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jPfPOtrt tr^nrifttllBff, fiortimltnrf, flomfrtfr gfoiawg.^JW^Wtiir^ pTititifs anii tin- (fiirrrnt Ufin.i nf ihr nun ^X.-SEW 8EKIKS. UNION C. H., 86t^BPB^MP^tCTT Oq> ~ TT~ TBUK BEAUTY. ' 1 WSS?" ' 3*k?l- r BT V1T KMTIU yy.i- R is not that hor faco la fair, With chooks of rosy hue. ' Or that tho gold shows in hor hatr, The sky in oyo.t of blue, Or that with dainty tread sho'll coma To moot you at the door, Or that her touch makes bright the js5$?. / 1)01110 Where sorrowed welt of yore. It la not that her laugh ia gay, Her tones, so sivoot and low; Thougli how theso brighten all tho ilay, All tlioao wholovo her kuow. For all tho boauty nnt iro gave. Wo givo tho praise that's duo; Dut many thoughts untold we have For ono so good and true. In all hor life thoro is a charm, A beauty that will lust; Tho euro that savor tho loast from barm. That aids, when scorn is oast i' Ui>on toino lowly ono; th it gives A tear for others' woes ; That shows not fur liorsolf slio livos, JV Although life e good she kuow.i. . ri'"M?.anriiUiiur i . And mitko 119 lni| o life holds no ti'acA l-'or liorof i>ni:i and c :ru. But, even so, slio li >Ms tlio koy That opes much hi'hlou joy ; The lifo irom wrong always so froo Will not holil muck alloy. Cor:ssr, Wliitlcy t'ouutv, Indiana. ) POOR LITTLE EMILY, The History of a Prudent Marriage. BY MISS MVLOCEt I CHAPTKIt IV. , \ Do morluis uil nisi boiium. I would gladly put this as tlio motto to J the present chapter, and adopt tlio moral of | it, whieli is a noblo and Christian moral, and can not be too tenderly and sedulously , aHed upon?in the main. But truth for- j bids silence o.rolimen ?that truth, , 'J 1 o ov'.i .h u, i.tuii?! i v i "t - h'nin; < Tho good is often Interred wish heir limes, j which is as truo now a s when Sliakspeuro wrote it. No one, taking a wlda and com- , prebonuivo \ij*. of lifo, can fail to seowhat , fatal harm is au times caused, passively, , by the passi' dead; how often the l\iig , will injure oiomsolvoi?an I more t urn j themselves for Iho sako of what . they <all "lespoct for the memory ] of tho depott -d;" some ono wh', , maybe, was once as foolish, obstinate, self- j ish, cruel as any of. us, and iu death has perpetuated tho ill-doings of his life. 1'iom , this feeling, corrupted i'toin a virtue iuto a mere superstition, many a wrong, too late i discovered, which on_ht, years ami years f before, to have boon drugged to the opeu , day, and crushed and trampled under the j avenging heel of righteous wrath an I noble i Bcoru, is hushed np, suit' red to bo passed j ovor unrequited, be ause?alas! the wrong- j doers are now far away in the silent laud, whore, at least, they can injure no more. j Nothing hut good of the dead! If good cannot be spoken, then keep silence. Yes, ordinarily. God forbid that when lie lavs His eternal seal upon the quivering mouth of sinner ns well as saint, ours likewiso should, not respect His awful mandate aud bo dumb. But th-ro are eases in which silence regarding the dead involtes wrong to tho living, and that vhich might have been a solemn warning to many others ( left behind falls short of its natural lesson ( ?tho lesson 1 would fain have some world- , ly people lay to l.oatt from this sto y ?tho j true story, alas! of John Boworlmnk's wife. , Though it happened long ago. and though 1>laco, people, and extraneous circumstances lave been, I trust, ellectnally disguised, , still tho story itself is no invention, but a , fact told to mo; and I tell it, after all the a tors therein are safety dead and gone, , as a lesson to those whom it may concern; especially those who nro supposed to need none, aud yet fato often reads to theiu quietly tho sharpest lessou of all?the parent# of grown-up children. Lady llowerbank was sitting quito alone, , and dressed in deep mourning, in tho dining-room of tho house at tjuoen Anno atrnnf Ql?i> li'wl linnn cniYtntnnrwl t.O I .niitlnn for t!.o first limo siuco'hor marriago, by n very sad event-tho sudden death of iiei father, lie was not nil old man exactly, and had been hitherto remarkably halo nml active, living his life - tho life of a barrister noout town with apparent enjoyment, making, and spending as fast as ho made, a very good income, absorbed chiefly in selfish | 1 asnres, but pleasures of a perfectly reputable and unobjectionable kind. However, in the midst of those Death found and called liitn. Some hidden hcarl disease suddenly developed itself, uud he wub sttuok down while making a speech it court. His daughter and son-in-law were tolegrnphrd for, I ut even bo ore the message reached them ho was no more. Thoj urried him hack from Westminster Hall to his own door u corpse. Of course, deep was tiro sympathy witt his family; and though sine her marriage he had so withdrawn himself from her thai the slender filial relation which over ex sted, or was likely* to exist, between a loving girl and a man so essentially selfish, that except by force of tho cla m of nature ho hai no right whatever to Le considered a father, had becomo all but nominal; still, overpowered by tho suddenness of tho stroke, daughter mourned for him - mourned, remembering not so much later years as those early childish days when almost every man takes a certain ploasuro in paternity, especially being father to a pretty little girl. She rocalled bow bo used to scl her on tho table after dinner and make hei dance fo him, or tnkolier walks in tlm park .with her best clothes on?her muslin frocks, and bluo ribbons, and her golden hair ll>iug about, so that, infant as slio was, she was fully nwiuv ?.?..'ybody uotical lior, and asked " Whoso charming little girl thai was?" Halcyon diys these, during which many an imperfect nature and hard heart ride safely over tho smooth waters of life, to bo shipwrecked afterward. It is not till I ho storm comes that wo find out tho real building and timber of the vessel. After these days enmo otliots, in which, to the 1 est of Emily's rocolloction. hor father had taken very little notice of her; for nobody noticed her now very much. Sho had eoased to bo pretty; her beauty w.ns onlv the round rosiness of infancy, 1,1..1 it nufuv nml lluirn liml not vet cotno that beamii g spiritual loveliness which had bo charmed tho uunrtistic eye. but clear hoad and Mouud heart of John | Sten house. So sho had been, during her teens, a good deal i.oglectsd; and, in fact, her young life had only wakened up on that fati?r Liverpool visit, the oousequeiicos of whi h turned tho careless father into a remorseless judge?a cruel enemy. Hut sho forgavohim that; she was roadv to forgive him anything, as she sat <n his easy-chair, before his private desk, the pap rs of which Sir John, summoned back homo immediately after tno funeral, had left lior to examine alone; she was haunted by sod thoughts of her father?her own poor fath r -who had so enjoyed the good things of this life his cosy dining-room his after dinner repose tdooping now, this ni, lit, under ground tho eternal sleep it. *tb. Sho would havo liked to think of aim otherwise and otherwhere, but someho? "\e could not; ho had been a man so assent.ally worldly that even after his death mucy unconsciously associated him with this world. She knew she ought to dwell upon him as safe and happy in heaven, and yet her thoughts would fly hack and back, like gloomy birds of evil omen, and settle in that cheerless, misty cemetery at Konsal Green?where, Sir John lloworbank had said, some handsomo memorial must immediately be erected in d;?>?: * - - iiuLMusn it from the throng of graves; and he loft his wife behind in London for a day, in order that sho might leisurely oxamine her father 8 pnpers, and find ont whothor tho deceased?it was melancholy to hear the clover barrister, tho social dinor-out, already spoken or as merely "tho deceased" ?had any particular wish regarding his own monument; lor Emily's husband was very kindly, verv considerate; and in this last sad conjuncture she had been more drawn to him than for many months bofore. Sho had bidden him good-by an hour ago, he starting by the night mail for Liverpool, uud had settled herself alone in the large, desolate dining-room, making a Bort. of encampment by the fire, that sho lass drf arv. Thers sho began looking over?on??v. ? alter paper?tho large desk which had been the awo of her childhood and tho porploxity of her youth. She could hardly believe that it was really herself then peering into with unhallowed c~cs; and turning over with unforbidden hands, thoso secrets of which wo all have some, and which wo think are safo from everybody, ; till death comes aud teaches differently. What Mr. Kendal could have been thinking of when ho left all these matters many of which ho certainly would not have liked even bis daughter to ba acquainted with?to such a chance as now befell thom, is impossible to say. 1 robably tho truth, unseen and disbelieved, j though it s'.nros at us in church-yard and ; Btrcot, and whispers to us in overv book or newspaper, that "in tho midst of iifo we iro in death," had been wholly unrecognized by this man of tho world, or eiso he might havo had a superstitious dread of . setting his houso iu order, and coutem- ' plating, in any way, his own dissolution. Certain it was ho left no will, nnd his most privnto papers wcro found in the ut- j most coufnsion, everything being exactly ' is ho had quitted his homo on tho morning af liis death, to return thither aliVo no 1 more. !( With a solemn tondoftiess befitting sncb in oflioe, his daughter turned over scrap iftor scrap, opened, nnd looked at letter !i ifter letter, just reading as much as seem- j ;d necessary, and (hen burning it, or lay- ji ing it asiiio to bo burnt. A good many 'i papers she destroyed nt once; she did not i tilso oven her husband to see them?tlioso i relics of a purely selfish life?not nbso- < lutely a wicked liTo, bat 0110 self-absorbed 1 md self-enjoying?nothing but self- i worship from the beginning to tho end. Lady Bowerbank was growing weary; t ho ball clock had just struck eleven, re- '< ouuding through tho gloomy old houso < ivith a thrill that almost made her start oil' '] jor chair?sho was very feeble and nerv- ] )as still, though lier health had been of { ate months a little improving. Hick at ' jeurt, forlorn nnd lonely, sho put aside ? aoap after honp of letters in unfamiliar j1 land-writing, to bo examined by and by, 1 vhen sho suddenly came across ono lliiP '| van not unfamiliar. No wond. r at its being there; lior father-, "T md air. oiounonso utni"i <?? ? ?_ espondonce; probably this was ono of tho otters. Nouo of them had ever been t shown to her; she had only found out ac idenlnlly that such had bom sent and ro eivod. Eagerly slio took up this one, j [hen hesitated?Emily's perpetual licsitn- ; lion?as to whether it would bo a broach af confidence or of duty to read it, when, looking at the cnvelopo, she saw it. was not , iddiessod, as tho rest of Mr. Stenhouso's , letters had been, to Mr. Kuowlo's houso in Liverpool, but to Queen Anno street, London. And tho postmark boro a date long ..I. ,, .,,.,..# limn- n ,l,il<> 3UUnu^UUIli IU liitu uminfj'T <* >*? p u>.*v which, aa Emily llowcrbnulc ga/.cd on, cold shivers of four ran through her, for it was a week after her twenty-first birthday. "lie did write, then. I must read it! I must pud will!" she Raid to horsclf; and for oneo that firm "I will"?tho want of which had been the great lack of her life? as it is one of the greatest and most fatal deficiencies ia any human life or character ?came to her aid, and she carried out her purpose. Was it far good or for ill? Alas' the teller of this simple talo?and maybe many a reader?cannot possibly decide; except that, as a general rule, to hnvo met open-eyed tho most blinding truth is better, ay, and easier in the end, than to live under tho blighting shadow of a permanent lio. The letter addressed to Mr. Kendal by John Stcuhouso ran thus : Mil: ThouxL no <li.t not part amicably two years ago, I beg now to appeal to you as to a gentleman and a man of honor, anu the father of the lady whom 1 then, and over sine, stea lily determined to make my wife. At your desire, I abitamod from all communication With tier Until she bocauto of age, which was a woak ago. On that day, and again for six days follow.ng, I called at your house, to sue her and you, and lo bog pi nnission to renew our engagement?or rather to eomplcto it; for it lias, as regards myself, never been hroko'.t; but 1 was not admitted. J cannot learn anything nb nit lior. I have written to her; 1 liavo watched?us far as a gentleman could pre iimo t > watnli a la ty?in the li'ipo of seeing her; and all in vain. I now tako the straightforward course ot writing direct to you, sir. You may not like in *, nut you can know n itliing against me. Also, yon are a father. I entreat yon for hvr sake ?alio did 1 ;vo mo once?not to stand in tho wav of our happiness. That sho is trni to nio 1 have not tho slightest doubt Tail rue where sho is, and when I may see hor. Yours faithfully, John Ktkn house. Inclosed with this was a small note, scarcely nioro than a scrap, apparently written in haste, and was blotted as it was foldod: S^iK: I accept your explicit tin I complete explanutioii, and wish your daughter every hap. oiiiess tiint circumstances may afford her. Neither she nor you will over la-agam intruded upon l?y your objdi"iit s ow mt, John Stesiiousk Emilv lJoworbank read, and sat netri* lltTd. Tho whole world seemed fading from Iter in a sort of dark-gray intst. The roaring of waters was in Iter cars, an 1 n dull, knocking pain at her hoart. Then all ceased, and sho passed into temporary unconsciousness. When sho enmo to herself, slio was lying forward with her head on tho desk, tho lot* tor still grasped in tier hand. She roineuibercd at once what had happened, hut she did not faint again, not even though she was one of those fcoblo women whom a voty slight thing causes to fall into fainting fits. A slight thing ns probably tho fntlint who had (iono it believed it to bo, or argued himself into belioving and yet it was tho destruction of two lives! Ho .John Stonhouso had returned at tho a} pointed time, and once again asked her to iuurry him. lie had loved her steadily, faithfully, through those two blank years, lie had coino up to London prepared to meet tho sharp ordeal that was inevitably before him the wounding of bis pride? tlio lacerating of bis feelings all the humbling irritations that, under the hestof circumstances, must he homo by a poor, proud man who marries a rich man's daughter. Yet lie had come, willing ami | eager to marry her, selling aside even*. thing except his love for li<T?a love steady . as a rock, true ns steel. 1'or an instant, as soon ns this became I clear to Emily's half-bewildered bruin, I tboro hashed upon her a sudden light?tin flrat and moat natural impulse of aotaal joj She clasped bar hands togothor, and i ever the poor, pale face looked like a angel's it looked so then. He was true! He did not forsake me Oh, thank God!" And then she remembered all that fol lowed, and how it had all ended in hei being what she was now?John Dower bank's wife. The dead man had told a lie?or perhapi not a direct lie, but a misstatement?patting forward what he believed and hoped as what really existed. Ho had evidentlj I informed John Stenhouse that his daughter no longer considered herself engaged to him, and was on the point of marriage with John Bowerbauk. Such fabrications are often given as facts by even good people, who hope thorn until they really believe them. The falsehoods of the wicked can be met?the misstatements of the respeotalile and worthy cannot. 'And a He that lr halt truth Is ever the blackest o{ lies." So Emily's lover mUBt haT? Relieved it. *M,a-y.cel* unnatural. But?tho father, another, it truj be a small ining w -u.^ him his houso and suppress his letters; and such may be, by tome people, counted by no means an unwarrantable proceeding on the part ot any father who wishes to prevent his daughter's making an imnrudent marriage. A little nnoandid. per naps; a little like treating her as a child: but then, many young women are nttto botter than children; and parents have, or are supposed to have, all the wisdom, the justice, the prudenco ou their side, and may take the law into their own hands, and use any means which they think advisable for tho ultimate good of their oft'spriue. How can they?tho children?just entering on life, ami with little or no experience of its countless pitfalls, know what is best for their own bappiuoss? Blind obedience is safest and best. So would argue many excellent people? ro doubtless would have argned the dead lawyer, could he have come bock from his new-filled grave, or from tho place, wherever it was, that his soul had lied to, and stood before bis daughter iu the dead of night, as she sat with that fatal letter still clutched in her hands, staring at vacancy. I Sho was usnnlly n good deal given to weeping?too much so, indeed?she was such a thorough woman iu all her weaknesses, poor liitlo Emily. But now she did not *.veop at nil; neither did she rave, nor think any unholy, wicked thoughts, nor curse her father's memory, lie was dead, and she must not allow herself to dwoll upon what ho had dono against her, or judge wneiuer ma act were rigut or wrong. fSbo only felt that it had killed lior. Yes, he had killed her, this respectable md respected father?bad killed his own ilaughter, his natural llosh and blood, as completely as' if ho had slain her with his hand. It might be worth counting?as perhaps thejjood God may send Ilis angels to count Konto time, wlion the secrets of all lives shall bo revealed?how many fathers, Eierhaps some mothors; but women being ess seltish than men, tlieso are rarer? with the very best intentions, havedono the Bame. yoWflihft4J"Usd .Urn jmrizur of lawful, open opposition ? though that would havo boon cruol enough?but by a mean, underhand, cowardly blow, a sidcthrust which there was 110 parrying. By him, worldly man as ho was, probably the thing was not realized in its full enormity, llow could he, or such as lie, understand the loss of lovo?the one blessing which makes lifo sacred and beautiful? Or perhaps ho thought, like other worldly people, that worldly blessings are all in all, and that he was actually doing liis daughter a kindness in keeping her in the Bphero sho was born to; saving her from sacrificing herself to a inau of 110 wealth and 110 position, decidedly her inferior in the marriage bartor, who, while sho gavo him everything, had nothing on earth to oiler her except love, which was a commodity of no weight at all with Sir. Kendal. Bo that as it may, ho had killed her. Of conrso, there is this to be said, why had sho the weakness to let herself bo killed? Why did she take her lover's loss so passively, and so unresistingly allow herself to bo married to another? Why, in short, sutler herself to bo iuado a mero victim to circumstances when she should havo risen above thorn, as a strong, bravo human being, wbothor woman or man, ought to do; light her own battle, and assert her right to live out lior own life in her own way, whether she married John Stonhouso or not f Alas, the <iuostion is answered by hundreds of victims?men and women, but especially women?to whose weak helplessness might 1ms become right, and cowardice appeared liko dutiful submission. I'uss on, pale ghosts, sad shadows of lives that might have been made so happy and so fair; God will remember you, poor suffering ones! But how us to those who hn\o caused you to sutler? I think, if there ought to be a Gehenna upon earth?for mortal justico must not ]>rcsume to create Gehennas afterward?il should be opened for the punishment oJ tvrants?domestic tyrants. Emily Bowerbnuk sat till daydawn with, out attempting so much as to stir. Bewil dering, delirious thoughts s\\ei>t throng] her poor brain?she who was not mucl given to think, but only to feel. Whetlre bIio fully realized her own position?nl she was and nil she had lost; whether, ii those long still hours, she wont over an* over again, in maddened fauey, the con trust between her calm, cold, respectabl ^marriage with honest John Bowerbankitliank heaven, sho felt ho was not to blame [he never could have known anything an* inarriago with every pulso of her hoar happy and at rest; every aspiration of lie 'soul satisfied; her nature dovolopeil, am her mind strengthened; fitted for weal o iwoo, labor or ease, pence or porplexity, a sho would linvo been had she become th wife of John fcjtonhouse?all this wa never revealed. Klin Kfiid iinthino and (lid nnthinp: wlin was tliero to do or say? She blamed 11 one, not evon herself; it was too lato now -Everything was too lato. She foil iu vague, childish sort of way, liko one c the'"foolish virgins," whom sho had ul wax beon so sorry for ns a child; her lamp, toe [had gouo out, und could nover berolightet jThe door of lifo was shut, not to b opened more. ' 'Jill day dawned?the dreary, driz/1 i London day?sho sat over her father desk, not attempting, however, to soure |farther, or to arraugo anything more [Then, with a sudden fear of tho servun 'coming in and tiuding her there, she hui iriedly swept all tho letters into a drawo Inll but the letter, which sho took awn with her?it concerned nobody but hei self?and crept noiselessly away to bed. Next day, according to her husband's d< sire. Lady lioworbank started for Lixei pool. It was well sho did, for immed ately on her reaching homo she had somewhat gevero illness, a kind of lo gastric fever, which ' *"? rather prevnlei i at tho time. No one Wv. . 1 nt it, at everybody sympathized^ win. . "l)ei Ladv l'owerbank!" they said, in tnlkii her over, "sho was such a delicate, tend* crer.ure; and what a great shook it ma i have been for her, the death of her po , dear father!" 1 [TO BK CONilNUJtD. ] 5 SABBATH SCU^oT Y , INTERNATIONAL LESSON \FOR MARCH 24, \ , V [ Lesson Text: "Blind Bartlmeeug," Mark x., 46-B2 ? Ooldea , Text: Mark x., 48? Commentary. F t 40. "And they came to Jericho," Jesus is drawing near to Jerusalem, there Uiaccomplish that decease or exodus of whicl Moses and Elijah talked on the mount of maosflguration ami of which He Himselflhad so often spokeu (John iL, 19-21; Matt, xm,39,40; Mark vlii.,31; ix.,31; x.,33, 84, 45); ttt death prefigured in all the sacrifices since tfc Lord God llrst clothed Adam and Eve snth the coats of skins (Gen. iiL, SI); the aUsement which provides the only solvation for sinners, suflicient for the sin* of the whole world, efficient for all wbo/eoeive ir "As He went out of Jertfhp." i^ko says that He healed a blind umn liocame nigh to Jericho, and that Hi? tbg*.flfRgred and simplest way seem to indicate ga ^ | were three Idiivt ninn hmM at ? ono ns He e? <ered Jericho, andfwo as He left it, Bart^iivus being 'Ao eft the two. Th*ere is no need to attempt tore-iiicile these accouuts so as to try and makt out that Jesus healed at this time only ne or two blind men; there is nothing? here U reconcile except our hearts to tho SavioutJ and that we become as little childrou, bolieiing what Ho says. 'Blind Bartimaus, tho son of ,'Timaus." The ono name explains the other, Bar signifying a son as in Matt, xvi., 17; Acts iv., 36. We are not often told the names of those whovjre healed, and just why wo should be told the nnmo of this blind man is somewhat of a mystory. What an honor to have his name recorded in this Book of Books and handed down to all generations as one whom Jesus healed; but think of the greater honor of having our names written in heaven. (Lit. x., 'JO.) "Sat by the highway side beggiug." Only a poor bliud beggar, picture of utter helplessness, having nothing and unable to no anything but piteously ask alms of tboso who were passing by; what a picture of the J -inner, wretched and miserable, and poor a.' ' blind and naked (Rev. lu., 17T, "but If sim.ers were only ns sensible of their blindness and poverty as Bartiiujeus, how good it would be for them. 47. "He heard that it was Josus of Nazarotb." He had ofter heard of Him, for His fame had spread over all the land, and as ho listened to tho reports of His wondrous works, making the deaf to hear, the dumb to s|ieak, the blind to soo, the lame to walk, the sick to bo whole, and oven the dead to live again, ho became convinced that this was none ether than the one of whom tho prophets had spoken and foretold that Ho w/MI 1.1 rln fKnco vowtr /To? www.. K fti "VUI\? uv Vinov IWJ IU1IIKO \A?Kt. AAA) (/, U, , longing, no doubt, in his heart that some day Jesus might pass that way so that lie might uy unto Him and be healed, for he bad heard that it was written in tho Scriptures. "Ho shall deliver tho needy when he crieth; tho poor also, -nnd him that hath no helper." (l's. lxxii., 12.) "He boga- to cry out, and say: Jesus, Son of Davi'' ..live mercy on me." Would it be strang^f, as ho heard the crowd approaching, lie inwardly felt that tho day of his deliverance hud. cnn>A -wm.ag'.?iLVi iu-lua^ torn mm that it was Jesv.sj with what earnestness ho must havo cried out Here was tho opportunity he hail longed for, the Mighty Ono^t Israel was at hand, and ho must cry unto Him: to do otherwise would indicate either indiircrenco or unlielief. Here is poverty and helplessness crying unto tho source of all riches and blessing and tho only plea is the manifest and realized need. That is the way to coino and such pleading always brings the answer. U?. "Many charged him that ho should hold his peace." As well tell a man who is drowning,or in tho third or fourth story of a burning building with 110 apparent means of escape, to hold his peaco; as well tell this man that he is not blind, and poor, and needy, or tiiat Jesus can't stop to attend to beggars. Ho knows bettor, lie has long realized his sad condition au<l ho believes that Jesus of Nazareth, tho Son of David is a deliverer for just such as ho, nnd therefore they cannot shut him up, hut their efforts to do so only make him cry tho more a groat deal that tho Son of David would havo mercy on him. *lt?. "Jesus stood still and commanded him to bo called." Messed Jesus, hearer of the cry of the needy, Thou dost not respect tho rich because of his riches, nor despise tho poor becauso of his poverty. The poor man's opportunity has provrrtad ami the Lord of Heaven anil earth stops to grant him hisdesiro. Think of tho result if he lot this opportunity go by, for Josus never passed that away again, it was his last chance. "He of good comfort; rise. Ho calleth thee." What a word that was for the poor blind man; how his heart must have leaped within him. This word "Ho of good cheer," the Saviour used ti? t.ha nnrnl vtic. tho woman -with the issue, the disciples ill the storm, niul also to the eleven on tho last night' bo fore Ho was cruciliod (Mattix.xiv., 127; i John xvi., 1)3). And to-day He is saying tho same words to every afllicted,tempest-tossed, troubled soul who comes to Him. 2)0. "He, casting away his garment, rose ' and came to Jesus " Tlie Revised Version : ays that he "sprang up;-' ho lost no time, k and that bo might not be hindered, he cast* i aside his outer garment and quickly came to t Jesus. IIo did not say to any one, please t arrange my cloak, iix my turban, make me presentable, tell nie how to conic before Him, but simply knowing hi? no d, and thai Jouis could hoal him and was now calling 1 him, lie comes to Jesus just as lie is. Oh,for 1) such a sense of our need as he had of his r then would wo hoar no more of "no clotho? 1 tit to wear," "tho we.ith ir is too storm/, or u too hot or too cold^hnt ..r'apara and sa:ntI would till the places of public worship with the cry: "Wo would sje Jesus," "Toll u" about Jesus " 51. "What wilt thou that I shou d <1 unto thee." Thoy are now face to face, tii '1 helper and tho helpless, the Almighty an I tho undone, and those are til-) words of Josh t to tho beseeching and oxneetant heart of tli r poor blind beggar. It is written tiif d Ahasuorus said to tho Queen, " vVliat wi r thou, Quoen Ksther? and what is th _ request) it shall lie even gi"en th( to tho half of tho kingdom" (Estl v., 15); also that Holoinou gave i 8 tho Queen of Kheba all her desire, whatsosvi she askod (II Cbron. ix , l'J); but a great it than either of theso Kings is here, oven tl o same who said to Solomon t hat night i r> (liboou: "Ask what 1 shall give thee." ( " Chron. i., 7). Tho saino who says to us: " a yo abide in Me, an I My words ahido in yo ye shall ask what ye will and it shall bodoi unto you.' (<101111 xv., n. J? "Tlio blind man said unto Him, Ixwd, tlx ' I might reooivo tny sight." He did not sa >e T nin slow of speech, I cannot speak befoi this nmltitudo. f cannot find words to to y tny need, but. simply, definitely and in u fe s words ho tells his need. The most helpfi jj prayer meetings I over attended wore thowhere the prayers consisted of but two o f' throe sentences iv.f.^h/rvin tho heart, telliti out the real felt iri^if'tlio soul, and froi f" twenty to fifty aten prayers in quick stt? f? cession. 52. ".lesus said unto liiui, (lo thy wa. f- thy faith lia l ma le thej whole." Tho sau word that went forth at creation goes fort' j- as He s|Htaks. on bolialf of this poor man,an _ is ever going forth as freely and roadilv c i. behalf of all who look up conlidtngly to Hit ? for "tlio eyes of tho Lord run to and fi ' throughout the wliolo earth, to show lliinw , strong in the liehalf of them wlmse heart , (MM'fect toward Hiin" (II Ghrou. xvi , ' l(' 'Immediately ho received his sight." nr could not ba otherwise, for nil sioknes >K blindness and death flees before Hiin w ho er the Life ami tho Light. The entrance st Hi w >r I givctii light?Only believe, re ei 0i His word "And followed Jesus in t way." Another trophy of Grace, anoth victory over the prince ot darkness, anotli 1 earnest of the J erance of tho wlu , ? ?MM* JISJOf* creation from its bondage and groaning, when He shall come in power and glory. Let the reader say as in His sight: Has He opened my eyes, whereas I once was > blind do 1 now seel And it so, what db I see! Hare I eyes and heart only and all for Hira who opened ray eyes, and do I seven days in the week follow Jesus in the way t Let us aim to be people wholly dovoted to Jesus, clean and empty vocsols ontirely at His disposal. ?Lesson Helper. TEMPER, AM" True Heroism Let others write of battles fought Oil bloody, ghastly liohls. Where honor greets the man who w.n>. And death the man who yields; But I will nni ?' *"' t??rd,s;,:?ary( ^ nJLta an uu?ln And puts at last bonaath his fe?t Or muscle to o'arcomai ?? ~ An enemy who inarehetli not With banner, plume or drum? A foe forever lurking nigh, With silent, stealthy tread. Forever near your Imar'". by day, At night beside your bed. All honor, (hen, to that brave heart. Though poor or rich he la*. Who struggles with his baser pait, Who conquers mid is free. v Ho may uot wear a hero's crown Or liil a hero's grave, ? But truth will place his name among Tho bravest of the brave. o What tleeaniK of n I)riuk. In the year IS-10, on tlio third day of Oeto- t oer, a traveler from Richmond, in Virginia, f to I'hiludelphia got. out of a train at the re? . freshuieut station at Baltimore. He was j tired with the journey, and still had sumo , distance to go. A friend whom he met there , invited Idin to take n drink. What r harm . ronhl there If in that.' Was it not the part nf good-fellowship to do sot Who but a ^ churl, a fellow who ought to lie treated with contempt, some bigoted, miserable teetotaller . coutd raise nn objection* The two friend*, ' with good intentions went to the bar. Bad a J rink. What, was the result' Tho gentleman who was thus l?ui|>ted was ' a |loot of the very highest promise. His | career had t>een wild mid bad. His name was LCilgar Allen l'oe. His tales bod revealed rare genius. One or two poems lie hail j written wore radiant with promise. Kvery literary critic was assured that if ho would 1 Uecoino steady anil settle down to a good life ' lie would he one of tho brightest stars of * American literature, nnu ins counsels ui wise men and the inllueiice of good friends ) lad no effect. Wliile in Richmond he had seen brought ?o ;>e!site!5ce for the past, and i trowed information. iie signed (he pledgo tud joined a (emiterance society to euulilo i him to resist liis great, foe, strong drink. He < t;ave a lecture on lotal abstinence, which was attended by the best people in llicbmoud, who rejoiced at the change and were full of hope. A lady whont he had long loved now rousel)toil to ?n engagement, and arrangements were made for (lie wedding. All his friends were satisfied that the man had *S??1 ?o<i meant to work and live it ne had an invitation ?tonlr nlaivi tome literary work. Life was bright, and til promised well. Hut. whilst staying for n "ew minutes at. Baltimore, a well-meaning friend persuaded him once more to ] >peu the door to tlio demon who had j ;.iasteil his life up to that hour, I out. was now subdued. What inducei mints were used, what strong assever| itions that one glass con id do no harm were made, what jests at being a milk-sup ! were employed, what sneers at teetotal | fanaticism were indulged in, wo cannot ! tell. At length Hoe just turned the key in the lock. He took a drink. There are foolish persons who say they have no sympathy with a man who cannot take just one glass or two, perhaps, and stop there. No wise lover of his fellows will say that. Some of the very best men cannot. It is often the finest brains that, are driven into insanity with a few drops of alcohol, which speedily destroys tho equilibrium of the system, as a little snake poison will do. Poo could not stop at one gloss. At Havre tie Grace lie was found so disorderly that, he was taken back to Baltimore in the custody of the conductor of the Philadelphia train. There ho did what others have doue?ran riot in drink, completely mastered by tho demon lie had been foolish enough to sot free. In the course of a few days be was taken to tho hospital in an insensible state. On Sunday morning, October 7, bo awoke to consciousness. "Where am II" lie asked, A kindhearted doctor who was by tho liedsido saidr "You are cared for by your best friends." i After a pause Poo solemnly replied; "My best friend would be the man I who would blow out my brains." | In ten minutes he was a corpse. Tho iioxt day he was interred in the burial| ground of Westminister Church, and j America lost one of the most promising and i brilliant writors she over possessed. IVhnt I became of the friend who induced him to lake that drink at tho Baltimore refresh* I ? inent-room? What riiil bo think of it when ' ho learned the results' What will ho think j <>f it in eternity f If angels havo any insight 1 into futurity, "what must they havo felt if ' permitted to witness at the refreshment bar? ' Surely somo demon sent a thrill of hollish 1 joy throughout tho pitas it saw tho man lift the glass 1 Oil, it is terrible to think what a . brilliant light in linglish literature that glass , ipienchedl And one is reminded of n certain poet, who lived many centuries previous, who said, possibly seeing a similar evil in his ' day: "Woo unto l'im that giveth his noigh, \ bor drink."?Hunt Cook*, in the Free' , i vi nn. A Boy's Terrible Inlierltanco. The most striking illustration that is in 0 my recollection at tho present moment was ie in one whom 1 knew from his birlh until ho ,1 | mot his doath l.y the most tragical of snicils ! dal acts, and who was as peculiar in some roie ! spects heforo the fatal influence of drink ha:l ,t actually seized on him as aftorwnrd. <!n his It paternal side this hoy diroctly inliorited tho y I alcoholic taint: on his mother's side, incliH rectly. IIo ivns a hoy not wanting in a eerI, : tain ahilty, and not wanting in a certain P; ! beauty of build; hut lie had about iiim no doB1 termination of purpose. Ho was restless i,i j without object, capricious, and olten inolan l? ' choly. Jio was not intentionally cruel, but a. as if without knowing it ho was .fddonly 1 and often desprraloly cruel with animals and j playfellows alike, fjoiiegrow up, not male ua j ing much progrosi in nnything, and caring 1(' I less for play than a healthy hoy j should. At last, when ho was under ! ago, tho tnato for wino, and almost in* y 1 stantly for stronger duid of tiio same c | spirit-class, was aciptirod. Then ns it II j were, with a hound, ho passed into dipsomaiv j nia. Thero wore no preliminary stagos of ,i I iravdtr of nr-r.isiminl intoxication wit.ll I periods of reformation; no relapses under ? | anxiety or urgent temptation, but a com* <r pleto transformation or tlio wholo man?or, u , rather, tho whole youth?into drunk madness. iJo lint not, would not, could not ronnon on the mattor. Iln was an conscious y i of tlio evil us ??u-i nnyono who looked at. him 10 j in his worst phases. Ho had no desire what* i, I over to reform. It was his confession that i i ho enrod for bfo only so far as it gnvo him ,d tho opportunity to indulge in drink. Having nt no nil.y for himself, ho had no pity for others, ro i and disrognrdftd of Ins wolfare, ilra^ni all <)( who approached him, as far as he could, into j> j his own course: not, to it observod, from t). | any desire to do them wrong, but from an It actual indifference, or, It may bo, ignorance >s, i of tho rotations between right an<l wrong; is ; and so, for many y ears, his distorted way of of | life, accursed, as he himself said, and neve ' cursing, progress I, until in mora frank, and ho prnctis.ng in the actual act of killing him iei solf on nwful cruoltv on othars. ho came to ler his untimely and,?f'ionter. >lo ' aujgbg? [religious reading. By and By. By and by tho path shall brighten. And its outlines rise to view; As the moving mists shall lighten, And distil tVio evening dew; When the gems of gold shall glisten, In the cloud supported sky; While the soul shall look and listen, By and by, yes, by and by. By and by a fringo of l>eauty, Shall api>ear beyond the line, Where tho upward path of duty Moots and melts in love divine; There tho Ixird shall rise in glory, Through the star depths drawing nigh; Crowning thus redemption's story, By and by, yes, by and by. By and by shall wine the ringing Of tho music from tho throne, As the seraphs in thoir singing, 1 Chant the marvels tluw.*-- " I1 By by the stand; By and by, yes, by ^^Ifrtd Gay. Tlie Revival and Its Cost. There can l>o no ndvanco *},,fl ,\l0 huXst'coXtuc.! illustration of this. rhero are so ninny things to lend tho minds if men nway from Christ and religion, thnt i revival, a living again, is necessary to fain tlio attention of souls to tho importance f salvation. All worldly excitements aro nifriendly to religion and direct tho mind rom spiritual th ngs. It hn< ho n God's )lnu in tho history of th<? church to nwnkoi .ho people to a sonso ofjUicir condition liy ncans of revivals. R \ this way buckiliddon Christians have boon awakened A3 a sense of duty and filled with a longng dorlro for tho salvation of tho world. l\ o all know that God's agency in saying lien is Ilis Spirit, and in all true revivals dio work of tlio Spirit is dearly seen. It will bo admitted thnt a revival of religion is dosirablo, and if it could bo purchased bj paying n good, fair price, there are some jhurchos thnt would bo sure to have on *. Fliero aro various things thnt stand in tho way of revivals in our churches. 1 hero is the worldly spirit, for instance. Tho members aro con formed to the wprld, to its display, its amusements and its s.ns. There is tho unconcern of professors who do not serin to bo at all troubled at tlio Irreligion of tho unconvoitod, and I hey sleep wliili tinners nro unsaved. Now w o undertnko to say that tlio reason whv churches do not. enjoy revive.' influences is they aro not willing to jiay tho price in self-denial and consecration to God. In every church there nro some earnest souls who by faithfulness liavo jiowcr at tlio throne .of grace. lint thoro is a largo measure of tho spirit of tlio world in our churches, and this paralyzes tho pow r of prayer and puts its-cold band oil every pulse of tlio church. There nro scores of churches in Connect! ut in just this condition. Nothing can bo worse than tiio deadening in flitancA of a_cold church. Mam* have tho death. How snnli tucno enurvin-* bo awakened? Lot Christians rsk God to liavo their faith ronewid, and pray that tho liower of sin and tho world over US may lie broken. Wo have never known a church to bo awakened to a higher state of Christian lifo and 110 conversions to follow. It is tho worldly spirit in our hearts that blocks tho onward course of tho kingdom <jf, Chpist, Every unconsorntod professor is a lump of ice, to whom tlie burning realities of eternity nro nothing. ir? 1.... / .... 1....1 ...... 1........ ...1 <1,., great lack of consecration on tho part of lending members of churches. Clod blesses lis just as far us it is ]Mtssihle to do so, and the cost of spiritual blessings will lie the consecration of ourselves to his services.?llnrt. llel. Ilcrahl. True Prayer. It is neither wise nor right for God's people to Is? too persistent in pressing particular requests in prayer; or rather in showin g a wilful disposition in prayer. No matter how much we want to obtain some funoied good thing or to avoid some fancied trou le or calamity, our petitions ought always to lie accompanied with the feeling and expression tliat the Lord's will, not ours, may In done. This is the lesson taught us in Christ's over memorable struggle in the garden of Gethsemnne, and it is n revelation of the nature nntl effectiveness of true prayer. It is only when the ignorant and wmk human soul submits itself to the guidance of inlhiito intelligence and perfect love; only when the wayward and sinful human will lstws to the righteous Divine Will that there is any real communion Iwtwcen man and God. Nor will God answer in the best seme any other kind of petition. Ho does in Iced nt times answer wrong petitions pushed by the wilful believer to theextremo and in a wrong spirit; but the very answer is an infliction of His displ asureand sure to end in disastrous results. For example: when the Israelites prayed in a murmuring and rob llious disposition for flesh, whilst sighing after the "flesh jsits of Egypt,' God replied by sending flocks of quail winch, though wonderfully gratifying to the appetite, bred nevertheless a plague that destroyed the eaters by thou sands. So ngaiu lie yield d to the domain of the trilies to send spies into Canaan,whi 1 displayed a lack of luith and obedience; bill the conflicting reports of the returned spici divided theg-amp. threw the majority nt< doubt, fear and desp ii ; and in fact hurlet the nation back into Its years of wretchei wanderings in tli wilderness. In the snim way the wish and determination < f tho dis contented jM'op!.> to have n king was n ren rel elli"ii against I he Ciooeraey. Well, Je liovah granted the rebellious request nu? himself selected the king, liud him nnointe and crowned; but the result was that tin people suffered all sorts of evil from tlioi king, so that lie heenmo a rod of Divin wrath rather tlinn an instrument of mere; and Messing. The writer of theso lines oneo kn w i mother who was most remarkable in lie jHTsisteneo in praying for tlio restorat'o from ]M*rilous sickness of her son. She wn warned that she should say: "Tho I/ml will l?> done," but replied that "she colli < and would not, if that will meant th death of her only and diriing boy." Her I was a sinful rebellion of heart and wil lior oriiyer. however, was answered, i n hoy seemed rescued from the jaws of death bill alas, he grew up to 1 > a wiek d, <1 i*inh ing, gambling, remorseless wreteh! Tli I heart-broken mother often r. called wit penitcntinl sorrow her own stubb; rnness t will in having refused to b >w to win seeicd a eall from G <1 lor her boy c clear as the call one given 1? Abrahan and wished, too late, that God had take him fro n earth while yet in the beaut and ineoeenco of childhood. The thoughtful and judicious disciple tvi alwavs remember, and in remembering th will find all his comb rt and joy, that Of knows Iwst and will do best, that as his nw truth declares: "All things work togetb for the good of them th it 1 ve Him.'' 1 will therefore nv as Jesus did when conter plating the appal ing scenes of th cru< fixion: "O, My Father, if it lie possi le, 1 this cup pass from Me: nevertheless, not ie will, but as Thou wilt."?Christian at 11 'or We are wanting the strength wo need f the discovery of truth as yet unknown, I i cause we do not rest enough in truth thut x know. "Rest in the lxird." Tho great* things are known already. NUMBER 12. LATER NEWS. Ex-Senator Simon Cambron celebrated hie ninetieth birthday at his home near Harrisburg, Penn. The British schooner Gleaner was seized at Boothbay, Me, by United States custom officers for non-entry. The fine is $1500. The Bufford's Sons Lithographic Company, of Boston, has suspended payment. Liabilities, $ .00,000. Shocks of earthquake were felt at various points in Pennsylvania, Delaware. Maryland and New Jersey. Ki-binhaus & Simonson's mammoth clothing house in IiOuisville, Ky., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $436,00Q, - - " Emakpki. Gaskins. i mother-inlaw, Jaoob HaWioo.^ Wotiog, a neighbor wove ki?*d had been drinking. With whom ft ker., mat. Wrr.T.tA* "*6S utiwin WILII mm, and than committed anteUle at Fostorla, Ohio. postmastkr-GlCNKnAT, wanamakkr has purchased the elegant Washington residence which has been until recently the home of Hon. W. C. Whitney. The price paid was $80,000. There was a net decrease of $4,313,700 in the circulation during February, and a net increase of $'J,783,15S in tho inonoy and bullion in the Treasury. The British man-of-war Sultan has been wrecked on the Island of Comino, in the Mediterranean. The captain and crew were saved. Black diphtheria is epidemic in Crauberry Township, Venango County, and (lallitzin, Tenn. Tho schools aro dosed and publio meetings forbidden. Sinco Novombor 100 poople, out of n population of ~000, havo died in Gallitzin. A blizzard almost ns sovero as the memorable one of Inst year, ha3 raged throughout tho Berkshire Hdls in Massachusetts. TnnEK men woro killed in a coal raino at Vntesvillo, l'cnn., by an explosion of gas. Joseph IIes.skll killed his wife nt Auburn, N. Y., and then couiaiiLted suicide. Mrs. Thomas Love, of Fredericksburg, Va., was accidentally killed by her husband j while ho was cleaning a revolver. Ho was I arrested. Nkaui.y $10,000,000 was appropriated by tho Congress just ended for tho construction and improvement of public buildings. Bills calling for $4'J,011,000 were introduced in tho nouse alono during the first session. CoNonEflswAN Townphiini), for many years Representative from tho Eighteenth Illinois (Sliawneetown) district, died a few Uayb ako in Washington of pneumonia, conCongrcss. Ho was horn 111 rrlnce tioorge-a County, Md., April 30, 1840. SlCCUKTAUY WlNDOM Ills a])])Oitit id (lOOrgO C. Ticli$i}or, of Illinois, to be Assistant Socretory of tho Treasury. A i'assknckk train on tho Traziscuspian Railway, in Russia, was thrown from tho track in a tunnel, owing to tho ronioval of rails by train wreckers. Tho result of tho derailment was frightful, tho killod and injured numbering fifty. Kino Mknki.sii, of Shoa, lias formally doclarod war against King John, of Abyssinia. The groatest flood that bos been known in the west of England for a generation has just prevailed. A KEAtiFiir, storm raged in tho oouth of Russia for Ihroo days. Railway t'alllc in Austria was stopped. The British and Amorican consulate} at Chin-Kiang, a treaty port of China, wore sacked by riotous natives. Empkuok Dono Kaiin, of Annom, lias lu>?n nss?Kfii nut-oil li on T.snhn son of Due Due, ton years old, was proclaimed Eraporor by tlio French resident, and tho next day was erowne.L ______ THE MONITOR INVENTOR. Dentil oT John Ericsson at a Rlpi Old Age in New York. John Ericsson, inventor, engineer and builder of the celebrated iron clad Monitor, died the other day in Now York in his eightysixth year. His end was absolutely painless. John Ericsson was born July 31, 1803, in Wermland, Sweden. His father was an iron i master, and his mother a mine owner's daughter. At the age of ten John constructed u miniature saw mill and pumping machine, the merits of which attracted tin I attention of Count i'laten, then chief , of the great Swedish ship canal. From t that tlmo the boy made rapid strides in s scion ti tic development. When twelve ^ years old he entered tho Swedish I naval forces as a cadet of mechanical engineers. At seventeen be was an ensign, and at twenty-two he was a Lieutenant. After constructing a flame engine of ten-horse power ho went to London to produce it. Le then resigned his commission and was pror muted Captain in recognition of hip great , i merit. He has not returned to his native , ' 1 country since. His countrymen, however, 3 erected in 18U7, a huge granite monument, r built by unpaid labor, in acknowledgment of i> his eminent'scientific servicer. y During his residence in England Captain Ericsson invented about forty machines of a various kinds. He won many prizes, and his r achievements created the greatest surprise a among the scientists of the day. s In 1830 Ericsson came to the United States, s where his fame hud already preceded him. ,1 His first groat work I.ere was to build the 0 Princeton, the first naval ves el that over 0 carried her machinery beiow the water line 1 and beyond tho reach of hosti.e shot. It changed tho whole system of naval architeca D..4 I.:? fai. J. HI! O. Dill IIIS lli;.\U ?0?U o *? ? ? Otoii ^icnvcii ,] It was in the form of a turret ship, the plans iU of which were olYcr-fd to Napoleon III. in l! 1854. It was upon those plans (with improvemente) that the celebrated iron clad Monitor i was constructed in 1861. Her performance elicited the admiration of the whole civilised , world. Hix others wore constructed upon the Ij same type. and Russia. Sweden, Norway and n 'i'urkey adopted the American turrst system, y After the cloa> of thp war Eric sson devoted jn hir. genius to devising a plan for destroying M? II the great naval structures his energy had in built up. This invention bo proposal to call mI the Destroyer, through the agoncy of which rn a species of submarine warfare was to have (.r been develop-sl. Its practicability has no"; j? yet b?en finally demonstrated. The sun motor was his latest idea, its prin,j_ ciple being the utilization of solar beat through mechanical agency. Upon this in i vention be was engaged when taken sick. / .. This does not represent by any mean, the c whole work upon which he was engaged. Dozens of other inventions, to describe which would fill many vo.nines, have employed his or time. vo ro./iY t v.i < i uns h-tto cit piu^cteU since ist January !, end all appearances indicate thai 10,000 miles of rood will be built this year, j