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The use* of sorrow 1 comprehend
Better and better at each year’s end.
Deeper and deeper I seem to see
Why and wherefore it has to be.
Only after the dark wet days
Do we fully rejoice in the sun’s bright rays.
Sweeter the crust tastes after the fast
Than the sated gourmand’s finest repast.
The faintest cheer sounds never amiss
To the actor who once has heard a hiss.
And one who has dwelt with his grief alone
Hears all the music in friend^ip’s tone.
So better and better I comprehend
How sorrow ever would be our friend.
— [Ella W. Wilcox, in Harper’s Weekly.
How the Witch Was Saved.
“Look after the little one carefully
today, Elspeth; there is too much of
heat in her hand, and her head is too
heavy to please mo well,” said Dr.
Endicott, anxiously, as he wearily
picked up his soft, broad hat.
“Master, you cannot mean ”
“Hush I Not a tford to the child,
but keep her close by the house and in
the warm sunshine. Above all, she
must suffer no alarm or suspicion of
my fears.” And the doctor strode
away with hurried footsteps but a
fearful heart.
For many days the fever had raged
in Salem town. The stricken inhabi
tants thought little in giving it a litter
name, for day by day heads drooped,
eyes grew wild in delirium, hearts
cold in death, and lovod forms were
laid in the shady church-yard, where
row after row of uusodded mounds
mutely told the terrors of the plague.
Thin and worn under the strain of
sleepless nights and toilsome days;
faithfully going the round of duly,
unwearied, thoughtless of self, with
tender hand and sympathetic word
lightening the sufferings of rich and
poor, Dr. Endicott, with something
very like a chill of despair, thought
of the Hushed face and drooping head
of his little Margaret, his one darling,
his Daisy. And his memory traveled
back to the sweet May morning, some
seven years ago, when upon his door
step he had found a tiny baby girl,
with a faded little white lield-daisy
clutched tight in her chubby hand,
luto his heart and his empty homo he
had taken the little stranger, and the
home was empty no longer, for baby
smiles and baby kisses, lisping words
and the patter of little feet awoke
sweet echoes in theJong oaken corri
dors, driving away the shadow of
loneliness. And now the fever! He
Scarcely less troubled was old
Elspeth, who had given the child all
she had known of a mother’s care.
But Elspeth had a foolish tongue, and
lived in Salem town in days when
superstitions were many and horrible;
when fires burned for witches, and no
one was safe from the attacks of the
terrible Town Council; and when she
bade the child stay near the house,
forgetful of the doctor’s command,
she said:
••Stray not from the garden, dearie,
or the witch-woman will find thee and
give thee the fever, and make the
blocd in thy veins burn hot as the fires
on Witch’s Hill.”
The morning wore away. Little
Daisy tried to play with her kitten,
but some way her head seemed very
dizzy and strange. She commenced
to make a ball of her namesake
flowers, but their little white faces ap
peared to nod and sway as she tried
to pluck them. Her bauds refused
to do her bidding; she was very, very
hot, and oh, so thirsty! The tired
head fell forward on ibe grass, and
the eyelids closed in feverish sleep.
Suddenly in her dreams she cried
out: “Oh, Elspeth, Elspeth, I am
afraid!” and a sob gathered in her
throat. But Elspeth was nodding
over her knitting and did not hear.
At the cry the gate was opened, and a
strange-looking woman, who with
bent head had for a long hour paced
the walk outside the high garden wall,
eutored quickly, and bending with
outstretched arms beside the sleeping
child, murmured, with streaming
tears: “My baby, my baby!”
At the sound Daisy’s eyes opened
heavily and gazed straight into those
above her. For a moment only.
Then, with terror the child tore her
hand from the detaining grasp of the
woman, and scream after scream
awoke the echoes of the quiet gar
den.
“The witch! the witch! I am
burning; she has given me the
fever.”
From every side people came run-
ing: Elspeth, the nighbors, the
passers-by, but for a momeut all
fearid to approach the pair under the
apple tree. Little Daisy crouched on
the grass, the fever look they all
knew so well in her face; and the
woman—she stood back against the
tree, her knees trembling, her eyes
wild with terror, her dark hair, with
threads of silver interwoven, blown
loose and disheveled. Truly a strange
figure. Elspeth, grown brave for the
child's sake, gathered Daisy in her
arms, and the town constable, bolder
than his fellows, with rough hands
seized the terrified woman and
dragged her away at the head of a yel
ling mob.
“Burn the witch!”
“She is the one who has bronght
the fever to our town; burn her and
the fever with her!”
Horrible cries these to one who was
friendless and had seen more than one
tire burn on Witch’s Hill.
Hurrying home when once the
alarm peached him, the doctor listened
with grave eyes to the nurse’s tale, as
with bits of ice and cooling drinks he
soothed the feverish throat of his darl
ing, who lay tossing in delirium and
crying out about the witch. Aud the
shadows darkened on the doctor’s face
as the night wore on, for well he
knew the uncontrollable force of the
people when such tales had passed
through the town; and he feared the
council all the more because his mind
was clear and strong, and he scorned
to believe in witch tales aud goblin
stories. But he could do nothing
rashly, for it was not safe to declare
such thoughts as his in those days of
darkness and superstition, aud he
might safely wait until day.
When morning came the child was
sleeping, and leaving Elspeth to
watch, he started forth on his difficult
errand.
First to the chief of the council. To
him he told the story simply, that he
nrght hear it unadorned by the voice
of rumor. Also he related how the
fever seemed to be upon the child in
the early morning, when he had seen
her sitting in her little bed with heavy
eyes and tumbled curls. He received
permission, as guardian of the child,
to bo present at the trial, and won a
promise of delay. Then to the prison.
Here all was desolation. Chained to
a ring of iron, the poor woman lay
exhausted on the damp and clammy
stones, almost crazed by this, the last
of many griefs. The doctor sat beside
her, soothed her with that touch of
sympathy so many had known in their
time of bjtter trial, and wou from her
lips a wonderful story; but one that
made the anxious shade grow still
deeper on his thoughtful face.
With little Daisy all went well. The
fever broke, and in the sweet sleep of
rest that followed the only words the
child-lips uttered were, “She said
‘My baby.’ ” And the doctor laid his
plans.
When the day of the trial came,
held close in Dr. Endicott’s arms, the
child told the great men of the council
how her head had ached and she could
not play for dizziness all that terrible
morning, and how Elspeth had told
her the witch woman would give her
the fever. The doctor told that in
searching far for the cause of the
fever he had found a leak in the drain
of the great dye factory on the hill, so
that the poison of the coloring stuffs
had mingled with the pretty stream
running through the centre of their
town, aud that from drinking the
water the people had died. Aud then
the woman, with tears and trembling,
told her tale. How she bad been un
happy and poor and deserted. How,
knowing the doctor to be good and
true, she had one day left her baby at
bis door aud wandered away to find
work and make a home for her child.
Of the years of trouble, of sickness
and toil, and lastly how she had come
back to die near her little one, only to
be branded with the terrible name of
witch by the lips of her own child.
And the eyes of the grave gentle
men were moist and tender when sh e
had closed her tale, and little Daisy,
with arms close about the poor
wanderer’s neck, had covered the dear
face with kisses.
Then Dr. Endicott knew he had
gained a victory. With joyful heart
he led them both to his home that
night, and from that day little Daisy
really knew what a mother’s care
could be, for her joys were ever
shared in dear companionship, aud
her little troubles whispered into ears
unfailing in sympathy—mother’s ears.
And she never forgot how in finding
her, that mother had been nearly
lost. — [Frank Leslie’s.
Feeding Habit* of the Elephant.
An elephant’s digestive functions
arc very rapid, and die animal, there
fore, requires daily a large amount of
fodder—GOO pounds at least. In its
wild state the elephant feeds heartily,
but wastefully. It is careful in se
lecting the few forest trees which it
likes for their bark or foliage. But
it will tear down branches and leave
half of them untouched. It will strip
off' the bark from other trees and
throw away a large portion.
As it is a nocturnal animal, it selects
its trees by the senses of touch and
smell. Its sense of smell is so deli
cate that a wild elephant can wind an
enemy at a distance of 1000 yards,
and the nerves of its trunk are so sen
sitive that the smallest substance can
be discovered and picked up by its
tiny proboscis.
An elephant’s palate is very delicate
and the animal is whimsical in select- |
ing or rejecting morsels of food. Sir
Samuel W. Baker, in his “Wild
Beasts and their Ways,” tells an
anecdote illustrative of the whims of
a tame elephant belonging to the
police of Dhubri.
This elephant was fed with rice and
plantains. The stems of the plantains
were split and cut into transverse sec
tions two feet in length. Three-quar
ters of a pound of rice was placed
within each tube of plaintain stem.
Oue day,while the elephant was being
fed, a lady offered the auimai a small
sweet biscuit It was taken in the
trunk and almost immediately thrown
on the ground.
The mahout, or driver, thinkiug
that the elephant had behaved rudely,
picked up the biscuit and inserted it iu
a parcel of rice within a plantain stem.
This was placed in the elephant's
mouth and at the very first crunch it
showed its disgust by spitting out the
whole mess. The small biscuit bad
disgusted the animal, and for several
minutes it tried by its inserted- trunk
to rake out every atom from its tongue
aud throat. — [Scientific American.
Extinct Cats and lloga.
“There used to he cats in North
America 100,000 years ago,” said a
paleontologist to a writer for the
Washington Star. “Great carnivor
ous creatures of the feline tribe
roamed over this country then iu
enormous numbers. They are all ex
tinct, and have left only their bones
behind to tell the story of how they
lived and what they fed upon.
“During the period when these
wonderful cats were so plentiful iu
North America there were numerous
dogs and dog-like beasts also, all of
which have since become extinct. The
biggest species was as large as a good-
sized bear. In that part of the coun
try which is now called Colorado and
Dakota there were several kinds of
dog-like animals about the size of
foxes, which were nocturnal iu their
habits, having very large eyes with
which to see iu the night-time. They
had great ears also aud short, sharp
noses. All these things can be told
from their skulls. There was a
huge species of true dog iu Nebraska,
but comparatively little is known
about it, because only very incomplete
remains have been discovered up to
the present time. Another true dog
was the ‘selurodon,’ which had some
of the characteristics of the cat. It was
abundaut in Nebraska, had powerful
crushing teeth, aud is supposed to have
been the ancestor of the hyenas of to
day. Probably it was a scavenger in
its habits, devouring the bodies of the
antelopes and small camels which then
browsed numerously on the plains and
in the valleys of this country.”
An Odd Railroad.
A curious little railroad train goes
crawling up and down the mountains
from Tree Pinos to Burt’s Lime Kilu
in the Gavilan Range, San Benito
county, every day. It is probably
the strangest railroad that ever was
seen, yet, thus far, not a word has
ever been printed regarding it. The
train moves on a curious single track,
and is diawu by an engine set low on
it. Both the engine wheels and those
which support the cars have a strange
pivot-like piece of steel that sets iu the
slot track, for it must be borne in
mind that the track has a slot in it,
not unlike that seen in a cable track.
In addition to this each wheel has a
flange on each side of it, so that
it cannot get off the track, no matter
how abrupt the curves. The road as
completed is uow nine miles long, but
when pushed through as intended it will
be fourteen miles iu length.
Three men run it. These consist of
an engineer, a fireman and a brake-
man. In one place there is an 800-foot
grade, mounted at the rate of six feet
to the hundred, yet the engine putts
right along with three or four loaded
cars, not in the least bothered in any
way.
There is one grade a quarter of a
mile long, in which an average of four
feet is gained to the hundred. One
curious thing about it is that the
wheels are in a sense rollers. They
rock from one s ; de to the other. The
flanges hold them on, assisted by the
pivot, past] which each half of the
wheel comes down. — [San Francisco
Examiner.
Silk Is Adulterated.
“How can a woman be sure of buy
ing a good piece of silk?” hsked a
New York man. The manufacturer
said: “She can’t; the experts are not
always able to tell, and even the
manufacturers are often honestly
puzzled as to why a piece of silk
doesn’t wear well. By twisting a piece
of silk around her finger and then
smoothing it out, a buyer can tell
something about it. If it smooths out
without creases it is more likely to
wear well than not. By touching a
match to a small bit of it, she can tell
if there is cotton in it. If it is all
silk, it will burn with difficulty; if
there is cotton iu it, it will light teadi-
iy-
The best way, however, for a wo
man to do is to pick out a shop that
has a reputation for honesty in silks
aud everything else, and then take the
salesman’s word for it. He is much
more likely to know a good silk than
she, aud can make tier believe a very
dishonest piece Is remarkably good if
he chooses. No woman can be half
way up in the tricks of the trade.
There are more ways of cheating at
silks than at cards. An expert has to
carry a whole apothecary’s shop in Ins
pockets to make his test, and a power
ful magnet besides, because one of
the most common tricks of manu
facture is to load up the silk iu the
dye with iron filings or lead dust to
increase the weight. Soapstone, gum
arable and rosin are also common
adulterations in the process of manu
facture.— [New York Witness.
SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
JUNE 12.
Lesson Text: ‘-The Den of Lions,”
Daniel vi., ie-28_Ool(len Text:
Daniel Ti„ 23—Commentary^
IB. “Then the king coaamande.i, and they
brought Daniel and cast him into the den of
lions. ’ After the kingdom passed into the
hands of the Modes, Darius made Daniel the
first of three presidents over 130 provinces.
But the princes and other presidents hated
him and sought to accomplish his death, as
recorded in the previous part of this chap
ter. Daniel is fearless of man, and faith
fully waits upon his God. The result is
that Daniel Is cast into the lion’s den, and
to all appearance has perished. The kind
words from the king are a hope that it may
be so, rather than an assurance that it will
be so.
“17. “And a stone was brought and laid
upon the mouth of the den; and the king
sealed it with his own signet.” So the un
godly prosper in the world, and the devil is
permitted to put the saints of God in prison
and ofttimes to kill them (Ps. Ixxiii., 12;
Rev. ii., 10; John xvi., 2). But the child of
God is to be prepared for these things, and
not to think them strange nor be offended
when they come (Math. x., 28;;i Pet iv.,12,1#:
John xvi., 1).
18. “Then the king went to his palaco and
passed the night feasting.” Although the
king loved Daniel and labored hard to deliver
him (verses 14, 15), yet even the king, with
all his power, was powerless against the law,
from which let us learn that love cannot
always deliver, nor can the law save any one.
Even the law of God, which is holy and just
and good, cannot give life nor justify the
sinner (Gal. iii., 21; ii.. 16; Rom. iii., 20).
19. “Then the king arose very early in
the morning and went in haste unto the den
of lions.” This early morning victory and
deliverance of Daniel is very suggestive of a
morning of deliverance for Daniel’s people,
which is now drawing nigh. See Ps. xxx..
5: xlvi, 5, margin-xlix, 14; exxx.. 0; II
Sam. xxiii, 3, 4. It is also seen in the early
morning deliverance of Mark vi., 46-48.
There is a class ot people, however, for
whom there will be no morning (Isa. viii..
20, R. V).
20. "O Daniel, servant of the living God,
is thy God, whom thou servest continually,
able to deliver thee from the lions?” It was a
great and lamentable cry from the greatest
earthly monarch of the time, a cry of hope,
but not of assurance. Had he known the
God of Daniel and of David he would not
have asked if God was able to deliver. Read
the experience of David and Paul in I Sam.
xvii., 34-36; II Tim. iv., 17, 18, and iet your
own heart say, “I am persuaded that lie is
able” II Tim. i., 12).
21. “Then said Daniel unto the king, O
king, live forever.” With what eagerness
must the king have listened for a reply from
the den, faintly hoping for ye* hardly dar
ing to expect a reply. But there is a reply
prompt and clear and the king’s heart is
exceedingly glad (verse 23). Whatever may
have been the significance of the words,
’‘Live forever," the believer in Jesus knows
that he has eternal life (John v., 24: vi., 47.)
22. “My God hath sent His angels, and
hath shut the lions’ mouths, that thev have
not hurt me.” Blessed be God and blessed
be His holy angels that excel in strength,
doing His commands, harkening to His word
(Ps. ciil., 21,22). Consider the power of one
angel as seen in the case of Hezekiah ana of
Peter (Isa. xxx., 36; Acts xii., 6-10), and
remember that these same angels are your
ministering spirits ever with you, serving
unseen and unthanked (Heb. i., 14).
23. “So Daniel was taken up out of the
den, and no manner of hurt was found upon
him, because he believed in his God.” Daniel,
in a figure, suffered the extreme penalty of
the law, and came forth from the place of
death, beyond death and judgment, without
any manner of hurt upon him. Every true
believer in Jesus is now dead with Christ,
risen with Christ and has passed from deata
unto life, (Col. iii., 1-3; John v., 24). There is
no condemnation to them that are in Christ,
nothing can separate us from His love, and
in the morning of resurrection it shall be
found that not a hair of our head has per
ished, (Rom. viii., U Luke it., 18).
24. “And the kirig commanded, and they
brought those men which had accused Daniel,
and theycast them into the den of lions, them,
their children and their wives.” The
triumphing of the wicked is short, and the
joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment
(Job. xx., 5). This is a sample of those for
whom there is no morning, or who in the
morning of victory of those who trust in the
Lord shall be punished with everlasting de
struction from His presence(II I’hess. i., 1-10).
dee how many were affected by their sin.
No man liveth unto himself. \Ve are always
affecting others either for good or evil.
25. “Then King Darius wrote unto all
people, nations and languages that dwell in
all the earth. Peace be multiplied unto you.”
That which caused Darius to make this
proclamation to all nations was the power of
the God of Israel manifested on behalf of
Daniel, the Jew. The time will come when
the power of this same God shall be so mani
fest on behalf of all Israel that all nations
shall thus know God and honor Him as the
God of the whole earth (Ezek. xxxvii., 36-
28; xxxviii., 23).
26. “I make a decree that in every do
minion of my kingdom men tremble and fear
before the God of Daniel.” Thus Darius
does the noblest thing any man every did or
could do, he exalts God, he glorifies God be
fore all nations, and speaks of His eternal
kingdom. He makes us think of the time
when “all kings shall fall down before Him;
all nations shall serve Him” (Ps. Ixxii., Jl;
Ixxxvi.. 9, 10). “The lofty looks of man
shall be*humbled, and the haughtiness of
men shall be bowed down, and the Lord
alone shall be exalted in that aay” (Isa. ii. t
11, 17).
27. “He delivereth and rescueth. and He
worketh signs and wonders in heaven and
in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from
the power of the lions.” Darius had seen
the deliverance of one man from a lion’s
den: but Daniel could tell of the deliver
ance of millions from the bondage of Egypt,
of their food coming from heaven every day
for forty years, of sea and river divided for
them to pass through on dry land, of walled
cities failing down as men shouted, and
many such wonderful works of a wonderful
God. We can tell of dead bodies actually
raised from their graves as Lazirus and oth
ers, and of a time when all in their graves
shall come forth, and of some who will
never die. Let us magnify the name of
Him who only doeth all these things.
28. “So this Daniel prospered in the reign
of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the
Persian.” And all because he was a man of
prayer, and God was witn him. He feared
not the face of man, nor did he fear death;
but be feared only to sin against God He
honored God, and God honored him, even
in this world (1 Sam. ii., 30). — Lesson
Helper.
WHAT DRINK DOES.
The following are some of the reasons
why T. V. Powderly advocates the temper
ance cause:
“Why do I so bitterly arraign the poor
drunkard?
“For the reason that he is a drunkard,and
because he has made himself poor through
his love of drink. Did L or any other man,
rob him of the money he has squandered
in drink? Did I make him poor? The vilest
names tnat tongue can frame would he ap
ply to me if I did. Must I stand idly by and
remain silent while he rocs himself? Did he
rob only himself it would not make so much
difference. He robs parents, wife and chil
dren. He robs his aged father and mother
through love of drink. He gives for rum
what should go for their support.
“When they murmur he turns tnem from
his door, and points with contaminated fin
ger towards the poor house. He n?xc turns
toward his wife and robs her of what should
be devoted to the keeping of her home in
comfort and plenty. He robs her of her
wedding ring and pawns it for drink. He
turns his daughter from his door in a fit of
drunken auger, and drives her to commit
deplorable crimes, and then accepts from
her hand the proceeds of her shame. To
satisfy his love for drink he takes the pries
of his child’s virtue and innocence from her
sin-stained, lust-bejewelled fingers,and with
it totters to the bar to pay it to the man
who ‘does not deny the justice of my po
sition.’ I do not arraign the man who
drinks because he is poor.but because, though
being a slave to drink, he has made himself
and tamily poor. 1 do not hate the man
who drinks, for 1 have carried drunken men
to their homes on my back rather than al
low them to remain exposed to inclement
weather. I do not bkte the drunkard—he
is what drink has efftpel; and while I do
not hate the effect, I Abhor and loathe the
cause.”
RELIGIOUS READING.
19 THE BIBLK INSPIRED OF GOD?
Says one, “I think that the Bible may be a
true history, but that is no proof of its in
spiration. It does not require divine inspira
tion to write a true history.” So you
think it an easy matter to tell the truth do
you? I wish you could make other people
think so. Suppose you go and read a tile of
the newspapers published just before the last
election, and see if you do not think it re
quires divine inspiration to tel! the truth, or
even to find it out after it is told. Truth is
mighty hard to get at. as you can see by per
using the daily papers on the eve of an elec
tion.
There are certain things in the Bible which
to my mind, bear the impress of Divinity.
A skeptic will tell you what a race of old
sinners we read about in the Bible! Noah
got drunk; David was guilty of adultery
and murder; Solomon was an’ idolater, and
wrought folly: Peter denied his Lord, and
Judas sold him for 30 pieces of silver; all
these people that the Bible talks about so
much to us, are a pretty set of men!
Very well; what kind of men do you ex
pect to read about in ti e Bible? Noah got
drunk. Is that strange? Did no oue else
ever get drunk? Peter cursed and swore.
Are there not other men who curse and
swear? Judas, an apostle, sold his Lord,
who said he had chosen twelve, and one of
them was a devil. Do you not sometimes
find a Judas in the church even nowadays?
One in twelve was a thief and a traitor then,
and we need not be surprised if we find about
the same average now.
But you seem to think that when you read
about a man in the Bible he is sure to be free
from all kinds of errors, frailties, faults wnd
sins. You have formed this idea of men
from reading in Sunday-school books about
good children, who usually die young; or
perusing excellent biographies, which as you
read them cause you to exclaim, “I wish I
could be as good as that person was, but I
never shall.” No, I presume you never will,
and if you knew the whole story about the
person you might not feel so deeply on the
subject.
Do you suppose that if the Bible had been
written by some learned doctor, revised by
a committee of eminent divines, and pub
lished by some great religious society, we
should ever have heard of Noah's drunken
ness, of Abraham’s deception, of Lot’s dis
grace , of Jacob’s cheating, of Paul and Bar
nabas's quarreling, or of Peter’s lying, curs
ing, or dissembling? Not at all. The good
men, when thev came to such an incident,
would have said, “There is no use in saying
anything about that. It is all past and
gone; it will not help anything, and will
only hnrt the cause.” If a com
mittee of such eminent divines
had prepared the Bible you would have
had a biography of men whose characters
were patterns of piety, and propriety, in
stead of poor sinners, as they were. Some
times a man writes his own diary and hap
pens to leave it for some one to print after
he is dead; but he leaves out all the mean
tricks he ever did, and puts in all the good
acts he can think of; and you read the
pages, filled with astonishment, and think,
“What a wonderfully good man he was!”
But when the Almighty writes a man’s life
he tells the truth about him; and there are
not many persons who would want their
lives printed if the Almighty wrote them.
You find a man who will tell the truth
about kings, warriors, princes and rulers to
day, and you may be quite sure that be has
within him the power of the Holy Ghost.
And a book which tells the faults of those
who wrote it, and which tells you that
“there is none righteous, no, not one,” hears
in it the marks of a true book; for wc all
know that men have faults, and failings, and
sins; and among all the men whose lives are
recorded in that hook, each man has some
defect, some blot, except one, and that is
‘‘the man Christ Jesus.”—[H. L. Hastings.
WHAT IS IT TO BE A CHRISTIAN?
There is a world of difference between a
Christian and a Christ-like man. We count
Christians by hundreds of millions, but the
Christ-like people are reckoned only by mil
lions. He who accepts Christ as “God mani
fested in the fleshHis teachings as divine
revelations to mankind; His ordinances of
religion as the holiest obligations; His con
ditions of repeiitnnce, faith, conversion as
essential to eternal life; His claims on the
love of the soul, the purity of the life and on
charity for man and devotion for God, is a
Chrisliau by profession of faith,
as distinguished from all unbelievers
whether in heathendom or Christendom.
This is the honorable difference between
the believer in the Lord and the Jew, the
infidel and the pagan. Such are historical
and doctrinal Christians, and the world is
full of them. Let us believe that many
such arc beautiful in morality and lovable
in philanthropy. This immense power seen
in gevernments, in systems of education,
and in social reforms. All hail! to a power
so potent and sublime! All this is the fruit
age of a true professional conviction.
“But there remains something deeper,
broader, grander, to be possessed. The
measure of this better estate ranges from a
desire to ‘flee from the wrath to come,’ to
•ail the mind that was in Christ,’ dominating
the whole man. and an individual incarna
tion of Jesus, so that ‘Christ liveth in me.’
To cherish this desire by all possible means
of grace, until all that is evil in us is elimi
nated, all that is good in us is brought to
maturity, and all that is lacking in us is sup
plied, is’the duty and privilege of each. With
in these extremes are all true Christians.
The -bruised reed’ and the ‘smoking flax’are
not to be despised. The ‘leaven in the
meai and the ‘mustard seed’ in the earth are
symbols of heavenly grace in the human
heart. This is the babyhood of the Chris,
tian, lovable and beautiful as infancy. Be
yond is the manhood, wherein the Christ-
spirit holds every appetite and passion
within the limits of law—purifies each mo
tive. exalts each purpose, ennobles each as
piration, intones the conscience to the se
verest morality, enshrines the love of God
and man in the ‘heart of hearts,’ and li ts up
the human will and the divine will in theii
quality into a perfect oneness in our Lord.
"Many have attained thereunto. They
are walking in white; their conversation h
in heaven. To them prayer is the habit of
the soul. Faith is the normal condition of
the spirit. Love is enthroned. Ob. that this
exnerience may be my realized answer tc
your question. ‘What is it to be a Christ
ian?”’—[Dr. Newman.
god’s way.
If a man has a statue decayed by rust and
age. and mutilated in many of its parts, he
breaks it up and easts it into a furnace, and
after the melting he receive- it again in more
beautiful form. As thus the dissolving in
the furnace was not a destruction, but a re
newing of the statue, so the death of out
bodies is not a destruction, but a renovation
When, therefore, you see as in a furnace
our flesh flowing away to corruption, dwell
not on that sight, but wait for the re casting;
and advance in your thoughts to a stil 1
higher point—for the statuary casting into
the furnace a brazen image, but makes a
brazen one again. God does not thus; but
casting in a mortal body formed of clay, he
return- you an immortal statue of gold.—[St.
Chrysostom.
Some men cheat themselves out of a hap
piness bv an erroneous notion that all the
good in the world belongs to the pan, and
that the present is a degenerate age. Others
rob themselves of much comfort by distrust
ing the future. An abiding faith in God.
who is the same yesterday, today, and for
mer, promotes beaith of body and peace of
mind, and secures everlasting salvation.—
[New York Advocate.
While the Society for the Suppression of
Vice is maintaining an uncomprising war
fare, as it has done for years, against tbo-e
hydra headed monsters, gambling and
drunkenness, is it too much to ask Christian
men and women, philanthropists, parents,
and good citizens to sustain them by fur
nishing them with the sinews of war to
fight with?
LOVING DARKNESS.
It would be well if you could secure the
abolition of the screens that now protect the
saloon from public investigation. We believe
it would be worth while for our unions to
endeavor to secure laws requiring that the
shutters and screens be removed from
windows and doors. This would serve to
bring the saloons into greater disrepute, and
would help to empty them sooner; for young
men would be ashamed to be seen drinking
by the passers-by, and all except the hard
ened topers woula be more likely to forsake
these disreputable haunts. Such a law it is
thought by some of our correspondents,
could be passed more easily than was the
scientific instruction law.—Union Signal.
. IF 1 - 'W.AJR/FTIEIKIIKi
BAKER <&. CONFECTIONER.
AND DEALER Of
OUT MODS, SHOES, I0TI0IS HI OHOCEBIES,
AT ROCK BOTTOM PRICES.
TOBACCO AID CIGARS Ii Gnat Tuleh. Tojs, Flnioris, etc., !i Stock.
Laurens Street and Park Avenue, Aiken, S. 6.
The Waverly House,
G. T. ALFORD, Proprietor.
In the Bend of Hxngr Street*
CHARLESTON, S. C.
Large and Comfortable Rooms.
BATES, $2.50 FEB DAT.
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Df-iYbU WANT A DOG f ft
If so. send for DOG HL’YKRS’
tZA GLIDE, containing colored plates,
in'- T-iufJx fhh eutfravings of different breeds,
prices they are worth, »nd where to
buy them. Directions for Traiuini;
Doks and Breeding Ferrets. Mailed
for 15 Cents. Also Cuts of Dog
Furnishing Goods of all kinds
YOU INTERESTED IN P0UL.TRY.3I 1
Then send for I’rncticnl POUL-
| TRY HOOK. 1 OO pages t t>e»n-
lifnl colored plate ; engravings
of nearly all kinds of fowls ; descrip
tions of the breeds; how to caponize;
I plans f>r poultry houses; Information
uo it incubators, and where to bu^r
| Eggs t'rnm best stock at SI
per sitting. Sent for 15 Cel
ents-
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If «o yon need the BOOK OF CAGE
BIRDS. 120 pages. 150 Ulus- i
trntions. Beautiful colored plate.
Treatment and breeding of all kinds Cage
hi ids, for pleasure and profit. Diseases
and their cure. How to oulld and stock
an Aviary. AH about Parrota. Prices of
all kinds birds, cages, etc. Mailed for
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ASSOCIATED FANCIERS,
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Table supplied with tBe best Booms targe aai
'-ell furnished. Om of the most comfortable betel*
in th« South.
raiiujm
nratni,
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Are known by their /Yutte, ae the*,
are testifying for themeelv*o ait
through the Southern and border
States and giving flattering reports*
Every fruit that is known to sue*
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from all parts of the globe. Over
300 acres in actual nursery etfrcbfi
Some of the specialtiee are the Kel*
seys, Japan, Baton and Satsuma
Plums. The Lucy Duke Pear and
all the new fruits, as well as the old*
Evergreens, Shade Trees, Roses and
everything usually kept in a first*
class nursery. Four large Green*
houses. Chrysanthemums, CamaA
tions and many Greenhouse Plante*
•Rose growing a specialty. Plants
from Greenhouse ready to be put
out in April and May. Descriptive
Catalogue No. 1, Fruit Trees, Vines,
do., and Greenhouse Catalogue No,
2 will be sent free to applicants.
Special rates to large planters. Con.
respondenee solicited.
Address
Pomona HOI Nurseries,
POMONA. N. C.
NEW ARRANGEMENT.
AUGUSTA HOTEL RATES.
$1.50, $2.00 aitd $2.50 Per Oaf
The Ben Table Board Can be Had at $4.01
Per Week, in Clubs of S or 10.
MONEY SAVED IS MONEY MADE.
Save 25 to 50 cents on every dollar you spend.
Write for onr mammoth Catalogue, a SOO-page
book, containing illustration and giving lowest man
ufacturers’ prices, with manufacturers’discounts
of every kind of goods and supplies manufactured
and imported into the United states. Groceries,
Household Goods, Furniture, Clothing, Ladies -
and Gents’ Clothing and Furnishing Goods, Dress
Goods, White Goods, Dry Goods, Hats, Caps,
Boots and Shoes, Gloves, Notions, Glassware,
Stationery, Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware,
Buggies, Whips, Agricultural Implements, etc.
ONLY FIRST CLASS GOODS. Catalogue sent
on receipt of 25 cents for expressage. We are the
only concern which sells at manufacturers’ prices,
allowing the buyer the same discount that the
manufacturer gives to the wholesale buyer. We
guarantee all goods as represented; if not found
eo, money refunded. Goods sent by express or
freight, with privilege of examination before pay
ing A. KARPEN A CO.,
122 Quiucy Mreet, Chicago, III.
WE WILL PAY
A salary of $25 to $50 per week to GOOD sgt..ua
to represent us in every county,and sell our general
line of Merchandise at manufacturers’ prices. Only
THOSE WHO WANT STEADY EMPLOYMENT NEED
apply. Catalogue and particulars sent on receipt
of 25 cents for expressage. a
A. KARPEN A CO“
;2S Quincy Street, Chicago, 01.
HT" Rooms at Very Low Sommer Ratss
Omnibus and Porter At every train.
B. S. DOOLITTLE, Proprietor.
We Pr**twY«$
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will tfoch you
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moment* only,
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Whet we offer i*
new and it hee
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Over end over
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pay ia sure for
every worker.
Eaay to le.-irn.
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