Farm, Stock and Home.
*>i Wft can do more good by being good
than in any other way.
Speaking' Oat.
(Central Christian Advocate,
Nothern Methodist.)
Two incidents connected with the
Inaugural Centennial continue the
subject of conversation and newspaper
writing: Bishop Potter's address at St.
Paul's and the disgraceful conduct of
the closing hours of the Centennial
ball. The readers of the secular papers
are much better informed in regard U
the former than the latter. The Republican
press especially has been verj
tender ana charitable in regard to th?
drunkards and very'courageous in censuring
the Bishop.. The political managers
for the most part believe in
wine drinking, and they do not relish
the truth told about themselves by the
preachers, and it is much easier for
them to snub a preacher than the committee
in charge of a public ball. We
wish to say that no charge of ill conduct
lies against the presidential party,
or indeed any one of national reputation,
so liar as we have heard. And,
on the other hand, we stand with
Bishop Potter. His criticism of machine
politics and the spoils system
was truthful and courageous. When
is life is written, probably nothing in
it will receive more honorable mention
than this speech. It was not aimed
at the President, as the partisan
press have tried to make it appear in
nrrtar tn nhtalrl t.hp nnlitlnftl managers.
It is a great and sad defect in oar
Presbyterian system that it has no apgointed
and so authorized agency for
ringing together our unoccupied ministers
and vacant churches. We have
between four or five hundred of the
former, most of them excellent and
able men, now providentially out of
the pastorate?men as able and spiritual
as any who are in it, who cannot
speak for themselves, and who are saddened
and despondent that they are
not engaged in their loved and chosen
work of the ministry, though of all
things they most long to be engaged
in ministerial service for the Master.
And so we have between twelve and
fifteen hundred vacant churches, more
or less losing, if not suffering, for want
of faithful pastors, while we have no
systematic and authorized agency for
aiding them to supply themselves
with a settled ministry. By the Methodist
system every church has its minister
and every minister has Ibis
church, unless he is disabled by sickness
or the infirmities of age, in which
case he is placed on the retired or superannuated
list, with comfortable provision
for support to the end of his days.
Ben Fbakkxix's Money.?In
1890 will end the term of hundred
years during which the cities of Boston
and Philadelphia have each enjoyed
the revenue from a bequest of $5,000
made by Benjamin Franklin.
The money was to be loaned out to
young married artificers and the: the
trust has been executed; although the
lapse of the century requires a new
disposition of the funds. It is significant
that while in Boston the $5,000,
has grown to nearly $328,000, in Philadelphia
the $5,000 has beoome only
$70,000, and in both oases the amount
is less than Franklin estimated it
should be. But as the natural philosophers
of Franklin's day generally fell
short of the sage in ingenuity,, so too
the successive boards of trustees have
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Deen rar irum eqiuu iu mm iu uubiucsb
ability. It is interesting to note, however,
tbat the two funds still exist,
and tbat part of the Boston reserve
goes in the purchase of a public recreation
ground to be known as Franklin
Park.?The Electric World.
Keep an Account.?As the census
year began June 1,1889, and will end
May 31,1890, in order to show the extent
and vast importance of the agricultural
interest of our country, every
farmer should keep a strict itemized
account of every product of the farm
for this period, and be prepared to
hand in to the canvasser, when he
comes around, a correct invoice of the
productions of the form, and let him
enumerate everything that has been
?nf all tr I nHo oil litro
Ittiacu.?WUUS VI OU AiMUOf Hi* UTV
stock, poultry, etc. Also keep an account
of everything sold daring this
census period. It will prove as valuable
to the farmer as the census-taker,
and, once commenced, will, no doubt,
be kept up, and such a record will be
found valuable for reference on many
accounts. A correct enumeration of
all farm products will show the farm
interests exceed all others in this country.?Baltimore
Sun.
Some people are afraid of anything
like joy in religion. They have none
themselves, and they do not love to
see it in others. Their religion is
something like the stars, very high
and very clear, but very cold. When
they see tears of anxiety, or tears of
joy, they cry out, "Enthusiasm!
Enthusiasm!" "I sat down under his
shadow with great delight." Is this
enthusiasm ? "May the God of hope
fill you with all ioy and peace in believing."
If it Be really in sitting under
the shadow of Christ, let there be
no bounds to our joy. Oh! if God
would but open our eyes and give us
simple, child-like faith to look to
Jesus, to sit under his shadow, then
woula songs of joy rise from all our
dwellings.
Never hurt any one's self-respect.
Never trample on any soul, thougn it
may be lying in the veriest mire; for
that last spark of self-respect is its only
hope, its only chance; the last seed
of a new and better life; the voice of
God which still whispers to it, "You
are not what you ought to be, and you
are not what you can be; you are still
God's child, still an immortal soul.
You may rise yet and conquer yet and
be a man yet, after the likeness of God
who made you, and Christ who died
for you." O why crush that voice in
any heart? If you do, the poor creature
is lost, and lie where he or she
fall?, and never tries to rise again.
Two things from Burdette both
worth repeating.
1. Goa doesn't ask much of us now.
No voice comes from heaven saying,
"Take now thy son, thine only son,
whom thou lovest, and offer him."
But when you ask some men for $10 for
the church, you would think by the
horrified countenance that you had
asked them to sacrifice the whole family
i
2. It's the easiest thing in the world
to invent a new religion any fool can
do that. It is a thousand times easier
to invent a new religion than to live up
to the old one.
One of the latest inventions is a three
cornered steel nail that will drive easily
and will not split the wood.
The BaHng Passion*
Speed is the ruling idea of the age.'
Even the traveler in search of health
is in a hurry, and insists on combining
the excitement of a match against
Time with the pursuit of Hygeia.
Fifteen miles an hour over the surfaoe
of a glorious river winding through
the finest scenery in the world, doee
not satisfy the man of leisure on ft .
summer excursion. He prefers ft
straight rush through seas or dost and
a storm of dnderti at thrice the pace.
He votes the steamboat a "slow
ooach," and takes the express train,
from which he can distinguish no feature
of the vanishing landscape as it
A- Al_ _ - - LIM
streams to uie row, ouu iua
stars that he is darting over tb.e earth's
surface at a rate which rendered
bean ties undlsttngnfahable.
But perhaps, after all, the passion
for rapid tmotlon is no stronger now
than before steam was pot in harness.
The hitman racefas naturally prone to
velocity. Nothing in thei story of
Jack the Giant-killer delights children m
so much as the episode of the sevenleagued
boots, ana we remember the
flying carpet and aerial-steed of the
Arabian Nights' Entertainments,
when all the "slower" results of enchantment
are forgotten. Sixty yean
ago a carriage and four was considered /.
a spirit-stirring arrangement, and postboys
were feed munifloently to keep
their cattle on the gallop. The liber- ality
of the old woman who offered
her bacon to feed the fornaoe of a
Mississippi steamboat when its rival
was getting ahead was prompted by
the same instinct which moved oar ; ^
ancestors to bribe the postillions of ' ,
their day to ply the whip and spur. 'M
It is useless to reason against the
general desire to push ahead. It is hu- .
man nature. All the resources of art
and science are laid under contribution
to aooompliah this grand object,
and the most wonderful of all modern : . t
wonders is the progress of progression.
A voyage across the Atlantic was a six - Jj
or eight weeks' affair within the reool- '<%.
lection of some of us; but now, steamers
occasionally slip over in from six
to eight dayB!
And speed is the word on the Boad >
of Life as on the pnblio highways.
From the universal anxiety of the aotive
classes to make the most ofevvy' ,J'0
moment, one might suppose that the
clock of Time was pretty near its final / m
tick, and that mankind, aware of the
fact, were afraid of being canght at the
great tine die adjournment of human affairs
with some "unfinished business"
on their hands.?N. T. Ledger.
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Christian England?Twenty-Fire Thoi
sand Dollars Jtftaj Hoar lor war
Purposes.
The Herald of Peaoc, published in
London Bays:
We thank God we are not as other *&ygg
nations, and yet we are spending for
war purposes alone ?6.681 every hoar
of every day and night throughout the
year! Since the beginning of the present
century more than four-flfthsof
i our entire expenditure has gone for
butchering otberpeople, or for prepar* > ^
ations to do that ghastly work whenever
we should be called upon. We
pride ourselves upon our philanthropy
and our missions; but it u surely time
to take some shame to ourselves as ;
well, that without the slightest protest,
or the slightest thought, we allow
more money to be spent in a year for
the destruction of property and lift,
than we have spent In philanthropy
and missions for a century.
1 Yankton, Dak., July 21.?The little
village of St. Helena, on the Nebraska '
side of the Missouri, ten miles below
Yankton, is in a state of excitement
/Kuwrnaro mutfl thflM
VfW M guwvy VMVW t I I , . 'VFT
yesterday. Men who were prospecting ft
in the chalk cliffe for material far manufacturers
of oement came upon a . \)
small opening in the Mtosourl River
face of the rook. It was found to baa
large apartment carved by nature in
the soft, chalky substanoe; but the
startling feature was the dtocovenr
within this cave of eight human skeletonB.
They were lying about tha
floor in such disorder as to discredit , -??
the theory that the cave might be an
ancient burial plaoe. The age of the
bones cannot be determined, but they
have undoubtedly been there a long
time. The belief prevails that theee
are the skeletons of early settlers, who
sought the shelter of the cave when
attacked by Indians years ago, and ^
that they were either killed in a body v
or starved to death.
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The prayer meeting contains within
itself the possibilities of the Church.
No congregation can go spiritually bo*
yond the faith, zeal ana attendance
represented therein. "The work of
my church," said a faithful pastor, "to
done in the prayer meeting." Full
houses, plainly-dressed people and decent
behavior on Sabbath are well
enough, but our victories lie in the
prayer and class meeting. Try it.
The one serviceable, safe, certain, remunerative,
attainable quality in every
study and every pursuit to the
quality of attention. My own lnven- {
Uon, or imagination, such as it to, I
can most truthfully assure you, would
never have served me as it has dqc ror
the habit of commonplace, hamble,
patient, dally, toiling, drudging atten- M,
Son.
Herein is found one of the chief reasons
for pressing our work of Church
Extension vigorously. The Ohurch of
God ought to keep abreast these wave*
of Western migration. The Church
ought to appear before the saloon.
8uch cannot be the case without soma
such instrumentality as the Charoh
Extension Board. Men who hava
turned their backs on churches, and
have gone to churchless regions for
gold, cannot be depended on to build
churches. JBZc.
If your preacher is a studious man,
it is probable that he needs a book
which he has not the money to buy.
T* Id o1on nrnhfthl# fhftt, vnil nRVft mnn?
ey enough to buy him the book ha
needs. Buy it and send it to him
anonymously, and then see if you
don't have some new, fresh, inspiring
j thoughts from his pulpit that will do
your soul good. A good book is the
best gift to a thoughtful preacher. It
beats overcoats and silk hats all to
pieces.
You may preach the law of God, and
remain on tne level of paganism. The
Greek philosophers and poets did that.
You may preach the universal tfatberhood
of God, and remain on a level of
Judaism. Moses and David and Isaiah
did that. John and Paul did more.
Fear rules paganism. Hope smiles in
the Old Testament. Assurance is the
ringing key-note of the gospel.