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THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. JO., THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1892. VOL. LYU. NO. 24. m EFFECT OF THOUGHT. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY REV. J. N. BOOTH v AZ the Closing: Exercises of the Batesburg High School on Wednesday, June 15. . We are all folks. Now I am glad, indeed that I am folks. In fact would rather be com mon folks than uncommon folks, "orno folks at all. Folks are di vided intc^several different classes, .as to sex, age, condition, and circumstaces, indeed the names of these classes are like the demons of the demoniac at Gadera, their name is legion for they are many. As toB?x, there are male folks and female folks, -men folks 1; and women folks, boy folks and girl folks. A s to age, there are baby .folks, young -folks, grown . folks, middle aged folks, and old folks. As to conditions there are many kinds of folks as there are " many conditions-conditions phy sical; mental, and moral. There are -well folks, sick folks, weak, atrong, fat, lean, plump, big little,, large, small, tall, short, stpu , slender, and other folks. - There are smart, dull, stupid, quick, slow,precocious and wise and other wise folks. And there are good, bad, and indifferent folks. There are honest and dishonest folks; truthful and false folks ; patriotic and demagogic folks; and there are selgsh and benevolent folks. As to circumstances there are . many kinds of folks. There are barbaric, civilized, and enlightened folks. There ar6 poor, well-to-do, and rich folks. There are Northern, Southern, Western, and Oriental folks. There are home folks,* strange folks, and kin folks. The Lord only knows how many kinds of folks there are. Now it is interesting to look at folks. I am glad I am not blind for I do enjoy looking at folks. .There is very much tb be learned in .}'they are is simply for. show/ and there would be a vast deal of disappointment and vexation if every body should refuse to look at.folks. Fashion in dress and much that is graceful in carriage would fall into absolute neglect if there were no eyes to see folks with. I happened in once upon a time at a.place where a blind young man wa? calling ou a young lady, and I could see that she had not spent as much time with her bangs and paints and other ornamentations as doubtless she would have spent had her caller been able to see. He could hear, and how sweetly she did speak and sing! I don't think it is wrong to be looked at nor to look at folks. It is like a good rule, it works both ways. To look at folks gives pleasure, and to be looked at gives caution to the one look?d at. Now that we may have and give the greatest possible amount of this kind of pleasure, it is every one's bounden duty to be justas pretty as it is possible for him to be. And, the way to have this necessary beauty is to be good. Let there be a good heart in 3'ou, and there will be on your face a smile of sweetness, and in your behavior a tender regard for others, and a noble self-forgetful ness which will stamp you a beauty .however angular your figure*or illy blended your features. It is well that there are so many kinds of folks. Wouldn't this cid world be a tame affair though if we were all alike? For the per fection of his plans the C reatoi made things to differ Beauty would be lost in a dull monotony if things were alike. Tho variety of difference, the emphasis of contrast, the prominence of antithesis, and the utility of diverseness would not be known if the world was one continual sameness. Music is often rendered more improssively the introduction of harmonic dissonance. . Wo find this variety in the world of inanimate nature and it is well for us that we do. There would not be any sweetness in a rose, if all flowers were roses. Landscapes would cease to have charms, if all were made in the same mould or painted in the same hues. Spring would be but gloomy weather, if we should have nothing but spring continually. It is best to have trees of different height, dissimilar outlines, and varied foliage. It is good for rocks, and hills, and heaven kiss ing mountains to be relieved 1 sand and plain and wide exten di prairies. We also find this variety in tl world of animated nature. The ia au almost endless variety species of animals with gre variation m bulk, color, and graci fulness among the individua comprising them. Birds of diffe ent song, form, and plumage ; ar animals of different ? Ize, form, ar habits. And it is well that sue is the case. The Creator who nev? did a useless thing, had a purpoi in so forming them. So then is in line with the analogy ( nature that we have so many kine of folks. Look out into the fae? bf a large gathering of people, an in that sea of faces, you will nt find two alike. All have som general features in common-al have noses (more or less), e mouthe (larger or smaller), e foreheads (higher or lower), e chins (big or little) ; but there ai dissimilarities clearly seen. Thei are the stern look, the genial smili the. grave vissage, and an endlee variety of expressions seen in th faces before you : and remembe that the souls which look on through those faces, the window of the souls, are as different as i suggested by the diverse, physiog nomy. And it is well that it is sc for if it were not the case, prc gress would be impossible, an the world of humanity would b as one stagnant pool with not i wave of effort upon its deai surface. In this difference in folk capacity has its origin. Yoi have heard of the 'young lad} who was put in school by he father, to be taught as the t?ache thought proper, it being left to th teacher to buy every Ihing sin lacked and to send the bills to th old man. Things went on very well, for a time, but when . the achool was nearly out the fatbe: .wrote asking ?bout the progresf mi?: daughter was making in music .sitd-w-hen the~ teacher: told ..hin that she had not done any thing in that line, because she had nt capacity for that accomplissent the simple-minded father was very indignant, and wanted to know why in the name of the powers thc teacher hadn't bought her one and sent the bill to him, he was in earnest when he promised to pay all the bills made for his daughter Poor man he didn't know that he could buy books and instruments ; but that capacity was not kept in the stores, but was imparted by the hand of our. Maker. This difference in capacity and aptitude and adaptation should never be overlooked, for many fatal blunders are made at this point. No wonder a stale religion loses much of its spirit and life, when fathers ambitious forposjtion for their sons, educate them for the church, and thrust them into the minisrtry without any thought of their native fitness for such work. From such folly many have lived unhappy lives, and failed to give the world the worth of themselves in. vain efforts to do that for which they were never intended. Aptitude, fitness, capacity, should be consulted, and when faithfully followed will lead to success. "Poeta nascitur non fit" isas true in English as it is in Latin. A poet is born not made is a truth attested by the experience of the past and the condtions of the present. By following this guide men have fallen into the various industrial pursuits of life, which will benefit each aud conduce to tne aggregated good of all, if each will fill his own place faith fully and all harmoniously co-operate. Just because there are different kinds of folks with different capacities and aptitudes men will and must do different things. It is because they are built that way, that makes some men magnificent euccesses in some lines of industry wherein others with different adatations, sink into inglorious failure. There are farmers who can and do succeed at farming who would Btarve if they should exchange their workf or that of the artist.And the same is true of other lines of industry. Mechanics by nature succeed at building and machinery, naxural traders are at home in the markets of the world, the chemist is in his native atmosphere when in the laboratory, the lawyer is happy when addressing a jury or making plain and laying bare the intricacies of some involved litigation before a sleepy ' patient judge, and the teachc content when he is monarch of he surveys as he sits in loi style and rules both by royal and royal grace, that is inak love to the grown up girls in ch but at the same time giving fiti the boy population under him. Each one filling his ph Artists with paint fand bri brine out on the canvas bef them paintings so life-like i realistic as to seem ready to sp< to the beholder! but they woi be utter failures in bringing < a, crop of potatoes from t reluctant soil with a hoe. There ought to be peace a fraternal feelings all along ' lines of diversified industry, this diversity is a necessity of c nature. We are fighting agaii the divinely established order things when we are trying to abf don these conditions or to rond any of them subservient to othc One is as necessary as another, ai when well filled equally as hono ble. The man, the party, or I press that'willfully tries to set c interest or industry agaii another lacks the true requisi of patriotism and statesmansh Let the kid gloves be extended hearty and fraternal greeting tb " T?st yeomanry in wool hal ana !. w ?ol nata be doffed recov ion of ; i iv. . : if ?vei where, for ont ii at good as '. other. ?her? is nc honor iii -i iv< bat.unless it inelo.;- ? -. : ?yT ?K ' he; o: any d gloves : ' : '. It is disposition and ' !<.-'. after all which is the mark O? Ix excellence. From the fact that diff?re capacity indicates a division labor and leads to such conditi more' or less perfectly, we m infer the following corollary : ti capacity should be utilized, th ?one be left idle, I. do not belie that, from the nature of thin| anyone can afford to be an idle Qe.who. simpny^eatBA^and wears ?; useless thing in sock ty except so far as he increases the demai by the amount he consumes. Th the world owes any one a living false; and he who makes such plea is apt to do one of two things settle down in lazy sycophancy 1 to be supported by his mother some othrr dear relative who kee; no account of the board bill, or develop into a higwayman. is both dangerous and again nature to do nothing, perhaps b cause against nature. That this divergence in capacil which leads to varied industry for the common good of all mt seen from the followin considerations. The artificer i any line of industry by constai application to any line i work is able to turn 01 more and better results than I merely piddling at several. Th is a day of specialists when mc are not expected to know all thinj or to be able to do all things, bi to know some things perfectly an to be able to do some special lir of things well. The day has pas when any one can command th respect and patronage of h: fellows in half a dozen differen and wholly distinct callings. Again, there is not only a increase in the bulk and qualit of the results of industry from healthy, wise, and proper divisioi of labor but the work of one clas is so interwoven with another tha the whole would be seriously ic jured by the crippling of any of it parts. A machine needs pinion and pulleys,and belts, and shaftin and to discard or destroy on part would be as certainly to sto] its running as if all were broken a once. A chain ceases to be ? chain when broken, it is no longe a whole but parts of a whole. So it may be seen in th machinery around us when labr: and capital and skill and practici each is in its heavenly appointee place. Each one with something to do, and each one doing tba something with ahearty good wil is the only healthy condition of i community. No drones,no laggards no clogs; but all together in i forward march to the highes attainment and the most perfec success to which humanity if capable. The need of this day in commoi: affairs, I think, is a proper appre hension of the relation of class, tc class, an equitable adjustment 61 the reciprocal value of labor and capital, and a cheerful and hearty co-operation of each with the other. for there never will be a time when it will be possible or wise to dis pense with either. On the contrary, as one increases there will be an increased demand for the other, and vice versa. Now how shall this happy Utopia be realized? I answer by the transforming energy of the omnipotence of thought. We speak of the power of steamy of electricity, or of gravitation apd-?o on ; but their power would never have been rendered subservient to, our convenience and use but for the power of thought. We speak ?of the changes wrought by revolutions reformations, and inventions ; vb?t back of every invention, back of every reformation, back of: eVe?ry revolution may be traced the stragglings of some intense thought. All that has been done is the result of thought and how ever mortal the thinker-jj immortal is thought. However, soon forgotten the thinker may be the world will preserve his thought; You can kill a thinker, but you can never kill a thought. Lives' have been lost and lives Trill y?t be lost in putting iuto active operation the conclusion? - of thought, but if the thon^bt-be-p healthy, vigorous, and true reality, it will live on and bless the world of unborn millions long aftertlifl thinker has crumbled to mother earth. r * H the potencies of 'thong! . ; : . J lance amidst the ,,. ? .. .."-?Af ;:>'">?;,:;. . :;.;] tb*- ?Oi?iBictf? O? b? ^;j.;- Thfct this g?nl iflli . : andjn'pre nz?i'i} ?wprvitt. tijxi oe time poi ses is sr?&oi?ccd by tii? fact that tiiO-Avorld mil a& Do you doubt that tne :?.^_ J thinking? Look at the consoli dation of capital into syndicate^ trusts, aud monopolies; and then look at the combination of labor into unions, brotherhoods, and alliances-all telling in thu/ndei tones that the. world has woke up and begun cCT?fr think. AU-"ax? ^f?lttfifem^nt^S^^ is intent on the "protection of his interests, and. each has rights I which ought to be, and in the end will be respected. Now in this'th inking that there should be extremes in opposite di rections is ,both natural and historical. There seems to be a kind of pendulosity in thought which causes it to swing to opposite directions in about equal dis tances ; and so keep to pace with the march of universal advancement This is best. The relieriout enthusiasm at the time of the reformation which lead a credulous people to believe that Luther had seen the devil and run him from the room with his inkstand, seemi to be a Lilly superstition in this day, but without such enthusiasm then, I doubt whether Luther ir all his impetuous earnestness [could have succeeded in breaking the fetters which enslaved the people body and soul to an irapiout and a tyrannical priesthood. Sc we need not expect to find people j going just far enough and nc further in the conflicts of thc times. Capital will and does gc too far in its exactions ; labor also will and does go too far in itt demands. The pendulum swing* both ways. Would any one call [me cowardly because I take thie position; and charge me witt fearing to offend either sidejby taking this intermediate position? Well, you wait, and if I arri not right, then I am no prophet? that's all. The remedy for all . this turmoil and confusion is clear, . bold, and intense thinking. We need more thought, more thinking, and more thinkers. And that means more) schools, more teachers, and more education. We want more educar tion to bring out and into use the inherent powers which our people have. There is enough inherent, ! enough native ability in humanity, however much we may abuse it, to adjust these questions of economics if controlled by the legitimate deductions of proper thought, thought then is the great demand of the day. All round thought thought without selfishness and passion-thought that will see both sides. Thought is the product of thinkers, then we want more thinkers. These are trained in the homes, on the farms, in the offices, in the stores, and in the shops; but most of all in the schools; schools which can not impart power or capacity, but only [develop and bring out and into [use that which the student brings ["with him when he matriculates. Let us establish and encourage I schools in all our villages and J&eighhoods. In this day ef special ists and division of labor with com petition in trade and in the pro fessions, we can not afford to allow ?ur children to enter at the great I disadvantage of being unable to fthink. Do not he afraid to give, them the best education possible, lest they should turn Out badly and; nee their thought for evil. That ijffoiild be as silly as the county mara who wouldn't turn his hogs his pasture for "fear they Would eat spiders enough to kill m. t capacity be consulted and the; aining be shaped as that would icate. ever remembering that St is honorable to succeed in any thing for which nature has fitted ' ryou; and inglorious to fail in jthose for which you were never ^intended. It is better to succeed : in little things than to fall in big tones. It is better to be a little {.speck of a star than to be a ^blazing meteor falling. Know your child, know your {?pupil and then give just that U-raining which will best aid him fpn that line cf activity for which [his capacity fits him, whether it ii oe farming, mechanic, trading, i teaching, law, or statesmanship. ? When folks have fallen into some I stich adjustment as this and shall ' allow reason and thought and I ?oo? will to reign, then indeed will g forks be folks, None will feel below pad none above the other, but a ' 'olh^rhood will reign ! anc a sph . nd?os sirii? help 1 ?':?iltngS .?iMflOi Ot; ?T\l&T?? 20 $ m nc ii f*'? . ' 'or att?r.duni ??gp&s hui fitness and ?j Adaptation w :. viii uer j Bjjhe happy because all wu. I ?tented. The Best Ticket Yet lt: ' - j This is a year when all sorts of j ? presidential tickets well be sugr ftfe?&t??r?n all- kinds of plat forma. The Southern Cultivator proposes | the following : For President: Industry. For Vice President : Economy. Electoral Ticket : li Hog, hominy and hay. 2. Grain and grasses. . 3. Cotton and the cereals. 4. Home raised products. 5. Improved labor-saving machin ery. 6. Intensive culture. 7. Field terraced and tilled. 8. Improved stock raised at home. 6. Improved public highways. 10. Smaller farms and m >re thor pugh tillage. 11. Homes made more attractive. We learn that it is out of strug. glee we must get the nobleness and beauty of character after which we are striving. One of the old Scotch martyrs had oil his crest the motto, Sub pondere cresco ("I grow under a weight.") On the crest was a palm-tree, with weights depending from its fronds. In spite of the weights the tree was straight as an arrow, lifting its crown of graceful foliage high up in the serene air. It is well known that the .palmj grows best when loaded down with weights. Thus this martyr testified that he, like the beautiful tree of the Orient, grew best in his spiritual life under weights. This is the universal law of spiritual growth. There must be resistance, straggle, con flict, or. there can be no develop ment of strength. We are inclined to pity those whose lives are ;sc?hes of toil and hardship, but God's angels do not . pity them if only they are victorious; for in their overcoming they are climbing .daily upward toward the holy heights of sainthood. The beatitudes in the Apocalypse are for ali overcomers. Heaven's rewards auc*. crowns lie beyond battle-plains. Spiritual life al ways needs opposition. It flour ishes most luxuriantly in adverse circumstances. We grow best un der weights. We find our richest | blessings in the burdens we dread to take up.-[J. R. Miller, D. D. Do Yon Appreciate The advantage of buying always from a clean, fresh stock of goods? . If you do, you can have that advantage by buying s noes, slippers aud hats from Mulherin, Rice & Co., Augusta. Prices are lower than the lowest. Gentlemen, we have the handsomest j line of fine dress Shoes in this market. Prices low. Give us a call and we will please you. More new dress goods to I arrive this week. J. M. COBB. THIS, THAT, AND THE OTHEB "BUD" TELLS IN RACY ENG LISH OF THINGS In General and Tilings in Par ticular-The Sick-A Mar riage-Crops, Etc. MR. EDITOR : The shrill whistle of the engine and hum of the ma chinery indicate that the grain crop is being rapidly threshed, while the huge smiles on the threshermen's faces and the com placent bearing of the farmers are a sure index that the "turn-out" ie unexpectedly gratifying. The largest yield per acre is re ported by our neighbor model farmer, Mr. S. F. Shaw, he having one acre from which ninety dozens were cut. This is the theoretical intensive idea reduced to practice -a "multum in parvo," a system rendered absolutely necessary by existing conditions, and altogethei desirable, if the agricultural clase would obtain BUCCOSS. The recent refreshing showers, the increased acreage in corn and the magnificent growing condition of the same, together with the oniou patches planted for sale, the pea patches, the larger than com mon potato patches, the acres of sugar cane, and the numerous other food and forage crops to be seen have literally dispelled the great gloom that over-shadowed our community the past spring and fall, and has established the look of hope in every eye and pic tured prosperity on every face. Is this the boast of the optimist, ?nd without foundation? 1 .! Cation of this year's ex ; ,.~or* scale will demonstra;; tl QV rc-ctae':> tbe in.d??g ...! ?rf-iitimeut. Whero w.> ii,., Silver S?vee? bii-so balli^is oa the tSth? Bche anSwere . ated boast made ia J irina! oom munication in behalf of the J?d?: field-Saluda club prcfl^ an explo sive dynamite in their ranks? Sud is the conclusion since the^^pW voked and accepted the challenge and then (suspicion makes us ea\ it) intentionally and apparent!) without cause failed to put in ar appearance on the day in question We are glad to report that th( recovery of Mrs. Pierce Saddler whose serious illness brought ? temporary gloom over all hei friends and relatives, is almost as sured. At the residence of the bride'f uncle on the 23rd ult,, were mar ried. Mr. Willie Calk and Mist Barbara Harmon, the ceremoni being pronounced by Rev. Mr Boozer. Mr. Rufus Gibson, who has beei very sick for the past five weeks is, we are happy to state, conval escent. The Rev. Mr. Berry, Saluda's be loved pastor, of whose sudden ant serious, but short illness we spok< in our last, has had a return of th< same trouble, and is now in a pre carious condition. It is reportei that he has written the Presiding Elder to send a supply to take hil place, fearing that he will be un able to serve there further. Th ii report it is hoped is untrue, ai Saluda would rather grant him t vacation for rest and recuperatior than to lose his future services. The barbecue and fish-pond cut ting at the old Smith mill or Wednesday last, was liberally at tended by the villagers, the candi dates, and the surrounding country. The "cue" which wat furnished by your townsman, Mr Jim Holland, and prepared undei the direction of Mr. Gus White elicited no unusual comment, thc time being taken up in devouring it, hearing the various orators ot the occasion, and watching with doubt ful expectancy the result o? fishery,in this last did those who the had taken shares especially, while away the time. To this day doubt less they are unable to decide whether the piscatorial success, or rather failure, was owing to the exceeding scarcity of the material sought, or, rather like Peter of old, an overwhelming "draught brake the nets," The first speaker precipitated upon the occasion was young Pat ton, a candidate for Solicitor in the Fifth Judicial District against Mr. Nelson the present incumbent. He said "that the good people present were ^obliged to be im pressed with his modesty since he sought an office for which none but lawyers aspire, and no man in Edgefield county would run. His face, while it wasche very embodi ment of pleasantness and hope, showed little signs of depth of , thought. He was followed by the ever jovial, ever hopeful Lanier, who summarized his heretofore pub lished and expressed idea of county government, and in closing elicited an outburst of cheers by saying "that these people treated him bet ter and.gave him fewer votes than any mau that ever run." "Elias Breckenridge Longstreet 1 Graddick's" name next rang out * upon the evening zephyr,s and in the twinkling of an eye Mr. Grad ; dick appeared, and in stentorian tones accompanied with ecclesias tical sweeps of the arm announced that he was a candidate for Coroner, and satisfactorily explained why. Though several times interrupted, his talk was heartily received and enjoyed. Mr. Sheppard was next called, but, as was "extremely" proper, very courteously declined to speak. 1 The last speaker, and with due respect to the above mentioned gentlemen, the only orator of the day, was the Hon. Wash Allen. With huge knots of intelligence and deep-seated thought protruding from his massive forehead, with noble Kornau nose piercing the misty future, with happy recollec ? tions of the past, good will toward his fellow-men, and hopefulness for the future, he gave expression ? to a few short, terse, weighty, logi ' cal sentences, and in his inimita ' ble style and pantominical man '. uer drove the truths uttered home to the hearts of his hearers. Like 1 Massachusetts' greatest statesman who opened and closed one of his ' most renowned speeches with "sur vive or perish, sink or swim," etc., 1 so Mr. Allen opened and closed "T nm with you, I am one of ' fr die with you." rora : -?mifi li ? f 8][.-. ? . /Lvtivv tarting 1-7 ~'?:\>'-t. , '" "I- :z ?wi. (rae, ?raiidpa,'that wal . r hasr "Yes, dear child, it is blue, but so lit 1 tie so that you cannot see it." \ "Can you see that it is blue?" "No, but still it is blue. Look at ' this." ) I took a little ultramarine on the end of the brush and mixed it with water. ' "Does it look blue now?" 1 "No; I see nothing." F "Nor I. But you saw how I ptit a lit tle blue color in it with the brush." "Yes, but there was not enough of it Put more in." j I silently took the glass and set it on a piece of white paper in the bright sun " shine. "Now look from above down 3 into it" r "It is bine," said the little one, clap ping her hands, "but only a very little." "Look at it from the other side, where the sun is shining into it Is it not a lit tle bit red, like the bell flowers which you picked yesterday?" ? "That is wonderful," said the little . one. "It is blue from above, a little bit red in the sun, and when we look at it from this side of the room we see noth - ingP j "Think about it a little. The glass is as broad as my finger is long. But it is 3 at least three times as high as my finger. 3 When you look at it from the side, you see only a finger's length of water; but when you look down into it, you see 1 through three fingers' length of water r three times as much. You see it blue from the side, and three times as blue 3 from above, don't you?" "Is that really true?" said the little j one, as she measured with her finger. She nodded that she was satisfied. 3 "Now imagine that the water isas l deep as the height of the church steeple, and deeper-ti.at it reaches from here np into Salvan and down to Vernayaz. Then you would see the water from above it all blue." "Is the lake, then, really so deep?" "Yes, and deeper." I will not continue the conversation any longer, lt went on with various simple experiments, beginning with dif ferently colored stones, which I let drop into the water, and then placed on the white, then with setting the glass with its weakly bluish contents on differently colored papers, and ended with my try ing to make the children perceive how the colors changed when they were seen through the whole depth of the glass. I will not say that the little ones were brought to a full comprehension of the matter, but they stuck fast to the asser tion that water is blue, of an infinitely weak blue, and that the blue color can not be seen till ono looks into a certain depth of it.-Carl Vogt in Popular Sci ence Monthly. Search Light? versui Toi pede Beat?. It is stated that one of the most effect ive means of protecting a ship in these days of torpedoes (the grouping to gether of a number of stationary search lights, each illuminating ito own section so that the ship is surrounded by an un broken circle of light), is to be adopted in the new American warships. This has been suggested by a very pronounced defect in the usual search light practice. In order to afford sufficient time for a i careful examination of the water's sur face at points removed from the ship, the beam of light must be revolved very slowly, and hence during a great por tion of the time any particular section 1 of the water is left in darkness. As it takes only five minutes fora torpedo boat to run a distance of two miles, it ! will be seen that the conditions are all in favor of the attacking force. Before the revolution of the search light is com pleted there is plenty of time for the tor pedo boat to run np and discharge her deadly weapons.-New York Telegram. ' HERE AND HEREAFTER. As the golden bells upon the priest's garments sounded out up on the ears of waiting Israel from within the veil, telling them that he was yet alive; so let his (Christ's) blessed promises fall upon our ears, saying, "Seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for us." and "Unto them that look for him shall he appear a second time without sin unto salvation.*' [A. J. Gordon, D. D. Churches exist not merely for the consolation and ul t?mate salvation of their individual members, but that the divine life which is in them, developed, invigorated, and disciplined by common wor ship, by the atmosphere and traditions and public opinion of a society which is the home of the Spirit of Christ-may change and transfigure the whole order of the world.-[R. W. D. D. One open reward of secret prayer is spirituality of mind. By a spiritual mind we do not mean a severe mind, or sombre. We do not mean a peculiar pb Lseolgy or an affected religionism; but we mean that state of mind right with God ; when it is all alive to the things of God ; that vividness of faith when the things unseen are very solid. The man who abounds in secret prayer will not only preserve his own vitality, he will carry away from God's presence, peace and joy and energy enough to make him a benefactor of others. A man mighty in prayer is a perpetual comfort a continual cordial in a world like this. He bears about with him a genial clime. There is a gladness in his coming for he never comes alone. He carries his Saviour with him. [Rev. James Hamilton. . Cheerfulness is an excellent . Hng quality, imparting great ' '. . character. As a weil as ot ?wjfpi?ic very highest pleabu: consisting in clear, brisk-, coubw working; energy, confidence, and every other good quality mainly depending upon it. Sidney Smith, when laboring as a parish priest at Foston-le Clay, in Yorkshire though he did not feel himself to be in his proper element-went cheerfully to work in the firm determination to do his best. "I am resolved," he said," to like it, and reconcile myself to it, which is more manly then to feign my-" self above it, and send up com plaints by the post of being thrown away, and being desolate, and such like trash." So Dr. Hook, when leaving Leeds for a new sphere of labor, said, "Wherever I may be, I shall, by God's blessing do with my might, what my hand findeth to do ; and if I do not find work, I shall make it.-[Smiles. Do you not see that r?allv^it is people of one talent who make the world go round? The people of one talent are mostly needed ; that is why there are most of them. We have only one head to two hands and two feet. I went round the world in a floating palace ; hut I drove to my door in a four wheeled cab. What would your five taeents and your two talents do without your one? I stood awhile ago and looked at a drinking fountain ; a marble angel beautifully sculp tured, stood pointing to heaven. Then came polished granite inscribed with gilt letters, and massive slabs of stone. But I no ticed that the water came through a small brass pipe and the people drank from an iron cup attached to an iron chain. And the mar ble angel pointing heavenwards would have done nobody any good but for the brass pipe and " iron cup. Think if the pipe had said: "If they do not make me of gold I will not belong to the thing." Or if the cup had said : "I must be of silver, or I shall be ashamed to be there at all." No, I thought I heard the music of the three common water, common pipe, common cup. "Well." ihey sang, "they can't do without us and we must do our part along with the marble angekmd polished granite. 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