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Home My WebLink AboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-4-5, Page 7'.SMELT WEsurars grottiogIMMS 114rfill OR A soztioszet TENURE. 'AT! Dr. Talmage /Repeats se Good Sormet, on the impormace of Events whine, Seemed, at the Time, mono invest nincont and unimportant. Ala.., March 11 1894.--Rev.T. DeWitt Talmage, D,D., who he now visiting the south, selected as the sub- ject of to -day's sermon, "Unappreciated Services," the text being taken from IL Con it, 33; "Through a 'window, in a basket, was tE let down by the wall." Damascus is a city of white and glis- tening architecture, , soinciethnee mailed "the eye of ,the east," sometimes called "a pearl surrounded by emeralds," at one talg, time distingnished for swords of the best niaterial, called Damascus blades, and upholstery of richest fabric, called • danmsks. A. hersemen by the name of Paul, riding to*ardt this city, had been thrown from the saddle.. The horse had •-dropped under a flash from the sky, • which at the same time was so bright • it blinded the rider for many days, and 1 }think so permanently injured his • eyesight that this defect of vision be) came the thorn in the flesh ho after' ward speaks of. He stetted for Damao- cus to butcher Christians, but after that ',blood fell from his horse, he was a charts- . ed man'and preached Christ in Damas- cus till the city was shaken to its feun- . dation. The mayor gives authority- for his ar- rest, -and the popular cry is, "Kill him! ifnill him!" The city is surrounded by . a high wall, and the gates are watched by the police lest the Silician preacher, escape. Many of the houses are - built on the wall, and their balconies project- • ed clear over •and hovered above the . gardens outside. It was customary to lower baskets out of these balconies and pull up fruits and flowers from the gar- dens. To this day visitors at the mon- astery of 'Mount Sinai are lifted and let down in baskets. Detectives prowl- • ed around 'from house to house looking for Paul, but his friends hid him now In one place, now in another. He is no • coward, as nity incidents in his life i 'demonstrate. But he feels his 'work Is not done yet, and so he evades assess- • ination. "Is that preacher, here?" the foaming mob shout at one house door. i'ls that fanatic here?" the police shout . at another house door. Sometimes on the street incognito he passes through a crowd of clenched fists, and sometimes he secretes himself on the house -top: At last the infuriated populace get on the track of him. They have positive - eyidence that he is in the •house of • e of the Christian, the Weeny; , Of whose home reaches over the - will. i'Here he is! Here he is! The vocif- • eration and blasphemy and , howling of the pursuers tun at the front door. They break in. "Fetch out that gospelizer, . and let us hang his headon the :city gate. Where is he?" The emergency ' Was terrible. Providentially there was . good stout basket in the house. Paul's ! o the edite of the balcony on the wall, riends fastened a rope to the basket. . aul steps into it. The basket is lifted and then while Paul holds on to the rope with both hands, his -Wends lower away, carefully and - cautiously; slowly • but surely, further dawn and further down, until the basket strikes the earth and the apostle steps out, and afoot and alone, starts on that famous mission- ary tour, the story of which has aston- ished earth and. heaven. Appropriate entry in Paul's diary of travels ; "Through a window in a basket was it ' let down by the wall." Observe, first, on what a elender ten- ure great results hang. The ropemaker who twisted that cord fastened to that lowering basket never. knew how much 4 would depend ;to Ifie strength of itHow • if it had be.oh broken and the apostiehi life had boon dashed out? What would have, loomme of the Christian Church 7 air that magnificent missionary work in ' Pampholia, Capadocia, Galatia, Mace - ;Ionia, would never have been memo • plished. All his writings that make up 4 • so indispeusable and enchanting a part of the New Testament tonna neei . have been 'written. The story of resur rection would never have been so gio• • riously told as he told it. That example of heroic and triumphant endurance al ' Phillippi, in the Mediterranean eurocly don, under flagellation and at his be heading, would not have kindled thi courage of ten thousand martyrdoms But the rope holding that basket, hag pouch depended on it. So, again and • again, great results have hung on what • seemed slender circumstances. Did ever ship of many thousand teal ' crossing .the sea have such importa,ni ; . passenger as had once a boat of leaves ; • from taffrail to stern only three or foul feet, the vessel made rwaterproof by 1 • ' coat of bitumen, and floating on thi , Nile with the infant lawgiver of Oil ; —Jews on board? What if some croco ' , dile should crunch it? What if some of - the cattle wading in for a drink should sink it? Vessels of war sometimes car ry forty guns looking tbrough the port ,holes, ready to open battle. But that • tiny craft on the Nile seems to be arra ' .ed with all the guns of thunder that bombarded 'Sinai at the law -giving. Od that fragile craft sailed how much cot historical importance! r The parsonage at Epworth, England) ' Is on fire in the night, and the t athel , rushed through the hallway for the res. 1 cue of his children. Set:en children ard ; • out safe on the ground, but one re mains in the consuming building. Thai ' roue wakes and, finding his bed on fire and the bUilding crumbling, comes to , 4the 'window, and two peasants make a ladder of their bodies, one peasant -standing on the shoulder of the other, .and down the human ladder ,the boy , descends—John Wesley. If you would know how much depended on that lad - oder of peasants, ask the millions of Methodists on both sides of the sea. .Ask their mission stations all around -the world. Ask the hundreds of thous- , •ands already ascended to loin their foun- -der, who would have perished but for ; faloithe living stair of peasant's shoulders. ' 'An English ship stopped at Pitcairn . *land, and right in the midst of sur , 14r:sending cannibalism and squalor, the Passeng,ers discovered a Christian colony i of churches and schools and beautiful i homes and highest style of religion and 4 'civilization. Por 'fifty years no • mission- " •ary and no 'Christian influence had land- . ed there. Why this oasis of light amid c 1 a desert of heathendom? Sixty years 4 ' before, a ship had met disaster, and ' , one of the goiters, unable to save,. any - Ching else, went to his trunk' and to* out a, Bible, width his mother had Waco ed there, and swam ashore, the Bible held in his teeth. The Book was read on all sides until the rough and vicious population were evangelized, and a •Ohurch was started, and an enlightened commonwealth established, and ' the world's history has no more brilliant page than that which tells of the trans- formation of o nation by one book. it did not seem of 'much importance wheth- er the sailor continued to hold the book •in hie teeth or let it fail in the breakers, but upon what small circumstance de - pearled what infant, remilto. r Practleal infereimei There are to in - 'Significances in our livers. The MitalLeSt thing IS part of a magnitude. Infinity triade u0 of infinitesimals. Great things an aggregation of small things. Benne- it gem manger polling oil o Star_ in. Oho' g .-- Wade& artf. "One 'book In it drenched sailor's mouth the evangelization or a inultitutic One boat of papyrus on the Nilo frolohted with events for all ages. The fate of Christendom in a basket let down from a window on the wail. What you do, do well. If you make a rote, niake it strong and true, for you know not how much may depend on oour workmanship. If you fashion a boat let it be waterproof, for you know not e-nio may sail in it. If you put 0 Bible in the trunk of your boy as he 1 oes front home, let it be beard in your ItraTreerallehtil as tilli7b1Ortell/ewtirgtsgensatt- or carried In his teeth to the Pitcairn beach. The plainest Mania life II ag island between two eternities—eternItg rittl rtioPilticiOirlatoatiunctingh19htailleigwer5.144 casual, the accidental,* that which mere ly happened so, are parts of a great plan, and ' the rope that lets the fuer tive apostle from the Damascus wall lship of the °bur& in the northeen i the cablthat holds to its moorinth e g storm of the centuries. • Again, notice unrecognized and tua- recorded services. Who spun that rope? Who tied it to the basketnitho steadied the illustrious preacher as he stepped into it? Who relaxed not a muscle of the arm or dismissed an anxious look from his face until, the basket touched the ground and discharged ito maga- ficent cargo? Not one of their names has come to us,but there was no work done that di ay n Damascus or in all the earth compared with the importance of their work. What if they had in their agitation tied a knot that could slip? What if the . sound of the mob at the door had led them to say: "Paul must take care of himself, and we will take N care of ourselves," o, no! They held the rope, and in doing so did more for the Christian church than any thou- sand of us will ever accomplish. But God knows and has made eternal re- cord of their undertaking. And they know. How exalted they must have felt when; they read this better to the Romans, to the Corinthiatug to the Gal- atians, to the Ephesians, jto the Phil- ippians, to the Colossians, to the-Thes- saloninas, to Timothy, to Titus, to Philemom to the Hebrews, and when they heard how he walked out of prison with the earthquake unlocking the timer for him, and took comnaand' of the Alexandrian corn ship when the sailors were nearly scared to death, and preach- ed 'a sermon that nearly shook Felix off his judgment seat. I hearthe uteri and women who helped him down through the window and over the wall talking iti private over the matter, and saying: "How glad X am that we effected that rescue. In coining timer; others may get the glory of Paul's work, but. noone' eliall rob us of the satisfaction of knw- ing that we held the rope." ; ere are said to be about iiixty-nitie, thousand ministers of religion in this country. Aboot, fifty thousand, I war- rant, came from early homes whieh had. to struggle for the necessaries- of ' life. The eons of rich banker's and -nierchitato genonally become bankero and, merc- hants. The most of those whobecoie miniaters are the sons of tided who had terrible struggle to. get their' every- day ' bread. The collegiate and theo- logical' education of that bon took every lumny, from the parental table for eight 'years. Tlie other • children were ;note 'serially apparelled: The sort 'at college ' every little while got a bundle trona' home. In it were the socks that mother, had knit, sitting up late at night, , lino tight not as good as it once was. And 'there were also some delicacies. from ti ,e eister's hand for the voracious Appetit4 of a hungry studeat ) The /ears go by, and the son' hie beeneordained and is • preaching °Otte glorious Gospel, and a great revival '. homes, and souls by scores and hundreds accept the gospel from the lips of that young preacher, said father and mother, quite old now, are visiting the son at the village parsonage, and at the close of a Sabbath of* mighty blessing, father and mother retire to their room, the son lighting the way and asking Omni if he can do anything to make them more 'comfortable, saying that if they want anything in the night just to knock on 'the wall, And then all alone father and 'mother talk aver the gracious influences of the day, and say: "Well, it is worth .all we went through ta educate that boy. It was a hard pull, but we held on until the work was done. The world may ifiot know it, but, mother, we held the tope, didn't we?" And the voice, treino ulms with joyful emotion, responds: "Yes, father, we heldthe rope. I fuli my work is done. Now Lord lettest 73tou Thy servant depart' in peace, for, "Pshaw," says the father,"I never felt none eyes have seen Thy salvation "1 ao much like living in my life as now. I want to see what that fellow is gonit to do, he has begun so well." ' 1 Oh, men and women here assembled! you brag sometimes how you have fought your way ia the world, but I think there have been helpful Influences, that you have never fully acknowledg- ed. Has there not been some influence in, your early or present home that the world cannot see? Does there not reach to you front among ' the New Englion,d hills or from western, prairies, or from southern plantation, or front English or Scottish or Irish home, a cord of influence that has kept you right when you would have gone astray and which, after you had made a, crooked track, recalled yon? The ropo. may be as long ,as thirty years or five hundred iniles long or three thonsand miles long, but hands that went out of mortal sight long ago still hold the rope. You want a very swift horee, and you need to rowel him with sbarp- est spurn' and to let the reins lie forme, upon the neck, and to give a ehont to a racer, if you are going to ride out of reach of your racither's prayers. Why, it ship crossing the Atlantic in seven days can't sail away from them! 41.! sailor finds them on the lookout no he takes his place, and finds theni on the; mast as he climbs the ratlines to dis- entangle a rope in the tempest, and gods them swinging_tin the haniMAtit irslien he turns in. Why aot be frank, and ackaowledge it—the most of us would long ago have been dashed to pieces had not gracious and loving: hands steadily and lovingly and might- ily held the rope. 1 But there must come a time when we shall find out who these Damas- cenes were who lowered Paul in the. baoket, and greet them and all those. who have rendered to God and the world unrecognized and unrecorded ser- vices. That is going to be one of tne glad excitements of heaven—the hunt - rig up and picking out of those who did great good on earth and got nol redit for it. Here the church has been going on nineteen centuries, and this s probably the first sermon ever roe- ognazin.g the services of the people itt that Damascus balcony. Charles G, Pinney said to a dyiug ()Mistime: "Give nty love to St. Pahl when you meet him." When, you and, i meet him, as we will, I shall ask him, to haro- duce me to those people who got hint out of the Dem:mous peril. Once for thirty-six bouts we expected) every moment to go to the oottom of the ocean. The waves struck through; the skylights and rushed clown into the; hold of the ship and hissed against the boilers. lt was an, awful time; but by the blessing of God and the faithful- ness of the men, in charge, we came out Of the cyclone and we arrived ato home. Each one, before leaving the! shits, thanked Cent Andrews. 1 do' not think there was a omit or woman' that wont off that obit) without thank-' ng Capt. Andrews, and when, years, iter, 1 heard of his de_a_tii, 1 Wag ellen to trite, att tetter of londolonges to his fanniy itt leverpoiii. nivertlapen recognized the goeduess, the courage the kindness of iiapt. Andrevni; but il oceuts to Inc now that wd never thank' ed the engineer. Me stood away delve in the darkneset amid the hissrng fuo dohig his whole duty. Nobody thanked the engineer, but God, recog- lilted his heroism and his continuanor and his fidelity, and there will be just as high rowaed for the engineer who worked out or sight as the captain who stood on the 'bridge Of the ship 111 th OlidSt of the lacrivling tempest A. Christian woman was seen going along the edge of a wood every even- tide, and the neighbors in the country did not understand how a norther with so man,y cares and anxietieo should waste so much tizoe as to be icily, sauntering out evening by evening. .11 was found out aftervrard that she went there to pray for her household, and while there oae eveuing she wrote that beautiful hymn, famous in all ages for cheering Christian hearts: I love to steal a tvhile away' Prom every cumbering earei And spend the hours of setting day, dn humble, grateful prayer. 'Shall there be no reward for such unpretending, yet everlasting, service? We go into long sorernies to rat ail to present, and that lo better an at we will bo able to recognize pi heaven, when there is cots reason wii all—God will introduce ort. We have them all pointed out trou would hot be guilty of the impoliteuess of hav- ing friends in your parlor not introduced, and celestial politeness will demand that we be made acquainted Alth all the heavenly household. What rehearsal of old times and recital of Nth ring reminise, cences. If others fail to oiye introduen tion, God will take us through, and be- fore our firet twenty-four hours irr heaven—if it were calculated by earthly timepieces—have passed, we shall meet and tall: with more heavenly celebrities" than in our entire mortal state we met with earthly celebrities. Many who made great noise of usefulness will • alt on Om last seat by the front door of the heavenly temple, while right up within arm'reach of the heavenly' throne will be many who, though they could not preach themselves or do great exploits for God, nevertheless held fhid rope. Come, let us go right up and accost thou on this circle of heavenly thrones. Sure- ly, they must have killed in battle a raillion men. Surely they must have been buried with all the cathedrals sounding a dirge and all the towers of uli. the cities' tolling the national grief. Who art thou, mighty .one of heaven ? "I lived by choice the unmarried daugh- ter in a humble home. that I might take care of my porents In their old age'sod I endured without complaints all theta quertilousness and ministered to, all their *ants for many years." • Let os pass round the circle of throne,. Who rot thou, nrighty one of heaven 7 "I was. for thirty years a Christian 'W- oad, kad suffered all the while, occaso tonally writing it note of sympathy for those vrprse off than 1, and was general confidant, of all those' who had trouble, and once in a while I was strong enough , to make a garment for that poor family In the back lane."' Pass on to another throne. Who art thou, thou mighty one of heaven? "I was the mother who - raised a whole family ef children for God., and they are out in the world,' Chastiaitmerchants,Clizistian mechanics, Christian, wives, .and tI have had full reward of all my toil. Let us pass on In the circle of thrones. "1 had a Sab- bath school class, and they were alwsod • tn my heart, and they all entered the tinOdom of God, and I am waiting for heir arrival." But who art thou the mighty ono tit heaven, on this tither 'throne? "lin time of bitter persecution I owned .ar house in Damascus, a house on the wallo A man who preached (thrift was hound- ed from street to street. and .1 hid hi from the assassins, r'and when I train them breaking in my house, and I coal no longer keep him eafely, 1 advised hi to flee for his life, and a basket 'w let down over the wall with the mal- treated man in it, and I was one wbo helped hold the rope." And I said, "1. that all ?" and he answered, "That I MI." And while I was lost in amoz meat, I heard a strong voice that sound - • ,ed as though it might once have bee hoarse from many exposures, •and Id nmphant as though it might have I b lionged to one of the martyrs, and , it , aid, "Not many mighty, but ma noble, are called, but God has chase the weak 'things tot the world to aon found the things which are mighty, tin 'haw things of the world, , and thin ;which are despised, bath God chosen, ' Tea and things which are not, to br!ngl to 'naught things which are, that no flesh should glory in His presence." And i looked to see from whence the voice krone, and lo r it was the very one dab° ha.d said, "Through a window in a bar ket was I let down by the wall." Henceforth think of nothing as insignifi- cant A little thing may decide your All. A, Cunarder plot out from England for, New York. It was well equipped, bag in pntting up a stove in the pilot box s nail was driven too near the compass. You know how that nail would affect thsl Imninten. Tha ship's officer, ineceiyed t that distracted compass, put the shlp 2001 miles off her right coarse, and suddenly' and the ship was halted within 'a the man on the lookout cried, "Land,I ho !" a ;few yards of her demolition on Nan- tueket shoals. A sixpenny nail came near wrecking a Clunarder. Small ropes hold !mighty destinies. A minister seated in Boston at his table, lacking a word, put his hand be- hind his head and tilts back his chair to think, and the ceiling falls and 'crushes the table, .and would have .crushed him. A minister in Jamaica, at night by the light of an insect, called the candle -By,. is kept from stepping over a premmce a hundred feet. P. 'hV. Robertson, the celebrated English 'clergyman, said that he entered thel ministry from a train of circumstances' started by the barking of a dog. Had the wind blown one way on a certain' clay, the 'Spanish Inquisition would have been established in England ; but it hie* the other war, and that dropped the tie cursed institution with seventy-five' thousand tons of shipping to the bettor* of the sea, or firing the splintered logs on the rocks. ' Nothing unimportant in your life or mine. Three ciphers placed on the right{ Eride of the figure one make a thousand and six ciphers on the right side of the figure one, a million,and our nothing- ness placed on the. right side m'ay be augmentation illimitable All the age" of time and eternity affected by the bare ket let down from it Damascus balcony I thithogmf Realism In. Merino Angeli.70 The wanitors who delight in ()erring out full-grown angelo put Itttle wings en them thot wauld not support a big bird. he ?spread of We wing should be proportionate to nee and weight. A body weighing 200 pound. should have a spread of wing ad foot. The width ot the wing shoidd be about one- sixth the spread rioted. . Winn TIIE.SPRING. When the springtime comes, gentler Annie, Our thoughts tO Joys would iodine, 1116 -wasn't with the corning of the ilOwiets Wo soo tho Fordo huntalii saw. , TOrtohista-I don't etippite Otry inie a the libile boye here hols Otrot neon A *bee? Boy (Ot the foot et the alitegooNO, tit, bub I'Ve felt One: , H.' hams Ott Mei .for 1 poem," raid the yeting MOO: "Which ehoWs at onoo," tit - lied the rattgathe recliner, "(bit you doiet SOW the drib bhlflg about peettyr" • IRS. :LESLIE ON LOVE-VAING. She's an Old Stager tied His S01111 Pointers to Gin. TE AUALITY. WO141'foOUI1W The Illooithenart ,avid tkekitcea—flewtk — Voting Winne* gnewohigeritrtrt." Han Who Wants to mirepose—Stie Thee • the World end -Dena It—A. Breezy Mum is the 0000pted ide ablate World that °our ago ti it raeloeltne etbrt butte 110201110X0WIVOly and that all Woqleil are timid creatures; need beg all sortie of proboo- Aria mid support, shel ter and encourigennen from men, wino mord Ing to fib, Paul; "Is the head et the women." Pinhole; he is; bet I must oey he doe not slwigie keep Ahead. ' Now, ray own theery is tint thii idea, sob up in the dark ogee, when women was either a slave or a advent to men, has, like many other respeottble ideas, become oat - grown and atitiquebed. The last 50 mare hove developed the astern ond 'nineties of women wili it good devil of the Judas:tans- ours transformatioa seen in a. patsy:steno when the clumsy heydea 'suddenly develops lute the fotry quest all pink geese, spangle', and diainend tipped wand, or, to put it more prettily, the offeot upen garden ef rods, whioh in on.e hour oi hot ounehine develop final half beam bads tato flowers ef glorious and fragrant meinuity. If Wile biono sing goes on for another century at the rate it hes began in this, TEE WOVEN OF TEE YEAR 2300 will wonder what thous quaint old *therm of the nineteenth citatory ,00uld,hove meant by objecting te women as phydoians, lawyers, preaoliers and legielaters. • " Why, just fancy man trying to menage the world without the &Woe and direction of Women It some fair student of 'that -day • will societal. And Another will add; • . And eleobriotty only in Ite infaoy ! What `vitalforee.was there be those days to keep the wohld moving at all ?" New, one of the emote' which thin has thus hr perpetuated and now is ready,to abjure end untradid is this of thgasewsrd- toe ef wemen and courage of M511 as dim tinotly opposed to each other. • I don% say bah what, In the use of it mause, it men is more warageona than IA woman, and perhaps , in that of it lien or tiger, although io the moldiest of msd dogs I reeently'hiil prim( Wait the -wanton is the more Warageout. I was visiting asubarbaa friend lately when it dog began to show ma' moos SYMPTOM cir HAMM* just la front of the house. My friend called from the window te the man working on the lawn. end :bads him go at .onos and throw it pelt of water over the peer beset. The men dropped his mower, came and looked at the deg and fletly refused to opprokoh him any nearer,•soyingin so many wordii that he way afield to do no. ' My friend reiterated the order, but to Iasi effect, when 'of it • sadden it brawny, rel armed woman clothed around the corner of Oho hoase, , pall he hand aied made for tile deg, who, after on'e dreadful harikward Oilier at her, rushed off and was no mere eeen. g When the etory was told at night to the mutter of the house,he cemmented on it .by smiting his knee, laughing delightedly and exolabning "Give ma it weal= every time, when I want water poured over it mad deg. Tinni den'b knew any better then to try it on. 'I hop you gave the cask $1; my dem" Then I Wee pretreat when it sweet little early hstred thing, a girl of same 20 years old, Blitzed it omega bloodhound by the nook and choked him off her int kitten, whir* he had °hued into the house—thet Is, I dean "appal° her tiny dimpled hands were really ; r • OATAlLE OLLOICETG HOS, ,bot he wae, , so inept -asset by the donotleis spitittabind them then he dropped the kin ,ten arid raii. When hie metier wet told of the exploit, he turned pale and exelaimed •islidy Gad I That dog has bobs it man be pieces before now I" The "triaged spring of actioa in it wo- man's suitors' is love, and the perfootly reok- lug mirage she will sometimes dieplsy 'mut have HO root in hive. She must feel the need of raving of suiting eerie one whose life is dearer to her then ' her Owe, or, like Jun of Aro eT Charlotte Cor- day, she mutt love her coantrY better than herself and deipise the death awaiting her ID its defence. In fad, the truth is that men's entrap is it matter of celoulatien, and ea may be nerved to order, rimy be indulged or re- obtained, may be sold ei the highest bidder, and if a higher ammo- tam, ba treareferred and resold without lijaring its queliby In the lush This Is nee is be taken as an minted Mt at winkled bat a elinple state, mend of fad as Meting to mercenary trooper and dialers of fertuae'and I only paint oat the foot al opposed ea that other fact jut mentioned—namely, that wornsn's courage springs only from the persons' feeling of the moment and HAS ITS BOOT IN Lame. Bab, after all, it is mere in the moral than the physical world that woman's war - age le moit clearly shown, mil also man's °marlin, and in no directioa more plainly (hon La matters of the heed. 'le ib nob so OV011 In your own experience or obser vett= ? A men and woman are nentuelly attached and ore desirous of further acquaintanee. Now, the theory Is—it theory entablished by man and contented to by women—that oho, whether meld or widow, modestly osmosis her preference, not oonfeesing it even to berselto and throwing all sorts of abortion:is in the way of her Wooer, ducal as avoiding his society, pretending not to understand hie advance's, iikilfully everting his attempts at it deolaratton, and when he ham vallanaly oencitiered the opportunity and ctonfessed bits love and offered lito hand and hood the traditional woollen is very molt sebeedshed ot the unforeseen deolaration and in it tremor of swoot unfasten utterly denies MO reolprooal fondues& Then it doge begins wheteln the mon, bold, aggressive, per - ,intent, demollehee the defoosive works Wherein the woman has *entrenched her- oelf, nronisete TO oAxie no or an fingerer, and finelly by moorage ansi pereeveranoe continuo all oppealtion end 'rename the prize. Well, now, I ask &geld Are theme the fade lo the °arm, 0 woman, se far as you ate able to testify ? You know they are not, I keen' they are A114 every wet:nut in the World, if stiffi chords) olvilleed to know anything, lerlOws they are nett The mon hi attraded to the woman, He h esti an introduction, perhaps, end the ti Aegtishibe,nbe begin! On, hie pert with it Vague feeling of diebrurit Wad authority'. He deft nob ig the vary Isiab goderetand %his reharesiog splits; and, altheasti ooafessiug gor °boron II he hill Mad *aid of whit oho moy develop. He him ---that is, all Unlade men have—sn innate mineolettaogs that the sobtletsy, the quieknees, the tinexpeotedlness of a wernan'a illan03aVrea IWO far out of melt of his comprehension, and he &waiter what oho Will do And .ay with very maoh the feeling Wabb mid Felten may hove Ind wiles they first eel) their "Wean engInell greing end steed by hi adadrhag awe, unoer- tiala whether Wile womderfal new agent they bad eteked Weald dogtrot' theta in Quo oplandld flash or deign to follow their lead and preve it blemettig to them and menithad. Stritld the Womoo thug approrteked feel disposed be TOE/• MT nen MUMS LOVER 0, Outland ',ways of doing so. —117 taught' at hie sentimental opaeohes. • She hale to aciderttend hie °lever oomplimente. She asks him treated and beetle% queettene wink an ate of aerephio itomeaaoe and in- • genuous' desire for informotten. She enter- tains him whit protium of his rivet. She ()tree notailtig for boetlag, which is the end and alai of hie being, sal dotes opera horde, of whieh he kitows nothIng. Then, when sshe SB31 MAL utterly doodled and defeated, when she sees, ta fad, that thowarage whtoh elmold have sustairied him is utterly exhensted, and he is about to seek atfeby in &gat, she fieehei open him it mile, it !mimeo's:et look,o BOBO, a goobers, a word, and he le at her feet again. • Perhep I, on the other hared, the woolen le ettraebed to the mon who hes hardly netteed her. She is net deloyel in her approsolut by aay senee of doabb or mys- any ; she Sleet not la the lust loak upon the object of her regarrl ea a sphyax or it mystery rihe is nob ab all %Enid ef him or of what he may do or sey ; .he understands his nature ea fee at hod as Idle need" to for her rested purposes, and she feel" in- eblactively bhst she has the Matte in her own heed ; eisa goes into the fray—thet ie to ray, tate • ...X, • THE SWEET COMBAT OS' LOVE —with calm awl assured courage, while he, me we have maid, is *amnion's with that feet • of the traknown whieh le the meet )dentodalizing of sill foam We will suppose that she ready dukes this men as a hus- band 'and does nett as in the former ease, with merely to amuse • herself with eon - Tiering Har ladies ate now alto - gather differed, and the theory held by ' of whit a woman is and Rhoda' be is Mood upon the ammo punned by it woman in love who Weals opera:monis results from her pavilion. , She new sheen herdl gentle, deride, tilrating for informetion upon any subjed the nem ftneies himself learned in, let 14 be boots itt horses, Aristotle or Stomata, 'perk or oilier or oloyd, or theosophy, or fimanee. Na =Weer whioh of thew er a hundred more does he discoaree upon it is the one staged. on which ;the hse ramp longed toha informed, ant she cembinee with the is/haunt ignerancie of the dove to much of the vine ihtelligeue and gat:skean of the gement that the man, FOOLED TO THE TOE OF HIS BENT, is presently reedy to deciere tint anon sweet and saggeadve sympathy is preoteelg what he has always needed ter enable him to worry. onithis Wen work, and if he oan only Bente 'it as hir own, dm -04 if the, deolarittion is nob 'to easily reached, if the mord* 'inherent cowardice holds him busk even .whIle his lave urges Min fin -wool, how the woman's oalm mint- age and self command enable her , to general the eltiistiein I 'HOW 'mildly she glves Mtn the sorted:tatty' Which hi hewer weld have fella for hitnist f ! How °sully and gently she guides the coaveriablom into the chennel, croadnoting.by.esty if eintione ruches to the desired haven I With what tact she inter- prets his awkward, stammering phrase; and ..prite into hie mouth tartreof spersoh which 'he dimly detered, yab never mild have origlnoted I And all the time like this sot - lag eammender , in battle, she lumen the baton in the. bends el the marshal, wha site he the shag owl , twice on. • killort the boar; 'ffill'iranVhb had the gloire, and the mem goes *AWAY ticiin the done of bebrothanwith it stop and mien of it orin- geovor esodi thinke to hianelf WHAT A.' DEUR') SWEET, GENTLE, DOCILE . LITTLE WiFg h9 10 to have, and what it okra, fellow ha Is to hove drewn that timid confeselon of love from her reinent lip. Life gess oa, and the oeuroge of women - hoed develeto la grander waye and mere 'mule forme. ' Rarities take wings, and the men, finding himself rinaborraesed, ehrinks crith mrtectrilac thnidity from failing the fact himself or from ooafeesing it to the world. Perhape he oven tries to hide it f ram the wife of Ma bosom, bub ehe smiles at the attempt at °vegan plaoks out the rieoio6, and holding it up in ceam, courage - 0114 hands allows it for the peer thing it is and bells as bravely how 10 1. to he oanquered and pub astde that the man plucks up heart of grace te meat the foe before whom he hod been racily to fall dowa in, abject Bub- intssion. Aticl if , , , FOVERTY—DEEP, DINE POVERTY— cornea it le wornen'a courage that mega it and mikes the beet of 11; it !a "he who dares to stow herseif to the world, hi their own world, III t111,4 garb and equipage and own - potions of p warty ; it is she who nye, vir• Wally, if not in words, My mihd to me a kingdom ie, and ielgris a queen within Wet kingdom un- disturbed by eke stupid comments of poor erode who wand comprehend her or her royalty. Perhaps the man breaka down utterly, far men are far mere prone to break than bend, and then nine times out of ten the wife finch mirage and abiliey be take up the laboring Oat that he has drepped and hemlines the bread -winner of the famtly. And with what brave and strong reeolation is that labor moomplished, even when the frail physique deme crumbling beneath the drain I Tho mother of one of our governor' rat up in bed when he was but a few days old and sewed upon boys' firemen for a clothing More that she might pay the woman who nursed her for one week more. Another woman, crippled from the weld down, rolled herself around the house in a °heir and did her own hongework bemuse' her hriebrind °Gold nob afford be hire it dooe. • And how many men have done as mole and never were heard of ? In other ways teo-10 there it disagreeo- hie truth to be told, er a caution given, or it waning conveyed in dotal or morel man tete, who has the courage la de these • thiogs ? le it a Women or a mon ? Quite Victoria has eight mettle of honor. When one of these ledies wartime she rer Winne it gift of $5,000 from the gamin. 4' Wm," meld the butgisr, after he had found (het the ludo was empty. °' this thing holm a whole lot of what it wao (Smoked tip to be. Briggs...4/st man otter there is Only appy *hen he is running hio bushiest into he ground. Viggo—HAW de you romount for that t Brigge—Ile mikes Orteelan wells. A CURSE IN TIP •CORSETo It is a .Body Deforming Instrument or Tatum. IfINISTERIS wawa vim, Mtg. HaizIngs it the Vioo-Progideltil 01 rhos Uwilliftir oaf i'revb.7011. (18,1E9Irrtillie°417a,41.1rhrilideror Pelts, Nor York. She it highly ooltivaind and has it comanndiug presems, itt a paper whioh she read be st recent temporgroan oenvention, she sold: 44. Who Immo body ha the mut beautiful of mated on:dealt. 16 lir &gong, delleate, supple and graceful. Vela applies pre-eminently to the female form bid while woman Se0131$ to be gothaled whit the way God made the trees, darters and Womb, she ie not ratisfied with the way He nude her body, is ohe seek" to impure, porter:Ilion, "She trusts God te shape and plan tho universe, but net her body, for while he put suffielent number of bones Wilde her bony W hsld it ereet, ohe, foreeetio mule supplement them with a layer of bales eats Nide bo change and improve the outside of the figare. So we have that &bowie/tidos known as the oared. History tell(' um that as tuition" have grown wealthy and extravert/Oa the people giving themmives up to exoesses of all ekvinendet,igthaetworeitlebbhhoaosibttaerz laootedfrivtienty, aandp. prow/led The consumption of Gored, Mt America, net !minding those imported!, is said to be sixty Milieu yearly. Wink does this arise for the date of morale in our oetintry ? It la said blab wetland drew keeps paoe with national history. Beth begin in eimplieity and end In volaptneaso "Tight laolag hoe been one of the high- watermorke of the self-indulgent parte& The body, when enamel la stiff bones ur tight lacing of any kind, Is ineapeble of graoeful motion, heolthial exercise and Ability to perform the Work of life. " The Venus of Milo,' the mob:mut- lodged standard of beouty of form, has * waist about twice) the girth of the madam belle, and the uadaiatiag lime and atirvea of the statue flaw into eaoh other, revealing great refinement of ourvature and imper- ceptible gradation. How different is the oared • made form* with Ifigh, atom shoulder', weld like am hour glue, hipir extremely prominent, an artificial and ungobaly attire I "11 your homes, °dine and dogs were subjected to tha cruel trade:tent prang women Wild upon thenteelves the news- papers and the damn for theprevention of oraelty be animals would be en the treeless of the malty pained. Bat why should woo men ethicist their vitality by inhale= modes of dressing? Oh, 16'a the fashiano comer the reply. But what is fambien, their her lawn should be obeyed in denencie of all the Iowa of beauty, &nem, true grace ansi. health, t If she deadpan thst women shall wean* hump at her baok, ,wide orinuliue skit* trailing be the dad er a walet like it weep, there eeems to be no residuum. The plates, and halibut papers of the day represented' only cesioatarei of the female form. "The menet ours° among women is more imaduous than the drink aurae among men. Beth sins seek be extennete themeelves the plea of mederstion. A woman inn no more be traded( with it outlet than drunkard with it glue of whiekey. "Moro harm to the heath and vitality of oar rue as it whole It doaa by armada than by rum. MI6 ornate of °lolling yielder the Iowa of geed health. It weakens the body, enfeebles the mind and dwarf" the Boat !' The largo audience which listened sorra (idly to the reeding ef thepaper wee divided in its views on the ouzels qu.ation, and many a tlght hoed waman wars the objed eo iaspettion and oritiolom. Big Eaongh. • In Mrs. Loma E. Bieber& delightfal ploture of child -life eetibled " Wheal Woo Your Age" are desoriptioas of the little ones who are now the grownom daughters: of Mrs. Julia Word Howe, • Of Mosey"' she writes : ' • •• If stall* woe like Milboa's be Paramount' Flossy Wel the Allegro " in parson, oe like Werdsworbia's maiden . A dancing simpe, an 'loge gay, •To haunt, to startle and warlay. She Was very wish as it ohad. One day' ut ledy net knowing that the little glri was within hearing said to her mother : " What it ptty Flow in so 'smell I" " I'm big inside!" °tiedus little angry voice Fat her elbow'and there was Mossy, awaiting with ragellite tit effeeded bantam. And she was big inside! Her lively, act- ive spirit domed to break through the little body and carry It along in smite of herein Samettmes it woe an impish OpIrit ; always it was an enterprining ono. Hope On. "Idnexentan" in Canada Presbyterian Ecalealartioal predictions of the bine rain, type are nearly always wrong. jut go back in memory to the dap of your beylorod and recall the number of times the ruin of the Preebyterian Church in Canada or memo of its parts, was predicted. The old Free Churoh was to be ruined by the union with the II. P's. in '61. Than all the Wino:rhea were to be ruined by the online of '75. Presbyterianism wee ruined when hymns were Introduced, ruined oohs when 'argue were elle sved, and it would be rained third time if Moisten were indaotod for a term, it fourth thne it a modified system of itinerancy were adopted. In hot, there is, no saying how many times it ohurah may be nined and still go on with ilia wark. Addling Injury to Insult. Colonel Gilbert Peirce, the late ildintster to Portugal, 0310B picked up in his arms a, young lady who stood hesitating abthe Garner of it street in an Indten village; unable te Giese it, bemuse a, ohower had filled it with.. rushing torrent of wotor. Mite young lady enbmitted without protest while the colonel goodie gallantly through the torrent mail he deposited hhi [sir °barge en the opposite sidewalk, With dry feet. "810 I" Oho then said, indignatddy, "are yen aware that yea have insulted "1 was nob aware of it," related the optima ; "bub hoeing their you are right, r bog te nuke ;mantle:" So saying, he pioked up tam protesting damsel and restored her to the point where he had first made her aoquaintanoe.—drgenatte. Mor Reasoning. " John," exolaineed the nervoul wearing " do you think there le a burglost in tha tonne I" " Certainly hot. Why, I heVerdle heird sotoad all night:" " Thinner Jett whet elarmt D10. Any bur. ghat who WAND% heath wotild keep WWII, toilet; rio (it net to °Ogle our suepielene. Int deed, Sohn, 1do eri wish yeti would got up and look threlsgh the henna I° iwilitrig to InfOrte Wand. A geed deot le forgiven o certain prietWit in WWII; people triadhOr pantry and tOrrientri bet *but 1 geed pie biller Oho lit