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flTIWTUTYDflDEI
T 1ursery at, Night.
,a day is done, and in theii cosy nest'
The rosy darlingS oi in perfteQtret'
Their sbining tresees'sofly strayigg o'er
l'hose dihpled. oheeks, that we' raay kkeo
iletore we go; iit lot the k's li1lt,
Good?ight, arwt u.b rersl -
Good-nighti Good nigit
Ainon we see a etnile all gently play
O'er:a sweot fact theti sltily die away- -
The little brain with fairy faboles teoths,
Aud l'lossie wandet6in the land of droans;
There she will wander till ight'sslibilows
flos.
Goodl-niglit my little'one,
G9d guardt,h thele '
Shn, seei serener sunllight, fairer flowers,
Aad bluer skies than grac. this world of
ours,
An, dowy the HiIt,Mt ,lope of .sbadowlauil
Agal1a bo g'iices lahr hoop with egor
Or miay ai$tlid bhitforfljf purrue,
- Goog-night, my prett,y one!
'1lllorn, adicu
ADR1F'1' ON IO0.
The scene of te alventure ,hat I
stall relate is in .North, H udson's btty,.
and the time" was' .aate mn February,
1879. I had bon among the natives of
this region of the great bay-the
lwillik Eskimo-since the fall before
getting ready for a sledge journey to
I'in Wtii,t't4s Land, in the Arctic
ocean, which. these natives had said
'cotuld best be started In the early
4pt lug. and I had therefore set the first
week in April as about the t"kme of our
departnre.
One of the most necessary articles of
supply for such a sledge journey was oil
to cook our food, by the native method,
and give us light at night4 and the seal
and walrus in the bay were the sources
on whic we depended for this mate
rial. The contemplated sledge trip was
to be an overland one, and until we
stood on the shores of the Arctic sea,
probably a'tipth or two after starting,
no oil producing ani'nal could be met,
and we therefore urged our hired Es
ki:.o to be prompt in getting us a good
supply. Then there came in a super.
t ha e cai no e&ach!L tea :; to
eat their flesh until the reindger meat
of the fall hunting'season had been dis
posed of, and, as our venison supply
was large this particular autumn, it
was well along in January before the
change was made. ' This was followed
by one of those hyperborean hurricafes
whose predominating feature was con
sistency, and after its three weeks of
boreal blowing was over, and we were
nearly starved in our ice palaces, we
crawled out and stared the situation in
the face that it was hardly two months
until our.departure, with no no oil on
hand and little likelihood of being able
to purchase any of the natives in their
depleted condition. My own natives
therefore went to work with a will to
supply the deficiency, working early
and late and taking many risks on the
treacherous ide that they otherwise
would not have done. It was in taking
one too many of these risks that the
mteri for my story was furmshed
me.
lkquecsik and Nannock (the Elbow
and the Polar hoar) were two as faith
ful ignd trustworthy walrus hunters as
were to be found in the whole Iwillik
tribe of Eskimo, and this sayIng was
no small compliment In Its line, for the
name Iwillik means walrus eating Es
kirno, from the large number of these
animals killed by this tribe, and which
really formed their chief supply of food.
Ikqueesik was in fact over anxious to
see that everyt;.ing in general and the
walrus oil in particuila,r'would be ready
for the trip on time, for though an
Iwuibk by adoption since lhe was a boy,
ho was by tirth a Netschilluk, a band
that lived on the Polar sea, where we
would probably visit, and lie showed a
true patriotic desire to visit his native
By the 20th or 25th of February it
was quite evident that Ikqueesik's un -
usual energy would be properly rewarded
if the weather only remained good, but
-this was something in which n~o reli
ance could be placed whatever, al
though my Netschilluk ,walrus hunter
openly avowed that good weather or
bad weather he was going to ede that,
as far as oil waB concerned, we should
have no delay in starting.
sure enough, a storm 'came tepring
down from'the nortewest'that looked
as if it had come tostay for a while; and
as good as his word, Ikqueeslk, with
Nannook and a 14 or -15-year-old
brother of the former- Ahwanak by
nam~e--sallied out in the fierce bliast to
tackle any walrus that might be found
out enjoying such weather. Although
during these fhree 'off shore winds, the
walruses 'generally P0 sailhng out to sea
on the cakes of Ice that break off from
thieedge of the shore ice, Our two hunt
ers were lucky in finding an old one
that hadi found it; convenient to stay at
bomne, and as part f>a3 ment for their
oxposure in such fearfuu weather they
found'it e 4y to dispatoh the brute by
takibg4 vantage of the din ti1e, wind
1 t . '. utu up hi1 4rcar
Was,ut; o work ot a fetv moflnents
but, shorti. itwast i wt long ebougi
for. the ti1e. tliet risingzpidy, tb lift
the reat1sld of si o i e'a'foot or sa
nrore'and elevate it clea of' Nie:' eoJ
"bh So.fr hiad aoted as a .huge, biake
to llold it toU4 ilg1nd,. aRnw4h4 rp
ping, roaring ubise, liko the closevdlley
of musketry trom a battalion of men o1
hle irasti'of a near thunderbolt cleav
lug the air, they heard this "field . of ice
li which they stod.a tasung loose-. from
the man shore, and by the time they
eached the crack, 200 yards away, it
had become so large that it would have
been a dangerous experiment to at
tempt to leap acrobM; for in Ahis per
i'etulilly i6ttl$dli" WateIs .the'Eakiri o'e
a stranger to the art of swimming.
'l1hy.st9od.and looked 'at each 4other
for3i minute, grinning a sort of icil
bmi e that the Gaiucasian repeftts wiler
he chases his silk beaver down a muddy
street on a windy day in "the presence
of a large and appreciative Aiudience.'1
They wefe adrift 'in one of Kiing Frost'F
men-of-war withouti rudder, sail or
corgp i], iidy worst of ''all, they did
not'kn w how long they l ad be in
"drafted for. An inspeption revealed
the craft to be about 400 yards long
over all, about 200 yards' beam, with
armor six to eight fetrtihlek, carryinp
two guns with a crew of three, and
provisioned for two' or, three weeki
with one walrus weighing nearly a ton,
I should have added that a sledge and 8
or 4 dogs were curled up abaft the
main batch, the former of which mighi
do for fuel and the latter for food ii
case of an emergency or too long- a
cruise.
At first the trip was not a very severe
one as longsas they. could feel the pro
tectioll of the coast, but the "fUrthei
away tljy got the higher the wave*
were swelling, and in the course of twc
or three hours the surf was dashing
over the weather side and flying in One
spray and froth across, the little. cold
weather cruisers and making thingr
uncomfortable generally.
There was some compacted sliow'un
1tefO'ad 6rf/ a lne ,ertttgtrl mira
that had once marked the place df the
reef from which the storm bad tori
the great floe, and here- our three
Eskimos busied themselves in building
a comfortable igloo or snow house,
which would protect them from the
weather, and two smaller ones were
made alongside, one to store the meat
to keep it from the hungry dogs and
the other to protect the dogs them
selves. It is very seldom that these
people ever build such snow. kenneli
'for' their dogs, however cold or storm.
the weather, but now the flying spray
freezing on their*fur and the want of
something to do to distract their atten
tion from theit perilous, situation, de
termined them to build a snow house
for these animals.
Their war vessel seemed to be of
the ram order, and of the most beliger
ent closs, too, for it went crashing fore
and aft into every other ship of its owil
kind, without regard to its size, and
the Eskimo crew -were often regaled
witn a view of a boreal battle in which'
missiles of ice, a score of times greater
than Krupp ever dreamed of, were
hurled backwatid and forward by the
contending floes as they came crashing
together.
The snow hut built and everything
being housed, they had- time to look
their situation fairly in the face, and it
was not a very inviting one. The
danger of life, it is true, was not ai
gresit as less experienced persons might
infer from such a situation, and thuese
great ice fields, tough as oak, in the
depth of an Arctic winter. very sel.
dom went to pieces, and when they did
it was because two greater lloes would
crush them between .them, and on'tc
the surviving fields the men would es.
cape. But if the storm continued long
they might get so far away that the
lighter southern winds would nevei
waft them back, or at least before the
summer was on them and the ice be.
came so rotten that it was likely to g<
to' plecos in a storm from the mere mo
tion of .the waves and be reduced t<
suchi small cakes thait each and all
were constantly overturning, so thai
life would be as unsare as that of a bu~
on a lot of floating sawdust in. a rapid,
Again, their ship might bringJinto
foreijdn port from which, thougli safe,
they could never return, or only aftei
a long interval; for there was a casi
arg'ng the Ywillik Eskimo, a mau
wdom they had left that very morning,
whio, some twenty years before, ha]
been carried away by an ice floe aru
landed three weeks later on the south,
era shore of Southamptoni Island, anm
from there had been a long, lonesom4
year and a half getting from the natives
or that strange land back ,to his be,
loved iwillik, where his frIends anm
relatives had long sInce given him uj
as having joined that great Eskim<
mninorty. in t.healnd wherea th fourn
taiQa tld 'pure seal ;ult an
houses were bWtit of blocks ot
reindeer and walrus meat.
The only chaace of sudden,
Was in oaae thie co should, in
ta,collistons ,it 4 otliers, spili
through their anow house 'au
then in the sea. Btt '
for a violent collision was hourly
lug less, for tpward the weather
long~line of other icecakes torn r
the wide slore t' or blown out oiio O
big inlet wasg o i ing a vertlable
pack-or a. lioug but continuous ett
of ice cakes of all sizes, from the 14
est uoes ' to the smallest^ pieces,
oftentimesbut a . few, hundred, y
wide, but a number of-mlies in 1r1
-and whorerthe .iokf'fornti
has built as good a breakwater to a
the furious waves and breakeraofitc
as any eveer d'ailshd by tlie art of dii
zwasyonce on a -sailing vessel 11t
, uotf Ur en's . strait and ia
owtvling itornrtbat aiude it irposai
for a land Orab like nyself to keep
feet under tne on the deck. We we
tacking up. and down in front of a
pack tryidg to get through, an atte
that would have aeen suicide if we.
plunged into the grinding ice. A lr.
was Qually found, however
through it we sailed, finding ourselve
between two ice packs a half a mil
apart, but extending for miles.
length, and ae soQU as we got throngt
the sea' was smoothed down to halt itt
dimensions. Getting through thenex
ice pack the water -was as still as
river, although a wind was blowing
that sent us plowing along at.iwelvd
knots an hour.
By 2 o'clock p. m. darknessliad set
in and they were at their wits' end to
know what to do for a light althoughh
they had all the walrus blUtbber needed
from which to eit ke0ih l, but they
were without itlat eQ of a lamp
i n w hin h t o ' b t"n e k - h w
- ever, ovei'come th by, asbioning one
from the inch thick ide of the walrus,
sewing it with sea!-31 n thongs cut
frsm the dog hargess,/ while wicking
was had by. uttin ljIp.Ikqueesik's
woolen tobacco llag, wd atches were
plentiful enough anLg all my hire
ward the head of- the list. In a little
while, therefore, a bright enough fire
foV light was hid, though hardly strong
enough to heat the house to.any extent,
and they were sitting on the enow bed
discussing the dismal prospects. For
supper they had raw frozen walrus
meat, but this was not so bad, as it
was often the staple diet of their meals,
and even at homo they could- only ex
pect to supplement it with some hot
soup and a piece of steamipg walrus
flipper. The -principal wprry about
their meat supply was quantity, not
quality, and the uhances of renewing
that supply when the present gave out;
and this latter did not look po genera'
ly-bad as the floating ice packs were
known to contain more.seal and walrus
than the solid shore ice, as they had
often remarked when hunting on the
latter. Should they go off their own
little ialand of Ie, however, to hunt
for an animal the drifting waters
might .separate them from it so that
they could niever return, and this pro
bability would confine their hunting
tours to a very limited area. So, take
it all inali, however dark and dismal
their otitlo.ok seemed.'these were many
brlaaht possibilities breaking through
the black clouds, and after the first
depression was over they looked at
things in a far more cheerful light.
They went to sleep early to saYe their
oil, curling up on the snow bed in their
reindeer clothes -a not unusual circum
stance, for they often stay out at night
to hunt, building a small igloo to sleep
in-the only change being to withdraw
their arms from t,heir sleeves and fold
them on their bare breasts, a common
practice among these people when in a
chilly, fireless snow houise or taking'a
nap in their clothes. It was almost
certain that they would not be missed
the first night at the village snflicient
to cause alarm, as nightly absences of
hunters aret frequent when. watchinga&
seal hble or when success ..ias 'taken
them far away.
Here they weke, then, sailing away
in the dead of night with A lighlted
ship that could carry thousauQds of
tons of .freight, and this, too, In .the
very midst. of an Arctip winter and
despite the assertions'of many news.
papers of the Atlantic seaboard that,
jealous0t their (Iaiadign couisina and
their prpqese 4lpdon baY'.h ute tc
to England, have constantly agserten
that 'it is only, .navigable four month
or two during very favorable summers.
IThe stormy nilhiL 14re"pii its weaty
length, and *heh at 10 o'clock the
day bpgen brgakaog there 18 06
sign Of cessation in the stormy gehatter,
but they could .hear the outlying ice
pack growling,, li'ke'di4intt' thunder,
though their lititle Island ot ite 'was
still Intact and in comparatively smio6)lh
water,
To their agreeable surprise the signi
4p {$3t0: .?Utter, and somne three
t =length of the sho
stOrm cease. and the'early
ave them a' breeze the
'coupled w t the
r ntin ,i th ,b y, sent
and hp e, .tho 6ap
be. Polar seas. Late
} ; fore ve i,the dogs
t presence, and they
go o t , e their meat. A sculle
ni .1tRxie dIgs, an unslccessful
was fired, and bruin went scurry
.il a 'awayywith the dogs in hot pursuit,
ne' of tem never cdtning - back, but.
.?sretle he was lost on a cake of ice
: the darkness by its floating away,
Stlie bear made a meal of him was
:fver.known..
"'All: that night the long southern
swells of the sea broke on the ice in a
pesant air that ,aug of home, and
p?ayb3fore t to niight set,in-they
tAli ; 4 out tf .tops of the high bills
of North Hudson's.bay in the clear blud
distance. Tfit night their floe struck
.,ometbin fd the light grinding of
the ed showed plainly that many
piece ce were keeping them cow
on the cuter edge of the pack, atld
'his shoit1y ,ceased it was evident
h 9tlier incoming ice was between
thei and the sea, and that they were
stranded on the shore ice or not fat
from iv,
Next rning.'slight revealed to them
that they Zad a mile of 'pack' to cross,
hichi tl arfiilly did, leaving the
walrus to keeb house, and this brought
them on the shKe ice -me fi teen miles
from home, and If ever Eskimo dogs
were whipped and 'poufnded this team.
ertainly was, and nightfall saw them
rome giving a description of their peril
*u :adventures, trying to prove 'the
uavigabiltty of the Hud8on's bay route
in the depth of an Arctic winter.
Growing Tall by Exercise.
k:xerciseis,gepprallp taketi Without
any direct reference to the increase of
height. Th'us it often happens that the
gynatto; feua chletfy indulged in
ta,nd'ratier to dheok thau'to inorease the
larly to the lif ting Y' hbaby V wigh,
the use of large dunb bells, involving
comparatively slow movemebts, and all
exercises which teud to hlrorease? the
sutp6rtini poier,of the spine - and the
leg boner, even though they may. be
exercises primarily directed to increase
the musculat power of the arts. . Yall'
lug exerqises, though they tend to in-.
crease the development of the arms in
length as well as in girth (round the
forearm chiefly), do. not on the whole
favor the development of length of
limb. n4ilors, who from boyhood up
ward are much employed in pulling and
hauling, are on the average short men,
though often the development- of
strength and weight resulting from
their active open air lives is remarkable.
We oftener see among them than in
other classes brawny cheets, shoulders
and upper arms in company with lower
limbs whieh by comparison appear
almost stunted. On the other hand,
mOn engaged in hunting, or in occupa -
Lions re uirln'g much walking, runming,
leaping u~d the likes acquire well de
veloped lower limbs,, and are on the.
average taller than other classes.
The End o1r t,he World to Come -This
Year.
Nostradamus was a celebrated phyai
cian anid astrologer lb France, wvho
died in 1500, aged 00 years. His pre
dfction, made in Latin over 300O years
ago, was that this eiid of the, ..world
would come in the year in whichu Good
F~riday came on St. George's Day, and
Easter occurred on St. Mark's Day and
Corpus Christi caie on St. John's Day,
all of which coincidences occur this
year. in regard to the time for the
for the fulfillment of these great proph
ecies nd thoughtful observer will say
that the astrologer was very far wrong,
for the signsaclearly indicate the begin
ning of the end. Within the next cen
ttgry v's may see -the downfall of despot
lame in Europe, the desolating wars,
the great tribulation,, the rile of comn.
munism, nihilism and anarchy, the dis
solving of the' B3ritish Empire, the
division of' her landed estates following
the confiscation or her church property,
the fall of the Turkish power and the
restoration of' the Jews.to Palestine..
A Newv Marriage Form.
The Judge of a New ,York District
Court, ap a marriage, cer'emony which
he recently performed, hntroduced a new
form, which will,it is prophesied, please
the ladies. Hes asked the lride If she
promised to ,o'Jey her busbiand in all
things "right and reasonable" to which
she responded promptly "1 do.' "Miay
your last days on this earth be your hap.
pie , and may you love and cherish
Se other always," was the patting
ben diction of the Judge, after pro
noun lng the couple hNRband and wifa~
HAZING AND ITS ltIMLDY.
(lhe Evil Being Traditional and Deep
Seated Retluiro 11Heroic Treat
menut.
The evil is deep seated anld has its-tap
,odt deep in the past. t is traditional.
rhe oldet colleges if tly'y ;are blessed;
ire also cursed' with traditions. And
sollege traditions are easily born, and
lie,bard. : These disorderly tendenoies
tre not only inherited from the, past in
his country, but from the. mother
mountry also. The extent of. their sur
vival there,may be seen in the basings,
Ightings and midnight maraudings
with which "Tom Brown at Rugby" ts
verweigbed. They have survived,
with additions, in Amdrican colleges.
Miembers of advanced classes promptly'
hstruct the younger el$s1es R what is
ilways done, and what, therefore, they
4re bound to do. The newer men as
piro to be as "smart" as their prede.
eessors, and so they must have hazing,
rushes, "bloody Monday," freshman
beer, reqiprocal hornings, 'small ma
raudings;.and- what not? The, effect of
these foolish traditions at. one partion
lar stage of the college -dourse, In the
sudden but transient transformation of
a considerable number of well minded
and well mannered young men is some.
thing as unfailing as it is surprising and
otherwise unaccoutable.
In other communities it is the ac.
knowledged rule that the whole popula
tion is banded together to detect . and
punish wrongdoing. In college com
munities the case is reversed; the com
bination Is to prevent detection. It is
seldom the case that one student 'will
give information concerning another that
might lead even to his reformation. And
when it bebomes apparently a queption
of penalty, not only will young men
of no principle disregard the truth, but
men of high principle will generally
leave college sooner than aid in rectify
ing the wrong. In one case, where 'It
became alike necessopy' for the safe
of father $id son th4t the father ahov
know of a notorious habits of int -
cation i which the son had fa
he we way convinced ro .
j%5itca ne.by'the fYcuityl ouu
hemhi ihr# 4)ass.
niatea that the statements ntruie
It shord be said, however, that one' of
these classmates after graduation, had
the manhood to come to a college officer
and day: 6I lied to Mr.--." . ,
In another instance, a case of assault
upon a professor's'house, a whole class,
including, with one, exception, all its
bast men, were induced to agree before
hand that they would not answer any
question as to their own wherabouts al
a given.time-though many of themr
were quietly studying in their rooms
lest the circle of inquiry should thus
be narrowed toward the offenders; and
they submitted, to ' suspension rathe:
than answer the question. Illustrative
facts of this kind might be accumalat.
ed to any extent. But it is not neces
sary. - Every collete man can' bear
witness to the 'gbneral state. of the
case.
After young men have been fully an1
falily warned that-they will be hek
amenable to the law, of the. land, thE
application of the law is not to be with
held. This remed j has somnetimes beer
applhed with excellent effect. In one
case the victim waited till his torment
ors disclosed themselves and brough1
him"b5fore a magistrate. -One of then
proved to be a son of the chief justicE
of the -state, and .the settlementi .wau
easy and lasting. In another collegE
two young men, under arst for grosi
violence, fled and never put in an ap
pearance. again.
In a third institution certain- collegE
rioters, sons of 'wealthy parents, lay it
'the locku19 while their class was gradu
ating. Theseo are hard iremedles, to thu
.last degree undesirable, but the abuse
are still' more undesirable, and if at:
'other educational influorices prove in,
'effe'ctual theti the law must be thu
educator. The application of thu
'remedy in a few iristances wouk
render further application unnecessary,
When Qa*nlne Will Breakc up a, Cold
It la surprising, says a family phuysi
clan, how certainly, a cold may be brok
en up by a timely dose of quinine. Whieu
first symptoms mnake their appearanc,e
when a little languor, slight hoarseness
and ominous, tightening . of thue nasa
memb1:aie followv exposure to draughti
or sudden ohill by.wevt, five groins o
'this useful alkaloid are sufficient hi
many cases to end the trouble. But I'
*must be (lone promiptlyd "If the goldoi
moment passes, nothing suffices to stoj
'the weary sneezing, handkerchief rMaini
red nose and woe bogone looking' per
feds that certainly f6dllowv
.e le acknowledged that. in. Zoolog'y
botany physiolopy and anthropology
German contribut ons form the onl:
scource of. new Information In thi
German laboratories alone disceverie
of eminent results age made almos
daily, In which respect E~ngland canno
compare with Germany.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
A mind quite vacant is a mind dis
tressed.
A passionate woman's love is always
overshdaowed by her fear.
People are never so fortunate, or so
unfortunate, as they suppose themselves
to be.
While inan was Innocent he was like
ly ignorant of nothing that imported
im to know.
You may take the greatest trouble,
and by turning it around find joys on
the other side.
Blame is safer than praise. In gen
eral, every evil to' which we do not suc
cumb is a benefactor.
Affection blinds the judgn.om,, and
we can4ot.expeot an equitable award
where the judge is made a party.
Want of prudence is too frequently
the want of virtue; nor is there on earth
a more powerful advqpatp for vice than
poverty.
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man
may not look to sow and reap at once,
but-must prepare liusiness, and so ripen
It by degrees.
God himself. does not speak- prose,
but communicates with us by hints,
omens, inference and dark resemblances
in objects lying all around us.
No moral teaching, be. it ever so
sound, no precepts, be- they ever
so wise, will avail to counteract
the powerful influence that emanates
unconsciously from character and ex
amplo.
It was the policy of the good old gen
tleman to make his children feel that
home was the happiest place in the
world; and 1 value this delicious home
feeling as one of the choicest gifts a
parent can bestow.
Nature uveo vw. ev tame and
sea$on some beauties of its own,
and from morning to night, as
from the cradle to the grave, is' but a
succession of changes, so gentle and
easy that we can scarcely mark, their
progress.
Hospitality, as a virtue. has always
been both preached and practiced. As
an art, it has been and is neglected.
Men, and women are only begin
ning to- ind out that in the wise
exercise~of hospitality lie some of the
pleaaantest possibilities of human exis
ten.
o keeps the heart always at full
Sgtves rise to-oppression of
the b in and senses. It confuses
the wU le man. It robs . the -stomach
of nervous ' poWbr, and, digestion
being impaired, the failure of life be
gins at once. Those- therefore who
are born with this passion should give
it up.
Every man desires success, and the
strength of his desire is shbwn in the
earnestness of his efforts; the difference
lies in the objects in which he desires to
succeed. Earnestness is good, succgss
is good; what we have to watch is thit
we are-earnest in a worthy cause; then
our succehe will be justly a matter of
rejoicing.
There is no event in life which does
not carry its own lesson; and that lesson
ought to be recognized by us a#, the
best that we can learn at that . particu
lar moment; Failure in any enterbride
is just as much a fact as success in that
same enterprise would hav9 been.. But
it rests with each person to make every
fact in his experience a factor in' his
progress. - -
It is when we have been unmistak
ably wronged that we have an oppor.
tunity to show a Cbristian spirit. s5o
long as others treat us with fairness,
with kindess, and with courtesy. It is
not easy for us to show a spirit of for
bearance, of charity, or of* comnmend
able gentleness. Even a godless hea.
then would not be likely to resepat an
affront which he had not received. A
Christian's best.opportunity of ehowing
that he is a Cbristian is when jie Is n
der some gross provocation .to bear
himself in an un-Uhtistian manner.
No one can ever be harmed 'so griev
ously by wrong doing, as ' the wrong
doer himself is thereby wronged.. .if
we only could seethe harm which has
come, by his wrong doing, to him who
has wronged' us most grievously, we
should so be moved with pity toward
him that oue cry In his 'behalf would
be, "]3ather, forgive him, -as freely psa
I do." It is only our blindness to the
injury which reatits to him who injures,
another, that can malre uts unforgiving
toward such a one in the light oe 'Qod's
trdth concerning the consequences of
evil to the evl-doer.
Doing,right for the sake of being
happy, Is quite a different thing from
being happy because of doing iright.
And yet how many there are whose
highest -aim is, to be happy, or to
make others hapipy, instead 'of doing
right and hfelping othefs to do right.
My husband will agree to that, be.
cause hQ will go anything to make me
happy," said a trustful.but.unthinking
wife; as though that' fact was really
to her husband's credit. Right Is never
a wropa motive. ..eekidg happiness
may, at any,time, be a questionebe mo
tive.
If we never had a twinge' of' bodily
pn,we a ould be unable,to. sympa.
thizeWith hos 'who aise in pain. If
We'pevneWe'orrosw in qur own ex.
pelnwer could' not eagter under
standi ly into the feeliegs of those
who ar:e in sorrow. Le us,, therefore,
acceptour experienceS of pain and of
sorroW~ as helps to us in our priilege
and duty of helping otliers. It Is be,
cause God wottld make us helpers to
others, and wq uld help others' through
us,ethat h4 pefmits its to siiffev and to
Inur in ess for this ministry to
he.Hence we baVe reason to be
bgrateful for athose very experienc.e
which it is ba'aleet for us to welcome or
to bea.r.