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WEmi '
-? p rINSUFFICIENT
UNTO'THE DAY IS THE
l|B EVIL THEREOF.
SHjLet not the heart a future grievance borv~?.
IV",
H! Nor o'er our path one faintest 9hadow
MH Let not the clouds which may arise tomorrow
PM' Obscure the fairer sunshine of to-day.
gMlTo-day is ours?the past has passed forHk
ever,
KM | II3 joys and griefs alike are ours no
Bfl more;
IThe future lies beyond Time's silent river,
flV'< A dim and distant and untrodden shore.
IThe world's so fair, and life so grand, that I
1 living
I Should one sweet hymn of purest rapSjB
ture be;
IB Prom Nature's hand, so bounteous in her
giving,
""? a??m 4-a toon iin/>Pfloin<r]v!
I. lumcaa isuio, iw i ?w?,
'And ours the bliss, through Hope's enchanting
vision,
r E'en darkened skies to view with promise
rare;
To grasp at joys, though Phoenix-like
they're risen
V From out the ashes of a past despair.
Ab to the day, its burden or its sorrow, J
? So is, our strength by Love all-Wise decreed:
(I Beyond the trust which Iooketh to the
I morrow
I Not ours the striving, nor is ours the
I ' need.
I He knoweth best?the sowing and the
r reaping?
1: | Who left the power of will unfettered,
free;
i TEhe great, kind God, .who holds within His
keeping
x. 'v1 Each day and hour through all eternity.
'*?Beatrice Harlowe, in the November
"Woman's Home Companion.
tjfhe Unseen Singer
'-* 'i. * ? * * * * * * * * * * * *.*.* >
B T WAS alone in the little seaside
??. town, the solace of work being
denied me because of the illness
!Hr ;that had brought me there to seek
H^^H^Kfc?sBUjfc1*K T *rao rlacrtAmtolF tirAfl
jHV'XUr .Xicauu. X nuc uvo^iuwvV
nerves were, in a state that
rendered all enjoyment impossible.
H; ' I used to lie late in the mornings,
Jot fhere was nothing to do but wan
<ler idly on the promenade, and the
H trivial pleasures of the crowd vexed
me unutterably because I could not
H ?hare them.
HjVj.It was only at night I realized that
B possibly this irksome time of rest was
BR j bringing me nearer to the recovery of
Ba any health. Then I used to wander unBSlmlt
all but'the latest of the visitors had
P$t. the promenade. It was impossible
Ba-'^net .to be at rest. The eoolness of the
ft. ?l!ght,, the sootliin- mifrmur of the
Mr>*fsea, and the shining yellow lights of a
B fishing village across the bay. comm^-btned
to make a perfect world, and as
Br'.-I.Watched I knew that even the garish
H^^'day might presently give me pleasure
/ I had been perhaps a fortnight In the
jg ntecte whefl first I saw the lady of
I w^uld tell you. It was only
Kf'fora m6ment, as she drove past in the
cviuyany VL tiu urnci ?uaiau, .UUL ^iuui
moment's sight was enough to fill my
p. thoughts until I saw her again upon
$ the morrow.
K$5l ghe was beautiful beyond all words;
Jt fancled she could hardly have passed
y ihe age: of twenty; and speech and
^Hearing had been denied her. She had
^ the.'Innocent gladness that remains
?r?wl$e they'are yet young with some
ijjjjfflid are thus afflicted. She looked
iT^fepon the world with beautiful bright
^M^gnd, in despite of fate, was well
pleased to be alive.
V J. . "ftrtf c?a wo a to I tine iplt-h har flniroro
B to the eWr lady, her ^companion, In
sgj^ipehose eye^s they looked on the girl
H (ir.lt saw an infinite pity expressed.
-That pity lnfctantly invaded my own
heart, though Its object was gone out
^L..9?;jny sight within a few seconds of
Hl : her appearance; and, despite the fact
B' that I knew not so much as her name,
H there was mixed with the pity a sense
of angry rebellion against the fates
fia^ffifao Jrad thus afflicted her,. wantonly
^Kmjfcl)!n{? of its value a generosity that,
^ /.^hrougb her, might otherwise have
Hft Jladdeiied the wide world.
gH&^teow, more than ever, I regretted my
^Bp&neliness, for I had no one from whom
^ ^1 might expect to gather any informaSB
.ticn of my gaining the privilege of her
r. acquaintance. I made some futile in-'
fairies at the hotel, and only got so
raBxar as to be almost certain she was,
like myself, a visitor.
the next day, at about the same
^fchojor, the" carriage passed along the
length of the promenade. She was
? ':wui. uuiuwuuy giau to oe auve, conI
, tent to accept her burden so if it were
H. so burden at all; it was with smiles
H) she looked into the pitying eyes of her
' companion, and I could fancy that the
' messages she was conveying with
^fc^ gwlftly moving fingers were humorous
jjBg/appreeiations of what she saw around
K^^My earlier questions had been ad KForessed
to a quaint, elderly waiter at
the hotel, a man who had in some sort
- made It his especial task to see to my
|9 .well-being, and who was the nearest
approach to a friend I possessed withKms
hundred miles of the place. It |
fp iuat l trua luucmug at IUC
fcijipen window one day-"when the carriage
passed, a little earlier than usual,
ir*/ "That Is the lady of whom I was
ysptteakiug," I said to him.
jpte looked out of the window, with
interest. "A dear little maid. If
\ may say so. Yes, and the poor dear
"18 deaf and dumb; she's talkin' upon
V her fingers. Well, I thought from what
you told me that they must be strangers
in these parts and so they are. I
'don't eyen know the horses nor the
carriage."
K - Thus passed several days. I began
K^jty.find myself vastly better, and, with
tiiatgrowrly of energy, to look forward
B rajreutably to the time when I should
I jPurn to my work in London.
I ^Kdy good fi'lend, the waiter, had sucH^ceeded,
much to?his delight, in getting
to go for numerous drives through
the lovely country that surrounds the
n .watering place. I had even, on divers
I occasions, set forth on foot anil explored
the coast and the inland lanes
for myself.
: I went alone, but I never felt the
absence of companions, for my expeditions
always took place lefore or after
the hour at which she might be ex
HI pected to pass along the busy promg^B
enade, and so my thoughts were always
busy, whether with anticipation
>r remembrance.
Never once did she fail me; never
H^^Hpce did her affliction seem to ma.' the
H^^pautiful gayety of her mood. It apSBj^A
ared that she saw
*
little tiling that could b* set"" nor i
was it altogether a young man's rani*
tr that made me wonder whether she j
had begun to notice the fact that a
certain sallow inralid was always idl* j
~ %-.tAn/lA n 4- fliA Vinnr xrrfion I
lllg Ull ClJt; piuuicauc at lug uuui Tr uwu
she drove by.
. I came to; understand the routine ,of
their daily outing. They were manifestly
living somewhere to the west
of the town. Every day they went
through the inland lanes at the back
of it until they were a mile or two to
the east, and, then, descending seaward,
drove home by the promenade
and the road that skirts the sea.
Now, one day, with no set purpose
mat i wouiu uave uuuieoaeu, uui cvcu
to myself, I took the wesfern road and
went into the country. The road lies
for some distance between low hills> (
and the southern sea: at first the sun's
heat was intolerable, but gradually one
mounted higher, and then the sunlight
was 'but the fit accompaniment of the
lively wind that blew in from the sea.
So I went forward in the best of
spirits until I had come to the edge of
a great valley that runs inland from
the sea.
Some dozen or so cottages and a little
pier stood at the margin of the
sea. Inland a few houses were seen
among their fruitful orchards. But
at the rage of the slope there was a
little space of wild wood, and, this, as
I looked across the flower-grown
hpdw temntpd me to rest. I climbed
the Intervening barrier and lay down
in the shelter of a little oak tree." ; It
may be I slept. Certainly I was
a long time under the oak before I became
aware that I was not the only
occupant of the wood. Some one was
singing softly, and I could hear foot^
steps moving, slowly through the fern.
I could tell- by the sound that the newcomer
was stopping4irere.and there to
pick flowers. ! ':
Now. I had enjoyed the solitude, but
even at the first the person who was.
coming toward me did not strike me
as an intruder. 'Her singing was in
absolute concord with my mood; it
was as if one had thought of a poem,
and a moment later found oneself *
humming the melody that would make
of It a perfe/i song. I lay and waited
and the singer came nearer.
The song censed when she presently
appeared. / She was a little startled, ;
but not near so much as I. ,
"Then you are not dumb?" I iried j
involuntarily, as I started to my feet.
She hesitated, and a v little smile '
played about the corners of her pretty
mouth. "It te my au^t who Is dumb,"
she said. Then, a sudden recovery
of bier dignity, "i don't "know
why you should ask."^ , ?
But that was a matter I had no great
difficulty In explainingjere l came back
to London the happlestjinajb on God's j
eai tu.?joiacs auu w miw. t
relic of the D/?y? Of the Pretender. .
A little south of the county-house
at Burlington stood 150 yean ago a
small Indian village, ^vhich is marked
on the oidmaps of Northern Pennsylvania
as Osch&nu.. Many interesting
relics of, a 'bygone civilization have
been found In the grounds where this..
Indian village was, iwjar .the countryhouse.
When the ^cavations were
made for the foundations of the coun/
ty-h'ouso, among the telics found were
a number of coins that bcre different '
dates up to^near tho advent of the [
white m|n in ?r: rord County. Several
or tliese coins were presented to
the Spauldlfifc. j&fuseum at Athens.^
Two coins belonging to Superintend-,
ent E. W. Putnam are of bronze* one
an English halfpenny of the reign of
King George I., ar.d the last a larger
nWp. which is 'v..TV singular in its
make-up and history. On one Bide It, j"
bears an Irish harp, with a crown
above it. ..On the reverse side is.a
room containing a .table with money
uRon it A hand Is extended toward
the table, as If to take the coins. An
armed man - With a drawa sword
threatens the hand, and above In an
arc of the circle are (he words:
"Touch not, .-says Kildare." The
piece be-rs. the date cr 1745, which
marks the year when the young pre-,
tender, Charles Edward, was trying
.to raise a rebellion in Ireland, and the
coins must have been brought to Bur-.
lington within a year or two by some'
i< rencn rerugees, wuo 11 au ueeu tuunected
with the pretender's party.?
Troy,<Penn.) Gazette.
Bats For Philadelphia.
The spectacle of mangled rats and
mice lyipg along the trolley tracks
throughout the city has occasioned
lately considerable surprise. This
surprise has not been due to the spectacle
itself, for it is an annual one,
but to l!he lateness of its appearance
this year. Every year, In the autumn,
mangled rats and mice that the cars
have run down, and other live ones
skulking about, nre to be seen on the
streets of Philadelphia. They are on
their return to cover after a summer
spent in the grain fields of the country:
they are fleeing from the coming
winter cold back to the houses which
they had deserted .in the spring.
Usually they make this migration in
the beginning of October. This year,
however, the long-continued warmth,
which has kept the fields green,
pnnspri vinWs to erow and trees to
bud, lias much delayed the rodents' !
return to town. They are coming In j
In hosts now, though, and it is while
they are looking for houses to live in
that the trolleys run them down ?
Philadelphia Record.
An American F .duct.
Edward C. Simmons, president of j
+!.** liionoct horrinrnpo hrrnsp in the I
tUC WftfcVBV ?*? ?- " ? ?
world, said some time ago that the |
cheapest article that had ever come to
his notice is a ten-cent pocket-knife.
It is single-bladed, with a wood handle,
all handsomely finished, and of a
quality of steel that will take a razor
ed?e. and at ten cents brings a profit
to the manufacturer, the jobber and j
the retailer. I think I can beat tha$ i
knife with an egg-beater, o of the
geared kind now so popular. It consists
of twelve separate and distinct
parts, joined together in a single
mechanism which appears to be stanch
and durable. Four of the parts are of
cast iron and the rest, are of bright!
malleable metal. Price?five cents to
the consumer, after the manufacturer,
jobber and retailer have.-cleared theli
profit. This tagiapensable kitchen tool'
is brandcd?!Wpfte in U. S. A."?Ylejtf <
V! * * 1 y
TROUBLES OF THE POOR,
IT?,1 l 4-a T>n..ik1n Kn> T??n?
Worries Them.
"If you own the roof oyer your head,
you don't know wha.t real trouble Is."
said the factory hand. "Of course
folk have got to eat. and they've got
to have clothes to wear, but it Isn't
the thought of that that's always
hanging over their heads, making
them work themselves to death wheo
they've got work, and fret themselves
to death when they haven't. Every j
now and then we see something in |
the papers how easy it is for a poor |
widow (or worse than widow) to feed I
herself and a family of children oi |
twenty-five cents a day, and if the j
woman has good judgment and under- j
stands marketing such stories are not ;
so far wide of the mark. Oatmeal |
and potatoes are cheap, and there's
odds and ends of meat and bones that
may be had for next to nothing that
will make good soup.*??*
"As for clothes, all poor folk who
try to keep themselves looking decently
know bow far contrivance will
e*r\ In moHnr* 4-Via?ti ftstlrf nnt SHrffl
0V iu uiaatug buwui uvuu vum mm** vw ,
may be turned inside out "or dyed when
they are faded or spotted, and there's
a lot of wear tarthe sec6nd-hand shoes
that ^he* cobblers sell cheaply. Of
course, we'd all rather eat the best
steaks and wear silk and velvet, but it
is not having to do without them' that
keeps folk awake at night vIt is the
rent ^hat goes steadily on, no matter
whether you've got, work or
whether you are lying around idle,
an^/It. is a happy day.for a tenant
when the landlord cab be talked into
bringing,down the rent by a. dollar'.
Not that all landlords are hardhearted,
as some folk seem to think.
Landlords are just like all other men,
^ j (
some uemg uener. ?uu irurac,
Now, there's a poor woman who works
id the same place yrittt ;me, a widow
with two children, and she lives' in
one of the toughest neighborhoods*! in
the city. Well, last fall when that .
woman was too sick to,go out to work,
she got $18 behindhand witb her rent,
and found out afterward that,the. man
whose business it was. to collect it had
been paying' it out of his own pocket
right straight along. The house belonged
to afamilv in which there-wtere
some minors, and so all expenses and
revenues had to be accounted for to
the family lawyer, and that ;wa8 why ,
the eldest sonP who collected the re^tjf
In person, could not remit the widow's
$6 a month, as his father.might have
done, hut all the,fame he wasiff
t'ng to see her turned but onvyie- \
street, knowing her. to be "a good ten?
ant Of course, shebegan to piayti(e: ?
money back as soon #8 she got to^ork '
again, but it wds^a' %reat help, his '
advancing it,.fpr if ,it'hadn^t &eeri >fors
that she would-^re had to part with
her sewing m^chJne, which' she ,hftd
just finished pacing for on the installment
plan. as she can hqfe on
to that machlrc there is no gteat danger
of her swrlngj unless' she is too
sick to hold :f?r-fcead upl, There, is a
v.w l.'-x .k, ln i
ueuevulent auuievj iuui, h ucu ouc is j
laid off from the shop .on account pf^
work bfring$8<;tj? gives her.four wfr
pers a week to inake at. 50.cents api. jM
and pays- for '&em In provl8iong|flj
New York- Tlmee. ?
A Prank of the Great Storri.
W. R. Householder, one of'theel^H
ployes of tjb?; Hou3e of Represented
tlves, telkran Interesting experience^
of his son,; a corporal in Battery 6, First
Artillery, and (the Galveston^'
flood. "My son," Said Mr. Householder,
"was stationed at Fort San Ja-'
cinto when the storm broke, and-we at
first feaited that he was among the -
twenty-eiglit soldiers drowned at the
time. We* did #ot hear frorp liim for
three or fout/days, and tnen we got a
card saying fce was all rlg^f, but had lost
everytfting'he possessed. He had
kept his. dothihg, letters and money
in his'.^iM^and it had been swept
away. time after the .disaster
I reeled a letter from a Mr.
Webb, O^iimarque, Texps, saying
that a loclter had been foundhthere bear- ! ;
ing my. name and containing articles !
that evidently belonged to my son. I
ordered the locker - sent here to me.
We foynd everything intact, although
the clothing(had,b(6en damaged by the
water. The locker had been carried i
sway flffaan' milsii Ht7 xrrttav nncl loff
that far Inland j^m Galveston. My
son had a close ^Ijjlve, and nearly lost
bis own life. H$?bad a number of
clSil^havte while serving in the Philippines
as a sergeant of the Twentythird
Infantiy.. He was in half a
dozen battfes in th? Philippines, but.
his experience at Galveston will linger
with him longer, he says, than any he
ever had in the army."?Washingta^
-Tnif WTiftf. ShA TIaMbiwaiIMBf
In the railway carriage a welldressed
young lady tenderly holding a
very small poodle. VMadame,"
said tbe guard, "I iim
very sorry, but you can't have your
dog in this' compartment."
"I shall hold him, in my lap all the
way," she replied, "and he will disturb
nooue." .
"That makes no difference," said the
guard; '"I couldn't even allow my own
dog here. Dogs must ride in the lug- j
gage van. EH fasten him all right for
you." ' I
"Don't you touch my clog, sir!" said
the young lady. '"I will trust him-to"'
no one!" And with an indignant ait;
she marched to the luggage van, tied
up her dog, and returned.
About fifty miles farther on, wheD
the guard came along again, she asked
him, "Will you tell me if my dog i*
all l-lght?"
"I am very sorry," said the guard,
politely, "but you tted him to a port
Oiauttau, and he was put out with it
at the last station."?Tit-Bits.
Japan's National Flower.
From the flowery land of .Tapat
there is a wrinkle to be learned about
the keeping of what might be called j
tneir nanonai nower.
The chrysanthemum is with us ic
profusion now, and will be during the
next three montns. So let us take
the advice of our little Jap friends as
to the keeping of the cut flowers.
Light a piece of wood (not a march,
Wonoo nf thp KTilnhur in it), and with I
it burn the stalks. Flowers thus treated
will last fresh for several weeksno
small consideration when the beautiful
blossoms are dear.?Philadelphia
DR TAIMAGPS SERMON
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE Br THE NOTED
DIVINE. |
Subject: Spirit of Unroat ? It la the
Cause of Much Unliajiplness?Need; of
the Church and the World Is Mpre
_ Stability?f op Gadding About.
(Copyristit iwuu. I
Washington, D. C? From an unusual
test Dr. Tali, age in this discourse rebukes
the spirit of unrest which characterizes
so many people, and shows them the hap-,,
piness and usefulness to be found instability;-text,
Jeremiah ii, 36, "Why gaddest
thou about so much to change thy way?"
Homely is the illustration by which thid
prophet of tears deplores the vacillation
of the nation to whom he wrote. Now.
they wanted alliance with Egypt and now
with Assyria and now with Babylon, and
now they did not know what they wanted,
.arid the behavior of the nation reminded
the prophet of a man or woman who, not sat-1
isfied with home life, goes from, place to
place saddinK about, as we say, never set
tied anywhere or in anything, and he
cries out to them,. "Why gaadest' thou
about so much to cnang'e thy way?" -V .
Well, the world has now as many gadabouts
as it had, in Bible time*, and I .think
that that race 'of people ia -more nuijneK
ous now than it i.'ever. was?gadabout^
among occupations,, among religious theo:'
riee, am<?ng churches, among ' neighborhoods?and
one ?f'the greatest wants of.*
the church and the world is mpre steadfastness
and more fixedness of purpose.
It wa. no/small question' that Pharaoh
put to Jaco .and his sons when he csked, <
"What is your occupation?" (fetang into
the ri-*'t occupation pot.only deeideayour
temporal weirare, out-may aeciae your
eternal,destiny.. The reason ao many men
and women are*, dead; failures is/fcecause
instead of raking God what th^ 'cOghif
to be or do thefy tbVoagt H?Jte'vam'^amr'
bition or -whimsicality j decide Vljat they
ought to be.; Let idje aey to all young men
and/young Women in hotois prih school
or-college,-.do hot go gadding about among
occupations' and professions to find whdt
you are fltted for. bUt make humbl; and
d'rect appeal to God for direction. ,. ;jy|B
While aee!urfg divine guidance ii
selection of a lifetime , sphereV^exa^^H
your own temperament. The nhr'exH*
will tell you your mental prodivitie^^Hfl
physiologist wilT .tell you yirur piS
temper dent. Your enemies will
your weaknesses. If you are;, asj^H^^fl
nervous, 'do ynotv become" a surif^^^H|
you ore cowardly, do not
gineer. If yon are hoping fog^UUHH
penaahent income, do'
ment. petition. If you are
tempered, ; do not' bec6&e';^MRM^n
the cospei, for while ahyoJ^^Mflfl^B
tared.
ia hardljCftny/.one who enfll^^MH
your ^en
a tune that
*iiE! -
you ndturallv'ia^^^^^^HBSH^H^B
ifSi'fin./r ^^nu^nB
you
-nd
For
and happiness and
eternal welfare do ndfc
people who go gaddiag aboi^W
nesses and occupations, now^Ir^^K^^H
and'now trying that md never
ptishing anything.
"There are many who exhibit this u|B|
ty in matters of religion. They are Mil
sure about anything that pertains to their
aoul or their eternal destiny. Nosr they
ari "UoitarianB, and ftow they art! UriiveraaliMfce^-and
now they ave Presbyterians,
anSfcirw tfiey are nothing at aH. The^r
are not quite liure that the Bible
spired or if inspired whether the Words
or the ideas were inspired ojSjyhetber only
part of the book waB insMM^^Bey; think
at one time that the fltor^pfeiesisTabout
the garden of Eden'is aaustory, nn(i the'
month after they think it id an' aUemjjK
At one time they think the fcook of, Job
describes what really occtoed, but
next tune they speak ofVituhey f?U it i,
drama. ' Now they believe all*h^ mitium
but at your next ihterview^licS' tryjnoshow
how th^pe scenes had \ nql&ln$ in:
them supernatural, but can be.jsccounted
for by natural causes. Gaddir.e aoout':
among religious theories and never satisfied.
All the evidence is put-befortf tfiem,
and why do'they not renofer a verdict? If
they cannot inake. up their mind with all
the datavjMt before them, they never will.
There aSVall the archaeological confirmations
of tb'e Bible brought to view by*the
'/^Palestine Exploration Society." There
are the bricks of Babylon, the letter-"N"
impressed upon them?"N" for Nebuchadnezzar,
showing that he was not a myth-^$pd
the farther the shovel of the antiquarian
goes down the mare is revealed
of that most wonderful city of all tiqie.
Professor Heilprecht, of the University ofPennsylvania,
presents us tablets found
in the far JEaat ratifying and explaining
Scriptural passages which were before in
mystery. As the builders in Jerusalem today
dig for the foundation of new 1 uses
they turn tip with their pickaxes the ashes,
of the animals that wei'6- used for burned
offerings in thei temple -ages ago, demonstrating
the truth of the Bible story about
the sacrifices of lambs and heifers' aid
pigeons. There is the history by Josephns
describing on uninspired page scenes
which the Bible depicts. On the ban let of
the Diad Fea there are pieces df the very
brimttone that fell in ,the sulphurous
s':oriM that deptroyed Sodom and Gomor-i1
rah. Make up your mind whether the Bi?1
blc is a glorious revelation of Uod or the1',
worst imposition of the centuries. Why go
gadding about among infidels, atheists and
deists asking auestiops arid surmising and
guessing about.the authority ar.d value of
a book which involves'the infinities? It is
? * ' ' i_ tc
either a good dook on a oaq uook. .11 is,
be a bad book, y*u do not want it in your
house uor have your children contaminated
with its teachings. Jf it-is a good book,
your eternal happiness depends upon the
adoption of its teachings. Oncc and forever
make ur> your mind whether it is
the book of God or the book of villainous
pretenders.
So, alas, there are those who gad about
anions pa-ticular churches. No pasto^
can depend on them for a single s?rvijj|fl
At some time when lie has
sermon all nraye
nerve
ir>
mitfpnfc
oh,
Inst(7^HB^^^H|a^^Bfl|^H
meeting
other
schools. meet
the wrong way
evening, and I accos^RHj^^^^^^HH
of the t?l:t,!"Why gaddflH^^^^SME
mucH to change thy way^^^H^^H|H
? My text also addresscs^^HH^^S
fieatch of happiness arc goingn^^^^^l
yonder looking for that which thW^^B
not. "lheir ,time ia all taken ud?H
mm
1
. . j
"muaicalea" ana "progressive eucnres- ana
teas and yellow luncheons and "at homes"
and dances and operas and tiiMtres, and
instead of finding happiness tWjr get pale
cheeks and insomnia and uuBwion and
neuralgia^ and exhaustion .?nr"Bn abbre*
viated lifetime. Ttiorn
(a mnrp anlendifl womanhood S30*
rificcd in that way in our cities thin in
any other way. The judgment day-can
only reveal the awful holocaust of jangfefl
nerves and the suicidal habits of.much of
our social life. The obituary of such reads
well, for the story is suppressed about how
they got their death while standing in at?
tire of gauze waiting for the carriage on
a raw night on the front steps. ( %
While in their lifetinie they possessed
all the ability/for t^e relief-of pain and
impoverishment, yet theyhave no time
foe. visitation* of the poor or to win the
blearing of such as comes upon those who
administer to those who are ready to peri#h.
EnoUgh. flowers in their dining halls
to bewitch a prince, but not. ohe tuft of
1 *' ? ' r iL. ?; _e i'U.4.
nenon-ope co periume ui? rouui ui m&i
rheumatic on the back street, -to -whom
the breath of one flower would be jlik^
the opening of the front door of heaven. ^
- Find me one. man or one woman who in
all the rounds of pleasure and*?elfishneSfc
has found & piece of happiness us large as
that half dollar which the benevolent andChristlike
soul puts into the palm of the
.hand of that mother whose children are
crying for bread. Queen Victoria, riding
> iqi triumph through London at her jubilee,
was not so sublime",a figure as Queen
Victoria in a hut near Balmoral jDastle
read"1? the New Testament to a poor dy'ing
man. - '' ... ' y . /:
Let ill the gadabocnts for hint>infe?
know that in kindness and UBefulne^aflB
"self abnegation are tp be> found^tf^B^H
'tion which .all the
aggregated cannot anord.^^^HHM|H[
Among the race of
who; neglect their
they may attend
rea&y etcellentandWHHBB
fori'help as
HgflH
en'who
ha
auunn^HMgn
#?HHi
with
threaten.antfther^^^BQ^BflflH^^^Hfl
mother:'who
meat in the m^^HE^HH
waif 8. street^|B0H|^n^|
cpme sons aud-dauelit?^H||HHBHB|
Blighty. That inother
iafe the destiny of-the
she.-, leads that boy' into
and, Acting and is deciding the^Hj^BHl
some future .home by the .ext^BflH^p
tf.Mtting that girl, and though
foes not appreciate^ the unobserv.ecN^HM
heaven watches- and fewaras. *, , '
, But MepHiboaheth- was -taken by k9H
David into-.the palace and-seated at t^H
rftyal table, eo.ffifi the grai-Aof- the h'eavvl
o-ntv TCmtt**hp?> tmfortunate onPff may vet I
.be'seate&a^Uie King's taWe in. thelving's .
'paiace, though the curses did" drop, them
ao th&ttfor&ily.. they were lame kh both;
"Xpjfr. what &the practical use of the
present discourse? This: 'Whereas bo*
many- have ruined themselves and ruined'
ofcjj^jrs by becoming gadabouts among occu^a-tiona,
among religious theories, among
c&urches, among neighborhoods, therefore
resolveC that w6 will concentrate upon
whit id'right thought and right behavior
and waste n?; time in, vacillations and in-)
defeisions, and Uncertainties, running about
where we have no business to
ro&mffejs.'gfr'Bhert we have no time to
I* ? J" t" ll IV AOQMltf liwiff TTrnJ
pjfl J >? fWXi lb bug O^llUkUi lib* A 1I1U VTMW.
wheiHfer the Bible ia true and whether
your jiatnre ia immortal and -whether
Christ ia the divine and only Saviour, and
whether you miiatfaave Him or be discomfited
- and whether there Will probably
ever be a more aiiapicious moment for
fyour becoming HiB, adherent, una the?
make this 12 o'clock at noon of November
25, the roost illustrious minute that\j*ou(
^11 ever have passed since the day of j
your birth -ntil th' ten millionth cycle of
t$e coming eternity, because by complete
Surrender of thought* and will and affection
and life to God, through -Testis
Christ you became a -hew man,, a new J
woman, a new soul, and God the Fatjje
and God the Son and God tho
Ghost and all ansjeldoro. Cherubj|[^
Seraphim and archangel became
M
Found among the
Samuel Johnson wan
with .the -vords,
to
GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. :
PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROVI THE
WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS.
Her Little Boy ? Seeing What'* Best In '
I Other* r Keep Ua From yueruloui
I - Company ? Recover the Lost Sheep?
I Are You Oat of Joint With r.hrint?
"Always a little boy, to her,"
' No matter how old he's grown.
Her eyes are blind to the strands of
gray, 7"
She's, deaf to his manly tone; I
His voice' is the same as the day ho j
asked:
'-'.What makes the old cat purr?"
Ever and ever he's just the same? '
A little boy to her,
\ i
"Always a little boy, to her." !
She heeds not the lines of care J
That furrow his face?to her it is still j
'' As it was in his boyhood, fair. I
His hopes and his joys are.as dear to her 1
- As they wore in his small boy days. }
He jaever changes to her?he's still ,gl
; "My little boy," she says.
"Always a little boy, toJ^^BHSfl^H
v And to him' she's
With.the lnaghiD^^HMHBD^HN|
smile
Ot the kflnHKHH
many
present
spite
hea v^D|n^BCH^nDHM^^n
conflict, nJNIHH^MHHH^MH
weariness or
to our seal
pleasantness.
great girta, tne
the quiet
T^siw c^^n^nn^^Bn|
(lrops^HHRBn^n
one
for iuMHBaHH|^H
Francos
of-, the u^HHO|n^Bn
lie
all
nil
road uJ|njjM9N^Ha^MMUH|
thm
the sabbath school f9
international lesson comments
for december 16, ,
Satjeet i Zaccliens the Pabllcan, xix., 1*
10?Golden Text: Lake xix., 10?Memory
Verses, 8-10? Commentary on tbv
Day'4 J>8?on.
1. "And passed through." "Wm _
ing through." (R. V.) Zaccheus evident
[y lived in the city. Tidings of the apl.
proach of Christ and His apostle* mu^Vhave
preceded Him. Since the raisin? cf"?*-. v
Lazarus, a short time before this, the' A
tame of Jesus bad spread throughout this '
)art of the 6ountry, and many were anxous
to sec. Him.
2. "A man named Zaccheua"
i Jew by birth (v. 9), but
engaged in a business
owa,
heathen
Jreek