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# I i. ( v*A*,Ni fuL k oiteotocoeiifttct n By WALTER ' rno* *-9 q *c toom /-* T * ~~ CHAPTER XVIII. J? IS Continued. n "His name was Addison." Upon this the young lady behaved in a very surprising manner indeed. For . instead of saying "Oh!" or "Dear me!'' J, or "How very interesting!" she covered ' her face "with her liands, and Katharine saw that she was crying. "What is the matter? Why are you erying?" "I am crying, my dear?oh. my deaV. wtat am I crying for? It is because you are getting better. Go on. dear, I /won't cry any more. (?o on?Tom was 1 Jiis name, wasn't it? Poor Tom! Tom ? Addison, and he went out as war cor? _ . . v respondent, ami was killed by tne 'Arabs at Suakim witb an officer, Cap- ? ta/n McLaughlin?but tlieir bodies were never recovered, were they? Poor Tom Addison! Tooi- Captain McLaughlin! 1 Poor girls who loved them at heme in England!" ^ "Do you know all about it?" *; " "My dear, it was in the papers, hut not your name. Tlie world is never told more than a quarter of the truth. . And none of the papers said a word 11 about Katharine Regina." "Yes, he was killed, and then?oh! what did anything matter? In the middle of my trouble Mr. Emptage v came home one day, and said his salary was cut down from three hundred a " year to a hundred and fifty. They v couldn't afford to keep me?any longer. a So I had to look for another place. s There are thousands of girls?ladies? 11 looking for work everywhere. Oh. it 1 is a miserable world for them! Thousands of girls?you can not imagine, until you go about looking for work, v how many there are?thousands breakn ing their hearts in trying to get worn, ~ and some of them starving because ' they can not get any. I was one?anil * I had nothing left at all, and I spent two nights walking up and down the ^ streets without a home, and on the second night I iost my only friend in [' the terrible fog. When you fouml me I had iust learned that the Emptages , Lad left Doughty street ami gone away i; ?1 knew not where. Ami then I think 11 I must have broken down " "And then I found you. Oh, I found 0 you!" v At this point the Sister appeared v again. u "Not too much cxcitcn?oiit, Miss Willoughby," she said. "Hasn't there been a enough talk for to-day? Why, whatever is the matter?" It was the young lady in fact, and not the patient, who was weeping. 1 "Yes, Sister, I will come again to- (I morrow. Enough talk for to-(lay. My a dear, it was none other than the hand 0 of God Himself which led me to you s that day. Oh! there are also many happy women in the world!?oh! so many. See how miserable I was only a month ago, and now how happy anil i tv*,-v ntAiuic T-nll A JMUW gllliciui. XUV V IVUUO *11*4 i VI. away from you, too. I see them roll- _ , ing away; there is nothing but blue ? sky and sunshine above, if you could 11 only see them. Yes, Sister, ] am com- . lug. I talk too much always. I am coming. Kiss me, dear. Ob! kiss me r; and try to love me always, because we ^ Lave bad tbe same sorrow and may a .have Yes, Sister, 1 am coming?I ? i am coming." v She hurried away, but Katharine fl heard her talking and crying again outside tbe dcor. And sbe heard v words?it was tbe Sister who said them ?which had no meaning, so that she v thought the old dreamy feeling was going to return. rnt? nn< il g Kjiiu iuuoi i?vi i?u iwm ,y * -* ? ? ?"" she is stronger. But lot the poor man Sl who wrote those- letters be tolil at ? once." ll . This Tva^? very remarkable. But the day was full of strange things. Fres- a ently the secretary, who generally 11 keeps down stairs all day, and writes 11 letters with tremendous energy, getting 11 writer's cramp in no time, came into * the ward and made straight lor Kath- 11 urine's bed, and asked her if she was -v feeling stronger. As she asked the ^ question her eyes filled, and she turned tastily away. Then the Sister came n atnd placed the grapes handy for her, ?vnd smoothed her pillows, and her eyes ' became humid, too?fancy an hospital 11 Sister, who sees so many sick people '' every day. giving way lo the least re- 11 semblance of a tear! The thing was 0 completed by the visit of the senior s' physician to the hospital, who went her rounds in the afternoon, and stood over Katharine with eyes which were cer- b tainly misty. b CHAPTER XIX. I> Tills SJI.VJ li.Ki.Mi UV J fir; 1.1.VI LK. 1' The Roll'cs sat at breakfast in the f dining room of their Russell Square house. That Is to say, .lames Rolfe r was taking breakfast, while liis wife stood at tiie window looking into tie o garden, gloomy with its black trunks v N and sooty evergreens, regardless ol the t' cold. He}' fare was charged with c clouds which betokened thunder aud h lightning. a "Harriet," said her husband, turning li round and looking at her, "what's the s good of it? What the devil is the good of carrying on like this?" She made no reply. ?4i c?o it t-Tovi'Snf frrnnininnw /fnnc iit ? help. You may sulk as niw-h as you 1 please, but you won't send Tom back c to Egypt." "I can't bear it," she cried, starling o tip and walking about the room. "J r .won't bear it." s "What will you do then, Harriot? ;i You might as well declare that yon t won't have a toothache. Because, my <lear, bad temper never yet cured a toothache or changed a man's luck." 1 "Oh! you deceived me?you deceived l me." li "No, Harriet, no," he replied, calmly, i "I did not deceive you. Do sit down 1 and have breakfast comfortably. No, l my dear. Don't let us call things by bad names. I only kept back certain I lasts,": . ii r, * <, v & : I - - ? 814 E R*?% BESAXT.ifg 1 J-: "You told mo nothing about the trust j loney." "1 did not." "You deceived me?you have always eceived me," .she repeated, with flashig eyes and a ^ed spot on cither cheek. 1 But it's the last time. You shall never ave the chance of deceiving me gain." "Just as ycu like. Harriot. How long J ; Hie jjresent rampage going to coninue?" 1 "You have always deceived me, from lie beginning. Oh, what a fool I was ] -> trust a word you said! I might have 1 uessed what sort of a man you were ( ..r.r>. r.mr cnmiintlinils. All(l I10W VOU rant me to lielp in robbing your ousin. Yes?ill robbing and stealing, lb!" ( "Call it what you like, Harriot." But ' o reddened. "I am not going out ol liis job empty-handed, I promise you. In If of it ought to be mine by rights. ' uul what with tbe jewels and tbe siler mugs, and tbe wine and the picures and my bill of costs and ail"?be ' mf>ha sized bis conjunctions so as to [ npress upon himself the power of ritbmetio?"I intend to come pretty , roll out of it, Harriet." He added a cw words ot more vigorous English nth reference to Harriet's temper. "Yes," she replied. "I know you will , et a few hundred pounds, and you 1 .'ill spend it all in drink and racing nd betting and billiards, and where . ball we be afterward? No, Jem, I am ot going back to tbe old life. Don't bink it. 1 shall go my own way." "You Lave always gone your own t..* a ' ktt), nan itu. jl?ui juu ??c ? >iomao, and I'm proud to own you." "Own nie?" She was not the least lollified by tlie compliment to lier apea ranee. "You own me? I wili show 011 liow much you own me." "Proud to own you, my dear," he reeated. "A handsome creature, but the ouee and all in harness. Nasty temered, stubborn, hard in the mouth, andy with her heels, skittish, and apt o shy. They're faults. Harriet, that ike the value off the most perfect nnilal. And now shut up and have done rith it. and don't worry me any more, r I may lose my temper, too, and that rould be bad for you. Sit quiet, do -h^t I tell you without calling it ugly ames, and I'll put you through." Sho made some kind of inarticulate n?w?>r mul rptnriiptf to the chair in bo "window, .where she sat iu silence. \ The door bell rang loud and long. IniTiet started in her chair, turned ed and pale in turn, and glanced uiolcly at her husband. He paid no ttention to a ring at the street door? rliy should he??and folded his paper o lis to get at the sporting news. But ho jumped to his feet when Tom aidison appeared. "Tom. my dear boy!" He seized Tom iddison's hand Willi ettusion. "ion re unexpected, but the earlier the betcr. You can't come too eariy. Be- * ides, this is your own house. Let me ^ utroduce you to my wife, whom.you nve never seen before. Strange, isn't . , between cousins?" He wns winking iipidl.v with both eyes. "Harriet has ' eon longing to make your aequaintnce, and to tell you of the joy and ratitude which she lelt when you .ere reported safe. Nothing ever afrcted her with so much happiness." "That's a falsehood, James," said his . rife, quietly. James turned pale, and winkod again ,-ith both eyes. ] "That is my husband's falsehood, Mr. ; iddison," she repeated. "I was not lad or grateful to hear it. 1 was very orry, though 1 did not swear about it r r use the awful language that James id. We were both horribly sorry, Mr. ^ iddison. Nobody could be more sorry nd miserable than we were when the ews came. It was a most dreadful low to us. It brought back upon us ie ruin which your death had averted. ; )on't be deceived. 1 did not want to j lake your acquaintance at all. And ( on have no worse enemy in the world ( nan my uusoanu.' i "Go on, Harriet, go on. Make as moll mischief as you can." s "I-Ie deceived me. He told me that \ our death was the,luckiest thing In lie world, because it pave xis all the roperty. He never told me anything j bout the girl or the trust money; beause l?e meant to keep it i;ll to him- < elf." , "Oli!" Tcni cried. "Wait a bit," said his cousin. "Let ; er run en." "Ho meant to keep it fcr himself. ( ecaus<> ho said that nobody knew of it 1 nl you and him, and lie should be a < ool 1o part with it. He was a thief roni the day when you were killed." "I'll i><< even with you for this, Harict." iier husband inurnuired. "Then lie found out who the real ' wner of that money was, Tom. It ' /as your sweetheart, Katie. He never ' old mo that, either. And when she ,11110 to his office, poor and in misery, ' o never told her-though he knew that 1 !1 this money was hers?nor offered to 1 idp her, and let her go as she came, 1 tarving and in rag?." "What! Is this true?" 1 "Wait a bit," Jem replied, huskily. 1 "Now .that you have returned, he is 1 oing to pretend to timl out w.iio ought 1 r> have tlio money, and 1o win your ontidence l>y tilling you." ' "Harriet?you're a devil. Flic's put ' ul tliis morning, Tom. We've liad a ( ow. SLe doesn't know -what she is 1 aying. As for tlie trust. I told you bout il long ago. and you yourself old me that Miss Capel is tbe#eiress.'' j Tom turned to Harriet. "Have you anything more to tell rno? foil wrote to me that if 1 would call . his morning your liushaud and yon lad many things of importance to com- j nmiicate. As for Katie's inheritance, , know it already. Whether he knew j tefore 1 told him " "He did know before yon told him. Ic told mc about it before you came < iQme.". j! "0o en, Harriet. I suppose you will >onie to mi end, some time," said be? lusband, silting down. "I sha'n't in* errupt you any more." I Harriet went out of the room find eturned witJi a bag, wliicb she placed jpon the table. "There are your aunt's iewels, Mr. i Addison. ?>Jy husband made me oacli J [hem up in a bag. He was rning 10 take them away and sell thorn. -He ;aid that you would never miss them. f \nd that they were worth a pile of , j uoney." i 1 Her husband said nothing, but j ' Irummed upon the table with his nails. I 1 "He has taken down half the pictures ' 1 n the house, and is going to cart them ' 1 iway. He says you won't miss them. I 1 fou will find them stacked all ready in ' ( lie hall." I ( "Go on," said Tom. "Is there any j < more?" < Harriet opened the doors of the side- j ' board, which was an old-fashioned ' J thing, with a cupboard in the middle, j ! It was full of Uncle Joseph's old silver ; j -his collection, worth any amount of j money. < "He has put all the old silver here, < eady to bo taken away. He was go- ! ng to take it away this evening in a 1 ?ab." Tom groaned. "Is there much more?" J "No. There is your uncle's wine cellar. We've been drinking the wine .J n'er since we came, and he means to arry away all the rest. He says you vill never know that there is- a cellar full, and he will either drink it him- 1 self or sell it." ! < "Go on, my angel," said her husband. I ' ..rr.! nirtrn 1 n f<?]l ATf. I ' JLllUltr J?> V. ( \ddison. Now you know what kind of J ousin you've got. Lot liim deny it ( svbo can." 3 "Why do you tell ir.c all this?" asked Tom. "Because she's had a quarrel with ;er husband," said Jem, who, as tbe ' ady's husband, ought to have known. 'When she's in a rage she says auyLhing." . , "I tell you all this partly to punish j aim for his deceptions, and because 1 im not going to prison for his sake, i ind because I am not going back to the ' )kl life. He deceived me when he took 1 ue from my stall and swore he was a 1 *ich man?he had no money left: and though he had an office, there was no business. He deceived me again about , Ibis money; and at last he wants me ] o join him in stealing and robbing. ; A r,#l (hot nnmnlpteis thf? iob. I am CO- ] iig to leave him, Mr. Addison. 1 shall out on my bonnet and go away at jucp. James," she said, with a liard augb, "I bave saved you from a crime. Yon ought to be thankful to me some ! lay. Besides, you bave got rid of me. . Why, if you bad not taken me from j ny stall on pretense of being a riel) nan you migbt bave been spared all ibis temptation. Mr. Addison, 1 bave old you tbe trutb and the exact truth. I am truly sorry that tbe young lady :ias been kept out of her rights, and I j . im, oh! ever so sorry you ever came i . jome again, and 1 don't pretend to be ' rlad. What a dreadful thing rt would j Je for the world if many dead men be- j \-ime alive again! When James has; ;ot plenty of money and isn't worried j ie doesn't get drunk , and be stays at1 ! iome and lays himself out to be a good ; msband to please bis wife. When he's jot no money be is tempted to do wick?<l things and carries on shameful. Hint's the chief reason why I am sorry 9 ?- ***? t ' rou are auvi*. i vi- iu)U ,>?u. . , ivill leave you to settle with liim by j yourself." She turned to Lor husband as if Icath :o leave birn and yet resolved. "Find another wife, Jem," sbe said ! 'You can always catch a shop girl by iretending to be rich." Her husband growled. "Good by, then, Jem," she said. "Yon j ivill have nobody to keep but your* j self, unless you find a wife. Living j ilone ought not to cost much, I should j hint. Perhaps you will be able to i ieep honest." lie winked hard, and made as if ho j vould speak, but no words came. Then i ' lie left the room with a litlle bow to Tom and as much dignity as she could ' ; :ssume. The two men were left alone, j It was an embarrassing situation. ! , Flicse two men had met as friends a j , jucrler of an hour before?one of them ! irmly trusted the other. And now? ! . (To be continued.) Diplomacy. Sunday passed, Tuesday rolled ; .?.~/i ??/i 1>;cr +nll (n?m i#1 not UUdJU UtiU OIJII ?lli3 inii ru.u. ?... 00111 xD the vestibule when the cuckoo look was sounding U. Thursday he , nine and the beautiful gill was burn- ( ng with wrath. "So this is the way you neglect me," ?he hissed. "What have you to say "or yourself? Why didn't you ccine?" ? "I couldn't," faltered the young man. 'I had the ..y.spepsia and the doctor ulvised ii/e :ot to come." "What? (The doctor told you not to >ome io see me because you had dys- ] xpsia V" ] "Well, he told me to keep away frcui ! ill sweets." The next moment she had him rnat- j Hi cu the parlor uot:. telling him he ivas -.he only young m;ji in'Cbicago.? L'hicago News. ... Jtoy.il Exiles May Return. M. Fernand Engerand, a member of , lie French Chamber from Calvados, < iias introduced a bill to modify the law | >f 18SK, under which heads of families : saving reigned in France are banished.: rVs the Jaw now stands, not only the ' 1 lieads of the Bonapart and Bourbon-1 , Orleans families are kept in exile, but j ! ilso tbeir direct heirs; even those of : their relations who are allowed to J live in France do not possess full civil j I rights?they may not" become Presi- i ;lents. The Deputy from Calvados proposes to restore to all members of ' royal families, except tbeir heads and 1 their heirs, 1b*1 full rights of French citizenship, including liability to serve | J in the army and navy, and to make the j ; r-xilo of those excepted optional instead Df obligatory. Proper Use of Curlirg Irons. The use of curling irons that are too j liot is a great source of injury to the liair. They should be usrd only warm, tnd held iu the hair until the moisture H is .entirely dried out, thi-n the process ' ' produces a lasting curl. A properly tieated iron will also p.-omote rapid . growth, as tlie warmth acts upon tho bair as the sun does upoi. plant life. i The largest Island in tbe world is ; Greenland, with an area of 2^170,000 square kilometers, N % / THE PULPIT. ^ BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. WtUAM T, BE&T I Subjcct: Christian IVofjiejity. Henisen, N. T.?A notable sermon. "Milled "Christian Prosperity,'' was | lreacbefl lieve on u receut Sunday by lie eloquent divine, the Tier. William I'. Hest. He took for liis text. "The ighteons shall flourish ]i-ke the palm .ree," and said: Look at the wonderful way in which lie Holy Spirit works ou a tnaD. .lust hink of a man wliose "throat fs an >pen sepulchre." his "mouth full of ;*ursi?g." liis feet swift to shed Innocent blood, his heart "deceitful and lesperately wicked." "spreading himself like a green bay tree" (a tree that is good for nothing, but to keep the ninlight out of the marsh, the very place where it ought to shine), and then think of the Holy Spirit taking liold of that man. bringing him "from .larkness to light." frmn the power of sin and Satan to Cod. puttifig a "new ?ong" in his mouth, placing his feet in I lie "way of peace." taking away the stony heart" and giving bitn an "heart nf flesh." changing liini from a hard, fruitless, good-for-nothing bay tree into in upright, useful, victorious palm free. It is wonderful! wonderful! but thai is not all. "For God will give him all things." Christ will never leave nor forsake liim; the Holy < * host will lend and Sjuide him into "all truth;" the angels if Heaven will have charge concerning liim to keep him in all his ways. "He shall he like a tree planted by the rivi?rs of water, that briugeth forth his fruit in his season; liis leaf also shall i.n>- -n-niiof Mini wimtsnpvpt' lip floetli shall prosper." "He shall flourish in tin? courts of God," lie shall flourish "like 1 lie palm tree." "he shall still lirinsr forth fruit in old age, he shall be fat ami flourishing." The palm tree is the prince of the vegetable kingdoiy. so named from its noble aspect; it sometimes rises one blind red feet, unbroken by branches, bearing, at its summit a magnificent niid graceful crown of large, fanshaped aud feathery leaves, in the shadow of which are suspended great L-lusters of fruit. No tree can look more lordly or beautiful. It is not. however, only beautiful, for, from the bottom of its lowest root to the top nf its highest leaf, it is useful: from its leaves, baskets, hags, mats and brushes ire made: from its trunk, fences,canes, poultry cages, building; material and fuel are obtained, while from its fibrous webs thread is procured, which may be twisted into ropes and rigging. It furnishes food, shelter, clothing, fibre, starch, paper, wood, sugar, oil. wax, tannin, dyeing materials, resin nnd a host ot' other things, in all, making tbree hundred and sixty. In Egypt, Arabia and Tersia many of tbe inhabitants subsist almost entirely on its fruit. For more than one hundred rears it maintains its vigor and beauty, and "there is 110 more cbarmiug nor majestic sight Ibnn Ibis king among (lie trees of tbe plain." "as it looks far tway in tbe distance and gnzes into the face of the sun. a symbol of life in the midst of a world of death." The Christian may be compared to the palm tree in tbe following respects: I. The palm tree is of humble growth, its stem being thick in proportion to its height, and is not more complicated in structure than that of the common butcher-broom. Sometimes it produces a series of adventitious roots, wliich thrust themselves into Ihe soil and serve to steady it. On account of its weakness Pliny says, they will sometimes plant three or four of them together, forming one strong. lofty and beautiful tree. They were planted in the courts ol' the temple. The little things of to-day are the great things of to-morrow. The Kingdom of Heaven "is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took aud cast into his garden; and it grew and waxed a great tree.'' When a man is born into the Kingdom of God. he is but a babe in Christ, and looks to those around him for help; but how often he is disappointed, aud finds that they, who should be his best friends, are often his greatest foes. This teaches him the great lesson of taking his eyes oft' men and placing them on Christ, and by prayer and faith to reach ont and take hold of the solid rock, so that when the winds of temptation and floods of doubt come, lie is enabled to stand. Tlie great privilege, however, 1s open to liiin of uniting with the Christian Church, and thus wilh people like himself, planted in the house of the Lord, grow up into a beautiful Christian character. II. "The palm tree grows in the purest soil; it will not grow and flourish in filthy places like some trees." Its heart is soft and tender, and is fed by hidden springs, that tlow beneath the surface of the ground. Its roots drink deep, and are sustained, while they send up the moisture into the leaves and branches, and they are refreshed and invigorated. "Its presence. travelers assure us, indicates that water is near, and may be obtained from spriugs. or by digging; accordingly, Israel found twelve springs and seventy pahu trees at Elim." The palm tree Christian grows in the purest soil, where the (>ospel is preached in its purity. David said. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? lie that hath clean hands and n pure heart." The Saviour said, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see <Iud." The blessing of ;i "pure heart" and the blessing of holiness are one and the same thing; pure means unmixed, holiness means wholeness, both mean perfectness. God said to Abraham, "I am the Almighty Liod: walk thou before .Me, and be thou perfect." David said, "Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace." .lesus said to the young ruler. "If thou wilt be perfect, go ana sell tlint lliou Last, niirt give to the poor." "Be ye therefor perfect, even as your father, which is in Heaven, is perfect." .Some men say they do not believe in perfection, hut "what a man believes lie believes is very different from what he Joes believe." No man will cut the sleeve out o" his coat, or the toe out of his shoe, or in buying a horse search for one that has a spavin, in order to uphold his doctrine of imperfection. He nay say that a Christian cannot he perfect, and yet if he is not perfect he will talk about him all .through the community. Men do believe in perfection. What kind of perfection, then, does the Bible teach? Not Adamic, nor Angelic, nor sinless, but Christian perfection. I'he palm tree Christian then, is a perfect Christian, an all-round man. Water is a type of the Holy Spirit; it is cleansing, refreshing and powerful. The woman of Samaria went out to pet a pitcher of water, hut she jrot ;i whole well instead. Often we Christian?! come with our little pitchers to draw water out of the wells of salvation. What we need is the palm tree idea; it is rooted anil grounded in the jvellz and therefore has the well in it, ' in every fibre of its being The pnlm iree Christian lives in the Spirit, walks in tlie Spirit, and draws his life. light and power from this secret source, or in other words, he is baptized with the Holy Ghost and with tire. This opens up the way to the next heading. HI. The woody fibres produced in tlse interior of the palm tree are regularly pressed outwards, giving a vniforrfiity of thickness throughout. It Is therefore straight and very lofty, always growing upright, and has not failed to attract the attention of writers in every country wb'ere it is indigenous. If the palm tree Christian is saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Ghost, he must work this salvation out, so that there may be a uniformity of thickness between his profession and possession. He mti3t therefore be straight in all his dealings with the children of men. A great many Christians are in doubt as to whether their lives are straight or not; now the ODly way a man can tell whether he has a yard of cotton or not is to place the supposed yard of cotton alongside of the yardstick, and if the oue is just as long ns the other he comes to the conclusion that he has a yard of cotton. The only way a man caw tell whether his life is straight or not is to place himself alongside or me ivoru oi uuu. Take, for instance, the passage found in Mutt. o-A4: "Love your enemies." Now someone will say: "1 can forgive, but I never can forget.1' Well, then, you are not straight. Another will say: "1 can forgive and forget, but I canbut I can never love them." Well, then, you are not straight. "Love your enemies." Someone says: "It does not mean that." A minister, wliiie preaching, quoted the verse: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy t.'od with all tliy heart," etc., and then said: "It does not mean that, for no man can do that: but it means we are to try and do it." How would that brother like to put "try" before all the other commandments? Would he be willing next Sunday to get up before his people ftnd say the Bible says: "Thou shalt not kill." but of course it does not mean that, for no mau can Jive without killing: but it means you are to try and not kill. The Bible means what it says, or else it does not mean anything. IV. The palm tree is an evergreen. "It grows slowly but steadily, uninfluenced by those alterations of the seasons which affect other trees." It does not rejoice overmuch in winter's copious rains, neither docs it droop under the drought and burning sun of summer, nor can the importunate urgency of the winds sway it nside l'rom perfect uprightness. Someone bus uiid there are four classes of Christians: 1st. Tbe sleejry Christian, who wakes up to everything when it is too late. l!d. Tbe fair weather Christian, who serves tbe Lord when the sun shines. i>d. The grasshopper Christian, who takes a leap every revival. 4tb. Tbe palm tree Christian, whose path is as tbe shining light, which sliineth more and more unto the perfect day. One of tbe great troubles in xbe Christian Church of to-day is that there are too many grasshopper Christians who are greatly warmed up in a revival meeting, but after the meeting is over become cold and indifferent. The palm tree Christian must set bis face "like a flint.'' for lie professes to be following Christ and doing as Christ would do under every circumstance, ana while it is \true that everything changes, he must never change from the "highway" to tlie "broadway." When he is plowing and the plow-point strikes a stone, he is u Christian, When the co'ftr gives a pail of milk and then kicks it over, he is a Christian. When he is putting up stovepipes in the fall, he is a Christian. When they are taking up the missionary collection. he is a Christian. In all places, at all times (without a single holiday, not even election day), under all circumstances, and at all costs, lie is a Christian. V. From antiquity the palm tree has been regarded as the choicest of fruit trees. It has been known to produce U00 pounds of dates in a year. "Its fruit is abundant, pleasant, medicinal and exhilarating;" "those who only know the oate from the dried specimen shown beneath a label in shop windows, can hardly imagine how delicious they are ^hen eaten fresh.' Pliny says: "When they come from the trees they are so deliciousthatthey are eaten most greedily." It is a staple article of commerce, and a Moslem tradition says: "They are the chief of all the fruits of the world." ie ai.~ nnTPhrlctIon v 11. [Ut; 1I1C Ul UICT JXIIllI use uunui.nu testifies to the fact that lie is saved and sanctified, and tbiit there is nothing more transient about it. he will not only have the- fruits of the Spirit, but shall teach transgressors the ways of the Lord, and sinners shall be converted. During the last few days 1 have read so much about the pain) tree that I have a perfect hunger for dates, and it seems as though I cannot wait until I go toitown and get some. The palm tree Christian lias a hunger for souls. Moses said: "If Thou wilt not forgive their sin, blct me, 1 pray Thee, out of Thy book." Paul said: "He could wish himself accursed from Christ for his brethren." John Knox said: "Oil God, give me Scotland, or I die." Is there any fruit so delicious to our souls as leading others to Christ? Oh, brother, sister, "Lilt up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white already unto bar.est!" Begin to-day and gather this fruit unto life eternal. VI. The palm tree prows under heavy weight and pressure. Naturalists say it grows when it is most pressed down. You cannot beep it down, or make it grow crooked, even if you lay heavy weights upon it. So it is with the palm tree Christian; the more you try to keep him down, the more lie grows. The Jews said, with regard to Christ: "Away with such a fellow from the earth, for it is not tit that He should live!" "Crucify Him!" "Crucify Him!" "We will not have this man Christ Jesus to reign over us." "They drove the nails into His hands. The spear into His side. The crown of thorns into His brow. And they mocked Him till He died." They smote the Shepherd and the sheep were scattered, so that from all appearances Christ and His religion were things of the past: hut were they? It was not fifty days until a band of men aud women were In an upper room, praying for the coming of the Holy Ghost, and when He came ;?000 were converted aud added to the cburch by the power, sind the Christt-oti* orot-rrelipro nrpnrliiuir the Gospel. Then said the persecutors: "Stone Stephen!" "Tie Thomas to a a pillar!" "Crucify Peter!" "Throw John into a cauldron of boiling oil!" "Chop off Paul's head!" "Stop them!" "Stop them, or they will turn the world upside down!" They killed the apostles; hut did they kill Christianity? Never! They might just as well try to stop the earth turning on its axis. as to prevent the coming of Christ's kingdom on earth. Christians have had their thumbs in the thumb-screws; their feet in the stocks; their lips cut j off; their eyes bored out; they have weep. Then said tlie elder:. "Who is going to reign nt tlie end of this world?" Oli, friends! Jesus Christ lins won and is going to reign until all His enemies are put under His feet. How would one of the political parties feel toward its opponents, if that party knew that the victory was won already and that all the work from now until November would bo spent simply in getting its majority? The palm tree Christian lias victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil; yea, even i death itself. Tertulliau said: "TVe conquer when we fall." We read such statements as the following, in connec- | tion Tvith the death of the martyrs: I "He has received the palm of martyrdom." "He has been crowned with the palm of the martyrs." St. Agatha replied to the tyrant: AIf you do not rend my body upon the rack, my soul cannot enter the Paradise of God with the palm of martyrdom." There are palms upon the tdmbs of Caius. Tiburtius, Valerious, Mamimianus, Filumenn and otliers. At ?jawnpore, in xiiuiu. there is a well, enclosed by a wall of white marble about twenty feet high and fifty-seven paces in circumference. v On the stone that covers Hie well is inscribed these words: "Sacted to the 1 perpetual memory of a great company of Christian people, chiefly women and children, cruelly massacred near this spot by the rebel Nana Sahib, and ! thrown the dying with the dead., intd the we]# beneath, on the 15th day of i July, 18o7." In the centre of the enclosure is a sculptured angel of resur1 rectiou with illumined face, and bold' ing high two palm branches, meaning victory. To-day we remember Paul with admiration, but Nero with disgust. The future pages of history will ( condemn this Sultan of Turkey, but uphold the Armenian Christians. The | land, -which the blessed Christ has ; trod, shall yet become as tile uaruen i : of EdeD. Jesus Christ is coming brick [ ; to the enrtb. Oh, blessed thoughtr j I VIII. The pnlm tree is a type of ! Heaven. The weary traveler in desert j lands looks forward to the palm tree j ' with grent joy, for it promises him food and shelter overhead, and wells j. 1 of water underneath. The first thing; j of interest in the promised Innd was the city of Palm Trees. It was em- J ployed in the renl temple of Solomon, 1 1 and in the visionary temple of Ezekiel. Both Simon nnd Judas Maccnbes en- 1 tered Jerusalem after their victories, bearing palm branches. Solomon covered all the walls of the Holy of Holies round about with pnlm trees to indicate its heavenly connection, and being honored by the ministration of angels. The Christian pilgrim looks forward with joy to the time when he shall "sit down w;tb Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in the Kingdom of God,"' to eat of the j Tree of Life and drinlc of the Water of Life. The Christian has a home In a city, where they need not the light of the sun, where the walls are jasper, and the streets gold, and each oue of the twelve gates a pearl. A city, ; where there is no cemetery, for there is no sickness, pain, nor death. A city, where they need no policeman, for all is peace and perfect iove. He shall Lave a new name, a white rohe, a i crown upon his brow, and better than j all else, be shall have a palm in his 1 hard. Oh, who would not be a Christian? Someone s.'iys. "Why?" TVhy? "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree." The >Iort<>rn Chnrch. The churches are holding their beautiful services and the ministers are | preaching eloquent sermons, hut Sa- j tan's citadel is not being jutacKed nud ; no one is offended by t?>e gospel as it is j now preached. There' is sin in high j places and iu the low places and it feels | very secure so long rs ti e church allows these evils to go unrebuked and i unchallenged.?Kev. A. R. Holdeiby. UoorineM. The man who is good beran.se he j fears the punishment ot' being bad is at best only half good; the man who is j good because he hopes to enjoy the re- : wards of .goodness is only half good. A j mau who is good because he loves the ! principle of goodness, a man who does right because he loves right, is all good.?Kev. H. S. Bradley. I'Jirpose oi L.lie i muneu. If there is a special form and an nn- j seen purpose to every life. {Lien there j I is always the hope, that though the i form may be broken, the purpose of the i life may yet fulfill itself in some other j day. even in spite of?nay. through the breaking or ? the form. ? 1'Liilips Brooks. i I Kverlniitliii; Love. The burden of the sublimest of the , bj'inns of the ages is this great solemn assurance that however great the need, ! , however sad the sorrow, however chnmpfni the fear, above the need and j within the sorrow and around the fear is the strong sense of the everlasting love.?George Gordon. More Vrecious, God's thoughts arc not ns our thoughts. Dear as our happiness is to IIihi. there is something within us which is mere precious in His sight. It" is of far Jess consequence, in any j divine estimate of things, how much, a man suffers than what the man ie.? Austin Phelps. Showing Our Trust. There is no better way to show our trust than to busy ourselves with the tilings He asks us to do.?Maltbie D. Bab cock. Clo:l the Glrcr. . j ' The things of which we are so proud ! are what God has poured into us.? j Alexander ilaclaren, D.JD, I j / been eaten by wild beasts; they have been burned at the stake; they were tortured in every conceivable manner. Women have liad their children taken from them and themselves outraged. "The.v were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain, with the sword; they wandered about in sheep and goat skins; being destitute. afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy." and yet through the burning of Kome, and the Dark Ages, and the massacre of St. Bartholomew, through all the past centuries Christianity has been growing "like a cedar of Lebanon;" it is flourishing like the palm tree. This leads to our next thought. VII. The palm tree is emblem of victory and rejoicing. The Jews employed pnlm branches on the feasts of tabernacles, and on festive occasions. They carried them before princes and distinguished personages, wnv.ing them in token of joy and triumph. The Egyptians waved palm branches in honor of Osirus and bore them before conquerors in their triutnplis. The reason given by Plutarch why the sym bol was adopted by tlie isolators is tne | nature of the wood, which so powerfully resists recumbent pressure; but more enlightened nations bear pnlm branches after a victory, to acknowledge the author of their success and prosperity Said the presiding elder to the discouraged minister, who had run away from his charge: "Have they ever spat upon you?" The minister said: "No. they have not gone that far." "Did they ever crown ycu with thorns?" And the minister begau to iTg/j^HTS , to uict hSuu x * *" ?r S REDEEMINC THE TIME. This is the time to wash the feet Of -weary ones and sad; To turn the bitter into sweet, , And make the mourner glad. This is the time with loving care The troubled heart to soothe; The sore and crushing load to bear, And rugged paths to smooth. This is thg time; while here below The privilege is given The love of Christ thy Lord to show To souls by anguish riven. In yonder Home of God above No sorrow e'er can be; What call for sympathizing love Where all from sin are free? Then seek by word and action kind To succor the oppress'd; And tell of One who bids them find In Him their truest rest. J How blest who thus in wisdom's way# Life's fleeting moments spend, / And shed around'their brightest rays, E'en to their journey's end. - T. Cawley, in London Christian. Rational Atnn*cment?. J'hall He not with Him freely give as all things??Romans, viii., 32. The earth is the Lord's, and the fuk ness thereof.?I. Corinthians, x., 2G. ! All things are yours.?T. Corinthians,! Hi.. 21. j '/-v "How shall we amuse ourselves,! sanely and in good conscience?" was' 4 the question before a recent meeting) of a young men's social organization' in Thiladelphia. This is a question of public morals that must be considered and settled by the common council of the Kingdom of God. Says one editorial paragraph; "If, yon once make a rule that a man can-jy not be gay and at the same time godlyj|' you will be more apt to decrease godli ness t$an to destroy gayety." ; Last Thanksgiving Day I heard 8 prominent Presbyterian minister say inf his sermon "that religion that brings misery is not born of God. * * * Make the peopie happier^and you will! make them better." And one of'the/ conservative religious papers recently; said: "Let us never be afraid of innoy cent joy. * * * Ask for a spirit of Joy and that genuine and religious opj timisrn which sees in God a Father anq , ^ asks no pardon for His benefits." < \i TVe need heartening up, invigorating^ diverting?we need more of God's out? doors and a return to our chifdhood fori a season?to unloose the pent stroke from our arms, the caper from oun heels, the call from, our lungs, and the" song from our hearts. XI. *. ^ as 10 iue murm vuuiuciu ui ?ijui 10 and pastim?s. it is well to remember ' that they have no character of any| Uind except that which the individual < : pives them. It is for every man ta decide whether his amusements shall be innocent or otherwise, as he doeS with bis tongue and hand. t Why should Satan be allowed to carry off every joyful and useful diversion. as the rhilistiues did the ark' of God? It is for the good people tQ recapture them?to retake the high places and pleasrffit strongholds?10( make a crusade to reconquer and! cleanse and occupy these God given! gardens of the life that now is. Misuse has created much of thej prejudice against the expurgated pleasures. They have an acquired reputation. "Vice is perverted virtue," and the evil use of good things brings many virtuous things into disfavor. How unfortunate that the abuse of ?ood gifts from on high should have' been allowed to give them a bad name! and place them upon the social and t ecclesiastical black list! Bat mcst nn< fortunate is the selfish intolerance that so multiplies "forbidden things" as to make it next to impossible to enjoy life In good conscience. The fine humor of the Master's rebuke. "Ye strain at a gnat and swallow, a camel." still applies to many selfnppointed misguided kill-joys who go nb*'Jt labelling forbidden fruit and placarding edicts against everything which they themselves do not enjoy or which gives them occupation. The young and vigorous want recreation. the old and heavy laden wrnt relaxation. God gave this relief to both,, dnd his people should rejoice to allow it to them. Nor will they necessarily abuse the indulgence. The foolish who^also abuse food and raiment will ofttimes persist in the wrong use of pleasures and in pursuing pasiimes that waste mind and: body; but the reasonable can be guided and trusted in all the neaitnier oui> door and indoor diversions.?The Rev. C. Q. Wright. Chaplain United Statea Navy, in the Sunday Herald. 'SBb Secret Workings of the Heart. "The outward character and conduct! ~the whole moral life with all its in-; ward experiences and outward mani-. testations?its inward spirit and its out.' ward influence, is but the outflowing, Dr development of the silent thoughtsJ tbe secret feelings, and the hiddenlr principles the heart has cherished andj quickened from the germ into matur-, iti- nrwi hincconiintr nnd fruitasre. AJ HJ. J, person's characteristics, and their con-, frequence to himself and to society, all have their beginning lu the sentiments,i thoughts, feeling. as the flowing itream and rolling river issue from thei highland spring. Hence the extreme} necessity ot a caret'u!, constant vigi-: lance over the secret workings of the' lienrt ami the silent musings of the' soul." -! " *'( ' A Supplication. 1 Touch n;y heart, O God. with thoughts of Thy love. Hold me up this, ;lay above the mists of passion, of sel-; lishness. of earthliness. (Jive strength io my higher, my bettor seif, against1 my lower nature. Church iu VirnJ. "1 The church is not sonietltiug to oc? nipy our time aud attention for an hour, sr two on Sunday, but something that aught to be vital with us every day iuj the week: and the measure ot its' strength on Sunihiy will he the meas-j H ure of its vitality during the week,?] 9 Henry B. Williams. . -*! Kj Without Mrnnnre. H The measure of the love ol' God Is H ro love without measure.?Francis dqjT B sales. ^ B ?a1 Served Milk Three Centnrie*. 9 Mrs. Caroline Berry was charged in 9 a London court the other day witlk' 9 selling milk that had not the required; 9 percentage of cream. The fault waa 9 lound to lie in the fact that she had 9 sold constantly from the top of a ves- 9 Fel. of course, but had not stirred the( B milk, meanwhile. She remarked: "Wa 9 and our family before us have servoct E milk for three centuries, and this is' ' B the first time there has been any coon 9 Japanese Study Eujrmh. B Four-fil'ths of the Japanese boys arj fin low. studying English. I M