The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, June 09, 1898, Image 5
THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JUNE 8, 1898
DOgM OF AR ’E.
DR. TALMAGE TEACHES A LESSON
FROM THE HANGING OF HAMAN.
Vanity and Sin I'.vcr Anxiouw to Ilav*
1’icty Hott lleforc Them—Onfckly Turna
tho Wheel of Fortune — liaitpiness For
the Soul.
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ciation.]
Washington, Juno 5.—Tho doom of
arroganco and tho reward of fidelity are
lessons which Dr. Taluiage hero draws
from HorJ-:>;ai on hortc'back and Haman
af<X)t; text, Esther vii, 10, “So they
hanged Haman on the gallows that he
had prepared for Mordecai. ”
Hero is an oriental courtier, about
the most offensive man in Hebrew his
tory, Hainan by name. He plotted for
the destruction of the Israeliti.sh nation,
and I wonder not that in some of the
Hebrew synagogues to this day when
Hainan's name is mentioned the con
gregation clinch their fists and stamp
their fret and cry, “Lot his name be
blotted out.” Haman was prime minis
ter in tho magnificent court of Persia.
Thoroughly appreciative of the honor
conferred he expects everybody that he
passes to be obsequious. Coming in one
day at the g ite of the palace, the serv
ants drop their heads in honor of his
office, but a Hebrew named Mordecai
gazes upon the passing dignitary with
out bending bis head or taking off his
hat. He was a good man and would not
have been negligent of tho ordinary
courtesies of life, but he felt no respect
either for Haman or the nation from
which he had come. So ho could not be
hypocritical, and while others made
oriental salaam, getting clear down be
fore this prime minister when he pass
ed, Mordecai, the Hebrew, relaxed not a
muscle of his neck and kept his chin
clear up. Because of that affront Ha
inan gets a decree from Ahasucrus, the
dastardly king, for the massacre of all
the Israelites, and that of course will
include Mordecai.
To make a long story short, through
Queen Esther this whole plot was re
vealed to her husband, Ahasucrus. One
night Ahasucrus, who was aflicted
with insomnia, in his sleepless hours
calls for his secretary to read him a
few passages of Persian history and so
while away the night In the book read
that night to the king an acct unt was
given of a conspiracy from which Mor
decai, the Hebrew, had saved the king’s
life, and for which kindness Mordecai
had never received any reward. Hainan,
who had been fixing up a nice gallows
to hang Mordecai on, was walking out
side the doir of the king’s sleeping
apartment and was called in. The king
told him that ho had just had read to
him the account of some one who had
saved his (tin king’s) life, and ho asked
what reward ought to be given to such
a one. Self conceited Hainan, supposing
that ho himself was to get tho honor
t -and not imagining for a moment that
the deliverer of the king’s life was Mor
decai, says, “Why, your majesty ought
to make a triumph for him and put a
crown c:i him and set him on a splen
did horse, high stepping and fall bloixl-
ed, and then have one of your princes
lead the horse through the streets, ey
ing, ‘B. iw tho knee, here comes a man
who has saved the king's life.’ ” Then
said Ahasucrus in severe tones to Ha
inan: “I know ail about your seoun-
drelism. Ko\v you go oat and make a
triumph for Mordecai, tho Hebrew,
whom yea hate. Put the best saddle on
the finest horse, and you. the p inee,
hold the stirrup while Mordecai gets
ou, and then lead hi:; horse through tho
street. Make haste!”
Comedy aud Tragedy.
What n spectacle 1 A comedy and
tragedy at one and tho same time.
There they go! Mordecai, who bad been
despised, now starred and robed, in the
stirrups. . 1 .man, tho chancellor, afoot,
holding tho prancing, rearing, champ
ing stallion. Mordecai bends his neck
at last, but it is to look down the
degraded prime minister walking be
neath him. Iiur.ua for Mordecai! Alas
for Hainan! But what a pity to have
the gallows, recently built, entirely
wasted. It is 50 cubits high and built
with care. And Human had erected it
for Mordecai, by whose stirrups lie now
walks us groom. Stranger and more
startling tuan any romance, there go
up tho steps of the scaffolding, side by
side, tho hangman and Haman, the cx-
c banco Hot. “So they hanged Human ou
tho gallows that ho had prejum-d for
Mordecai. ’ ’
Although so many years have passed
since cowardly Ahasaeraa reigned, and
the beautiful Esther unsworn! to his
whims, and Persia perished, yet from
the life and death of Hainan wo may
draw living Hssons of warning and in
struction. And, first, we come to the
practical suggestion that, when the
heart is wrong, things very insignificant
will destroy our comfort. Who would
have thought that a great prime minis
ter, admired aud applauded by millions
of Persians, would have been so nettled
and harassed by anything trivial? What
more could the grout dignitary have
wanted than his chariots and attend
ants and palaces aud liamjuets? If afflu
ence of circumstances etui make a man
contented and happy, surely Hainan
should have been contented aud happy.
No. Mordecoi’s refusal of a bow takes
the glitter from the gold, and tho rich
ness from tho purple, aud the speed
from the chariots. With a heart puffed
up with every inflation of vanity and
revenge it was impossible for him to be
happy. The silence of Mordecai at tho
gate was louder than the braying of
trumpets iu the palace. Thus shall it
always be if the heart is not right. Cir
cumstances the most trivial will disturb
the spirit
Annoying Trlfloa.
It is not the great calamities of life
that create the most worrlmcut. I have
■ecu men, felled by repeated blows of
.Misfortune, arising from the dust,
P ( ver dcK]M)iiding. But tho most of tho
diwjuiet which men suffer is from iu-
significant causes; us a lion uttuckod by
t
son. beast of prey turns easily around
and slays him, yet runs roaring through
the forests at the alighting ou his
brawny nick of a few insects. Yon
meet gome great loss in business with
comparative composure, but you can
think of petty trip le e-s indicted upon
you, which arouse all your capacity for
wrath and remain iu your heart an un
bearable annoyance. If you lookback
uikiu your life, you will find that tho
most of the vexatious and disturbances
of spn t win h you felt were produced
by circumstances that were not worthy
of no:i -e. If you want to be happy, you
must not care for trifles. Do unt lie too
minute in your inspection of tho treat- i
ment you receive from others. Who I
| cares whether M< rdecai bows when you
pass or stands erect and stiff as a cedar?
That woodman would not make much
clearing in tho forest who should stop
to bind up every little bruise and scratch
ho received in the thicket ; nor will that i
man accomplish much for the world or j
I the church who is too watchful and ap- j
! preciative of potty annoyances. There j
are multitudes of people in the world
; constantly harrowed because they pass
their lives not in searching out those
things which are attractive and deserv
ing, but in spying oat with all their
powers of vision to see whether they
cannot find a Mordecai.
Again, I learn from the life of tho
man under our notice that worldly van
ity aud sin are very anxious to have
piety how before them. Human was a
fair emblem of entire worldliness aud
Mordecai the representative of unflinch
ing godliness. Luch were tho u sages of
society in ancient times that had this
Israelite 1 owed to the prime minister it
would have been an acknowledgment < f
respect for bis character and nation.
Mordecai would therefore have tunned
against bis religion had he made any
obeisance or dropped his chin half an
inch before Haman. When therefore
proud Hainan attempted to compel a j
homage which was not felt, he only did
what tho world ever since ha.: tried to ;
do when it would force our holy re- 1
ligiou in tiny way to yield to its dictate.;. ]
Danii 1, if he had keen a men of re-
ligious compromises, would never have i
been thrown into the den of lions. He
might have made some arrangements
with King Danis whereby he could I
have retained part of his form of re- j
ligion without making himself so com- '
pletely obnoxious to the idolaters. Paul ,
might have retained the favor of his i
rulers and escaped martyrdom if he had |
only been willing to mix up his Chris- j
than faith with a few errors. Hi.; un- |
bending Christian character was taken
us an insult.
How Fie World Demand* Ilopia^r.
Fagot and rack and halter in all ages j
have been only the different ways in j
which the world has demanded obei- J
sauce. It was o::c3, away up on the top j
of the temple, that sut.in commanded
the holy one of Nazareth to kneel be
fore him. Dut it is not now so much on J
the top of churches as down iu the aisle
and the pew and the pulpit that satan
tempts the espousers of the Christian ;
faith to kneel Ixifore him. Why was it ;
that the Platonic philosophers of early 1
times as well as Tolaud, bpinoza and ]
Boling;.roke of later days were so mad
ly opp isod to Christianity? Certainly
not bi cause it favored immoralities or j
arrested civilization or dwarfed the iu- j
telieci. The genuine reason, whether .
admitted or not, was bccarsc* the reli
gion of Christ paid no respect to their
intellectual vanities. Blount and Boyle
aud the host of infidels hatched out by :
the vile reign of Charles II. as reptiles
crawl out of a marsh of slime, could
not keep their patience, tecavse, as they 1
pas'ed along, there were sitting in the
awhile the church acted as if she were
on a retreat, but when all tho opposers
of God and truth had joined iu tho pur
suit and were sure of the field Christ
gave the signal to his church, and, turn
ing, they drove back their foes in shame.
Tin re waa found t be no antagonism
between nature at.d revelation. The
universe and the iffblc were found to
be the work of the same hand, two
stroke;; of tho same pen, their author-
ghip the same God.
Prifle Goc*tli Keforo a
Again, learn the lesson tliat pride
goeth before a fall. Was any man ever
so far up as Human, who tumbled so far
down? Yes, ou a smaller scale every day
the world sees the same thing. Against
their very advantage ; men trip into de
struction. When God humbles proud
men, it is usually at the moment of
their greatest arrogancy. If there be a
man in your community greatly puffed
up with worldly success, you have but
to stand a little while aud you will see
him conu* down. You say, I wonder
that Got/j lows (hat man to go on rid
ing ovea tiers’ heads and making great
assumpy *sof power. Tk^re is no won
der abi it. Hainan has not yet got to
the top. Pride is a commander, well
plumed and caparisoned, but it leads
forth a dark aud frowning host. Wo
have tho best of authority for saying
could not subdue
goes to bed sick
not sell him his
agony because :
down in !'»«thU hcm. (i
hies because a poor min
righteousness, tenon.r;::!
to conic. From the ti:
to Louis XVIII was th
turned
more
his own fears. Ahnb
because Naboth will
ineyard. Herod is in
little child is born
eat Felix trem- '
ter will preach
e and judgment
ie«f Louis XII
re i. “raw bot-
i hair in Fran e that lid not sit
solidly than the gn u: throne on
which th. French kings reigned?
Were I called to sketch misery iu its
worst form I would not go up to tho
dark alley of the poor, hut up the high
way over which prancing Buccphali
strike the sparks with their hoofs and
between statuary and parks of stalking
deer. Wretchedness is more bitter when
swallowed from gemmed goblets than
from earthen pitcher or pewter mug. If
there are young people here who are
looking for this position and that cir
cumstance, thinking that
gate of the
men as Mat
thew mid Mark and Luke aud John,
who would not bend an inch in respect
to their philosophies.
hataa told our first parents that they
would become as gods if they would
only reach up and t ike a taste of the
fruit. They tried it and failed, but their
descendants are not yet satisfied with
the enperiment. We have now many
desiring to be as gods, reaching up after
yet anoth r apple. Reason, scornful of
God's Word, may foam aud strut with
the proud wrath of a Human, and at
tempt to compel the homage of the
good, but in the presence*of men and
angels it shall lie confounded. “God
shall smite thee, thou wbiied wall.”
When science began to make its bril
liant discoveries, there were great facts
brought to light that seemed to over
throw the truth of tho Bible. Thisar-
clucoh gist with his crowliar, and tho
•geologist with his hammer, and tho
chemist with his batteries, charged upon
the Bible. Moses’ account of the crea
tion seemed denied by the very struc
ture of the earth. The uslroi. >mcr
wheeled around his telescopic until tho
heavenly bodies seemed to marshal
themselves against the Bible as the stars
iu their courses fought against Sisera.
Observatories and universities rejoiced
at what they considered the extinction
of Christianity. They gathered new
courage at what they considered past
victory and pressed on their conquest
into the kingdom of nature until, alas
for them, they discovered too much.
God’s Word had imly been lying iu am
bush that, in some unguarded moment,
with a suildt n bound, it might tear in
fidelity to pieces.
It was os when Joshua attack s! the
city of Ai. He selected 30,000 men, and
concealed most of them. Then with a
few men ho assailed the city, which
poured out its numbers and strength
upon Joshua’s little band. According to
previous plan, they fell back in seeming
defeat, but, after all the proud inhabit
ants of the city had been brought out of
their homes and had joined in tho pur
suit of Joshua, suddenly that brave man
halted iu his flight aud with his spear
pointing toward the city, 30,000 men
bounded from tho thickets as panthers
spring to their prey, and the pursuers
were dashed to pieces, while the hosts
of Joshua pressed up to the city, aud
with their lighted torches tossed it into
flame. Thus it was that the discoveries
of science sesmad to give temporary vic
tory against God and the Bible, and for
that “Prid ■ goeth before destruction
and a haughty cpirit before a fall.”
The arrows from the Almighty’s quiver
are apt to strike a man when on tho
wing. Goliath shakes his great spear
in defiance, but the small stones from
the brook Elah make him stagger and
fall like an ox under the butcher’s
bludgeon. He who is down cannot fall.
Vessels scudding under bare jHiles do
not feel the force of the storm, but
those with all sails set capsize at the
sudden descent of iho tempest.
Again, this oriental tale reminds us
of ihe fact that wrongs we prepare for
others return upon ourselves. The gal
lows that Haman built for Mordecai be
came the prime minister’s strangula
tion. Robespierre, who sent- so many
to the guillotine, had his own head
chopped off by the horrid instrument.
The evil you practice on others will re
coil upon your own pate. Slanders como
home. Oppressions come home*. Cruel
ties como homo.
You will yet bo r. lackey walking be
side the very charger ou which you ex
pected to ride others down. When
Charles I, who had d . troyed SJtraffcrd,
was about to be beheaded, he said, “I
basely ratified an unjust senteiic \ and
the similar injustice I am now to un
dergo is a sensible retribution fer tho
punishment I inflicted on an innocent
man. ” Lord J dlreys, after incarcerat
ing many innocent aud good people in
Loudon Tower, was himself imprisoned
in the same place, where tho shades of
those whom he had maltreated seemed
to haunt him, so that he k. pfc crying to
his aitoudants, "Keep them off, gentle
men, for God’s sake, keep them off!”
The chickens had como homo to roost.
The body of Bradshaw, tho English
judge, who had been ruthless and cruel
in his dicisions, was taken from lii^’
splendid tomb in 'Westminster abbey,
aud at Tyburn hung c:n a gallows from
morning until night in the presence of
jeering umLitmles. Hainan's gallowg
came a little late, but it came. Oppor
tunities fly in a straight line, rnd just
touch us ns they pass from eternity to
eternity, but the wrongs we do others
fly in circle, and hovtbvor the circle
may widen out, they arc sure to come
back to the point from which they
started. There are guns that Kick!
Fortune Oulckly Tnrn*.
Furthermore, let the ftory of Haman
teach us how quickly trims the wheel
of f .rtu’.io. One day, excepting the king,
Haman was the mightiest man in Per
sia, but the next day r. lackey, bio we
go up, anil so wo come down. You sel
dom find any man years in the same
circumstances. Of those who iu polit
ical life 20 years ago were tho most
prominent how few remain in couspi-
cuity! Political parti's make certain
men do their hank work, and then, after
using them as hi cks, turn them out on
the commons to die. Every four yoaiat
, them is a complete revolution, ami
about 5,000 men who ought certainly
to be the next president are shamefully
disappointed, while some who this day
i are obscure and poverty stricken will
ride upon the shoulders of tho people
and take their turn at admiration and
the spoils of of.lce. Ob, how quickly
, the wheel turns! Ballot boxes are the
steps on which men come down as often
as they go up. Of those who were long
ago successful in tho accumulation of
property how few have not met with
reverses, while many of those who then
were straitened iu circumstances now
hold the bonds and the bank keys of the
nation. Of all fickle things in the world
fortune is the most fickle. Every day
she changes her mintl, and woo to the
man who puis any confidence in what
she promises or propos es. She cheer*
when you go up, and she lauyh* wht«l
you come down. Oh, trust not a mo
ment your heart’s affections to this
changeful world! Anchor your soul iu
God. From Christ’s companionship
gather your satisfaction. Then,come sor
row or gladness, suecess or defeat, riches
or poverty, honor or disgrace, health or
sickness, life or death, time or eternity,
all is yours, aud ye are Christ’s, and
Christ is (•oil’s.
Morrow* Fudnr Crown*.
Again, this Hainan’s history shows us
that outward possessions and circum
stance;; cannot make a man happy.
While yet fully vested iu authority aud
the chief adviser of tho Pcrsiiuj monarch
and everything that equipage aud pomp
and splendor of residence could do was
bis he is an object lesson of wretched-
ness. Thfre are today more aching sor
rows under crownn of royalty than un
der the rugged caps of tho bouseloss.
Much of the world's uftiucuco and guy-
oty is only misery in colors. Many a
woman seated iu the street at her apple
stand is happier than the great bankers.
The mountains of worldly honor are
covered with perpetual snow. Tamer
lane conquered half tho world, hut
worldly suc
cess will bring peace of tbo soul, let
them shatter the delusion. It is not what
we get; it is what we are. Daniel among j
i the lions is happier than King Derma
, on his throne. And when life is closing
brilliancy of worldly surroundings will
be no solace. Death is blind and sec:; no
difference between a king and his clown, j
| between the Nazarcue and the Athenian,
between a b xikless hut aud a national
| library. The frivolities of life cannot,
! with their giddy Hugh ech ting from •
| heart to heart, entirely drown the voice
■ of a tremendous conscience which says:
“I am immortal. The stars shall die,
: but I am immortal. One wave of eter-
i uity shall drown time in its depths, but
I am immortal. The earth shall have a
shroud of flame and tho heavens flee at
the glance of the Lord, but I am im
mortal. From all the heights and depths
of my nature rings down and rings np
aud rings out the word‘immortal. ’ ”
A good conscience and assurance of life
eternal through tho Lord Jesus Christ
are the only securities.
lliippiiirH* For the Soul.
The soul’s happiness is too large ft
craft to sail up the stream of worldly
pleasure. As ship carpenters say, it
draws too much water. This earth is a
bubble, and it will burst. This life is a
vision, and it will soon pass away.
Time! It is only a ripple aud it break-
eth against the throne of judgment.
Our days! They fly swifter than a shut
tle, weaving for us a robe of triumph or
a garment of shame. Begin year life
with religion and for its greatest trial
you will be ready. Every day will be a
triumph, and death will be only a king’s
servant calling you to a royal banquet.
In olden time the man who was to re
ceive the lienors of knighthood war. re
quired to spend the previous night fully
armed aud with shield and lance to
walk up mid down among the tomb:; of
the dead. Through all tho hours of that
uight his steady step was heard, and
when morning dawned, amid grand pa
rade and the sound of lorncts the honors
of knighthood were bestowed. Thus it
shall be with the good man':; soul in
the night before heaven. Fully armed
with ( hitId and sword and helmet, he
shall watch and wait until the darkn ss
fly aud tho morning break, and amid
the sound of cel stiul harpings the stall
shall take toe honors of heaven amid
the innumerable throng with robes
snowy white streaming overseas of sap
phire.
Mordecri will only have to wait fm
his day of triumph. It took all tho pre
ceding trials to make a proper back
ground for his after successes. The scaf
fold built for him makes all the inorc
imposing and picturesque the horse inM
whose long white mane he twisted hi*
fingers at the mounting. You want at
' least two misfortunes, hard as flii t, to
strike (ire. Heavy aud long continued
snows in the winter are signs of good
crops next summer. Fo, many have
yielded wonderful harvests of lieuevo-
lence and energy because they were for
a long while snowed under. We must
; have a good many hard falls before we
learn to wall: straight It is on the black
anvil of trouble that men hammer out
their fortunes. Sorrows take up men on
their shoulders and enthrone them. Ton
ics are nearly always bitter. Men, lika
fruit trees, are barren, unless trimmed
with sharp knives. They are like wheat
i —all (ho better for the flailing. It re-
, quired the prison darkness and chill to
make John Buuyuu dream. It took Del
aware ico and cold feet at Valley Forge,
and the whiz of bullets, to make a
Washington. Panl, when he climbed
up ou the beach at Mclita, shivering iu
his wet clothes, was more of aCliristiau
than when the ship struck the breakers.
Prescott, the historian, saw lietter
without his eyes than he could ever'
| have seen with them. Mordecai, despis-
. ed at the gate, is only predecessor of
Mordecai, grandly mounted.
Some Famous Itcnrflt*.
It was as far back as 1608, according
to Samuel Pepys, that oro Kuipp came
to him about tbo “woman’s day” at
tlio playhouse, which he was expected
to patronize iu order to increase the
profits. Perhaps tlio first organized ben
efit for a particular favorite, however,
was that given to Mrs. Barry in 1687.
On such occasions it was customary to
charge for udmission to the stage, which
iu consequence olteu became so throng
ed that win n a player to whom the dis
tinction was accorded had to make his
appearance liefer.' the footlights to take
up his part iu the piece it had not in
frequently to be stopped lor several
minutes while the attendants forced a
passage for the unfortunate actor
through the throng of his admirers.
Thus on the occasion of Quin's ben
efit at Coveut Garden, in 1753, tho old
actor, who was incumbered with the
heavy dress of Falstaff, was tcveru!
minutes before ho could pass on to tl"-
stage on account of the -crowds that
were assembled iu the wings. Perhaps
one of tho saddest of the many benefits
which have been celebrated at Drury
Lane was that given ou June 27, 1828,
for Grimaldi, the greatest clown the
stage has known, v\ hen the heartbroken
old man was wheeled on to the stage in
an armchair and hopelessly broke down
in bis endeavor to sing his once famous
ditty “Hot Codlins.” The old man's
memory had completely forsaken him.
On that occasion a sum of £1,700 was
realized, which fur many years remain
ed a record.—St. James Gazette.
Suffered 20 Years.
Herbert Spencer’* Tragedy.
The English papers are citing good
stories from Sir Grant Duff’s “Liaries. ”
Here is one: “Arthur Russell made mo
laugh by a story of a discussion at tho
Leweses. Some ouo maintained that
everybody had written a tragedy. ‘ Yes, ’
said Lewes, ‘every one, even Herbert
Spencer.’ ‘Ah!’ interposed Huxley ‘1
know what the catastrophe would be—
an induction killed by a fact.’ ”
“When Lord Malmesbury came into
office, he fired off a highly patriotic dis
patch. Lord Cowley received it, saw
that it could only result in war aud,
putting it iu his pocket, went off to
Walewski. ‘Ycu must understand, ’ he
said, ‘that I come as Lord Cowley and
not as an English embassador, but 1
have received a dispatch from my gov
ernment which is so strong that 1 should
like yon to see it privately before I hand
it to you officially.’ Walewski read the
dispatch and saffl, ‘You may give me
that dispatch, but if you do I will send
you your passports tomorrow morning.’
Lord Cowley did not present the dis
patch, but sent it back for alteration,
aud it was altered and realtered before
it was formally presetted.”
Kom- Date*.
Few persons who are more than a
little fond of particular varieties of
roses are aware of how recent is a real
ly strong individuality iu foreign va
rieties of their favorite flower.
The Gloire do Dijon dates from 1853.
Tlio General Jacqueminot was offered
to tho public iu J8A9. Thu Marechal
Kiel (which beautiful rose seems iati ly
unjustly out of vogue) was perfected iu
1864. La France came iu 1868. Tho
Mine. Isaac-Pereire is of 1880. La
Reiue is almost tho oldest of tho hybrids
still beloved, having made its success
iu 1848.
Tho new and assumed varieties now
put fortli annually still reach the num
ber of 70 or 80, but tho majority of
them have no decisive characteristics
to euable them to hold their own against
others. Tho American Beauty and Cath
erine Mermet are the most significant
additions within a few seasons to tho
general catalogue and not yet in univer
sal favor.—Harper's Weekly.
Sacrificed to
Blood Poison
Scotch Humor.
An old gentleman is recorded to have
emerged gloriously from tho difficulty
pnqsjuailcsl by a canny little archin in
tho Sunday school, who when Jacob's
ladder was under oousidenttiou want
ed to know if “all angels had wings,”
and when answered iu the affirmative
proceeded, “Weil, whit did they want
tae bo climbiu up an doon a ladder for?”
A gleam came into tho old Scotchman's
eye as he responded jiawkily, “Weel,
weel, my laddie, it's gey like tho angels
wen* on the pouk” (molting).
Having missed ouo of his students for
several Sunday;., ho said to one of her
relatives: “I liuena seen yeer cousin
Bell at the class for a long while. Ye
ken it’s her duty tae attend the schule.
Wliaur has she gaeu?” “1 caiiua very
weel tell ye that, meonister, ” was the
cautious reply, “but she’s deed.”
Bcotsmeu are sometimes very funny
when they joke, but soiuo of those grim
old sons of tho covenant are even more
humorous when they pray. In an old
volume, published iu Edinburgh in
1693, eutithnl “Scxittiali Presbyterian
Eloquence," is to be found tho follow-
Ing notice: “Mr. A rusk in prayed in the
Iron kirk last year, ‘Lord, have mercy
on all fuils aud idiots, aud particular on
the magistrate* if Edinburgh.' Are-
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