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* Blossoms in Age. Yon is an apple tree, Tt Joints all shrunk like an old man's knee, was Gaping trunk half eaten away, . i,?t Crumbling visibly day by day: J Branches dead, or dying fast, Ceilt Topmost limb like a splintered mast. in tt Yet behold in the prime of May hosf How it blooms In the sweet old way! do Heart of it brave and warm, cr spite or many a wintry storm, ~r Throbbing still with the deep desire, and Burning bt.111 with eager Are, pet ' Striving still with the zeal ami iruiu an(j Of the gladsome morning dayi of youth. __ . Still to do and to be forsooth, UO * Something worthy of lllin whose care, the Summer or winter failed It ne'er. neai This la motive for you nod ine, ! \ When we grow old like the apple tree. 6" = ?Christian Union. labc wor Dine Novels for Family Readlnr. S^gl A club of boys once gathered a num- and ber of dime novels of tne most sensa- she; tional type and were reading them on at t the sly. One mother who had discov- a ered a volume of this sort of literature thai in her son's pocket, committed the a ti book to the names and threated to now whip him if any more were fouod. B Another boy, acoording to this story, grei from the Ladles' Home Companion, trat was treated in quite a different man- a ner: ecoi When Harry heard his mother's $4(M voice, he sprung up and intended to to t nide the book, as he had been thor- dea oughly cautioned to do by tbe others, up. "Why, Harry, what is it ?" dea "Oh, only a book a boy lent me." and "Is it a good one ?" side "Yes, its awfully interesting." T "Well I'm glad of that, for if there's ske anything I enjoy it is a good book, hoc Put it by till after supper, and this fan: . evening we'll read it togetner." wai Harry complied, but feeling all the -'A time as if th*;re was something wrong bin about it somewhere. After supper He Mrs. Nelson got her sewing and said, wai "Now Harry you read and I'll sew." tou 80 Harry began. He read a little saic while, but somehow tbe book didn't T seem the same to him; things came " up in the story that he did uot just Frs like to read to his mother. the "Do you like it?" he asked. " "Well, I can tellyou as you go on; saic if you are interested in it I will be." " 80 Harry read on. It wasn't quite " as interesting as it ha J been for some forj reason. Finally his interest flagged; eve he told his mother all about it and " where they were reading them. gra 'Anil can vou eet them all?" Mrs. tba Nelson asked. "What a treat there is " in store for us ! We'll finish this one day and then you can get another, and Wfc they'll last us most of the wiuter." and Harry winced. He was tired of it son already. He bad expected his moth- dolt er to act a little as Rob's mother had. A Mrs. Nelson went on with her sewing, ft and Harry read until about nine rati o'clock. Finally, Harry laid down the of 1 book and with some anxiety said, and "What do you think of it, mother?" ma "Oh, it's ver\ thrilling; don't you has think so?" V "Well, yes ; but do you s'pose these to i boys really did these things ?" CO i "Why, you must just think how tool you would do under such circum- ma stances ?" anc "I should be scared to death," ad- Yoi mitted Harry. "Mercy! Would you ? Why, I wat just congratulating myself that if a bold, horrid man was to step in on ut> 1 now, and say, 'Madam, your money or the your life!' you would bravely spring caiJ to my rescue, and say, 'Hold there villian !' Unhand that woman, or t? 1 yoHr life's blood shall pay for the out- ^ rage!'and that you would immediate- thr ly draw out that immense kuife you 'n8 got some time ago aud made so sharp, at 1 and stab him." >DK Harry's eyes were luminous by this 1 time. He couldn't understand his P?1 mother at all. Th "But go on, Harry. I must hear ,n the rest of that before I go to sleep." w" And Harry read a Jittle longer. tur Ten o'clock came, and Mrs. Nelson P?* began making preparations for bed. . ? For their evening lesson she read the c first Psalm. In guarded language she l^e drew Harry's attention to the climax 8UC of the verses?first, walking with the k'x uugodly, then standing, stopping a lit- P'a T ? - 11-. -?.i u I.. AAf. lie luiigri tu iiaicu, auu uut&ujr uciu^ ? so taken up with the attractiveness 01 c evil as to sit down and stay with it * She did not attempt to moraliie, but P*" just sowed the seed and let it alone, iie then, pressing him to her heart, she kissed him fondly, saying, "God keep you, my boy, in the time of temptalion. Good uight." val When Hany awoke the next morn- ma lug, he lay thinking quite busily. As wa: he started off to school, his mother called, "Be sure to get another book, A Harry, and tell the boys to come here ar? to-night and read them, if they want del' to." 1" The boys were thunderstruck at tbe ^ invitation. Rob Ellis, who was the leader of the crowd, was disposed to T scold: "Such a cad as you are, Harry re& Nelson, to blab everything to your san mother." ?ha "Well, what of it? She enjoys aQd them. I guess if I can read them, can mother can." Rob was a little confused at Mrs. a lc Nelson's literary taste, but next even- ov'e ing Harry coaxed Rob around for the Pro evening. The reading began, aud, al- '?"j though the boys took turns about read- ? ing, it flagged. The color would creep U8e iuto Rob's face when he read some of "OI the tall, bragging talk that some of the cui: characters indulged in ; it didn't seem 'or' just the thing before Mrs. Nelsou. Be- A fore the evening was well over both *>? 1 boys were completely nauseated with ant^ the book. When Harry and his moth- t5jn er were alone, he said, "I don't believe I'll finish that booK, mother: 1 800 don't think it's nice." tret "Why not Harry?" "Well, it all seeuis to me as if it could't have happened." Mrs. Nelson wisely kept silent. " There is a time when silence is so doc much more effective. If mothers only ' knew this better, their influence over " their boys would be so much greater ; "es for there is nothing boys, and men. ao? too, ho utterly detest as constant nag- |nc ging and pointing out a moral in every- 18 ? tbing. The world cannot be reformed in a day, but a great deal can be done f*, toward it if every mother would re- v form be r own boy. " " twi The Love of A Mother. A gentleman when visiting in a city fatt hospital iu London, sat beside the cot f of a little girl; wishing to win her confidenee, he said, "My child, do you ma] love your mother?" With a very serious look, she repli- L/h ed; "Yes, I do, indeed." vou "But why do you answer so gravely; jLa(\ what is it you are thinking about, my Then the little girl replied with gicav cui uwiuvoo. .J "Because I cau uever love my moth- njeJ er in any way as she loves me." E: i. The dear child loved her mother be- *,;? cause her mother first loved her, and *2., that fond mother's love was a circle ?"i.; in which the child's love dwelt. Dear __{* young readers, we can never love vo;f Jesus as he loves us. His perfect and y everlasting love. He died to save us, T he lives to bless us. Can you say of . 1 him what the little maid said of her jv* mother? Yes! I love him, indeed; but I can never love him io any way as Pi he loves me. enoi His Inspiration. ie painter Jean-Francois Millet ] perhaps the greatest artistic genius Jo France has produced during this di( ury. One secret of his power lay " ie study determination to do in the ch way what he was best fitted to lei th e did not understand society life, ch could not paint ,a duchess or her ac dog. He was a peasant by birth traiuing and heart, and he asked an >tber privilege than to introduce be hard-working, underpaid, abused an sant to the world. To paint woodibce*, rude faces, limbs distorted by in >r, the clod of earth so that the Id should see and reverence the hi I that these things represented was eat task. He saw God in the sower m the reaper, in the gleaner and the tiherd. and in the peasant bowing I be pound of the distant "Angelus." m t last France has shown the world le I below the satin exterior she has ue heart, for Millet, being dead, is at f appreciated. H ut there was a second secret of his a it success. A pretty story illuses this: w fter years of depressing toil and I uoiny, the painter had finally saved J, and he went on a vacation back tt he home of his parents. All were d< d. A new generation had sprung it This was twenty years before his si tb, when purchasers were scarce 1 Fame was running to and fro out- c* ihis door. pi here is his old home he made ri tches of the dear scenes of his boy- b< d. But he was a stranger in a c< tiliar land. Oue evening, as he tl 3 returning from his work, the ngelus" was ringing, and he found [ iself at the door of the little church, a entered. At the altar an old priest b< j praying. When he ccased, Millet <x ched him on the arm gently and e: 1: "Francois." n 'he Abbe was bis first teacher. ei Ah! is it you, dear child, little y< incois?" exclaimed the priest, and y embraced each other weeping. You used to love Virgil, Francois," 1 the Abbe. I love him still." M And the Bible, Francois, have you r< gotten it? And the Psalms, do you N r read them?" F They are my breviary," said the h at painter, "i get irom mem mi 11 do." h These are rare words to hear n owa- il 8, but you will be * rewarded, tl iere I sowed good grain has grown, r< 1 you will reap the harvest, my ." 80 said the Abbe to his pupil h :mnly. V .t nightfall they seperated. & Lillet drew a large part of his inopion from the Bible. On the walls lis rude studio he had painted Ruth h I Boaz in the field. He isone of the ny artists whom Biblitioal study s*l helped to make immortal. e: Ve search here and there for book* -<| irouse us to intellectual effort, and tl loble living, but too often we over- u k the Bible. But the genius ol * ny of our great artists, statesmen P I poets has been wiser than we.? n uth's Companion. u J The Camel. .> 'he camel might almost be called fc Arab's railroad. Certainly the f< tiel goes through tracts of country tl ere it would be next to impossible 11 ieep a railroad running. b l traveler in the East tells of teeing b ee camels fed. Jbese long-suffer- a ; and patient animals were staudiug tl the close of a bard day's work, wait- tl : for their evening meal. a 'resently a man came near with a " 1 of kneaded dough under his arm. e camels of their own accord knelt a line. Their keeper, beginning ;h the nearest, gave each in hi& h n a large cake of this dough, re- <1 iting the same thing twice. t< Vhen a caravan is on the march it ii sustomary to make a halt during w (extremely hot part of the day. Ai ih times the camels are made to d eel in a circle, and their food fr ai oed in the centre. Here they can b and enjoy the shade to their heart'o n iteut. a 'he camel, notwithstanding bis ei lent look, is very stubborn. When u bas concluded to lie down, nothing i make him get up against his will, 't th the Eastern and Oriental people, b ose lime does not possess any great oi ue, this sort of thing is taken as a w tter of course. They have time to h it the convenience of his highness tl camel. Jtbough these "ships of the desert" fi tireless travelers, yet they are very o icate. They do not work except ic the winter months; foi when their r begins to fall out they loBe their ?ugth. hey cannot travel over a rocky ion. By nature they are tilted for dy plains and deserts. Bough, rp rocks cut and lacerate the feet; cc I then comes the job of "shoeing" ai lei. hi 0 do this the camel is thrown, and ic >ugh piece of leather is stitched a r the foot. In this way the march le ceeds until the soft pads of the t have hardened. sc lesides carrying passengers they are 8 d to transport freight. The sensa- w 1 of riding on a camel is a very pe- fl< iar one, you are lifted up aud borne tl svard at the same time. a it the end of ten minutes you will ti ready to dismount, so disagreeable n< I tiresome is that motion to a be- rt ner. When the knack of camel tr ing is once acquired, the motion is cl thin? and restful rather than dis- H< ising.?Selected. b< ? ? cl Because. P m Tom," said a small boy opening the oi r, "couae and pull tbat old log out B Lhe ditch." m I'm not coming," said Tom, with a rc pairing resolution : "I've pulled b< i pulled, and it hasn't budged an si b; I can't do it, and that's all there te o it." ai But Tom," said the small boy, q] ther is goin? to help." cs Vhat a change came over Tom ! H g( ang out of the room as he had beeu 81 t from a gun; his coat was off in a hi nkling, aud he was ready to pull ki his back ached of course, because ec v he was sure of succeas; what m ler undertook could not fail. eii his homely little story is trying to in w yuu wlicit js meant uy uie uomnd, "Work out your own ualvation. for (or because) it is God that workin you." It would not be worth r while to strive against sin if you it at all to do; it would be a per- .. ly hopeless battle, aud you might *. veil give it up. or ut Gk>d is working in you and for 86 ; bis almightiness is eugaged, is Iged for your salvation : oh! then ? e is a strong reason for being up dninc?HDrincr to the task?throw your coat, and "work out your own P" atiou with fear and trembling, for P (cause?it is God that worketh in ' S. S. Visitor. ca ... ^ he exact value of any man's relig- , may be determined by noticing ^< effect that it has on his conduct. tU( raying for your children is not ha jgh: pray with ihem, too. jan The MISNinjr Five Cent*. Holding out his hand for the change, hu's emploper said: "Well, my boy, h i you get what I sent you lor?" o Yes, sir," said John;I"and here Is the r< ange; but I don't understand it. The e mons cost twenty-eight cents, and I ere ought to be twenty two cents in d ange, and there is only seventeen, t< cording to my count." n (John had applied for a situation, s id Mr. Brown had eent him out to v ly some lemons before giving him b l answer.) o "Perhaps I made a mistake in giv- li g you tbe money." c "No, sir. I counted it ^over In the fc ill, to be sure it was all right." r "Then perhaps the clerk made a o istake in giving you the change." t But John shook his head. "No, sir; t counted that. too. Father said we f ust always count our chauge before s aving tue store. t "Then how ia the world do yon 1 >count for the missing five cents? i !ow do you expect me to believe Buch s story as that?" I John's cheeks grew red, but his voice f as firm. "I don't account for it, sir; can't. All I know is that it is bo." ' "Well, It is worth a good deal in t tig world to be sure of that. How * ) you account for the five cent piece tat is hiding inside your coat eeve?" John looked down quickly and ( LUght the gleaming bit with a cry of j leasure. Here you are! Now it's all j ght. I couldn't imagine what had , scome of the five-cent piece. I wan ^ >rtain I had it when I started from ? le store to return." "There are two or three things that \ know now," Mr. Brown said, with t satisfied air. "I know you have , ?en taught to couut your money In t >ming and going, and to tell the , cact truth whether it sounds well or j ot?two important things in an ( rand boy. I think I'll try you, j oungraan, without looking further." ( iXKtrnuniB Mc/t Rev. J. A. Weston iu bis lecture on j [arshall Ney, at Charlotte, gave bis j masons for believlug that Peter 8 , ey, of North Carolina, was the great reuch soldier. Among other thing* e said: j " Peter S. Ney is known to have ad every wound on his person thai le great marshall had, except one on le neck. His acquaintances cannot >member as to that. He had a severe liter wound on the left side of his ! ead, which he said he received at 1 Waterloo/ Marshall Ney was the b-tst i ncer in France; Peter 8. Ney the ' wit in America. The latter told Bur- i ess Gafther, of Davie county, that e and Murat used to fence with each < ther in Napoleon's presence. Mar- i jal Ney could speak English. An < icpert told Mr. Western that two ^ecimensof the handwriting ot both j ae marshal and Peter 8. Ney were udoubtedly the same. Both Neys < 'ere marked with the smallpox.? 'eter Stuart Ney fainted in the school- < >om at Darlington. 8. C., when the i ewB of Napoleon's death reached im. He told Colonel Benjamin lodgers afterwards: ' With the death < f Napoleon my last hope is gone." le was recognised several times by >reigoers as Marshall Ney. On one of bese occasions at Btatevi lie a German amed Barr created quite a sensation i y saying "There's Marshal Ney." On I is deathbed Peter S. Ney solemnly ttirmed, in the presence of Dr. Mat.iew Lock and othere, that he was tie French marshal. He died in 1878 nd wasburriedat Third Creek." Forgot to P?m It Along. If the spirit of the kind service we ave received at somebodys hands to ay is not exercised for somebody else Miiorrow, it has failed to do ns lastig good. In "Lend a hand Echoes," 'e And this: "In a little social group the other , ay a lady mentioned with enthusi3m the name of another who has , een for many years a resident of a , eitfhborlng State, and gave details of , kind act of hospitality which had | n-hrined her iu memory as a minis;ring spirit. "And I hope,' said one of the group, hat you have panned that kind act on y some impromptu, refreshing deed, r at least sympathetic and helpful 'ord to every tired, thirsty soul you ad ever had a chance to meet on life's toroughfare since that day." " 'Wuy, no." exclaimed the beauti> il woman, 'I can't May I ever thought f it in that way. It would be a good lea.'" Be Definite. Tongues of Fire. Carvosso had seen all his children >nverted but one. Borne down with axiety for her, he sought counsel of is olassleader, Sunday night, return* kg from class. "Why don't you claim promise on the Lord ?" asked the ader. "I donl't understand you." Well, the Book is full of promises ; >me bearing right on your cut<e. eizs one of these and throw all your eight on it uutil God feels your con deuce in heaven." "I'll do it," said le dear old man. They parted* ?I? moment (he promise swept down ke a cable before him : "Thou snalt ot leave one hoof behind thee." He ionized in it all its breadth and leaning. He seized it and swung ean loose from earth and earthly aubts. God signalled him it would 9 all right' For ten days he saw no lange. On the tenth day he was oughing near his bouse when a runer came from his wife, "Do come at ice: it seems daughter will die." ut he understood it. "What's the latter, daughter?" as he reached her >om. "O rather, pray for me. I do ilieve I'm lost." In a little while le was converted. "Now, daughter, 11 me all about it." "I don't Know lything about it, save that Sunday ight ten days ago, just before you ime from class meeting, something it bold of my heart that I could not lake off, or read off, or sleep off. I ive been miserable ever since." "I now all about it. That night 1 claimI !lL ~ 11 ?... .L. 1 I wiiu an my nearL me promise : ade to Israel?that is what has mov- 1 I you." When Carvosso quit doubtig, God began working. I < ^ [ r Sins or NeKleel. 1 The lost soul Is not always the one t tat has done the most wsong, but the e ie tt'at has neglected to repent and i ek Christ. It was not because the man with the ie talent tried to steal it, but becausei1 v r\ s-irv 1 <-inff n iioa if V\ r> f k a Iao f 1 I H ; ur^icuicu %aj uoo iv vuai uu iuot u* i ? The foolish virgins were not kept 0 it because they quarreled 011 the way, [ a it because they had no oil in their t mps. 1' The man at the weddiug was not st out because he had insulted some- ^ dy, but because he had neglected to 0 it on the wedding garmeut. !K rhe sentence of Dauishmeut in the jgment will not be, "Because thou st stolen bread,", but "I was hungry d ye fed me not."?Ram's Horn. |S< Before IbeJDoetor Come*. Many a woman baa helplessly wrung er bauds when disease has stepped ver her threshold because she had no imedies with which to fight the memy, writes Helen Jay in the May 7 ladie's Home Journal. Perhaps the t octor cannot come or she has no one r> send for him, and the drug store is n*' ailes away. Every wife and mother bod hould, in some degree at least, learn ear rhat to do in an emergency of this t(rr] ;ind, and she should never be guilty 11 f that crime against the well-being of wb ler household?au empty medicine he hest. She should see to it that the ^ t lot-water bags or bottles are always * eady for use, and that the jar is full ^U1 if mustard. A bundle of clotbs for landages and plasters should be with ma hese, so that no matter how great the fu} >anic into which she may be thrown . he cannot fail to find them. To get aet he patient into bed surrounded with cal lot-water bags, after soaking the feet bui n hot water and mustard, is to fore- OV( tali some of the good offices of the .. Hist physician. To restore failing cir- ,,aJ sulation there is nothing better than ms uustard-pla?-ters, made with hot lal vater, and placed upon the sole of ^ >ach foot, the back of the neck, each 1 vrist and the stomach. aui Bu The Cow's Cud. an There is no such thing as a cow's th< >ud in the sense in which this term wt 8 often used as a part of the animal hat may be lost. The cud is that of f~ he food which is brought up from the Uo Irst stomach and chewed over again, liter which it is again swallowed and joes directly into the third stomach, vhere it is macerated in the manipiies ind then'passed to the fourth stomach 1 ind fiuallv digested. When a cow is suffering from indigestion she may be . JoublH, tby reason of the disorder of ;he stomach, to bring up the food or ste }ud, and this makes her sick, and if Jof t is continued, she stops eating, The an jest thing to do in such cases is to . $ive a pint of raw linseed oil, and repeat it if necessary, when the trouble sic is generally removed. The cud - is trc brmed by the compression of a por:iou of the food in a small channel Lietween the ftrkt and the second Wl stomacns ana counecieu wuu iuc gullet. It is about five iuchea in no leDgth and two in width. rei Crying our Tears. th God has promised that a period shall m 3hall be put to the reigu of sorrow ; 8l< 'God shall wi|?e away tears from off th ill eyes" (Tsa. xxv, 8). Can we not a wipe away our own tears ? Never. If any man dry his own tears, he shall Wl weep agaiu ; but if God dry our tears, isl our eyes shall nevei lose the light. It er all conies, therefore, to a con?iaeratiou p, of this solemn question, What shall ? put an end to this sorrow ? Shall we u' by frivolity drown our sorrows? shall fo we banish our grief by pre engaging gc our memory with things that die in m using? or shall we say : Thou living . God of all joy, Tnou only caust put an 1 end to human woe; make my heart tl< glad, and then my face will shine; of take the guilt away from my con- tfc science ana my nature, and then my tears will cease to flow ? This is In- p terior work ; this is a spiiitual miracle: this belougs to the reign of God ana of the ministry of grace. We resign our selves, not passively anu muriuunugiy but actively and tnaukfully, to (jod, *u that He may make us glad with His ca own Lord awaits our consent to the x: drying of our tears.?Joseph Parker. ^ ? ab Cold Chicken Pie.-Stew a grown *.b chicken until tender, putting it on in b< cold water, and cooking very slowly; th arrange the pieces in a deep pudding disb, laying in with them two hard boiled eggs cut into slices; pour over all a cupful of the gravy, which should sii be well-^eauoned; cover the pia with a pastry cruut, ana bake in a moderate oven. Add to two cups of the remaining gravy a quarter box of gelatine soaked in a little cold water, a small ov glassful of sherry, and a table-spoonful ninonav. nrhon the. niA la ffnnA nonr v tuwgui J nuvu vuv |/?v j""-? this gravy in through an opening ?< which should have been left in the ch top. Make thiB pie the day before it u(] is to be eaten. It is an excellent dish ,. for Sunday lunch or tea. J tr< Sweetbread Pates.?Scald and blanch ? i pair of Hweet breads; remove bits of jkin and gristle; chop rather coarsely; "8 ind stir intoa cupful of white sauce; ce leason to taste. Have ready pastry w< shells made hot in the oven, and till 0* with the sweetbreads. Send very hot to table. A few mushrooms chopped with the sweetbreads are a pleasant co iddition. . th School children have all heard of sa the three R's of Education Reading, cj> Riting and 'Rithmetic; and their Fathers know of the three *R's of American politics. Most striking are the three Great R's which the gospei T1 ban to proolaim to the world: is Ruin by the fall. Redemption by our Lord Je9us Christ. Regeneration by the spirit of life tri ind power. Potatoes au Gratin.?Two cupfuls of th raw potatoes cut into dice, Half cup of , Lllie UICOU UIUUJU9, ^ lOUICT'^WII 1U ID ? butter. Let the potato dice lie in cold pr< water several hours, drain them, sea* 8h son with salt and pepper, and put ihem in a well greased pau; dot them bhiukly with bits of butter, sprinkle :hem with the crumbs, and add more trt butter. Bake covered, for half an hour; 0r uncover, and brown. lt Potato Salad.?Slice cold boiled po- i] atoes; with three cups of these mix )ne sliced beet, one onion bruised, >nd three or four stalks of celery; pour jver them four table-spoonfuls of salid oil and three of vinegar, with pepaer and salt to taste. Let all stann in ***< i cold place at least an hour before di< terving. 8Uj Scrambled eggs.?Beat two eggs Qf ightly and add three table- jn{ ipoonfuls of milk, salt and (0 >epper to taste. Turn into a hot but- er ered pan aud icook quickly, stirring Ch ill the time until like custard. Serve fev >n toast. If cooked too long or allow- 80i ;d to8tand a moment without stirring, <jri t will be dry and tough. for ??X ] The life of trees is determined very to' argely by climate. Actual expert- j nent has shown that the English oak, fro or instance, matures, and consequent y dies, sooner in me united siaies h han in Englaud. The life of one of . hese trees across the water is esti mat- ' e d to be a thousand years, and in ho America but 300. pa Sliced potatoes?Cut six boiled poatoes into neat slices, warm them in steamer, transfer to a Jdisb, and put "1' >n them a tablespoonful of butter and teaspoonfu I of chopped parsley. Let I hem stand Ave miuutes before serv- 8ufi Dg. | Adi Roast Spanish Chestnuts.-Cut a mi it off of each, and roast them in the | veil. Peel, and eat with butter and Son Sod God sees heroes where the world. nc ?es only very common people. racts from Christian Neighbor, Best Cottage Tbonghti. - l By a Superannuate. 'his pleasant first of May finds one a cottage called "Rest" Well ned, for it gives repose to mind and worn with the joy and sorrow of th, and now resting in the promise : bou wilt keep him in perfect peace, ose mind is stayed on thee, because A -1-iL f _ 11 It T lt~. uubieiii lu mw. uiic b usuni jixu* >assed, one may without repining et down from the struggle bo exjsting and so full of heart-ache to ,ny. Surveying the past it is joyto con&ider God's goodness, so unlerved and yet so abounding as to 1 for praise every hour. There is cease of labor employing one for jr half a century, and without any bility to a charge of slothfulness one ly rest True, the usual awards for or are lacking, and one may be ghtened by the outgoing for living d the little incoming to sustain life, it what of that with God overhead, d the promise : "[ will never leave ?e nor forsake thee," spoken by him, 10 declared: "Man shall not live bread aloue but by every word of d." Here then one may sing "Now rest, my long divided heart; Klxed on this blissful center real: With anhes who would grudge to part When culled on angelh bread to feast." rhe Old Atlantic roars on the one nd, and the placid inlet smiles on i other. On the one ships of power m the tide, and on the other shal?glide, while the peaceful shores ) dotted with neat white cottages of p laborer and the more stately manins of the rich. No more quiet resat oould be found this side heaven an this ''Rest Cottage" whence we ite. Yesterday, the 30th of April, as all >w know, the Senior member of the iuth Carolina Conference was laid to st, to hear no more the "thunder of e captain and the shoutings." After ore than sixty years of warfare be ?eps well. The mind runs back to e long ago, the bumble churches in goodly city and out into the wild oods of Goose creek and Paradise [and, where frail tabernacles were ected and thousands gathered for -aise and prayer, heard the word ol od in power. Here young White ord Smith with otiiers, most of them >ne, some few still liugeringon tfeese ortai shores, rejoiced in God while iey girded on the harness for the bati, rejoicing as well when they laid it f for the palm branch of victory itough Jesus. Wljgt is the need ol txioxj iui nuivu cai uuijr aiuuitiuuc ruggle, compared with the well done the Lord of life? But those old camp meetings, how ill of a blessed excitement. One re.Lis Joshua's talk With Mosses, (Ex. cxii; 17, 18}: "And when Joshua iard the noise of the people as the> touted he said unto Moses : There it e noise of war in the camp. And ! said : It is not the voice of them at shout for mastery, neither is it e voice of them that cry for being 'ercome; but the noise of them that Qg do I hear." And such singing at these camp eetings, beloved, like the souud ol any waters enough to lift the roofs erhead. But all that is over now, other men other minds rule the hour, and the urch seems settling down to a quietle abhoring excitement. Satau likes at. The biuging of the naked idolsMas Isrealites worshipping the golden IT he delighted In, and doubtless dented likewise in the Kirviess, lately lebrated, when the church aud the jrld gave thousands to see the poetry motion exhibited in the dance. I recall a paragraph lately published ncerning the reply of Dr. Wiley to e Romish Archbishop. The bishop Id with dignity and yet with an indent satire : "Dr. Wiley, you area ember of the Methodist Society, I iuk?" "Yes, sir," said the Doctor, le bishop then sail: "Ourchurch a little older than yours." uYes," Id Dr. Wiley, "and Satan is older an either of them." Tnis witness is ie. But changing the subject, what is e meaning of those men's faces starg at and over advertisements in the ess? Oue sells furniture, another oes, another medicines. Is there y thing like a spice of vanity in it? ley are all good looking men, it is le, or at least no doubt they think so, they would not be so lavish of their ounter/eit presentments." The last ooked at was the picture of a preachheading the list of aesessuients preited to his charge. He has the far ray eager look of one hunting dimes rd to get at. Perhaps he thought i picture would draw if nothing else J, anil of course oue may wish him ccess. [ like your paragraph in your paper May 4th headed "Paying and Prayf." We ought not to stress paying the utter negiect of praying. Prayis undoubtedly a greater force in risl's kingdom than money, but so n aaaivi 4 n tlttnb on A ml la Ana roo. r DQCIU iu uiiun du. 10 vuc iv?1 doubtless why the cbariot wheels ig heavily. Aud the ehurch is ced to get a little revenue by little pedlents that as a church we ought he ashamed of. 3ut one's thoughts have wandered m the main subject contemplated, the peace of God. "Great peace ve they that love thy law, and nothj shall offend them." As true now when first uttered. So the paints ve ever found it. And the Quaker et Whittier slugs truly in his At Last. iave fcut Thee. 0, Father! Let Thy spirit with me then to comfort and uphold; gate of pearl, do branch of palm I merit No street ol shining gold. Oce It If?my good and 111 unreclconed i both forgiven through Thy abounding graceid myself by hands familiar beckoned Unto my titling place. le humble door among Thy many mansions. >e sheltering shade where sin and striving cease, I flows forever through beaven'n green expansions The river of Thy peace." "The Last Days.** There shall come in the last days Bcoffers, walking after their own luste, and saying, Where is the promise of his [Christ's] coming? for since the father* fell asleep, all things con. tinue as they were from the beginning of the creation." And so they will continue until Christ shall come. When he shall come is unknown to inen or angels. But when he do come the world will be found as it was in the days of Noah: "For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away ; so shall also tbe coming of the Son of mau be." Christ's comiug will be sudden, even "as the lightning that lightepeth out I of the one part under heaven, shinetb unto the other part under heaven; so tshall also the Son of man be in his day/' There will be no question as to his baying come, for "every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him.1'; "When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon tbem." Christ's coming will be unexpected. "The day of tbe Lord so cometh as a thief in the night." True, all things will continue as they were from the beginning of the creation?"seed time and harvest, and co]d and heat, and summer and winter, and day and ' * t.n_ _ ?HI nigut"?auu me inouguut?s win ue eating and drinking, marrying and and giving in marriage, buying and selling, plantiug and building, and will not know uutil the descent of the Lord from heaven shall be announced "with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the' trump of God." Then "all kindred of the earth shall wall because of him." i The coming of the Lord will end the probation of the world. There will be no warning of the willingness, the ability or the readiness of Christ tc save sinners te the uttermost and tc the last hour of the world's probation "He will not quench the smoking flax nor break the bruised reed" until pro< bation "time shall be no longer;r , when Christ, the Savior-Judge shal , proclaim : "He that is unjust, let bin be unjust still: and he whieh i? filthy let him be filthy still: and he that ii righteous, let him be righteous still onH ha Jiiot la hnlw let him be hoh ^ ttUU UV VtlMW IW v .WW g still. And behold, I come quickly and my reward la with me, to giv< ' every man according as his worl P shall be. I am Alpha and Ome ( ga, the beginning and the end, th< ( tirat and the last. Blenssed are thej that do his commandments, that thej maj have right to the tree of life, am may enter in through the gates inti the city." Yea, blessed be Hhey wh< ' then can say : "Even so, come, Lori 1 Jesus." 9 \ I The United States Supreme Cour . has decided that the Geary law bj which chinamen are excluded fron . this country is constitutional I Five o ,lw> >""? In favor nt thft PXP.lII IliC iJVUVU VfVAV ?mm aw*va W sion act, and three?Chief Justice Ful , lerand Justices Field and Brewor> dissented. Justice Harlau was absent Now look out for Chinese retaliation Why the Cfilnese should be singlec out from the foul and immoral hordef from other countries we cannot under stand. The exclusion act remains unjust and infamous, notwithstanding the decision of five men to the coutrar*' ?+ The writing of war stories, the preaching of special sermous before military companies in full uniform io churches on the Sabbath day, the military schools and drillings, the preservation of war relics with other military demonstrations all tend to revive, feed and fire up the martial spirit, particularly with the young people. Fai isnnM it Ka tfl fiease all such teachings and exhibitions and turn the minds of the people to the things thai make for peace. ? 4^ # Just one way the Peoples monej goes: The recent Nayal Parade cosl the treasury of the United States $280,000. How much it cost the other nine nations we do not know. In that this enormous expenae was for a ''parade" attended largely with firing of cannon and other vainglorious military features of course no question should be asked?no criticism attempted. Enow. At various points in Russia, France aud Germany the cholera has already broken out with a severity that bodies ill for the future. It is following the course which it marked out for itself last summer. Rev. John W. McRoy, pastor of Orangeburg circuit, waB absent from his District Conference, Branchville, April 26-30, on account of serious personal affliction. Pensioner* of Ibe Government. We still have on the rolls 20 widows ? ? J 11 ho Pownl lltlnn flip auu ? uaugiiicio ui luv last two survivors of the war having died iu 1869, aged respectively 105 and 109. There are 165 survivors and 6,657 widows of the war of 1812, aud 13,215 survivors and 7,282 widows of the Mextcan war. This leaves 687,862 survivors and 158,893 dependent relatives of the war of the rebellion, with 426,398 claimants for pensions for this and earlier wars on the list for cousidera tion at the date of the report of Oct. 12, 1892, besides 361,663 claimants for increase of pension.?North American Review. Woman is not inferior to man, but holds a somewhat differeut sphere. She should not seek to be his tyrant, or consent to be his slave. Her throne is the heart. Her empire is the family, with its far-reachiug relationship. As a daughter, wife, sister, mother she, needs an education as high, aud broad, and varied as man's. j ' The Old Liberty Bell." The custodians of the Old Liberty Bell ought not to have consented to the taking of the thing to the Columbian Exposition. Its exhibition at Chicago will tend to revive unpleasant, not to say, resentful feelings 'among the Britains who may be present. It will be looked upon as discourteous and even insulting to the visitors from the mother country. Every sentiment of a worldwide feeling of brotherhood or of the existing amity between England and the United States ougbt to mean, let tho old bell stay in its place and so every other relic pecular to the war of the revolution ought to be kept from the exhibition. All unpleasant events that may hauji tobon nlamt fho TlfttiODR. but which have been settled, should not be referred to; and everything conducive to universal fraternity presented and made prominent. The vain glory and foolish ambition of war heroes and war gloriflers Is doubtless at the bottom of this uncaUed-fbr exhibition of the Old Liberty Bell at Chicago. The whole thing is in bad taste, bad manners, bad patriotism and, but for the characteristic folly of the worshippers, of war relics, we would say, that the exhibition of the Old Liberty Bell at the Congress of the nations is a silly, a gratuitous and a vainglorious blunder. But there is to bo , A New Bell. A move is on foot to have a New Liberty Bell ca"t very soon,to be composed 9 of gold,silver, precious stones, Ac. It is to bear with other devices the in scrip-' tion: ''Proclaim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants thereof.'1 r Another inscription is to be: "Glory to God in tbe highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." This bell la i to com morale the World's Fair and la ! to be sent around . the world to all ) countries where any great patriotic > celebration is being held. Whether it > is to be accompanied by tbe white ban. ner of the gospel of peace, or the In, signia?pomp and circumstance?of militarism, remains to be seen. The ' home of this itinerant metal messenger I is to be in Washington where it is ta i be returned after its world-wide mission , shall have been accomplished. g : The Orangeburg District Conference f (1893), Rev. J. Walter Dickson prraid ing and Bev. W. W. Williams acting Secretary, was beld at Brauchviiie, S. HC., April 27-30. The attendance was ' very fair. Reports showed the e churches to be [a improving condition.) f J. N. Eubanba, H. J. Judy, Geo. W, V Brunson and A. F. If. Dukes were. 1 elected delegates to the Annual Con* 3 Terence. J. P. Hurley, F. M. Green, } W. F. Stokes and A. C. Dibble were ' chosen as reserves. Next District Conference to be held at Barnwell, t \ Good and bad Mothers. I On this Hubject Amelia E. Barr writes in tbe April North American Review : "Tbe difference between * good and bad mot here is so vast and so - far-reachiug that it is no exaggeration to say that the good mothers of thin generation are building the homes of ' the next generation, and that the bad I mothers are building the prisons. For j out of families nations are made; and . if the father be head or the hands of a family, the mother is the heart. No ' office in the world is so honorable as * ; hers, no priesthood so holy, no in. fluence so sweet and strong and last* ing. "How to manage young children, how to strengthen them physically ; i how best to awaken their intellects, , engage their affections and win their confidence ; how to make home the 1 sweetest spot on earth, a place of love, ' order ana repose, a temple of purity . where innocence is respected, anu , where no one is permitted to talk of indecent subjects or to read indecent > books; these are the duties of a good 1 mother; and her position, if so filled, is one of dignity and grave importance. , For it is on the hearthstone she gives fine healthy initial touch to her sons ' and daughter* that is not effaced * i through life, ami that makes them blessed in their generation." _ _ J* The theory of Job's comforters, that it always and at once is well with the ' righteous, often takes subtle shapes in our thinking. One is the expectation that every gcod action shall be attend* , ed with a glow of warm feeling, as a , sort of reward for our goodness. In reality, we frequently have no such experience. Right action is attended ? often with such unpleasant secondary circumstances as to take all charm out of it. It gives offense in our social circle, or it grieves some one we love, who but half understands us; or, in some way, it carries with 1t a shadow j ' to darken the sunlight. And it Is better thus. For "because right is right, to follow right were wisdom in the scorn of consequence" just as truly in view of inward consequences as of out* er. Were the inward consequences always such as delighted us then doing right might become as mercenary as if we expected flocks and herd*, or brownstone fronts and paying ponds.in consideration of our Tightness. So we learn to serve Godfor God's sake, and right for right's sake, aud not for meat and drink, material or immaterial.?S. S. Times. , The Art of Forgetting. , Memory's studies are all the rage nowadays. But every Christian ought also to drill himself in the art of forgetting. Forget evil imaginations. Forget tne slander you have heard. Forget the meanness of small souls. Forget the fault of your friends. Forget the misunderstanding of yes terday. Forget the disagreeable people whose talk i>oured vinegar into y?.ur spirit. Forget all malice, all fault-noding, all injuries, all hardness, all unlovely and dirtrt-sjful thing*. Start out every day with a clean ^ sheet. Be lovely, be loving. See how much sunsnlneyou can produce.?Christian Helper. "Do you believe man is made of dust, Mr. Snip?" "Not all of them said the tailor. "Dust always settles, but I know men who do not."