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By HUGH WILSON.
ABBEVILLE, S.C.
Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1889.
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The Hou^li Dlainnixi.
Two stones lay on a lapidary's (able.
They were brothers, though one knew
not the fact. How was it possible for
/ the rough, un-dshily lump to imagine
that it had anything in common?except
(by accident) situation?with the
sparkling gem it almost touched?
The rough diamond sighed, and with
the courage of persona! d-.spair spoke:
"If I could shine like you for just
one day, I think I would be content,
and never trouble what happened afterwards
; but that is quite out of the
question. Ugh ! how ugly I am !"
Was it that a bright sunbeam kissed
at that instant the polished jewel, or
* . was it that a smile trickled over all its
wL brilliant facets. It was not a haughty
y gem. it nau suriereu iuu wuiu m
reason for that. It made grave and
enigmatical reply:
"Who kuows? You may surpass
me yet."
"Never!"
And the thing did seem impossible.
But the half-amused, half-sympathizing
friend had no opportunity to explain,
for the lapidary had come back,
and his hand speedily lifted the uncut
stone out of sight and hearing of its
fellow. /
To what keen, racking agony was
not the rough diamond subjectedHow
the wheels flew! How all the
world became a whirring chaos! A
bitter punishment surely for being
plain?as if want of beauty was a fault
the stone itself might have mended,
yet had refrained ! And how prolonged
the terrible, excruciating ordeal!
Yes: but when next the two gems
met, as they ui? ere iou<;, me reinsurance
which hail once been so emphatically
refused was entirely justified.
"You are indeed a more flawless gem
than myself," said the unenvious companion
; "it is our master's verdict."
Richest beauty has been won unawares?by
submission.
Faith and Character.
The faith that has so much to do
with the formation of a true character
is more than mere opinion. It is J
something warmer than any intellectual
belief?something that touches the i
affections and daily hopes; and yet we 1
all do well to guard ourselves, even
here, lest the ground of our re.igiou
ovn?ri?ndft bemerelv evanescent feel
ing.
It is not unusual that the very indi
viduals who deem themselves in the
least danger of failing upon one of
these extremes are really in the greatest
peril. Tendencies to an undue exaltation
of the intellect in spiritual
concerns, are often present when we
least expect it; while, on the other
hand, that service which men render
to God chiefly because of the happiness
produced by it is, without their
realizing it, positively hurtful to religions
nlinrnfiler.
Watchfulness in all things is the
price of all character-building?watch- '
fulness through the Spirit's aid ; In the '
.habitual mindfulness of our own 1
weakness; in a growing desire to be
wholly the Lord's; in an habitua^ '
spirit of supplication, and in a lively 1
sense of the present intercessions of 1
Jesus in our behalf.
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Jesus.?Oh, He is a sweet Master! ,
One smile from Jesus sustains my soul ^
m amid all the storms and ft owns of this
^ world. Pray to know Jesus better, j
Have no other righteousness, no other ,
strength, but only Jesus. Oh, for ful- ,
liess out of Him! Keep looking then
to Jesus, dear soul, and you will have
the p*jace that pas.?etli all understanding.
Cleave you to Jesus; be joined to
Him by faith, and you shall be one
spirit; yo-.' shall be made warm and
vigorous and full of activity of Ciod's
service.?M'Cfoinc.
Civilization Will Xot Always Menu
Hum.
That the Iudians are capable of civilization
has been abundantly proved
by the Cherokees. There are about!
25,000 of them, of whom half are full j
blood. Thirty-five per cent, of the
national income is spent upon schools,
and fifteen per cent, upon asylums.
Tliey have a written language, and
claim that every citizen can read audi
write. Besides tbe common schools
they have four excellent academiesi
and each child is allowed a large sum
each year for its schooling. Think of
a city among us with 25,000 inhabitants
thus equipped for education!
They lack one mark of civilization,
however, they have no saloons, and
boast of less drinking among them
than among a like number in any oth- '
er community. By this sad lack some 1
of our statesmen may be discouraged J
, with respect to further attempts to civ- ]
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Iiiterprtati on.
The lamp burned low, the hour was late,
The embers died within the grate,
Yet with an anxious brow she sale,
And questioned keenly of the day
Just closed, that had been toiled away
In work that would not brook delay.
"I had notmennt,'' she sighed, "tosee
It slip my grasp, and yet. there be
No separate duty done for thee!
"This little trustful sleeper here,
Who clogs me with a love so dear,
How could I keep my conscience clear?
"So, \i orking with such full accord,
As finds therein its own reward,
I've left no margin for my .Lord."
Just then the golden head was stirred,
As in its ne.-t a crooning bird;
And then her voice siie dreamed she heard
"O, sister, such a dream I had!
So sweet and strange, it made me glad?
'"Because the king of all the land
Hail sent the people his command
To tiring hiin, each, a gift in hand.
"And in my dream I saw you there,
And liciini you >ay, 'No hands win bear
A gift that are so liiled with care.'
" 'What care?' the king ?aid; and he smiled
To hear you answer, walling wild :
'I only toil to leed a child!'
"And then with such a look divine
(T was that awaked me with its shine)
He whispered, 'l!ut the child is mine!' "
She sprang to clasp, with arms outthrown,
The little dreamer.: all was lone
And hushed; the dream had been lier own !
Margaret J. J'rexton.
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Mother's Responsibilities.
Few mothers reflect tliat the family
is merely a school for husbands and
wives, says The Rural New Yorker.
What sort of men make the best husbands?
Those who as boys had the
best mothers. The boy who will criticise
his mother's speech or dress, who
will find fault with her coffee, or bread.
will do the same with the woman who
may be so unfortunate as to give her
life's happiness into his hands. A seltish
man may be drawn out of his selfishness
through a few weeks' courtship,
but wait until .'he wear and worry
of married life comes on, and he
will inevitably settle back into it.
Love seldom radically changes a nature.
Only the grace of God can do
that, and it takes more grace, I often
think, than many people get hold of.
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ine oesmusoauu i e\ei me.,
the author of "John Halifax," came
out of a family where the mother, a
most heroic and self-denying woman,
laid down the absolute law 'Girls
first;' not in authority, but first to be
thought of in protection and tenderness.
Consequently the chivalrous
care which those lads were t.-uglit to
show to their sisters uatuially extend
itself to all women. They yew up
true gentlemen?gentlemen, generous,
unexacting, courteous of speech, and
kind of heart."
It was while reading the above that
it occurred to me how truly the mother
molds and forms the future husband.
It is a faithful responsibility, I
grant you, sisters, but the reward is a
rrlnriniio alio Tf vnn vmir cmiiu
to yield generously to shield and protect
them manfully and lovingly, not
,>nly do they make better husbauds,
jut the sisters who have been so cared
for will look for the same courtesy,
jhivalry and tenderness in the men
;hey marry, and will be satisfied with
nothing less.
Right here I want to give a quota*
:ion from Shakespeare which occurs
;o me. There isn't any special connection
of sequence in it, except that
not hers would do well to have their
laughters commit to memory this single
passage, if no other, from the
world's greatest poet. It speaks for
tself, and comment is unnecessary:
"And whilst thou livest, dear Kate,
:?ke a fellow of plain and uncoined
:onstaucy, for he perforce must do the
right, because he hath not the gift to;
woo iii other places : for these fellows
:>f infinite tongue, that can rhyme
themselves into ladies' favors, they do
ilways reason themselves out again.
What! a speaker is not a prater; a
rhyme is but a ballad. A good leg
will fail; a straight back will stoop
n black beard will turn white; a curled
pate will grow bald; a full eye will
wax hollow ; but a good heart, Kate,
is the sun and moon, or rather the sun
and not the moon ; for it shines bright
and never changes, but keeps its course
truly.''?Exch a nyc.
Cowardly men are often cruel.
Those whose nerves are so sensitive
that they shrink from the slightest
prospect of pain ought to be very careful
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others; but, strange to say, they are
not always so considerate. Brave men
are usually remarkable for kindness.
It is *aid of Sir John Franklin that he
would not kill a fly. Although tormented
by them, especially when tak"
ing observations, he would patiently
desist and carefully remove the intruders
without injuring them. The quality
of kindness is largely a habit, and
tbe result of patient and thoughtful
milfiim onr? r?nir?1t\r it: nnl- nnfuvnl
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to some persons, but is greatly augmented
by carelessness; but real heroes
have mastered themselves. ZS'o
terror affrights them, and no suffering
in other creatures affords them pleasure.
I cannot but think that the world
would be better and brighter if our
teachers would dwell on the duty of
happiness, as well as on the happiness
af duty ; for we ought to be as cheerful
as we can, if only because to be
bappy ourselves is a most effectual contribution
to the happiaees of others.
Subjection.
It not infrequently happens that
dominating and masterful men select
as wives women who are quite waling
to be dominated. So harmony reigns
in the family for a time. By and by
when children are born inheriting the
will of the father, but who must be
brought up largely by the mother, there
is possibly an interruption of the harmony,
and then the mother finds her
bands full. With a sturdy self-willed
boy to control, to train, to bring into
line and keep in line, how shall she,
accustomed to be led and to follow,
manage him ?
The answer to this question cannot
too early in the life of her child engage
her attention. Children are creatures
of habit. A child who from his earliest
days (not years) has been accustomed
to submit to a wise control, who has
had channels, for his various necessities
and activities wide and deep
enough marked out for him, will not
oe iiueiy to overleap tnose channels?
will have very little temptation to do
so. His will may have occupation
given it in the marshaling of his toys,
in the achievement of some childish
enterprise, but never in a contest with
his mother's will whenever it can be
avoided.
A mother with no power to command,
but who has a very self-willed
boy, was telling us the other day how
she managed him. When she had her
first contest with liinu she saw plainly
that she would be beaten if the battle
went on. So she quietly withdrew
from the field, telling the boy that
when he had decided to do as she
wished he might come to her, and
turning the key in the door left him
alone. In a short time lie Had conquered
himself, and signified his willingness
to obey ' his wishes. This
course she said invariably produced
the desired effect, but such was the
tender love between the mother and
child that it had to be resorted to with
less and less frequency as the years
went on.
Another mother in like case was accustomed,
whenever contests arose between
her and any one of her children,
to take the contestant apart and
pray with him or her, and this course
proved to be a good one.
The Christian mother with the Bible
in her hand ought not to shrink
from flm ilntip? involved in the ITOV
ernment of a family. If she carefully
instills into the minds and hearts of
her children the commands and precepts
of the Scriptures with regard to
obedience to parents, and is careful
that all her commauds shall be in harmony
with right and truth, she will
have small trouble in securing prompt
and cheerful obedience. The fear of
the Lord will constrain them, and
most wholesomely, to conform themselves
to parental authority.
Mow Assurance i*to l?e Attained.
flnn Rnvinr nrpsf-ribps men an unfail
ing method to assure themselves of the
truth of this doctrine (John vii: 17).
"If any one," says He, "will do the
will of the Father, he shall know of
My doctrine, whether It be of God, or
whether I speak of Myself." If men
could but be brought to look upon the
agenta of Christianity as suitable!
they would never judge the crcdenda
of it irrational. There is a strange intercourse
aud mutual corroboration between
faith and practice. For as belief
first encases nractice. so practice
strengthens aud confirms belief. The
body first imparts beat to the garment,
but the garment returns it with advantage
to the body. God beams in
peculiar evidences and discoveries of
the truth to such as embrace it in their
affections and own it, in their actions.
This note from Lord Macau lay may
be serviceable to some of the Ad coca tc
readers. At any rate, it is an interesting
reminiscence of the great historian
:
When a boy I began to read very
earnestly, but, at the foot of every
page I read, I stopped and obliged myself
to give an account of what I had
read on that page.
At first I had to read it three or four
times before I got my mind firmly fixed.
?But I compelled myself to comply
with the plan, until now, after I have
read a book through once, I can almost
recite it from beginning to the
end.
It is a very simple habit to form early
in life, and is valuable as a means of
making our reading serve the best
purpose.
Four, nil liu<l.
Four kinds of bud examples do us
luirm: (1) Those we imitate; (2)
those we proudly exult over; (3) those
which drive us into an opposite extreme
; and (4) those which lower our
standard. A man is always in danger
of being satisfied, and perhaps (more
than satisfied, if he does but excel
and excellence is relative. Whence it
comes that bad examples do much the
greater amount of evil among those
who do not follow them. For one who
is corrupted by becoming as bad as a
bad example, there are ten that are de.
based by becoming content with being
better.
Prayer and Power.
'/he Cfiristian truly says : "Multi
tudes of men and ministers may trace
their failure to their prayerlessnes*?.
They are eloquent but they do not
pray. They are enterprising, but they
do not frequent the mercy-seat. They
belong to secrets societies and clans,
but they do not know the secret of the
Lord which is with them that fear
him. Thoy may have education and
and all that learning can give them,
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sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.
They may be abundant in labor, fervid
in speech, and zealous in works, but all
this will not avail unless they have
that power and that presence which
only comes in answer to prayer.
French 'Glory/'
"I never felt more miserable, or
more indignant, or more disgusted in
my life, than when I went to Versailles,
this year, to see the great palace ot
tlic kings of France, dedicated, as they
said, 'to the glories of France.' I
found that there were twenty miles of
pictures. 1 did not walk all the twenty
miles, but I walked a good many of
them, and I was wading through
blood all the time. Blood! blood!
blood! everywhere. I wa9 horrified
when I saw the youths and maidens of
France walking through these crowded
buildings, and every picture suggesting
to them the accursed idea that
the true glory of France was to be
fouud iu killing people. Not a single
picture repesenting peace, did I see."
H. Pkice Hughes.
Zenl in Scrvice.
"The Devil held a great anniversary
|at which his emissaries were convened
to report the results of their several
missions.' 'I let loose the wild beasts
of the desert,' said one, 'on a caravan
of Christians, and their hones are now
bleaching on the sands.' "What othat?"
'I drove the east wind,' said
another. 'n?rainst a shin freighted with
Christians, and they were all drowned.'
'Whatof that?' said the Devil;
'their sduIs were all saved.' 'For ten
years I tried to get a single Christian
asleep,' said a third, 'and I succeeded
and left him so.' Then the Devil
shouted and the night stars of hell
shouted for joy."
I have been intensely interested in
the articles in The Christian by "A
Missionary." Is there not a danger,
lest we lay down one standard of right
for the missionaries abroad, and a different
one for ourselves at home. Perhone
u'ft n?nv fin finrrnmnnr nmnfallv
with all we have read in these about
the self-abnegation, the zeal, the heroism
requisite amongst thofee who go to
preach in "the dark places of the
earth," yet have not sufficiently
brought home to our own consciences
the remembrance that Christ called all
his disciples to take up the daily cross,
and follow Him. I believe there is to
each of us the danger of forgetting
that we ought not to expect more of
the missionaries in the path of self-denial
than we are willing to practice
ourselves.
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They had just begun their courtship
or?/l uravQ QiiMnnrSnnr An f V* ft ivotvlftn rrntft
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beneath the silent stars and they were
silent, too, for they were yet in the
dawning of young love and scarce
knew what to say to each other. The
silence became embarrassing and she
said:
"I must go in."
' What's your hurry?"
"Oh, we're just like two fools swinging
here and saying nothing."
"I don't know what to talk about."
"Well, I must so in."
"Wait a moment. Say, you must be
awfully troubled by the llit-s in summer
time."
UJOM
"Yes; they must light 011 you in
swarms."
"Sir?"
"Because vou're so awful sweet."
She didn't go in.
The
Japenese hitch their horses in
the street by tying their forelegs to
gether.
Wo cannot expect perfection in any
one, but we may demand consistency
of every one.
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Some one of large experience says
there are no less than eight hundred
aud twenty-seven different terms in
the English language which express
the state of being in love.
An old lady from New Bedford visited
Boston recently for the first time j
umiwiuiu viewing uie aiuuLinms ??i |
the public garden, w:is pointed out the;
bronze statue of Charles Sumner.
"Well, I declare," the old lady remarked,
"I never knew Sumner was a
colored man before."
In the early age of Rome women
were prohibited from using wine, and
hence their near relations were allowed
to salute them with a kiss, in order
that they might ascertain by the sense
of smell if they had been drinking it.
They were so fond of it, however, that
Romulus, the first King, made a law
that a husband might lull his wife for
drinking.
What Others Say.
Sunday School Times.
The higher a man's ideal of desira- <
ble attainment for himself or for others,
the higher is likely to be his and J
their measure of actual attainment; i
I vot at. Hip unnip tinui tlio locc libt.1tr lio
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i9 to be satisfied with the measure of I
attainment thus secured. In other 1
words, the larger prominence a man
gives to the work yet to be doue, the
lesser prominence he gives to that
which is done. A good illustration of
this truth is found in the feeling of a
punctual minister in Indiauna, in
view of the unpunctuality of the people
of his charge. Writing of a recent
Editorial 2sote on the subject of punctuality,
in these pag^s, he says:
In the main, I agree with the positions
you take in your editorals. But
I am constrained to difi'er from the position
you take on the question of
punctuality. You say, "He who
would have punctuality in others
must himself be punctual," to which
I do not particularly object. You say :
"If the service is announced for two
o'clock, for example, that service
ought to be well under way by one
mi mite past two." I have practiced
that rule constantly for nearly twentynine
years, Every member of my
church thoroughly well understands
that there never is, and never will be,
a delay of two seconds when the bell
ceases to toll. Then you add: "That
method of doing will secure punctuality
from any people, anywhere." I
beg your pardon. "That method of
doing" has never secured punctuality
in three parishes I have served, except
on the part of people who wilMbe punctual
in any circumstances. But they
have had the example of punctuality
set before them constantly. My conclusion
in reference to this
matter is, that tardiness is a habit
and nothing else. If some people are
ever in season at a religious service, ?t
will be because they make a mistake,
or the clock is ahead of time. My
conviction lor years has been that, it a
prayer-meeting were appointed at nine
o'clock at night, there would be no
preceptible difference in punctuality of
attendance. In short, people are not
punctual, because they do not care to
be ; and neither example, nor exhortation,
nor entreaty, will produce the
least effect in overcoming tue force of
inveterate habit.
Bishop Turner, of the A. M. E. 1
Church, in Nashville Advocate:
"Slavery was a providential institution,
not a divine institution ; for if it
had b en, it would have been as eternal
as any attribute of the Godhead.
One is temporary and contingent, the
other immutable and eternal. God
was not asleep nor oblivious to passing
events, when the negro was being captured
and brought to this country, aud
subjected to a state of unrequited servitude.
He knew the horrors of their
past and their present condition, and 1
foresaw the grand sequel which await '
ed the termination of their slave or- ''
deal. God knew .hat the slave regime,
although exceedingly pyrotech- 1
nical at times, was the most rapid
transit fnom barbarism to Christian
civilization for the negro. Xegro as I '
am, and being thoroughly acquainted i
with the characteristics of my race, I
am frank to make this declaration, odd ]
as it may seem to many." i
A p:iper must receive patronage in I
order to be first-class and first class patronage
consists in a man's paying his
subscription in advance. In nearly |
every town there are people who are
willing to lend their moral support
to a newspaper, but in a final wind-up ]
moral support doesu't pay for print, 1
paper or ink. There are people who
come in and subscribe to help you
along, but who fail to think that un- !
less they pay for their paper they are
asking you to lend them so much cash.
St. Louis Ch. A'l.
Where hundreds of children attend
the Sunday-school, and only one in '
twenty remains to the church service,
there is a radical defect somewhere?a '
defect in the pulpit, or the Sunday- 1
school or the family?where?
tartriugo 10 un tne naves.
A cartridge li?.s beeu invented by
Mr. Albert fcl. Walker, which, when
filled with oil acd discharged, will
paci y tlu roughest sea. She receptacle
is of ordinary cartridge size, but it
is made of heavy paper, and weighted
at the further end with a siiall p ece of
lead. It wiil hold about two ounces of
oil. It is fitted in an ordinary cartridge
shell, and fastened to it by means of
cotton shreds. The cartridge is put into
a breechloader and the trigger is pulled.
The cotton connecting the cartriilrrp
with th<? sihpll iu iirnitPfl liv fli(? <
?..w ? .D ?
powder. It is burned, and the car- .
tridge tilled with oil, is sent spinning (
c way over the waves. Then, at any
point the navigator may wish, the car- 1
tridge, because of the lead at its head, ;
will sink into the waves. By means ]
of these cartridges a path an tighth of
a mile broad can be made through the
heaviest of seas .?London Court Jour- 1
nal. i
Two students, walking down the road, 1
Saw donkeys coming with their load. r
The boys were full of fun. "Good-day,
Mother of asses!" shouted they; \
But mother wit put down their pride,
"Good-day, my children," she replied. ?
The Shiftless Farmer.
The following interesting picture is
3raw 11 by an exchange :
The shiftless farmer has a lifelong
imbitiou to gain a reputation for wear- ^
ing a dirty shirt.
He will alarm the neighborhood by
getting up two hours before day and
then sit around and not go to work
uutil after sun-up.
He will ride around a week looking
for a $2 hog.
He will complain of hard times, then
tear his pants climbing over a fence
where a gate ought to be.
He will pay S3 for a new bridle, an<l
then let the calf chew it to pieces before
Suu day.
He gets all his neighbors to help in
getting a cow out of the bog, then let
her die from want of attention. She
will get in and destroy his crops at a
place in his fence that he has been putting
oft' fixing for six months.
He will sprain his back lifting something
to show how strong he is.
He will go in his shirt-sleeves'^ on a
cold day to show how much he can
stand, and then return home at night
and occupy two-thirds of the fireplace
till bed-time.
He will ridicule the mechanism of a
corn-planter, then go out and smash
his thumb nailing a board on the fence.
1-Ie will go to town on Saturday and
come home with 50 cents worth of coffee,
a paper of pi us and a dollar's worth
of chewing tobacco.
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jlic cuuuuuiiuai j ccuuuuj) ir> ilia
forte; he will save 10 cents worth of
axle-grease and ruin the spindle of a
$70 wagon.
He won't subscribe for a newspaper,
but will borrow from his friend and
forget to return it.
?.
A Good Cow.?The "minister in
search of a cow" assorts that a good
cow, like a good business man, will
have some visible assets. If she has
much milk, she will have a place to
keep it in. she should have a good,
generous udder, which is shapely after
milking, its four sections keeping seperate
individually and maintaining the
'square" formation. If it at all falls
together, like an old glove, she may
have any amount of indorsements, but
she won't have milk. The minister's
hints may serve as a guide to other
and more secular people.
A good suggestion.?"Mamma,"
3U1U ^\111CU| JL lUlt't? jJJUjeid
and the Lord answered two of them.
Do you think He will answer the other
?
"I think He will ruy dear. What
were the prayers ?"
"One was that he would make you
well, and you're not sick any more.
Another was that he would make papa
more kind."
Yes, dear. Now what was the
third ?
"I prayed that God would keep us
children from quarreling; but He
hasn't answered that yet, for Daisy
and I quarreled dreadful to-day."
"Ah, my son, you will have to help
rlioT.nr/l t/% onenrnv tlmt "
I have lived tu know that the secret of
aappiness is never to allow your energies
to stagnate.
He who reigns within himself, and
rules passions, desires, and fears, is
aiore than a king.
I would give nothing for that man's
religion, whose very dog and cat are
ut the better for it.
Wickedness may prosper for a while;
but, in the long run, he who sets knavesat
work will pay them.
Prosperity often makes a man a vor
tcx instead of a fountain, so instead of
throwing out he learns to draw in.
The tale-bearer and the tale-hearer
should both be hung up back to back,
ane by the tongue and the other by the
jars.
All of lis who are worth anything
3pend our manhood in unlearning the
follies or expiating the mistakes of
youth.
Personal work for Christ is a vague
expression. Go and do something for
some needy fellow creature. That is
definite.
The work you have to do in the counting-house,
in the shop, or, wherever
you may be, is that b\ which you are
to serve God.
Poverty is a disease, says Dr. JIc
Lilyiin, and to tliis definition tiie .\e\v
York Tribune aptly replies: "Perhaps,
but if the patient treat it with
hypodermic injection of honesty and
steady applications of industry, it can
be overcome."
For want of tools and materials to
work with many boys grow up without
the least knowledge of their use,
und consequently without the development
of any mechanical ability
that they may naturally have been posossed
of. Every farmer's boy should
have a knowledge of practical machines,
so far, at least, as tbey apply
to agriculture. And he should have
in opportunity of acquiring the skill
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rious departments of farm work,
rhe work- shop is a great practical edjcator,
and should be a permaneut injtltution
on every farm.