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Jan. 1,18SJI, if What tongue can (oil, what heart ;oneeive, the joy which is reserved in leaven for those who have here, by he work of grace, been axfshnihitcd to Iesus Chrisrt? Beloved, now are we lie sons of (?od, and it doth not yet ippear what we shall he; hut we know hat. when he shall appear, we shall | IC like him, for we shall see him as he s. 1 John iii. 12. Do not expect to escape from Satan 1 >y hiding from the world : you will ride from some to meet other tempta- . ions. The place to escape the wiles of lie devil is near Christ. There is tomething in a holy, C'hristlike atmosphere that Satan cannot endure: it icts like poison <>n the evil one, and he foes hack as quickly as possible to his mural surrouiniings. Ok (.'oi-rsk.?Uli? luothers know a jood deal, but now and then one of hem funis himself unexpeetiy antici ntcd 1?v his little sister. "Marion," said Henry, proud of his newly acquired knowledge, "do you \iiow that the earth turns round?" "Of tos it does!" answered Marion. Hint's the reason 1 tumbles out of I'd."? youth'* ('ohijxniion. (Jod is :i (.Meat transfornier. When cou carry llim a grieved heart, He ransforms i! into one of peaee. When you curry Him a mind full of darkless, lie" transforms it into one full of light. When you carry Him 21 heart full of despair, He returns it full of liopefulness. When you carry Him a In-art stained with sin, He returns it full of purity. i Kxall vlie Word. isv r.isiror cviirs i>. koss, i.v srxD.YY scirooi, Tl.mks.?Xo I. (J(m1 lias spoken. We have his Word, lr is all abroad in I he earth in more than three hundred language. It has been copied by pen and press a thousand times more than any other book. All down the ages it has been thrust upon (he attention of the world, demanding search, belief, homage, obedience. J t lias been tested sharply, skilfully, remorselessly, and in multitudinous ways. JOvery joint in its eele.-tsial armor has been tried again and again by swords and spears of infernal temj i 1 - .1 !i.. .1 per. l'erseeuuon nas ucurccu us uustructiou. Scientific theories have proclaimed its falsity, nationalistic "higher criticism" has self-complarently announced its utter lack of authenticity. All these and other forces of oppositsou have aflected it very much as thunder and storms do Mont Blanc. The clouds around its base only make it seem loftier and more resplendent. Is it not high time for those who teach the Bible to give a truce to nervousness, and go ahead as though nothing had happened? As, indeed, nothing has happened to affect in the slightest degree the substance of "the| faith" or the all-conquering power of the Word. I am satisfied that relig:>us doubt gets a large part of its currency in our time from the careless suggestion of it by ministers and Sunilay-school teachers, who often crudely state and over-state objections which they have not the skill eU'ectuilly to answer, thus making them-' selves teachers of infidelity, i'he Lrreat business of the pulpit aud . i the Sunday-school is to teach the ]J l?le, and to urge its claim 011 the be-j lief and obedience of all who listen. Let us teach it, and not busy ourselves in suggesting doubts about it. Children, youth, and the masses of 3hurch-going people, urgently need to know what tlie Bible says. I plead with young ministers to extlt the Word of God. Don't be per-J [jetually apologizing for the Lord God , Almighty. Find out what he has; said, and tell the people. There was liard sense in the reply of a plain man J who was urged to read Watson's. A nnlr.irv fi>r t lit* Bible." and who.! F I nisapprehending the technical mean-j ng of a single word, answered, "No, [don't want it; the l>ibie needs noj ipology." Paul's charge to Timothy I s everlastingly timely,?"I charge' hee before God, preach the word." .'reach it, proclaim it, and trust Godj o make a way for it to the hearts of j ncn. Preach it, and not some weak! lilution of it. Tieai it as your Lord, lid. Consider well what he sai<l: tbouI it, and what he did with it.j Ic said, "Seaicli the Scriptures; for J ....they testify of me;" and, "If hey bear not Moses and tile prophels, leiiher will they be persuaded, though; >ne rose from the dead." And in the' linch of his sorest need he turned to! he Old Testament, and used what he: otind there as the very word of God. I In his forty days duel with the Devil | ic drew no sword but what lits my land as well as his. lie seemed to lave no concern as to whether the whole Bible verbaly inspired or not, >r as to whether Moses wrote the whole of the Pentateuch ; but, keeping liiseye on the foe, he tlnust his] koiwl l..ir.lr n? ttinnrrli almost sit rail-' pom, mid drew from the sheath of Deuterouomy three good blades before whose glittering points Satan fled. Dig evermore in this exhaustless mine. The grandly elective preachers are biblical preachers. The greatest sermons arc those which make the Word seem great. Sunday-school teachers, exalt the Word. Your great business in preperation is to find out what CJod says. Your general study of the Jiible ought j to consist largely in a comparison of i Seripture with Scripture, and in thoughtful and prayerful mediation' ou the Word itself; and your special i preperation of the lesson should lie chiefly a deligent search after the very j meaning of the Holy Spirit in the verses. Teach your scholars to han-| die the Book to find the verses promptly, to reverence it as the very Word | of God, to obey it. The Sunday-school should be a liible-school, and nothing else. I wish its name could be changed to that. In j these days of blackboards and orches-| tras and Sunday-school libraries, and! multiplied other appliance, let it not) Lie forgotten what all these things arej for, and let them not crnvd aside the the very thing for which the Sunday-1 school exists. Dr. James \V. Alexander, one of the most suggestive of writers ou preaching and Sundayschool tenoning, gave most emphatic testimony on this point : "Having, been, in one or another capacity, busied about Sunday-schools for forty years, T venture my judgment, that, if a pupil must forgo one or the other,?the explanation of the meaning by question and answer, or the posession of the text in his memory yerbahe had better let go the former. With those attainments which such knowledge insutes or infers, there is no part of household and juvenile learning so valuable as what in good i)ld idiomatic mother-English is called getting verses by heart. Having utmost worn out my eves by reading und study, let mo testify to you, of :dl J ever learned I most prize what is level to you all,?that is, the knowledge of the JMlglish Jiible ; and for one verse that I know by heart I wish I knew a hundred." J'avents are under the pressure of an obligation concerning the ttihle which it is to be feared very few of them justly appreciate, and whicu many totally ignore. Let a father distinctly admit the-ruth of these three propositions: i. That the greatest want of his children is religious knowledge and motive ; That the lJible is the chief storehouse of such knowledge and motive;.'J. That the character and the eternal destiny of his children are largely dependent on their use of the Bible,?and how can he fail to lie a priest in his own houeshold ? Do not suppose your duty done if you give each of your children a iriU-ediH'd eonv of the Hi bit', and send them to the Sunday-school and take them to church. Hefore they arc old enough to read, teach them to love the Bible. Teach them its stories and precepts, Head to them some of the numerous excellent hooks of Jiible history. They will listen as they would to vEsop or Mother CJoo.se. Have you ever done anything for Christ that has scarred your heart or your hody ? A Had Pkactici:.?It is anything else but healthy to smoke after meul.s P. iiiSSSfei Hidden I'mver. A business mini from California lately visited the chief olliee of one of the great railway systems of the Eastern Slates. "1 came," he said, "10 look up an old school-mate, who I heard was one of your most energetic officers. P was his name." "Yes," promptly replied the super-i intendent, "Air. J* was a mau of) exceptional force in mind and body, j He had charge of a division, and was one of the most useful of our olhecrs; i but 1 e lost his leg in tiie service of the company, and was crippled for life." j "And all his great ability is wast-! ed !" exclaimed (lie stranger. The superintendent smiled quietly. "No, the company could not afford to < lose so much power as that. Look at this." ! He opened the door of a small room i in which Mr. P sat alone. A j large board, on which was a map filled ' with movable pegs, was before him. I He was bending over it, absorbed in < thought, changing from time to time ; the position of a bit of wood. 1 After an interchange of greetings, the superintendent said : "Mr. P 1 has control of every train on our roads, i yet he never sees one of them. This is a map of the railway; these knobs and: 1 pegs represent the stations and trains. It is his work to shift and arrange Is them so that they shall move in order; j and without collisions throughout the | year. There is no more important of- ( ficer than he on the road." The California!) said afterward: t "When I think of the Railway i ( now, it is not, of huge engines or rush-It ing trains, but of a little crippled fel-| low sitting alone in a closet shifting m his pegs, while the safety of countless ) lives bancs upon every motion." js In the great system of life, it is not | always the man who makes the loud-;t est bruit before the public, who tills the [ j most responsible place. Many a noisy l politician occupies the public eye for|i years, and may even go into history as t a great man, whose actual influence t upon his age is small; while some humble physician who goes about s checking contagion here and malaria i there, thrusting death back, and giv-jt ing strong, useful lives to the world, 11 holds a real control of events. j t Soo too does the unknown author, 11 who sends out to help mankind a few 11 powerful words wrung from his own h experience; or the mother in herii home, who sends out not words, but j living souls, to make history hereafter. < Now, as in the days when Bunvan t dreamed his dream, there are mighty 1 principalities and powers about us,; l striving to make the earth a quagmire j} and heaven a fos. Sham ami vice and I ^ doubt and slavery to money are some c of the dangers that beset the traveler; and in many an obscure home and quiet chamber, are the men and wo-| men who ;ire clearing the way for him, j, ami holding llnse modern dragons in k check. Remember, l<?o, that the humblestL Ciii'iaiin:: h. l.!s closet, though he lie:, blind or crippled or dumb, has hisL hand upon a lever which will move not j the earth only, but heaven. Youth's Companion. . "(JilderoY" on Youner Preachers. | v The books all say, "Be perfecty nat- a ural." Pretty good advice, doubtless, a but exceedingly hard to keep. I find i that 1 am natural enough?at leiist, so j far as I know?until I begin to try to is be "perfectly uatural," when straight- i way I begin to put on, or feel like I'm I putting on. The fact of the matter is, t my only security before an audience | a lies in getting so full of my subject that I am oblivious to myself and to c persons before me. If I begin to think' y about how I look, or act, or speak, |t why, forsooth, I take the cramp all U over, and everything goes wrong. If f I begin to think any person or persons jt in the congregation, straightway myjl mouth gets as dry as a chip, my ut-i\ to ranee is hesitating, the fountain of r thought dries up, my hands and feet 11 <n>i in n-iv wiiv. mv sermon, if I have! i any, oozes out of me, 1 swallow big It lumps of nothing, I rave and stamp h and yell and scream, and nearly kill j t myself doing nothing but pumping \ wind. This, Mr. Editor, is an awful j predicament for one to be in, and I've > been in it often. 1 know just how it t is. When I start in at this hole, all i the advice I ever read or heard is like i an idle tale to me. The more I know | i I ought to stop, the more I can't find s a stopping place. About twice in my jj life I've had the moral courage to say, <. "Well, brethern, it won't come, and 1 jt just can't preach to you to-day" lit felt more like a man and less "like ajf fool on those two occasions than on Hie /inn hundred mid one other occa-l sions when I tried to go on. Mr. Ed-1 itor, one thing I know with regard toj' myself, and I want to say it because 1 am confident it is as true of other a preachers as of me. I make it person- c. al because it will lit without offending L any one. I fail oftener in the pulpit j from having succeeded at the table t than from any and all other causes t combined. With me a full stomach ^ means an empty head and a cold r heart. I have to let the table terribly ? alone on Sunday and on Saturday t night before. However, I am a dys- l jeep tie and a moderate eater at all v times. I've gotten so I know when i public speakers are obfuscated from I over-eating, and this trouble is com- e mou enough to justify a seperate lead- t ing editorial from your pen. When a 'j nn'ju'hfi* wnnps to lieh) me in a meet- < ing, I like to keep at my house, where the temptation to over-eat iug is not great, and where 1 can put a knife to his throat, and thus keep him in good preaching trim. Kine out ef every ten who get to feasting among my Hock are lame and halt and blind in the pulpit. I tell you this is so. Yours, (rildcroyy in A'astn'il/c Christian A (hocatc. Scnatobia, Miss. A Swedish servant maid, finding that her mistre.-s was troubled with sleeplessness, told her of a practice of the people of her countjy who are siniilary alllicted. It was to take a napkin, dip it in ice-cold water, wringing slightly, and lay il across her eyes. Tin; plan was followed, and it worked like a charm. When pillowslips begin to show signs of wear, rip open the end seam and fold so that the side seam will come in the center of the pillow. Sew up the end again, and your pillowslip will wear as long again, as the wear is now upon that part that lias had but little wear heretofore. The oldest Christian church is that at IMlilehem, built in the year A. D. 328, by the Empress Helena, mother of Constantine the Great. It is known as the Church of the Nativity. Others' f aults and Our Owu. It is ofteu said that while we art keen-eyed to see the faults of others, we are blind to our own. J>ut true as this is, and sad because it is true, it isnot the worst of the matter. The strange fact is, that we see most quickly and criticise most severely in others the very thing in which we are oftenest guilty ourselves. I saw a striking illustration of this the other day. I went oil" over to a neighbor's about eleven o'clock I found his little daughter crying1 because in trying to help her mother, she had stumbled and broken a nlatter. Before she could gather up the fragments in came hor lather. He began at once to scold and storm. He never did see such a careless set. They are always breaking something. They would break him up if they kept on. 1 tried to put in i word for the child, but it was useless, J'he man had no pity for her, who, at the worst, was only careless, and seemjd almost angry enongh to beat her. But presently, as it he had forgotten what he came in for, he said : "Wife, hurry up the dinner. I ivant to be off to town within fifteen minutes." "Why," she asked, "what is the >v. ' ))> lianci "Nothing, only I ran against a stump in the Held, and broke my plow." "Didn't you see the stump ?" I tould not help asking. "Yea ; I saw it, but thought that I .limed out enough to pass it, The act is, that I was a little careless, and .hat's how it happened." "And your poor little daughter, vhom you have be?en scolding so hard, a'jis only a little careless, too; wasn<t she ?" The man, not knowing what to say, :urned to the table, and asking me to on him, began to eat his dinner as if ie was in a tremendous hurry. As ny errand was not with him, but to juy some butter of his wife, I declin>d his invitation and turned away. If that man's child was care'ess, she came honestly by it. He himself h one 01 me ruosi careiess ieuows in he neighborhood. And yet he canlot endure in his family any imitaion of his own example. IIow itisidously mean is our fallen human name I That man's breaking the pl??w vas far more inexcusable than his :hild's breaking the dish, and the repairing cost twice as much as a new lisli, and yet just because he was fret ed and angry with himself for what le had done, he had 110 pity or charity or the child. So it is the world over. A'e do ourselves the very things vliich we criticise or complain of in >thers. 4 .av The Lord's Tabler Some professedly Christian people :rgc that they cannot come to the table realise there are certain persons there vlio, in their judgment, snould not be J lowed to come. Is the Lord's table o be a judgment-seat, whereat we are 0 receive the verdict? "I cannot," aid one to me, "join a church, because : cannot find one that Is perfect." No, ' said, and if you do not join a church ill you tind a perfect one, you must vait till you get to heaven ; and, beides. my dear friend, if you ever find 1 perfect church they will not take you n, for I am sure they would not be >erfect any longer if they did. One ickly sheep would then have passed A.i.i u + > IIUJ tut; lwiu. . ii jr? lui^ iui j vci iu >e looking out for perfection. "But here is a person at communion who icted inconsistently." That i:i highly >robable, and lie may be wearing your oat, and looking out of your eyes. If ou know of any case of open sin, let lie elders of the church be informed, md it will be dealt with tenderly and irmly. In so large a church as this here may be cases of evil living not mown to the overseers of the flock, but ve invite the co-operation of all in naintaining the purity of the entire >ody, and wetrustlhat we have it. But low. reallv what have vou to do with he faults of others when you nre renembering Christ Jesus? Surely his is the most unreasonable time for mrsh judgments, or-, indeed, for any udgments. I know many a brother vith whom I could not agree in eerain jioints, but I agree with him renembering the Lord Jesus. I could lot work with him in all things ; but f he wants to remember Jesus, I am ure I will join in that. It will do him rood, and it will do tne good, to think if Jesus. That dear name is so sweet o me that I will remember Jesus with he poorest, meanest, and most imperect of mortals. licv. C. II. Spurgcon. lent* Hcury W. Grady on Bar-rooms. Grady closed his celebrated speech guinst bar-rooms with the following loqueut peroration : "I assume to keep io man's conscience; I assume to udge for no man; I do not assume hat I am better than any man, but hat I am weaker. But I say this to ou, I have a boy as dear to me as the uddy drops that gather about this lenrt. I find my hopes already cencriug in his little body, and I look to dm to-night to take to himself the irork that, strive as I may, must fall in finished at last from my hands. s'ow, I know they say it is proper to ducate a boy at home; that if he is aught at home lie will not go wrong. L'hat is a lie to begin with, but that lon't matter. I have seen sous of ome as good people as ever lived turn >ut badlv. I accept my responsibility fin... i.?? r.,11 .5 a lailll'I. I lit imj IU((j lull aw??i he right path as things now exist. If le does, 1 shall bear that sorrow with ,uch resignation as I may ; hut I tell ou, if I were to vote to recall bar-rooms o this city, when 1 know it has proslered in their absence, and that boy hould fall through their agency, I tell -ou?and this conviction has come to ne in the still watches of the night?I tould not, wearing the crowning sorrow ?f his disgrace, and looking Into the yes of her whose heart he had broken, could not, if 1 had voted to recall hese bar-rooms, iind answer for my lonscience or support for my remorse. Applause.J 1 don't know how any ither father feels, but that is the way I eel, if t?od permits me to utter the ruth." The average watch is composed of 7-j ditterent pieces, comprising upward >f 12400 separate and distinct operations n its manufacture. The balance vheel whirls iiooSij miles in one year. ilcing perplexed, I say, I.oitl. make it right! Nighl Is as diiy to 'i'liee, Darkness is light I am alraid to touch Things that Involve so much; My trembling hand may shake, My skillless hand may break: Thine can make no mistake. Caring: Properly for Shoes. Shoes are one of the expenses of ji , toilet that may be reduced only by care, i A worn out shoe is net possibly of reni ovation; no amount of skill will make : it pass sis new. The only possible way is to save the shoe-leather is to care i properly for the shoes while wearing them. A writer in the Brooklyn Eafjlc makes come very wise suggestions about the proper care of shoes: 'Particular attention should be paid, in every home, to the care of shoes, Where there are children there is generally an accumulation of shoes partly worn and whollv worn, and these are all thrown in the bottom of the closet together and must be assorted when wanted. When taken out they are sometimes moldy, because they are thrown in when damp and dirty. Many of these are of no earthly use to possessors, but are hoared up with the idea that some day they will be needed ; yet rarely is this true, as they are put away in such a rough condition that when taken out they "are generally unfit for use. Shoes that are worn regularly, if cared for, will last much longer ihau neglected. A French kid shoe, if kicked around on the close floor or under the bed, will not last as long or look as well as one inferior in quality if properly cared for. When shoes are taken off they should be wiped with a soft cloth, and, after airing a little while, oiled or polishedand put in a box by themselves, or a shoebag, and when wanted for use can be taken out ready for wear. It is not advisable to use much of the dressing so fashionable for ladies' and children's shoes, as most of them crack the leather and ruiu it. I have seen expensive shoes, the tops all cracked open in less than a month by the use of shoe dressing ; therefore, unless you can find one that has been tested, it is better to use a little sweet oil colored with black ink and rubbed well in. For some years past I have used a polish that has considerable glycerine in it, and found that it preserves the shoes wonderfully, always keeping them new looking. If a lift begins to wear off the heel, I have it attended to at once, and never jtatceon me snoes witnoui wiping an the dust from the crevices and putting them carefully away. The result is J have worn one pair of boots every day for one year, and another year for a ( house shoe. I have a pair of boots that were made to order, for which I paid $8, have worn them every day for two winters, or rather from October to May, and shall wear them another, and perhaps two seasons more. In ( the spring I rub them well with oil and ( put them away carefully, and in the fall they look as good as new. Never j wear a shoe unbuttoned, if you care to have it shapely. Never put wet shoes tojthefire to dry, as it haj:tte?&-feCRi-and makes' tTi em. difficult to put on. When taken oft" the foot wet, smooth into as good shape as possible and rub them as dry as you can with an old , soft cloth, then pvt them in a medium stand in a kind but determined opposition to the fashions of the world, breasting the waves like theEddystone lighthouse. And I have found nothing yet which requires more courage and independence than to rise a-- little, but decidedly, above the par of the religious world arouud us. "Surely, the way in which we commonly go 011 is not the way of self-denial, and sacrifice, and cross-bearing, which the New Testament talks of. 'Then is the offence of the cross ceaspil ' Our slpnder influence 011 the cir ele of our friends is often to be traced to our leaving so little difference between us and them,', ( The (Boston) Christian. Sukpiiised. ?The Mahometans' scorn of women is the logical outcome of his religion, which refuses to recognize their claim as human beings deserving of respect. As they are of use to man, they are worth food and , shelter, but they are not in the least entitled to standing ground at his side. The Countess Cowper, in "A Month in Palestine," gives an instance, far more telling than any sermon, of this . dreadful siate of things. I was told by a Christian in Cairo, \ that he was once walking with a wellto-do Mahometan, with whom he was intimate, and who had often discussed with him the differing position of women in their respective sects. As , they passed an old, veiled figure in the street, who shrank on one side of their , wnv f Ik? follower of the nroDhet deliv ered a passing, but wcll-directed kick at her. "There," said the Christian, "that is what I complain of; you kick a worn* ( an as we should not kick even a dog,,f ( "That, said his companion with a look of genuine astonishment, "why that is only my mother !" To develop self-respect in a child without cultivating his conceit isadel iciiie oui iiupuriant uian wi ouj p?nentand teacher. A profound respect for self without undue self-esteem is one mark of the highest culture. Despise not your situation : in it you must act, sutler, and conquer. From every point on earth, we are equally near to heaven and to the Infinite. (Jo where duty calls, hut turn in and help when you get there. Don't stand around with your hands in your pockets. Nothing causes a young man greater surpr.se than to find out that some one has fallen in love with his sister. Atchison Globe. Men who wait for dead men's shoes geuerally find them worn out when they get them. God never promised to save by miracles those that would not save thein-j .- elves by means. *33} Lore is Light. ny k. g. Chevebtok. -4 "At eventide it shall be light." My little girl, so brave by day, Grows timid as the shadows fall. I cannot charm her fears away; My reasons have no force at all. She pleads, with all her childish might, That she may have a light. I calm her fears and stroke her hair; I tell lior of the angels near,? 01 God, whose love is everywhere, And Christ, to whom each child is dear. She hears, but only clasps mo light, And begs me lor a light.. But when I say it cannot be, And strive to make her understand Just why, she makes another plea,? That I will stay and hold her hand. She whispers, as we kiss good-night, "That's better than a light." And thus, content, she falls asleep, _My clasp grows closer on her hand; jiusing: uoa aotn nts wisdom Keep In cblldlib lips. I understand, That, in that other, darker night, 'Tls love that makes It light. I, too, have shrunk In childish dread From that dumb darkness that doth creep And thicken round the dying-bed, And, fearful, felt I coulu not sleep Without a light. I understand, 'Tls light to hold Love's hand. S. S. Times. What Others Say. . Rev. Dr. Lee, in Macon Advocate. Mr. Chauncey Depew told me, on the steamship City of New York, as we came home together, the following: He said that he had spent a Sunday with Lord Rosebury, at his countryseat, during his vacation in England last summer. Lord Rosebury had invited to dine with him six or seven of the leading liberals of England. During the day the conversation turned on the subject of oratory. The English people are great admirers of oratory. One man in the party asked Mr. Depew whom he considered the greatest orator America had produced. He replied that he thought the general concensus of opinion would put Daniel Webster down as the greatest orator America had produced. The speaker, turning to the rest of the party, said, "What do we know of Daniel Webster?" Not a man in the party had ever heard of him. And Lord Rose- bury is the man whom it is thought will succeed Mr. Gladstone in the leadership of the liberal party, too, when the grand old man passes away. Henry W. Grady, in an addrest in favor of Prohibition, 'Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 2, 1387. They said we were going to be ruined, that bats and owls would fly in and out, and the real estate men have the renting of nine out of ten houses that are rented. They testify without a break, absolutely without a break, that ^ they have fewer houses on their tlTan they have ever had sinc-j^they have been in business. Twr rM them have advertised in the lastfww days for 100 houses, and to-day Ir. Tally i_i,i ii.i,? unrhl. /-vflRr.* . warm place to dry. If your shoes get muddy, wash them oil* with cold water and rub dry with a soft cloth. This , can be done quickly, so that the leather may not get wet through, then pull into shape and left standing until quite dry. After this use a little good polish " and the shoes will be as fresh a9 if quite new." Worldly Conformity. Dr. James W. Alexander wrote to a friend : "As I grow older as a parent, my views are changing fast, as to the : degree of conformity to the world ( which we should allow to our childreu. T am horror-struck to count up the profligate children of pious persons, and even ministers. "The door at which those influences enter which countervail parental instruction and example, I am persuaded, is yielding to the ways of good society. By dress, looks and amuse- , menls, an atmosphere is formed which is not that of Christianity. More than > IU1U LUC tuai UC ftVitUOIIJ lOllf ?i?o viaw l>ecause he was bored by nfeoplo who wanted to get somewhere to live in this town. Mr. Scott told pe that he eould put tenants in 500 bowses in thirty days from to-morrow. They tell us we have lost in population. SThereare " just as many houses in Atlanta to-day and more, and they are all full/ Well, if the population has decreased,- who fills them? Perhaps they are occupied by shades of Lincoln aud Jefferson and Monroe! Arbitration in France.?Frederick Passy, of Paris, writes as follows in a letter published in the last number of the Herald of Peace : "Yesterday, the Chamber of Deputies, on my motion, adopted, without any opposition, a Treaty of Arbitration with Holland. ^ And as it had just listened to a Report, in which the principle of Arbitration was very distinctly expounded, it has practically given its approval not only to the act of the Treaty, but also to the doctrine of Arbitration. And, further, this is not a mere isolated circum stance, for quite a number of encouraging indications, in the same direction, have recently been observable." 8.8. Times. A question of duty is to be settled in accordance' with the standard of absolute right, not in accordance with the sweep of public sentiment. It is often the case that a man ought to do that which "everybody" thinks he is unwise to do, aiid that he ought not to do that which "everybody" thinks is the very tlrng for him to ao. A man can never be depended on for right doing, unless he is ready to do right all by himself, in spite of the example and the entreaties of everybody else to the contrary. J\'ew York Christian Advocate. Robert Burdette says : "It is the easiest thing in the world to invent a new religion ; any fool cau do that. It is a thousand times easier to :nvent a new religion than to live up to the old one." There is a deep philosophy in that little piece of wit. It is something easy that men want. They want education without study, wealth without toil, comforts without pay, and pleasures without sacrifices. They have soueht out many inventions. Short cuts to wealth, culture, greatness, and glory are in demand. The Bible ix the Schools.?St. Hilare, a French writer, says : "Wherever the Bible is not made the foundation-stone of education, of society, and of every form of life, there is no literature for children or for the people. Look at Spain, Italy, and even France ?in a word, at every country in which the Bible is not read ; nowhere is there any reading for the child or the laborer. The A. 12. Presbyterian says: During the U. P. Assembly at Springfield, Ohio, some of the delegates protested because they were assigned to a hoU where liquor was sold. But one of tb Committee of arrangements told thei not to be uneasy, for he had cautiom the proprietor not to let them have drink under any circumstances. Failure is often God's own tool for carving out some of the finest outlines in the character of His children ; and even in this life, bitter and crushing failures have often in them the germs of new and quite uuimagined happiness. The lawless spirit is on the increase, spreading itself widely, and being manifested in various ways. A baa omen this may be; still, it cannot be denied and the sooner the true men of the country give it the proper attention the better for all concerned. The saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapable of sadness. Faith puts a strengthening plaster to the back of courage. . j*.