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[ABCH 1, 1889. NUMBifiK 9. I * - - EMfbnT TL^Tjt yum * -I'trtW utrt n? illfrL*iiJMiMn*iiiii> t . -" iT~ ' ~ - - - -- I ? Juki *4tf $<M* v y?3^wr* 9^1 t*>ui; I a ?fikq"flotd ^s 'f~'' ' ^^|)S OT Uouvoi^wai la her oycs: 1 Wpipw lftn not them/rom the ikies. , POOR LITTLE EMILY, | The History of a Prudent Marriage. ! BY MM 8 KULOOK. i CHAPTER L " 'Well, I am glad it has come off at last, f for never was Ihoro a wedding so talked E about," ani l Mr?. Smiles. 8 "It hasn't come oJ* v t," replied Mrs. fi . Knowle, shaking- her head 'mysteriously., . "And, for my part, even though we sit iioret fi ) in the verv ehnmh wiifc n? ? ?* ' ' > '. omaimu^lMg li the cwhiOM, and poor .John Kowerbnnw? j - be looks nervous, doesn't hof Bvmvthorn.h D ?S0*8Wi'iu uMoily man and a widower?walk- o lug up and down the aUle before oar very d yes?I gay, Mrs. Smiles, I shall never L Relieve, till I fee the ring on her finger, that they are rettlly married. How strango it seemsI Foor Emily Kendal?John Bow- p "* erbank's wife!" a "Why dt> you say 'poor Emily Kendal,' ? j- 'poor .John Bowerbank,' when it is such a a suitable match?except in years, perhaps; p but a man's Age is of no consequenco? And then Mist Kendal looks bo ranch older than d she really is, and is snoh a grnvo, scdato a: sort of person?grown old-maidish already. R I'm sure, when I looked at her nt their h farewell dinner-par y Inst week in Queon Anns street?I could hardly believe it wo^ h only two years since the ball there, when b the came of age. Suob a splendid af- v fair! Do yon remember it?" _ "Indeed I dot" said abruptly the other f( lady, who bad not been paying much at- ^ tention to Mrs. Smiles' conversation. Hof _ broad, honest, regular-featured Lanca- 0 hire face?she had been ono of the fair v "Ijancushiro witrh?n"tlll she developed into y coarseness of color and size?was tixed a earnestly npon the churoh door, where 0 John Bowerbnnk had just entered, and a where lit# wife In Jm wnn n.nnnln.l moment to enter, lint Mrs. iTnowle carefully bid herself- the pood woman _ was usually not at all given to surropti- i lions proceedings?behind the curtains ^ of the pew, which wsb in that gloomy1 ?| old church, so noted for fashionable wed- B dings, St. George's, Hanore'r Square. By n the number and style of the guests, this was a evidently a fashionable wedding, too; and _ Mrs. Smiles?a bright, dapper, shallow lit- ^ tie Londoner?'evidently longing to see more 1( of the fine dresses, proposed that they should ohange their places, and get a little nearer to the altar. ^ "No, I don't want her to see me. She mightn't like it," said Mrs, Knowlo. Q "Why not?? when your hnsband IS apart-,. ner in John Bowerbank's firm, and they Tl have always been such friends? I'm snre ^ I fully expected you would have beon asked to the wedding!" " So I was, but I declined to go. I conldn't ^ somehow. I was certain it would be very bad for her, poor thing, 1" added Mrs. Knowle to herself. n But her littlo mystery, whatever it was, * eseaped Mrs. Smiles' penetration, for just K then that lady's whole attention was en- _ grossed by the primary object of this sight, _ gazed at by all Resembled In ebnrch with ^ the fervid eagerness of women over wed- t? dlngH?tbo bride. j John Bowerbank's wife?or to be made 0 enob in fifteen minutes?was a little lady, h fragile and white, whom yon could hardly distinguish clearly tinder her mass of snowy n ilk, her clonds of lace, and her tremnlons tl wreaths of orange-blossoms. 1(i "She is shaking a good deal, poor lamb?" 1. said Mrs. Knowle, half in solileony. .1 "And how tightly she holds her father's ^ armr p "Mr. Kendal has been a good father, peo- d pie say; though he won't stand thwarting?\ lj he always will hare his own way. Perhaps cl she wise sorry to leave him, being the only tl child." ' el "Bam!" again soliloquized Mrs. Knowlej it "Hush! the service is beginning." w It wse soon begnn?soon ended?the sol-, 01 emn words wbiah made Emily Kendal o] John Bowerbank's wife. She rose up fromj h "her knees, and he rose up, too?that grave, b gray-haired, oomuonplace, and yet not ill-j J looking bridegroom?thirty years at leas^ her senior. No longer .nervons now, he *i gave her his arm, and led her away to the B vestry, through the open door of which the re two ladies observed him stop, formally and tl in a business-like way?be was a thorough b man of business?to lift ber veil, snd give n her the first conjugal kiss. "Well, It's all over, but I never thought b 1 should see this day," said Mrs Knowles, tl ker broad, honest breast relieving itself of ? mnoh pent-up feeling With s great sigh, uj "Poor dear girl! poor little Emilv!" ti "Why will* you call ber 'poor?'" per-, ai slated Mrs. 8mtlas. "I'm sure I should be ir delighted to aee any one of my girls make ai eo good a marriage; and tosuoh a thor- at -onghly respectable husband?'John Bow- tk erbimk & Co., Merchants, Livgfpool.' *1 Why, their name la as good an the bank; as | d< tpu ought to know, who bare bean In the firm so many years. And as for the gentleman himself, though I never saw him *< before to-day. he seems reallv qnlte the B! gentleman; and T, for one, would far rather al give a daughter to an elderly man?even a fV widower or good means and unimpeachable u eharaoter ? than to any harem-scare m young fellow, who would soon make dneka 1)1 and drakes of ber money?and Mies Ken- 81 dal baa a great deal of mooey, I under- * "loa?move's the pity. Fifty thousand ^ T* Wee it so much?" said Mrs. Bmilss, In great awe. P "Ye;; for efae Mid to me one dey the J" |s *i?h?d ?he could ohutge it Jnto flftjihou "Sl!enra?t here been out of her eeneee." B "Perhaps she tu, poor deer, for the [J Knowle, ud ha ?u a clerk and IkrtSsi nillinor, and we had bul two. hundred rear betweea as, we were happy peopleaappier then these! For trfc loved one an >ther, and we married for love. . And thai raa net a single ' oanee or impediment' i he sight of God or man why we shonl lot maTry. TVhfch?God torsive her?I note than I can say of John Bowerbank' rile." Mrs. Smiles looked so shocked* so fright med* that too oandid Mrs. Knowle coul rimost have cnt her tongue ont for th ooliah speech the had mada. Sho knoi hat Mrs. Smiles was a terrible gossip, bu 6He also knew that a certain dim sense e ty and pride, which exists in many gree fclkert, made her, however* unsernpuloai ver a secret whioh she.had ferreted oat o; inessod at, if honestly trusted, by no mean: ... m- ?UUT. mtcu and depend uptjn yowr never telling again, though it Was nothing disoreditabh nay dear, I ao assure yon. Indeed, as re Sards oharncter, not a word could ever b bre&thed against Emily Kendal, or h< rather, either. They bear a perfectly an blemished name. And perhaps what nap aened was nothing more thAn happened t ilrnost every girl in her teens?they fall i ove and out of love a dozen times befor hey marry?but I never thought Emily wa bat sort of a girl, either." "And was she in love, or engaged? D ell ino. Who was it? Anybody I know? laid Mrs. Smiles, eagerly. Mrs. Knowle wished herself at the bot om of the sea bofore she bad let her feel ngs carry her away into making such ifuel mistake, snoh a fatal admission; bo till the onto safe way to remody it was t< ell the wb~io truth, and then trust to he riend's /Tense of honor. After all, it wa tot aAery terrible truth. As she had wel the thing happens dozens of times b tozens of girls. "I'll tell yon the whole story, Mrs Unites, if you will promise not to speak b t. Not that 'it* was anything bad; poo ley,!, they wars so nused hs?my husband and mo?a grea leal of trouble at the time, for it happene< a our house." "This love affair?" "Yes, a real love affair?not a bit likt vurouuii DoveroHnK e sooercourcsnip, ou n old-fashioned love affair; lieart-warm? o warm that Edward said it put him ii lind of onr own young days. And tin eoplo were " "I can guess, for I was with you tw( ays of the time of Emily Koudal's visit nd I think I can sco as far into a mill lone as most people. It was young Stem ouse?" Mrs. Knowle nodded, with a sad look ii er kindly eyos. "Just so! Poor fellow, avo scarcely spoken his name, even to ro; usbond?over since ho sailed to India, i ear and a half ago. Wo were so sorry l< jso him. Re was a clork in our firm, yoi now?entered the ofhoe as a boy of fifteei -and that was bow ho came so much t? ur house while she was visiting us. An< 10 was a fine youug follow, quito tho gon onmn; and she woh n lass in her teons nd a bonny lass she was, too, then?so o ourse they fell in love with ono another? nd, mercy me! how oould T help it? Hi ehavod very honorably, poor fellow 1 cann nd told mo at onco as soon as ever ho ha< ropoHcd to her?that is, if he ever di( armally propose. I rathor think not, bu lat they found each other's feelings b; lio merest accident. For I remember h< aid to me, in such a burst of passion as ! ever saw yet in mortal man, ' I've been ai ss, and some folk might call me a knnvt -for sho has fifty thousand pounds and ] aveu't a half-penny!' Poor lad!?poo: id!" "And what did you do?" "What could I do?shut the stable-dooi hen tho steed was stolen? Why, my don: onian, I told you?the poor things lovet no another." An argument which didnotsoem to wcigl ery much with Mrs. Smilos. She drev erself up with dignity. "A most nnforlnnnte and ill-advisod at ichment. I, as a mother of a family o: auditors, must certainly say " "What would yon say?" "That I would consider it my business t< revent it." "How could I prevent it?" exclaimed Mrs nowle, pathetically, as if the troubles hei arm heart had undergone at that time ere bitter even in remembrance. "Iter* ere two nice young people?one nineteen le other fire-and-twenty, mooting ever} ay?liking one another's company, flndinj at eontinnnlly how well they suited anc ow dearly they enjoyed being together a troth the very sight of them walkinf nder the lilac troes, or sitting outside th< rawing-room window with a heap of booki etween them, talking and reading, anc mghing to themselves in their ihnooent bildish way, used to do my heart good [any a time 1 thought if God had beer leased to give Edward and me such i aughtor, or if our little Edward, that'* ring wailing for his mother, in Hah buroh-yard?well, that's nonsonsel" sale re good woman, with a sadden panse anc bokipg?of the voioe. All 1 moan is that i onr childless honse, those yonng people ere ve?v pleasant company; and I usee rten te think if either of them was my own b, wouldn't I do a deal to make them botl appyl But it Vvasn't to be?it wasn't t< b. And now she has gone and marriec ohn Bowerbank. "Not." continued the lady, after a pause not that I have a word to say against Jehi owerbank. He is Mr. Kendal's friend, anc iy husband's fiiend; the throe are oil nbon le same age, too. He is a very goocl man at he isn't John Stenhouse. And, ol tel when 1 coll to mind how fond Johi tenhouse was of Emily Kendal, anc ow fond poor Emily was of him?of al re misery they went through togethe; -of the nights I sat by her bedside ntil she sobbed herself to sleep?and oi 10 days when young Btenhouse went (< ad fro between onr hone* and the oount ig-house. with hie face as white aa death, ad hie lips fiercely set, hnd a look 01 ony despair in his eyes. Oh! my dear, 1 link I most hare been dreaming when I saw te wedding this morning. How could sh< ?it?" "Did she do it?what did she do?" "Well, not much, after ell, 1 suppose,' lid Mrs. Knowle, with a sigh. "Edware id I vexed ourselves very much about 1< \ the time; and yet snefh things occm ,-ery day, aud people think nothing about tem. We did, though. We couldn't se< ay reason on earth why Mr. Kendal should a\e blamed us so severely for * allowim ich a thing to happen.' Allowing? As li e could have possibly prevented itl Ai , believing firmly that e real good marage with a good man is the best thing that in befall any young woman, it would evei tro occurred to no to try and prevent it! tit Mf. Keudnl thought differently. When ohn Stenhouse wrote to him for bia conint. and my Edward inclosed it in the very vilest, friendliest letter, detailing all Mr. tenhouse's circumstances and our high ispeot for him, and his being fit for a husuod for any girl, exoept in not having 2 ! have no hearts at all. How that old felto^ A could h*ve looked At that poor little girf of ' 4 his?hla daughter, wasted to a skeleton? 5 lying on her bed wUh her pretty ?;m (UKrt were the image qt her mother'* when Hr. _ Kepdal married her) fixed on the oslling | with each a hopeless look, and her psefej h g month, that never gave her father a sharp f. r word book, bat only whispered to mesome- 5 I times, ' Please dont let him be unkind tb * II John?how oohldhe do it, and oall him* ^ 3 ! self a Christian, and go to church every b 1 Sunday, / dont understand! Yon mtxst m V rocoiioot," coutinned Mrs, ?Knoxie* "that m 4 John Sfenhouse was not a bad fellow, PJ (Psssfsaa^S!^ 5 3 Kendal wanted her to make what he called F ^ I a suitable marriage?that is, where every- ^ is | thing was right and proper?money equal, 6 position equal ? all done aocording (o * j rule?gentleman coming a oourting for a ? M month or two, lady smilingly receiving ^ q publio attentions, then gentleman going h n first to ask papa's consent, and, that given, " 0 making a formal offer, and being accepted a 8 and married immediately in grand style, B with Bix bridesmaids, and twenty carriages 11 0 with white horses, just as we had to-day. 5 * Oh, how could she do it? lint perhaps r, she couldn't help it I saw from the first she was a weak, gentle oreature. Why, g _ she used to go into hysterics and fsinting fr a fit^ when I would have faced that old ty- p< t rant with a heart as hard as his own. Bless " a my life I I would have fought through a ki p I regiment of soldiers for tlio sake of my 111 ?i Edward; but she, tho frail, trembling lamb | ?poor thing?poor thing!" r a And the large, loud Lancashire woman, with the womanly heart, dropped a tear or n< i. two whioh she smothered in her laoed ni f pocket-honkerchief, and turned out of the ?? r quiet street in Mayfair. where the two ladies , t toward '^ueenT^ine 'street. ??J* t "For," said she, "I must get a peep at 1 her when she goes away. I wis very fond of of poor Emily Kendal. of "But tell me the rest of her story," re ? pleaded Mrs. Smiles. "Indeed, I will th t never repeat it. And whom should I re peat to? for I scarcely know anybody in her '' r circle, and she is now removing quite out ' J of it. I suppose she will settle perma- x bently in Liverpool?" a "Yes; John Bowerbank has one of the Hi , handsomest houses iu all Birkenhead. Ills th - long widowhood alone hindered his taking or his place at tho very top of our Liverpool T1 society. Now he will do it, for ne is a So- J?' i cial man, and likes show, quite a different eft I person Irom poor John titenhouse; who m <f | wo.tld have spent evening after evening by yj i ; his own lireside with his books or his pi-. 3 ano-playing?he was the finest musician hi i 1 ever knew, and built a chamber-organ a i with his own very hands. I have it still, fet 3 for ho left it to me when he went abroodi" 1,1 J "Why did ho go abroad?" Wl "I'll tell you, at least so far as I knew, "? , for he was very communicative up to a f i certain point, and then he ceased, and held Wl - j his tongno entirely, and I couldn't 'pump' sa 0 him, you know. Besides, if I came within b ; a mile of the subject, the look of bis face de ] frightoned me. Ho was terribly in love lo 1 with Emily Kendal." in 1 "It's a bad thing to be terribly in love, f i auu not ui tin couuucive 10 iuo comiort or **" i | society," observed Mrs. Smiles, sententiI , ouoly; bat Mrs. Knowle was too fall of her 1 own remembrances to reply. aE s I "< >h, what a day that was, when, after [ 1 John Stenhoase's letter, down came Mr. la t Kendal to Liverpool after his dangh- pr ter. Oh, the daily storms we lived in? no i morning, noon and night?the interviews r j in oar dining-room and in the poor little V1 r j thing's bed-room, for she took to her bed ^9 1 1 the very first day. How we argued aiyl wj reasoned, and comforted, and advised, I nc l and my good man, for we felt to those two fle f young people just as if they wore oar own m children; and we wondered, with an amaze- w< . ment that childlesB people often feel when hi f they soe how other people throw away their ar blessings, what coald nave possessed the old father to see his only daughter almost 8" > dying before him, and go on killing her, for her own good, be Baid; but, as every- jjj . body else said, just for his own pride and at r vexation at thwarted authority. Money, in j ! too, money was at the root of R ali. If ar 9 ' Johu.Stenhonse had been in the position of "W , John Bowerbank, Mr. Kendal woojd have <*a f gone down on his knees and worshipedfeim; ?< r 1 know he would. As it was, he just kicked *? I him out of doors." "That was rather ungentle manly." fQ I "I don't mean literally. Mr. Ken- j( ) dal is never that. Besides, he had ? his own crodit to keep np; he had pi always borne the character of be- ui ing the best of fathers, as perhaps he had tt< boon till this happened. We are all of as Vary perfect creatures so long as we are not tried. Oracious me! when I looked to-day at that stately, handsome om gen- p tleraan. who, when he was asked, ' Who thl givoth this woman to be married to this Hk man?' looked so smilingly and benignant, mi and remember what I've seen him look thi like! It's a queer world, a very queer world, my dear." as! Mrs. Smiles agreed; she generally *n agreed in everything with everybody at the time. ,i "Well, the poor young fellow was diemissed. Of course there was no help for c0 it; the girl being under age, the father had sli the law in bis own bands. Nothing short w of on elopement, whioh no honorable man ?e like John Stennouse would ever have (J. drtsamed of, could have saved poor Emily. J" And thon her money?'her detestable { ' money,' as her lover called it more than once. Every bit of honest pride in him m woo liwira nuu IHIUK IV IDS UUIVB. " ner rtf father thinks, all the world will think, that tli | I wanted her for her money,' he ased to , say; and sometimes this feeling was so nc strong in him that I fancied he was half ki inclined to draw back and giro her op. Bat aI I told him not to be suoh a coward, for it -Jr r was oowardice; fear of the wicked tongues jf , and not of the good ones. Nobody who j( saw sweet Emily Kendall and honest John ti, Htenhouse would hare doubted that they M were marrying for lore?real lore. But, m i my dour, I'm growing terribly long* winded, it . and it's nearly two. o'olook, and they Were w to learo at half>past, the bridegroom and Jj , the bride. Oh, dear nie! and onoe we : planned her trareling dress that she was to SO awar in with nonr dear Jnhnl" , ' Here Mrs. Knowle became uuintelllgi- _ ble, and Mrs. Bmilas fidgeted a little; for, $c despite ber Interest in the lore-tele, the \ ' was beginning to want her lunuh. -* |TO bk CONTINUED. j g| [ Prof. Davidson says thai tho En- It i glish language is easier to acquire than ' any other spoken, while only half a r dozen English-speaking people have * been able to master the Chinese. He * | thinks the whole world will speak only el | English in time, Jj ntfOR wovwi ^ do men saythat ? am?" He | iqcg^flw the town or Cot-sarea Puilippi, f ot *Cft'saroa oq tlie Mediterranean where 'eter first preached the gospel to (Jorn^ilas, p be Gentile centurion, and where Phtlip the vangelist and bis four daughters lived (Acts jj 1; xxi.,6), but the extronie north of Canaatx nd tho most northerly joint of ChristSt rj jurneys. Luke ix., 18. says that lie was alone dth His disciples, ana that He was praying, iatthew xvi., 13, says that His question .was: R Whom do men say that I, the Bon ot Man. mf Mot that He cared what men mid of T Lim, nor did He need to ask them, but for leir sakes lie asked the question that He A light awaken and interest them, draw forth oter's confession, and make known to thetng & te truths of our lesson. 28, 30. "Peter answereth and said unto ? Um, Thou art the Christ*" After drawing om them tho opinions of others. He thin jintedly and personally puts the question^ But whom say ye that 1 ainf" You may Y now Him as Jesus who saves and keeps you, hi i Lord whom you delight to acknowledge tr i your possessor and proprietor, but do you ti low Him as the Christ, the coming King of g] rael and of the whole earth> a 30. "He charged them that they should tell > man of Him." Matt, xvi., 80, says to tell na e. an that He was Jesus the Christ. He netac. -dj rbade them to say tbit He was Jssm l? w iviour, but now that tho ? P> 1 iff lOf bldsThemto make Him knowu h iho Christ . . ? tl 31. "Ho began to teach them that the Bon Man must suffer." At His first cleansing the. temple He had foretold His death and surrectiou (John ii.. 10-21), and later,when w ey asked a sign He spoke of Jonah as ? r< pe of his death ami resurrectioii (Matt xli.. u, , 40) ;but this is His first particular and full inouncement of this great event which He u ;ain repeats on two other occasions (lx., 31; w r ;H). . sc 32. "Peter took Him and began to rebuke w im," saying, "Be it far from Thee, Lord; In is shall not bo unto Tbee" (Malt xvi., 22), , as in tho margin, "Pity Thraelf, Lord." j,< lis was the natural man speaking, and the jy ndency of the natural man, oven in the n, iristian, is to pity himself and seek.hls own ft se, ami against this self indulgence we use as christians earnestly contend, ever elding our bodies a living sacrifice. S3. "He rebukod J eter, sayifig, (Jet thee bend me, Patau." Peter bad just given forth w. sweet saviour of Uod in bis grand con- 01 sion of Jesus as tbe Christ, ana now from P e same mouth conies tbe things of 'men ? ith Sal an urging on; "out of tbe sante outh proceodeth blessing and cursing'1 7' as. ili., 10). It was never so with Jesus; ? it of His mouth proceeded only gracieus *' ords, and such as the Father toiu iiimto CJ y (John xii., 40). ' ?* 34. "Whosoever will come after He, let him ny himself, and take up his cross, and /el- 91 w Me." It is a most precious truth that the *c vitation to come is to "Whosoever will" * .cts x., 43; Itom. x., 11-13; Rev. xxii., IT); al id him that cometh shall in no wise be an*t 95 it (John vi., 37); but it is also true that no u le can truly come, unless they are prepared a< deny self and bear the cross after J etas, id this daily (Luke ix., 133). 35. "For whomever will save his life shall se it." That is, whosoever chooses this t* esent life with its joys, in preference to the in irrow way of separation from this present hi 11 world unto Christ, shall find in the end h' at his portion here was his all, and hisen- si yment ended when he left this world; cl bile he who chooses Christ and fellowship . cj 1th Him as his portion here, prepared tq re- h mnce with tbe whole heart, tbe world, the ' ah and the devil, will find that while he t* ay not have had great success in this b orld and, perhnpe, been sorely tried, yet he 11 is had Goa's own peace and joy in nn soul si id shall inherit everlasting lira. tl 30. "For what shall it profit a man, if he ti all gain the whole world and loee bis awn '1 al." Let a man choose the present if be si inks beet; 1st him accumulate millions/let * m try all the riches of pleasure aud fame 01 id worldlv Dower: let him. if bsiiakle ? to it as largely as Solomon did (Eocl iL), ri id let him enjoy it all for a hundred yean. tl 'hat then* They may put his body in a c< sket of rosewood or mahogany, giro it a 8] >rgeous funeral, and lay it in a marble h mb, but where is he ? His torment has be 1< in and it shall never end. g 37. "What shall a man give in exchange E r his life?' If he loees it by refusing to let bus save him it is gone forever; the great llf is fixed and they cannot pass from one ace to the other. The life of every in- t) vldual has three stages, that por>n which is spent here in the mortal body, tj at between death and resurreoUon, id that after the resurrection. If tha ;i$r*t age is yielded to Jesus, then between death h d resurrection the spirit is with Cbriat in radise, and at the resurrection of the Jbsfc N 3 soul and body 'are wanted to be With ahd n e Christ forever; but if the first stage to sspent and withheld from Jeans then is y s iuture of that soul dark and awful. I, jn. "(>r him shall the Hon or nan he hamed." The Cbriat will return In power (J great glory (Matt, xxvi., <W: Cel. rti., 4), 1 inging lite saints with Him. He shall come ? flaming lire, yielding vengeance en them at know not Hod and oboy not the Gospel p 1. Th., i..?-10), and not only so,bnt when He A mes to the air for His people many of them e: all Im ashamed If lie finds them mixed up itli the world and worldy things instead of U pnrnto thorefrom, and watching for Him ? , John li ' ??. He wants a separate and ? >iv pcopie to witness faithinity for iiim^n lis dark and sinrol world, witting to ac T lowleilgo Him in buainoss, and at home, r id in all our intercourse with our follow 2 cn, and nothing short of a whole-hearted (votton to Hiin will bring His approval in at day. , \J" o IX, 1. "Some of them that stand here shall b it taste or death, till they bare seen the * ngdom of Uud cotae with power." And tor six davs He fulfilled tbie word to three T them when on the agonal of trane- ? juration tlaoy were eye vrltne**oe of, -u is majesty. (TI. l'eter i., 18.) Ttar ?w 0 >su$ transfigured, Elijah representing ose who shell l>e caught np without Jdying, ose* representing the deadend rlsenimints, * nl themselves in mortal bodies. Th^s shall 2 l>? when Ho returns to restore all t etnas of 5 hi;-h til? prophets here spoken, to wEwleb is kingdom on this earth and rdfjpA with is saints over It ?Lesson JfMflpf. . j B In all the Venderbilt mansions are jife-ala* b wtraits of Cornelias VaaderbuL the under of their fortune*; also CW. H. f anderbilt. All the portraits ot the fanNr 1 ere taken a few years before hie desthasd a iow a handsome old gentlemah with a " ighly clerical cast of countenance,' more e ke a college dean than a railroad hlnk * Misk Mart AitnJtnsos, tb? actress, paid visit of several hours to lb? penitentiary 6i o)let. III., tb? oth?r day. fcbe tasted the nip prepared for the convicts, bit HhO ?big hun* or bread, and showed berpflff deeply itcratted In what sho saw daring Mf hfifl lay behind the bars, j Jv J *! : i: mmrEKAWDE. Ann ialHe. tcoA FtnMr Bluff and bis cherry wife Bet oat far town one day Lnd left, with wise Injunctions, Their little ones at play, feare was Bailie, who was twelve at leas^ Ana Johm\le?nino or more. Vlth Mm household pet and baby, fewest May, aged four. "he farm-house caught on fire that day. Just bow no ono could tell, fee children quenched the flames alone By working brave and well, lad when the farmer came at eve, They crowded close and high, ind Johnnie backed by Ballio, Told what they did, and why. Imfc little May, somehow, Had nothing much to say ratfl her father, smiling, asked: "What did you do to day!" Iiarn wasn't much that I tould do," Bha said, with down-cast eye, For Johnnie bringed the wuier hero And Bailie made it fly, o X dot op in the tor cor. Win my hands all folded tigL?, >i&WMtfifir"mights .. . b workers in the temperance cause There's nothing to explain, tor think this story over And the application's plain, P yon can't be a second Uough, Nor work as Finch has doue, O what you can, with earnsetness, 'Till right and victory's won. emember that old couplet, For here you'll And it's true, hat "Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do," * nd "when your guns are loaded," 11 While you "guard the faith with zeal," " iv "Amen, Bailie," so the world * Around shall bear and feeL " Libbie J. bherman, in Waterloo Observer. The "Family Entrance." ? Among the worst features of the New g 'Ork saloon ia what, with unconscious but t< jrnon satire, is cal oil the "family en- ti anco," a side door leading into a littlo par- fi tionsd off apartment, "with wooden and 01 lass sides and a sliding window like that at s< ticket seller's at railroad stations or a river a' earn boat. There is American politeness D ren there, tor while serving a round of cl aaw: z itchsr,tin pail growler er bottle passed to v Im by the vice marked woman who waits at 8 le "family entrance."?.Veto lor A: Press, ?' tl Normal and Abnormal Schools. f, The nine normal schools of this State show a average attendance of with an enailment of 0328, white the 30,000 saloons of ir State show an attendance of .*>00,000; but iese letter are abnormal schools. It is estiated that every normal school graduate mts the State $1000; and if every abnormal hool graduate costs the State no more, bat am expensive luxury abnormal schools ust be I The abnormal graduate takes his igree in the gutter, or the jail, or tho poor- A >use. When taken, who shall say that it lT1 is cost the State less than the sum above CI tmedl And is it not dear at any price.'? c? eta York Voice. S8 Siclc of His "Business." tl A reporter of a Chicago paper says: I in alked Into the bar of one of tne big hotels oi !. this city the other day and found tho new b; roprietor sitting at one end of the bar. Where is jour egg nog bowl*" I asked, c Paven't any this year," he replied. "Do I oi du know," he continued, "that a man in w lia hnilnan m.tm miorl.f,, -I-.O 1* * -> '* 1 ?? 5vm? oicn ui iv. JL uuil b |y now why, sometimes, 1 remain in it He- g mse, J suppose, 1 am not tit for anything M. But 1 find a growing repugnance to it. i is bad enough to have to serve this btutT it to men when they couie in and ask you ? it. But to keep it in a bowi, to make it _ iductlve in ita appearanco, thereby creating s appetite often?for there are men who I m't look at the stuff without taking it? . lat Is aomething which I have concluded ,, ?t to do any more." Hereditary Alcoholism. ^ The effects of hereditary alcohol.stu are inirestingly described by Dr. T. D. Crothers, 0. i the I'opular Science Monthly. In persons t sound mind, but infected with an alco- . olic taint, Dr. Crothors has observed some ngular instances in which, at times of oxitsment, and without any uso of intoxl- K. tnts, every symptom of intoxication is oxibited. An unfortunute treasurer of a irge manufactory upon being accused of . Usitying hlo books, suddenly appeared to " e Intoxicated, both looking and walking J9 ke one who had drunk large quantities of 11 pirita.. The next day he* recovered, and * aen made a full and satisfactory explana- j 11 Ion. His father had lieen a sailor ami ? I re* drinker. Hardly less astonishing is the iidden, sympathetic drunkenness of persons 'ho have formerly been addicted to ex3ssire use of intoxicants. A prominent illitary man dining with some old com- 1 ides, who became intoxicated, tu Idenly, \ lougb be bad drunk nothing but coffee, be- \ smeas hilarious as the rest, made a foolish ?i jeecb, and, at length, had to be taken n ome in a state of stupidity. Of temperance n icturers who became Intoxicated while en- 1; aged in describing the effects of alcohol, n ir. Crothers gives some curious instances. j: I W. C. T. U. Notes. r Ban Francisco has thirteen \V. C. T. I talons. H The W. C. T. U. of Nashville, Tenn..main tins several night schools. 0 The numner of W. C. T. Unions in Georgia J as nearly doubled during the last year. t There are forty Y. W. C. T. Unions in t For them California claiming au aggregato temberahip of 1000. ] It is said that in France from 18110 to 1880, i here was an Increase of 40,000 idiots, large- i f doe to the use of wine. 1 The Women's Christian Temperance ' Fnlon of West Virginia is pushing the work 1 t establishing a Stale Industrial School. The Dominion (Canada) W. C. T. IT. is ' tanning to hold its annual convention at ' lootreal in May or June. Miss Willard is xpected to be present "Down with the white livered clergy and i ho Sifnday-schoo!s" was the complimentary | lotto posted on the wall at a recent brewers' j seating in Sandusky, Ohio. < Bv order of the Board of Education, Dr. Ucnardson's Temnerance Lesson Book will ' ercafter be used in the public schools of *rince Edward Island. < A large Loral Temperance legion was re- 1 antly organized at Tucson, Arizona. The est and most influential ladies of the city ' re at work for its success. Rochester, N. Y., has eight local W. C. T. Intone organized by wards, one society of 1 olofM women and two young women's nlons. Tbeze are all united in a central rganlsation. From the London Lancat we leirn that May children of poor parents in Vienna freuentlv receive by way of breakfast nothing tor* than a glass of spirits, often appearing a the school room drunk. Baron Lieblg. the great German chemist', ays that "as much flour as can He on the mat of a table-knife contains as much lUtritive constituents as eight quarts of the est and most nutritious beer that is made." According to the Inland Revenue Report or the Dominion of Canada for the year 699, there has been a falling off, in the ^mount of spirits taken for conuimptlon, of aore than twenty per oent-frotp theaverag# >f the four preceding years. This remarka>)e showing is attributed to the admirable Forking of tbeBoott act. The Quarterly Journal of Inebriety gives * the most noticeable feature of progress oward sobriety in England, the great decease of intoxicants used in work houses, tating that during the last four years there m bsisn a reduction of more than twentyIve per cent, while in twcnty-fodr work KMUweof England and Wales intoxicants are ibeotutely prohibited, RELIGIOUS READING. Wo Should Hear tho Angela Singing. If wo only nought to brighten Every pathway dark with care, If wo onlv tried jo brighten All tho burdens others beer, W# should hear the angels siuging All around us, night and day; We sljopld feel that they were winging At our side their upward way I If we only strove to cherish Every pure and only thought, Till within out hearts slioula perish All that is with evil fraught, WeBhould hear the angles singing All around us, night and day; We should feel that they were winging At our side their upward way 1 if it were our aim to ponder On the good that we might win, Soon our feet would cease to wander In forbidden paths of sin; We should hear the angels singing All around us, night aud day; We should feel that they were winging At our side their upward way I If we only did our duty. Thinking not what It might teat . Tfien the earth would wear new beauty I Fair as that In Edeu lost; i IVA l.?>? ?l-~ ? ' V W.VU1U umi luo Wlgoin MllglUg All around us, night and day; We should feel that they wero winging At our side their upward way. Unseen Protection. "A lady was wakened up one itaorning by stmngo noise of pecking at the window, pd when she got up she saw a butterfly flylg backwards and forwards inside th6 winow in a great fright, because ouisiile there ras a sparrow pecking at the glass, wanting ) roach the butterfly. The butterfly did not ( ? the glass, but it saw the sparrow, and , rldently expected every moment to bo | night. Neither did the sparrow see the , Iftsa though it tsftw tho butterfly, which , ecausc of the thin sheet- of glass, was ac- i ltlly as rafe a? if it had been miles away i oni the sparrow." It is wh-n we forget | iir Protector that our hearts fail us. Elisha's i ?rvaat was in great fear wlivn he | woke in the morning and saw the city of i otlian encompassed with botse? and I lariots and a great host, but when his eves I jtye opened at the prayer of tho PropheOils "wsyiauished, for no beheld tho moui.%.uia pA-cWiots of lire. "Thou iaved on 1 hee, ? - mind i ji The Lord shall preserve thy going out aiiW 1 hy coming in from thfe time forth And eventi jrevennore." tt "Though now unseen by outward sense, Faitn sees him always near; A guide, a glory, a defence; Then, what have you to fear?" ?Way marks for Pilgrims. A Fifty Thousand Dollar Mhifon. Mr. Arthur L. Shumwny, a well-known racrican newspaper correspondent, writing i the Christian I'nion in answer to tho itioisms nil niiss?ii>imrinj which linvo ri? >ntly appeared in tho A flan tic Monthly, iys: How shall I separate from a large innber of similarly conspicuous proof, of < le worth of missionaries, some single rem- < lisccneo that will serve to vindicate my ( ivn respect for the class of people belittled < y Mr. House? i One day ps I was walking tho streets of i anton, China, with Mr. Charles Seymour, 1 ir American Consul General in that city, e met and passed a quiet, modest-manner.-a ian on his way into the city. Said Mr. eymour: "Do you sec that man yonder?" pointing in le direction of tho receding stranger. 1 assented, and he continued: "That is Dr. Kerr. He is in charge of the reat missionary hospital yonder. The hosital was founded in 1837, and has already eated three-quarters of a million cases, I above. I consider that he is the peer of any ring surgeon in the world today. To my H-aonal knowledge he undertakes, almost lily, cases which our most distinguished irgeons at home do not dare attempt, even i Philadelphia, tho medical capital of ir country. I suppose that humble qn miirlif i nwt ns \v?ll on nut i enjoying nil income of from ?50,000 to '5,000 a year, instead cf his present small ilary, if he was only practising in the city ' New York on his own account. And I ippose ho knosvns it, too." And when ho afterward jwisscd through le hospital, inspected the photographs of [terntioris nlrendy performed, and viewed ic array of deformities to ho treated that ftornoon, I could not doubt that what he ad said was literally true Our nest for C lirlst. Mary had received richest blessings at the innd of her I.ord. Her heart overflowed vith lovo for Him, and nothing in nil tlio eorld was too dear or too costly to tiestow inon Him. So she brought an alabaster box if very prech us > intmenfc, broke tlio box nd poured tlio ointment on His hoad. She might the best gift she hadv So we ought 11 to bring our best things to Christ. Ho :nve the h- st Ho lia<l for us. Ho gavo lis life; His honrt was broken, and His reeiouB bloo 1 was poured out for lie. From lis thron'* of glory He lavishes now tho best ;iftx of His lovo upon us. We owo to Him, therefore, the best of verything wo lmvo. We should give Him ho best of our affections. He ought to havo ho wnnv.vst place in our hearts. Bring all ho gems and jewels of your lovo and put hem in tho crown of Jesus. Wo ought to bring to Him tho best of our ives. Too many give Him only the wasted emains. They spend tho vigor of their routh, the strength of their manhood, the best of their life's energies in the world, in ousiness, in selfishness, in sin; and when they ire old, seek to bring a poor, worthless offering to Christ. They give the l>est to the world and the faded leaves to Chi 1st. Surely it is not such an offering that Jesus deserves. We ought to consecrate our childh o?l to Him; to spend our youth in His serviee; to lay our manhood arid womanhood on his altar. Gi \ e Him tho arm when It is strongest, the foot wh 11 it is swiftest, tho hrnin when it is clearest, the heart when it is warmest, the tongue when it is most eloouent. W e might to give to Him our liest services, riierearo too mnny profe sing Christians tvho havo time for everything but the work of the Lord. It is a fair qu stion to put to raeh professing Christian, What are y u first? What is the one thing of your "life which enkindles your warmest thought, which inspires your loftiest en thus asm, which impels jmir best en ieavor.'. Is it the Hlory of God, or is it your bttsmes", your wordly ambition? Bring Christ no more the mere waste and fragmentary services of your lives. Make not your Christian life any 1/vnlvA- n oAAnnilnl'l' Oil,,,. llrilllT MAf Ia fhft ? ?r' " vv?u?i J """R' " "'I* """ " altar of your Redeemer any more a cold, rlead, hearties* service. rut Christ first. Do your best work sing your sweetest long, speak your tend rest word, perform your holiest ministry for Him. We should bring our best gifts to Jesus. Is it not true too often that we keep our best for ourselves, and give Him tho things that we shall miss the least from mi' own stories? When our cups run over we give Him the drops that fail from the brim. When wo have eaten and are full, we swoop up tho crumbs for Him. Let us bring our dearest things and lay them on His altar, nothing is too good or too cos' ly to be bestowed on such a Saviour. Nothing is wasted which is given to Christ. No deed is in vain which is done for Him. No life is lost which is poured out upon His altar. He accepts the smallest deeds of love as done to himself. Every lowly service, every self-denial, every beautiful deed of love uonb to a suffering one is an alabaster bo* of ointment broken open to anoint Christ's head and feot. Ho will gathor lip tho perfume and keep it sweet and sacred forever -for a memorial of you.? Westminster Teacher. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. The Senate. 53d Day.?Eulogies were pronounced by several Senators upon I .owls Cam, whose statue was unveiled in Statuary Hfill... Ths House Census bill was passed with changes .... Mr. Coko finished his speech on tho Texas olectlon outrages.... Mr. Cullom reported back the Houso bill to organize the Territory of Oklahoma, and it was placed on the calendar. 1ho bill proposed by Mr. Sutler as a substitute for the Springer Oklahoma bill authorizes the I'residont to appoint five Commissioners to enter into negotiations and agreements with the Cherokee Indians for tho relinquishment of all their title to the Cherokee outlet to the United States. 63d Day.?Mr. Vest's motion to reconsider the vote by which the conference report on tho Direct Tax bill was agreed to, was rejected by a vote of eight yeas to forty eight nays The Senate then considered the Sundry Civil Appropriations bill. Among ths items is an appropriation of $41,001 for a sen wall at Staten Island de|>ot, New York, and one of $00,000 for the Sandy Hook Light ship. The amendment to puy Mrs. NN aito $8745, the remainder of one year's salary of the late Chief Justice Waite, was oppose.) by Messrs. Corinan and lierry as unwise, but the amendment for Mrs. Waite was finally agreed to; yeas, 28: naye, 10. The amend Illoiits presented vvns one f i utu't lieTreasury Department, with n copy of testimony takon by Special Agent Byrno us to frauds in the New York Custom House....The resolution offered by Mr. Hoar as to John S. McElwee, in charge of tlio Sugar Division of the Appraiser's office in the New York Custom House. was agreed to.... The Senate bill for the relief of settlers in Hettinger County. Dakota, was explained und i?assed. The bill authorizes an exchange of loans (on which homestead settlements were made by mistake) for other public lands with the Northern Pacific Railway Company..,.Mr. Stewart offered a resolution (which was referred fo the Committee on Contingent Expenses) continuing the select Committee on the Pacific Railroads until tho indebtedness of all the_ companies to tho Government shall bo adjusted Tho correspondence relating to the dismissal of Lord SAckVillo was transmitted to tho Senato ...The Conference re[K>rt on the Omnibus Territorial bill was lgreed to... .The Direct Tax bill was signed by tho presiding officer and then transmitted to the President. 55th Day.?Mr. Stockbridge, with the aid of two pages, sent up a petition against the enactment of a so-called Sunday Rest lnw n? 1,10 signatures of il3i>,(k'0 citizens centennial*ot {lie ConTiVfofflW^.'* !?" tof "!' investigation of outrages at elections. .^WV.1 Allison submitted the conforonco report on the legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation bill, and it was agroed to... .Tlie Senato resumed consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, tho ponding question being on the amendment favoring steam dnte printing machines, and tho amendment was agreed to, 5(5tii Day.?Tho Sundry Civil and Agricultural bills were parsed.... There was contiderable discussion over tho election outrages resolution of Mr. Hoar. 57th Day.?Tho election outrage question xrcupied the entire day and was still {lending it adjournment The omnibus resolution,introduced by Mr. Hoar, which propose-i to leal with later political events in the South, ivas under consideration. Mr. Daniel askod what facts hud boon reported to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Mr. Hoar niadp a brief reply, and then Mr. Daniel spoke foi nearly live hours cn the subject. . The House. 5Stn Day.?The House discus-ed tho Postoffic^ Appropriation bill, and after a lively debate an amendment reducing to $m>:j a year tlie minimum salaries of stenographers and pewtmasters was defeated.... Mr. Caswell, from tJpe conference committer on the Direct Tax bnl. nroseilted tll? crmft-ronon i-?nni-l, Mr. I>nfooi? reported a substitute for tho bill providing for the creation, in tho War Department, of a bureau of harbors ana waterways, to undertake all river and harbor improvements.... Mr. Butterworth introduced a joint resolution authorizing tho President to invito tho mombers of tbo Parliament of the Dominion of Canada and tho Cabinets of tho several provinces to visit the United States as tho gnosis of tho Nation, and appropriated $150,l);x) for the purpose.... A night session was held. It was called for the consideration of business reported from tho Committee on Military Affairs. Objections to "no quorum" stopped all legislation. 5S?th Day.?Immediately after tho reading of tho Journal tho contest over the Direct Tax Bill was resumed, Mr. Caswell calling up tho conference report as a matter of privilege. .Mr. Crisp raised tho question of consideration against the report, stating that ho was willing to give precedence to appropriation bills. The House determined?yeas 134. navs IK??to consider tho conference report. Mr. Kelley moved to table tho motion to reconsider. Carried. The House adopted tho conference report on the Direct Tax bill ....The House agreed to the conference re port on the Omnibus Territorial bill. <>Oth Day.?The House passed tho Post Office Appropriation bill The conference report on tbo legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill was agreed to. ....Mr. Handall introduced a resolution to amend the rules so as to provide that, on n ?1,? 11^.,o..u j c vw> ..U..OU ni.^11 l^CWI ill WW mittee of the d\ hole to tho consideration ot tho Uandall-Cowles bill, and that nt 4 i\ m. on that day tho hillnud its amendments shall bo reported to tho House and tho previous question ordered upon its passage. This was discussed at great length. GIst Day.?Mr. Mills's resolution regarding the Senato's tariff action was defeated, 143 to 8-<... .Tho bill to retire General lfo*eernns was passed... .Tho bill to pension Mrs. Sheridan was paggedG2n Day.?The^Bouse went into Committee of tho Whole on appropriation bills. Mr. Dockerv, of Missouri, was ca'led to the chair. The Deiflci' ncy bill caino up as unfinished business Forty-seven of tho sixty-three pages of the Deficiency bill were passe I. An amendment reimbursing the widow of General Hancock for money expende 1 by nor husband in entertaining French,German and other visitors at the York town centennial iolehration was passed....A message from the President was present I ?n soon as tho journal was approved ..., wii iiiuvimii ui nil. v ox, lilt' ni-unio amendments w ere concurred in to tho Hoiue hill for the taking of the eleventh census.... Tho House passed the Senate hill to ratify and confirm tho agreement with the Creek Nation of Indians for the purpose of opening to settlement tho unassignel lands in the Indian Territory ce led by the Croeks to the United States....It was r.ow two o'clock, the hour -et apart for tributes to tiio memory of Omeral Humes of Missouri. Mr. Hatch, in a feeling speech, offered the usual resolut ons of respect. Speeches were then made by Mrs rs. Dockery, Knndnll, Henderson, Breekcnridgo, I,ong. Sayers. Butterworth, Ryan, Holmnn, Mansur, McAdoo, Glover, nnd Morrill of Kansas The Houss then adjourned out of respect to the memory of General Burues A NEW FBENCH CABINET. President Carnot 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. Konvier. Minister of Finance. M. Tlvvcnot, Minister of Justice. ' M. Fnllieros, Minister of Kducation. M. Fave, Minister of Agriculture. M. (iuea-Guyot, Minister of Public Works. M. de Freycinet, Minister of War. Admiral Jaores. Minister of Marine. M. de Conrtei, Minister of Foreign Affairs.