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TA1MAGE IN EUROPE. PRACTICAL SERMON ON THE PROD IGAL SON. tin Is a Mean and Contemptible Thing at All Times, and the Promises of Satan Are Never Kept-Procrastination Always Dangerous. LONDON, Aug. 21.-Dr. Talmage has I een preaching during the past week every day. The sermon selected for publiWation this week is from the text, Luke xv, 18, "1 will arise and go to my 'ather." There is nothing like hunger to take Lhe enegy out of a man. A hungry maa can toil neither with pen uor hand nor foot. There las been2 an army defeated not so much for lack of ammunition a for lack of bread. It was that fact that took the fire out of this young man ol the text. Storm and exposure will weak out, any maun's life in time, but hungej makes quick work. The most awful crj ever heard on earth is the cry for bread A tra#eler tells us that in Asia Minoi there are trees which bear fruit, lookin, very much like the long bean of ou time. It is called the carab. Once it awhile the people reduced to destitutioi would eat these carabs, but generall, the carabs, the beans spo ken of here it the text, were thrown only to the swin and they crunched them with grea Avidity. But this young man of i text could not get even them withoU stealing them. So one day amid thi swine troughs lie begins to soliloquize ile says, "These are no clothes for a iel man's son to wear; this is no kind o business for a Jew to be engaged in lceding swine; I'll go home; I'll go hoie I will arise and go to my father." I know there are a great many peopl who try to throw a fascination, romance, a halo about sin; but notwith standing all that Lord Byron and Georgi Sand have saId in regard to it, it is I mean, low, contelptible busiDes, a inutting food and fodder into Lhe trough of a herd of iniquities that r6ot and wal ow in the soul of man is very poor husi ,iess for men and women intended to 16 qots and diuigiiter6 of the L,ord Al inighty. And when this young man re t-olved to go home it was i very wis( thing i'or him to do. and fie (nly Iues ,ion is whether we will follow hiiu. Satan pronist s l:rge wages it we wil serve him, but lie clothes his victim With rags and h' pliiches thei wil hunger, and when they start out to de better lie sets aftur themii all the blood ibounds of hell. Satan comes to us to day and promises all luxurles, all emio -tinents it we N ill oily serve him. I.iar, (own with thee to the pit! "The wages 4f sini is deatil." Oh, the young man of the text was wise when he uttered ,he iesolution, "I will arise and go to my lather." In the time ol Qm en Mary of Enland a persecutor came to a Christian woman who had hidden in her house, for the Lord's sake, one of Christ's servants, and the persecutor said, "Where is that heretie"'1 i The Christian woman said, "You open that trtik and you will s.ec the heretIc." The persecutor opened the trunk, and oi the top of the linen of the trunk he saw a glass, lie said, "There is noi heretie ere.' "Ah!" she said, '"o look In thme glass and you will see the heretic!'' As I take lip the mirror of' God's word to-dlay, I would that instead of seeing the prodigal of the text we might see ourselves-our want, 'uir wandering, our sin, our lost condi tionr.-so that we might be as wise as this young man was andI say3, "'1 will arise and1( go to my father." The resolution of this text was tormied in disgust at his present circumstances. If this young man11 haud been b)y his em Illoyer set, to culturimi flowers, or train mng vines ove.r an ariuor, or keeping ac count, of the pork iimrket, or overseeing other lab)oreri lhe would niot haive thought of going home, if' lie had had his piocket full of mnoney, it lie had been able to say: "I have ai thousand dlollars now of my own; what's the use o1 my going t>ack to my father's house y' ])o you think I am going back to apologiize to the old man ? Why l'e would put me on the limits; lie would not have going on aroundl the old pla1ce such con;duct as I have been engagecd in. I won't go hionme. TIhere is no rea,on why I should go home. I have plent fy of monev; plenty of pleasant, surroundings. Why should I go home ?" Ah! it was his p)aupernism; it was his~ beggery. Ife hadl to go home. Some mani comes andi says to mew: 'Why do you talk about, the ruined state of the hiuimani soul? WhV y don't you sp)e.1k about the pro(gress of the Nine teenth cenitury, and tal1k of somlethlinli more exhilarat ine ?"' i t is f or tis rea von-a man never wants the Gospel imi til lie realizes lie is in a famine struck state. Sulipose I should come to) you in your hiome and you1 are in good robust health, and I shonld begini to tailk about medicinies, and1( about how niuchi hetter this lmiedicine is than thait, and i some other medicine than sonie ot,? er medi.. eine, arnd talk about this p)hysicianu and hiat, l1hysician . At ter awhile you woiuld get tired. and1( you would say, "I do't wanit to) hear abou'it mediiniiq. W biy do you talk to imc of phyeleians I never have a doctor." Suppose 1 comeW into y our house an d find you severely Hick, and I hin w the meicines thait will euie soo, and I kmnow t,he physicin w ho is skilliul eniough to meet your case. Y ou say:- "]'iirm o all that medlicine.; brlie on that phvsi elM. I am terribly sick and I uvant help." if I come to youi and you lerd you are all right in body' and all right in mind and all right in soul you have need of nothing; but suppose I have p)ersuaded you that the leprosy of sin is upon you, the worst of all sickness, oh, then you say, "Bing me that, balm of' the Gospel bring me that divine medicament; bring me Jesus Christ." But says some one ini the audience, "How do you prove that we are in a ruined conditIon by sin ?" Well, I can prove ft in t,wo ways, and you may have y our choIce. I can prove it et.her by the statements of men or by the state ment of God. Which shall It be? You all say, "Let us have the statement ot God." Well, lhe says in o'ie Place "The heart Is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." ie says iii another place, "What Is man that hei should be clean ? and he which is born o a woman, that he should be righteous?' Hie says In another place, ''There iu none that doeth goou n,not one.' He says In another place, "As by one man sin entered Into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." "Well," you Ia?, "I amn willing fo acknowede that, but why should I take the pa,iclar rescue that you pro. poset" ThiaI the reason, "Except a aman be bor a e cannot see the dog.of G ." This is the reason, * sone name given under heaven among men whereby they may be a saved." Then there are a thousand g voices here ready to say, "Well, I am 3 ready to accept this help of the Gospel; e L would like to have this divine cure; a how shall I go to work?" Let me say I that a mere whim, an undefined longing '] amounts to nothing. You must have a 1 stout, tr6mendous resolution like this t young man of the text when he said, "I 1 will arise and go to my father." I "Oh!" says some man "how do I I know my father wants me? How do I I know, if Igoback, I would be received?" I "Oh!" says some man, "you don't know 4 where I have been; you don't know how 1 far I have wandered; you wouldn't talk that way to me if you knew all the in- l iquities I have committed." What is that flutter among the augels of God ? It is news, it is news! Christ has Vound the lost. Nor angels can their joy contain, But kindled with new fire; The sinner lost is found, they sing. And strike the sounding lyre. When Napoleon talked ot going into Italy they said: "You can't, Let there; if you knew what the Alps were you wouldn't talk about it or t sink of it; you can't get your ammunition wa-ons over the Alps." Then Napoleon rose In his stirrups and waving his han I toward the mountains he said, "There shall be no Alps." That wonderful pass was laid out which has been the wonderment of all the ycars since-the wonderment of all engineers. And you t,ell me there -re such mountains of ii between your soul and God there is no mercy. Then I see Christ waving his hand toward the mountains, and I hear him say, "I will come over the mountains of thy sin and tihe hills of t,hine iniquity.'' There shall te no Pyrenees, there shall be no Alps. - Again, I notice that this resolu.ion of t>e young man of the text was founded in sorrow at his misbehavior. It was not mere physlcal plight. It was gii that lhe had so maltreated hus hither. It is a sad thing after a lather has done every thing for a child to have that child be ungrateful. How sharper thai a se rpenti tooth Ws is To have a thank less chi Id. -Ihat is Shakespeare. ",iA f)oli.41h son - is the hieavinless of his m0iothier.'" That is the Bible. Well. ily Irieilds, have not wmIc of us b ieen1 cruel prodigals? -Ifave we nlot 111alre:i ti if ('1V Father? I Alid such a Fitheir ! So lovin, so kind. I S11 he alid beenl a trant.:r, it lie had for sakeni us, if he had il sAll ted us, it'lie I hal pounded ius atnI lurned us oit, of i loors on thw comtitons, it would not < larve been so wontleiftil --otir treat mientL t of him; but lie is a father so hovi n, so t kini, andi yet how i:ti y,t tus for our ] wailderinlgs I ave lever atpoogized for ] wrongs dholle to our felv)ws, hilt Soine 4 oI us pCrhaips have e ;mimitted ten j tho)usamli tiies It-lii t1ious.aind i' g' mvs itialist (,ofl anuI nev'r apolo.;ized. 1 I reiark still url i r tha. this resolt- S tion of tle text, was loun-led inl a leel- C ing of homesickiness. 1 do i ot know U how long this youn, iman, hinv man v a mionths, how Iml lny )ears, lie Iad been away from his father's houe; but there fi is something about the read1 of' my t text that makes ie think lie was home- I sick. Some of you know what that feel. c ing is. Far away from ho-ne sometimes a surrounded by ever, thiig bright and pleasant-plenty of Liends-you havo 8 said, "I would give the world to be home h ;onight.'' Well, this %oulg man was t 4omesiek for his rther's house. I have no doubt when he thought,of his fiither's a house lie said, '"Now perhuaps father t may not be living.''" A lad ait Liverpoolh went ouit to bathe, c wenit out into the sea, wvent, out too fair, 'j got beyond his depth and lie floated far g away, A ship hou:id for Dunblin camie 2 along and took hai.n on t>oardl. S.iilor's : are generally very generous fei'ows, and mi one gave hun a cap, andis o'.her gave himl a jacket,, and another cave himn shoes. s A gentleman passinig alonuc a . the beach a at Liverpool tound t,be lad's clot,hes aud took them home, andi the tuther was d heartbroken and the mother heart broken at the loss ('f thetir chil. T1huey land hioardl nothing froma im atay after iy , an(l they ordered the tual muniing' for " the sad event. But the lad took t tf fr'oma Dubl in r andI arrIved an L4iverpo d the ver'y day the garments arrivtd. l[e kniocked at the dloor andl the father was over*joyed and( the mother waus (yer.iovyed at the retuarni of their lost son. Oh. my friends. have you waded out too( dkep?llyave you waded down intoi sinu? IIave you waded from the shore? Will you comte" back? When you coine back will you come in the rags of your sin, or w:l1 you comne rohed in the Saviour's ri'hateousq ness? I believe the latter. Go home to h your' God today. lIe is waifting for' you. I Go) home!b tam I remark t hecaa c tistii of th:s resolutioni was, P.it hunn-diautely pu in to execution. Thle conitext s.i ys ''he' ar-" u ttal camnei to his father.'' FTe tronhale in nine huntdred aund inetty-inae tis oant ot a thaousandi is that our r esoiutions amoitunt to nioth ing because we maike temi far ~ sonme distaint timue. If' I resolve to bse- 5 comne a Chiristian naex' yeatr. thaat amnounits to nothing af. all. If' I tresolvYe to becomue a a C]hristiani tomorrow, thatt amounits to enthing at, ball. lIt Ii remsve at, tlae er vice today to become a ( liiist ian, thaut amounts to niot,hing att all. 1f1 I reso'.vet after I go home totday to :1ichi amy heart t to God, that, amlounts to ~nothing 'Utiall. t The only kind of resoluti ion that amouints to anything is t,he resoluutioni thiat is imi mediately lput, int.o ex'ecution. TVhuere is a an who hiad the typhoid ~s fevear. lie said, '"Oh, it I could get, over this terrible distress, if' this fever should depart, it I could be restor'ed to liealIth,h t would all the rest of my life serve" God.'' TJhe fevt a departed, iIe got well enlough to w,dk around the block. '' lie got well enough to attend to busi- h ness. iIe is Well today-as well as lie ever was. Where is thae broken vow? ( There a a man who saidi long ago: "If n) I could live to the year 1892, by that '2 time I will have my business mat,ters eC all arrangzed, and I will have time to at- si tend to religion, and I will be a good y t,horough, consecratedl Christian. "'The n year 1892 has comn . Jianuary, Feb- M ruary, Marcha, Apri d, May, June, .July 19 -fully half of the l ear' gone. Where is n your broken vow? "Oh," says .some1 mana, "I'll attend a to that, whaen I can gret, my charact,er h fixed up; when I can get, over my evil a hiabiis. I am now given to strong drink," t or, says the man, "I am glven to un cleanness," or, says the man, "I am given to dishonesty. Whien I get over my present habits, then I'll be a thorough Christian." My brother, you wIll get worse and Worse until Christ takes you 1' in hand. "Not the righteous, sinners r Jesus came to call." "Oh," but you say,"I aree withyou I on all thlat, bait I must put it oil' a little longer." Do you know there were I many who came just as near as you are to the kmngdoam of God and never entered It? I was at East Hampton, Long Is. Ian and I went Into the cemaetery to look aid, and In that cemetery there re twelves graves side by side-the raves of sailors. This crew, some ears ago, in a ship, went into the Pre 1k. ra at Amagaunsett, about three m1iles way. My brother, then prea :hIg Ial Past Hampton, had been at the burial hese men of the crew came very neau eing saved. The people tron Am. gansett saw the vessel., and they sho1 ockets, and they sent,ropes Irom ti hore, and these poor fellows got intu he boat and they pulled mightily foi he shore, but just before, they got tc he shore the rope snapped, and the boat ,apsized, and they were lost and their Odies alterward washed upon the beach Oh, what i solemn day it was -I have )ecn told of it by ily b,rother-whei ,bese twelve men lay it the tool, of tit nilpit and he read over them the lutier ti service. They caime very near shon( -within shoutinl"g distince of shore, ye lid not arrive on solld land. There art iome men who came almost to the short >f God's mercy, but not quite, not quite ro be only almost saved is to be lost. I will tell you of two prodigalh, tht me that got back and Li other that di iot. get back. Ili Richmond there Is v very prosperous and beautiful home it inany respects. A young man wandereI :)I from that home. 1le wandered very [ac into sin. Tiy hieard ol him often but he was always oin the wrong track IIe would tiot go home. At the doom Af that beautiful home one night thert was a great outcry. The young man o the house ran d]own and opened the tdooi to see what was the matter. It wa midnight. Tihe rest (f the amily wert asleep. There were the wife and chil Iren of this prodigal y>ung mian. Tht lact was he had cone home and drive them out. Ile said: "Out of this h-tuse. Awa3 With tICeSe children. 1, ,vill dash theil brains out. Out into the storm!" 'T:hI Luother gyiered tlemll Up and lied. Th iext morninw the brother, a youg mat who had Btaild at homC, went out to lint .his prodiLal brother and son. and it aine wlere lie was til sa1w the olil nan walnderiln pti and d ivn in Iront o lie place Where lie had he,a si,a) in:-, Ind the youig man who had kept h4i ntegrity said Lo tie older hotiber 'Here, what docs this imean' I What 6 le matter witt' YoU? Why d. 'otu ac it thi-s wit',?" Tli prodi of lo ked at lin and sait: "Who Itu1 lP Wh)ln1 L) you take mii t;, b- I" e :aid: -yiq ti my brother." "No, I ary 1 iImt. Lill a i li.e. 1M.ove ii seen at i um it Illy widu ald chidein? Are Li4N lead-! I JroV(- Lilw o-ill I st nL ht ill bw- LiLorim. i am at britLe. .lohn, dth ou think there is any help 'lir i, I) 'OU think I a ill I'Ver 1, lver this li!e ol lssipatit,i ?" hi -sail , ''.Jo , ti:ie is kuil, onle Llhin- t,hait %ill '41,11 thw,." ['hu rodigal r1a:i hiis lit)ger across i litroat nId said: "Th,at will st.ol it. and I'll top it, before ight,. Oi, .ny brai:; I an stand it. no longer!" ,hiai prodf-al ever got hiome. 1u1 I will tell y.ou o* prodigal that did :.et home. In this couutry two ywig men started oua their it,ner's house and went down ) iortsuiouth. Tne i.ther t >uii(d not, ursue his children; ior son - reason lie AUld not leave home. and so lie wrote lettler down to M r. Gi ri lii 11, hla3 ing: "Nr. (GriI11, I wish y!Iu wtu:d go and ec my two Isols. 'll %. ha,kvt arrived i l'ortsmouthi, anid theUy arc goin . to ike slap and ging away ront homie. I rish you wvoauh plersuatide them back.'' Ir'. (4rilini went, and hei trietd to persad.e icnm back. lie per siuitd unc to go. [e went wl,h veriy easty peri'tuasion,, be weue lie was veiy ihomnesick already. 'he otheri 3 oung man11 said: '1 will not >. I havec hiad enou0ighl oli home. 1 'I ver' go home.'' --Well," said Mr'. riflia, 'then it you won't, go homie i'll at, you a i espehictable' pesitiu on a1 res ectable shIp.'' "No, yvu worh'( ,' 1u goinig ats a coinarioni soli.; tiaL, wvill laugue my lat,ber iuo-t, ari'l whajt willI o niost, to tautahze satId nolry h.im will lease ime lbes t."' Year's piassed on andit Mr. (U iilii was eated in his stud I)ne i diiy when at tnts ige catnie t(o hiim O saiin was at youngi aan in huis ton a s lpiat the tit. :k--a oung iman coindenmietd to deaith bo--- i ished to see this clerie3 miim. Mr. rillin wenit down to the (lOck and went, ii slipthoard. The y toung inani said t,o im, "YXoul doni't know ime.' tdi , On'' N o,'" lie saitd; "I ion't kmio,v you."~ Why, don't 3 o)Ui runemnber ti at young ian you tried to perisualde to go homei ud lit wouldn't ge?" ''Oh, 3es,'' satid [r. Grilliui; "'are 30ou thalt .Uainy" "Yet ami diat man,"' sital the other. " ou1(1li ke to hlave 3.11 praty for mie. I I ve coiniitted imurder and I mnust, die, mIt I dlon't wan Lt to o Out, ol thlis wold itil somni e Oi ria.y' i'or me. You ar e ly lather 's Itind andl I wo' uhl I ke to rt. (Grillin we'nt Irom jtudiciatl autholr y to j udiciail authority t net, that rsoti to in tluenitial pers'oni uint.l in me way lie uot, that,3 Joting mail'.s par mn. Hie e..e down on tile dock, tand lie arrivedl on the dlock wIthh thei par mi the hat her came, lie badti haird tat eeni commlitittiung einbie tand war. toin. be put t tdeath. Mo Mr. Gaillit and ic lathter wvent, on ship's deck, anmd at te very moment Mr. Grillin offered ie pard'oni to the votmg man the 01(d t her threwC h iis armsii ariounid the son's mek and the son saId: ' "athecr, I have in ver'y wrong andit I iam v'ery sorry, w isH I had never broken yourm hea rt. am~ very' sorr'y." "'Oh,'' said the ,Aber1, '"dOln't mention it. It, don't. ake any differenice inow. It 1s all cer. I iorgive you my soi,'' and( lie .ssed him and kissed him andl( kissed mu. 'Todiay I oler' y ott the ptrd.mi of the ospel-full pantlion, free pardon. I do at caire what youir e'imie has been. hlough you say iou have committed a line against God, againist your own >ul, against your fellow mini, ugalnet eur f'.mily, agatust, tIle (lay ot juidg tent, against the cross of' Chtnst hatever your crime has been, hiere is ardon, full pardoti, andi the very mo tent you take that pardt in 3 our hecav sly F"athier thirowst his atrms about ',eu nd sa.y: "'My soin, I lorgive y oul. Ii I all right. You are much ini my fatvor ow as ii you had inever simned.'' ():, iere 1s joy on earth aiid ,joy in heaven! h'lo wIll take the F"athier's embrace A Mystery. NEw YORK, August 25.-T-Jhe N oord md of the Red Star line, which arri ved ere thIs morning, brought the first ews of the loss at sea ot the Biritish hip Alumbagh. She passedl en the 2nd inst. by the Noordland, waterlog ~ed and evidently only a short time bandoned. The fate of the crew is ii nystery. The Alumbagh sailed Augusi h5, lumber laden, from Musquash, N 1., for Liverpeoo. She was command 4d by Capt. Wyman, and carried a ceraof aityve.... BROKEN HEARTS. The Pathetio Romance of an 01 Cathedral. Many years ago, I stayed awhile i an old cathedral town in the riche and loveliest part of Yorkshire. Suc quaint, old houses, roofed with brigh red tiles, such green mneadows and ye low cornfields, such great over-shadov ing trees, and such sweet old-f ashione gardens, I shall never see again. BI the great charm to my young fancy wf the solemn old cathedral and the coo silent courts of houses that clustere round it. The dreamy, peaceful lii enchanted me. I thought that I coul live forever amiong the dim aisles ( the grand old church and the shad gardens of the handsome houses. "This is a court of peace," I sai< "Surely no shadow of discontenit sorrow can ever come within it." But this I said in my haste and ml ignorance. At the end of the first wee of my visit, as I was wandering in m friend's garden, which touched tU graveyard of the cathedral, I heard th wildest, strangest, most sorrowft music coming from it. I knew the ve; per service was over. I knew this wi not the organist's playing, and my h terest and curiosity triumphed ovour im fear, and led me to take the keys of ti I vestry, which were PA my commant and satisfy myself. No human cry < agony was ever more intelligible. divined at once that some poor, breal ing heart was pouring out itself ini the Divine ear, which understands a speech and language, and so I stol away again, ashamed and sorry for mll intrusion. Frequeutly, after this-sometimt early in the morning, sometimes dee in the gloaming-I heard the sai musician. At last I spoke to the frien with whom I was staying. She loolce troubled as she answered: "It is the poor old dean. I am gla he has this consolation. Do not distur him." A few days afterward, as we wet walking up the court, we met the dear Ile begged my frientd to go into hi house and see his dlaughtr Mary, an then I soon understoo)d what might grief it was which had struck the ke3 note of his passionate, pleading prayet She was dying; no one but a paren could have doubted it for one ninute The earliest of eternity was in her eye which looked as if they had seen somi vision that had forever separated lie from time. She lay upon a couch drawi elose to the open window looking int< a garden thick with green shade, an< bright with many a sweet flower whos4 name is now forgotten. I gazed on lie: with admiration. I do not think it eve entered my mind to pity her. I reserve< that feeling for the gray misery of he: father, and for the hopeless, resentful looking distress I saw in the face an< manner of a handsome man whom took to be her brother. There was however, some element in the sorrov of that (lying room that I did not under stand then, though soon afterward when I knew Mary Harlowe's history it was clear enough to me. She was the only child of her father who had received her in exchange foi his young wife's life. Among the silen roomis of the great house, and ini thu pleasant old gardens beloniginig to th< ehurch pr'operty, she had gr'own uip to sweet anid lovely girlhood. When about Meventeen years of age Iter' cousin, Uiernardl Harlowe, was sen1 to her' fathxer's care, while he p)repare( fox' taking orders. Th'le young man wat niot rich, and was nev'er likely to hxave any inheritance but the hiandsome per' sort, the clear head and the warm heartI nature had given hxim. Butt Mary loved him almost fronm the fir'st day of his ar riv'ah. andl Bernard thoghit himself richer ini that love than the bishop in his see', or the king in hiis crown. Th'le deani was ntot so wrapped up ii. spiritual miatter's as to he oblivious of what w~as tr'anspirintg under his own r'oof, yet hxe mtade nto remonstrance; so, though there was nio positive engage ment, Bernard and Mary liarlowe con sidlered thxenmselves ais onie heart and one soul fox' time aind for eterntity. Onte afternoon the sunny stillness of the court was biroken b'y tIre galloping of horses and1 theI rattle of a carriage'. It stopped at the dean's door, anid Jiernaurd recognized aL young earl, fat motus for his wealth and churtch patron' age, wh'lo owned a magnificent seat ablout three miles distant. "Thtere is sonme dispitte between my lord bishop andi the earl,'' he said to Mary. "'I wontder how~ the (lean will manage between them7x' But the eai'l's visit seemed to themt a matter of the very smallest imnportance. Wandering under- the trees, pulling ripe ber'ries, or idly gathering some flower fairer than all its mates, they didl no't even speculate on thet length of hmis visit or watch for hiis de'parlture. It was, therefore, withx some surprise they sawt him and( the deant come slowly walking downr the main avenue to gether. Mary would have escaped thme inter' view b)y taking a private wvalk to, thet house, but Bernard, with some str'ange instinct of being on the defensive, drewt her arm through his andl awvaited their aLpproach. TIhe deani seemed1 an noyed at thes attitudle. lie introduced hii daughter and his nephew, and thuera bade Mary "go to prepare for dinne, whicht Earl Girey," lie added, bowing "will do mae thre honor to eat with me.' The young nobleman languidly as sented, following Mary with his eye: unttil she was hidden frotm view by then shrubbery. Surely, "loving and hiatinI come by nature," for ere tIe caxl hal spoken, Bernard hated him, andI lonj before the night was over lie fancied hie had good caus~e to do so. He was angry at Mary for looking s< beautiful; he was angry at thie earl foi looking at her beauity. HIe thought hi uncle disgustingly sutbservient to th youang mant's rankc; he thoutght Mar; unusually cool to him. All ntighit lonj hte was hiis owvn tormentor, atd this wa, bitt the beginning of sorr'ows. The earl, charmed with Mary's fresl yountg beauty, so different from the ('lever, intriguing women with whom hi had dahinc'ed and t rifled' away all the las WVeav's Wild Hope,. S&'. Louis, Aug. 25.--Gen. .James Il WVeaver, the l1rople.'s party l'residen tial candIidate, arr ived here this miorni ing from anl extensive touir througl several Northweaterni and Paclfl States, and will leave tonight for Kan eas, where he will make a number o speeches. Glen. WVeaver says that th prospects are very bright for the part throught thre WVest, and he gives it his deliberate judgement from havin visited and made careful observatior in themh that Colorado, Nevada, Cal fornia, Oregon Washington,, Montana Idaho, and Wyoming will go for ti iPaanin'a party nomlna, season, fancied himself deeply in love with the simple, innocent girl. le. came again and again, at first inventing Sut all sorts of excuses, 1inally without any excuse at all. Ch It reqnired, indeed, siall persuasion et " to obtain the deau's ftll pelrision to sn w oo his daughter. Then stormy scenes i ensued; uncle and nephew came to bit- W terest strife, while Mary's defense of " Bernard only brought on her such an- bo ger from her father as tilled her with lat d grief and fear. S Lt Poor Bernard! The end his heart lin a had prophesied came soon enough. In ha ' the presence of the dean there was a ty cruel, formal part.ing; under the silent I estars, amid the thick shubbery of the M d garden, there was another parting. bl Mary Would have promised constan- be ey, but Bernard would not let her do it. li "You shall never have to reproach ef r yourself with broken promises for my sake, dar,ing," he said. "What could wl Y you, you poor timid little (love, do be- ot C tween your father and that lordly earl? o But whaitever they make you do, re- ce i ncmber, Mary, I shall never blame you, c and I will love you until my last con scious breath." Then he kissed her pale face over re and over, tenderly, clingingly, as we ke kiss the dead, and left her. And Mary, th almost heart-broken with grief, and Y faint with terror le*t %he -should be e discovered, couid 6nly wave her hands A in mute farewell, for site knew now I that love and she must walk apart for- all ever. Bernard went to Oxford and Mary de became Countess Grey, and went whith- Vl ersoever it pleased her husband to 101 take her. She was naturally affection- to ate, and would doubtless have become WE a loving and gentle wife if she had re ceived any encouragement. But she Co e soon outlived the earl's short liking, d and then ie only seemed to find pleas d ure in those petty cruelties which un loving husbands above all others under stand. b One of these vas to affect the most unbounded chagrin at the sex of her a first child, to sneer at all daughters, and to send it from its mother's breast to s the care of a strange nurse. Another L was to pretend she needed exercise and change of air, and remove her from London to the continent before d she was able to bear the fatigue. lie t gave her no rest until she reached Rome, and hI ere she became so seriously u ill that even her servants remonstrated against theo cruelty of moving hter . further. In Rome she remained iix months, y nearly alone. Tie earl traveled hither I and thither as his fancy led limn, mak ing his wife only occasional short visits 7 of a cruelly ceremonious character. His life of extravagant dissipation was a s I shameful contrast to the loneliness and absolute seelusion which her Italian physician ordered, while her separa tion frotm all who loved or cared for her and her longing for her native land I and home told fearfully upon her fail ing health. But one day a far more cruel sorrow faced lier. A letter without signature was placed in her hands, not only accus- cut ing her hiusband of the most Ilagrant ca disregard for her, but also intimating ye.1 that her physician was in the employ I of lier enemies, and not a safe person Pal to be intrusted wvith het- life. H Shte had long felt sure that she wvas l) dy3ingJ,, butt the drecad of dy3inig away ] from her child. ter' father and her home bet oivercamne all other fears. This terror of made her p)rudenmt. She arranged for Ian imnmediate return hiomne. and( tookc pr< advantage of her husband's first absence to commence it. For hitn she left a mioe pathetic letter, entra follow her, for ' negative beC p. (.. -. wart her; andl so, twovyar after this ill-starred marriage, Earl Grey' traveling carriage again broke tesilence (of thme peaceful cathedral court. TIhie deani's (laughter had come hack to hun wearing something higher than a (countess' coronet; she hadl re ceived the signe(t of immortality, and been anoitited for a heavenly corona tioni. lief A fter Mary's marriage, the (lean had gone( to see his nephew, andl easily in dumcedl hint to cotne back with him; so PR it was Bernard that lifted Mary from II lher carriage andl carriedl her in his strong arms to the rootm she never left again; and it was Bernard that rode i day and night, so that lie might bring a few hours earlier the child which was to comafort Mary's dying hours. 8 Int ordler to excuse the step) she had akeni, and procure her father's promise to keep lher little dlaughter, she hadl heeni compelled to dhivulige all the cruel mnarty rdom of her marriedl life. After this revelationi it was niot haid to nt dherstandc the dean's wreetchied look, and( htis pasioni(tate, pleadling prayers, and the music which was an articulate agony. I (could( understand, too, now the angry, longing look on Bernard's face, and his miserable restlessness; but ne'her of the men showed, in Mary's preisence, any feeling which could mat- the peace of her descent into the grave. I went often to see her the next few months. It was like lying with her at "the (Gate Beautiful" of IIcaven. I used to wonder at her loveliness, and rejoice in her certain hope, but I never ( p)itied her. As I said before, I kept that feeling for the hopeless grief of the old man and the bitter sorrow of the young one. Just before Christmas I went over to the dean's, after an absence of three (lays. Despair and remorse wvere sit ting in the handsome chambers, and a slow bitt certain sorrow creeping up the marble stairs. The next day ai nar rowv cofilin had separated father and dlaughter, mother and child, husband and wife, lover qad beloved,as effectual Sly andl as widely as all the starry (A spaces. 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