Training Husbands.
Don't let this heading induce you to
think that I have discovered any plan
by which wives can train their husbands.
It is the boys, the husbands of
the future, that I am thinking of.
We hear a great deal about industrial
training for boys and girls; about business
and professional training for
both, and something about girls being
taught domestic economy and all the
arts and sciences which make a good
housekeeper, but I have heard very little
about boys being trained to be good
husbands and to do their part in making
happy homes.
It is a proverbial saying amoug all
women tnat husbands have no adequate
idea of the work which a housekeeper
must do, and consequently are
mreless of the extra work they make
ior her. Would this be so in the next
generation if every mother would be*in
with her little boys and teach
them to be orderly with all their belongings,
and to wait on themselves ?
Not onlv this, but teach them to help
mother in every possible way : to keep
the wood-box filled with wood and the
water-pail with water; to save mother's
tired feet by going upstairs and
down-cellar for her. Let him put up
the clothes-line, turn the wringer ana
empty the tubs for her on wash-day,
as soon as he is old enough. He will
be proud enough to think that he is
growing strong enough to do these
things better than mother. Be very
sure that you show your appreciation
of every helpful act, and let him see
that you look to him for assistance.
Boys are not naturally selfish, and
every mother who has a willing, efficient
helper in her boy, is herself to
blame, and not only must suffer the
consequences of her mistake herself,
but the future wife will have them to
bear also. For your own eakes, and
for the future wives of your boys, spare
no pains to impress upon them the
magnitude of women's work. After
they have been accustomed to helping
in all the ways they can about the
house (and there are few things they
will not be the better for having learned
to do,) thev will not think housekeeping
is "just puttering around."
Teach them that the woman who
keeps her house in order, and looks after
the comfort of her family in every
way, earns as much as the man who
furnishes the money part of tue partnership,
aud they will be ready to do
as I heard a boy say not long since:
"I shall give my wife half of our income
to uo with as she likes," instead
of asking what she had done with
that last quarter he gave her, and talking
as if he earned all the money and
she and her children spent it, as one
poor wife told me was the way her
husband did. Begin to train the husbands?yes,
the wives, too?in their
.childhood, and no one will ask, "Is
:aarriage a failure?" in the next generation.?Farm
and Fireside.
The Value of Civility.
There would be fewer broken friendships,
fewer unhappy unions and family
quarrels were it not so much the
custom among intimate friends and
relations to neglect the small courte.
sies of life?to show less and.less mutual
deference as they grow more and
more familiar. It is the foundation of
misery in marriage and many a serious
and life-long estrangement has begun,
not from want of affection so much as
from lack of that delicate and instinctive
appreciation of the feeling of others
which make a person shrink from saying
unpleasant things or finding fault,
unless absolutely obliged, and in any
case to avoid wounding the offender's
sense of dignity or stirring up within
him feelings of opposition and animosity
: for, although many persons profess
to be above taking offense at honest
censure, and even seem to court
criticism, yet it must be very carefully
administered not to be unpalatable.
Even kind, generous actions are often
so uncouthly performed as to cause
, more pain than pleasure, while a reT\rr?nf
nr ripniAl mav be so sweetened
. ?y courtesy as to dfo away with any
sense of mortification or disappointment.
Good breeding is always inclined
to form a favorable judgment and
to give others the credit of being actuated
by worthy motives. It does
not wish or seem to know more about
people than they themselves desire
should be known, but it is always prepared,
when necessary, to make an
interest in the affairs of others, while
self is not suffered to obtrude unduly.Qolden
Hours.
No Rest at Home.?No woman
can rest thoroughly in her own home
with her work ever before her eyes;
involuntarily she carries the details of
bakingand brewing in her mind and
in consequence is nearly as tired as if
she actually did the work. Let her
go away to rest even if to a place not
so comfortable as home, where she can
eat a dinner she did not cook, sleep in
a bed she did not make and forget her
weariness in other people's cares and
pleasures. Thousands of bottles of
patent medicine are swallowed by
home-keeping women who naa mucn
better have spent the same money in
car fare, in aight?seeing. To get away
from herself is the main wish of the
iervous, tired out woman. To see
iow other people live suggests new
,7ays of doing things and makes one
jOntented with much that before
?emed irksome.?New England Farmer.
Professor Maliafly was ouce examining
a man who had put himself down
as an "agnostic'- on entering college.
He was having a hard time at Mahaffy'e
hands over some "crux" passages
in a Greek book. "I believe, thir,"
said Mahaffy, "that you are?aw?are
an agnothtic in religiouth matterth."
The man feebly acquiesced. "Well,
ihen, thir," said the professor, "1 can
quite athure you that you are an agnothtic
in Greek ath well."
Works of which the effect is to correct
our errors, to strengthen our rea
soiij to elevate our spirit, to improve
our mind, are as productive in their
way as those that tend to lower the
price of meat and bread.
The third Triennial General Confefence
of the Methodist Church of
Canada opened in Montreal, September
10. Dr. Sledd was there as a fraternal
messenger from the M. E.
Church, South,
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Tommy's Dream.
Tommy had been to the school treat,
away out from the dirty, crowded, hot .
streets in which he lived, into the
beautiful green, fresh country.
And Tommy had enjoyed the treat;
but I am afraid that many of the but- ;
terflies and other insects, and some of
the birds too, had cause to grieve that
Tommy and his little mates had been '
there to a treat?it was none for them.
A great part of the day Tommy had
spent in what he thought good fun.
He had chased beautiful butterflies,
but when he caught them he could do
little with them. They were a source
of amusement to him for a short time,
and then he would let them flutter
away with spoilt and broken wings.
He had tried to capture the large bees
which he saw flying about; but as he
laid bold on one it stung him, so
thinking himself badly used, he let it
? * ? > - ' 1 ??,
go. "men ne naa irigmeueu mauj
the birds by throwing stones at them
?only fortunately he aimed badly,
and never hit his mark ! And when
he and some of his companions, wandering
through the green fields, had
come across a large, scaly beetle, he
had seized it, and in spite of its struggles,
had put it in his pocket.
And now Tommy was back from
the treat and in bed.
He had not long fallen asleep when
he seemed to be again in the fields in
which he had played all day. But all
the butterflies, and bees, aud beetles. 1
and birds seemed to have changed 1
places with him in point of size, for
they appeared as large as boys, and he
as small as a beetle, and Tommy was
terribly frightened.
"Oh," he thought, "I must hide un- 1
der the sticks, or those great creatures
will catch me! Oh dear, I wish I
were home!" for Tommy was frightened.
So he hid quickly under some small
ot.'nb-a Knfii oil hnftfrflips and oth
ouvno uiiui m*a
er things should go away ; but it was
no use. Soon he felt the sticks lifted,
and heard something scream out; he
did not know what the thing was at
first, for he dared not look up.
"Oh, oh! come and look; here's
such a funny thing. Four legs! and it
only walks on two of them ! and such
a funny head."
Then Tommy felt himself snatched
up and pinched ; and screaming and
struggling, he looked up at the thing
that held him. It was a beetle, of gigantic
size it seemed to him.
"Oh!" screamed the beetle again,
"come and look what I've caught.
Such a funny thing; whatever is it?"
"What have you got?" asked a butterfly,
about one hundred times Tommy's
size, flying up.
"Why look here! I don't know
what it is."
"Oh !" said the butterfly, "It's only
a boy. They're common enough. If
you didn't live so much under the
ground you'd know a boy when you
see him. That's only a little one, but
I've seen big ones, and I've good cause
to remember them, too ; they've chased
me often enough."
The butterfly spoke very fiercely for
such a gentle creature, and Tommy
trembled.
"A boy !" shrieked the beetle?"a
boy! I know something about them,
only I didn't know this was one.
Ugh ! you little brute"?shaking Tommy?"you're
a boy, are you ? I'll pinch
you." And the beetle did, and Tommy
screamed and kicked; but the beetle
held him tightly.
"What'son here?" asked a passing
bee. "What have you got ?"
"Oh, only a boy," said the butterfly,
"and we're only going to pinch him to
see him kick."
"Oh, oh !" screamed Tommy, "you
cowards! you wouldn't dare to do it if
I were not so small;" but the insects
took no notice of his cries.
"Here, hand him over to me," said
the bee; "I owe boys a grudge ; let me
sting him."
"Wait a bit," answered the beetle;
"let's have some fun with him first.
You'll kill him if you sting him."
"Not I. Besides, boys can't feel."
"They can ! they can !" shrieked
Tommy, but no heed was paid to his
words.
Just as the bee was about to sting its
shrieking victim a linnet (to Tommy
it seemed the size of an eagle) flew up.
The butterfly flitted away sharply,
and the bee suddenly became impress-1
ed with the necessity of going also
and went. Only the beetle remained
holding Tommy tightly still, for the
beetle knew that its scaly coat would
protect it against the linnet. But the
bee and the butterfly had not such protection.
"What have you got?" asked the
linnet.
"A boy. I owe boys a grudge, so
I'm pinching him and the Deetle
squeezed Tommy again, and again he
squealed.
"Will you give him to me ? I'd like
to take him somewhere,'-' said the linnet.
So the beetle dropped Tommy, who
was now quite sore, and the linnet lifted
him in its beak.
Dreams are very funny things.
The linnet seemed to be suddenly in 1
the room of a house, and Tommy saw 1
it was his own bedroom.
"What's the matter?" squeaked a
funny voice. It was Tommy's white
mouse speaking; for Tommy kept a
white mouse.
"Why," said the linnet, and it seemed
quite friendly with the white 1
mouse, "I've caught a boy. What '
shall I do with him ?"
"A boy? Let me look," said the
white mouse, and added fiercely,
"Why, it's Tommy !" 1
"Yes, please, Mr. Mouse," said Tommy,
"it's me. You know me, don't
you?"
riV?v?mtr ti?nn O f CO i /I nf
XUlliUIJ wao tuiam ui tuv
mouse, it seemed bo big.
"Know you?" screamed the mouse.
"I've good reason to know you ! Yes!
and now I'll make you know me."
"Please, Mr. Mouse," began Tommy;
but the white mouse interrupted |
him.
"Know you ? You're the boy that
fastened me in a cage without any
food, and I was hungry. Worse, !
worse! I was thirsty, and all my water
was dried up. My cage has been
left unclean for weeks. Know you? ,
Yes ! and now you shall know me."
The white mouse rushed fiercely at !
Tommy.
But suddenly Tommy awoke, and ,
he was lyfng in bed, and of his natural
size.
"Dear me," he murmured, "what an ^
awful dream I've had ! I declare I'll
never hurt anything ever again... And
when I get up I'll" feed my white
mouse. I forgot him yesterday."
For Tommy had been so full of the
treat the day before that the white
mouse bad been neglected. In fact.
Tommy often neglected it.
Then he dressed., and went to the
cage to attend to the little creature.
But the little mouse was dead.
"Oh dear," cried Tommy, "I must
have forgotten it for two days! I'll
never be so cruel again to anything."
And he kept his word.?F. H. Bolton,
in English "Band of Mercy."
Don't Belittle Christ's Work.
BY THE EDITOK
Q. Don't belittle Christ's work, my
I
uruuLici
A. I do not do it, at least I certainly
do no intend to. I iove Him and
have given myself entirely to Him.
Q. I have no doubt as to your loving
Him and am quite sure you do not
intend to belittle Christ's work. And
yet, nothing is more plain to my mind
than that you are doing that very
thing. Do you wish me to tell you in
what respect, or in what manner you
thus err?
A. Yes, I do.
Q. Well then, pray for me and bear
with me. Do you not go to persons
whom you believe to be t eal Christians
and ask them, "Have you the blessing
of full salvation ?"
A. Why yes, certainly I do. And
I help many of them to get it.
Q. And though you may not know
it, I can tell you that you throw many
sincere and happy Christions into
doubt and perplexity, and I fear worse
than that. Now brother, I shall talk
very plainly, because I Jove you and I
love the cause of God.
Those who by repentance towards
God and faith in the Lord Jesus
Christ have been born of the Spirit
(Jno. 3 : 3) were told that in order to
be saved it was necessasy to "forsake
all" that they had and to give themselves
entirely to God, Were they not?
A.. Yes, of course they were.
Q. Were they not also assured that
if tlxvtr KoliotroH thaxr wmild bft made
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all right ? That they would ;be prepared
to live and prepared to die ?
A. Why do you ask such questions?
Of course they were. Anything less
than that would not be the Gospel.
Q,. Very well ! Then do you not
see that wlien you tell them they are
not fully saved, you belittle Christ's
work. You make them doubt His
love and His ability to save to the uttermost
all them that come unto God
by Him ?
You throw them into perplexity and
bewilderment.
A. But is all done in conversion ?
Q. Certainly : we are then freed
from sin and made holy. All that is
necessary to salvation is done. But
of course growth and development is
expected afterward.
Now, brother, I wish you would
stay and think over this matter, for I
assure you that in the way you present
the doctrine of holiness you are doing
immense harm, and you are defeating
the very end you have in view?the
spread of real scriptual holiness?Christian
Companion. ?
UllBunderfltAnrilnRM.
How many griefs and troubles which
come to us in this world are purely
the result of misunderstandings! We
think people say that they never did
sav. or mean what they never did
mean. We count men unreasonable
and harsh; we fume and fret about
matters which do not go to our liking;
we complain about what men have
said or aone; and all this while the
persons whom we are blaming meant
nothing of the kind that we surmise,
and know nothing whatever of
our tribulations.
This is one reason why persons who
have grievances should go at once to
those concerned. They are often the
only ones who know the truth,
who can explain the misunderstanding,'correct
the error, or right the
wrong. They can tell what they intended
to do; and in a great many
instances we shall find, on going to the
proper parties, that we have utterly
misapprehended the facts in the case,
have judged others unkindly, and have
made ourselves miserable for nothing.
In many a case we shall find that we
have taken offense where no offense
was intended; that we have counted
words harsh which were kindly meant,
that light and trippling phrases which
were carelessly thrown oft", have been
taken to heart as they never should
have been: and that we have made ourselves
and others miserable when there
was no need of it whatever.
How many little misuuderstandings
stick, like a splinter in one's finger,
until they make mischief and trounle
that cannot easily be remedied; and
in how many cases five minutes' frank,
honest talk would have settled the
whole matter. The policy of silence
at such times is a very dangerous policy,
and many hearts have bled aud
suffered when a word would have healed
them.?Selected
Beware Of Evil Tlioughtfl.
To feed the mind on evil thoughts
is an indulgence which is sure to de
form the character and produce vile
actions in the life. The secret indulgence
in such bad mental food will
make itself visible in deeds done "on
the housetops." Should the lily, in selecting
from the mud in which it
grows the materials needed to produce
its beautiful bloom, take up substances
unfitted to its ends, the effect would
appear in its discoloration and imperfect
from. In like manner, the man
who secretly cherishes the evil thoughts
which are cast up from the mud of his
inborn corruption will reveal his habit
to the world in his spirit and actions.
VT rv % ntill ((fll/liVTYIonf hrt Umi'f
L1UI Will XJIIO JUU^lU^Ub UUJ uv
ed to time, seeing that in the life after
death "God shall bring every work
into judgment, with every secret thing
whether it be good, or whether it be
evil." Know, therefore O man, that
when thou findest delight in evil
thoughts thou art playing with sparks
which are to thy sinful passions what
lighted matches are to grains of powder
scattered in the porch of a magazine.
They are deadly things, not to
be trifled with, but resolutely trampled
upon.?(Zion's Herald.)
A righteous act strengthens the inward
principle of holiness.
The Giant Anger.
Fisht tbe'Glant Anger,
Fight him every day; t
He's a dreadful monster .
Turn from him away.
Fight the Giant Anger; ?
Fight him all along; '
Lay him down, and keep him;
Hold him fast and strong. ]
Fight the Giant Anger; I
They are fools who bi-nd; j
Good men all have done it; .
Angels help will lend.
Fight the Giant Anger;
Man may take a town;
God says he Is better far, 1
Who keeps his anger down. i
Fight the Giant Anger; I
Fight him till you die; I
If you conquer, you will wear .
A golden crown on high. j
Entertaining Company. !
The oldtime housekeeper, who case '
and punctilio in entertaining her guest j
has been a subject of modern admiration.
is verv often replaced in these
later days by a flurried*, nervous housewife,
who unconsciously allows all the
wheels of her demestic management to .
become visible. There is nothing
more unpleasant to a sensitive person j
who is welcomed in a family where he '
expects a delightful visit than to feel )
by accident, or otherwise,that a special j
effort is being made in his behalf. !
The homely old phrase "make yourself
at home" has an infinite comfort
for one who has been harassed by a ,
fussy hostess. It is not necessary to
speak these words, but it is wise to act j
them. A guest must be cared for
carefully, and yet not feel the care.
Every essential of the guest-room
shouid be fine and nice, but not so delicate
and frail as to suggest that the
room is intended for rare and transient
occupancy. It i? wise to provide a
good lounge in this room for those
who are tired with travel. There are
many deft ways of making such a room
look cheerful and inviting. In winter
if possible, have a ruddy, open tire
kindled on the hearth, and air and
make up the room some time before
the arrival of company. It is a very
unwholesome practice to leave a bed
made up a month or more at a time, as
it is often in the guest room. The bed
in this room snouia simpiy oe covered
with a sheet, old pillow and bolster
cases being put on and left till company
is 'aDuounced. The bed and the
bedding selected for use should be
thoroughly aired in a wurm room in
which the"windows has beeu opened.
Under ordinary circumstances it is
probable that guests are weary when
they arrive, aud would prefer to go at
once to their room. If possible, see
that there is warm water there before
they arrive, and a writing table, containing
pens, ink and writing puper.
It is better to make all plans for your
friends' entertainment yourself, consulting
them as little as possible. Wise
housekeepers arrange their work beforehand,
and manage to guide the
domestic machiuery of their house by
sly visits to the kitchen so well that
these visitors are never aware they
have been absent. 8uch entertainment
means care and system: it means continual
thought for others and the subordination
for the time of all your own
selfish plans and projects. But who
that has cared truly for a friend will
say that this is not rewarded 1?New
York Tribune.
Danger In Xewly Bnllt Houses.
There is too # reat haste in occupying
a house after its completion. In many
places there is such a demand for
dwellings and other business departments,
that as soon as finished they
are occupied. This is especially true
of small dwellings. There is more
danger iu this than is supposed. There
is no health in dampness and mould
under any circumstances, and in living
apartments, where the tendency is
toward poor ventilation, the dampness
of newlv finished houses contributes
largely to ill.liealth. In town of Basle,
Switzerland, a regulation has been
adopted |which prevents newly built
houses from being occupied until four
months after completion. Under
many circumstances so long a time as
above is not necessary, but it is well
to err on the side of safety. The size
of the house, its location4 surroundings
the material used and the state of the
weather enter into the consideration of
the time necessary in which a building
should become sufficiently dry for
occupancy.?Sanitary News.
Keep Still.
When trouble is brewing, keep still.
Wben slander is getting on 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 once I wrote a
letter and sent it, and wished I had
not. In my later years I had another
commotion, and wrote a long letter :
but life had rubbed a little sense into
me, and I kept the letter in my pocket
against the day when I could look it
over without egitation and without
tears. I was glad I did. Less and
less it seemed necessary to send it. I
was not sure it would do any hurt, but
in my doubtfulness I leaned to reticence
and eventually it was destroyed. Time
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WUliVa WUUUCIO, tT txiv Uii jvyu
speak camly, and then you will not
need to speak, maybe. Silence is the
most massive thing conceivable sometimes.
It is strength in its very grandeur.
It is like a regiment ordered to
stand still in the mid-fury of battle. To
plunge in were twice as easy.?Exchange.
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How to Make Life Happy.
Take time; it is no use to fume or
fret or do as the angry housekeeper |
who has got hold to the wrong key. j
and pushes, (shakes, and rattles itj
about the lock until both are broken!
and the door is still unopened.
The chief secret of comfort lies in
not suffering trifles to vex us, and in '
cultivating our undergrowth of small
pleasures. j
Try to regard present vexations as j
you will regard them a month hence.
Since we cannot get what we like,
let us like what we can get.
It ia not riches, it is not poverty, it
is human nature that is the trouble,
The world is like a looking-glass.
Laugh at it and it laughs back; frown
at"it aud it frowns back.
Angry thoughts canker the mind
and dispose it to the worst temper in
the world?that of fixed malice and
revenge. It is while in this temper j'
that most men become criminals.??S'c-'(
Iccted. , 1
The Sin of Self-Confldcnce.
The secret of the failure of more
ban one young convert?yea, and of
nany young ministers, too?has been
>verweening self-confidence. "He
hat trustetli his own heart is a fool."
ro every beginner in the Christian
ife we would say, you can nor trust
youi-self too little, and you can not
:rust Jesus Christ too much ! In fact
:he real conflict with you will be just
;his: "Shall I trust myself, or my
Lord and Saviour ?" Your soul has
10 self-lifting power, any more than
pour body has to lift itself by grasping
it the straps of your boots. You can
no more find your way to heaven with
Mit Print than vnn r>?n find Vfllir WAV
through the Mammoth Cave without a
ruide and a torch. Let poor Peter in
Pilate's court-yard show you what a
poor figure a boastful Christian cuts
when he relies on his own strength.
Prond of His Work.
A few days ago, when temperance
was being discussed in the Legislature,
Mr. Ford, of Queen's, referred to a
member of one of the families of the
province recently buried as a pauper
by means of his being addicted to
strong drink, and called it a temperance
lecture in a nut shell.
Mr. Pugb, the member for Halifax,
rose and 9aid he was a liquor-seller,
and be considered his business just as
legitimate and respectable as a carriage
builder.
Thi9 struck Mr. Ford, who is a car-!
riage-builder, and so he replied briefly
as follows: "I build carriages, and |
when I-turn out fine wagon I feel
proud of it, and point to it moving
along the street, and say, "That is my
work." J would ask the member from
hiahiax it ne is proua 01 nis worn as
he sees it reeling along the street?"
To this there was no reply.
God is Nowhere.?An infidel was
one day troubled in his mind as he sat
in his room alone, while his little Nellie
was away at Sunday-school. He
had often said, "There is no God," but
could not satisfy himself with his
skepticism, and at this time he felt especially
troubled a3 thoughts of the
Sunday-school and of tbe wonderful
works of creation would push the way
into his niind. To quiet these troublesome
thoughts he took some large
cards and printed on each of them,
"God is nowhere;" and hung them
up in his study. Nellie soon came
hothe, and began to talk about God ;
but her father pointed her to one of
the cards, and said, "Can you read
that?" She climbed a chair and began
eagerly to spell it out: "G-o-d,
God, i-s, is, n-o-w, now, h-e-r-e; God
is now here, isn't that right papa?"
The man's heart was touched, and his
infidelity banished, by the faith of
Nellie, and again the prophecy was
fulfilled, "A little child shall lead
them.' '?North western Presbyterian.
Was it Our Jesus??A little threeyear-old
girl stood at the window one
Sunday, "watching for papa," who
was at church. Soou she spied him
coming; andvas he entered, she said,
"Papa, what did Mr. R preach
about this morning?"
Her father replied, "He preached
about Jesus."
''Po?o moo Jf nnr Toona 9" shtt ask
ed.
"Yes," said her father; "it was our
Jesus."
The eyes brightened at the thought
that papa's minister knew her Jesus,
and spoke about him to his congregation.
Do you, dear reader, claim this Jesus
as yours? I hope so, for it is a
most blessed thought that every little
girl and boy may have him for their
own Saviour. No matter how much
he loves other children, there is room,
ever room, in his affection, for you
and as many others as will ask him to
care for them. "They brought young
children to him, and took them up in
his arms, and blessed them," Mark x,
13, 1G.
Eating vegetables.~Good Housekeeping
says on the subject: In a substantially
vegetable diet, cream and
cheese should occassionally be used,
all of which contain much solid nutriment.
About one-third of egg is nutrition,
and good cheese contains a still
larger proportion. Butter is also
food. ,
An eminent chemist declares there
is "more strength stored up in an
ounce of butter than in two ounces of
meat," although butter will not fur
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of the body like bread and meat. Yet
butter, with eggs and cream or cheese
in a moderate amount, will generate
all the animal heat and force needed,
just as coal and wood generate heat
under the boiler of an engine. It has
been demonstrated by experiment
that one pound of boiled beans contains
eighty-seven per cent, of nutrition,
while beef contains twenty-six percent;
boiled peas give ninety-three per cent,
against poultry, which yields twentysix
per cent, and veal, which only
gives twenty-four.
Outrageous.?Railroad employes
are sometimes surly in their ways, but
it is not to be denied that they have to
endure much stupid questioning. A
stout man with a large bag and a distressed
countenance came to a ticket
seller's window one day and said excitedly
:
"Tell me what time the 3:50 train
leaves!"
The ticket seller looked at him with
a fixed and solemn gaze a moment and
then answered:
"It leaves at ten minutes of four."
"Ten minutes of four !" exclaimed
the stout gentleman. "Wiiat a irana
these railroads are ! Actually misleading
people five minutes in their time
tables just for the fun of seeing them
get left!"
Drawing teacher: "Now, this is a
symmetrical figure. Can any one tell
me what symmetry is? Ah! There is
a little boy with his hand up. What
is symmetry, little boy?"
Jimmy Scanlan : "Plaze, sorr, it do
be a place fwhere they buries dead
people!"
First Clergyman?It seems to me I
never have any marriage ceremonies
to perform except in the fall. Second
Clergyman?Then you are a sort of autumnatic
coupler.
A. Worker's Prayer.
Lord, speak to me, tbat I may speak, H|^9
In living echoes of Thy tone; 9HH
As Thou bast soartit, so let me seek
Thy erring children, lost and lone. "? - UU
0 lead roe. Lord, tbat I may lend * I H
The wandering and the wavering feet; BBK
O feed me, Lord, tbat I may feed HH
Thy hungering ones with manna sweet.
0 strengthen me, that *hlle I stand HB|
Firm on the Bock, and strong In Thee.
1 may stretch out a loving hand BHH
To wrestlers in tbe troubled sea. KHH
0 teach me, Lord, that I may teach SBH|
The precious things Thou do*t Impart;
a .wl ttt/-v rr\ a that thpV TYIftV Mflfih I^HH
The hidden depths of many a heart.
0 ((I ve thlne own sweet rest to me, MH
That I may speak with soothing power
A word In season, as from Tbee. ? BBW
To weary ones In needful hour.
0 fill me wltb thy fullness, Lord, |^B|
Until my very heart o'erflow jHflB
In kindling thought and glowlntr word,: nH
Thy love to tell, Tby praise to show. M
O use me. Lord, nse even me, BWi
Just as thnu wilt, and when, and where*,
Until tby blessed face I see,
Thy rent, Thy Joy, Thy glory share. .
If knowledge is power, patience
powerful* , Bfl
All is not lost when a thing goesflflj
contrary to you.
"The danger to the Church 1b not an^H
orthodox creed, but an orthodox
greed." |H
If a man begins to give liberally, M
folks begin to think he is losing his^H
mind.
We often repent of what we baveflH
said, but never of that which we haveHJ
uut eaiu. MB!
~ "Do you believe in fate, Pat?" 9H
ure, an' phwat would we shtand EM
on widout em ?'*
If we would win tbe prize we must Bfl
not be cool and indifferent, but exert M
all our strength in the Christian race. HI
We sometimes congratulate ourselves
at the moment of wakiDg fromjJH
a troubled dream,?it may be so afteWH
death. SjH
Whatever interferes with His Holy Hg
Spirit, whose right it is to rule and
reipn in our hearts, must be given up,
be it what it may.
Do not expect commercial payment
for the real benefits you may render HI
mankind. Doing good is the great H|
way of enriching character.
The night has a thousand eyes,
The day but one; HBM
But the light of tbe whole world dies H
With the setting sun. Hj
The mind has a thou and thoughts, fltfl
The heart but one: M|
But ihe llpht of a whole life dies flfll
When love Is done. 99
Don't fool yourself. The reason H
why you are not at the prayer-meeting H
is because you love something else bet- H
ter than that. Don't you see? gfl
Some one has said : "When I look- K
ed for the Church, I found it in the 'H
world ; and when I looked for the 'H
world, I found it in tbe Church." EM
To keep the heart is no easy matter, I
but there is no profit in fretting over H
tbe difficulty. It has to be done, and, H
helped by God's grace, we can do it H
The Sabbath ought to produce for us B
influences that will be helpful to us
during the following week ; but it wiU
only do this if we employ it as God requires.
Oh, the beguiling influence of hu
man wisdom! how doth it corrupt
from the simplicity that is in Jesus
it strikes at the very life of spiritual .
Christianity.
Our customs and habits are like the
ruts in roads. The wheels of life set-'
tie into them; and we jog along^.
through the mire because it is too"
much trouble to get out of them.
Thy sun shall no more go down;
neither shall thy moon withdraw itself;
for the Lord shall be thine everlasting
light, and the days of thy
mourning shall be ended, lsa. lx. 20.
Man by living wholly in submission
to the Divine influence becomes surrounded
with, and creates for himself,
internal pleasures infinitely greater "
than any ne can otherwise attain to?
a state of heavenly beatitude.
Prayer is the spiritual balm, the precious
cordial, which gives us peace and
courage. It recalls to us our pardon
and our duty. It says to us: "Thou
art loved, love; thou hast received,
give; thou must die, do thy duty."
Though the trifler does not chronicle
his own vain words and wasted
hours, they chronicle themselves.
They find their indelible place in that
book of remembrance with which human
hand cannot tamper, and from
which no being save one can blot
them. They are noted in the memory
of God.
The dull weather, they say, is the
best weather for battle ; and sorrow is
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U1C UCSl U111C 1UI omug I.UIUU(|U Muu
conquering one'9 eelf. Do not be
afraid, I say, of sorrow. All the
clouds in the sky canDot move the sun
a foot further off; and all the sorrow
iu the world cannot move God any
further off.
One of the most useless of all things
is to take a deal of trouble in providing
against dangers that never come.
How many lay up riches that they
never eDjoy; lo provide for esingencie9
that never happen; to prevent
troubles that never come, sacrificing
present comfort and enjoyment in
guarding against the wants of a period
they may never live to see.
Be pitiful, be courteous. The roots
of plants are hidden underground, so*
that themselves are not seen, but they
appear in their branches, and flowers,
and fruits, which argue there is a root
and life in them; thus the graces of
the Spirit planted in the soul, though
themselves invisible, yet discover their
being and life in the tract of a Christian's
life, his words, and actions, and
the frame of his carriage.
There are many single words in
Spanish, the use of which is a con- .
stant satisfaction. A word which is
equivalent to "there is," besides being
capable of numberless other applications,
has all its tenses, but is sufficiently
impersonal to have no plural.
It is a continual delight. Here is another.
When two friends pass on the
street they say, touching the hat,
Adios. Could any thing be neater?
No wild effort to remember what time
of day it is, no desperate shortening of
"How do you do?" for which there is
no time for a reply, no vulgar "Hello!"
or more vulgar "How goes it?"
but a short, convenient, sufficient
greeting?a perfect boon when one
walks the streets hurriedly.?Geo. B.
Winton in Nashville Advocate,