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Nabhath Preparation.
There is no nreparation for the Sabbath
day usually* more valuable than !
that which we gain in its early hours.;
Then we may devote ourselves to
special thought concerning the sacrcd
duties before us. And even though on
the Sabbath works of necessity should
turn our ruinds to material things, it
I in im??ihln in make a suoreme effort
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Wednesday, Nov. 7, 1884.
Viicaut Place* nt llomo.
BV MRS. A. L. RUTEB DKKOt'K.
There are places?vacant. places?
Here beside our dear hearth-KUiuf;
And w mist sweet angel voices
once tuat answered U> our own.
There were smiling:, cherub fRces,
Loving hearts, light, gl>ul and tree,
Which,at loom aud evening's altar,
With us bowed a willing knee.
In our eye* the tear drops gather,
Aa we see their vacant chairs
Hv ihe fireside, table, altar.
Grief our chastened spirit wear*.
Little teet that ever hastened
Joyfully to seek our aide.
Now no more their quick ateps greet n<s.
No more thrill our hearts with pride.
But we know our father called them
To his mansion up on high.
A ml we know our mWsIng treasures
Have been garnered in the sky.
Soon our places will be vacant.
And ou earth be known uo more;
May we then In blest reunion,
Cireet those loved oae* gone before. t
GRAINS.
Tho will of fJ.nl is the sum of si'
IU ?T
God's promise is more sure than
man's performance.
Trouble always run* to meet the man
who goes out to hunt it.
People who carry sunshine with
them ure always welcome.
Nobody has ever found happiness
who di i not first find Christ.
When you can't see in any other direction,
try looking straight up.
Failure is impossible in Christian
life until we stop trusting in God.
Some of the heart's sweetest songs
have been learned in the dark.
There is no spiritual life where
there is no love.
Head not books alone, but men ;
and chiefly be careful to read thyself.
People who can be spoiled by honest
praise are no account to begin
with.
Three previous things that many
throw away?Time, money ami
health.
When you pray for the Lord to bles.?
other people, don't insist that it shall
be done your way.
Adversity is the trial of principle;
without it a man hardly knows
whether he is an honest man or not.
Ouly a frown ? But it left a sad
void in the child's heart?quivering
lip and tearful eyes.
The Devil in not so much concerned
about your profession as he is about
your practice.
You will not go to heaven when you
die unless you get more than half way
there while you live.
No man can walk far with God who
does not keep t>tep with everything
lhat is good.
^ *?A IHAMA
UU lue uajf WUCII wo unvc fjv/b uiniu
a little good, we have doue a great
deal of mischief
A wide-spreading, hopeful disposition
is your own true umbrella in this
vale of tears.
ChrlstinnUy nnd War.
Infidels sometimes say that Chrlstiauity
has been the cause of more
wars than anything else. Well, suppose
this true. The sun has been the
cause of more weeds ibau anything
else; is that any reason why the sun
should be blotted out of existence??
The rain has beeu the cause of more
floods than anything else. Shall we
therefoie decide that the rain isa curse
aud not a blessing to the world?
But Christianity is not the cause of
wais. Sheep do not go to war with
wolves. It is (lie wolves that make
war on the sheep. When Christ said,
"I came uot to send peace on the
earth, but a sword," the meaning was,
that the truth which he declared would
so awaken the opposition or evil men
that it won Id be ine innocent occasion
of calamities and strife*.
Christianity is not the cause of wars.
Read the Sermon on tiie Mount, and
nee if it breathes the spirit of war.?
Blessed are the peacemakers, said the
Savior; and to tne only disciple who
ever undertook to defend him, be said,
"Put up thy sword." Wars and fightings
among men come of men's lusts
which have not yet bren subdued by
the gospel of Christ. It is Satan, on
the other si-le, who makes the wars ; it
is the spirits of demons who gather the
nations to battle. ''My kingdom is
not of this world,"said the Savior. "If
my kingdom were of this world, then
would my servants fight, that I should
not be delivered to the Jews." Johu
xviii. 36.
No doubt there are people and nations
which have stolen the Christian
name, aud under it prosecute wars. I
remember hearing a Loudon infidel
say that the Bible was the cause of the
atrocities of the Spanish Inquisition ;
and he seemed somewhat surprised
when told that the men guilty ot those
atrocities wopld have burued him alive
for reading or possessing a Bible. Surely
the Bible ought not to be blamed for
the misdeeds of those who hate the
Book, and persecute those who love
and read it.
The angel's unesyage is "Peace on
parth and good will to men." Let us
found it abroad, and let us pray tiiat
soon the King of righteousness and
King of peace may come and reign
over all the earib.?H. L. Hastings.
Mr. Vinet says : The greatest miracle
that I know of is that of my conversion.
I was dead and I live; I wa*
blind and I see; I was a slave aud 1
am free: I was an enemy of God anc
1 love him. Praver. the Bible, the
society of Christians?these were tc
me a source of profound ennui; whilsi
now it is the pleasure of the work
that are a weariness to me, and pieij
is the source of all my joy. Beholc
the miracle! and if God has been abl<
to work that one, there are none o
which he is not capable. When peo
pie know in their own hearts that this
im true, when they most freely ant
truly respond to the great work don<
in them, why i9 it they cannot go fur
ther, aceept Christ's teachings on tin
peace quest ion and fully rely upon Hin
for care and keeping, both for them
selves and r(heir property. He hai
written, "Vengeance is mine; [ wil
repay." Iieave all thought of yen
geance etc., to Him, and just follov
race with all men. Prove it! prov<
!?Messenger of Peace.
t
ill the secret depths of the soul to have
our thoughts harmonize, with the day.
Everyone should desire on the Sabbath
to arrest worldly tendencies.
There are many ways in which this
can l>e done.
As far as possible, conversation
foreign to the spiritual claims of the
Sabbath should be avoided; especially
secularizing literature should be discarded.
When Christians consent to
' remember the S.thbath day, to keep
it holy," not seeking worldly pleasure
or gain, even from the very beginning
of the day ; not secularizing its holy
hours by anything of a questionable
character, then a new era will dawn
upou the Church. Then the spiritual
significance of the Sabbath, as a sign
?>eiweeu Cod and mau, will be appreciated.
The truth is the responsibility of a
proper Sabbath observance, with all its
attendant bleKsipgn, rests upon the
Church of Christ. All agree that pro?"
" It'" f'llriutiull lift* iu lurvt>lv
au viiv \ uunuHii <mv
dependent upontbefaitbful recognition
of the Lord's Day. It is manifestly
our duty to seek release as far as possfl)le
from worldly engagements on tl>e
Sabbath. The day is given?among
other things?for hearing God's word
in the congregation, for uniting in bis
praise and with His people. It is possible
so to transfer the cares of life to
this day as to wholly unfit the soul for
these sacred duties. And not only so;
the readiug. social visiting, and unnecessary
work may be of such a kind as
to render religious exercises wholly unprofitable.
We inuy be fully absorbed in the
work of the Sunday school, the church,
and the community. Home may
bring its urgeut demands. Oftentimes
duties may seem foreign to the religious
purposes of the day, but if its
hours are commenced in a devotional
spirit, and the soul retains a sense of
union with the Lord of the Sabbath,
the promise of rest in Him will beabond
antly verified.
Duly and Art of Preaching- to
inuuren.
The church needs children more
than it knows. The service that has
no place for readings, or prayers, or
hymns or sermons, that children can
appreciate, isaservice that fails in its
!appeal to grown people. It lacks the
[dewof diviue youth, the childlfeenes*
of the mind of Christ.
Many a Sunday service is suffering
from stiffness in the joints. Its frame
is dry, its boues are limey, its blood is
I pale, its voice feeble. Like the old
strickeu King Daivd, it is covered with
clothes, but had no heat. It needs a
child in its boeorn to warm it.
Once a year is rot enough. The
church must know the constant presence
of children. It will cost, but it
will count. It will mean work for the
preacher, and often inconvenience to
the people. Children in church are
"an acquired taste" to many, but a
tremendous acquisition in vitality, an
iufusion of led blood.
If ministers would study this matter,?the
place of children in the Old
Testament church, the meaning of the
boy Jesus "in his Father's house," the
gospel of his likeness, the ringing hosannas
in the temple, the test and behest
of love, ' Feed "my lambs,"?aud would
thick liow far removed our church services
are from their evident diviue intention
iu this respect, how "grownup"
in their spirit, how devoid of the
tirst appeal to the young heart, there
certainly would be, in ministerial ejes,
a timeliness in such books as have of
late been coming before the public, and
a demand for tbem now too little felt.
Every demand that preaching to
children makes ou a man will help the
whole of bis preaching. "Simplicity
aud goodly sincerity"aie the essentials;
intelligibility and earnestness, a good
aim and a good arm. Find them, show
them, putting the divine message in
living human speech, and a mau can
hold children aud help children,?a
fortiori, any one.?Rev. W. E. Bab
eock, D. D , in S. 8. Times.
One Wonderful NnylDir.
I U9ed to reckon our Lord'* answer
to the healed demoniac of Gadara one
of his strangest utterauces. The man
wauteu to follow Jesus, but Jesus answered,
"Go home to thy friends, and
tell them -how great things tnat Lord
has done for thee, and bath hud compassion
on thee" (Mark 5:19.) The
Gadarenes were urgiug Jesus to depart
from their midst?mainly because they
misunderstood the purpose of his mission.
Jesus never will stay where he
is not welcome, yet such was his compassiou
for these deluded people that
though he departed that same day
himself, he did not do so without leaving
behind him a witness of the power
of his grace. And see the wisdom in
this act. Mark tells us that this man
"departed and began to publish iD Decapoiis
how great things Jesus had
done for him; and all men did marvel."
And see what followed this
witness-bearing. A few mouths later
Jesus returned to Decapolis. (Mark
7:31-37.) Now the people ure glad to
see him they rushed to him, bringing
their sick. etc. It was these peopleperhaps
some of the same people once
besought hiru to depart?who testified.
"He hath done all things well; he
maketh both the deaf to hear, and the
I dumb to speak."
^Tbe Christian Spirit Bring* no Regrots.
( If we cherlBh and exhibit the Christian
spirit toward all men, it is not
possible that we should ever regret it,
,'even in this life. We will not be sorry
for hearing before judging ; for think[
ing before speaking ; for holding an
| angry tongue ; for stoppiug our ears to
the tale-bearer, and for disbelieving
most of the ill reports we hear of our
brethren ; for sympathising with the
- sorrowing ; for relieving the destitute ;
for being patient toward the erring
i and long suffering towar<i everbody ;
[ for doing good to all men, for being
I courteous to all ; for speaking evil of
>| none ; for asking pardon for all wrongs;
>! for overcoming evil with good. No,
tsuch a character aud spirit can never
I give Its possessor pain or regies uuir
ing life ; and sure it it* that such regrets
1 were never yet heard to fall from the
i the lips of such a man when dying,
f and will never be recorded by man or
- angel in Time or Eternity. May the
i Lord help us to cultivate and exhib
1 such a spirit!?So. Ch. Herald.
J The man who is constantly thinki
ing evil finds a thousand ways to
. speak it.
J God will not stop using an earnest
1 man because he sometimes makes a
" mistake.
e Contentment is natural wealth, luxury
is artificial poverty.
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"A Cftrnivnl of I.iwt."
Under this head the Western Christian
Advocate of last week has some
strong words. We give you the following
paragraph :
"Imprisonment or hanging the
hruies who commit the.-e crimes, is
like removing a pimple when the
blood is thick with corruption. The
way to avoid the consequences is to remove
the cause. Never was a system
or education more thorough and effective
than that to which the rising
generation is practically compelled.
A sensational press, reeking with details
of domestic scandal, excites prurient
imagination and inflames unholy
~i>~i;/-??-* ric*r*t?ttau with orrnnhin
pUSSIUU* I IMIUC ?> IW?
delineation of sensual orgies and lustful
crime, add pitch to the flames.
Vile literalure, with vi:?>t illustrations,
are clandestinely sold on trains
and in bookstalls, or 'given as premiums
with tobacco and cigarettes."
Take a look around Atlanta or any
other city and you will *ee schools of
lust and corruption running in full
force, day and night. Pictures ou the
walls, "living pictures" in the theaters,
commended by the secular press,
and crowds of visitors wvio claim to be
respectable, and then blazing, gilded
barrooms offering stimulants for all
the base passions, all under tbe eye of
the law and in the face of a community
professing to love decency.
Crime ? What else do you expect ?
"Whatsoever a man sows, that shall
lie also reap." Wearesowiug corruption
every day. We are educating people
for vice, and doing it with our eyes
open. The results are coming home,
but the lull harvest is not vet. Many
who are careless now will have painful*
concern after a little. Where are
our laws when common decency is insulted
every day on the streets and
elsewhere? Oh, how we do need a little,
even a little manhood !?Wesleyan
Christian Advocate.
"Thy Will Be Done."
All admit the duty of submission to
the divine will. Disappointments arid
afflictions are regarded as occasions
for exercising the duty of submission.
When our cherished plans have failed,
or a loved one has been removed by
death, we recognize the duty of saying
from the heart, "Thy will be done."
There is danger however, that the duty
of submission may come to be regarded
as an occasional, instead of a con*
* \\7 n fonnrltf* fn nrou
SlUnt UI1C. ??C OIC lUuguv vx/ |smtmjj
"Thv will be done." This is to be
our daily prayer, for it is joined to the
petition, "Give us this day our daily
bread." Prayer is the expression of
our dehire. If we pray thut tfie will
of God may be done, we earnestly desire
that it should be done in all
things?in matters pertaining to ourselves
as well as to others. The attiuide
of mind is something different
from that of acquiescence. It is submission.
It is to be feared that a great
deal that passes for Christian submission
is simply acquiescence with the
inevitable. The event must take place;
it is useless, we say, to strive against it;
therefore submission, so-called, takes
place. Such is not the state of miud
called for by the petition, "Thy will be
done." That requires the habitual reference
of all cur actions to the will of
God.
By this reference to the will of God
iu all the actions 01 our uvea we gaiu
strength to meet what are ordinarily
regarded as the great occasions for submission.
By following the will of God
iu all our activities we become prepared
to obey Him when He commands
us to "be still and know that I am
God."
In proportion as we pursue such a
course of action, we walk iu wisdon
and avoid mistakes that we otherwise
would make. God is infinitely wise.
So far as one does His will be is sure
of walking in the path of safety. He
who is where God would have him to
tie, and is doing what God would have
him to do, is in a secure place.
The Name as Crime.
I was a stranger and ye took me not In
naked hdU ye clothed we uot;slck, and Id j
prison, and ye visited me not.?Matt. 2ft: 43.
No actual crime is charged. Malimur/lop
in irxlipftlpd NothiuC i8
said about having destroyed with torch
orsword. "You didn't break into ray
house and steal ray bread. You didn't
[>oison my fwod or kill me with vioetice.
You didn't bum ray house
over my head, or rob me of ray clothing,
but you did just as bad. Yut tried
to kill me by neglect. You are not the
thief who wounded me, and robbed
me, aud stripped me of ray raiment,
and departed, leaving me half dead,
but you are the priest and the Levite,
who saw me dying in ray blood, but
had no compassion upon me, and passed
coldly by ou the other side. You;
gave me no words of cheer, aud made
uosacrifices in ray behalf, and it is not
through anything that you have done
that I am still alive. You thought it
was going to cost you too mucli to be a
friend to the friendless. You thought
T was a Door man. without friend or in
fluence, bo you drew you robes closely
about you, aud got as far away from
me as you could. Had you kuowu me
to be a prince of great power and riches,
how quickly you would have run
to pick me up. Depart from me, ye
small souled and vile in heart. I kuow
you not. I gave you a chauce to manifest
your true nature, and what manner
of spirit was king in your heart
and you have done it. There is no
mausion in Heaven for you. Go to
the place prepared for the devil and
his angels." The man who rejects
Christ in spirit shuts the kingdom of
God entirely out of his heart.?Ram's
Horn.
The Mennonite Creed.
In the Mennonite religious handbook
for church and school, page 121,
I read these words: "A Mennonite
after having made a public and solemn
vow, sealed by the rite of baptiam, is
under no condition whatever allowed
to bear arms nor render any military
service." This is the platform on
which the Mennonite church of this
country stands to-day, 250,000 strong,
and I rejoice that I am permitted tc
bear testimony in their behalf. lassure
you, ladies and gentlemen, when
I give utterance to your motto, "Arbitration
ever! War never!" I but
| voice the solemn seutimeut anu conIvictionof
the entire church.?Selected.
Wheu God's way is our way we art
I satisfied. When he asks us to walk bj
faith rather than sight, we demur
' But what a world this would be if w<
j trusted the Lord completely! How
easily we should bear our burdens
! How hopefully we should meet thesor
rows of life ! As tbe bee Hudeth honej
jiu the weed, so we should find joy ii
j bereavement. Then our griefs would b<
our opportunities. But we are self-will
ed?not we, but God, must bend. Tb<
i Father must beg thechild to trust him
Sothe world weeps blindly and with
out consolation. All is withiu reach
' but we possess nothing. The spiri
k starves ; but the larder is full. It shiv
erB with the cold wheu it need bu
move into the sunshine to lie warm.liev.
Geo. H. Hepworth.
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I nefiil luforinnlion.
There is a very general intaupprehensioujespecting
newspaper subscription
laws, even among people of large intelligence.
The National Advertiser has prepared
the following valuable resume of
law on this subject. We quote as follows
:
Few readers or publishers of papers
fully and clearly understand the laws
governingsubscription. Thedecisions
of the United States Courts on this
subject are:
1. Subscribers who do not give express
orders to the contrary are considered
as wishing to renew their subscription.
'
2. If subscribers order the discon- |
tinuanceof their periodical*, the pub- '
lisher may continue to send them un-|
til all arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse
to take their periodicals from tbe post*
ollice to which they are directed, they
are responsible until they have settled J
tbeir bills and ordered them discontinued.
4. If subscribers move to other
places without informing the publish- (
er, and the papers are sent to the former
address, tbey are held responsible.
5. The courts have decided that refusing
to take periodicals from the
postoftice, or removing or leaving them
uncalled for is prima facie evidence of
intentional fraud.
6. If subscribers pay in advance,
they are bound to give notice at the end
of the time if they do not wish to continue,
otherwise the publisher is au- 1
thorized to send the paper and the eubsciber
will be responsible until an express
notice, with payment of arrear- 1
ages, is sent to the pnblisher.
Folded Hands and Buwrd Knee*.
There have been numerous and vastly
different theories in regard to the
postures and positions as-umed in pray
er, but surely none could be more beautiful
or satisfactory than the following ,
Dvivlanotlnn nf ?in niri-f.ima Herman
schoolmaster: ,
The devotional foldiug of the hands, (
though a mere outward form, he says,
is significant aud tVaught with meaning.
It represents, as it were, a laying
down of arms, and an entire surrender
of one's self to God aud His sovereign
will. It suggests, too, that as these \
bauds are at rest they refuse to under- '
take aught that might distract or disturb
the thoughts which are turned 1
from the world and its allurements, 1
and centred on things spiritual and 1
eternal. '
Their being clasped together betok- .
ens communion, harmony aud peace. ]
God has no pleasure in a divided heart
or divided affections. As a rule, the
more earnest one grows in prayer the 1
more tightly the hands are folded ; it 1
seems almost as if one was saying: 1
"My hands are folded, I cando nothing
; thou, O God, must do all."
The interlocking of the fingers is a 1
remainder of the cross, and is a custom
approved of God from the earliest
ages. The other outward forms, too,
used in prayer are not without a special
and striking significance. The '
standing posture tells of the awe and 1
reverence with which mortal man en- '
ters the presence of the great, august
King of kings, and kneeing, of humil- 1
ity and submission to the will of bis 1
Maker. Paul says : "At the name of
T??o"o lrna^Koll Knu/ " Ppmnv
U VDUO C*VIJ I\ U VV LJKUil WW .. .
ing the bat from the head is expressive
of the Christians regarding himself as
God's servant, a bared head always being
a sign of servitude.?Presbyterian.
While the Word wn* Being; Preached.
We are glad to see that Rev. Dr.
John McNeil, some of whose methods
are extravagant, is thoroughly sound
on au important poiut, He does not
believe in making the second or after
meeting "a sine qua non." He thinks 1
that is not the true focus. The focus of (
preaching*, according to him, "is the <
moment and the act of preaching.
"While Peter yet spake these words (
the Holy Ghost fell." That is the <
focus! First meeting or second meet- ing,
it is the entrance of God's word
that gives litjht. What I ask for first |
meeting or stcond meeting is to get
God's word entered. Why should it i
not euter while the people are sitting |
there listening?" Our eyes were opened
to this fact long ago by reading
Wesley's Journal. Many conversions ,
took place while he was preaching,
and the converts came up at the close
and repoted the fact to him, and were j
oluoCiifiaH rrh<* ljllp TIP.
Samuel Hanson Cox, addressing some
ministers in this city, told them that j
he had had an extraordinary time ,
preaching, and that a man came up to j
him and said at the close, "Dr. Cox, I ,
am obliged to you for that sermon.
While I was hearing it I gave iny
heart to God." "And," said Dr. Cox,
"I was such a poor, unbelieving sinner
that I hardly knew what to make
of it, and wondered if the man was i
crazy. Hereafter I intend to preach
with reference to a man's giving his
heart toliod while I am speaking."
Let the Melhodists ever remember
that all the wonderful triumphs of
those first seventy years in England,
and the first forty three years in this
country, were before the introduction
' *> ? 1 u
oi i Lie IUDUI iicim ucijuii, 111 mijr iii?uod
of the sort.?N. Y. Advocate.
Olfte?l.
"What does your husband do?"
asked a traveller of a slatterly woman
whom he found liviug in a little old
cabin in the backwoods.
"Well," was the reply, "he's one o'
these handy, gifted sort o' persons, my
man is. He kin jest turn his hand to
auything.
"He's a blacksmith by perfession,
but he rooked in a rest'rant in town
most o' last winter, and he done kyarpenterin'
an pain tin' all spring, and
then he lectured on temp'rance awhile
until be got a chance to run an ingine
for a month or two, and then he dug
wells and hung wall-paper until he got
a good chance to lay brick at three
dollars a day."
"And what is he doing now ?"
asked the amused guest.
, "Teachin' singin' school, but he
oiintuu iriim it nit nrpttv soon, and
, m.i;novU(,.,v - | 0 . ? ,
go to practisin' medicine. He kin do
, anything he's a mind to turn his hand
to."
There is always something to be
thankful for, if a man luis a grateful
disposition.
} ''It is very kind of you," said a lady
, to her husband, as lie knelt before her
to put on her rubbers.
\ The rubbers were a pretty close fit,
] andthe husband was a little out of
I breath, but he managed to answer :
1 "It is a pleasure, my dear. Still, I
r am glad you are not centipede."
i
1 If you don't like the churches, go in
- aud make them better, but do not be2
come a grumbler, Keep yourself aloof
.: from that class of people, for it is the
easiest sort of thing to find fault.
Any stupid man can do that, but it
t takes a smart man to make things bet
ter. W ben a man begins to grumble
t aud find fault you can size him up for
- a liyht-weight right away,?D. L.
1 Moodv.
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\Ve6leyan Chrlstlau Advocate.
There was a circus in Atlanta last
week and Atlanta was there in full
force. The circus may have been
a big thing, but the biggest tiling
about it was what Atlanta made it.
It was a regular circus to see the people
come and go, and the enthusiasm
and abandonment with which they
entered into the great enterprise. It
was no louger a matter of "taking
the children to see the animals;"
the people just turned loose
aud went on purpose and wholesale.
Rig and little, old and young, black
aud white, rich and poor, bond and
free, high and low, male and female,
all were caught by the noble impulse
and carried to the circus. No hard
times now. And from all account#
just such a mob as they had is not often
witnessed by our generation.
They say, too, that church members
in great numbers and of every name
ana order, men and women who had
Btood before the sacred altar and vowed
to renounce the world, the flesh and
the devil, and all of those diversions
that could not be engaged in the name
nf the Lord Jesus, weie mixed in with
the throng. Did those solemn vows,
which ought in some degree ut least to
control their lives, lead " them to ilia',
place ?
(Nashville Advocate.)
Every minister has an individual
interest in the good name of every
other one. Whatever damages any
member of the fraternity in the public
esteem likewise lowers the reputation
of all. This fact should make them
very careful as to the manner in which
they speakof one another. We do not
mean?and no sensible nerson will suspect
us of meaning?that it is ever
right and proper to cover up gross immoralities,
or to use a whitewash brush
for hiding the soiled places in a ministerial
reputation. But we do mean
tluit it is a most unbrotherly thing to
proclaim from the housetop all the lit
tie defects and shortcomings which a
minister exhibits in his daily life.
(S. S. Times.)
Good grammar is a good tning, dul
3ome good things are said ungrammatically.
The inaD who speaks sueeringly
of a preacher or teacher because
be detects in him an occasional fault of
speech, or who refuses to open his
spiritual ear to words or counsel be2ause
bis fleshly ear detects in those
words slips in grammar, exalts the
body above the spirit. He goes into a
voluntary bondage to a soulless master.
It is a fine and desirable accomplishment
to be able al wavs to speak grammatically
; but it is a still higher attainment
to forget the preacher in his |
message, and to welcome and enjoy the
truth,?to hear the voices of the Spirit,
come how they may.
(Wesleyau Christian Advocate.)
Why should a man lose friends because
he drinks whiskey. when every
convenience is furnishea by those socalled
friends for gratifying his appetite
? Why should good people, or bad
ones, forsake a man because he walks
in a way that they have made so broad,
plain and attractive to him?
Laurens Hickock.
Surely something must be done to
? 5 Ji?. noon t VIA aqpIK nf Q |
spread VyUrjuuaiiiLy uvci ?.uc<=?.n. u.
better Dature tban nearly all of its professors
have practiced for more than
sixteen centuries, or the lion an 1 the
lauib will never lie down together.
Npnrffeoii Gave the Answer.
A man once said to Mr. Spurgeon :
"I do more good in the world than you
Jo. You only propagate your own
opinionu and 1 ruu race-horses."
''Then, perhaps, you will answer me
i riddle to which I have never receivid
an answer. Why does not the devil
run express trains to hell ?'"
"I believe in neither the devil nor
hell, and so I can't answer." "Then
[ will tell you. It is because he finds
that men can get there faster by running
race horses."
Truth is not a product of the intellect
aloue ; it is a product of the whole na"
* rt --U a *->?*?? if oil t hoco
cure.* ~ 11 WUUJU uc a yiij II on
problems could be solved. The joy ol
the intellectual life would be largely
joiie. I would not rob a man of his
problems, nor would I have another
man rob me of my problems. They
are the delight of life, and the whole
intellectual world would be stale and
tin profitable if we knew everything.?
Prof. Henry Drummond.
The most awful thought that comes
to a man sometimes, is the thought ot
a soul that he has injured years and
years ago. and thut he cannot touch
and cauuot help. His own life is under
better influence ; his own life is uplifted
; but where is the man, where is
the woman, to whom he did the harm
years and years ago ? God save us
from that. It would be hopeless if it
had not the infinite hope in the endless
love of God to fall back upon.?
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rillllips iiiuim?,
? I P?
He that is habituated to deceptions
and artificiulilieu in trifles will try in
vain to be true i n matters of importance;
for truth is a tiling of babitrather than
of will. You cannot in any given case,
by any sudden and single effort, will to
be true, if the habit of your life has
been insincere.?F. W. Roberson.
Cleveland is one of the eight presidents
who never attended college, the
others being Washington, Jackson,
Van Buren, Taylor, Fillmore, Lincoln
and Johnson. The other 15, including
Grant, who was a West Pointer, were
all college-bred men.
The time to do a good thing is when
you can. Uuimproved opportunities
never return. If you And it in your
power to-day and here to help a struggling
soul, you are guilty before God
Ifyoufailto stretch out your hand.
Tn.mnrrmv will be tOO late.
There is no other crop that insists sc
positively on clean culture and rich,
mellow soil, than onions. But at the
same time no other pays better for it.
The will of God is the sum of al!
aw.
Hearts that long for Jesus seek foj
Jesus.
We cannot sow bad seed and reap v
good harvest.
Most folk* get savage when the^
only intend to be severe.
When all men know little, how eat
any one man know it all?
I He that smiles and says nothing
I often slanders and lies most.
I It is not always the darnuge of an in
jury that is galling hut the spirit ii
which it is prompted.
It is always a great gain to lose tin
thing that would cause us to los<
God.
I
Ily n White Roue,
The far-reaching influence of a JittJe
act of kiudnes^is beautifully show in
this story. Kindness and sympathy
are what the world needs; not criticism
and spurning. The incident is
told by a writer in the Silver Cross :
A wealthy lady, young and beautiful,
who had laiely experienced genuine
conversion, was so overflowing with
love for the Savior that she was
drawn to visit those who were in prison.
The day before starting on this errand
of mercy, she went to her conservatory,
and her gardener gathered
her up a large box of flowers, and was
about to tie it up for her when she
noticed a perfect white rose untouched
and asked that it be added.
"Oh no!" lie said; "please keep
that for yourself to wear to-uight."
"I need it more just now," she said,
and took it with heron her journey.
Reaching the prison, shecommenced
her rounds among the women's wards,
UI/\uQAma ti\ uQoh inmate
^IVIUg U lew uiucouujo vv vmvu
with a leaflet, a text and a message
of sympathy and Christian hope.
"Have I seen all the prisoners here?"
she asked the jailer.
"No; there is one whom you cannot
visit; her language is so wicked it
would scorch your ears to hear it."
"She is the one who most needs me,"
she answered. "1 have one flower, the
choicest of all I brought; can you not
take me to her?"
Then, when they confronted each
other on either side of the grated door,
the visitor .was greeted with curses,
and the only reply 9he gave was the
beautiful white rose, which was left In
the woman's ceil. As she turned
away she heard one heart-breaking
cry, and the voice which had breathed
imprecations, moaned over and over
again the one word, "Mother! mother!
mother!"
The next week she cameagain. The
jailer met her saying, "That womau
whom you saw last is asking for you
InnnuUntlv! I never naw a womau so
changed."
Soon the two were alone in the ce^l,
and the penitent, her head resting on
the shoulder of her new found friend,
told, with sobs, her sad story.
"That white rose was just like one
which grew by our door, at home, in
Scotland?my mother's favorite flower.
She was a good woman ; my fathpr's
character was stainless; but I
broke their hearts by my wicked ways,
then drifted to America, where I have
lived a wicked life; is there any hope
for me?"
And so the dawning of a better day
caine as the two "reasoned together."
Many visits the lady made in that narrow
room, until she seemed an angel
of light to its inmate. When the
time came for the woman's release, the
love of Christ constraining her, she
went out into the world to devote her
life to the saving of such as she had
been.
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The Drunkard* of Tomorrow.
Dear young man, there is not a poor
sot iu America to-day who was not, in
bis intentions and feeliugs, as far from
becoming a staggering drunkard as
[you. now in the innocency of your
youth. Yet througn me naun ui
common dram drinliing 7,000,000 of
our country's youth are on the way to
this dark destiny, while their weeping
and troubled parents are bowing with
sorrow to untimely graves.
Remember, precious boy, that your
first dram is your first step to a drunkard's
hell! The drunkard's burning
appetite will steal under you like age,
and you will awake too far down the
rapids of intemperance to escape the
Niagara of distruction. Drunkenness
is like a log let loose from a mountain
top?the longer it rolls the faster it
goes, until it reacher such an accelerated
velocity that it is impossible to stop
it. Thousands of the 7,000,000 now
under the downward broadway of common
dram-drinklng are just beginning
to go like lightning expresses or
like mighty ships aflame with passion
and afire with appetite to the plunge
and wreck of damnation.
O, bright young man, aquiver with
the aspirations of noble life, are you
one of these? Then hear a mother's
entreaty, a father's counsel, and heed
the author's warning note, for to-day
with you is the day of salvation. Procrastination
with you you will prove
fhipf of time. I have seen strong!
men cry because they could notextricate
themselves from the fetters of intemperance.
Millions have kindled a
consuming fire in their own bosoms.
Ouly one in every 1,000 reform after
they have delirium tremens. Is it
wise in you to raise up the aerpent of
appetite?a devil within to fight untdf
death?and thus put a sober and virtuous
life in jeopardy every hour? Millions
are in jeopardy now. The honest
revolution of the 500,000 confirmed
drunkards in the United States to-day
is: "I am going to quit." They can
not quit without assisting grace in answer
to fervent prayer. They are in
the rapids of that dark stream which
tides hellward with an awful velocity.
Better far had they prayed : "Lead
us not into temptation"Let not
my feet go near evil," etc., in the
moruiug of life before they got upon
this tide of death and damnation.?
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Rev J. T. unerry, in uuum .uctuuu-i
ist.
Sixteen Lost, One Saved.
At a public dinner given to Gen.
Harrison, when he was a candidate
for the office of President of the
United States, one of the guests ratherconspicuously
"drank to his health."
The General pledged his toast by drinkjing
water. Another gentleman offered
a toast and said, "General, will you
favor me by drinking a glass of wine?"
The General, iu a very gentlemanly
way, begged to be excused. He was
again urged to join in a ghiss of wine.
This was too much. He rose from his
seat and said, in the most dignified
, manner :
"Gentlemen, I have twice refused to
nHrbike of the wine-cup. 1 hope that
I will be sufficient. Though you press
the matter ever so much, not a drop
shall pass my lips. I made a resolve
when I started in life that I would
1 avoid strong drinks. That vow I have
never broken. I am one of a class of
! seventeen young men who graduated
at college together. The other sixteen
members of my class now (ill drunkards'
graves,and all from the penicious
habit of wiue-drinking. I owe all
r my health, my happiness and prosperity
to that resolution. Would you
urge me to drink it now ?" The ef1
feet on the compauy may '-v imug|
ined.?Ex.
I God gives us always strength enough
and sense enough for what He wants
j us to do ; if we either tire ourselves or
1 puzzle our ourselves, itisourown fault,
j j And we may always be sure, whatever
j we are doing, that we cannot be pleas-ling
Him if we are uot happy ouri
selves.?Ruskin.
*j What God would make known, man
! cannot hide. Light is seen from afar.
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This Side the tiste.
Nowhere perhaps in the old world
does the past face the American with
more sudden and startiiug power than
in Westminister Abbey. There lie
the rulers and leaders of men through
many ages; not only the kings, but
the captains, the singers, the thinkers,
who have to a great degree, made
English-speaking people what they
are.
When the visitor has had time to
grow a little familiar with this mass
of tombs, he will feel for a moment a
S;rim amusement at the strange bedellows
here brought together, made
to slumber side by side in their last
resting places.
Here "bloody Q,ueen Mary" sleeps
quietly a few feet from the Cromwells
and Iretoin. They cannot burn nor
hang each other now.
Here, without a shudder, rests poor
/vraoeuu otuari, very uear 10 james i.,
who, out of jealous fear of her claims
to the throne, kept her a prisoner
until she went mad and died.
Here lie Queen Anne and her sister
Mary, their bitter squabbles silenced.
Here are sovereigns of the houses of
York and Lancaster, gathered after all
their wars around the feet of old John
Gaunt, yet dumb as to the question of
succession. Here the bones of haughty
Catholic kings are jostled by the
monuments of the Wesleys, and
neither kiug nor preacher utters a
single protest.
Perhaps the most dramatic effect in
the Abbey is that produced bv the
tombs of Queen Elizabeth ana her
victim, Mary Queen of Scots, which
stand exactly parallel with each other
in the north and south aisles almost
side by side. Above each grave is a
recumbent marble figure of the
Queen who sleeps beneath. Elizabeth
wears her regal robes ; Mary her close
fitting coif and a mantle. The hands
of each Queen are clasped in prayer.
There, through the long centuries
they have lain silent close together,
the slayer and the slain. Their quarrel
has been fought over ten thousand
times for generation after generation,
but there has been no accusation of
murder, no cry of remorse, nor prayer
for fororivanPRR hpf.wppn them.
The force of this dumb historic
drama is so overpowering that the
visitor is in danger of neglecting its
more direct and tremendous meaning.
It is, that someday, someday certain
to come, he and bis best friends
aud bitterest enemies will lie down
like these two queens, dumb and still,
side by side, beneath the heavy immovable
clay.
They cannot hurt each other then.
Tbey cannot help each other.
He cannot stretch out his band
then to caress the child he has neglected,
or the mother, lying but a foot
away, whose heart he may have wrung
with sorrow. No matter how great
the mistakes he made while living, or
how harmful the eril work he left
behind him, he cannot come back for
an hour, or speak a single word to set
them right.
Death, when be turns the key,
never unlocks the gate again, neither
for the laborer, nor the great king
lyiug crowned in the Abbey.
What is it then, that we are doing
now, on this side of the gate?
Truthfulness.
Two country lads came at an early
hour to a market town, and arranging t .
their stauds sat down to wait for custnmera
Oni? was furnished with
fruits and vegetables of the boy's own
raisiug, and the other supplied with
clams and fish. The market hours
passed along, and each little merchant
saw with^pleasure his store^steadily decreasing,
and an equivalent In silver
bits shining in his little money-cup.
Theilast melon la> on Harry's stand,
when a gentleman came by; and placing
his band upon it,* said : "What a
fine, large melon! What do you ask
for it, boy ?
The melon is the last I have, sir; and
though it looks very fair, there is an
unsound spot in it," said the boy,.turning
it over.
"So there is," said the man; "I think
I will uot take it. But," he added,
looking inio the boy's fine open countenance,
"is it very business-like to
noint out tbe defects of your fruit to
customerd ?"
"It is better than being dishonest sir,"
said tbe boy, modestly.
"You are right, little fellow ; always
remember that principle, aod you will
c --' ' n<><1 anri man alon. f
11 LI U lavill W iiu uuu, auu _
shall remember your little stand in the
future. Are those clams fresh ?" be
continued, turning to Ben Wilson's
stand.
"Yes, sir; fresh this morning. I
caught them myself," was the reply,
and a purchase being made the gentleman
went away.
"Harry, what a fool you were to
show the gentleman that spot on the
melon ! Noar,you can take ithomefor
your pains, or throw it away. How
much wiser is he about those clams I
caught yesterday ? Sold them for the
same price as I did the fresh ones. He
would never have looked at the melon
until he had gone away."
"Ben, I would not tell a lie, or act
one either, for twice what I have learned
this morning. Besides, I 8i*all be
better offiu the end ; for I have gained
* 1 * 11
a customer, aua you nave iu?i, vuc.
And so it proved; for the next day
the gentleman bought nearly all his
fruits and vegetables of Harry, but
never spent auother penny at the stand
of bis neighbor. Thus the season
passed. The gentleman, finding he
could always get a good article of Harry
constantly patronized him, and
sometimes talked with him a few minutes
about lii9 future prospects. To
become a merchant was Harry's grea*
ambition ; and when the winter c^i&;
on, the gentleman, wautinga irusty
boy for his warehouse, decid??on giving
the place to Harry. Steadily, and
surely he advanced in the confidence
of his employer, until having passed
through various posts of service, he
became at length and honored partner
in the fi,rm.?India's Young Folks.
Look Ont for the Rocks*.
A gentleman crossing tbe English
Channel stood near the helmsman. It'
was a calm and pleasant evening, and
no one dreamed of a possible danger to,
their good ship, but a sudden flappipg.
ot a sail, as if the wind had shifted,
caught the ear of officer on watch, and,
he spraug at once to the wheel, examining
closely tbe compass.
"You are half a point off the course,."
he said sharply to the man at tbe
wheel. The deviation was corrected,.
and tbe olticer reiuruea 10 nis posi.
"You must steer very accurately,"
said the looker-on, "when only half a
point is so much thought of."
' ",Ahj half a point in many places
| might bring uL 3'rectly on the rocks,"
he said.
So il is in life. Half a point from
strict truthfulness strands us upon the
rocks of falsehood. Hair a point from
' perfect honesty, and we are steering
right for the rocks of crime. Andsoof
all kindred vices. The beginnings are
I always small. Noone climbs to the
i summit at one bouud, but goes the one
i little step at a time. Children think
, lightly of what they call small sins.
These rocks do not look so fearful to
|them.?Sailor's Magazine.
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