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I* Jlfuotrt to ^grirnltnrr, gorticnltwrf, CrtaM^QKHw^t, fhrtHirs anb tljr Current Unas of pat). , It ta not that her faco ia fair, SpS.?**- With choeka of rosy hue. ??>. Or that the gold ahowa in her hair, ' The eky In eyea of bine, >'- Or thai with dainty tread aholl oome jt, To meet yon a* the door, k<; Or that her tonoh makoa bright the > . homo ? Where Borrower el t of yore. j?y k It la not that bar laugh la cay. Her tonoa, ao awaet and low: Though how tbeau brighten all the day, AU thoao who lovo her know. ?? V ' For all the beauty nnturo gave, We clvo the praiao that'a due; V But many thoughts untold we hare Efr '* - For one ao good and true. nSvifilh *'i K~' life there la a oharm, t V that will last: . ^ that eaves the least from L^AMMfo lei?ly one: thatgivea teatTor others' woes: fl aBlMAehowa not (or hersol f aho 11 voa, ^^^Bfisfv^jttUuauub a goo-' >-? h=Ol??. QttU*a number of citizens as.eprb' depot to get a peep At th?<*fya to free .'/ . z - - ? ? luuch alloy/? fc? -- CaMEssr, Whitley County, Iinltanh. I POOR LITTLE EMILY The History of a Prudenl Marriage. BT MISS MVX.OOK. CHAPTER IV. De morlnis nil nisi bouum. ? I would gladly put ibis ns tbe motto (c the present chapter, and adopt the moral o! It, which is a noblo and Christian moral, and can not bo too tenderly r.nd seduloaslj a?ted upon?in the main. But truth for-i >"^vai'fipflf O_ee<inies?that truth, m - i-PrH~il h iTiIMFTm A"t 'houi; ? The good is often Interred with .heir bones. which is as true now at when Bhnkspeare wrote it. No One, taking n wide and com prehenaivo viow of life, can fail to seowhal fatal harm is sometimes caused, passively, by the passive dead; how often tho l.iiig will in.ure themselves?nul mere tma themselves? for the sake of wbat they rail "respect for tho memory of the depait.-d;" home one wli ?J maybe, was once ns foolish, obstinate, selfish, oruel as any of us, and in death has perpetuated the ill-doings of his lifo. Fi om this feeling, corrupted from a virlno into a <uw? ufi-nuuuu, many n wrong, lOO into discovered, which ou_ht, years nud years before, to have been dragged to the opou day, and orushed and trampled uudor the avenging heel of righteous wrath and noble .acorn, is bushed up, suffered to be passed over unrequited, because?alas! the wrongdoers are now far away in the silent laud, whore, at loast, they can injure no more. Nothing bnt good of the dead I If good oanuot bo s|>okon, then keep silence. >Yea, oiUummU>. jGoJ .forbid that when Be lays His eternal seal upon the quivering mouth of sinner as well as saint, oars likewise should not respect Ilis awful mandate and be dumb. But there nre enees in which silence regarding the dead involves wrong to the living, and thai v/liioh might hare been r solomn warning to many othors left behind falls short of its natural lesson ?the lesson I would fain have some worldly pcoplo lay to honit from this sto-y?'.ho true story, alasl of John Bowerbank'a wife. rri .,?i. :? ??.J 1 ? .....1 11.?.~l. JUUU^U III |UU^ 4lKU? ,<UU lUV/U^ll Elace, people, and extraneous circumstances are boen, I trust, effectually disguised, still the story itself is no invention, but n faot told to me; and I tell it, after all tho actors therein are safety dead and gono, as a lesson to those whom it may ooncern; especially those who are supposed to need none, and yet fate often roads to then) quietly the sharpest lesson of all?tho parents of grown-up children. Lady llowerbonk was sitting quite alono, and dressed in deep niouraiug, in the dining-room of tho house at Quocn Anne street. She had been summoned to London for the first time fdncCher marriage, by a very sod event?tho sudden death of liei father. He was not an old man exactly, and had been hitherto remarkably halo and active, living his lifo-the life of n barrister aoout town?with apparent enjoyment, making, and spending as fast as he xnado, ;a very good income, absorbed chiefly iu selfish pi asnres, bnt pleasures of a perfectly reputable and unobjectionable kind. However, in the midst of theso Death found and called him. Borne hidden hoaii disease suddenly developed itself, and he wasstiuok down while making a speech it court. His daughter and son-in-law wer? telegraphed for, but even be'ore the mes a/?a Ua ?ah That IQUCUUU UIOUI UU WHO UV UlUiOi XUWj orriod him back from Westminster llall tc bis own door ? corpse. ! Of oonrse, deep was the sympathy witt his family; and though siuoa her marriage he bad so withdrawn himself from her thai the slonder filial relation which ever ex sted, or was likely to exist, between a lovinp girl nnd a man so essentially selfish, that except by force of tho cla'm or natnre he ha<J no right whhtevor to be considered a father, had beoo mo all bnt nominalj'slill, overpowered by the snddonnoss of the stroke, * " jis danghter monniod for him - monrned, remembering net ho mnoh later years a> those early childish days when almost every mad takes a certain pleasure in paternity, eeoeoielly being father to a pretty little girl. She recalled how he' need to sel her on the table after dinner and make hci dance to him? or take her waHcs in the part with her best clothes on?her muslin frocks, and bine ribbons, and her golden hair flying about, so that, infant as she was, sbe was fully aware everybody notioed her, 6- and asked 14 whose charming little girl thai was?" Halcyon days these, during which many an imperfect nature and hard benrl ride safely oyer the smooth waters of life, to be ehipwreckod afterward. It is not till the storm ows that And cut the real hntlding and timber of the ressel. After these days came others, in whioh to the best of Emily's recollection, hei father had taken very little notioe of her for nobody notioed her now very much .1 She had ceased to be pretty; her boautj Was only the round rosinoss of infauoy, and it slipped away and there had not ve come that beaming spiritual lovelinesi whioh bad so charmed the unartistio eye but clear Head mia annua near* or johi Stenhouse. Ho sho bad been, daring be teens, ft good detil neglected; and, in fact b?r young life bad only wakened up oi that fetoFTivarpool rlait, the consaqnenco of which turned the careless father into i remorseless judge?a cruel enemy. Hut she forgave him thai; aha was rend to forgive bun anything, aa ahe eat in hi easy-chair, before hie private dealt, tho pa p re of which Sir John, summoned boo home immediately after toe funeral, ha V"*y left her to eramine atone; ahe was hannte by aad thought off her father?her ow moot factor?who had ao onjoyed the koo things of this life?his oo*y dining rooiflbia afier dinner repose deeping now, th ftrst night, under gronnd? the eternal alee of death. She would have lilted to thin of him otherwise and otherwhere, bnt eom< how ahe eonld not; he had been a man i <W?*ati?lly worldly that even after hia deat . " / ... ' . ... . \ X: ; ' ?r ,.... . . ? ones fancy unconsciously associated him lli with thia world. She knew she ought to 8 dwell upon him el safe and happy in 'ei heaven, and yet her thoughts would fly ai hack and back, like gloomy birds of evil . omen, and settle in that oheerloss, misty 0 oometery at Kensal Oreen?where. Sir John lloworbank had said, some handsome mem* lc orial mast immediately be erected to dis* ,b< tinguish it from the throng of graves; and bi he left his wifebehind in London for a day, in order that sho might leisurely examine n, her father's papers, and find obtlss&ether ti the deceased?it was melancholy to heat Bi the olever barrister, the social dtoor-out, ir already spoken or as merely "the deceased" te ?had any partioulM. wish regarding his ft own monument; lor Emily's hnsband was w very kindly, very oonsiderate; and in this ai .. last sad conjuncture she had been more p drawn to him than for many months be- <tt fore. h She had bidden him good-by an hour its ago, he starting by the night mail for Liverpool* and had settled herself alone in the^large, desolate dining-room, making a I h' t^r could-hardly J ^ lug into with unhallowed c~ea- and turn- ? big over with unforbidden hands, thoso y, secrets of which we all have some, and a which wo think are safe from everybody, jj I till death comes and teaches differently. lv What 31 r. Kendal could have been think- cj ing of when he left all these matters? ?( many of which ho certainly would not have liked oven his daughter to bo acquniutod with?to such a chanco as now q, befell thorn, is impossible to say. Prob- .u ably the truth, unseen and disbelieved, though it stares ai us in church-yard and :n| street, and whispers to us in overy book '0< or newspaper, that "in the midst of lifo we ^ aro in death," hod been wholly unrecog- '8J nized by this man of the world, or else he might have had a superstitious dread of | setting his house in order, and contem' plating, in any way, hiB own dissolution, 18 ' Certain it was he left no will, and his ,n< ' most private papers were found in tho tit; most confusion, everything boiu.^ exactly as ho had qnittod his homo on the morning U1 of his death, to return thither alife no ** more. i c# ' With a solemn tonderness befitting snob an oilloe, his daughter turned over scrap V ' after serap, opened, and looked at lettor 1st after lettor, just reading as much as seem- !n< ' ed necessary, and thon burning it, or lay- jn< | ing it aside to bo burnt. A good mnuy th papers she destroyed at once; sho did not |cc like oven her husbaud to see them?thoso at relics of a purely selfish life?not abso- or lutely a wicked life, bat one self-absorbed wl and solf-onjoying?nothing but wolf- or worship from the Legiuniug to tho end. Lady Bowerbank was growing weary; hn the ball clock bad just struck eleven, re- 'da sounding through tho gloomy old houso co with a thrill that almost mado her start off 'lis her chair?she was very feeble ami nerv- [ha ous still, though her honlth had beeu of loo l,t> niA-tl.. ? : 1 * L IUwu111 rj ii iiiue luiuruviu^, oh'k ill *j|| heart, forlorn anil louely, sho put nside heap aftor heap of letters in unfamiliar l?j hand-writing, to bo oxumineu by and by, |^j when she suddenly camo across one tka' 8a was not unfamiliar. an9?MT?n01^^^buC^Bn^.ert: jfnc respondence; probably this was one of the Wl letters. None of them had over been im shown to her; she had only found out ac- >tl) oidenlally that such had boen sent and receivoil. Eagerly sho took up this one, ^ then hceiiitsd?Emily's perpoiuai hosita- jj iiou?as to whether it would bo a broach ^ of confidence or of duty to read it, when, m looking at the envelopo, she bow it was not addressed, as the rest of Mr. Stenliouse's >(^ lottors had beou, to Mr. Knowle'B house in ^ Liverpool, but to Queen Auno street, I.ondou. And the postmark bore a date long w subsequent to that uuhappy time; a date ^ which, as Emily Bowerbank ga/.od on, M cold shivers of fear ran through hor, for it ^ was a week after her twenty-first birthday. . "He did write, then. I must read it! I e, mustiind will!" she said to herself; and for once that firm "I will"?tho want of which had beCn the great lack of hor life? as it is one of the greatest nnd most fatal jjj deficiencies ia any human life or character ^ ?came to her aid, and she carried out hor : purpose. Was it for good or for 111? Alas! b( the teller of this vimplo talo?and maybe ,, many a reader?cannot possibly decide; oxoept that, as a general rule, to have met i opon-eved the most blinding truth is bettor, : ay, and easier in the end, than to livo uuder the blighting shadow of a pormanout i.1 li?- !v The letter addressed to Mr. Kendal by John Stenhouso ran thus : 1 bin: Though wo did not part amicably two years ago, I bog now to appeal to you as to a d: gontlninau and a man of honor, and tbo father ei of tho lady whom 1 then, and ever since, it steadily dotcrmiuod to make my wife. a] At your dosiro, I hbdaiiied from alt commu- ,, nication with l>or untd hIio bocamo of ago, which was a woek ago. On that day, and " again for six diys following, I called at your s< houso, Iq soj hoc and you, and lo beg permis- f< sion to renew our engagement?or rather to h oomplete it: for it has, as regards mysoif, uoveabeen broken; hut I was not admitted. J n cannot loarn anything about her. 1 bav? written to bor; I have watched?as far as a ?, gon tinman could prosnmo to watch a lady?in " the hope of eooing her; and all in vain. 1 ' now take the straightforward oourse of writ1 ing direct to yon, sir. You may not like mo, 0 but you can know nothing against ma Also,- <3 you are a father. I entreat you for her sake b ?she did love mo onco?not to stand in ip the way of our happiness. That alio is tru> B to me I lr*vo not tho slightest doubt Till _ me vthef /she is, and when I may soo her. eeurs faithfully, John I*tenhoubk. 1 Inolf/nd with this was a small note, ,? scarcely more than a sorap, apparently '} written in haste, and was blotted us >t was ' folded: 1 flB: I accept your explicit and complete oxl plauation, and wish your daughter every hap. j E luces that circumstances may afford lior. i cither eho nor you will over bcagain in. 1 traded upon by your obedient eorvmt, ; John 8tenhousk | , Emilv Bowerbank read, and sat oetri- i ; fletl. The whole world'scorned fading ; from her in a sort of dark-gray miBt. The I roaring of waters was in her cars, and n I del!, knocking paiu at uor hoar*. Then ui) ceasod, and she passed into tomporary un, consciousness. t r . When she oame to herself, she was lying ; forward with her head on the desk, the let* tor still grasped in her hand. Bhe romem* r bored nt once what had bappenod, but she , did not faint again, not even thongh she t was oue of those feeble women whom o i very slight thing causes to fall into fainting . flts. 1 A Blight thing u probably the father < r who had dona it believed it to be, or argued \ * himself into believing-and yet it was the i destruction of two liven! < Bo John Ktenhonae had returned at the < a appointed time, and once again naked hot < to many him. He had loved her steadily, j faithfully, through these two blank years. a He had come up to London prepared to , - meet the sharp ordeal that was inevitably } k before him?the wounding of hie pride? ] d the laeerating of his foelings?all the limn- ;< d bling irritations that, under the beet of u oiromnstapces, must be borne by a poor, J d proud man who marries a rich man's } - daughter. Yet he had oome, willing and 1 Is eager to marry her, setting aside everyE thing'except hie lovo for her?a love steady aa a rook, true as steel, i- For an instant, as soon as this became K> el ear to Emily's half-bewildered brain, h there flashed opon her ? sudden light?the ' r rst and mott natural impulse of aotaal joy. he clasped her hands together, ana if rer the poor, pale face looked like an ngel'8 it looked so then. He was true! He did not forsake me! h, thank God!" And then she remembered all that foliwed, and how it had all ended in her ainc what she was now?John Bowerink s wife. The dead man had told a lie?or perhaps ot a direct lie, but a misstatement?pntng forward what he believed and hoped i what really existed. He had evidently [formed John Stenhonse that his daughir no longer considered herself engaged ? him, and was on the point of marriage 1th John Bowerbank. 8noh fabrications re often given as facts by even good pools, who nope them until they really believe tern. The falsehoods of the wicked can s met?the misstatements of the respeoilje and worthy cannot. int a lie tnat Is half troth Is ever the Meekest ofllea.' imhli'honseuid suppress hLHettem^S aoh may be, by some people, counted by o means ^an tin warrantable proceeding on i? pan? any nun wno vlib? to pra?nt his daughter's making an imprudent i ferriage. A little unoenatd, per naps; ? ttle tike treating her as child: but then, iftny young women are little better thaw lildren; and parents have, or are supposed ? have, all the wisdom, the justice, the rudenco ou their side, and may take the w into their own hands, and use any leans which they think advisable for tho Itimute good of their offspring. How can lev?the ohildren?just entering on life, it! with little or no experience of its luntless pitfalls, know what is best for leir own happiuoss? Blind obedience is ifest and best. So wonld argne many excellent people? > doubtless would have argued the dead ,wyer, could he have come back from his sw-filled grave, or from the place, wberrer it was, that his soul had fled to, aud ood before his daughter iu the dead of [ght. as she sat with that fatal letter ill clutched in her hands, staring at vaincy. She was usually a good deal eiven to eeping?too mabh so, indeed?she was toh a thorough woman in all her weak?sses, poor little Emily. Bat now she did >t weop at nil; neither did she rave, nor ink any unholy, wicked thoughts, nor irso her father's inomory. He was dead, id she must not allow herself to dwell ttpi what he had dono against her, or judge bother his act were right or wrong. She ily felt that it had killed her. Yes, ho had killed her, this respeotuble id respected father?bad killod his own inghter, his natural flesh nnd blood, as mpletely as' if he had slain her with his ind. It might be worth counting?as perips.the.good God may send His angels to unt Rome time, whon the secrets of all res shall bo revealed?how many fathers, irhaps some mothers; but women being ss selfish than men, these are rarer? ith the very best intentions, have dono the me. vteflinlriAfevj .the Jttodn#r of wfnl, open opposition ? though that ould have been cruel euough?bnt l>y a ean, underhand, cowardly blow, a siderust which there was no parrying. By m. worldly man as he was, probably the ling was not realized in its full enormity, ow could he, or such as ho, understand o loss of love?the bne blessing which akcs life sacred and beautiful? Or portps he thought, like other worldly people, iat worldly blessings aro all in all, and iat he was actually doing his daughter a Induces in keeping her in the sphere sho as born to; saving her from sacrificing irself to a man ot no wealth and no potion, decidedly her inferior in the mnrago barter, who, while sho gave him evrytliing, had nothiug on earth to offer her ceept love, which was a commodity pf no eight at all with Mr. Kendal. Bo that as it may, he had killed her. Of lurse, there is this to be spid, why had 10 the weakness to let herself bo killed? 'hy did she take her lover's loss so pnsaoly, and so unresistingly allow herself to s married to another? Why, in short, suffer erself to be made a mere victim to oir* imstances when she should have risen L>ovo them, as a strong, bravo unman boig, whether woman or man, ought to do; ght her own battlo, and assert her right to ve out hor own life in her own way, hother she married John Stenhouse or ot? Alas, the question is answered by hunreds of victims?men and women, but ipeoially women?to whoso weak helpissness might has become right, and oowrdice appeared like dutiful submission, ass on, palo ghosts, sad shadows of lives iat might have been mnde so happy and 3 fair; God will remember you, poor sufaring ones! But how as to thoso who ave caused you to suffer? I think, if there ought to be a Gehenna pon oarth?for mortal justioe must not resume to create Gehennas afterward?it hould be opened for the punishment of rrauts?domestic tyrants. Emily Bowerbnnk Bat till daydawn withat attempting so much as to stir. Bewillering, delirious thoughts swept through ler poor brain?she who was not much iveu to think, bat only to feel. Wbethei he fully realized her own position?all he was and all she had loet; whether, in hoso long still hours, she went over and iver nuuin. in maddened fancv. the oon runt between her oalra, cold, respectable carriage with honest John Bowerbank? hank heaven, she felt he was not to blame; re never conld nave known anything?and carriage with every pulse of her heart iappy and at rest; every aspiration of hei oul satisfied; her nature developed, and lor mind strengthened; fitted for weal 01 roe, labor or ease, peaee or perplexity, at ihe would have been had she become the vife of John Stenhoose?all this wai tever revealed. She said nothing and did nothing* what vas there to do or eay? She blamed no >ne, not even noraeit; it was too late now, Everything was too late. She felt in t ragne, childish sort of way, like one oi he "foolish virgins," whom she hadalwayi >een so sorry for as a child; her lamp, too isd gone out, and could never be relighted, rhe door of life was shot, not to b< >pened more. Till day dawned?the dreary, driaal; London day?she sat over her father'i iesk, not attempting, however, to searel r*r+VtAr rtP tn APranOA anvfklno mrtM I'hen, with a sndden fear of the servant! joining In and finding her there, abe hnr riedly awept all the letters Into a drawer ill bat the letter, whioh she took owai with her?it concerned nobody hat her lelf?and crept noiselessly away to bed. Next day, aeoording to her husband's de lire. Lady Bowerbank started for Liv#rpool. It was well she did, for immedi atelyon her reaching home she had i somewhat severe illness, a kind of lov gastric fever, which was rather prevaien at the time. No one wondered at it, an< everybody sympathised with her. MDea Lady Bowerbank!" they said, in talkinj her over, "she was snoh a delicate, teude creature; and what a great shock it mue have been for her, the death of her poo dear fatherP [to m oowjrxumxj sabbatiTscuool Q> ~ V" v intkrnational libasoer for MARCH 24. t A ? . Lesson Text: "Blind Bwtt^u,n Mark x., 48-82 ? Gol^enX Text: Mark x., 48? j V Oomyaytsry. I 40. "And they came to Jericha"vj?eu? Is drawing near to Joruaslem, there tcfaccopi. plish that decease or exodus of whicl Moetjg and Elijah talked on the mount of tmnslig-" oration and of which He Himsolfnad so often spoken (JolrniL, 19-31; MattfcxiL3?,40; 1 UUU turn eiiKMtt ASnSHMlh the I coaf of skiw (Qn> id.,aUjihar atofcment I whlcb provides toe oiMV.ifln BT Maworld, efflcfant todSiBkEiSLJE "Ae He wspt simplest vrer were three niM^HTneaKd prtbi^ame, one as He WWM Jericho Jbdtwo as He left it, Bartinueus being onh a the two. There is ho need to attempt to*ec? icilo these accounts so as to try and jnaki out that Jesus Ataled at this time only ?ie or two blind men; there is nothing here h reconcilo except our hoarts to the Saviour and that we become as little children, belie ing what He says. 'Blind Bartimuus, the son of. Tiaurus." 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 who were healed, and just why wo should be told the namo of this blind man is somewhat of a mystery. What on lienor to have his namo 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. (Lu. x., 20.) "Bat by the highway side beggiug." Only a poor blind beggar, picture of utter helplessness, having nothing and unable to do anything but piteoualy ask alms of those who. were passing by; what a picture of tho sinner, wretched and misemblo. and poor and blind and naked (Bev. iff., 17), but If sinners were only as sensible of their blindl.ess and poverty as ltartlni.i iik how t-ood if. would be for them. 47 "He heard that it was Josus of Nanarotb.' Hebad offier heard of Him, for His fame bad spread over ail the land, and as bo listened to the reports of His wondrous works, making the deaf to bear, the dumb to speak, the blind to see, the lame to walk, the sick to be whole, and even the dead to live again, ho becamo convinced that thle was none other than the one of whom tho prophets had spoken and forotold that Ho would do those very things (Isa. xxxv., 5, 0), longing, no doubt, in hisneart that some day Jesus might pass that way so that he might cry unto Htm and be healod, for he had heard that it was written in tho 8criptnres. "Ho shall deliver tho needy when he crieth; tho poor also, and blm that hath no helper." (Ps. lxxii., 12.) "He began to cry out, and say: Jesus. Son of David, have ir.erey on me." Would it b< strango if, as be heard the crowd approaching, he inwardly felt that tho day of his deli veranco had, oron'ww-fKi' Wilt ntnt that it was Jesvrt with what earnestness ho must havo crier? out Here wot the opportunity he bad luuged for, the Mighty One of Israel was at hand, and he must cry unto Him: to do otherwise would indicate either indifference or unbelief. Here is and helplessness crying unto the source of all riches and blessing and tho only plea is tho manifest and realized need. Thai is the way to come and such pleading always brings the answer. 4te. "Many charged him that he should hold his peace." As well tell a man who is drown ing.or in tho third or fourth story of a burning building with no apparent moans of escape, to bold his peace; as well tell this mat that he is not blind, and poor, and needy, 01 that Jesus can't stop to attend to beggars. Ho knows better, ho has long realized his sad condition and be believes that Jesus ol Nazareth, tho Son of David is a de liverer for just such as bo, and there fore they canuot shut him up, hut their efforts to do so only make bin: cry the more a great deal that" the Son ol David would have mercy on him. 40. "Jesus stood still and commanded bin to be called." Blessed J as us, hearer of tb< cry of the needy, Thou dost not respect the rich because of his riches, nor despise the ? poor because of bis poverty. The poor man'i opportunity has prevaltea end the Lord ol - Heaven and earth stops to grant him his de sire. Think of tho result if he let this opportunity go by, for Jesus never passed thai away again, it was his last chance "Be of good comfort; rise, He calleth thee. What a word that was for the poor blinf man; how his heart must have leaped withii him. This word "Bo of good cnesr," the Saviour used to tho paralytic, the women with the issue, the disciples in the storm and also to the eleven on tho iast night* ho n?. ? > ?i? 0^ iuiu no nun CIUCIIIU I \iuni*iv., <61 John xv i., 83). And to-day He is saying th same words to every afliicted.tempest-tossed troubled soul who comes to Him. 50. "He, casting away his garment, roe and came to Jesus." The Revised Versioi lays that he "sprang up;" ho lost no time and that he might not be hindered, he cast aside his outer garment and quickly came t Jesus. Ho did not say to any one, ploas arrange my cloak, ilx my turban, make m presentable, tell me how to como before Him but simply knowing his need, aud tha Jesus could heal him and was now callin 1 him, be comes to Josus just as he is. Oh,to ' such a sense of our need as he had of hii then would we hear no more of "no clothe I tit to wear," "the weather is too stormy, o i too hot or too cold^bivt-p'aners and saint i would fill the place? of public worship witl the cry: "We would sse Jesus," "Tell u ' about Jesus " 51. "What wilt thou that I should c unto tbeef' They are now face to face, tl | helper and the helpless, the Almighty or 1 the undone, and those are the words of Josi i to the beseeching and expectant heart of tl poor blind bearar&r. It is written thi | Ahaauerus said to tho Queen, "A'hatwi thou, Queen Esther ? and what is tl | request? it shall be oven givsu th to the half of tho kingdom" (Est v., 8); also that Solomon gave this Queen of Sheba all hor desire, whatsoov she asked (II Ghrou. ix., 18): but a great i than either of '.hc=a ITi..gs is here, even t > same who said to Holomon that night Uibeon: "Ask what I shall give thee." i , Chron. i., T>. The same who says to us: ' ye abide in Me, and My worsts abido in vc ye shall ask what ys will and it shall be do: 1 unto you." (John xv., 7). i "The blind man said unto Him, Lord, th I might receive ray sight." He did not u > I am slow of speech, I cannot speak befo this multitude, I cannot And words to t? j my need, but simply, definitely and in a fe I words he tells his need. The most helpfi . prayer meetings I ever attended were tho where the prayers consisted of but two < ' throe sentence*-nig?>W?om the heart, tellln out tho raai felt tvF TfPthe soul, and froi " twenty to fifty rfieh prayer* in quick au t 52. ''Jesus safcV unto hun, Go thy wa thy faith had made tbeo whole." The san word that went forth at creation goee fort n? fie speak* on behalf of this poor man.ai is ever going forth aa freely and readily < . behalf of all who look up conttdingly to Hit . for ' the oyea of the Lord run to and f , throughout the whole earth, to show Hints* \ strong in tha behalf of them whose heart J perfect toward Him" (II Obron. *vl 1 " "Immediately be received his eight" * could not be otberwlee, for all etckne* f bllnduetu and death fleee before Him who r the Life and the Light. The entranoe t His word giveth fight - Only believe, reoei I Hia tvord. "And followed Jesus in t way." Another trophy of Graoe, anoth victory over the prince of darkness, anotfc earnest of the deliverance of the wb< creation from its bondage and groaning, when He shall come in power and glory. Let the reader say as in His sight: xias Ha opened my eyes, whereas I once was blind do 1 now seel And if so, what dt> I reef Hare I eyes and heart only and all for Hira who opened ray eyes, ana do I seven days in the week follow Jesus in the way! Let as aim to be poople wholly devoted to Jeans, clean and oinpty vessels outiroly at His disposal.?Lesson Helper. TEMPEllANc: True Heroism. '. Let others write or battles fought ?' On bloody, ghastly lields. Where honor greets the roan wl?o w,u*. And death the man who yields; Bat I will not write of hlra who fight* And vanquishes his sins? W|j? Struggles on through weary years "'uwii ?iu wins. \ 'Or miMCl?to7erratMP^Hp|^ An enemy who inarolwlF^ffok1-^ . With banner, pluuiM^nna? A foe forever lurking nlgb, With silent, stealthy trend, Forover near your board by day, At night beside your l>ed. All honor, (ben, to (bAt brave boar*'. Though poor or rich he (>e. Who struggles with his basor [tars, Who conquers and is free. He inny uot wear a hero's crown Or fill a hero's grave, But truth will place Ids naiv.o among The bravest-of the brave. What IteeaniK of a Priuk. In t.ho year ((MO, on tho third day of October, a travelor from Tticiimoiul, in Virginia, to Philadelphia got. out of a train at the refreshment station at Baltimore. IJe was tirod with the journey, and still had some distance to go. A friend whom he met there invited Idm to take a drink. What harm could there l-e in that? Whs it not the part of good-fellowship to do so? Who but n churl, a fallow who ought to l>o treated with contempt, soma bigoted, miserable teetotaller could raise an objection* The two friend*, with good intentions want to the bar. Had a Jrink. What was the result' Tho gentleman who was thus lotn^Led was a |M>ot oT tho very highest promise. His career had lieon wild and bad. His mime was Kdgar Allen l'oe. His tales hail revealed rare genius. One or two poem* lie hail written wore radiant with promise. Kvery literary critic was assured that if he would hecomo steady and settle down to a good life lie would be one of tho brightest stars of American literature. And the counsels of wise men nnd the uillueuee of good friends liail no efTect. While in Richmond he hod ocan brought to |>eiiitence for the post, anil rowed reformation. lie signed (lie pledge ind joined a tein[K>rance society to enable him to resist his great foe, strong drink. Ho gave a lecture on total abstinence, which was attended by the best people in Richmond, who rejoiced at the change and were full of i hope. A lady whom he had long loved now ! consented to an engagement, and arrangements were made for the wedding. All bis Irionds were satisfied that the man had mil meant to work and live n he had an invitation .?>,- ? iqu^ took olaca I lome literary work. Life was bright, and ) ill promised well. But whilst staying for a i few minutes at Baltimore, a well-meaning friend persuaded him once more to i i ineii the door to tho demon who hail i lasted his life up to that hour, Out was now subdued. What induce; fueuts were used, what strong assevori itions that one glass could do no*harm were made, what jests nt being a milk-sop I were employed, what sneers at teetotal fanaticism were indulged in, wo cannot fell. At length Poo just turned tho key iu the lock. He took a drink. There are 1 foolish persons who say they have no sympathy with n man who cannot take just one class or two. nerhaus. and stoo thero. 1 No wise lover of liis fellows will say that. " Some of tbe very best lueu cannot. It is often tbe finest brains that are driven into iusanity witb n few drops of alcohol, i which speedily destroys tho equilibrium of i the system, us u little snake poison will do. ! Poo could not stoo at one gloss. At Havre de Grace bo was found so disorderly that he i was taken back to Baltimore in the custody > of the conductor of the Philadelphia train. ? There he did what others have done?ran > riot iu drink, completely mastered by the 9 demon he had been foolish enough to set free. C In the course of a few days he was taken to - the hospital in an insensible state. On Sunday morning, October 7, ho awoke to couscioust ness. "Where am 11" lie asked. A kind'. hoarted doctor who was by the bedsido said: " "You are cared for by your liest friends." I After n pause Poo solemnly replied; i "My bost friend would be tbe man 9 who would blow out iny brains." In ten minutes lie was a corpse. Tho next day he was interred in (he burial[ ground of Westminister Church, and America lost, one of the most promising and 0 brilliant writers she ever possessed. What !> became of the friend who induced him to take thnt drink at tho Baltimore refresh0 nient-roomf What did be think of it when II ho learned the results' What will he think >? Of it in eternity I If angels hnvo any insight ~ IlllAJ 1 utwi ii/j | n imv iimhi tiiojr 111* Vu iciu u 0 permitted to witness at the refreshment barf e Surely some demon sent a thrill of hellish 0 joy throughout the pitas it saw the man lift the class 1 Oh, it is terriblo to think what n t brilliant light in English literature that gloss * quenched I And one is reminded of n certain f poet, who lived many centuries previous, who said, possibly seeing a similar evil in his ' day: "Woe unto tira that givoth his neighr bor drink."?fTunt Coo It e, in the Free , Mail. | A Boy's Terriblo Inlierltanco. The inoet striking illustration that is in |0 my recollection at the present moment was in one whom I knew from his birth nntil ho met his death l>y tho most tragical of snieiJs dal acts, and who was as po' uliar in some roie epeots beforo the fatal influence of drink had nt actually seized on him as afterward. On his It paternal sido this boy directly inherited tho ,y alcoholic taint: on his mother's side, indiM rectly. He was a boy not wanting in a cerI, tain abiltv, and not wanting in n certain fc beauty of build; but ho had about him no dee) termination of purpose, llo was restless e, without object, capricious, and often molun j? cholv. Ijo wan not ibleniionaiiy cruel, but &i ns if without knowing it ho was suddonly (1 and often desperately cruol with animals and ?I> play follows alike, fio lie grew up, not makU( Ing much progress in anything, and caring a< j crm ior piny man a neaitny noy should. At I ait, when lie was tinder at ago, tho tnnto for wino, ond almost inky stantly for stronger lluid of tho same re spirit-class, was acquired. Then as It ,11 were, with a bound, he passed into dipsomaw nia. Thero wore no preliminary stages oi ill gayotv, of occaalonaf intoxication, with w periods of reformation; no relapses nndrt ?r anxiety or urgent temptation, but a com ig plete transformation of the whole man?or, m rather, the whole youth?Into drunk mail c- ness. Ilo did not, would not, could not reason on the matter, lie was as oonscioui y of the evil as was anyone who looked at him m in his worst phase*, lie had no desire what b, ever to reform. It was his confession that id he cared for life only so fnr as it gavo him >o the opportunity to indulge in drink, flaring n. no pity for himself, he hsd no pity for others. ro ?nd disregard ful of hi* welfare, dragged All ill who approachwl liim, as far as he could, Intc b hi* own count*; not. It* it observed, from 0). any desire to do th*m wrong, but from an It actual indifference, or, It may bo, ignorance u, of the relation* between riant and wrong U and no, for many years, his distorted way of of life, accursed, a* he himself said, and ac a cursing, progress), until In mere frsak, and be practising in lbs actual net of killing blm ior self an awful cruelty en others, he oame U iot his untimely end.?/Yen eat. >Vi ' LATER NEWS. Ex-Senator Simon Camkron celebrated hit ninetieth birthday at his home near Harrisburjc, Penn. The British schooner Cleaner was seised at Boothbay, Ma, by United States custom officers for non-entry. The fine is $1500. The BufTord'a Sons Lithographic Company, of Boston, has suspended payroeut. Liabilities, $'.00,000. Shocks of earthquake were felt at various points in Pennsylvania, Delaware. Maryland RELIGIOUS READING. By and By. By nnd by tho path shall brighten. And its outlines rise to view; As the moving mints shall lighten, And distil the evoning 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 fringe of beauty, Shall appear beyond the line. Where tho upward path of duty Meets and melts in lovo divine; There tho Ix>rd shall rise in glory, ^Through the star depths drawing nigh; Crowning thus redemption's story By andby, yes, by and By. By and by shall come the ringing AOnhemnsloftton^tttethrone^ . ? ^ fjhant themarvels they ^Near tho tnrono'exaltWT^fn;^ By and by, yes, by aud by:* ? ir?n. Alfred Gay. Tho Revival nnd Its Cost. There can bo no advance in spiritualitv without self-denial. Tho history of tho church is a continued illustration of this. There arc so many things to load tho minds of men away from Christ and religion, that a revival, a living again, is necessary to gain tho attention of souls to tho importance of salvation. All worldly excitements aro unfriendly to religion and direct tho mind from spiritual th'ngs. It hn? bo n God's plan In the history of tho church to awako i tho people to a sense of their condition by means of revivals. In this way backslidden Christians havo been awakened w) a sense 01 uuiy mm nncu wnn a longing derlro for the salva'ion c.' tho world. T\ o all know tliat God's agency in saving men is His Spirit, and in all true revivals tho work of tho Spirit is clearly seen. It will bo admitted that a revival of religion is desirable, and if it could bo purchased b> jlaying a good, fair price, there are some churchos that would bo suro to have on-*. There ore various things that stand in tho way of revivals in our churches. There is tho worldly spirit, for instance. Tho members are conformed to the world, to its display, its amusements and its sins. There is tho unconcern of professors who do not seem to bo at all troubled at the irreligion of tho unconvoi ted, and they sleep wliili tinners are unsaved. Now wo undertake to say that tho reason why churches do not enjoy roviva' influences is they ai-e not willing to pay tho price in self-denial and consecration to God. In every church there nro some earnest souls who by faithfulness have power at tho throne , of grace. But thero is a largo measure of tho spirit of tho world in our churches, and this paralyzes tho power of prayer and puts its cold hand on ovory pulse' of UieeUurch. There are scores of enure!.03 in rVwinecti ut in just this condition,1 Nothm^aube?worsov.^lan the deniMjtlng inbo awakened? j/t <TirHt'iajjWfi^pRp^^ have their faith renewt d, mid pray^jKU. th8j power of sin and tho worl over utw?U 1* broken. Wo have never known a church to bo awakened to n ' higher state ox Christian life and v?o conversions to follow. It is tho worldly>spirit in our hearts that Mocks tho onwora Course of the kingdom <jf, Chpisfc, Every aneonserated professor is a lump of ice, to whom the burning realities of eternity are nothing. Wo have often had our heart pained at tho great lack of consideration on the part of leading members of churches. God blesses us just ?s far as it is possible to do so, and the cost of spiritual blessings will be the consecration of ourselves to liis services.?Ilart. D.I II......1.1 True Prayer. It is neither wiso nor right for God's people to be too persistent in pressing particular requests in prayer; or rather in showing a wilful disposition in prayer. No matter how much we want to obtain some fancied good thing or to avoid somo fancied trou Te or calamit}*, our petitions ought always to Imj accompanied with the feeling and expression tliat the Lord's will, not ours, may be done. This is the lesson taught us in Christ's ever memorable struggle in the garden of Gethsemane, and it is a revelation of the nature and effectiveness of true prayer. It is only when the ignorant and wt ak human soul submits itself to the guidance of infinite intelligence and perfect love; only when the wayward and sinful human will bows to the righteous Divine Will that there is any real communion between man and God. Nor will God answer in the best seme any other kind of petition. Ho does indeed at times answer wrong petitions pushed by the wilful believer to the extreme and in a wrong spirit; but tho verv answer is an infliction of His displ asure and sure to end in disastrous results. For example: when the Israelites prayed ia a murmuring and rebellious disposition lor flesh,Whilst sighing after tho "flesh pots of Egypt,' God replied by sending flock: of quail which, though wonderfully gratifying to tho appetite, bred nevertheless a plague that destroyed the eaters by thou sands. So again He yield d to tho demon* i of the tribes to send spies into Canaan,whiol displayed n lack of faith and obedience; bu the conflicting reports of the returned spie divided thexamp, ihrow tho majority nt< doubt, fear and despai-; and in fact hurlei tho nation back into 88 yenrs of wretchei wanderings in til * wilderness. Iri the sain way the wish and determination cf tho di* contented people to have a king was a ren rebellion Against tho t'.ieocrocy. Well, J< I hovah granted tho reliellious request am himself ? elected the kinir. had him nnointe and crowned; but the result was that th tieoplo suffered all sorts of evil from thei Icing, Hit that ho became a rod of Divin wrath rather than an instrument of mere, and blessing. Tho writor of these lines once kn*w mother who was most remarkable in he persistence in praying for tho restoratlo front ]terilous sickness of her son. 8he wa warned that she should say: "The Ixtrd will bo done," but replied that "sho coul and would not, if that will meant th death of her only and d irling I toy." Her was n sinful rebellion of heart nnd wil Hor prayer, however, was answered. Th r>oy seemed rescued from the jnws of death but alas, he grew up to b a wick d, drinl [ ing, gambling, remorseless wretch! Tl; I heartbroken mothir often r, called wit penitential sorrow her own stubbornness < , will in having refused to b .w to win seer.ed a call from O d lor her boy t clear as tho call oncj given to Abrahan and wished, too Into, that God had take . him fro n earth while yet in the beaut | and innoconoe of childhood, i Tho thoughtful and judicious disciple wi always remember, and in remembering th < will And all his comfort and joy, that Go 1 knows best and will do best, that as his ow : truth declares: "All things work togetht i for the good of them thit 1 ve Him." H will therefore >av as Jesus did when oonten ' plating the appal ing scones of th ? cruc 1 fix ion; "O, My F.ittior, if it Ixs possi lo, h 1 this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as J will, but as Thou wilt."? Christ inn at Wor\ [ We are wanting the strength we need f< the discovery of truth as yet unknown, b I cause we do not rest enough in truth that v know. "Rest in the Lora." The greate things aro known already. and New Jersey. Kuuhhaus & Simonson's mammoth clothing house in Louisville, Ky., wm destroyed by fire, eusiiis a loss of $488jbty Kkajtuel Qtmt?,s, colored, has been b*ag?d at Camden, & C.. for murder. Ohio. '^ostuastrr-gi^arar. Wan a maker has purchased the elegant Washington residence which has been until recently the home o' Hon. W. C. Whitney. The price paid was $S0,000. There was a net decrease of $4,313,796 in the circulation during February, and a net increase of $'-1,783,15S in tho money and bullion in tho 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 Crau'jerry Township, Venango County, and Gallitzin, Tenn. Tho schools aro closed and publio mootings forbidden. Sinco November 100 jxsoplo, out of a population of ~000, havo died in Gallitzin. A blizzard almost ns severe as the memorable one of lost year, has raged throughout the Berkshire Hills in Massachusetts. Three men woro killed in a coal mino at Yatesville, l'cnn., by an oxplosion of gas. Joseph Rksskll killed his wife at Auburn, N. Y., and then committed suicide. Mus. Thomas Love, of Fredericksburg, Vo., was accidentally killed l>y her husbsnd whilo he was cleaning a revolver. lie was arrested. nxAULY f ;u,u; u.txw was appropriatea uy tlio (Congress just ended for tho construction and improvement of public buildings. Bills calling for $42,(VI1,000 were introduced in tlio .ilouse alone during tho first session. X Congressman Townshend, for many 5 'years Representative from tlio Eighteenth JtJUnoia (Sbawneetown) district, died a few JuttBttMHip in "Washington of pneumonia, 0011RI^HEHpffe was born in rrlnca (.Jeorge'i . ' "* lias appointed fioorgo CVTlch$noi* ol Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary of tho .Treasury. A passenger train on tho Transcospian Railway, in Russia, was thrown from tho track in a tunnel, owing to tho romoval of rails by train wreckers. Tl:o result of tho derailment was frightful, tho killod and injured numbering fifty. King Usnilsb, of Shoa. has formally declared war against King John, of Abyssinia. Tiie greatest flood that has been known in tho west of England for a generation has just prevailed. A FBAUFCr. storm raged in tho south of Russia for tliroo days. Railway traffic in Austria was stopped. The British and American consulates at Cbin-Kiang, a treaty port of China, wuro sacked by riotous natives. Emperou Dong Kahn, of Annarn, 1ms been assassinated. B en Imnba, son of Due Due, ton years old, was proclaimed Enmoror by tlio French resident, and tho next day was crownp.L ______ gi THE MONITOR INVENTOR, Death of John Ericsson at a Kip > Old Age in New York. John Ericsson, inventor, engineer and builder of the celebrated iron clad Monitor, died the other day in New York in his eightyi sixth year. His end was absolutely painless. John Ericsson was born July 31, 1803, in Wermland, Sweden. His father was an iron < master, and his mother a mine owner's dxughter. At tho ago of ton John conL structed a miniature saw mill and pumping machine, the merits of which attracted tho } attention of Count I'laten, then chief , of the great Swedish ship canal. From t that timo the boy made rapid strides in s scientific development. Vvhen twelve , yearn old he entered tho Swedish , naval forces as a cadet of mechanical engineers. At seventeen he was an ensign, and at twenty-two ho was a Lieutenant. After constructing a flarno engine of ten-horse i power he went to Ix>ndon to produce it. he ^ then resigned his commission and was pro'T moted Captain in recognition of his great ?. * * merit. He has not returned to his native -? .. 1 country since. His countrymen, however. 0 erected in 18117, a huge granite monument, r built by unpaid labor, in acknowledgment of o his eminent scientific service*, y During his residence in England Captain Ericsson invented about lorty- machines of Vf " a various kinds. He won many prizes, and hiR r achievements created the greatest surprise n among the scientists of the day. is In 1839 Ericsson came to the United States, 'b where his fame had already preceded him. d . HLi first groat work here was to build the o Princeton, the first naval ves.el that over 0 carried her machinery below the water line 1 and beyond tho reach of hostile shot. It m changed the whole system of naval arcbitecture. But his next device was even greater. t] It was in the form of a turret ship, the plans 10 of vrbich were offered to Napoleon HI. in I, 1854. It was upon those plans (with improvements) that the celebrated iron clad Monitor t was constructed in 18t51. Her performance elicited the admiration of the whole civilised "7 world. Six others wore constructed upou the ' same type, and Russia. Sweden, Norway and " Turkey adopted the American turrst system. ' > After the cioe> of thp war Ericsson devoted nis genius to devising a pian lor uostroymy 1] the great naval structure* hi* energy hart built up. This invention be proposed to oall <1 the Destroyer. through the agency of which n a species of submarine warfare was to have .r been developed. Its practicability has no', [0 yet b?en finally demonstrated, j. The sun motor was his latest idea, its prinj_ ciple being the utilization of solar heat ,t through mechanical agency. Upon this lnt vention be was engaged when taken sick, i. This does not represent by any meant the whole work upon which he was engaged. Dozens of other inventions, to describe which would fill many vo'iunier, have employed his o tim#' ve iOMV iduroaus h?v? mui piu^cteu smoe at January 2, and all appearances icdioate that 10,000 miles of road will be built this year. . . * ,