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//HEN PEGGIE CROSSED THE BROOK.
BY SAMl'EI. MINTUKN VKCK.
A moment on the l>;iuk to view
The tide with ti:nid air,
And iu she tript with kirtle blao
Above lior white foot bare.
So fair a sight it never knew.
That shy and lilio.l nook;
Nor I amid
The willows hid.
When Peggie crossed the brook.
The glistening water, loath to go.
Eneiruleii rook and fern;
It eddied in i's silver How
With many n twist aud turn.
Tlifl old mill wnite I fur below?
The stream the call forsook;
And hushed its trill,
And tarried till
Sweet I'eggie crossed the brook.
Thesun sllpt through the willow loaves,
And fell upon 'ier hair;
'Mid lock3 tbe hue of autumn sheaves
It wove a witching snare.
I Too late my beatiner heart perceive*
| The peril of a look;
I The spell was wrought,
My heart was caugUt
As Peggie crossed the brook.
The mowers sang a merry lay.
Haymaking on tbo hill;
But down beside the brook that da/
The air was soft and still.
I wished the soene might livo for nye,
kike pictures in a book;
But fairest things
Have fleetest wings?
And Peggie crossed the brook.
Too soon beyond the narrow tido
A grateful sigh siie drew;
And in the daisies at her side
I knelt to tie her shoe.
t She moeked ray clumsiuess. I tried;
KSl, But tiow my Angers saooK!
| r All skill forgot,
IggW& . Love tied the kaot
K^{W Wben Peggie crossed the brook.
?Harper's Bazar.
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ffiOMBEY AND NERO. ?
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^ flkXhM Story of h Pig anil a Dos, Q
bt 'florence blanc-sabd. ?
dodooooooooooooodooooooooo
?UK hero's name was
fiombey. Nobody
at the old farmhouse
had ever
dreamed of making
a household pet of a
little black pig, but
before they began to
think about the oddity
of the undertak
... iug it had been accomplished, and the
. . Jittle fellow raled the household from
master to maid.
' ' It happened in this way: Dombey,
with eight brothers auil sisters, was
%' * born in a sunny pen one morning iu
the early springtime. He closely resembled
his brother aud sisters in
size, in his olean cut toes, in his delicate,
sharp pointed ears, in his pretty
pink nose, in his short, curly, wiggling
tail, and last, but not least, in his
ability to squeal?perhaps the loudest
and longest of them all. But there
?- - mAnlr r\ P ^iflTarAnna
WUS ULiU UlSUUUb LUUia ui utuotvuvv
between liim and the others?wliile
they were snowy white, Dombey was
jet black, with a beautiful white star
on his forehead.
:'iFroD\ the very fir3t his mother
looked upon him with disdain. Then
the disdain grew to dislike, and the
dislike to a hatred which almost
caused poor Dombey's death. No one
knew the reason. They surmised,
however, that on account of his som^
bre coat he appeared to his mother an
angel of darkness rather than of light.
When he was only tnree days old
he was taken into the house and laid
in a basket which stood in a corner of
the old fashioned kitchen, near the
fireplace. Then his paradise began.
Ho was fed with sweet milk out of a
tiny bottle. He was washed and
rubbed and brushed every morning.
His ears grew very soft and silky under
this constant care, and everybody
lovfid to rub them and fondle them.
Domney took kiudiy to ail the petting
he received. Why shouldn't he?
The germs of love are planted in the
heart of every little animal, whatever
his station in life. And Dombey did
more. He tried to show the family
that he appreciated the love and cave
bestowed upon him, and this end in
view, when he played under the apple
trees, in the orchard, he would briug
the best apple he could flud and lay it
a3 an offering at the feet of his mistress.
He always waited, too, for her
to pick it up, and rub his ears, and
tell him what a good little pig he was!
Then his curly tail would wiggle with
joy and he would start out again to
? o
iMUJ.
One member of the family had been
made unhappy by Dombey's comiug?
that was Nero, the great black Newfoundland,
whoso home the farm had
been for two years. During all these
months Nero had been the most important
personage of the household,
and he did not take kindly at all to
the little pig. He even felt a certain
amount of contempt for his mistress
that she should be interested in so
plebeian an object a3 a pig, aud a
black pig at that. Who before had
ever heard of any one ever making a
household pet of a pig! He certainly
never had, and no dog he knew had
ever told him of such a happeniug.
He soon found that his own food
was served to him regularly. His
favorite dishes, too, were not forgotten.
He was still allowed to enjoy
his afternoon nt.p by the fireplace
in the kitchen. Best of all, his mistress
gave him- the usual attention
and caresses. Then he began to take
kindly notice of the little pig, and as
Dombey grew larger lie and Nero became
fast friends.
They bathed together in the Frog
Pond behind the barn every morning.
They chased the hens when they were
foolish enough to stray from shelter.
They playe.J- with apples under the
trees in the orchard. When the fall
came they worked mischief by getting
into the turnip patch and pulling up
row after row of plants. Dombej
would only eat them when the size
pleased his palate.
^ The turnip patch adjoined the
orchard where the apple trees grow.
No n*t,ter how often the hired men
nafr>TvA<1 nn the wire fence. Dombe\
I? ?
elways contrived to tear it do wo twi
cr three times a week, at least.
Finally, some one discovered how
Nero helped. He would go to th<
cpposite side of the orchard, anc
running back, with full force, woulc
hurl himself against the wire fence
"which strained and moved from it.1
fastenings, allowed Dombey, with th<
aid of his little pink nose and h;i
toes, to finish the work.
Contrary to all ordinary traditions
J>ombey did not love dirt. When i
Was rainy and muddy he and Ner<
took their exercise on the wide reran
da which surrounded three Hides o
tlie house. The house stood upoa
the stele of the hill. A flight of steps
leil from the veranda to the lawn. A
few feet from the steps a jagged stoue
wall separated the lawn from the
orchard. It grieves me to tell wliafc
happened there oue stormy morning
ia November. Dombey and Nero
were indulging ia their rainy day
romp, when the latter, coming round
the corner with all the force of his
many pounds, ran full tilt into Dombey,
who had just reached the edge of
the steps leading down to the wall.
Dombey, with a pitiful cry, was
hurled down the steps against the
sharp stones. He struggled feebly for
a few moments, then, with a moan, his
little life passed away. Nero had
bounded after him, and, in his dumb
way, tried to rouse the little fellow.
It was of no avail. Then Nero understood,
and with one sharp, piercing i
wail threw himself down beside D#om- j
bey in an abandonment of grief. Never
again would they play tag together;
never again would they pull the turnips
and hunt apples!
The family had been busy all the
? ? i -i l.i
morning ana uaa not mougui nuuu?
their pets. Wnen dinner time came
aud no Dombey scratched at the door,
clamoring for admittance, inquiry was
made for him.
Some one had seen him and Nero raoiug
on the veranda. Another had seen
Nero run into him, and thought that
the blow must have given the little
fellow a hard tumble down the steps.
Then Bridget (remembered to have
heard an agonizing ory, (
They went to the veranda to iook,
and there they found J)omb6y
and poor Nero beside; Mm watching,
with one paw thrown across the little
pig's back.
They buried him thtft afternoon just
as the sun'came out of the olonds for
the firsVand last time that day. .The
red rays bathed in fall glory the little
grava under the apple tropin the cor
ner of the orehard Whiali:lfe loved sc
well. When the family, leit him Nero
*w 11 ' L
the house!; It was his way of knocking.
?Nay Yflpk Egyld. ,
He is a^^l'loy^lSio likes to have
the thingp fhrf he TOnts aad he is I
diplomatic ajb$>at getting them. The
other * day gone oat to. make '
a oall with his mamma upon an old
friehd. '>vr.w
. "Nnw. da**." aaid mamma, as the?
*,w"i ttfim ?7? ?nT~ ' ? .
stood on thev doorstep, "remember
that you are not to aslt for anything." j
' "Yes, mamma," answered, the small ;
boy. ; :
"I have bieen bnsy "almost all the j
morning making crallers," said the j
friend as she entered the: room and j
greeted them. A beatiffo egyessios 1
spread over the small bo?&<Sbe.
"I like to hear yoa^Ulk' about
crallers," he said with asinine of mort
than ohildtik* innocence.
j"Why, are yon fond^them?'
asked the mammaVirieitffifaa pleasec
tone.
"Oh,', yes, very,^said the small
boy, looking, if'anything, still more j
innocent.. Wi''
"I didn't;ask for^hem, mamma," |
he cried in a fcon$8! indignant pro |
test, as the doproloiwl on ifhe oruller- !
maker, who^^^n^fto bring in 0
losc altpypnok k uiiuj.
A bard tonojpl^ades most of the
jokes of the" day. Periodicals that j
are supposed to be published for J
laughing purposes oulj are gi7eu over ;
to flippaut remarks about divorce, !
heupecked husbands, maunish worn- '
en, aud cooing lovers. Iu place of !
the old-time storiea^'that illustrated
odd phases of American character,
the humor of the .tfay seems to revolve
about ,th*ee or four subjects j
that were sacred'IW the first place,
and that now have been worn threadbare.
No repj-huinorists have arisen
to counterfaifcuice this downward 1
drift. If any young -writer shows j
promise as a humorist he succumbs to |
the glamour of the epigram and be- j
comes cynical, or proves that he is i
merely a "specialist" aud can do no
more than hammer away on one uofee. |
To be genuine, humor must be !
broad and kindly. It must acknowl- !
edge no literary rules and must not j
know the meaning of flippancy. As ]
matters stand now, Mark Twain is the .
last of the real American humorists.
?Denver Republican.
Twin Telescope,
An interesting telescope has just
been pnt in position at Potsdam, says
the Scientific American. It is a du- ,
plicate instrument, being composed |
of two tubes, side by side, the larger :
one for photographic purposes and I
the other is to be used visually and as!
an aid to keeping the images station-1
ary upon the plate during long expo- j
sures. The photographic oue has a '
diameter of thirty-two inches and o
focal length of forty feet. The visual
objeotive is slightlv longer in focus, j
1 being forty-one aud a half feet, and
twenty inches in .diameter. For this
instrumentjwhich will be employed to j
1 jdetermint the motion of the stars in !
' /the line ioJ sight by meaus of the spec- |
troscope, a special dome has been j
built.
t ,
Mineral Wealth of Siberia.
Hardlv anv mineral can be named
r j that is not obtainable somewhere in
11 Siberia in abundant amounts. The j
mountains surrounding the Ivinghisiau !
r plains are kuowu to contain not only
j gold, but also copper, silver and lead |
I ore. The Altai Mountains, covering I
I an area ten times as large as Switzer-1
, land, abound in copper ore, silvex |
i and lead ore, gold andprecious stones.
3 In the Kusnezki Valley are beds ol'
i ooal so vast as to suggest comparison
with the Pennsylvania fields. The
, richest and most extensive gold de- |
t posits occur in Eastern Siberia, and
3 large petroleum deposits hare recently
been diacoverad on the Island of Sag
f halin.
^HOUSEHOLD
Afiont Tuttlnc Away Stoves.
"Let me give you a pointer in puttiug
away your room stoves for the
summer," said an accommodating
stove man. "In the great majority of
cases people pack away their small
stoves in their cellars for the summer.
Cellars are more or less damp, and the
grates and stoVe lining rust and in
some coaes actually consume themselves
with rust, for one summer in a
damp cellar does a stove more harm
that its steady use during tae winter
season. In suoh cases never-clean
out the stove. A good qnajity of
ashes in the stove is the best possible
preservative of the inside of the stove.
The &ahes and cinders absorb the
aoisture which otherwise would attack
the grate and other linings. In
the siame way it is better that the bed
of. cinders in the furnaces should be
kept in them during the summer.'
Careful housekeepers are right in
most' things, that when packed away"
lor the summer they should be clean.
This rule, however, does not work
well in the case of stoves and furnaces.
This is not theory, but the result of
? amnfinnna o n wVlftn
UlVbUJ JOOio .. ?w ?
once observed will always be followed.
It will be found, that it will pay."?
Washington Star. - f* >
Cozy Corners Hade of Leather.
Leather cozy corners have rather a?
dubious sound, yet they are oozy,
comfortable and artistic; moreover,
they are the newest thing in the decorative
line. The leather is buckskin,
of the softest finish and decorated
with the mtich-favored pyrography.
If you are an expert at this work j[ou
may get up an elaborate effect at comparatively
little cost, but if you have
to pay for the decoration as well af
the material it is an expensive luxury, j
Tajnake a complete ' corner" the:
fiuHk.Ahanld be covered with the
having a conventional bordei |
?nd' mtwhed on the bottom with '
slashed leather to form a deep fringe, i
'The wall on two sides should bo !
covered to ' a depth of from two tr J
four feet, according to taste, with th? :
leather stamped iu some decorativc j
style, a good idea being to represen! |
scenes from Shakespeare or fronc
some other literary source. Tht
couch pillows are covered with leathei
scamped with scenes to match, or witt
monogram, coat of arms, floral or con
ventional design. The natural coloi j
of the leather is preferred for all o! '
these effects, but may be varied by i j
border in olive, maroon or other con i
trasting shade. The pillows arc |
finished on the edge by a lacing oi j
fha cirlaa fnorat.lier hv ft Ififtkhflf I
atrip. No other material is to be in
troduced on pain of spoiling the artis
tic idea.
Tlie Nursery Ventilation.
The air of the nursery, which includes
temperature and ventilation, is !
a matter to which the mother and j
nurse should pay the strictest attention.
The temperature should uevei |
be above seventy degrees, and thon :
only for a premature or very young 1
infant; a temperature of sixty-eighl
degrees is far better and more health
ful, and at night it may be mauy de
grees lower. Children brought up in
close, overheated nurseries are always
pale, puny, over-sensitive tc:
cold, and much more liable to contract
pulmonary disease; babies sleep :
much better at mght tf the air in thf I
room is cool and fresh. During the j
day the air in the nursery should bis !
changed as often as possiL^i?that is, I
whenever the baby is out of the room.
XjVeu 11 TU19 uappeus several nuca ;? |
day, take advantage of these absences:
every time and change the air. When j
the baby and nurse are out for sev-1
eral hoars, let the nursery air during '
the time, closing the windows perhaps
a half hour before they are ex
pected to return. If, when they ar-!
rive, the temperature is not quite S3 J
high as it should be, it certainly is no '
colder than the outside air from which j
the baby has just come. In this case, ]
until the room lias its proper warmth |
the baby's wraps need not be re- i
moved. At night when the window j
is lowered, aud the air, therefore,
much cooler, protect the crib from
any possible draught by drawing <3
screen about it or even pinning n j
sheet about the crib.?Mariauna !
Wheeler, in Harper's Bazar.
RECIPES
Cre33 Butter?Mak^jJay previous
and keep on ice uutil Jtangheon. Wash
and pick over a cupfaV^pif watercress
leaves carefully, miii'ce.ttijQm.very fin?
and dry in gneadwith taeui j
as much fresh as the^isrill take
up (abo^%cap)^ add s bal6$*aspooii
of salt,{a ini&all piqch of,white peppet
and forta into Iittlepa-ts or balls. If
preferittd, tjtiifl butter may. be spread
upon tMK'slices of bread, sandwich
style,
California Snotf .7 Dessert?Soak a
teacup of tapioca in just^ater enough
to be absorbed. Cook in two cups of
milk; it tqo thick add' another halfcup.
Shortly beforb it i3 done add o
half-cup of sugar and a sattspoon of
salt. It shovtld be white and creamy.
Season delicately with -any preferre-.?
flavoring.- Serve in'dat teuce dished
t 1 r 1 -1 I
ana piace a naiveu .pear ^cuuuou; vu
each dish and fill the cavity of tho
pear with a' spoon-of whipped cream.
Veal Kidneys and Mushrooms
(Polish)?-Trim all t&e fat from twelve
kidneys, slice thedr- lengthwise into
I strips, dust with saltandpepper, flouf
I tbem, dip in ogg, crnmb them, fry ia
butter, browning both sides. Placo
ono dozen stewed spring mushrooms
in the centre of the dish; place the
kidneys around, and over all pour s
sauce made of two tablespoonfuls Oi
mustard worked into a gill of oil and
two tablaspoonfuls of tjood vinegar.
DR. TALMAQE'3 SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: Tlio Victor's Shout?The Joy
of Overcoming Difficulties?The Satisfaction
Expressed by Christ on the
Outcome of Hl:i Earthly Labors.
[Copyright 1900.]
Washington, D. 0.?In this discourse
L> r. I'llllIHlKO SUUWS 1U IIU UUU3IIUI vriljr IUU
antagonisms that ChrUt overcame and
finds a balsam for all wounded hearts;
text, John xvil., 4, "I have flnlshod the
work which Thou gavest Md to do."
Tliore is a profound satisfaction in the
completion of anything we have undertaken.
We lift the capstone with exultation,
while, on the other hand, there is
uothing more disappointing than, after
having tolled in a certulu direction, to ilnd
that our time Is wasted and our investment
profitless. Christ came to throw up
a highway on whloh tho whole world
might, if it chose, mount into heaven. He
did It. The foul mouthed crew who attempted
to tread on Him could not *xtlnguish
the sublime* satisfaction which
He expressed when He said: "I have
finished the work which Thou gavest Me
do."
Alexander tho Great was wounded, and
the doctors could not medicate his wounds,
and be seemed to be dying, and la. his
9 dream the sick man saw a plant with a
peculiar flower, and he dreamed that that
plant was put upon his wound and that
Immediately it was cured. And Alexander,
waking from his dream,, told this to the physician,
and the physician wandered one
.until he found just the kind bfplant which
the sick man bad described, brought It to
him, and the wound was healed. Well, the
human race had been hurt with the ghast-.
liest of ail wounds?that of sin. It was
the business of Christ to bring a balm for
that wofanS?the balm of divine restoration.
In carrying this business to a successful
Issue the difficulties were stupendous.
In many of our plans we have our friends
to help us; some to draw a sketch of the
plan, others to help us in the execution.
But Christ fought every inch of His way
against bitter hostility and amid circumstances
all calculated to depress and defeat
XU uo uirat ?uiiuijr ui;uup;uuu
"was against Him. I find tliat He earned His
JJ?elttiood by the carpenter's trade, an occupattpn
always to be highly regarded and
^respected. But you know as well as I do
that in order to succeed In any employment
one must give his entire time to it,
and 1 have to declaro that the fatigues af
carpentry were unfavorable to the execution
of a mission which required all mental
aud physical faculties. Through high,
hard, dry, husky, insensate Judaism to
hew a way for a new and glorious dispensation
was a stupendous undertaking that
was enough to domaud all the concentrated
energies even of Christ. Wo have a
great many romantic stories about what
men with physical toil have accomplished
In intellectual departments, but you know
that after a man has been toiling all day
with adz and saw aud hammer, plane and
ax, about all he can do is to rest. A weary
body Is an unfavorable adjunct to a toiling
miucl. You, whose life in purely mechanical.
if you were called to the upbylldiug of
a kingdom, or the proclamation of a new
code of morals, or the starting of a revolution
which should upturn nil nations,
could get some idea of the incoherence of
Christ's occupation with His hoavenly
mission.
In His father's shop no more intercourse
was necessary than is ordinarily necessary
in bargaining with men that have work to
do, yet Christ, with hands hard from use
of joois of trade, was calied forth to besoran
a Dubllc aoe.iker. to Dreach iu the
(uce of mot<9, while some wept, and some
shook their fists, and some gnashed upon
Him with their teeth, and many wanted
Him out of the way. To address orderly
and respectful assemblages Is not so easy
us it may seem, but it requires more
energy and more force and more concentration
to address an exasperated mob.
The villagers of Nazareth heard the pounding
of His hammer, but ail the wide
reaches of eternity were to hear the stroke
of His spiritual up-building.
80 also His habits of dress and diet were
hpnlnst Him. The mighty men of Christ's
time did not appear In apparel without
trinkets and adornments. None of the
Caosars would have appeared In citizen's
apparel. Yet here was a man, here was a
professed king, who always wore the same
coat. Indeod it was far from shabby, for
after He had worn It a long while the
gamblers thought it worth raffling about,
but still it was far from being an imperial
robe. It was a coat that any ordinary
mau might have worn 011 an ordinary occasion.
Neither was there any pretension in His
diet. No cupbearor with golden challco
brought Hitn wine to drink. On the seashore
Ho ate fish, first having broiled It
Himself. No ono fetched Him water to
rtriuk; but. bending over the well in
Samaria, Ho begged a driuk. He sat at
only one banquet, aud that not at all
sumptuous, ior 10 rtmevo tuo itw&wuruness
of the bost one of the guests bad to
prepnre wine for tho company.
Otber king3 ride in a chariot; He walked.
Otber kings, us tbey advance, have beralds
abend and applauding subjects behind;
Christ's retinue was made up of sunburned
fishermen. Otber kings sleep
under embroidered canopy; this one on a
shelterless bill, riding but once, as far as I
now remember, on a colt, and that borrowed.
His poverty was against Him. It requires
money to build great enterprises.
Men of means are afraid of a penniless
projector lest a loan be demanded. It requires
money to print books, to build institutions,
to pay instructors. No wonder
the wise men of Christ's time lausrbod at
this penniless Christ. "Why." they said,
"who is to pay for this new religion? Who
is to charter tho ships to carry tht missionaries?
Who is to pay tho salaries of
the teachers? Shall wealthy, established
religion be discomflted by a penniless
Christ?"
The consequence was that most of the
people tbat followed Christ bad nothing to
lose. Affluent Joyeph of Arimatbea buried
Christ, but he risked no social positiou in
doing that. It is always safe to bury a
dead man.
Zaccbeus risked no wealth or social position
in following Christ, but took a position
in u tree to look down as He passed.
Nicodemus, wealthy Nicodemus, risked
nothing ot social position in following
Christ, for he skulked by night to flinl Him.
All this whs against Christ. So the fact
that He was not regularly graduated was
against Him. If n man come with diplomas
of colleges and schools and theological
seminaries and he has been through foreign
travel, the world is disposed to listen.
But here was a man cvbo had graduated at
no collage, had not in any Academy by ordinary
meaus learned the alphabet ot the
language He spoke, and yet He proposed to
talk, to instruct in subjects which had confounded
tint mightier intellects. John
juld, "The Jews marveled, sayiug, How
liath this man letters, having uover
learned?" We, in our day, havo found out
' that a man without a diploma may kuow
as much us a man with one and that a college
cannot transform a sluggard Into a
philosopher or a theological semlnarv teach
a fool to preach. An empty head, after the
laying on ot hands of the presbytery,
is empty still. But ft shocked all existing
prejudices In those olden times for a mnu
with: no scholastic protenslous and no
graduation from a learned institution to
set Himself up for a teacher. It was agaiast
Him.
So also the brevity of Ills life wa9 against
Him." He had not' come to what we call
midlife. But very few men do anything
j before thirty-three years ot age. and yet
llbat was the point nt which Christ's life
terminated. The llrst fifteen years you
.'ake In nursery UQ'1 school; then it will
take you six years to set iuto your oecu?"I?
#-ool?n Thnt will liriuir veil
filliua or |ifULoaoi!4u. *m... ^ B _
to twenty-oue years. Then it will take
you tpn years at least to get established in
your life work, correcting the mistakes
you have tnade.
If Any man at thirty-three years of acre
C *9 fully established in his life^vork, beis .
the exception. Yet that is the point at
which Christ's life terminated.
Men in military ltfn have done their
most wonderful deeds before thirty-three
years of age. There may be exceptions to
it, but the most wonderful exploits in raillery
prowess fcave occurred before thirtythree
years of ugei- ?
But. as a legislator no man becomes eminent
as ? legislator until be has hail lous? J
years of experience. And yet the gray beard,
3d scribes were espectel to bow down in si-1
lence bofero tliis younj? Legislator,who arraigned
suulieilrius iiail accused governmenlg.
Aristotle was old; Lycurgus was
old: Seneca was old. The great legislators
of the modern world have been oldChrist
was young. All this was against
Him,
If a child twelve years of age should set
up In your presence to discuss great questions
of metaphysics or ethics or politics
or gorernment.you would bo as contemptuous
as these gray bearded Jscribes iu the
presence of this youoj? Christ."
So there bnve been men of wonderful
magnetism of person. But bear me while
I tell you of ft poor yonng Man who came up
from Nazareth to produce a thrill which has
never been excited by any other. Napoleon
had around him the memories of Marengc
and Austerlitz and Jena, but here was a
Man who had fought no battles, who wore
no-epaulets, who brandished uo sword. He
had.probable never seen a prince or shaken
hands with a nobleman.
The only extraordinary person "we know
of as being in. His company was His own
mother, and sue was so poor that, in the
most delicate and solomn hour that comes
to a woman's soul, she was obliged to He
down among drivers grooming the beasts
of burden.
Again, I remark, there was no organlzation
in His behalf, and that was against
Him. When men propose any great work,
they band together, th'ey write letters of
agreement, they take oaths of fealty, and
the more complete the organization the
more and complete the success. Here was
one who went forth without any organization
and alone. If men had a mind to j ".in
in His company, all right; it they liaa a
Slnd not to join In His company, all well,
they came, they were greeted with nc
lf>tt<L salutation; if they went away, they
ware sent with no bitter anathema. Petei
departed, and Christ turned and looked at
him;'that was all.
All this was against nim. Did any one
ever undertake such an enterprise amid
such infinite embarrassments and by such
modes? And yet I am here to say it ended
in a complete triumph. Notwithstanding ]
His worldly occupation. His poverty, His j
plain fnfce, His unpretending garb, the j
fact that He was schoolless, the fact that
He had a brief life, the fact that He was
not accompanied by any visible organization?notwithstanding
all that, In an exhilaration
which shall be prolonged In
everlasting chorals, He declared, "I have
finished the work which Thou gavest Me
to do."
In the eye Infirmary now many diseases |
of that delicate organ havo been cured? i
But Jesus says to one blind, "Be open!"
and the light of heaven rushes through |
gates that have novor before been oponed.
The frost of au ax may bill a tree, but
Jesus smites one dead with a word.
Chemistry may do mauy wonderful
things, but what chemist ut a wedding,
when the wine gave out, could change a
pall of water Into a cask of wine? What
human voice could command a school ol
llsh? Yet here Is a voice that marshals
the scally tribes until, in a place where
they had let down the not and pulled it
up with no llsh in It, they let it down
again, nnd the disciples lay bold and began
to pull, when, by reason of the multitude
of fish, the net broke. Nature is His
servant. The flowers?He twisted them into
His sermons; the winds?they wore His
lullaby when He slept in the boat; the rain
It hung glittering on the thick foliage of the
parables; the star of Bethlehem?it sang
a Christmas carol over His cirth; the rocks
?they beat a dirge at His death. Behold
His victory over the gravel The hinges ol
the family vault become very rusty because
they are never oponed except to take
another In. Thero is a knob ou the outside
of the door of the sepulcher, but none
on tho inside. Here comes the Conqueror
nt Tin enfpra flint r??lm and savs.
"Daughter of Jairus, alt up!" aDd she sits
up. To Lazarus, "Come forth!" and lie
came fortb. To the widow's son He said,
"Gdt up from th.it bier!" and be goes
home with his mother. Then Jesus
snatched up the keys of death and hung
them to His girdle and cried until nil tne
graveyards of the earth heard Hioi: "0
death, I will bo thy plaguel 0 grave, I will
be thy destructionl"
No man could go through all the obstacles
I have described, you say, without
having a nature supernatural. In that
arm, amid its muscles and nerve3. and
bones, were Intertwisted the energies of
omnipotence. In the syllables of that
voice there was the emphasis of the
eterual God. That foot that walked the
deck of the ship In Gennesaret shall 9tainp
kingdoms of darkness into demolition.
This poverty struck Christ owned Augustus.
owned the sanhodrin, owned Tiberias,
owned all the castles on its beach and all
the skies that looked down into its waterowned
all the earth and all the heavens.
To Him of the plain coat belonged the
robes of ce'fastlal royalty. He whc
walked the road to Emmaua the lightnings
were the Ore shod steeds of His
chariot. Yet there are those who look
on aud see Christ tu?a water into wine,
and they say, "It was sleight of handj"
And they see Christ raise the dead to life,
and they say: "Easily explained; not
?,\n 11 ?? n 1 n *' i n r? <^Dri H !" AnH thflv QrtC
icmij U'/UU, |/iaj.uh>i?..., J
Christ Riving sight to the blind man, and
they say, "Clairvoyant doctor!" Oh, what
shall they do on tho day wben Christ rises
up in judgment aud the hills shall lock
and the trumpets shall call, peal on pen!'.
In the time o' Tbeodosius toe Great there
was a groat assault made upon the divinity
of Jesus Christ, and during that time
Theorlosias tho Great called bid own son tc
sit on tbe tbrouo with bim aud be a copartner
In the government of the empire, aud
one day the old bishop came and bowed
down before Tbeodosius, tbe emperor, and
passed out of the room, and the omporoi
was offended, saying to the old bishop,
"Why didn't :you pay the samo honor
to my son, who shares with me in tho government?"
Then the old bishop turned to
the young man and said, "The Lord blesr
thee, my young man," but still paid bim uc
such honor as be bad paid to the Emperor.
And the Emperor was still offended and
displeased wben the old bishop turned tc
fheodoslus the Great and said to bim.
"You are offended with me because I don't
pay tbe samo honor to your son, whom you
have made copartner in the government ol
this empire, the samo honor 1 pay to you,
and yet you encourage multitudes of people
i'u your realm tc deny the Son of God
equal authority, equal power, with God the
Father."
My subject also reassures U3 of the fact
that la all our struggles we have a sympathiser.
You cannot' tell Christ anything
now about hardshlo. I donot thlnlc that
wide uses of eternity will take the scars
from His punctured sldo and His lacerated
temples and His sore bands. You will nevei
have a burden weighing so many pounds
as that burden Cnrlst carried up the bloody
bill. You will never have any apflering
worse than Ho endured when, with tongue
hot and cracked and Inftnrued aad swoileu,
Ho moaned, "I thirst." You will never be
surrouuded by worse hostility than that
which stood around Christ's feet, foaming,
reviling, livid with rage, howling down His
prayers aud snuffing up the smell of blood.
0 ye faint hearted. 0 ye troubled, 0 ye
persecuted One, hero Is a heart that can
sympathize with you I
Again, and lastly, I lean from all that
has been said to-day that Christ wa3 awfully
iu earnest. If it had riot beeu a momoutous
mission, Ho would have turned
back from it disgusted and discouraged.
Ho saw you iu a captivity from which He
was resolved to extricate you, though It
cost Him all sweat, all tears, all blood. He
carno a great way to save you. Ho came
from Bechlobem here, through the place
of skulls, through the charnel house,
through bauisiimeut. There wn3 not
among all the ranks of celestials one
being who would do as much for you
1 lay His crushed heart at your feet to
day. Let it not be told in heaven that you
deliberately put your foot cn it. While it
will take all the ages of eternity to cole '
brute Christ's triumph, I nm here to make
Mi* Mfii r! lint? iinnnimoivnanf thai- Kantmac
of the rejectlou of this mission ou the pari
of scrue of you nil that magaiflceut work
of garden aud cross aud grave is, so fai <
as yon are concerned, a failure. Helenas 1
the Empress, went to the HoljT
Land to find the cross 'Christ. Getting
to the Holy Land, there were three
crosses excavated, and the question
was which of the crosses was Christ'!1
cross. Thov took a dead body, tradition
says, and put it upon one o* the crossi-s,
and there was no life, ac4 Ihey took the
dead body and put It upjn another cross,
and there was no life; ba:, tradition savs,
when lite dead body was put up against
the third cross It spran? into life, xiio
dead man lived again. Oil. that the |jfn
giving power of the Son o! God miglit dart
your dead seal Into an eternal life. beginning
tlii* day! "Awak#, thou
and rise from ihe dead, and Chri?t uhali
Hive thee life!" Liv>'uow! Aud live [of.
ever I
THE GREAT DESTROYER,
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
!
Coll Out-nine In?Some ol the Best and
Most Experienced Generala In the
World Declare That Grog U Injurious
to an Aruiy'j Morale.
Toll out the death knell of Liquori
Ring In the temperance reign,
T?'l out tbe woos of tho drankardl
Ring in his fitlr hope? again.
Toll out the griefs that are clinging
Past to the swift-flying years!
Bine In the smiles that uro hidden
Deep 'neath an ocean oI tears.
Toll out the sorrows ot childhood
Caused by the horrors of Ram!
Toll out want's shadowy spectres,
Ring in the blessings of home! \
Toll out the sighs of the prls'ner!
Blng in his freedom again!
Toll ont the sneers ot Bum's menials!
Blng in the ballots of men.
?Temperance Advocate.
Liquor In the Anny.
It has long beea claimed that the soldier
must have his grog, but some of the
best and most experienced generals, Eoglish
and American, of modern times, bear
a different testimony and hold that it Is injurious
to the morale of an army. It is interesting,
as well as profitable, to note
how by precept and example tbey. hare
sought to promote a temperance-re formation
in the soldiery under their commands,
and to educate their governments and
countrymen up to the highest water-mark
3f teetotallsm in military organization and
sampaigning.
We give some testimonies upon this sub|ect
worth pondering and acting upon.
Professor James Miller says:
"Experience has taught the Russian military
authorities that spirits are inimical
to the strength and power of endurance ol
the Russian soldier." Captain Peary, wlic
knew whereof he spoke, has said: "People
say that ardent spirits keop tho cold
out. I say,, they let it in. Few seamen
have been in the cold more than I have
and I know that spirits do harm." Field
Marshall i<ord Napier observes: "On reviewing
the recoras of soldiers' offences,
all, pjraotioally.have their origin in drunkenness.
Of 18,000 men under my command
in India, thG total abstainers had no
crimes. The temperance men had practically
none. The whole body " of crime
was among non-abstainers."
Speaking of their observation and experience
outing our Civil War, Georsre B
McCieiian affirmed: "Would all the officer;
unite In setting the soldiers an example ol
total abstinence from intoxicating drinks
it would be equal to ua addition of 50,0(K
men to the urates of the United States.'
General Robert E. Lee, declared: "Met
need no stiiaulant. It is something, I ait
persuaded, tbey can get along <vlthout.'
General Stonewall Jackson, said: "I nevo
use liquor; I um more afraid of it than o
Yankee bullets." r
To-day the two "most successful and fa
mous offlceis in tbe British Army are Lore
Roberts and Lord Kitchener, and yet the]
believe In keeping rum out of tbe arm:
and have gained their most notable Tic
torles with soldiers who wexe not given iti
use. It was Lord Roberts who made ex
perlments in India by which bo proved tha
25,000 soldier-abstainers could put in tin
field 2000 more effective troops than 50,001
non-abstainers. It was Lord Kltclieno
who led a teetotul army to victory in tin
Soudan, whore he established prohibltioc
upon a marked scale. Lord Wdlaeloj
agrees with these chieftains, and is doiuj
all he can to encourage temperauco among
the soldiers of Great Britain.
In the light of those testimonies, there is
no excuse for tho oaateeo iu the American
army. Public sentiment is against it, and
law ought to be. Those iu authority, win
uphold and keep It there, do so at theti
peril. We hope the day will come when
not only it, but the drluk-oaue in. all its
forms, will be banished from the army and
navy of our growing repwfto.?The Pres
byterian.
Made a Drunkard bjr a Prescription. >
A funeral took place iu Patersoa, N. J.,
the other day of a young wife. Tb'e physician's
certificate of death was ''died of
obronic alcoholism." The husband said:
"Our marriage bad been a happy one until
my wife was ordered to take'tvblsky. J
am not toblamefor the scandal. Although
I have been a temperance man for ilfly
nine years I was forced to give my wif<
liquor at home or suffer scandal or disgrace."
The story is a lad one.
On the death of ber. ehtid about a yen
ago she was taken ill. Id an evil moment
the attending phystolan proscribed whisky
for her. She continued to use it and dl
most before tbe husband knew it his young
wife was a drunkard. The craving foi
liquor overmastered her.
For more than a half a <entr.ry her bus
band had been atdtal abstainer. He has t
horror of liquor. He consented to Its belnp.
administered to his wlfe^aaaae tliedocto'
said it was necessary.
When he found that his wife had bpcomf
a slave to liquor he tried to keop It'fron
her. This was fmpos9ible, for if ?he coult
not get it at home she wouljg .go out for it
On that account the husband- gave her at
she detnunaed to prevent scandal. ,
rruiosiur a^viiior a vibiihb*
Is it not strange that, after more tban
forty centuries have elapsed since tlie results
of Professor Noah's exporimeuts with
alcohol were first glvea to the world, evec
great university professors are experimenting
with that mysterious liquid, and
that, too, Without having in all this time
achieved any appreciable results In nd
vance of those which Noah first discovered
and his biographer first announced? Surely
the persistency of scientific investigators
of alcohol Is unconquerable! One thing,
however, is pretty fully settled, namely,
that however caftabU the huoiau system is
of assimilating homoeputbic doses of alcohol,
there is always something about the
liquid thus administered which demand*
at first a frequent repetition of the dose
and later the consumption of it in suet
allopathic quantities as tarns men first iutc i
spewing Idiots, later into fiends and demons,
and ultimately consigns them to the
drunkard's grave and the drunkard's hell
?Free Methodist.
Temperance In Frencli Army.
The French army has taken a hand iu
the war against alcoholism. Although the
groat military organization has nbt decided
upon any united action In the matter,
cortaln eminent generals linve giver
an example that may be later followed bj
the supreme heads of the army. The steps
taken by these officers are In the direction
of restricting the privileges hitherto en
joyed by soldiers for obtaining liquor.
Notes of the Cruuade.
Out of 520 towns and plantations it
Maine, 437 effectually prohibit the saloon
Out of a population of 661,038, there tm
406,855 who never come fn touch with a suloon.
We license a saloon that makes a mnr
drank; we pay .policemen to remove tb<
drunken man to jail; we pay the officers ol
court high fees to try the prisoner; we pay
a big salary to a judge to sentence him
and if he commit crime, we puy the expenses
of a penitentiary to shut him up foi
years.
Dr..(J. Sims Woodhead,M. D., Professoi
of Pathology in Cambridge University
s?n; "It is now generally recognized thai
ohlldren should never take alcohol, which,
according to tte highest authorities, esarts
an exoeedl.igly deleterious action on
r&plciiy-growlug tissues, interfering wltt
thelr nutrltlon, and preventing the devel
AnmAnf nf tliAlr nrrtiipr funpMnn "
w* -
Abstinence Society has been
^jfllfUd in Vienna by 120 members. Its programme
includes abstinence from alcohol
In every form for the benefit of the health
ind morals of the people, and to show the
ibsolute us el ess a ess of alcohol.
Diogenes, being presented at a fea3t
with a large goblet of wine, threw it on tbe
ground. When blamed for wasting so
iiuch good liquor, lie said: "Had I drunk
;t there would have been double waste. I
is well as the wine would have been lost."
The King of Pondolainl, a couurry recently
annexed to Oape Uolouy, lias until
recently been one of the most r;xo!u'o opposers
of Christianity in South Africa. Tiih
jccaslon or the Kiug's cbangt* or ihiu:l was
:he conversion of his chief otlioer, who had
jcen a great drunkard.
- ' !>
GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. .
pREONANT THOUGHTS FROU THE
WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS.
In IntorcpHftion ? Cliriat Finished Hli
Work ? Showing Love l>y Work* ?A
Prayer for Itepentmice ? A Perioual
Knowledge of liod?Pursuit of Hope.
Why they have never known the way before?
Why hundreds staud outside Thy mercy's
?' door?
I kuow not: but I ask, dear Lord, that Thou
Wouldst lead them now!
Why in tho bard and thornv way they pros3
Unloved, nncomforted, with none to bless.
In living death, I know not; but spare Thou,
And lead theiu now!
Saviour, be pitiful; their boll is here;
Dull parched sorrow that can shed no tear
Is theirs. They need indeed no turther loss,
They bear their cross!
Eternal death to live away from Thee,
Eternal loss apart from Thee to be;
Eternal gain to have in Thee some partTo
know Thou art!
Dawn for us here, thou bright undying day;
io in no dark and sudden-ending way
Life's timorous steps shall falter, but
straight on
Where Christ is gone?
To wake and know tho now Ufa throbbing,
llnd
Doubt and disquletudo are left behind,
Eyes open'd.ears attuned to heavenly sound,
Is Heaven found.,
?C. C. Fraser-Tytler, in Congregationalism
Christ Finished His Work.
He finished His work. No other servant
ver did. All our work is rough-edged;
and the man who comes to deal with it after
ffe have left it finds almost as much
lilficulty in touching it as he would have in
starting a new work. But our Lord finished
Hi* work. "I have finished the work which
Thou hast given Mo to do." And one of
His last cries from the cross was but the expression
of the same truth: *'It is finished.
It is finished." Up to the very end of Hia
Jfe He was working, not willing to let even
".he last moments of it alio bv. Even in tha
igony of His suffering on the cruel tree,
Ho opened the gates of the kingdom of
tieaven to a dying thief, and He made a
uew home for His mother. And so all
men who have learned Christ's
spirit, and who have begun to serve as '
Christ served, desire to finish their work.
When John Eliot lay dying a friend came into
his room ana found the wonderful old
man teaching a little Indian child his alphabet.
And the friend said, "Don't you think
/ou have earned a rest? and he replied,
I don't think I bam I-prayed the Lord a
:ong time ago to make me useful in my
sphere, and Ho heard my prayer, and now
:bat I am no longer young. He leaves ma
strength enough to teach this little Indian
jhild its alphabet." The old man of 80
was determined, it was a possible thing that
ae would finish his work for God.?Robert
E. Speer, In "Remember Jesus Christ."
SlioivliiB L:?v i by Work*.
Do you show your love by your works?
While you have time, as you have opportunity.
do you, in fact, "do good to all men,"
leighbors or strangers, friends or enemies,
?ood or bad? Do you do them all the good
you cud, endeavoring to supply all their
.vants. assisting them in body and soul, to
;he uttermost of your power? If thou art
;bus minded?may every Christian say yea
-if though art bat sincerely uesirous oc it,
ind following on till you a:tain. then "thy
aearc Is right,as my heart is with thy heart.
'If it bo, give me thy hand." I do not mean,
"Be of my opinion." You need not; I do
aot expect or desire it. Neither do I mean,
'I will be of your opinion." I cannot,
t does not depend on my irhoice; I can no
nore think than I can see or hear a3 I will.
Seep your own opinion; I'mine, and that as
steadily 03 ever. You need not even enleavor
to come over to me or bring me over
io you. I do not desire you to dispute
;hose points, or to liaar or speak one word
concerning them. Lot a'.l opinions alone
jn one side and tho other; only "give marine
hand." I do not mean, "embrace my
nodes of worship, or, I will embrace yours."
This also is a thing which does not depend
>n your choice or mine. Wo must both act
is each is fully persuaded in his own mind.
-John H'esijy.
A Priiyer for Kepcntniica.
Almighty God, the fountain of all holiless.
who by thy Word and Spirit dost
jonduct all thy servants iu the way of peace
ind righteousness, grant us so truly to reoent
of our sins, so diligently to watch over
ill oar acuons. so lnuusirioumy iu
ill our duty that wo may never willingly
'.ransgress thy holy laws, but that it may ba
:heworkof our lives to obey thee, tbejoy
3f our souls to please thee, the sat'sfadtlon
Df all our hopes and tbe perfection of all our
desires to dwell with thee in the holiness of
;hine everlasting kingdom. Make us perfect
iri Christ Jesus; out of his Cullnes3 may
we all rqceire, and rest in him forevermore.
May his passion bo our deliverance; his
wounds be our healiagj his cross our redemp(:ion;
ani his death our life. With his righteousness
may we be clothed; by his Spirit
may we bo sanctified: in his blood may we
oo cleansed; and to his image may we be
:onformed. As be died, may we also die
j A to sin: as he rose again, may we rise into
aewncss of life; sufloring with him here,
aaay we reign with him hereafter. A man.
Pergonal Knowledge of Gcd.
Who of us can wait to investigate the record
for ourselves before bolieviug and reseiviug
the Gospal? We have tbe teachiugs
Df learned men?out that is only testimony;
and other learned men today are busy disproving
and .correcting the teachings ot
chose of former fenerations. What is
needed ia personal experience of Christ,
l'he weakness of the church today is in
;hat we have gotten away from the simple
experiences of life in Christ, and are substituting
for it Researches in archasology,
manuscript?, .QidQuaieuts. and mummy
slothes. Interest in sacred art, pictures and
architecture, ceremony mid churchlv ritual
and creeds, are faking the place of personal
sxperjence of .the living Christ. Growing
less spiritual we become more exactly forma!:
laokiig fervor, wo multiply ceremony;
with less devotion, we have mr>re elaborate
music. What i9 needed.' Conversion?that
which brings a sense of the Divine presence,
the personal knowledge of God.
Th? Ever!listing 1'nrmilt of Hope.
Every single day .should be to you a day
of royal discontent. You never thought as
well as you ought to think. You never
planned as aobly u-> you ought to plan. You
never executed a3 well as you ou?ht to execute.
Over the production of the scholar,
over the canvas of the artist, over the task
of the landscape gardener, over the pruner's
knife, there oujrbt to hover perpetually his
blessed ideal, telling him,"Your work is poof
?it should be better," so that every day h*
should lift himself higher and higher, with
an everlasting pursuit of hope which shall
only end in perfection when he reaches the
land beyond.?Henry Ward Beecher.
John the Baptist, tho greatest of the
prophets, gathered together the scattered
rays of Old Testament prediction into these
two sayings, which will be forever a-isolated
with his nams: "Behold th? Lamb of
God, that tafceth away the sins of the
world!" and "He shall baptize you with
the Holy Ghost, aad with llru." The llrst
is tho gospel of atonement.-, the second is
tbe gospel of regeneration, and both together
give a comprehensive summary of
all that Jest's brings to men.?William M.
Tavl-vPACO
PACO RIVAL OF APIA.
ilgniflcaut Mova of London Mission
School in Samoa.
News baS reached Washington that the
London Mission School has removed from
Malua on the German Inland of Upolu to
:he American island of Tutulla, locating
Dn Pago Pago Bay. The approaching
completion of tbe American naval coaling
Uatioo la B?go Pago harbor; the Inclusion
n the United States Foreign Mall contracts
jf a provision for stopping steamers al
Pago Pago on the routo.* between San
Francisco and New Zealand are a basis ol
representations as to tbe State Department
of tho future predominance of Page
Pago over all the ports of tho Samoas
group.
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