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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-11-15, Page 6THE LOOKING- - GLIM CHUIST 11:13YEALED IN THB OLP USTAKENT. A errant Wash Basin of Polished. Braes Made Prom Wonien's Brazen Itilrrors --eLessons Brawn Therefrom... See Tour Sins Then Wash Them Awayn Rev. Dr. Talmage, who has left Indiap and is now on his homeward journey, has selected pi..s the subject of this week's sermon bhrough the press, "The Looking Glass," the text being Pxodus xxxviii, 8: "And. He made the laver of brass, and the foot of it was of braes, of the looking glasses of the women assembling." We often hear about the Gospel in John and the Gospel in Luke, and the Gosp!,1 in Idatthow; but there is just as surely a Gospel of Moses, and a Gospel of Jeremiah, and a Gospel of Devi& In other wards, Christ is as certainlyto be i found in the Old Testament as n bite New. When the Israelites were raterehmg through the wilderness they carried. their chure.i with them, They called it the tabernacle. It was a pitched tent, very costly, very beautiful. The frame -work was made of forty-eight boards of acacia - wood set in sockets of silver. The cur- tains of the place were purple, and scar- let, and blue, and fine linen, and were hung with most artistic) loops. The candlestiek of that tabernacle had shaft, and branch, and. bowl of solid gold, and thefigares of cherubim that stood there had wings of gold ; and there were lamps of gold, and snuffers of gold, and tongs of gold, and. rings of gold.; so that scepti- cism has sometimes asked, "Where did all that precious metal some from? It is not ray place to furnish the preeious stones, et is only to tell that they were there. I wish now more especially to speak of the laver that was built in the midst of that ancient tabernaele. It was a great basin froni which the priests washed their hands and feet. The water came down from the basin in spouts and pass- ed away after the cleansing. This laver or basin was made out of the looking - glasses of the women who had frequented the tabernacle, and who had made these their contribution to the furniture. These looking -glasses were not made of glass, but they were brazen. The brass was of a very superior quality, and pol- ished until it reflected easily the features of those who looked. into it. So that this laver of looking -glasses spoken of in my text did double work, it not only fur- nished the water in which the priests washed. tb.emselves, but it also, on its shining, polished surface, pointed out the spots of pollution on the face which needed ablution. Now, my Christian friends, as everything in that ancient tabernacle was suggestive of religious truth, and for the most part positively symbolical of truth, I shall take that laver of looking -glasses spoken of in the text as all suggestive of the Gospel, which first shows us our sins as in a mir- ror, and then washes them away by divine ablution. Oh, happy day, happy day, When Jesus washed. my sms-away-. I have to say that this is the only look- ing -glass in which a man can. see himself as he is. There are some mirrors that flatter the features and make you look better than you are. Then there are other mirrors that distort your features, and make you look worse than you are; but I want to tell you that this looking - glass of the Gospel shows a man just as he is. When the priests entered the an- cient tabernacle, one glance at the bur- nished side of this laver showed. them their need of cleansing.; so this Gospel showed. the soul its need of divine wash- ing. "All have sinned, and come short of the gory of God." This is one show- ing. "All we, like sheep, have gone astray." That is another showing. "From the crown of the head to the sole of the foot there is no health in us." That is another showing. The world calls these defeats, Imperfections, or, eccentricities, or erratic: behavior, or, "wild oats," or, "high living;" but the Gospel calls them sin, transgression, filth —the abominable thing that God hates. It was just one glance at that mirror that made Paul cry out, "Oh, -wretched man that I ara, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" and that made David cry out, "Purge me with hysop, and. I shall be dean. ;" and that made Martin Lother cry out, "Oh, my sins, my sins 1" I am not talking about bad. habits. You and I do not need any Bible to tell us thatbad habits are wrong, that blasphemy and. evil -speaking are wrong. But I am talking of a sinful nature, as well as of all bad aebions. The Apostle Paul all their roll in the first chapter of Romans. They are a regiment of death encamping around every heart, holding it in a tyranny from which nothing but the grace of God can deliver it. Here, for instance, is ingratitude. Who has not been guilty of that sin ? If a man hand. us a glass of water, we say "Thank you"; but for the ten thousand mercies that we are every day receiving from the hand of God, how little expres- sion of gratitude—for thirst slaked, for hanger fed, for shelter, and sunshine, and sound steep, and clothes to wear— how little thanks I suppose there are men flfty year of age who have never been do .vn on their knees in thanksgiv- ing to God for His goodness, Beanies that ingratitude of our hearts there is pride (who has not felt it ?)—pride that .will not submit to God, that wants its own way ---a nature that prefers wrong sometimes instead of right—that prefers to svalkw instead of rise up. I de not care what you call that; I am not going to quarrel with any theologian, or any man who makes any pretensions to theology. I do not care whether you call it "total depravity," or something else; I simply make the announcement of God's Word, affirmed and confirmed by the experience of hundreds of Christian people; the imagination of the heart of man is evil from youth. "There is none that noeth good; 710 not one." We have a bad natare. We were born with it. We got it from our parents; they got it from their parents. Our thoughts are wrong, our action is wrong; our whole life, is obnoxious to Goa before conversion. and. after conversion, not one good thing in us bat that which the grace of God has planted and fostered. "Well," you say, "I can't believe that to be so." .A.h. ! my dear brother, that is because you have i never looked nto. this laver of Melting-, glasees, If you eould catch a glitnpse of your natural heart before Goa, you would ety out in amazement and alarm, The -vory first thing this Gospel doe e is to cut down our pride and solf-sufffeieney. If a man does to feel his lost and ruined oondi- don before God, he does not want any Gospel. I think the reason that there are so few conversions in this day is be- muse the tendeney of the preaching is to make men believe that they are pretty good anyhow—quite clever, only went - nag a litble &deg up -.-a few touches of divine grace, and then you will be all righb ; instead of proclaiming the broad, deep troth that Payson and. Whiteneld thunderedto a race trembling on the verge of infinite and eternal disaster. says some one, "can this really be true ? Have we all gone astray? is there no good in us ?" In Hampton Court I saw a room whore the four walls were covered with looking -glasses; and it made no difference which, way you looked you saw yourself. d so it is in this Gospel of Christ. If you once step within. its full precincts you will find your whole character reflected; every featare of moral deformity, every spot of moral taint. If I un.derstand the Word of God, its first announcement is that we are lost. I care not, my brother, how magnificently you may have been born, or what may have been your heritage or ancestry, you are lost by reason ot sin. "But," you. say, "what is the use, of all this—of showing a man's faults when he can't get rid of them?" None! "What was the use of that burnished surface to this laver of looking -glasses spoken of in the text if it only showed the spots on the countenance and the need of washing, and there was nothing to wash with ?" Glory be to God, I find that this laver of looking -glasses was filled with fresh water every morning, and the priest no sooner looked on its burnished. side and. saw his need of cleansing than he washed and was clean—glorious type of the gospel of myr Lord Jesus, that first shows a man his sin, and then washes it away I want you toenotice that this laver in whiehtb.e priest washed—the la,ver of look- ing-glasses—was filled with fresh water every morning. The servants of the tabernacle brought the water in buckets and poured it into the laver. So it is with the gospel of Jesus Christ; it has a fresh salvation every day. It is not a stagnant pool filled with acenmulated corruptions. It is living water, which is brought from the eternal rock to wash away the sins of yesterday—of one mo- ment ago. "Oh," says some one, "I was a Christian twenty years ago!" That does not mean anything to me. What are you now? We are not talking, my brother, about pardon ten years ago, but about pardon now—a fresh. salvation. Suppose a time of war should. come, and I could show the Government that I had been loyal to it twelve years ago, would that exeuse me from taking an oath of allegiance now? Suppose you ask me about my physical health, and I should say I was well fifteen years ago—that does not say how I am now. The gospel of Jesus Christ comes and demands pre- sent allegiance, present fealty, present moral health; and yet how many Chris- tians there are seeking to live entirely in past experiene, who seera to have no ex- perience of present mercy and pardon! When I was on the sea and there came up a great storm, and officers and crew and passengers all thought we must go down, I began to think of my life insur- ance, and whether, if I were taken away, my family would. be cared for; and then I thought, is the premium paid up? and I said yes. Then I felt comfortable. Yet there are men who, in religious matters, are looking back to past insurance. They have let it run out, and they have noth- ing for the present, no hope nor pardon —falling back on the old. insurance policy of ten, twenty, thirty years ago. If I want to find out how a friend feels to- ward me, do I go to a drawer and find some old yellow letters writteu to me ten or twelve years ago? No; I go to the letter that was stamped the day before yesterday in the postoffice, and I find how he feels toward me. It is not in regard to old communications we had with Jesus Christ, it is communications we have now. Are we not in sympathy with Him this morning,. and is he not in sympathy with us? Do not spend so much of your time in hunting in. the wardrobe for the old, worn out shoes of Christian profes- sion. Come this morning and take the glittering robe of Christ's righteousness from the Saviour's hand. You say you plunged in the fountain of the Saviour's mercy a quarter of a century ago. That is nothing to me ; I tell you to wash now in this laver of looking -glasses and have your soul made clean. I notice also, in regard. to this laver of looking -glasses spoken of in the text, that the priest always wasb.ed both hands and feet. The water came down in spouts, so that, without leaving any filth in the basin, the priests washed both hands and feet. So the gospel of Jesus Christ must touch the very extremeties of our moral natures. A man cannot fence off a part of his soul and say, "Now, this is to be a garden in which I will have all the fruits and flowers of Christian character, while outside it shall be the devil's commons." No, no; it will be all garden or none. I sometimes hear people say, "He is a very good man except his politics." Then he is not a good man. A religion that will not take a mart through an autumn elec- tion will not be worth anything to him in June, July and August. They say he is a useful sort of a man, but he over- reaches in a bargain. I deny the state- ment. If he is a Christian anywhere, he will be in his business. It is very, easy to be good in a prayer meeting, with surroundings kindly and blessed, but not so easy to be a Christian behind the counter, when by one skilful twitch of the goods you can hide a flaw in the silk so that a customer cannot see it. It is very easy to be a Christian with a, psalm- book in your hand and a Bible in your lap, but not so easy when you can go into a shop and falsely teli the merchant you can get those goods at a cheaper rate in another store, so that he will sell them to you cheaper than he can afford to sell them. The fact is, the religion of Christ is all -pervasive. If you rent a house, you expect full possession of it. You say, pay for this whole house, I want pos.. "Where are the keys of tb.ose rooms? If session of those rooms." And the grace of God when it comes to a soul takes full possession of a man, or goes away and takes no possession. It willransaok every room in the heart, every room in the life, frora cellar to attic, touching the very extreraities of his nature. The priests washed haricls and feet. I rentark, fainher, that this laver of looking -glasses spoken of in the text was a very large laver. I always thought, from the fact that so many washed there, and also from the fact that Solomon aft- erward, when he copied that laver in the Temple, built on a very large scale, that it was large, and so suggestive of the Gos- pel of Semis Christ and salnation by Him vast in its provisions. The whole world may come and -Wash in this laver and be dean. When our idyll war had passed, the Government of the United States made a proelaMation, or pardon to the omen= soldiery in the Oonfederate army, but not be the chief soldiers. TAB Goepel of Chrisb does not aet in that way. It says pardon for all, but especially for the chief of sinners. I do not now think of a siu- gle passage that says a small sinner may, be saved, but I do think of passages that say a great sinner may be saved. If there be sins onlyfaintly hued, just a little tinged, so faintly eolored that you cart hardly $oe them, there is no special pardon promised in the Bible for those sius ; but if they be glaring, red like crimson, then they shall be an snow. Now, my brother, I do not state this to put a premium wen great initruity. inanely say this to encourage that man, whoeverhe is, who feels he is so far gene from God that there is no mercy for him. I went to tell, hini there is a good chance. Why, Paul was a murderer ; he assisted at the execution of Stephen; and yet Paul was saved. The dying thief did every- thing bad. The dying thief was saved. Richard Baxter swore dreadfully, but the grace of God met him, and Richard. Bax- ter was saved. It is a vast laver. Go and tell everybody to come and wash in it. Let them, come up from the peniten- tiaries and wask away their crimes. Let them come up from the almshouses and wash away their poverty. Let them come up from their graves and wash away thoir death. If there be any ono so worn out ia sin that he cannot get up to the laver, you will take hold of his head and pat your arms around him, and I will take hold of his feet, and we will plunge him in this glorious Bethesda, the vast layer of God's mercy and salva- tion. In Solomon's Temple there were ten lavers and one molton sea—this great reservoir in the midst of the temple filled with water—these lavers and this molten sea adorned with figures of palm -branch and oxen, and lions, and cherubim. This fountain of God's mercy is a vaster mol- ten sea than that. It is adorned, not with palm branches, but with the wood of the cross; not with cherubim, but with the wings of the Holy Ghost; and around its great rim all the race may coine and wash in the molten sea. I was reading the other day of Alexander the Great, who. when he was very thirsty and standing at the head of his army, had brought to him a cup of water. He looked off upon his host and said: "I cannot drink this, my men are all thir- sty ;" and he dasked it to the ground. Blessed be . God! there is enough water for all the host—enough for captains and host. "Whosoever will may come and take of the water of life freely"—a laver broad as the earth, high as the heavens, and deep as hell. But 1 notice also in regard to this la- ver of looking -glasses spoken of in the text, that the washing in it was impera- tive, and not optional. When. the priests come into the tabernacle (you will find this in the 80th chapter of Exodus), God tells them that they must wash in that laver or die. The priest might have said, "Can't I wash elsewhere? I washed in the laver at home, and now you want me to wash here." God says, `No matter whether or not you have washed before. Wash in this laver or die." "But," says the priest, "there is water just as clean as this—why won't that do ?" "Wash here," says God, "or die." So it is with the Gospel of Christ—it is imperative. There is only this alternative keep our sins and perish, or wash them away and live. But says someone, "Why should not God have made more ways to heaven than one?" I do not know but he could have made half a dozen. I know He made but one. You say, "Why not have a long line of boats retuning from here to heaven?" I cannot say, but I simply know that there as only one boat. You say, "Are there not trees as luxuriant as that on. Calvary ?— more luxuriant, for that had neither buds nor blossoms; it was stripped and bark- ed !" Yes, yes, there have been taller trees than that and more luxuriant; but the only path to heaven is under that one tree. Instead of quarrelling bee,ause there are not more ways, let us be thank- ful to God there is one—one name given unto men whereby we can be saved—one laver in which all the world may wash. So you see what a radiant Gospel this is I preach. I do not know how a man can stand stolidly and present it, for it is such an exhilarant Gospel. It is not a mere whim or caprice; it is life or death; it is heaven or hell. You come before your child, and you have a present in your hands. You put youfehands behind your back and say, "Which hand will you take? In one hand there is a trea- sure, in the other there is not." The chili blindly chooses. But God our Father does not do that with us. He spreads out both hands, and says'"Now this shall be very plain. In that hand are pardon, and peace,and life, and the treasures of heaven; in. that hand are punishment, and sorrow, and woe. Choose, choose for yourselves 1" "He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned." Oh, ray dear friends. I wish I could coax you to accept thisiGospel. If you. could just take one look in this laver of looking -glasses spoken of in the text, you would begin now spiritual ablution. The love of Christ—I dare not, toward the close of my sermon begin to tell about it. The love cf sermon, ! Do not talk to me about a mountain; it is higher. than that. Do not talk to me about a sea; it is deeper than that. An artist in his dreams saw such a splendid dream of the transfiguration of Christ that he woke and seized his pencil and said, "Let me paint this and die," Oh, I have seen the glories of Christ! I have beheld something of the beauty- of that great sacrifice on Calvary, and I have sometimes felt I would be willing to give anything if I might just sketch before you the wonders of that sacrifice. I would like to do it while I live, and I would like to do it when I die. "Let me paint this and die!" He comes along, weary and worn, His face wet with tears, Ilis brow erimson with blood, and he lies down on Calvary for you. No; I mistake. Nothing was as comfortable as that. A. stone on Calvary would have riejele a soft pillow for the, dying head of Christ. Nothing so comfortable as that. He does not lie down to die; He stands up to die; His spiked heads outspread as if to em- brace a world. Oh, what a hard end for these feet that had traveled all over Judea on ministries of mercy! What a herd end for those hands that had wiped away tears and bound tip broken hearts! Very hard, oh, dying Lamb of God! and yet there are those who know it and do not love Thee. They say, "What is all that to me? What if Re does weep, and groan, and die? I don't want Him." Lord Jesus Christ, they will not help Thee down from the cross! The soldiers will come, and they will tear Thee down from the cross, and put their arms around Thee and lower Thee into the tomb; belt they will not help. They $00 nothing to meve them. Oh, dying Christ! turn on them. Thine oyes of affection now, and see if they will not change their minds ! I saw one hanging on a tree, In agony and blood, Who lima his laegeld eyes on me, s near Ins cross I stood, Oh, never till my 'West breath Win I forget that look He seemed to charge me with MS death, *Though not a word He spoke, And that is all for you! Oh, can you not love Him? Come around this laver, old and young. rt is so burnished you can see your sins; and so deep, you can wash them all away. Oh, mourner, here bathe yonr bruised soul; and sick one, here cool your hot temples in this laver. Peace! Do not cry any more, dear soul! Pardon for all thy sins comfort for all thy afflictions. The b‘ack aka that hung thundering over Sinai has floated above Calvary, and burst into the shower of a Savior's tears. I saw in Kensington Garden a piebure of Waterloo 4 good while after the battle had passed, and the grass had grown -ell over the field. There was a dismounted cannon, and a lamb had canna up from the pasture and lay sleeping in the mouth of that cannon. So the artist had represented it—a most suggestive thing. Then I thought how the war between God and the soul had ended; and in- stead of the announcement, "The wages of sin is death," there came the words, "My peace I give unto thee;" and amidst the batteries of the law that had once (peaked with the fiery hail of death, I be- held the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world, went to Jesus as I was. Weary, 51111 worn, and.sad ; i "I found n Him ti resting pis.ee, And kIe has made me glad." JUT .A PEW PADS. Things the Leaders of the 400 Do to Pass Away the Time and Spend Money. What do the women of the 400 do ? Som.ething besides dressing and eating and going and sleeping a little bit. That sort of thing would get very tiresome, you know. So most of them have fads. They, may be expensive, but what of that? Money is made to be spent. It only gets rusty if it is hoarded. The av- erage leader of the 400—they are all lead- ers, of course—has a " lesson " of some kind every day; it is German one morn- ing, French another, music, fencing, physical culture, literature and so on through six days out of seven. If she has not written at least one book, it is not from lack of desire to do so. Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, for instance, has published a, book or two. Miss Sallie Hewitt, daughter of ex -Mayor Hewitt, has written several magazine articles. She also spends one or two hours daily at the piano or nracticing on the violin. Her sister Eleanor is devoted to outdoor sports; she is a clever 'whip and can drive a four-in-hand. Mrs. Wilbur A. Bloodgood is often seen on the amateur stage and is a good ant- ress. Then she sings as well as she acts, fences as well as she sings, drives and dances, and in her drawing room hang two portraits, one of herself and one of her little daughter, painted by her own hand. Mrs. Lloyd S. Brice wife of the editor and proprietor of the North American Review, has really wonderful talent as an artist. Mrs. Gabrielle Greeley Clendenin is elever with both pen and pencil, and some of her etchings on wood, done with an ordinary pen, are really works of art. Mrs. John di Zerega, mother of the late Lady Franklin, is one of the literary lights of New York society. She has re- cently translated some fairy tales from the French. Mrs. Richard P. Lounsbery's pet ac- complishment is photography, and some of the pictures she makes are worthy of a professional, so clever are they in pose, light and shading and finishing. Por- traiture is especially her hobby, and not only has Mrs. Lounsbery photographed each member of her family,but she has also accomplished the unique feat of photographing herself. Mrs. John Jacob Astor has many ac- complishments, but the ones which afford her the keenest enjoyment are the ath- letic ones—tennis playing for instance, at which she is an expert; sailing cat - :boats., at which she has recently won dis- tinction and applause, and cycling. Al- though she has not made any "century" runs, as yet, she is a rapid and skillful bicasleri annie Tailer, a tall, stately girl, is distinguished as a bright and shining light at the tennis courts. Mrs. George Andrews wife of Judge Andrews, is one of the Vest linguists in New York. Law is a strong point with Mrs. Theo - dere Sutro, and she could give points to a Philadelphia attorney. Mrs. Henry Villard and her eldest daughter, Helen, are accomplished pian- ists as well as German scholars. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish is also musical and plays remarkably well. Miss Rockefel- ler, daughter of Mr. John D. Rockefeller, devotes her time to violin playing; she possesses a valuable Stradivarious and also an Arnati violin. REPENTANCE. 017 have ray decision, sir," Miriam Gray spoke in a sharp, quick tone, her dark eyes flashing, her queenly head set to one side, her gestures nervous yet graceful. e A pallor swept across Bruce Ventnor's face. and ile lifted his hand to his mouth to hide the twitching of the 'flaueeles. There was nothing ambiguous about her reply. It was an unmistakable rejection. It was useless either to plead or argue. He was at a loss to account for her repressed agitation. Re watched her through the mellow twilight and be- came more conscious than ever of her exceeding loveliness and the hard blow which she had dealt him. He had been paying her attention for some time, and was sate that she loved him. That was why his Towildernient was so vest and his disappointment so keen. Knowing that his character was beyond reproach, and that he had in no- wise offended her, he felt justified in de- manding the reason for her strange eon - duet. He knew her too well to fancy for a moment that she was trifling with him. She was neither variable in tier moods nor fickle in her friendships. "Miriam," &Ude Ventnor said, his voiee httgilty,, his manner agitatek "I have the right to ask your reason for this rejection,' "No, you have not.," she tepliek the talc& coming and going in her face. "Still I'll tell you. I am prompted by revenge." "By revenge ?" repeated he in a dazed tone. was her measured reply, "I want you to suffer." "And you enjoy it?" he said bitterly. "Then you know how much, I love you, it seems. I always knew you did net question that." They had been seated upon a bench outside a small pavilion, but were now standing. She was suffering more than she would have cared to let him know and was impatient to get away. "Pray, in whet way have I wronged nor ion m I consider yself the. soul of hyoollu?" or.,h, e asked. "Not in thought, word you do 2" and she laughed mock- ingly. "Instead, you are 4 man without principle. He groaned aloud inhis powerful effort to repress his angry- indignation. "I am not avenging myself, but a,noth- en" she said, speaking with rapidity. "Did iyou ever know Blanche Carrel? it Oh, s not necessary for me to remind you of your baseness." She turned abruptly from him and walked rapidly toward the hotel. He watched her until she had disappeared in the gloom of the gathering twilight, one hand pressed against his forehead, h hurt, baffled, mystified expression in his face He strolled up the beach, then along a wild ledge of rocks, as if to find solace in the loneliness of the hour. When Miriam Gray readied her room at the hotel reaction set in, and her great grief showed how devotedly she loved the man whom she had insulted. She flung herself upon the bed and cried as if her heart were breaking. "Oh, Blanche," she exclaimed aloud between her hysterical sobs, "you are avenged, but you will never know what it has cost me ! Oh, why was I to love him so passionately before I heard about his perfidy ?" Early though it was she retired to bed, but it was almost dawn before she fell asleep, so intense was her suffering. Three years later again found thriam Gray at the seashore. She had not met Brace Ventnor during that interval, nor had she heard horn hint. She was as handsome as ever and more royal in her manners,but her face and conversation lacked brilliancy. 84e was more quiet and reserved, more chary in her friendships, ready to suspect and heartily tireri of the hollowness of fash- ionable life, Her love affair with Brew Ventnor had caused the change. In punishing him for his perfidy to her cousin Blanche she had sacrificed. herself. She could never love another man as she had loved him. As she was one day walking on the Promenade with her cousin Blanche they suddenly came upon Brace Ventnor. He was alone and stood still ler a minute; the meeting was so unexpected to him. He lifted his hat, looked mournfully and reproachfully at Miriam, as if half inclined to speak, and then strode toward the nearest pavilion. Miriam recognized him an d was totched at the look he had bestowed upon her. "Who was that gentleman?" asked her Cousin Blanche. "Did he bow to you or to me ?" Receivingno reply, she looked up into her companion's face. "Why,Miriam, how pale you she exclaimed, "and how agitated!" "Blanche, do you mean to say that you do not know that man?" Miriam asked, her voice a mere whisper. "I never saw him him until to -day," was her cousin's reply. "Oh !" cried Miriam,catching her breath, one hand unconsciously clinched, 'is he not the man who trifled with you?" i'Bruee Ventnor?" replied, Blanche. 'Why, no, child !" The blood receded from Miriam's lips xidela low moan escaped from them. She was forced to lean heavily upon Blanche rew so weak for a little while that she, who conducted her to one of the rustic enehes. She fanned her, rubbed her ands and spoke in soothing tones. When er cousin had sufficiently recovered, she s eomd: hi r Ijaamm'what is this mstery?" so afraid that I have wronged y hat—man and—myself. I was so cruel o him, for I supposed that I was aveng- ng you. His name is Bruce Vetnor." exclaimed Blanche, who was kpeginning to comprehend. "He is not he Bruce Ventnor that I knew." And er voice shook with emotion. "Can it e that there are two gentleraen of the arne name? I remember hearing him ay he had some cousins. Oh, I am so orry and so—so—glad!" Miriam Gray looked at her friend in a ort of stupor. "Sorry, dear, because of what you have offered and glad because everything will me out all right." ‘"He will never forgive me," she said. He is proud and sensiiive. My words ut deep—all the more so because so un- eserved. I gave him no explanation, no anee to defend himself." "You can explain now," suggested lanche, "No," replied Miriam in a strained ne, a proud look coming to her face. She wrung her hands and moaned, and othing that Blanche could say carried nsolation with it. Her love had been ut dormant. It reasserted itself. Bruce entnor had been blameless. She had eply wronged him. She was paying e penalty for her haste. "I would tell him all," advised Blanche. "He may spleen me," cried Miriam through her sobs. "He may be as cruel and unreasonable as I was and with more of an excuse. lt happened three years ago. He may love some one else now— nay, he may be married to another. There is nothing for me to do but to re- main silent and—endure." Her grief was so great that Blanche ceased her efforts to pacify her. . . The orchestra was playing a quadrille. Miriam Gray sat ori the veranda by an open window, locating in at the dancers, her face and form, plainly visible. A. gentleman stepped from among the shadows on the porch. He stopped beside Mitieni. 'Miriam," he simply said, though his voice trembled. Ah, she knew who had spoken! No one elkie 00tIld have pronounced her name with such sweet tenderness. The blood filled her Sam, then left it deathly pale. She lifted her oyes swiftly to his, a fond, glad, appealing look in them. "Yonr cousin has told me all," he said, his handsome eyes aglow. She felt it to be her duty. You did it for her sake. Your pride stood in your way. The mistake arose from a confusion in names. A cousin of mine was the per- fidious fellow, while I am the honest, true hearted man 1 claimed to be." Oh, it was so preeious to her to know that he had forgiven her and was willing to receive her in favor again! She grew so excited that her fan shook in het liande. "The moon is rising," he said as he offered her his arm. She did. not want to eared attention to herself. She appreeiated his purpose. She gave him a grateful glance. She arose, took his arra, and, they strolled down the beach. "Miriam," he said, looking down upon her, his eyes shining into hers, "three years ago you rejected me, What would. you answer now ?" He felt that she was trembling, "Oh, how I wronged you!" she eried. "Have you forgiven me ?" "Yes, darling." "Oh, Mr. "Ventnor!" she exclaimed, "I do not deserve it. I loved you. very much, then—I love you more now. I cannot make a wreck of my happiness. Yoa dear, kind, forgiving, great hearted man, I accept you gladly, proudly, just as---" "Emphatically as you rejected me," completed he, his faee shining. "I am thoroughly satisfied. 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