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ME- V '' ' f F-' I m " A DREAM OF THF. SEA. tv hr A fannar lad in his prairie homo t0 Lay dreaaiiag of the sea; He ne'e:- had seen it, but well ho knew |M Its pictured image and heavenly hue; th And he dreamed ho swept o'er its waters su f:' blue, _ a( "With the winds a blowing free, A With the winds so fresh an' free. fcjiV' He woke! and he said "The day will como When that shall be truth to mo;" ^ But as years swept by him he always found That his feet were clogged anil his hands '' were bound, n< Till at last he lay ia a narrow mould. Afar from the sobbing >ea, J5! The son-owing, sobbing sea. 111 F*? nt r >aDy there are on the plains to-night jn That dream of a voyage to be. * * And have said in then* souls, "'The day will come pj 'r$ When mv bark shall sweep through the drifts si] of foam.'' h< But their eyes grow dim and their lips grow a, dumb, af Afar from the tossing sea, The turbulent, tossing sea. in ?Albert Biff clow Paine. at * . a A MIDNIGHT SPELL. UT M. LOr.IXG GUILD. ? The low range of sand hills over which Browning uarter was waiting was somy ^ & lit by the full, summer moon. From & his position the young man could over- Q( look the level green country at his right, }K and the quiet sea at his left. kc It was evident, however, that he saw su neither. In his eyes was the far-away look of expectation, and, as he moved along in buoyant ecstacy he was quite cj( unconscious of the slipping sand and R* ' toagled dune grass. Presently he came to a break in the jjc hills, a sort of gulley which the sea had sc once cut. Here the coarse dune grass "jai K- .had reluctantly given placo tu a finer m [ species, and, in the centre of the hollow F' itood a solitary tree. Its twisted, stormE whipped arms looked gaunt and appealf V ing in the flood of moonlight. A* ui IUV; uv/u tut; juuu^ iiiuu made a low exclamation and quickened gjj his already swift pace. As he approached, F> he scanned closely the scantily leaved rQ branches. It was not till quite near jQ, Fp-- . them that he was certain of their species. 1 He heaved a sigh of deep satisfac- fn m tion. g|j ' 'An oak! I thought so." ln I There was a strange excitement in his manner, and his hand trembled as he jt" took out his watch. j0 " A minrfpv nf ttvnlrr> Ten mlnnfps to wait. The incantation takes bu: jpV.five." - -j-, t * Rather impatiently the young man sat ^ down at the foot of the old oak, and w] took from his pocket a small, calf- jD J?, bound volume, very old and very musty. He had recently found it among a lot mi cf old books which had been left him by fc his great-uncle, a man of much mystical j| learning, who, in earlier times, would sa doubtless have suffered under the P&" accusation of witchcraft. ja, Carter, at the time of his uncle's death, i had rather wondered ot the odd bequest.! V(, But the elder Carter had evidently seen 0j t.-VA -in the nervous, sensitive temperament of w. r: ' the young man that which would make -him a fit disciple of theosophy. \ The package of books, however, reinained untouched until one afternoon, [rl ?" Carter, from sheer laziness, was seized with a desire to examine the box. Rather I |( to his own astonishment, he found him- ! j . 5 self attracted by the mystical medley "t- which he met; and preseutly went to % work to study conscientiously that which ?r> had found so great a place in his uncle's j life. In such reading he had spent the last ?( six months, until his somewhat poetical c0 fer character became more than ever iin- ^ 6 practical, and he longed to grasp the sa occult powers of which lie read. In this Q mood he first opened the little calf-bound book. tv, ' An introduction in English announced tr that it was a collection of incantations P^from different tongues, whereby the m. of the dead, aud even of ths liv- ^' kSMEDv Tin pnntrnlloil Timlinnlr iric Pl manuscript, and, oddly enough, these av incantations -were written in English ^ characters, although, the wcrds were all jc strange. L . 1. To-night Browning Carter had come, ^ , under the mystical shadow of the oak, ~""~-that he might try the power of the spell ^ which was to *how him the spiritual ^ gf form of the wl f?au he should love. s "With much pnfcistaking he had learned w( feg. to repeat the words, which meant tQ nothing to him. It had also givcu him ^ some trouble to master the musical intonations on whose vilr/ tions so much deexpended. jj; "When his watch pointed to five minTltes to twelve he rose. A quiver of exI citement ran over him. lie took up his ^ position some twenty feet away from the j.E nee. seeping time to tne lovely rhythmic chant, he began to move slowly ' around the tree in gradually decreasiug circlcs. The stillness was the tremulous one of A summer night; save for the weird chanting *here was not a distinguishable ' ] sound. Even the soft lapping of the sea U. yras unheard in the little hollow. ; , Slowly Carter turned around the tree, ^ each time coming nearer to the rugged trunk, until he was so close to it that ho ."rbrushed it as he went around. In the I t . ' ^jstoven a village clock slowly struck j. ^.v'twelvc. The chant grew softer and , f slower, and, at the last stroke, ceased. re Tarter leaned dizzily against the old ||Mre^ _ j1( the first time, looking between the ^ dunes, he noticed the sea. Suddenly au | odd, numb sensation crept over him. j?' Out on the quiet moonlight water a figure was moving. Slender and whiterobed, it seemed to be walking upon the water. 81owly it advanced, with an un- ^ naturally steady motion. . - Browning Carter leaned heavily against the supporting oak. Nearer and nearer carnc the slender, xhite figure, and the ^ young man could sac that it was a | ~ woman's aud that over its shoulders huni; y long, dark hair. She in:.veil slowly across tlic white sand of the b^ach and entered the little hollow. 1',^ Fo: a mon\ent she paused, while the j f? -heart of the watcher beat wildly. Closer i h; then the figure came, and as it came he i v< saw that the dark hair framed au intense i o f white face and dark, wide-open eyes. ! n r When but a few feet away, she turned j ^ her head, and the young man felt a wave c of sadness roll over him. On the white j a face was a look of intense anguish. I tl Then the figure moved on, past the ji gaunt oak and out of tae little hollow, c Suddenly she disappeared, and Carter, J with quiveriug limbs, sank to the ground, c He would have folloved her; but the t ^ . ' *.' , * . . . . 7 renty-four hours' fast, with which ho ] id prepared himself for his experience, J Id on him, and he was unable to move. After some time his strength camo ick, and he rose and walked to where e ligure had vanished. lie saw only a idden fall of the ground, and beyond, --li. 1? JUIUI^U UUIIL \jj suiat auuiuiui *.v^uuuw. 11 the world seemed sleeping. A few days later Carter was snatched rj om his dreamy life by a party of young eer Hows who had conic do^vn from tho pla ty, bent on making the most of their t ication. Their gaiety grated on the Eg; ;rves of the mystic, who had been b?c imewhat unmanned by his midnight ex- {^a :rience. Courtesy, however, forced bri m to lend himself to all their plans eye id to cuter into all their boating, sail- ^ g and fishing parties. W|j On one of those he was presented to a wit iss Tremain;. Whether she were aft n*)TT r.r not f!ir(-er rrvild not tell: for V.VVJ V... > up ic wore a veil, thick cuough to conceal ski; :r features. But she had a low, pleas- ter it voicc, anil a wonderfully easy, uafected manner. au( To Carter's remark that she had been citi none of the other sailing parties, she JJj* iswered that her health had not per- CUj itted it. the He hoped it had been a merely passing tbr disposition. i "Yes; only a cold." Ino The young ruan noticed a tinge of con- liln raint in Miss Tremaiue's answer, and iat she immediately left the subject. The party had started out in the after- Tb >on, for its members wished to sail tog >me by moonlight. The supper on >aid was a merry one, and Carter was wjj rprised at the heartiness with which phi : joined in the general gaycty. Pul ' It really is better for me," ho deied mentally, "to sec more of people." jn, As the moon rose the party grew me rietcr; even the songs became less rol- ^ :king. Suddenly the gay little damI to whom Carter was talkiug saw his of' ce change, while he stopped in the hef iddlc of his sentence. ' IVKrr rrrViof ia if?*' elin nclrprl > " "J ? """" ? """ tu t Bat Carter did not hear lier. He was no oking across tho boat to whjre sat Miss P.?1 emaiuc. She had taken off her thick 1 j 11, and the face on which the moou one was the face of his vision. wh Unconscious of everything else, Carter se abruptly and left his little compan- nft( a. cla Miss Tremainc was sitting rather apart ^a1 am the others. As Carter approached e smiled up at him and moved a little, its mute offering of the seat beside her. fic? j if in a dream, the young man took it. did not occur to him to talk; he merely 0it{ oked at the white face which ho had I fi en under such strange circumstances. Presently he becamo aware that Miss emaine had been talking to him, and Ne at she was waiting for au answer. But tha tiat could he say? He had heard uothJ anc S' Th: "I?I beg your pardon," ho stam- all. cred. ' js? Miss Tremaine laughed easily. "You have not heard one word I tic id." str The merry laugh broke the spell that j over him. doi "Excuse mc; but you will think me far ry rude, but your face reminded me lag one I had seen before, and I was ^ itching it." "So I perceived." ehe Seeing the youag man's evident con- j sion, she laughed again, and good- ! gpj( turedly helped him out of difficulties, int "I wonder if you have as much trou- lco 2 as I, in locating people. If you do, un sorry for you." fou But, during the whole of the conver- in i Lion, which lasted until the landing hfe the irter was conscious of an odd seusatiou unreality. her After this the meetings of the two on ;re frequent. They found much in ^ mmou to discuss, and they also found auc at loug walks together on the hard crs nd of the beach were very favorable to ^ interchange of experiences. One afternoon, late in October, the seh '0 were standing together at the en- has ince to the oak-tree hollow. ^ "Have you noticcd,' asked Miss Tre- Ma line, pointing out ou the sea, "that mis ere's a sand-bar which runs out quite a ag distance? At low tide one can walk ot-, rav out ou it. I used to have such not irrid dreams about it when 1 first came . M hai mn. our "What were they?" asked Carter with cor sudden hoarseness in his voice. 6t* "I dont like to remember them ot .. , . , t i x. , oni ik uoouc mem; oniy i seemeu to oe cut ways walking out on that bar, and the sit, iter would seem to come up, up, and it >uld be so cold, so cold. It isn't much tell, but you know how it is iu dreams; hai; ere was always such a horrid sensation Hii ou* *'*" ppe! Carter was silent, and, after a little, iarc Iss Tremaine continued. abl "And, do you kuow, I became very ! ^ iich frightened about myself. I had y^, e dream so often. And I think, I wal iow, that once or twice I must have and ilkcd in my sleep and gone out therein "P, ulity. Just think how horrible!" and "What did you do about it?" her com- chu nion asked, mechanically. "i spoKe to tne uocior; ana ne gave j aut ; something quieting. I suppose I was be 1 little unstrung by my brother's death. A hv, Mr. Carter! What is the matter?" For the youug man's face was white. de;j moment lie paused, looking at her 6p& th his qrey eyes large from disappoiutcnt. Then impulsively he began ami tbe Id her all of his discovery of the little g iok; of his midnight incantation, and the hat lie had considered its result. IIo *u called their subsequent meeting, and Id how he had felt when she unveiled :r face and he had seeu the one whom ; believed to be the destined companion his his life. Toward the end his voice on( Itered. "I believed so Grmly that we were eaut for each other that I felt sure that cei me time you must love me. But now wa \t I know it was all a mistake; that it ^ as not your spirit, I ." sa] "With a sob he turned away his head, of Almost immediately u soft hand was ^ ipped into his. Spl 4 *T> it i*. was not a'l a mistake," said tal uaice Tremaine.?Drake's Magazine. or A Tankard Washington Used. thi W. Yj. Dwight, of Plainwell, Mich., J?S as obtained an heirloom of which he is t?r cry proud. It is a tankard and bowl ' "r.' f earthenware plated with a bright but ' inch worn substance. Tlie articles wero iveu his mother early in the sixties by a tie olorcd woman who obtained them from , cr New llaven (.Conn.) tavern. It is au- , tieatioally related that the vessels wero ca art of the table furniture from which pe ieueral Washington ate his dinner in ^ une, 1775, while making the jcurnoy to lc Cambridge, Mass., to assume command of th he inasricau aria,y,?Boston Tranteript. r REV. DR. TALMAGE. [E BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "The Gambling Evil." "ext: "Let My people go that thty v\ay \ ve Me; for I will at this time send all My It T>? i- 10 1.1 I ij/ues.'?I2J.\?ii.., iu, IT. iast winter, in the museum at Cairo, i vpt, I saw the mummy or embalmed ly of Pbaraob, the oppressor of the an- j at Israelites. Visible are the very teeth I it he gnashed against th9 Israolitish ! ckmakers, the sockets of the merciless j ss with which ho looked upon the overbur- | led people of God, the hair that floated in , breeze off the Red Sea,the very lips with | ich he commanded them to make bricks j ;hout straw. Thousands of years er, when the wrappings of the rainy were unrolled, old Pnaraoh lifted his arm as if in imploration, but his nny bones cannot again clutch his shatad scepter. It was to compel that tyrant let the oppressed go free that the memoraten plagues were sent. Sailing the Nile 1 walking amid the ruins of Egyptian ies, I saw 110 remains of thos9 plagues it smote the water or tho air. hone of i frogs croaked in tiie one, nouo of the lo;ts sounded their rattl<i in tho other, aud i cattle bore no sign of the murrain, and ough tho starry nights hovering about i pyramids no de.-troyiug angel swept his jg. But there are ten plagues still sting- i ; and befouling and cursing our cities, and , s angels of wrath smiting not only the ' it born but the last born. Brooklyn, New York and Jersey City, >ugh called three, are practically one. e bridge already fasteniug two of them ;ether will be followed by other bridges i by tunnels from both Nfew Jersey and og Island shores, until what is true now L as the vears po by, become more em itically true. The "average condition of t>lic morals in this cluster of cities is as >d if not bettor than in any other part of i world. Pride of city is natural to men ill times, if they live or have lived in a tropolis noted for dignity or prowess, isar boasted of his native Rome, Lvcurgu3 Sparta, Virgil of Andes, Demosthenes of hens, Archimedes of Syracuse, and Paul Tarsus. I should suspect a m:m of base Lrtedness who carried about with him no ling of complacency in regard to the ce of his residence; who gloried not inits s or arms or behavior; who looked with exultation upon its evidences of pros ity, its artistic embellishments and scienc attainments. have noticed that men never like a place ere they have not behaved well. Men o have free rides iu prison vans never js the city that furnishes tho vehicle, len I see in history Argos, Rhodes, SmyrChios, Colophon and several other cities iming Homer, I conclude that Homer bered well. Let us not war against this de of city, nor expect to build up ourselves pulling others down. Let Boston have commons, its Faneuil Hall and its magni;nt scientific and educational institutions, fc Philadelphia talk about its mint, and In>endence Hall, and Girard College, and its families, as virtuous as venerable. Wheu nd a man living in one or tnose Diacss who i nothing to say in favor of them, I feel 3 asking him, "What moan thing did jou that you do not like your native city?" w York is a goodly city, and' when I say it I mean the region between Spuyten vvil Creek and Jamaica in one direction 1 Newark flats in the other direction, at which tends to elevate a part elevates That which blasts part blasts all. Sin i giant, and ho comes to the Hudson or nnecticut River and passes it as easily as step across a figure in tho carpet. The ssing of God is an angel, and when it etches out its two wines one of them rers over that and the other over this, n infancy the great metropolis was laid vn by the banks of the Hudson. Its inicy was as feeble a3 that of Moses sleep. ?? kiiiviicvisiq litf f.k& flnh hfcfl , m lliU UUU UOUVJ MJ V14V , riara, there our fathers stood and watched * The royal spirit of American commerce ne down to the water to bathe, and there i fouud it. She took it in her arms, and i child grew and wased stroug, and the ps of foreign lands brought gold and ccs to its feet, and stretching itself up 0 the proportions of a metropolis, it bus ked up to the mountains and off upon the ?the mightiest of the energies of Ameri1 civilization. The character of the nder of a city will be seen for many years Is inhabitants. Romulus impressed his ! upon Rome. The Pilgrims relaxed not ir nold upon the cities of New England, liiam Pcun has left Philadelphia an instance of integrity and fair dealing, and any any in that city you mar see in the nners, customs and principles of its people taste?, his coat, his hat, his wife's bonnet I his plain meeting house. The Hollandstill wield an influence over New York. rraud old New YorkJ What southern roughfare was ever smitten by pestilence, en cur physicians did not turow them res upon the sacrifice! What distant land ; cried out in the agony of famine, and ships have not put out with breadstuffs! lat street of Damascus or Beyrout or dras that has not heard the step of our isiouaries! What struggle for national in which our citizens have not poured ir blood into the trenches! What gallery fxquisite art in which our painters have hung their pictures! What department iterature or science to which our scholars re not contributed I I need not speak of public schools, where the children of the dwainer and milkman and glassblower id by the side of the flattered sons of reliant princes- or of tho insane asylums ill theie islands where they who went ting themselves, among tho tombs, now clothed and in their right minds; or of Magdalen asylums, where the lost one he street conies to bathe the Saviour's i with her tears, and wipe them with the rs of her head?confiding in tho pardon of a who said: "Let him who is without sin t the first stone at her." I need not ak of the institutions for the blind, the le, tho deaf and the dumb, for the incures, the widow, the orphan, and the outt; or of the thousand armed machinery t sends streaming down from the res-jrrs the clear, bright, sparkling, God given ter that rushes through our aqueduct?, I dashes out of the hydrants, aud tosses in our fountains, and hisses in our steam ;ines, and showers out the conflagration, I sprinkles from the baptismal font of our irehes; and with silver note, and golden rkle, and crystalliue chime, says to hunds of thousands of our population, in the hentic words of Hitn who said: "I will; thou clean!" ill this I promise in opening this course of nous on the ten plagues of these three es, lest some stupia man might say I am ireeating the place of my residence. I ak to you to-day concerning the plaguo gambling. Every man and woman in 3 house ought to be interested in this lome years ago, when an association for suppression of gambling was organized, agent 01 me association came io a pnuunt citizen and asked him to patronize tb? iety* He said, "No, I can have no. interin such an organization. Tam in no wiseected by that evil." At that very tim? son, who was his partner in business* was ) of the heaviest players in Hsarmv's faus gambling establishment. Another reod his patronage on the same ground, not owing that his first bookkeeper, though reving a salary of only a. thousand dollars, s losing from fifty to ono hundred dollars might. The president of a railroad com- | nv refused to patronize the institution, j ing, '"That society is good for the defenso j merchants, but the railroad paoplo aronot j ureil by this evil;" not knowing that, at j it very time, two of hL> conductors wore 1 indiag three nights of each wea'c at laro dIss in New York. Dirsctly or indirectly, IS CVU stlUKes at tue wau.a t> ui iu. Gambling is the risking of something more less valuable iu th3 hopj of wluuiuy mord in you hazard. The instrument oi gaming I iv differ but the principle is tho same. The j iflling and ilealing cards, however full of j nptatiou, is not gambling, unless stakes I } putup; while, on tho other hand, gam< ! ug may bo carried on without cards or re, or billiards or a ten pin alloy. Tho in who bets on horses, ou elections, on bat- ! s?the man who deals in "fancy" stocks, conducts a business which hazards extra pital, or goes into transactions without imdation, but dependent upon what men 11 "luck,"' isagamBTer. TTliatever you exct to get from your neighbor without of- ! ring nu equivalent iu iuonoy or time or ; ill is eit her the product of theft or gaming. ! >ttery tickets and lottery policies com9 into 0 same category. Fairs for the founding hospitals, schools and churohes, conducted 1 the raffling system* WRW.Uflter the same '--.v. . denomination. Do not, therefore, associate j gambling necessarily with any instrument, or game, or time, or place, or think the prin- S ciple depends upon whether you play for a glass of wine or ou9 hundred share3 of railroad stock. Whether you patronize "auction ? pools." "French mutuals" or "book-making." | whether you employ faro or billiards, ronao r andkeno, sards or bagatelle, the very idea of ~j fAP if. T\pnfp5??5 tA Ha buu tnuifc u uiduvuwv! stow upon you a good for which vou give no equivalent. n It is estimated that every day in Chris- T tendon eighty million dollars pass from hand to hand through gambling -practices, ? and every year in Christendom one hun- D dred and twenty-threo billion one hundred 8 million dollars change hands in that way. f There are in this duster of cities about ^ eight hundred confessed gambling establsshments. There are about throe thousand ? five hundred professional gamblers. Out ? of the eight hundred gambling establish- ? ments, how many of them do you suppose n profess to bo honest? Ten. These ten pro- _ fess to be honest becauso they are merely * the ante-chamber to the seven hundred ^ and ninety that are acknowledged fraudulent. There are first class gambling establishments. You go up the marble stairs. You ring the bell. The liveried servant introduces you. The walls are lavender tinted. ? The mantels are of Vermont marble. The j pictures are "Jephthah's Daughter" and ? bore's "Dante's aud Virgil's Frozen Region I of Hell"?a most appropriate selection, this J last, for the place. There is the roulette , table, the finest, the costliest, most exquisite piece of f u rniture in the United S tates. There is the banqueting room, where, free of charge ? to the guests, you may find the plato and j; viands and wines and cigars sumptuous beyond parallel. * Then you come to the second class gam- J bling establishment. To it you are intro- ' rtuced by a card through some "roper-in." Having entered, you must either gamble or * Qght. Sanded cards, dic3 loaded with quick- ? silver, poor drinks, will soon help you to get rid of all your money to a tune in short j: meter with staccato passages. You wanted 3 to see. Tou saw. Tho low villains of that v place watch you as you come in. Does not the panther, squat in the grass, know a calf a when he sees it? Wrangle not for vour rights u In that place, or your body will be thrown _ bloody into the street, or dead into the East {, River. You go along a little further and find jj the policy establishment. In that place you bet ^ Dn numbers. Betting on two numbers is called c a "saddle," betting on three numbers is called ^ a "gig," betting on four numbers is called a n "horse," and there are thousands of our n young men leaping into that "saddle" and p mounting the "gig," and behind that y "horse" ridiug to perdition. There is always one kind of sign on the door? 'Exchange," ? a moat appropriate title for the door, for h there, in tnat room, a man exchanges health, t peace and heaven for loss of health, loss ot b home, loss of family, loss of immortal soul, fc Exchange sure enough and infinite enough. a Men wishing to gamble will find places v Just suited to their capacity, not only in j the underground oyster cellar, or at the \ table back of the curtain, covered with f greasy cards, or in the steamboat smoking cabin, where the bloated wretch with rings j in his ears instead of his nose, deals the pack, j and winks in the unsuspectiog traveler? t providing free drinks all around?but in 0 jjilded prudors and amid gorgeous surround- t uigs. t Again, this sin works ruin by killing indus- ? try. A man used to reaping scores or hun- t ireds or thousands of dollars from the gaming 0 table will not be content with slow work. H? P will say: "What is the use of trying to make a these fifty dollars in my store when I can get s five times that in half an hour down at o 'Billy's?'" You never knew a confirmed I gambler who was industrious. The men 1 riven to this vice spend their time, not ac- j tively engaged in the game, in idleness or 11 Intoxication or sleep, or in corrupting new f rictioi3. Thjs sip has dulled the carpenter's f saw and cut the band ot the factory wheel, t sunk the cargo, broken the teeth of the J farmer's harrow and sent a strange light- J oing to shatter the battery of th9 philoso- 1 pher. The very first idea in gaming is at war with all the industries of soqietv. T This crime is gettiug its lever under many * a mercantile hous3 in our great cities, and 1 before long down will come the great estab- r] lishment, crushing reputation, homo, com- * fort and immortal souls. How it diverts and ' sinks capital may be inferred from somo ' authentic statement beforo us. The ten stain- ? ing houses that once were authorized in Paris c passed through banks, yearly, three hundred a and twenty-nvo millions of francs. Where f ? doe3all the money co.ne from? Tiie whole 1 world is robbe 1! What is most sad, there J are no consolations for the loss and suffering J ?ntailed by gaming. If men fail in lawful t business, 6od pities and society comnmer- ' ates; but where in the Bible or in society is ?-t /?rtnc/\iofiAn frti? f.ho ?Tflmhlor5 Tvpnm _ merouujr ivhswmvu w. , what tree of tlie forest ooz?stherea balm that 1 ?n soothe the gamester's heart? In that J bottle where God keeps the tears of His chil- * jren are there any tears of the gambler? Dc * the winds that come to kiss the faded cheek 1 Df sickuess, and to cool the heated brow of J the laborer, whisper hope and cheer to the 1 amaciated victim of the game of hazard? ' When an honest mm is in trouble he ha? 7 sympathv. "Poor follow!" they say. Bui .J io gamblers come to weep at tha agonies oi r the gambler? 1 In Northumberland was one of the finest s states in England. Mr. Porter owned it, ^ and iu a year gambled it all away. Having c tost the last acre of the estate, he came j iown from the saloon and got into his carriage; went back, put up his horses and car- ^ riage and town house and played. He threw r and lost. He started home, and in a side \ alley met a friend from whom he borrowed ? ten guiueas; went back to the saloon and be- {; Core a great while had won twenty thousaud T pounds. He died at la3s a beggar in St. (j, Giles. How many gamblers felt sorry for c Mr. Porter? Who consoled'him on the loss ;g of his estate? What gambler subscribed to B: put a stone over the poor man'sgrave? Not 't one! 6 Futliermire, this sin is the source of uncounted dishonesties. Tho game of hazard' 8 itself is often a game of cheat. How many 8 tricks and deceptions in the dealing of the b cards! The opponent's hand ia ofttimes c found out by fraud. Cards are marked so 6 that they may bo designated from the back. * Expert gamesters have their accomplices, and one wink may dccido thegame. The dice have been found loaded with platina,. so that 'doublets" come up every time. These diea t are introduced by tho gamblers, unobserved ^ by honest men who have come into play; and this accounts for the fact that uiuety-nino 3 cut of a hundred who gamble, however ( wealthy they be^an, at the end are found to r be poor, miserable, ragged wretches, that would not now be oJIowed to sit on the door- * step of tho house that they ouce owiied. In j b gambling houso in Sau Francisco a young man haviug just come from* the mkes ue- J posited a large sum upon the ace. and won 1 twenty-two thousand dollars. But the tide < turns. Intense excitement comes upon the countenances of all. Slowly the cards went f forth. Every eye is fixed. Not a sound is 1 heard until the ace is r evealed favorable to ' "It of Ultt UtlLUk. AllCiO uic nuuuwo v?*. a vu* . "Foul!" but the keepers of the table produce their pistols, aud the uproar issilenced and the bank has won ninety-flve thousand dollars. 1 Do you call this a game of chanced There is > no chance about it. ( Hut these dishonesties in carrying on the game are nothing when, con'fared with tne rrauds whlcn are committed In order to 1 get money to go on with the nefarious work. < Gambling with its greedy hand 1ms snatched , away the widow's mito and the portion of ; the orphan?; has sold the daughter's virtue to " get tho means to continue th& game; ba9 written tho counterfeit signature, emptied the banker's money vault and wielded the 1 assassin's daggor. There is no depth of meanness to which it will not stoop. There is *io cruelty at which it is appalled. There is no warning of God that it will not dare. Merciless. unappeasable, fiercer and wilder it i blinds, it hardens, it rends, it blasts, it crushes, it damns. It has. peopled our prisons and lunatic asylums. How mauy railroad agents and cashiers and trustees j of funds it has driveu to dis? . grace, incarceration aud sulcido! Witness years ago a cashier of a railroad wbo j 1 stole ono hundred and three thousand del- | ' lars to carry on his gaming practiccs. Witness forty thousand dollars stolon from a Brook lyn bank within the memory Of many or you, and tho one hundred and eighty ' thousand dollars taken from a Wall street ( insurance company for the same purpose! Thesoaro only illustrations on a large scalo 1 of tho robberies every day committed for I tho purpose of carrying out the designs r.f ] gamblers. Hundreds of thousands of dul- j jars uvury youi" leiftlt UUi nuuuuu uuat-i ?a- 1 tioii from the merchant's till into the gambling hell. A man in London keeping ! one of these gambling houses boasted that I ; he had ruined a nobleman a day; but if all J . the saloons of this ]and were to speak out i they might utter a more infamous boast, I i for they have destroyed a thousand noble t j raeo&jear. < ' Notice also the effect of the crime upon 1 omestic happiness. It has sent its ruthless J lowshare through hundreds of families, unti the wife sat in rags, and the daughters rere disgraced, and the sons grew up to the ime infamous practices or took a short cat j 3 destruction across the murderer's scaffold. ^ lome has lost all charms for the gambler, y low tame are the children's caresses and a ? rife's devotion to the gambler! How drearily be fire burns on the domestic hearth! There aust be louder laughter, and something to rin and something to lose; an excitement to <5 rive the heart faster and fillip the blood j nd fire the imagination. No home, however \ right, can keep back the gamester. The weet call of love bounds back from his iron oul, and all the endearaisnts are consumed 1 the flames of his passion. The family tible will go after all other treasures are losfc, S nd if his crown in h?aven were nut into his ' and he would cry: "Here goes one more I ame. mv bova! On this one throw I 'J take tny crown in heaven." A young aan in London, on coming of age, eceived a fortune of one hundred aud wenty thousand dollars, aud, through gam- J ling, in three years was thrown on his I notner for support. An only son went to a I outhern city; he wa3 rich, intellectual and I legant in manners. His parents gave him n nis departure from homo their last blessng. The sharpers got hold of him. They lattered him. They lured him to the gamQg table, and let him win almost every time or a good while, and patted him on the lack and said, "First rat3 player." But fulv in their grasp they fleec3d him, and hi3 a nirty thousand dollars were lost. Last of g ill he put up his watch and lost that. Then a ie began to thiuk of his home and his old t ather and mother, and wrote thus: 1 "My Beloved Parents?You will doubtless ^ eel a momentary joy at the reception of this c stter from the child of your bosom, on \ rhom you have lavished all the favors of c our declining years. But should a feeling t f joy for a moment spring up in your hearts > rhen you should have received this from s ie, cherish it not. I have fallen deep? t a- mi ? k.tM T I * tjvtsr WJ risor xuuao ^iajr uau a muu x v tiould have honored and protected I shall ring down with sorrow to the grave. I will ,ot curse my destroyer, but oh! may God venge the wrongs and impositions practised pon the unwary in a way that shall best lease him. This, my dear parents, is the ist letter you will ever receive from me. I urably pray your forgiveness. It is my ying prayer. Long before you have reeived thi3 letter from me the cold grave < rill have closed upon me forever. Life to < lo is insupportable. I cannot, nay, I will j fka oliama aP Kamnrr Tfrtil I - \J b, OUUOl tuu JUULUJ Ul UU T * UIUWU J VU. ] 'orget and forgive is the dying prayer of j our unfortunate son." j The old father came to the postoffice, got ] be letter and fell to the floor. They thought ] e was dead at first; but they brushe:l back j he white hair from his brow and fanned j im. He had only fainte-i. I wish he had | ieen dead, for what is life worth to a father iter his son is destroyed? When things go j nron? at a gaming table they shout: "Foul! j '"ouT!" Over all the gaming tables of the ( corld I cry out: "Foul! foul! Infinitely , oul." ( Shall I sketch the history of tha gambler? jured by bad company he finds his way nto a place where honest men ougnt never , 0 go. fle sits down to his first game, but nly for pastime and the desire of bsictc hought sociable. Tho players deal out he cards. They unconsciously play into ! latan's hands, who take3 all the tricks and ioth the players' souls 1'or trumps?he being sharper at any eauie. A slight stake is >ut up just to add interest to the play. Game iter game is played. Larger stakes and till larger. They begin to move nervously , in their chairs. Their brows lower and eyes lasb, until now they who win and they who j ose, fired alike with passion, sit with set aws, and compressed lips, and clinched fists, ! nd eyes like fire balls that seem starting 1 ?-? ?? *Ua firol fiii*n Via. ' roiu LUt?II bUUimibf UU dOO iuu uuui biu u wv ore it comes; if losing, pale with envy and remulous with unuttered oaths cast back ed hot upon the heart?or. winning, with lysteric laugh?"Ha, hal I uavo it! I have t!" A few years hare passed and he is only the vreck of a man. Seating himself at the game >re ho throws the first card, he stakes the ast relic of his wife, and the marriage ring vhich sealed thesolemn vows between them. .Tie game is lost, and staggering back in ex* laustion ho dreams. The bright hours cf he past mock his agony, and in his dreams lands with eyes of flra ana tongue of flatno ircle about him with joined hands to dance mdsing their orgies with hellish chorus, hantiug "Hail! brother!" kissing his clammy orehead until their loathsome locks, flowing rith serpents, crawl into his bosom and sink heir sharp fangs an l suck up his life's >lood, and coiling around bis heart pinch it pith chilis and shuUdjrs unutterable. Take warning! You are no stronger than OTIC nf tViniiennrls who hnva bv this oractic# >een overthrown. No young man in our :ities can escape being tempted. Beware or be Unit beginnings! Tillsroad is a down ;rade, aod every instant increases the moneatum. Launch uot upon Ibis treacherous ea. Split hulks strew tile beacb. Everlastng storm* howl up and down, tossing unrary croTtelnto tbe Hellgate. 1 speak 03 vhat I have seen with my own eyes. I hay ooked of! into tha abyss, and I have smu he foaming, and the hissing, and tho whirl* ng of the horrid deep in which tho mangled 'ictims writhed, one upon auother, and truggled, strangled, blaspbemnd and died? he death stare of eternal despair upon their ountenances as the water gurgled over hem. To a gambler's deathbed there comes no iop9. He will probably die alone. His forner associates come not nigh his dwelling. Vhen the hour comes his miserable soul will ;o out of a miserable life into a miserable tornity. As his poor remains pass the bouse vhere ne was ruined, old companions may ookout a moment and say, "There goes thu ild carcass?dead at last," but they will not ;et up from the table. Let him down now nto his grave. Plant no tree to cast its shade here, for the long, deep, eternal gloom that etties mere is snaaow enougti, riant no forget-ine-not" or eglantines around tha pot, for flowers were not made to grow on uch a blasted heath. Visit it not in the sun? hine, for tUut would be mockery, but in the lismal night, when no stars are out and th? pirits of darkness copie down Jiors-:d op th? vind, then visit the grave of the gambler 1 .Every year the country has a perix3ical attack of morality. It begins vith a revival tli? first week of the rear, and usually lasts until the end >f the month. It is due here now. Things that you will be allowed to do it any other time of the year, and that ire thought harmless, will bring down prayers and exhortations on your head f yon attempt to do tbem now. A wave >f wickedness often sweeps over the iountry. The wave of morality is due jut once a year. The following note left by a tramp was found,on the kitchen table by Mrs. Facobs, of Youngstown, O., the other lay: "My dear good lady friend, I camelere a stranger and found no one at lome. I was hjiogry and took a pioco' )f pie. I will return some day and pay fou for it. Muieh obliged. This is all. [ have got. Keep them until I return."' With the note-was left a deck of playlne cards* An Elkioii, Md., man feared that 1m might be buried before he was really lead, and be, therefore, directed in his will that his body should be kept foi forty days in a shed built for the purpose. He wante I a bottla of water bo side him, a latch on the itivulo of the Joor and a roof slanting to tho west. He is now .Tying in the ched. The Justin dynamite shell has beeu successfully thrown from a powder gun, at Home, X. Y. This new shell will enable every warship to become a dynimite cruiser, a'id our Vesuvius will iiave no monopoly in tho belching of sudden destruction. Jules Simon does most of his writing in bed. Mony other fellows do he same, and nobody would object if, ;vhen they got up, they used what they bad written to kindle fires with, -V,. ; J JELIGIO US_RE ADING. THE JOY OK THE LORD. oy and I awhile were strangers: ' ,ife seemed full of pains and dangers, Hien at Trayer's all-hallowed altar, >roppcd as from some heavenly psalter Into uiy heart this wonderful word. "Enter thou Into the joy of thy Lord." tood my soul almost affrighted; row bewildered, now delighted. Vere their pain and dangers ended? Vas uiy soul to God ascended? Else now heard I that judgment word. "Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord?" i pirit answered m.to spirit, "Child, ere now thou dost inherit 'eace and joy and grace and glory! 'hus grown large salvation's story ; Hence, the commanding, life giving word, "Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." oy and I no more are strangers; if** crill honrQ nn!na and dailirorS. Jut niv heart, as it is bidden, "iuds the deeper meaner liidilen In this quickening wonderful word, ' Enter ihou unto the jov of thy Lord." -[K. II. J., in t'hurch at Ilomeaud Abroad. IIOMK DUTIES. From Diokens, and from men before and iter him, we have heard much of the ne;lect of home and its duties by women who ire devoted to r,*orks of benevolence. Uutons otl' where they should be on, an untidy louse, and children taken care of by serants instead of by tender mothers, is the :ry. And yet it is true that where one voman working for Christ outside the home :ircle may be careless of her duties here, nine will neglect them for viiat are called social duties and the pleasures of the world. But in order to commend he work of women for the good of women o all who see it, let them be very carefal hat those trusts and cares at home that form heir tirst and great duty in life arc faithfully performed, and then they will disarm criti:ism and their work will have a double bles-nc.''?TDr. John Hall. THE OLD PATHS. "You have all heard of the Covenanters of Scotland, their decision of mind and force )f character. Their theory of government for the kingdom of Scotland was quaintly impractical, but it grew out of true and deep fear of the Lord. The Old Testament spirit ;n them was not enough tincturcd with the meekness of the LorU Jesus, or they would lot have touched the weapon of -3teel; but in this mistake they were'very fur from beins aloue. In my bed-room I have hung up the picture* of an old Covenanter. He sits in a wild g'en with his Bible open before him on a huge stone. He leans on Iris great broadsword, and his horse stands quietly at his side. Evidently he smelleth the battle afar off, and is preparing for it by 3ri iking in some mighty promise. As you look into the old man's face you can almost hear him saying to himself, 'For the crown Df Christ and the Covenant, 1 would gladly lay down my life this day.' They did Jay iown their lives too, rignt gloriously, and Scotland owes to her covenanting fathers far more than she knows. "It was a grand day that in which they spread the Solemn League and the Covenant upon 111C lOniDiHOIies UI UJC UIU kuujuiu 111 Edinburgh, and all sorts of men came forward to set their names to it. Glorious was that roll of worthies. There were the lords of the Covenant and the common men of the Covenant, and some pricked a vein and dipped the pen into their blood, that they might write their names with the very fluid of their hearts. All over England also there were men who entered into a like solemn league and convenant, and met together to worship God according to their light, and not according to human order-book*. They were resolved upon this oiie thing?that Home should not come back to place and power while they could lift a. hand against her; neither should any other power in throne or Parliament prevent the free exerof hfir consciences for Christ's cause ami covenant. These stern old men, with their still' notions, have gone. And what have we in llieir places? Inditl'erence and frivolity. We have no Roundheads and Puritans: but then we have scientific dress-making and we play Inwn-tennis! We I have 110 contentions for tlie faith; but then our amusements occupy all our time. This wonderful nineteenth century has become a child, and put away manly things. Selfcontained men, men in whom is the true grit, are now few and far between as compared with the old covenanting days.'"? [Spurgeon. St? DAY KECBEATIOJf. "Blackstone in his Commentaries says: 'A corruption of public moras usually 101lows a profanation of the Sabbath,' and the student of history will be able to find abundant illustration in proof of the assertion. In 1793, when the French .Assembly decreed the abolition of the weekiy Sabbath', and appointed one day in ten as a day of rest, we witness a period of national frenzy during which the women of France became so degraded that they were accustomed to take their needlework and sit to witness tbe executions as- a morning pastime. When the intluence of Englanu among the nations was at its lowest ebb. the Sabbath was dishonored and desecrated by the publication of the Book of Sports for "Sunday revelries. "The specious plea of those "who would have our museums, galleries, news rooms, public libraries, concert halls and exhibitions open on Sunday, is that it would result in drawing the people away from the public house and demoralizing pursuits. But this is no argument for depriving the thousands of persons employed at these institutions of their day of rest. They, like 4 ,.C H.? wmmimitv IIentitlprf to Hit; n*3l Ul lUC WiUtiauuu;* v.. ? the privilege of one day's-rest in seven, in which to build up and- recruit their physical and mental energies. The people who frequent public houses on Sunday are, moreover, not the class of people who are thirsting for opportunities to speud their leisure in museums and galleries." There are numberless ways in which the irreligious sections of society can provide recreation for enjoyment in there own iiomrs. There are books and newspapers for the tired toller, the society of his wife and children, friends and acquaintances whh whom he can spend the day. Tiiere is no need to be contriving schemes for attracting people from their homes; what is wanted Is that nu n as well as women be induced to tiiIce a deeper interest in their homes, to keep them clean, and make them attractive and bright. As Dr. (futhrie says: "The whole tendency of the habit of visiting fieatres, gardens,, singing and dancing saloons, and above all cafes, is to weaken *?ti.. l.turJif Mm domestic iclllJll \ rvltlLluun, iv/ uw0uv virtues, to loosen the marriage ties, and by mutual uegloct to promote mutual alieuation." "Again, nothing can be more delusive than the supposition that the cry for tbe opening of museums- on Sundays comes from the working, people. They do >.ot want it; they value Sun Jay a.- a day of rest, and havo common sense enough to perceive that open museums amf galleries, and libraries. on .Sundays means Sunday labor for the labor ulasses. There is no mistake about this: Trades Union Congresses have voted and workingmcn's- neprvsentatives in and out of Parliament have- -poken upon tbe mattvr, and-all are opposed to opening public places of amusement on Sunday. ' 'Th? Lord's day is one of the greatest boons ever Riven to man: it is absolutely necessary for bis physical health, and to enable him to recuperate fr:m the wear and * 'I'lio Siinilnv nneilillir Itrui t/4 V4t?j C7 tivm. & uv . of museums means the destruction <>f Sunday -is a day of iv t to number*. Sunday open in;.' means .Sunday labor; it means the ?ectilarizaliou of the Sabbath. Let the Uovornmetit >et She example of Suinlavopeninsr. and there will he no possibility of keeping: private eulertainnunts and exhibitions closed." A Michigan man, 50 years old* did not know until the other Jay that a husband could not legally tlivasli his wife, provided ho was the .stronger, and when arrested for that offense ha talked about the bulwarks of liberty in n way to bring tears to the eyes ol' the glorious American cade. The Mediterranean is comparatively shallow. A drying up of 0(30 feet would leave three different seas, and Africa would bo joined to Italy. The British Channel is more like a pond which ac* counts forjts choppy wa\m "sabbath school u ' ? m INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB MARCH IS. ' ' Lesson Text: "Gehazi Punished,'7 2 Kings v, 15-27? Golden Text: N ambers xxxil., 28?Commentary. 15. "Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, hut in Israel." Thus spake Naaman, having returned with all his company from Jordan, ha stood before the man of God and prayed him to accept a blessing in the form ot money and raiment. We think of the words of Nebuchadnezzar, - -?i.?- -- O_J WL a LrULU ih IS l/UUL Jruur UUU 10 U UUU VL gods and a Lord of kings;" "I praise and extol and honor the Kingof heaven, all whose works are truth, and His ways judgment; and those that walk in prido He is able to abase." 16. "But be said, As the Lord liveth, bofore whom I stand, I will receive none. And he urged him to take ic; but he refused." Thus spake and acted the man of God. He was not rich in this world's {roods, and yet be turns away from richss when voluntarily offered to him. and apparently from a grateful heart. How different from most people! 1(. "Thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto .. other gods, but unto the Lord." Naaman seems truly to have turned from idols to - "-J a a r* i /t 4 r> serve me living sua iruo vjuu ^ mag, u, a/, and he desires to take home with him some of the earth of the Lord's land (Hos. ir., 8), that when he offers sacrifice to the Lord - he may do it literally upon holy ground, though in a far country. 18. "When I bow down myself in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon thy servant in this thing." Naaman was in the employ of one who worshiped idols, and It was necessary for him to attend his master to the place of idol worship. His own heart would bow only to Jeliovab, but by force of circumstances he must appear to worship Rimmon. 19. "And he said unto him, Go in peace." This is the decision of the man of God in the matter, and this is his blessing. See in II Chron. zxx., 18-20, how the Lord pardoned His own people, and allowed.them to eat the pas30ver otherwise than as it was written. And observe that the attitude of the heart toward God is more in His sight than the outward form. .. . .. ,''d 20. "ButGehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, * * as the Lord liveth I will run after him and take somewhat of him." Here is an idolater indeed-? an idolater in Israel, an idolater in the house of a holy man of God,_for covetousness is idolatery (Col. ill, 5). He rorgot tnac cne law taught to hate covetousnees, aad that Achan was stoned aad buraed because of hia covetousness (Ex. xvii., 21; fosh. %iL, 21). Let us all remember that the Lord abhorreth the covetous, and that the Holy Spirit assodates them with thieves and drunkards, and says that they cannot inherit the kingdom of God (Ps. x., 3; I Cor. vi., 10). "21. "So Gehazi followed after Naa~ man." WbenElisha said: "Go in peacs," Naaman departed; but it seems that ne went but a little way ere this covetous Gehazi overtook him. Living with one like Elisha i-zMirirooit Im not more of Elisha's mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness." How strange that people think to deceive God! But what can we say when we read that they tried to deceive Jesus to His face (Luke n., 20). "And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither." Lie upon lie. This is at least the third in this transaction. How hard the heart grows!. It is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked (Jer. xvii., 9). What a gulf has opened be-tween him and his master! 2(5. "Went not mino koarfc with thee,when' oo-fiin irnm his chariot a:rain LLIU Uia 11 tukuv<? ^ to meet thee?" Ah, Gehazi!'he's got "you now. Covetousne?s is a bad thing, and lying won't help it any. "Be sure-your sins will find you out." "A lying tongue is but for a* moment" (Num. xxxii., 23;:J?rov. xii.,19). We should always reme:uber that the eyes of the Lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good, anci that "all thing&are naked and opened uato the eye3 of Him with whom wo have to do (Prov. xv.,.3; Heb. iv., 13). 27. ' 'The leprosy, therefore,of Naaraaa shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed forever. And he went out from, his presence a. lep?r as white H9 snow." A moment of sinj a lifelong punishment. He baginsat once to eat the fruit of lies (Hos. x., 18). It did not. pay after all. His joy was very short lived. His thousands-could not purchase health;: his coveted raiment would; only cover a leprous body; Not often does- the trangressor so quickly reap the fruit of his: doings, but always in due time, unless there is repentance and cleansing in the only blood that can. cloansew Miriam was punished with leprosy,. but she was healed ui a short time (Num. xii., 10-15). Uzziah's leprosy continued. till his death (II Cbtron. xxvi., 21).. All suffering in this life is as nothing when compared with eternal torment. Lot all sinners flee quickly to Jesus lest the lake of tire become their portion iRov. xx., 15)..?Lesson UdjH r. . For sever, years a Hoosier named Tote Dayton. had obliged liis wife to support the ?amily bv washing, and he had left an avergo of $3 per week in the saloons. The White Caps took him out and ihrashed him, ami in less than r.inrl,t mnntlii lirt lifts r.nrnpd S200 and kept h.obor every day. Sir.yoRE Jessada, tlio great lace fabricant of Genoa, Italy, carries back the manufacture of Italian lace as early as the year 1100, and has in his possession specimens which he decUrea to be of that data. .. ; , _ <. - XX spirit? The same question might b3 asked concerning the twelve apostles. The best of society, even the society of Jesus Christ Himself, did not make the apostles what they ought to be, but the Holy Spirit wrought in them mightily and made them new men. Not outward associations, but the inward work of the Spirit, is the only way. "And when Naaaian saw him rnnntng t after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?'* Or. as in the magin: *'Is there peace?" There was little peace in that cov^ous soul. "Therar is" " no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked" (Isa. xlviii., 23; lvii., 21). 22. "And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me" * * * First covetous and then lying. It is easy to see whose employ he is in. There is one of whom Jesus said, ' "He is a liar and the father of it" (John viii,, . J? Mo, 44) tiQ Degaa It ID tQU Ijaruvu ut uuci4 (Gen. iii., 4), and will keep at it, even after his thousand years' imprisonment, until ha is finally cast into the lake of fire (Rev. xx., 7-10). 23. "And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents." His little scheme was working well. Lying seemed to be a payiug business. He had only ventured to ask for one talent of silver, and now two talents are pressed upon him, which, with some urging (?), he consented to receive. Some three thousand dollars for jne lie; many a man- has lied for even ten or five dollars or less, and boys and girls have l>esn known to lie for a very small amount. Then Gahasi has two suits of clothes thr own in; truly he seems to be doing well. And two servants to wait upon him, going before him bearing his treasure', as if he were one of the great ones of earth; "These ore the ungodly who prosper iu the world; they increase in riches. Their eyes stand out with fatness; they have more than heart could wish" (Ps. lxxlii., 7, 12). y; 34. "And when ho came to the tower (margin, secret place) he topk them from their E&nd, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed." He had no desire to make a great display of his richee, at least not for the present. He bad that which he coveted, it was safely iu his possession and securely deposited, and no one about the premises waa any the wiser, as he thought; and like the rich fool of Luke xii., 19, ho perhaps said to himself, What a good time I can now have! 25. "He went in and stoo l before his master." As if nothing had transpired worth mentioning, as if he were a very devoted and faithful servant, as if he would say, "My dear master, thou man of God, what is thy pleasure?-' We read in Ezek. xxxiii., 81, of some who "sit before the servant of God as the people of God, and they hear His words fhov will nnt do them: for with their