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SOUTH 5Xi^gPft?ARCH ., 188!.. NO MUM. ? I yr e where; ay: u do ] o; #' * SOe looked at me aa If ft stone Kf. Bad ia a poo ber vision broke; 3J" vX'ben aal<l to me. in childish tone, JDear sir, I oan not tell to yon g." . How 1 same by my eyestw bine." K8-2 ~AIy mamma lovos me, and at night I sleep wltbin a curtained bod, -v And mamma tucks the olothos in tight, ,. 'iben lightly strokos my ouily head ; . I pray, 'Iluy me down to Bleep,' & K When ia beneath the olothos 1 creep. "Vhea papa oomoa and Bays to me, ^Hw *l>oar ifttlo baby, sweet good night,' . Xheh I am stiM a* I oan be HutU there breaks tne morning light; BR, Then when I in the morning wak% lEMfe. BBaSy. a pray again, Tor Josua' sane.'" H 3 "Bat, darling, with the hair of gold, as Tbo quoetion that I asked Of you ^ *Wby "W^-^> y?^SfSaSkM'm POOR LITTLE EMILY. ? . ????? The History of a Prudent Marriage. BY MISS MDLOOK. CHATTEP. L Well. I am glad it has <omo ofT at Inst, for n?ver (hero a weddiug bo talked about," Bfsi 1 Mr?. Smiles. "It hasn't cu.i.e o.".' > t," ropliod Mrs. Kuowle, shaking her head mysteriously. "And, for my part, even though we sit t-ere, in the very church, with the e'erk arrauging the cushion?, and poor .lohu Ilowerbnnk ? Tie looks uorv^ua.-iloo-m't hul oven though m iriiTnffTffi^rTii r nud deflower?walk* iug up and down the aisle before our very v ?yea?I say, Mrs. Smiles, I shall never believe, till 1 ?oe the r n? on he-i Auger, that hey are really married. IIow st ange it iseems! Poor Emily Kendal?John lJowcrbank's wife!" "Why do yon say 'poor Emily Kendal,' poor John liowerbauk,' when it is such r fiuitablo match?except in years, porhnps; but a man's ago is of no consequeneo? And I then Miss Kendal looks so much older than sho really is, and is such a gravo, sednto | sort of person?grown old-maidish already, j I'm sure, when I looked at her at their farewell dinner-par y last week in Queen I Anne street?I could hardly believo it was only two years since the hall there, when 'she caroo of age. Such a splendid affair! l)o you romember it?" "Indeed I do!" said abruptly the other lady, who had not been paying much attention to Mrs. Smiles conversation. Hef broad, honest, regular-featured Lancashire fuce?sho had been ono of the fait? "Lancashire witches" till sho dovoloped into coarseness of color and ai/a?who fi\?d earnestly njion the church door, where John iiowerbank had just entered, and where his wife to bo was expected every moment to enter. But Mrs. Knowle carefully hid herself?the good woman was usually not at all given to surreptitious proceedings ? behind the curtains of the pew, which was iu that gloomy old church, so noted for fashionable weddings, St. George's, Hanover Square. By the number and style of the guests, this was evidently a fashionable wedding, too; and Mrs. Smiles?a bright, dapper, shallow little Londoner? evidently longing to see moro of the lino dresses, proposed that they should chnuge their places, and get a little nonrer to the altar. "No, I don't want her to sco me. She mightn't like it," said Mrs. Knowle. " NVhy not?- when your husband is a partner in John Bowerbank's lirm, and they have always been such friends? I'm suro I fully expected you would have boon asked , to the wedding!" "So I was, hut I declined to go. I couldn't ! 6omohow. I was certain it would bo very j bad for her, poor thing,!" added Mrs. i Knowle to herself. But lier little mystery, whatever it was, ' escaped Mrs. Smiles' penetration, for just then that lady's wholo attention was on- j grossed by the primary object of this sight, ; gazed at by all assembled in church with the fervid eagerness of women over wed- I dings?tbo bride. John Iiowerbank'8 wife?or to bo made j v i. such in fifteen minutes?was a little lady, , *> fragilo and white, whom you could hardly ! distinguish clearly under her mass of snowy silk, her clouds of lace, and her tremulous wreaths of orango-hlossoms. "She is slmkiug a good deal, poorlamb?" ! snid Mrs. Knowle, half in soliloquy. I "And how tightly sho holds hor father's arm!" "Mr. Kendal lias liron n crond father, nen. I Elo say; though ho won't stand thwarting?4 ! e always will have his own way. Perhaps she was sorry to leave him, being the only child." "Hum!" again soliloquized Mrs. Knowle, ' "Ilush! the service is beginning." It was Boon begnn?soon ended?the sol- . emn words which raado Emily Kendal John llowerbank's wife. Sho roso up frony | * her knees, nnd ho roso up, too?that grave,) I gray-hairod, commonplace, and yet not ilP looking bridegroom?thirty years at leas^ J her Rouior. No longer .nervous now, ho gavo her his arm, ami led her away to thej j vefitry, through the open door of which thu two ladies observed him stop, formally and in a business-like way ho was a thorough man of business?to lift hor veil, and give her tho lirst conjugal kiss. "Well, it's all over; but I never thought I should seo this day," said Mrs Knowles, her broad, honest breast relieving itself of much pent-up feeling wiih a great sigh. "Poor dear girl! poor littlo Emily!" 0"Why will' you call her 'poor?' " persisted Mrs. Smiles. "I'm sure I should bo delighted to see any one of my girls mnko j so good a marriage; and to such a thor. ?ughly respectablo husband?'John Bow- j erbanic .t Co., Merchants, Livtypool.' | Why, their nnmo is ns good as the bank; as t you ought to know, who have been in tbo j . firm so many years. And as for (be gen- I tleinun himself, though I nover saw him r before to-doy, bo seems reallv ouite tlio gentleman; and I, for one, would fur rather j give a daughter to on elderly man?ovon a widower of good means and unimponehnblo , character ? than to any harem-scarem young follow, who would soon make ducks and drakes of her money?aud Miss Ken dal has a great deal of money, I understand?" "\os?moro's tho pity. Fifty thousand pounds." "Was it so much?" said Mrs. Smiles, in great awo. "Yes; for sho said to mo one day sho I wished she could change it into fifty thou- I nand peuce." "She must hovo been out of her senses." j ^ "Perhaps she was, poor dear, for tho j ft 1 itr"; irnr iirViiifc. njjmlijjij -en aSmirably prudent marriage. )b, my dear, when I married Edward Knowiof and he vu a clerk end I was el milliner, and we bad bat two. hundred a fear between us, we were happy peoplehappier than these! For we lored one another, and we married for lore. And there was not a single ' canse or impediment' ir the Bight of God or man why we shook not marry. "Which?God forsire her?ii more than I can say of John Bowerbank'i wife." Mrs. Smiles looked bo shocked, so fright ened, that too candid Mrs. Knowle coal almost have cat her tongue ont for th foolish speech she had made. She kno1 that Mrs. Smiles was a terrible gossip, be she also knew that a certain dim sense c duty and pride, which exists in many grei talkers, made her, howovor, unscrapuloc over a secret whioh she had ferreted oat < guessed at, if honestly triiBted, by no meai untrustworthy. With a sudden deoision for the position was eritioal enough?tl good Liverpool lady turned to her Londc woman in h way^end said e^Mtly: # ^ u iikiiwi ?j? again, muugu it wBb nothing disoreditabl my dear, I do assure you. Indeed, as r Kurds obarncter, not a word conld ever 1 breathed against Emily Kendal, or h father, either. They bear a perfectly ui blemished name. And porhapB what ha] pened was nothing more than happened almost every pirl in her teens?they full love and out of love a dozon times befo they marry but I never thought Emily wi that sort of a girl, either." "And was she in love, or engaged? I tell me. Who was it? Anybody I know said Mrs. Smiles, eagerly. Mrs. Knowlo wished herself at the bo torn of the sea before she had let her fee ings carry her away into making such cruel mistake, such a fatal admission; bi still the only safe way to remedy it was t tell the whole truth, and then trust to h< friend's sense of honor. After all, it wr not a very terrible truth. As she had we Baid, the thing hnppons dozens of times t dozens of girls. "Ill toll you the whole story, Mn Smiles, if yon will promise not to speak t it. Not that 'it' was anything bad; poc dears! thoy were so young, it was ancii natural t*?>?** ?*" iutovB, dm caused us?my nusuanu ana mo ?a grer deal of trouble at the time, for it happene in our house." "This love affair?" "Yes, a real lovo affair?not a bit lik poor John Bowerbank's soborcourtship, bu an old-fashioned love affair; heart-wnrrabo warm that Edward said it put him i mind of our own young days. And th people woro " "I can guess, for I was with yon tw days of the tirao of Emily Kendal's visii and I think I can sco as far into n mill stone as most people. It was young Stcn Louse?" Mrs. Knowlo nodded, with a sad look i her kindly eyes. "Just so! Boor follow, have scarcely spokon his name, even to m husband?ever since ho sailed to India, year nnd a half ago. Wo were so sorry I loso him. He was a clerk in our firm, yo know?entered tho office as a boy of fiftoe ?and that was how ho came so much t our houso while she was visiting us. An ho was a fine young fellow, (piito the gen tleniau; and she was a lass in her teonf and a bonny lass she was, too, tben?so c course they fell in love with ouo unotberand, mercy me! how could I help it? II behaved very honorably, poor fellow! cam and told me at once as soon as ever ho ha proposed to her?that is, if he over di formally propose. I rather think not, bi: that they found each other's feelings b tho merest accident. For I remember h said to mo, in such a burst of passion as never saw yet in mortal man, 'I'vebeen a ass, and some folk might call me a knav ?for slio has fifty thousand pounds and haven't a half-penny!' Poor lad!?poc lad!" "And what did you do?" "What could I do?shut tho strlile-doo when tho steed was stolen? Why, mvdoa woman, I told you?tho poor things love ouo another." An argument which did not seem to woig very much with Mrs. Smiles. She dret herself up with dignity. "A most uufortuunto and ill-advised nt tachmeut. 1, as a mother of a family c daughters. must cert uinlv say " "What would you say?" "That I would consider it my business t prevent it." "IIoa could T prevent it?" exclaimed Mrs Knowlo, pathetically, as if tho troubles he warm heart had undergone at that tim wero hitter even in remembrance, "tier wero two nice young people?one nineteen tho other five-and-twenty, meeting over day?liking one another's company, tindin out continually how well they suited am how dearly the3' enjoyed being togethoi In truth tho very sight of them wulkin under the lilac trees, or sitting outside th drawing-rooiu window with a heap of book between them, talking and reading, am laughing to tliomselves in tin ir muocont child sli way, used to do my heart good Many a time L thought if God had bee pleased to give Edward and me such daughter, or if our little Edward, that' i.vuig w lining id r ma liioiuer, ill (lai church-.vnrd?well, that's nonsonse!" sai tho good woman, with a sudden pause an choking?of tho voice. All 1 moan is thai in our childless houso, those young poopl wero very pleasant company; and I use often to think if either of them was my owr oh, wouldn't I do a deal to make them hot linppy! l>ut it wasn't to bo?it wasn't t be. And now she hns gone and mnrric John llowerhank. "Not." continued tho lady, nfter a pause "not that I have a word to sny agninst Job Uowerbank. lie is Mr. Kendal's friend, an my hushaud's fiiend; thotlireoare all ahot the same ago, too. ifo is a very good nini but he isn't John Stonhouse. And, o mo! when 1 call to mind how fond Job Ktenhouso was of Emily Kendal, an how fond poor Emily was of him of a tho misery they went through togtthr ?of tho nights I sat by her bodsid until sbo sobbed herself to sleep?and c tho days when young Btenbouso went t and tro between our houso and tho count ing-house, with his face as white as dentl and his lips fiercely set, and a look o stony despair in his eyes. Oh! my dear, think I must have been dreaming when I sai tho wedding this morning, llow could sb do it?" "Did sbo do it?what did she do?"' "Well, not much, after all, 1 supposo, said Mrs. Knowle, with a sit.h. "Edwar n.,,1 1 1 - I- -1 ?? J ?in* u'auu uimnitm virv iiuu u nuuui 1 at the time; and yet such tlun^s occu every day, a d people tbink nothing abov them. We did, though. We couldn't hp any reason on earth why Mr. Kendal sbonl hnvo blamed us ho severely for ' nllowin such a thing to happen.' Allowing? Ah i wo could have possibly prevented it! A if, believing firmly that a real good mat riage with a good man is the bo^t thing tlu can befall any young woman, it would eve have occurred to us to try and prevent il lint Mi'. Kendal thought differently. Whe John Ktenhouso wrote to him for his con sent, and my Kdward inclosed it intliflver civilest, friendliest letter, detailing all Mi Mcnhouse'fl circumstances and our big rospect for him, and liis being lit for a hut band for any girl, except in not liuvin . Man cams down upon ns like 'It AamK*? 11 * I; bolt, and dismissed John frewrtfc* hww,. , I and Insisted on carrying Emily away, only I aha look to her bod with a nervous fever 1' and couldn't be moved, I own t war surf | prised. My dear, the poet eaye * Fall mi: < j have flinty hearts; ' bat it's my belief they ^ J i have no hearts at all. How that old felldw I could have looked at that poor little girl of i hie?hie daughter, wasted to a skeleton? i lying on her bed with her pretty eyee (that were the image of her mother's when Mr. . Keqdal married her) fixed on the celling } with each a hopeleee look, and her pretty hu 0 month, that never gave her father a sharp *> at word bank, bat only whispered to ma some- ?,' ! times, 4 Please don't let him be unkind to * )t 1 John'?how could he do it, and call him- * i self a Christian, and ro to ^chnroh VtLU 2 ! "Sunday, / ^ S 31 recollect, eontwnw ? * " 1 j I John Sfenkouie * n? hl?nrt^ ^at not <] Z. neither low-born a ?liable \ ffs!&r ss^pMbitb s igasyjaajR -j i was ? . J; '"ji jnualiMii That 1 b>iJivlJl/l'itf Aiy1 &1i s&an d said. Mr! i [p* I Kendal wanted her to make what he called ej ! a Bnitable marriage?that is, where every- 1 bo ' thing was right and proper?money equal, * et position equal ? all done according to \ aj rule?gentleman coming a courting for a j p? i month or two, lady smilingly receiving ^ to | publio attentions, then gentleman going 1 jn , first to ask papa's consent, and, that given, ' ro j making a formal oiler, and being accepted a a8 ; and married immediately in grand style, I with six bridosmaids, and twenty carriages 1 )Q with white horses, just as we had to-day. I1 Oh, how could she do it? But perhaps t she couldn't help it. I saw from the first she was a wonk, gentle creature. Why, j ]. she used to go into hysterics and fainting fj a tits when I would have faced that old ty- p rant with a heart as hard as his own. Bless " 0 my life! 1 would have fought through a k ,il | regiment of soldiers for tho sako of my Q ls | Edward; but she, tho frail, trembling lamb ?! 11 ?poor thing?poor thing!" j( o j And tho largo, loud Lancashire woman, j with tho womanly heart, dropped a tear or n j. two which she smothered in her laoed it >f pocket-hankerchief, and turned out of the ^ >r ! quiet street in Mayfair, where the two ladies lowanl iieen Anne street. t ?< it I "Fur," said she, "I mast get a peep at d her whon she goes away. I was very fond ol of poor Emily Kendal. ol I "ilut tell me the rest of her story," n e , pleudea Mrs. Smiles. "Indeed, I will 11 it : never repeat it. And whom should I re- fJ - | peat to? for I scarcely know anybody in her " ' circle, and she is now removing quito out j o of it. I suppose she will settle perma- xl ! liently in Liverpool?" 0 | "Yob; John Eowerbauk has one of the h j handsomest houses in all liirkenhead. Ilia tl - | long widowhood alone hindered his taking 01 - j his place at tho very top of our Liverpool T I society. Now he will do it, for he is a s^,- j* n | cial man, and likes show, quite a different 1 person liom poor John JStenhouse; who y | would have spent evening after evening by ?j a his own fireside with his books or his pi-, o auo-playiug?he was tho linest musician hi u j I ever knew, and built a chamber-organ a n with his own very hands. I have it still, fe o for ho left it to me when he went abroudi" tl d " Why did ho go abroad?" w "I'll tell you, at leaBt so far as I know, "j i, for lie was very communicative up to a ^ if certain point, and then he ceased, and held w - j his touguo entirely, and 1 couldn't 'unmp' st o him, yon know. Lesides, if 1 came within e | a mile of the subjoct, the look of his face di d j frightened me. iio was terribly in love lc d ! with Emily Kendal." ii it j "It's a bad thing to bo terribly in love, y and not at all conducive to the comfort of 111 0 1 society," observed Mrs. Smiles, sententi- ?' 1 , ously; but Mrs. Knovvle was too full of hot* ^ n own remembrances to reply. al e ! "Oh, what a day that whb, when, after I John Stenhouse's letter, down came Mr. k if Kendal to .Liverpool after Lis da ugh- p ! tor. Oh, tho daily storms \ lived in? n j morning, noon and night?tho interviews e' r | in our dining-room anil in the poor little r | thing's bed-room, for bIio took to hor bed '* d the veiy first day. llow wo argued and " | reasoned, and comforted, and advised, 1 n li uml my good mau, for wo felt to those two g v ; young peoplo just as if thoy wore our own rr j children; and we wondered, with an amaze- w - j ment that childless people often feel when h f they 6ce how other people throw away their a j blessings, what could have possessed the j old father to seo his only daughter almost o dying before him, and go on killing her, j for her own good, ho said; but, as every- j, i. ' body else said, just for his own pride and ft r vexation at thwarted authority. Money, p o too, money wub at tho root of it all. If a o 1 Joliu.Stenbonse had been in the position of X i, I Johu llowerbank, Mr. Kendal would have ci y ! gono down on his knees and worshipedfcim; P g i 1 know he would. As it was, he just kicked il i him out of doors." 8 p.1 "That was rather ungentlemanlv." g ! "1 don't moan literally. Mr. Ken. j o dal is never that. Besides, he had g s . his own credit to keep up; he had p d always borne tho charucter of be- d ', ' ing the best of fathers, as perhaps ho had ti I. j boon till this happened. \Vo are all of us " u ; Very perfect creatures so long as we are n a not tried. Gracious mo! when I looked 81 9 j to-day at that stately, handsome out gen- ?! ? i tleiuan, who, when ho wus uBked, ' Who lJ ; givcth this woman to bo married to this g ' man?' looked bo smilingly and benignant, t)1 ' ; mid remember whnt I've seen him look tl ? I like! It's a ipieer world, a very quoer d world, my dear." a; ' Mrs. Smiles agreed; she generally h agreed in everything with everybody at the . 0 time. d I "Well, tho poor yonng fellow was dis- (| I missed. Of courso tliero was no help for Ci ? | it; tho girl being under ago, tho father had si " | tho law in his own bauds. Nothing short w of an olopomont, which no honorable man s< l' ! !iko John Stonhouse would ever bav? (1 ' j dreamed of, could have saved poor Emily. J1 And then her money?' hor detestable r. !j money,' as her lover called it more than ^ once. Every bit of honest pride in him ,, was galled and stnng lo (ho (piick. 'Iter f| \l father thinks, all the world will think, that t I wanted her for her money,' he used to ' say; and sometimes this feoling was so n 0 strong in him that I fancied he was half k inclined to draw back and givo her up. But n 1 I told him not to bo such a coward, for it 2 ; was cowardico; fear of tho wicked tongues j and not of tho good ones. Nobody who tj saw sweet Emily Kendall and honest John t ' Stonhouse would have doubted thut they j were marrying lor love?real love. But, a ? my dear, I'm growing terribly long- wiaded, ii , and it's nearly two o'clock, and they were v j, to leave nt half-past, the bridegroom and J Iho bride. Oh, dear me! and once we planned her traveling dress that sho was to go away in with poor dear John!" Hero Mrs. Knowle became uuintolligi1 bio, and Mrs. Hmiles fidgeted a little; for, J r deKpito her interost in tho lovo-tale, she y was beginning to want her lunch. \ |TO BE CONTINUED.) < Prof. Davidson says that tho En- 1 l! gliwli langungo is easier to ue |iiiro than ? any other spoken, while only half a * dozen English speaking people have r. boon able to master tho Chinese. He " j thinks the whole world will spoak only g English in time. TBitN AVION AX. mauch won Text: "Jtwa tWM E ^kJ liar* Tilt, ?7-88 Golden Text: Mark v*?0P^Pm{? Commentary Between this leeaon and tbe itiBto^gft ire tb? record of the death oWiiMW Kptist, tbe ft?d ingot the multifc|*ak^?M rferent occiwioni?t^th^walkiog 0^ Mwcomti into the town of Caeearea Philippi, not Casaroa on the Mediterranean where Peter flrst preached the gospel to Cornelius, ho Gentile centurion, and where Philip the ivangelist and his four daughters lived (Acta r., 1; xxi.,8), but the extreme north of Canaan ind tho most northerly j oint of Christ's ourneva. Lukeix, IK says that He was alone vitb His disciples, and that He was praying, datthew xvi., 13, says that His question was: ' \V hom do men say that I, the Son of Man. imi" Not that He cared what inen apid of iiin, nor did He need to ask them, but for heir sakes He asked the question that He night awuken and interest them, draw forth 'oter's confession, and make known to them he truths of our Jcsson. 23, 2'.?. "Peter answereth and said unto lim, Thou art tho Christ" After drawing rom them tho opinions of others, He ihoa ointdly and personally puts tbequeation: Hut whom say yothatlatm" You may now Him as Jesus who saves and keepa you, s Lord whom you delight to acknowledge 3 your possessor and proprietor, but do you now Him as the Christ, the coming King of srael nnd of the whole earth? JO. "lie charged them that they should tell 0 manof llim. '' Matt, xvi.,'JO, says to tell no inn that He was Jesus the Christ. He na?ar_ . >rbado them to say that He was Jaana avionr, but now that tlm rn.in?? * ^"rOPBIds them to make Him known 1 tho Christ. . III. "Ho began to teach them that the Bon ! Sinn must suffer." At His flrst cleansing [ the temple He had foretold His death and ssurrection (John ii., 19-21), and later,when ley asked a sign lie spoke of Jonah as a 'po of his deatli and resurrection (Matt. xiL. I, 40) ;Lut this is His first particular and full lnouncement of this great event which He rain repeats on two other occasions (ix.,31; :>4). 31. "Peter took Him and began to rebuke im," saying, "lie it far from Thee, Lord; lis shall not bo unto Thee" (Malt, xvi., 22), \ as in the margin, "Pity Thyself, Lord." his was tho natural man speaking, and the ndency of the natural man, even in the hristian, is to pity himself and seek.his own ise, and against this self indulgence we mst as Christians earnestly couteud, ever ielding our bodies a living sacrifice. 33. "He rebuked J eter, say ifig. Get thee beind me, Satau." Peter had just given forth sweet saviour of God in his grand conssion of Jesus as tiie Christ, and now from le same mouth comes the things of men iili Satan urging on; "out of the saute louth proooodetb blessing and cursing"' as. iii., 10). It was never so with Jesus; nt of His mouth proceeded only gracious ords, and such n? the Taiu*i ioiu Him to iy (John xii., 40). 34. "Whosoever will come after Me, let him eny himself, and take up his cross, and fol>w Me." It is a most precious truth that the ivitution to come is to "Whosoever will" \cts x., 43; Horn, x., 11-13; Rev. xxii., 11); nd him that coineth shall in no wise be cost Lit (Johu vi., 37); but it is also true that no no can truly como, unless they are preparud > deny self niul bear the cross after Jesos, nd this daily (I.uke ix , '?'>). 3.">. "For whosoever will save his life shall >se it" That is, whosoever chooses this resent life with its joys, iu preference to the nrrow way of separation from this present vil world unto Christ, shall find in the end iat his portion here was his all, and his enlyment ended when he left this world; hilo ho who chooses Christ and fellowship ith Him as his portion here, prepared to reounce with the whole heart, the world, the esh and the devil, will find that while he lay not have had great success in this rorld and, perhaps, been sorely tried, yet he as had (.<od's own peace and joy in nis soul iki simn inneru everiasimg me. 30. "For what shall it profit a man, if be mil gain the whole world And loae his own nil." Let a man choose the present if be iiinks Ixist; let him accumulate millions; let im try all the riches of pleasure and fame nd worldly power; let him, if he is able, go lto it as largely as Solomon did (Eccl, iL), nd let him enjoy it all for a hundred years. Vhatthon? '1 hey may put his body in a Askot of rosewood or mahogany, give it a orgoous funeral, and lav it in a marble jinb, hut where is he? 1 lis torment has beun and it shall never end. 37. "What shall a man give in exchange or his life?' If ho loses it by refusing to let esus save him it is gone forever; the great ulf is fixed and they cannot pass from one lace to the other. The life of every taividual has three stages, that porion which is spent hero in the mortal body, hat between death and resurrection, nd that nfter the resurrection. If the first tage is yielded to Jesus, then between death id resurrection the spirit is with Christ in nradiso, and at the resurrection of the just io soul and l>ody are wanted to be with and ko Christ forever; but if the first stage is lisspent and withheld from Jesus then is io luturo of that soul dark and awful. IW. "Of him shall the Son of Man be diamed." The Christ will return in power nd great glory (Matt, xxvi., 04: Col. Hi., 4), ringing Ills saints with Ilim. Ho shall come i limning lire, yielding vengeance on them int know not Ood and obey not the Gospel 1. Th., i., 7-10), and not oqly so,but when He onies to the air for His people many of them linll he ashamed if Ho finds them mixed up itli the world and worldy tilings instead of >parato therefrom, arid watching for Him I. John ii., :iS). lie wants a separate and o!y pcoplo to witness faithfully for Him in Iris dark and sinful world, willing to ncnowledgo Hun in business, and at home, in! in jiII our intorronrso with our fellow nen, and nothing short of a whole-hearted ovotion to Hun will bring His approval in hut day. IX, 1. "Some of them that stand here shall ot taste of death, till they have seen the ingdom of (hwl cofne with power." And Iter six days He fulfilled this word to three f them when on the mount of transguration tlioy woro eye witnesses of lis majesty. (If. Toter i., 10.) They saw esni transfigured, Elijah representing hose who shall l>e caught up without dying, htsc.s representing the dead and risen saints, id themselves in mortal bodies. Thus shall t 1.0 when Horoturns to restore all things of rluch th? prophets have spoken, to establish lis kingdom on this earth and relgi f witb lis saints over it ~~Lc?wn Helper. In all the Vanderhilt mansions are life-size lortraits of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the ounder of their fortunes; also of W. H. ^underbills. All the portraits of the former vere taken a few years before his death, and ihow a handsome old gentleman with a lighly clerical cast of countenance, more iko a college dean than a railroad kln?r. Miss Mary And*rsov, the actress, paid i visit of several hours to the penitentiary at Jollet, III , the other day. She tasted the soup prepared for the convicts, bit into a big Chung of brc-aii, and showed herself deeply interested in what she saw d.iring Ittr brief day behind the bars, 1 I Amen Sal lie. . Owt"i?a?r Muff and bis cherry wife Set out tor town one day .A#d left, with wise injunctions, _ Their little ones at puty. There was Bailie, who wns twelve at leasts ad Johnnie nino or more. Wj?h the household pet and baby, 8 west May, aged four. Tib* farm-house caught on Ore that day. Just how no ono could tell, Ttao children quenched the flames alone |hr working brave and well. 1m whan the farmer came at eve, They crowded cloee and high, And Johnnie backed by Sallto, ^ Told what they did, and why. But ttttlo May, somehow, 1 Had nothing much to say iTTntfl her father, smiling, asked: "What did you do to day I" 'There wasn't much that 1 tould do," She said, with down-cast eye, "For Johnnie bringed the water here And 8allie made it fly. Bo I dot up in the torner. Wis my bands all folded tight, m*. To workers in the temperance cause There's nothing to explain, For think this story over And the application's plain, If vou can't be a second Uougb, Nor work as Finch has done, Do what you can, with earnestness, 'Till right and victory's won. Remember that old couplet, For here you'll find it's true, That "Satan finds some mischief still a For idle hands to do," a And "when your guns are loaded," " While you "guard the faith with zeal," Say "Amen. Bailie," so the world w Around shall hear and feel. tc ?Libbie J. Sherman, in Waterloo Observer. m 01 The "Family Entrance." ? Among the worst features of the New g' York saloon is what, with unconscious but horrible satire, is cal od the "family en- tu trance," a side door leading into a little par- fr titionsu off apartment, 'with wooden and oi glass sides and a sliding window like thut at se a ticket seller's at railroad stations or a river a\ KOHuoau 1 nere la American politeness D. even there, for while serving a round of ob wfefcw; KMAgaJn! J, Eitcher, tin pail, growler or bottle passod to w im by the vice marked woman who waits at Hf the "ramily entrance."?Xeiv York Prets. ?? th Normal and Abnormal Schools. fo The nine normal schools of this State show an average attendance of with an enrollment of (W28, whilp the .'10,000 saloons of our State show an attendance of oOD.OOO; but these latter are abnormal schools. It is estimated that every normal school graduate costs the State $ 1000; und if every abnormal school graduate costs the Stale no more, what an expensive luxury abnormal schools must be! The abnormal graduate takes his degree in the gutter, or the jail, or tho poor- A house. When taken, who shall say that it hi has cost the State less than the sum above cr named! And is it not dear ut any price.'? New York Voicef Sick of Hia "Business." A reporter of a Chicago paper says: I in walked into the bar of one of tne big hotels | o\ of this city the other dav and found the liew proprietor sitting at one end of tho bar. VWhere is your egg nog bowlf* 1 asked. Ci "{iaven't any this year," he replied. "Do oi you know," he continued, "that a man iu NV this business gets mighty sick of it. 1 don't nl know why. sometimes, 1 remain in it. Hocause, J suppose, 1 am not tit for anything else. But 1 find a growing repugnance to it. It is bad enough to have to berve this btutT out to men when they come in and ask you for it. But to keep it in a bowl, to make it seductive in its appearance, thereby creating j*, an appetite often?for there are men who I can't look at the stuff without taking it? ^ that is something which I have concluded not to do any more." ' - I* Hereditary Alcoholism. The effects of hereditary alcohohsm are in- j? terestingly described by Dr. T. 1). C'rotliers, m in the I opular Science Monthlu In persons ? or sound mind, but infected with uu a|co- ^ holic taint, Dr. Crothors has observed some singular instances in which, at times of oxcitenient, and without any us? of intoxi- . cauts, every symptom of intoxication is ox- " hlbited. An unfortunate treasurer of n large manufactory upon being accused of . falsifying his books, suddenly appeared to " be intoxicated, both looking and walking "J like one who had drunk large quantities of 11 spirits.. The next day he* recovered, and * then made a full and satisfactory explana- " tion. His father hud been a sailor and a free drinker. Hardly less astonishing is the sudden, sympathetic drunkenness of persons who have formerly been addicted to excessive use of intoxicants. A prominent military man dining with some old com- )' rades, who became intoxicated, ru ldenly, v though be had drunk nothing but codec, be- v came as hilarious as the rest, made a foolish u speech, and, at length, had to be taken o home lit estate of Stupidity. Of temi>erance a lecturers who became Intoxicated while en- h gaged in describing the effects of alcohol, a Dr. Crothers gives some curious instances. g 1 W. C. T. U. Notes. p San Francisco has thirteen W. C. T. I Unions. g The W. C. T. U. of Nashville, Tenn.,maintains several night schools. The numner of W. C. T. Unions in Georgia ( has nearly doubled during the last year. t There are forty Y. W. C. T. Unions in t Northern California claiming an aggregate membership of 1000. ] it is said that in France from 18:>0 to 1S80, r there was an increase of 40,0J'J idiots, large- \ ly due to the use of wine. t The Women's Christian Temperance 1 Union of West Virginia is pushing the work { of establishing a Htate Industrial School. The Dominion (Canada) W. C. T. P. is j planning to hold its unnuul convention at ' Montreal in May or dune. Miss WillarJ is expected to be present. j "Down with the white-livered clergy ami t the Sunday-schools" was the complimentary t mrvfctafifn/1 am tl>e wall n+ n rcrutnt lirMtt'oPa' i meeting in Sandusky, Ohio. } Bv order of the Board of Education, I)r. Richardson's Temperance I/esson Book will ' hereafter be used in the public schools of i Prince Edward Island. i A large Loval Temperance legion was re- 1 cently organized at Tucson, Arizona. The 1 beat and most influential ladies of the city ' are at work for its success. 1 Rochester, N. Y., has eight local W. C. T. 1 Unions organized by wards, one society of ( colored women and two young women's 1 unions. Three are all united in a central 1 organization. From the I.ondon Lancet we leirn that ' many children of poor parents in Vienna frequently receive by way of breakfast nothing , more than a glass of spirits, often appearing [ in the school room drunk. Baron Liebig, the great German chemist, says that "as much flour as can he on the point of a table-knife contains ?s much j nutritive constituents as eight quarts of the beet and most nutritious beer that is made." According to the Inland Revenue Report < for the Dominion of Canada for the year I 1883, there has been a falling off, in the < amount of spirits taken for con nmption, of I more than twenty per cent.-from the average 1 of the four preceding years. This reinarka- j ble showing is attributed to the admirable working of the Scott act. The Quarterly Journal of Inebriety gives as the most noticeable feature of progress j toward sobriety in England, the great decrease of intoxicants usod in work houses, stating that during the last four yeurs there i has been a reduction of more thnn twontyflve per cent, while in twenty-four work houses of England and Wales intoxicAnte are absolutely prohibited. RELIGIOUS READING. We Shonld Hear the Angels Singing. If we only nought to brighten Every pathway dark with care, If we only trie^ Jo brighten All the Durdans others bear, Wt should hear the angels singing All around us, night and day; We sl)opld feel that they were winging At our side their upward way 1 If we only strove to cherish Every pure and only thought, Till within ouf hearts should perish . All that is with evil fraught. We should hear the angles singing All around ua, night and day; We should feel that they were winging At our side their upward way! If It were our aim to ponder On the good that we might win, Soon our jeet would coase to wander In forbiddan paths of sin; We should hear the angels singing All around us, night aud day; We should teal that they were winging At our side their upward way 1 If we only did our duty, . ^ Then the earth would wwnewDeanty Fair as that in Eden lost; We should hear the angels Ringing All around us, night tfnd day; ixr~ -u?i i ?t u suuum iwi mnv iwy were winging At our side their upward way. Unseen Protection. "A lady was wakened up one itaorning by strango noise of pecking at the window, pd when she got up she saw a butterfly fly ig backwards and forwards inside thf winow in a great fright, because outside there as a sparrow pecking at the glass, wanting ) reach the butterfly. The butterfly did not k> the glass, but it saw the sparrow, and rldently expected every moment to bo mght. Neither did the sparrow see the ass, though it saw tfto butterfly, which fcahse of the thin sheet of glass, was aclally as rafe an if it had been miles away 0111 the sparrow." It is whun we forgot ir Protector that our hearts fail us. Elisha's rvant was in great fear when he voke in the morning and saw the city of otlian encompassed with hoi se< and i&rlots and a great host, but when his eyes eye opened at the prayer of the Prophet, "his fffgyunshed, for no beheld the moui.%.ins aved on Thee, fiectfflfSriftk. _TZ!i?U The Lord shall pre servo thy going out'atilti iy coming in from this time forth mid event irevermore." "Though now unseen by outward sense, Faith sees him always near; A guide, a glory, a defence; Then, what have you to fear?" ? WaUmarks for Pilgrims. A Fifty Thousand Dollar Mission. Mr. Arthur L. Shuniwny, a well-known mcrican newspaper correspondent, writing the Christian ITnion in answer to the iticisins on missionaries which have remtly appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, , ys: How shall I separate from a largo unber of similarly conspicuous proof - of le worth of missionaries, somo single romisccnco that will serve to vindicate my vn respect for the class of people belittled c j Mr. House? y One (luv as I was walking the streets of 1 unton, China, with Mr. Charles Seymour, i ir American Cousul Qencral in that city, ' e met and passed a quiet, inodcst-inaiiuer.-a j an on his way into* the city. Said Mr. . pymour: "Do you see that mail yondor?" pointing in ic direction of tlie receding stranger. I assented, and he continued: < "That is Dr. Kerr. He is in charge of the < eat missionary hospital yonder. The hostal was founded in 18.17, and has already i eated three-quarters of a million cases, I slieve. I consider that he is the peer of any ring surgeon in the world today. To my rsonal knowledge he undertakes, almost lily, cases which our most distinguished irgoons at home do not dare attempt, even Philadelphia, the medical capital of ir country. I suppose that humble an might just as well as not i enjoying an income of from (50,000 to 5,000 a year, instead of his present small ilary, if'he was only practising in the city ' New York on his own account. And I ippose ho knowns it, too." And when ho afterward jinssed through io hospital, inspected the photographs of peratiorts nlrendy performed, and viewed io array of deformities to bo treated that ftornoon, I could not. doubt that what ho ad said was literally truo Our liest lor C hrist. Mary hn<l received richest blessings at tho land of her I.ord. Her heart overflowed ritli love for Him, and nothing in all tho I'orld was too dear or too costly to bestow pnn Him. Wo she brought an alabaster box r very preci? us < intment, broke tho l?ox nd poured the ointment on His head. Who rouglit the b?st gift she hud. Ko wo ought II to bring our best things to Christ. Ho nvo tho b st He lmd for us. Ho gavo lis life; His heart was broken, and His recious bloo 1 was poured out for us. From lir/\no rrlAi'tr ITo InviulioC HOW flirt Imgf iftx of His lovo upon us. AVe owe to Him, therefore, the host of verytlilng we have. Wo should give Him ho host of our affections. Ho ought to liavo ho warmest place in our hearts, firing all ho gems and jewels of your lovo and put hem in the crown of Jesus. Wo ought to bring to Him the best of our ivrs. Too many give Him only the wasted emains. They' sqiond the vigor of their routh, the strength of their manhood, the >est of their life's energies in the world, in msiness, in selfishness, in sin; and when they ire old, seek to bring a poor, worthless offer:>g to Christ. They give the liest to the world and the faded leaves to Chi 1st. Btirely it is not such an offering that Jesus deserves. IN> ought to consecrate our cltUu'i od to Him; to spend our youth in His service; to nv our manhood and womanhood <>.i his nlnv. (ii-.e Him tlie arm when it isstrongest, lie foot wh n it is swiftes*. Ihe hrnin when t is clearest, the heavt when it is warmest, lie tongue when it is most eloipient. We ought to give to Him our host services. There are too many profe sing Christians who have time for everything hut the w >rk >f the Lord. It is a fair qu stion to put to rneh professing Christian, What are y u first? What is the one thing of your life which enkindles your warmest thought, which inspires your loftiest enthus asm, which impels yoiir l>est eir.'envor^. Is it the jlory of God, or is it your bushes", your vordlv ambition? bring Christ no more the mere waste and fragmentary services of your lives. Make not your Christian life any longer a secondary thing, bring not to the iltar of your I'edoemer any more a cold, lead, heartless service. Put Christ fiist, Do your best work sing your sweetest King, ?peak your tend rest word, perform your holiest ministry for Him. AVe shoul I bring our best gifts to Jesus. Is it not true too often that we keep our liest Tor ourselves, and give Him the things that we shall miss the least from on-- own stories? When our euns run over we give Him the :lrops that fall from the brim. When wo have eaten and are full, we sweep up the crumbs for Hiin Let us bring our dearest things and lay them on His altar, nothing is too go<xl or to'> costly to be bestowed on such a Saviour. Nothing is wasted whioh is given to Christ. No deed is in vain which is douo for Him No life is lost whicli is poured out iijion His altar. He accents the smallest deeds of love as done to liimself. Every lowly service, every self-denial, every beautiful deed of love done to a suffering one is an alabaster l*>v of ointment broken open to anoint Christ's head uud foct. Ho will gather up the perfume and keep it sweet und snored forever for a memorial of you.? Westminster Teacher. SUMMARY OF 00NQBES8. 'fT The Senate. R2d Day.?Eulogies were pronounced bjt several Senator* upon Lewis Cam, whose statue was unveiled in Statuary Hall... Ths House Census bill was passed with changes .... Mr. Coko finished bis speech on the Texas olection outrages....Mr. Cuilom reported back the House bill to organize the Territory of Oklahoma, and it was placed on the cab endar. The bill proposed by Mr. Butler as a substitute for the Springer Oklahoma bill authorizes the President to appoint five Commissioners to enter into negotiations and agreements with the Cherokee Indians for the relinquishment of all their title to th? Cherokee outlet to the United States. Md Day.?Mr. Vest's motion to reconsider the vote by which the conference roj>ort on the Direct Tax bill was agreed to. was re jected by a voto of eight yeas to forty eight nays The Senate then considered the Sundry Civil Appropriations bill. Among ths items is an appropriation of $4 ">,<*>' far a sea wall at otatcn Island depot, New York, and one of $?0,000 for the Sandy Hook Light ship. The amendment to pay Mrs. NV atte $8745, the remainder of ono year's salary of the late Chief Justice Waite, was opposed by Messrs. Corman and Berry as unwise, but the amendment for Mrs. Walts was finally agreed to; yeas, ?S: "?y, TfttlBtM' in Logan in Washington was agreed ha 54th Day.?Among the executive doctt "' inents presented was one frotn the Treasury LfejinrinK'nt, with a copy of testimony taken by S|>eciul Agent Byrne as to frauds In the New York Custom House....Tho resolution offered by Mr. Hoar as to John 8, McElwee, in charge of the Sugar Division of the Appraiser's ollice in the Now York Custom House, was agreed to....The Senate bill for tlio relief of settlers in Hettinger County. Dakota, was explained and passed. The bill suthorir.es an exchange of loans (on which homestead settlements were made by mistake) for other public lands with the North* >rn Pacific Railway Company....Mr. Stow?rt offered a resolution (which was referred o the Committee osi Contingent Expenses) .ontinuing tho select Committee on the Pacific Railroads until tho tndeh'cdnoss of all he companies to tho Government shall bo id justed Tho correspondence relating to he dismissal of Lord SackVillo was transit ittod to the Senate ...The Conference re>ort on the Omnibus Territorial bill was igreod to... .The Direct Tax bill was signed >y the presiding officer and then transmitted o tho President. .ViTM Day.?Mr. Stockbridgo, with the aid ?f two pages, sent up a petition against tho inactment of a so-called Sunday Rest law iontnining tiio signatures of 1130,000 citizeim ^tmmhU5l~?TT5T-?nTiv?,,umiJuaition to ap.'".Mr. cifcfc nb?a-kJ?J2L nvestigation of outrages at elections...TMr. Allison submitted the conforenco report on he legislative, Executive, and Judicial Ai>iropriatlon bill, and it wasngrood to....The Senate resumed consideration of the Sundry Jivll Appropriation bill, tha pending <juesion being on the amendment favoring steam ilntA iiriiitinnr mnnli{nae nm\ flwx " vns agreed to. ftlirii Dav.?Tho Sundry Civil and Agricultural bills were passed....There was conliderablq discussion over tho election outages resolution of Mr. Hoar. 57th Day.?Tho election ontrago question Kjcupied the entire day and was still (tending it adjournment Tho omnibus resolution,introduced by Mr. Hoar, which proposes to leal with later political events in tho South, was under consideration. Mr. Daniel nskod what facts had boon reported to the Coninitteo on Privileges and Elections. Mr. Hoar made a brie? reply, and then Mr. Darnel spoke for nearly live hours en the subject. . The House. liStn Day.?Tho House discussed tho Postoffice'Appropriation hill, and ofter a lively debate nn nmondment reducing to u year the minimum salaries of stenographers and postmasters was defeated.... Mr. Caswell, from tho conference committed on tho Direct Tax hill, presented the conference report.... Mr. LafooiP reported a substitute for tho hill providing for the creation, in tho War Department, of a bureau of harbors anu waterways, to umlortako all river and harbor improvements.... Mr. Putterworth introduced a joint resolution authorizing tho President to invito tho inombors of the Parliament of tho Dominion ot Canada and tho Cabinets of tlio sovernl provinces to visit tho United States as tho . guosts of tho Nation, and appropriated #15(1,. 0;K) for the purpose.... A night session was held. It was called for the consideration of business reported from tho Conmntteo on Military All'airs. Objections to "no quorum" .* . stopped all legis'ation. .v.h-h Day.?Immediately aftor the reading of the Journal tho contest over the Direct Tax Bill was resumod, Mr. Caswell calling up tho conference report as a matter of privilege. Mr. Crisp raised tho question of consideration agoinst the report, stating that he was willing to givo precedence to appropriation hills. The House determined?yeas 134. nays It:!?to consider tho conference report. Mr. Kelley moved to table tho motion to reconsider. Carried. Tho House adopted tho conference report on the Direct Tax hill ....The House agreed to the conference report on the Omnibus Territorial hill. (iOTii Day.?The Houso passod tho Post Office Appropriation hill....The conference ro|>ort on the legislative. Executive ami Judicial Appropriation hill was agreed to. ....Mr. Knudall introduced a resolution to amend tho rules so as to provide that on a* blank date tho House shall proceed in Committee of the Whole to tho consideration of tho Haiidall-Cowlos hill, anil that at 4 p. M. on tlint day the hill mid its amendments shall bo reported to tho House and tho previous question oruereu upon lis passage, 1111s n;ta discusse! at great length. 01 st Day.?Mr. Mills's resolution regarding the Senate's tariff n' tion was defeat-(I, I4:i to 8-1 The bill 10 retire Oenoral Ko<c~ crnns was passed Tiio bill to pension Mrs. Sheridan was paraed62 o Day.?Tho^ouse went into Committee of tho Whole on appropriation hills. Mr. Dockorv, of Missouri, was ca'led to Hit* chair. The Defi i ncy bill caino up as nnlinishod business Forty-seven of the sixty-three pages of the Deficiency bill were parse f. An amendment reimbursing the widow of General Hancock for money expendol by tier husband in entertaining French,German and other visitors nt the YorUtown centennial te'.ebration was passed....A mesuige front tho President was present;. I as soon as the Journal was approved ....On motion of Mr. Cox, the Senate amendments were concurred in to tho House bill for the taking of the eleventh census.... Tho House passed tho Senate bill to ratify and confirm tho ngreom *nt with, the Creek Nation of Indians for t he purpose of opening to settlement the unassignel lands in the Indian Territory ce led by tl.e Creeks to tho t'nited States.... It was tow two o'clock, the hour ct apart for tributes to the memory of G? neral Humes of Missouri. Mr. Hatch, in a feeling speech, offered the usual resolut ons of respect- Speeches were then innilu In' Mrdtrv I !f?pL'orv llnndfill Kniwlor. son, Hre-koniidgo, Long. Kayo is Butterworth, Kynn, llolman. Ma'sur, McAdoo, Glover, ami Morrill of Kansas The linus* Ihon adjourned out of respect to the memory of General Humes A NEW FRENCH CABINET. President. Cnrnot Announces the Names of the Next Ministry. President Carnot, of Franco, has signed a decree appointing the following Cabinet: M. Tirard, Premier and Minister of Commerce. M. Constans, Minister of the Interior. M. Kouvier, Minister of Finance. M. 'Jlivonofc, Minister of Justice. M. Fa 11 seres, Minister of Kdueation. M. Fave, Minister of Agriculture. M. Gu'es-Guyot, Minister of Public Works. M. do Frovcinet, Minister of War. Admiral Jaures. Minister of Marine. M. do Courcel, Minister of Foreign Affairs.