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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-2-21, Page 3AN OPPORTUNITY MISSED NEVER CONES /UM The Value ot Seizing Asivantages "In the Nick of Time "a-- Elements of Commereial, Literary and. Political encases. Rev, Dr. Talmage again found himself facing a vast audience at the Academy of Music, Sunday, February 10th, while thousands surged around the entrances, unable to gain aclmiesion. The Academy ayes crowded shortly after three o'clock, and the preliminary service of song was participated in by the throngs that filled the corridors and by rnauy of those at the doors on both Irving Place and Four- teenth street as well. The distinguised divine took for his subject: "Opportu- nity," the text seleeted being, Gal. 6 :. 10. "As we have therefore opportu- nity, let us do good." At Denver, Colorado, years ago, an audience had assembled for divine wor- ship. The pastor of the church for whom I was to preach that night, interested in the seating of the people, stood in the pulpit looking from side to side, and when no more people could be crowed within the walls, he turned to me and said, with startling emphasis: "What an opportu- nity !" Immediately that word began to enlarge, and while a hymn was being slung, at every stanza the word "oppor- tunity" swiftly and mightily unfolded, and while the opening prayer was being made, the word piled up into Alps and Hiraalays of meaning, and spread out into other latitudes and longitudes of signifieanee, until it became hemispheric, and it still grew in altitude and circum- ference until it encircled other worlds, and swept out, and on, and around until it was as big as eternity. Never since have I read or heard that word without being thrilled -with its magnitude and raomentuna Opportnnity ! Although in the text to some it may seem a mild. and quiet note, in the great Gospel harmony it is a staccato passage. It is one of the loveliest and awfulest words in our lan- guage a more than one hundred thou- sand words of English vocabulary. "As we have opportunity, let us do good." What is all opportunity? The lexico- grapher would cooly tell you it is a con- junction of favorable circumstances for accomplishing a purpose; but words can- not tell what it is. Take a thousand years to manufacture a definition, and you could not successfully describe it. Opportunity 1 The measuring with which the Angel of the Apocalypse measured Heaven could not measure this pinotal word of my text. Stand on the edge of the precipice of all time and let down the fathoming line hand under hand, and lower down and lower down, and for a quintillion of years let it sink, an.d the lead will not strike the bottom. Oppor- tunity! But while I do not attempt to measure or defioe the arord, I will, God helping me, take the responsibility of tell- ing you something about opportunity. h'irst, it is very swift in its motions. Sometimes -within one minute it starts from the throne of God, sweeps around the earth, and re -ascends the throne from which it started. Within less than sixty seconds it fulfilled its mission. In the second place, opportunity never comes back. Perhaps an opportunity very much like it may arrive, but that one, never. Naturalists tell us of insects whish are born, fulfil their mission, and expire in an hour; but many opportuni- ties die so soon after they are born that their brevity of life is inealculable. What most amazes me is that opportunities do such overshadowing, far-reaching and tremendous work in such short earthly allowance. You are a business man of large experience. The past eighteen months have been hard on business. A. young merchant at his wits' end came into your office or your house, and you said, "Times are hard now but better days will come. I have seen things as bad or worse, but we got out, and we will get out of this. The brightest days that this country ever saw are yet to come." The young man to whom you said that was ready for suicide, or sonaething worse—namely, a fraudulent turn to get out of his despairful position. Your hopefulness inspired him for all tirae'and thirty years atter you are dead he willbe reaping the advantage of your optimisra. Your opportunity to do that one thing for that young man was not half as long as the time I have taken to rehearse it. In yonder third gallery you sit, a man of the world, but you wish everybody well. While the clerks are standing round in your store, or the men in your factory are taking their noon spell, some- one says, "Have you heard that one of our men has been converted at the revival meeting in the Methodist Church?" While it is being talke& over you say, "Well, I do not believe in. revivals. Those things do not last. People get ex - oiled and join the church, and are no better than they were before. I wish our men would keep away from these meet- ings." Do you know, oh man, what you did in that minute of depredation? There were two young men in that group who that night would have gone to those meetings and been saved from this world and. the next, but you decided them not to go. They are social natures. They already drink more than is good for them, and are disposed to be wild. From the time they heard you say that, they accelerated their steps on the downward road. In ten years they will be through with their dissipations and pass into the Great Beyond. That little talk of yours decided their destiny for this world and the next. You had an opportunity that you mis-improved, and how will you feel when you confront those two immortals in the last judgment, and they tell you of that unfortunate talk of yours that flung them over the preeipice? Oh, ratan of the world, why did. you not say in that noon spell of conversation "Good, I ain glad that man got religion. I wish 1 had it myself. Lit us all go ,to -night. Come on; 1 will meet you at the chureh door at eight o'clockYou see, you would have taken them all to heaven, and you would have got there yourself. Golden opportunity genet The day I ldft our country home to look after myself, we rode across the conOtry, and. my father was driving. Of amuse I said nothing that implied how felt. But, there are hundreds of men here, who from their own experience know how I felt. At such a time a young mat may be hopeful, aid even impatient, to get into the battle of life foe himself, but to leave the homestead where every- thing has been done for on;yyour father or older brothers taking your part when you were imposed on by larger boys; and your mother always around, when you got the cold, with mustard ap- plieations for the ohet, or herb tea to make yott sweat off the fever, and sweet xtirtee in the cup by the bed to stop the cough, taking sometimes too mach of it because it was plameant to take; and then to go out with no one to stand be- tween you and the world, gives one a eholeing sensation at the throat, and a home -sickness before you have got three miles away from the old. forks. There was on the day I spoke of a silen,ce for a long while, and then my father began to tell how good the Lord had been to him, in sickness end in health, and when times of hardship came how Providence had always provided the means of liveli- hood for the large household ; and he wound up by saying, "De Witt, I have always found it safe to trust the Lord." My father has been dead thirty years, but in all the crises of my life—and there have been many of them --1 have felt the mighty boost of that lesson in the farm wagou: "De Witt, I have always found it safe to trust the Lord." The fact was, my father saw that this was his oppor- tunity, and he improved it. This is. one reason why I atu an entnusiastio friend of all Young Men's Christian Associations. They get hold of so many young men just arriving in the city, and while thev aro very impressio and it is the best opportunity. Why, how big the houses looked to us as we firsh, entered the great city; and so many people! It seemed some meeting must have just closed to fill the streets in that way; and then the big placards announcing all. styles of amusements, and so many of them on the same night, and every night, after our boyhood had been spent in regions wb,ero i only once or twice n a whole year there had been an entertainment in school- house or church. That is the opportun- ity. Start that innocent young man in the right direction. Six weeks after will be too late. Tell me what such a young man does with his first six weeks in the great city, and. I will tell you what he will be throughout his life on earth, and where he will spend the ages of eternity. Opportunity! We all recognize that commereial, and literary, and political success depend upon taking advantage of opportunity. The great surgeons of England feared to touch the tumor of King George IV. Sir Astley Cooper looked at it and said to the king: "1 will cut Your Majesty as though you were a plowman." That was Sir Astley's opportunity. Lord Clive was his father's dismay, climbing church steeples and doing reckless things. His father sent him to Madras, India, as a clerk in the service of an English officer. Clive watched his time, and when war broke out came to be the chief of the host that saved India for Eneand. That was Lord Olive's opportunity. Pauline Lucca, the aliment match- less singer, was but little recog- nized until in the absence of the soloist in the German ehoir she took her place and, began the euchantment of the world. That day vras Lucca's opportunity. john Scott, who afterward became Lord Eldon, had stumbled his way along in the prac- tice of law -until the ease of selmoyd vs. Smithson was to be tried, and his speech that day opened all avenues of success. That was Lord Eldon's opportunity. Wil- liam H. Seward -was given by his father a thousand dollars to got a collegiate edu- cation. That money soon gone his father said, "Now, you must fight your awn way ;" and he did, until gubernaiurial chair, and United States senatorial chair were his, with a right to the presidential chair'if the meanness of American poli- tics had not swindled him out of it. The day when his father told him to fight his own way was William. II.' SewarO's opportunity. john Henry Newman, be- calmed a whole week in an orange boat in the Strait of Bonifacie wrote has immor- tal hymn. "Lea LKindly Light. That was John 'Henry Newman's opportunity. You know Kirke White's immortal hymn, "When Marshalled on the Nightly Plain." He wrote it in a boat by a lan- tern on a stormy night as he was sailing along a rocky o ast. That was Kirk White's opportunity. The importance of making the most of opportunities as they present themselves is acknowledged in all other disections ; why not itt the matter of usefulness' The difference of usefulness of good men and. women is not so ranch the difference in brain or social position, or wealth, but in equipment of Christian common sense; to know just the time when to say the right word or do the right thing. There are good people who can always be de- pended. upon to say the right thing at the wrong time. A merchant selling goods over the counter to a wily customer who would like to get them at lose than cost; a railroad conductor while taking up the tickets from passengers who want to work off a last year's free pass, or get through at half rate a child fully grown; a housekeeper trying to get the table ready in time for guests, although the oven has failed to do its work, and the grocer has neglected to fruell the order given him ; those are not opportunities for religions address. Do not rush up to a man in the busiest part of the day, and when a half dozen people are waiting for him, and ask. "How is your soul'?" hand a the Oed who. will bless you, and blese those whom you help itt ealsitaill at light, the -word 44 1100..DIATE A military officer very profane in his habits was going down into a mine at Cornwall, Enaland, With a Christian. miner,for many of those =Wein are Christians. The officer use I profane lan- guage while in the cage going down. Ali they were coming up out of t e mine the profane officer said, "11 it be so far down to your work, how much farther would it be to the bottomless pit?" The Christian miser responded, "1 do not know how far it is down to that place, hat if this rope should break you aveuld be there in a minute." It was the Christian miner's opportunity. Many years ago a clergy- mau was on a sloop on our Hudson River, and hearing a man utter a blasphemy, the clergyman said, "'You have spoken against my best Friend, Jesus Cloist." Seven years after this same clergymen was on his way to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church at Phila- delphia, when a young minister address- ed him, and asked him if he was not on a sloop on the Hudson River seven years before? The reply was in the affirma- tive. "Well," said the young minister, "I was the man whom you corrected for uttering that oath. It led me to think end repent, and I am tryingto atone somewhat for my early behavior. I am a preacher of the Gospel, end a delegate to the General Assembly." Seven years before on that Hudson River sloop was the clergyman's opportunity. peace with the past; Peace• with the fu. tures a pew) that all "the assaults of the world, and all the bombardments satanic, cannot interfere with. A Scotch shepherd was dying and had the pastor called in. The dying shepherd said to his wife, "Mary, please to go Into the next room, for I want to see the min - biter alone." When the two were alone the dying shepherd said, "I have known the 3:11ble all my life, but 1 am going, and I am 'afeerecl to dee." Then the pastor quoted the Psalm, "The Lord is my fibeps herd; I shall act want.", "Yes, mon,' said the shepherd, "I was familiar with that before you were born, but I am a- goin't and I am afeered to dee." Then said the pastor, "You know that the Peden says, 'Though I went through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." "Yes,' said the dyingithep- herd, "I knew that before you were born, i but t does not help me." Then said the pastor, '.Don't you know that some- times 'when you were driving the sheep down through the valleys and ravine there would be shadows all about you, while there was plenty of 811)1811/118 ou the hills above? You are in the shadows now, but it is sunshine higher up." Then said the dying shepherd, "Alt! that is good. I never saw it that way „before. Allis well. Tho. gh I pass through the valley of the shadow of death, Thou art with me. Shadows here, bit) sonshine above." Su the dying Shepherd got peace. Living and dying may we have the same peace! Opportunity ! Under the arch of that splendid word let this multitude of my hearers pass into the parch n, aud hop , and triunn h of the Gospel. Go by companies of a hundred each. Go by regiments of a thousand each. The aged leaning on the staff; the rdddle-aged throwing off their burdens as they pass; and the young to have their present joys augmented by more glorious satisfac- tions. Forward into the kingdom ! As soon as you pass the dividing line there will be shouti g an up and down the heavens. The crowned immortals will look down and cheer. Jesus of the raany scars will ) ejoice at the result of his earthly sacrifices. Departed saints will be gladdened that their prayers are an- wered. An order will' be given for the spreading of a banquet at which you will be the honored guest. Fr ,m the Imperial Gardens the wreaths will be twisted for your brow, and. from the hall of Eternal Music the harpers will bring their harps, and the trumpeters their trumpets, and alt up and down the amethystine stair- ways of the castles and in all the rooms of the House of deny Mansions, it will be talked over with holy gtee that this day while one plain man stood on the platform of this vast building giving the Gospel Call, an assemblage made up from all parts of the earth ani. piled up in these galleries, chose Christ as their por • tion, and started for Heaven as their everlasting home. Ring all the bells of Heaven at the tidings! Strike all the cymbals at the joy. Wave all the palm branches at the triumph! Victory! Victory ! I stand this minute in the presence of many heads offamilies. I wonder if they all realize that the opportunity of in- fluencing the household for Christ and heaven is very brief, and will soon be gone? For a while the house is full of voices and footsteps of children. You sometimes feel that you can hardly stand the racket. You say, "Do be quiet! It seems as if nay head would split with all this noise." And things get broken and rained, and it is, " Where s my hat !" "Who took my books?" "Who has been busy with my playthings ?" And it is a -rushing this way, and a -rushing that, until father and mother are well-nigh beside themselves. It is astonishing how much noise five or six children can make and not half try. But the years glide swiftly away. After a while the voices are not so many, and those which stay are more sedate. First this room gets quiet, and then that room. Death takes some, and marriage takes others, until after a while the house is awfully still. That man yonder would give all he is worth to have that boy who is gone away forever rash into the room once more with the shout that was once thought too boisterous. That mother who was once tried because her little girl, now gone forever, with careless scissors cut up something really valuable, would like to have the child come back, willing to put in' her hands the most valuable wardrobe to cut as she pleases. Yes! Yee.! The hoose noisy now will soon be still enough, I warrant you; and as when you began housekeepilag, there were just two of you, there will be just two again. Oh, the alarming brevity of infancy and child- hood! The opportunity is glorious, but it soon passes. Parents may say at the close of life, '!What a pity we did not do more for the religious welfare of our children while we had them with as! ' But the lamentation will be of no avail. The opportunity had wings and it vanished. When your child gets out of the cradle let it climb into the outstretch- ed arms of the beautiful Christ. "Come thou and all thy houte,into the ark." But there is one opportenity so much brighter than any other ; .so ranch more inviting, and so superior to all others that there are innumerable fingers point- ing to it, and it is haloed with a glory all itsown. It is yours ! It is mine ! It is the present hour. It is the now. We shall never have it again. While I speak and you listen the opportunity is restless as if to be gone. Yien cannot chain it down. You cannot imprison it. You cannot make it stay. All its pulses are throbbing with a haste that cannot be hindered or controlled. It is the oppor- tunity of invitation on my part, and acceptance on your part. The door of palace of God's mercy Is wide open. Go in. Sit down, and be kings and queens unto God forever. "Well, ' you say, "1 am not ready." You are ready. 'Are you a sinner?" "Yes." "Do you want to be saved now and forever?" "Yes." "Do you believe that Christ is able and willing to do the work ?" "Yes." Then you are saved. You are inside the palace door of God's mercy already. You look changed. You are changed. "Hallelu- jah, 'tis done !" Did you ever see any- thing done so quiekly?" Invitation d i offered anaccepted tt less than a minute by my watch or that clock. Sir Edward Creasy wrote a book called"The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World; from Marathon to Waterloo." But the most decisive battle that you will ever figh.t, and the greatest -sietory you win ever gain, is this moment when you con- quer first yourself, and then all the hindering myrmidons of perdition by saying, ." Lord. Jesus, here I am, undone and helpless, to be saved by Thee, and Thee alone." That makes a panic in hell. That makes celebration in heaven. Opportunity ! But there are plenty of lit occasions. It is interesting to see the sportsman, gun in hand and pooe,h at side) and accom- panied by the hounds yelping down the road, off on hunting expedition, but the best hunters in this world are those who hunt for opportunities to do good, and the game is something to gladden earth and Heaven. I will point out some of the opportunities. When a soul is in bereave- naent is the best time to talk of Gospel consolation and heavenly reunion. 'When a man has lost his property is the best time to talk to hire4f heavenly inherit runes that can nevezwae levied on. When one is sick is the best tilne to taLk to him about the supernatural latitude in whieh unhealth is an impossibility. When the Holy Spirit is moving on a community is the best time to tell a man he ought to be saved. By a word ; by a smile; by a look; by a prayer, the work may be so thoroughly done that all eternity cannot undo it, As the harp was invented from hearine°the twang of a bowstring; as the law of gravitation was suggested by the fall of an apple; as the order in India for the use of a greased cartridge ota,rted the rattiny of 1867, whicb appalled the na- tions ; so something insignificent may open the door for great results. Be on the watch. It may be gladnese ; it may be a horror; but it will be an opportunity. A. city missionary in the lower parts of the city found a young woman in wretch- edness and sin. He said, "Why do you. not go home ?" She said, 'They would not receive me at home." He said, "What is your father's name) and where does he live ?" Having obtained the ad- dress and written to the father, the city missionary got a reply: on the outside of the letter the word " Immediate" under- scored, It was the heartiest possible in- vitation for the wanderer to cornet home. That was the city missionary's oppottun- ity. And innire are opportimitita all about polio and on them vrritten by the On the lith of January, 1866, a collier - brig ran into the rocks near Weimer Beach, Eng. Simon Pritchard, standing on th.e beach, threw off his ooat and said, "Who will help me save the crew?" Twenty men shouted, "I will," though. only seven were needed. Through the awful surf the boat dashed, and in fifteen minutes from the time Fritahard threw off his coat all t/ae shipwrecked crew were safe on the land. Quicker work to -day. Half that time more than necessary to get all this asserablage into the life -boat of the Gospel, and ashore, standing both feet on the Rock of Ages. By the two strong oars of faith and prayer first pull for the Ivo eels and then pull for the 'shore. Opporbuaity ! Over the city went the my, Jesus of Nazareth passeth ey damaged by' beet or wet; the gun does not foul or become oxidized; no noxious gases are produced freret its combustion.; it le very adman to Make; a temPermtklre of 540 degrees Farenheit 18 reqsired to prodace combustion; when a lighted match is applied to it in its unconfined state it simply burns, no explosion heiog produced; the pressure developed by the chaig,e of schenebeliteo required to give the normal velocity to the bullet tired. from a military rifle, is from 1,600 to 1,860 atmospheres, as compared with 2,600 to 3,20U atmospheres, the pressure developed by charges of other maples ves when the same velocity is imparted to the bullet, and as compared with the best dynamite in its force is as 55 to 46, or per cent. greater, while it does not pulver- ize the surrounding rock as dynamite does. "The baventer asserts that sehnobelite can be manufactured and sold at least 50 per cent, cheaper than any other. known explosive of a similar eharaeter. Its adoption by the French government, would, it is believed, result in a seving of 50,000,000 francs per annum." • A. glifilER ROTEL. Refuge from a Texas Cyclone, was pawing but the wind had e,ev•ed. Through the rain and mud and darkneee traraped over a irtfle, until I found the only "regular" hotel in, the town. Roe I stayed until. worsting, but 1 afterwards learned that the rest of the crowd Spent the night in, the Cane House. In the morning I saw thet the storm load up- rooted trees aad unroofed houses in our immediate vicinity, but had dime no more serious eamage. Farther east, neer Geinesville the cloud had come nearer the ground. Here it had le/own freight off the track, and. emus d some loss of life. It was not a "bad storm" campers. - lively speaking, but it was as bad a ore DA I °ere to see 'Ile Cave Hotel was a pa i ing enter- prise. It cost its owner about $200 origi- nally, and as he oharged each perom, cents a night for sleeping or rather, staying—io ithe soon got his meney back. A bad looking cloud altnye brought him a financial harve-t. Bot for the shortness of the season. he would have grown rieb, at the business. While travelling through the Panhan- dle of Texas during the spring of 1898 I discovered a hotet whieh I believe to be the only one of the kind in the United States, for its manager and proprietor some . to have invented the plan. About 4 o'clock one afternoon in the early part of May my train rolled into a little town, the neone of which need not be given. As I stepped to the platform ray attention was at once drawn to a rather solemn looking man with red hair, who seemed to be acting as a kind of ho- tel runner. "Cave House, sir? Cave House ?" he called. "Go to the Cave? Bad -looking cloud, sir, very." I wondered what the bad -looking cloud had to do with the matter, but as there seemed to be no hotel to compete with the Cave Hcuse, I decided to put up there. lf I thought anything, at all about the name, I snpposed it to indicate that the house was owned or xnanaged by old Mr. Cave, or some of his family. However, I asked no questions, but turned my grip over to the Cave man, and trudged on af- ter him. As we left the station I was impressed with the truth of my compa- nion's obeervatiou as to the badness of the cloud; but it was the time of year when bad -looking °lends are not an oui- common affair in Northern Texas. For several weeks just preceding, real estates had been in what might be called rather an unsettled condition. One week before this day the little town of Cisco had been almost demolished by a storm, and the week before that an awful cyclone had visited. several places in Oklahoma, It was not the time of year when nervous Eastern people would enjoy living in that part of the world. The cloud now ap- proaching was evidently not of an ordi- nary character. To begin with, it was of a deep green color, such as one rarely sees in a cloud. Moreover, the whole mass had a bubbling, boiling appearance, as if it was a vast eald.tou, under which the evil spirits of the air had kindled their fires. The whole was a dark, low- ering, wide -spreading mass that seemed almost to touch the ground. in its course. A buzzing, hissing, rumbling 110/Se filled the air, as if a dozen locomotives were all, letting off steam at the same time. The majestic centre of all the disturbance came sweeping on as if the prince of the powers of the air were propelling it. As we moved off, I notices' with surprise that we were going in a direction opposite to that of the main part of the town, but said nothing. I noticed, too, that most of the houses seemed Oeserted. What few inhabitants were visible were mostly out in their yards watching the oncom- ine. cloud. , "Say, Cave man," I queried, "where have all the town folks hidden them- selves ?" "Under the ground, mister—under the ground," replied my companion, with a significant laugh. "Here we are, though, at the Cape House. You'll find lots of 'em down there." As he spoke he opened the gate to what seemed to be the back yard of a private residence. I noticed quite a 7111Mber of people in the back yard, but hesitated about entering. "I don't want to go in that place, man. Where's the hotel ?" "There it is, right over yonder," said he, impatiently. "Ain't you got no eyes? I told you before you started that it was a cave house. You didn't think of stopping at a regular hotel, did you?" Glancing in the direction of his jesture, I noticed for the first time which seemed to be a mound of earth with a door open- ing at one side. A lantern hung in the doorway, and two objects which looked like stovepipes projected thropgh the top "Come, come !" said. I angrily to my a tendant, "go back with me at once tc some regular hotel." "If you've a mind to get blowed all t thunder, you can go, but I won't. Tb.a cloud is going to do its do in a might little while now." AN EN TEreESTIN DISCUSSIO?T. Thr.‘ e Prrtty (Or is 'Palk About Briqu Bons and Courtship. "Emily, dear," slid the pretty girl with the side combs, "I've been puzzhng over'an awful curious thing. Why do the men bring one so much more candy in the winter than in the summer? Kate, here, says they get into the • habit at Christmas and cau't break themselves be- fore spring, but I don't really think that is it." "Not bad for a girl who has lived bx Chicago only one year," saidEmily, with a patronizing smile; "that isn't the rea- son, though ; it's overcoat pockets." "Overcoat pockets l" "Yes. They push the box away down into one of 'em and fancy that nobody knows it's there, as if a girl with any sense couldn't detect the bulge two blocks away," and she wearily reached for a chocolate cream. "Humph ! I guess you're right. I only wish you had come m half an hoar ago—you would. have saved me a head- ache. Bat you. look gloomy." "I am gloomy." "Is it about Cerro'? And aren't you - engaged yet ?" -No, and never will be. That is a mato ter of candy, too." "Did you make some ?" "No; but he brings me too much. A. man who Is really serious is careful how he cultivates the taste. It's expensive, you know, to have to go on baying a wo- man stonily and. paying her dentist's bill as well." "That's true. But about Carrel ; is that your only reason ?" "No; I have another. When he called the other day I was busy in the kitchen and came up with a long apron on. He asked me to play, and I said I was busy making sake. And he said, Oh, bother the cake; let the cook do it. I want to hear that new waltz.'" "It looks bad. But men are so decep- tive. Now, I once left Will &iota with the family Bible, and don't you think he never looked into it. I was awfully dis- couraged, for I reasoned that if he was in earnest he'd have been anxious to know my real "Did he propose?" "Yes, and when. I asked him about it he said he had no need to look, he knew it already, as he had seen it on my christ- ening cup the day he Wilt me to the pie - "How sly they are. Now, there was Fred, who was so devoted to Nell last year. Well, he came ia one day, told her he was engaged to Marie and thanked her forhelping him." "You don't say so 2" "I do. He said he never would have won Marie if he hadn't succeed= in. mak- ing her jealous, but that now he could never come to see her any more for that very reason. He hoped she would always urtdeistand, thatigh, that he was her tree friend." wish I might have seen Nell's face as she answered, Oh, perfectly."' And L But I cannot think Carrel is in earnest." "He gee* to see the plain little Sypher girl a good deal now," put in late; "his overcoat pockets never bulge and SW him go to the grocery with heir the °thee day." "Thank you, my dear; that settles it. I shall he prepared when the engagement IB atnounced. Cau anybody bell me how to make a pretty wedding present out of old candy boxes ?" Let the world go. It has abused you enough, and cheated yen enough, and slandered you enough, and damaged you enough. Even those from whom you ex- pected better things turned out your as- sailants as when Napdeop. in last will and testaanent left five thousand flames to the man who shot at Welling- ton ha the etreete of Paris. Oh, it is a mean world. Take the glorious Lord for your companionehip. I like what the good man said to one who had every- thing but religion. The diluent man boasted of what be owned, and of his splendors of suarotindirtgs, platting into insignificance, as he thought, the Christ- ian's possessions. "Ala!" sim the Christ- ian, "Man, I have sornethint you have not" "What is that ?" sai the world- ling. The answer was, "Peace !" And you ratty all have it --peace with God; that made him The Iew The advantages of sehebelite, the new exploitive, ate thus enemeritted "Itis manufacture is simplicity itself; it is stdapted for all war, sporting' and etainiog purposes; it its ahnotit sntokeleos, with a Very slight recoil; it is not permaneutly It seemed that such was the case. Th wind began to come in fierce, fitful gusts The flashing of the lightning and th rolling of the thunder were :boost cott tinuous. A few large heavy drops of rai fell. I was not at heart pining to b "blowed all to thunder," so I decided. ti put up all night at the Cave House. Th mound of earth was a natural one. had been excavated and an entrance mad on the north-east side, because the e clones of the region always come fro the southward. As I entered I behel such 6 sight as I never saw beto and never expect to see agaiti Before me was an undergroung room forti feet long by -twenty feet broad. Seated o boards around the walls, and on box stools and chairs on the 'Dor, were abo 250 men, women and children. The din weird light of the low -hanging hooter shone on pale faces, and gave them a effect beyond description All had. no come it. The mamma double doors we closed and barred. We could tell by t demoniac howl and shriek of the *18 outside that the storm -king was hard hit work. It was then really a Comfo to know there was six feet of solid, ne,tur earth in all the walls, and that overhe four feet of earth was propped up, and addition, with massive oaken timber The walls were coiled, and there was plank flooring underfoot. All wou have been well enough with us, had itia been for the stifling ht. Think of ov 250 people packed and jammed. into sn a room as I have deseribetl, with no ve tilation save such as could. be obtain through the two stove pipes passing through the roof 1 It 'was awful. I stood it till about tett o'clock and then after nitwit persuasion, indlicea rny landlord to open the door and let me out. Vein IT COSTS ONE CENT. Many persons to whom Cod Liver. 011 ,:ould be of the very greatest value refuse to take it under the impressionthat the taste is so ob ectionable as to aloes .0.4.............. i althle ° .--'--:''''-2411117671in '.-:-.!e„ 'it -4; -a‘t.,','-'''•,s•'*•,......_1111• asars-_-- -see, ell;leass where the one desiring we will send Card to The pany, 36 41' / , • - system. to make Sample Maltine Wellington counteract any benefit it might otherwise be to them, To such we desire to prove that this is a deWU,- cided error, as in our pre- PCaodratLicjivuer'O'Mil,a1"tatillo:onwlyitis'h the obj ection able taste en- tirely removed, but the preparation is really pale- table—relished alike by old and young. It is the ideal "builder," and will restore health and. color is "run down." To any trial of the preparation free. Address Postal Iffanufacturing Com- St. East, Toronto. A Pail or Tub . 0 of Fibreware will out- &' last any other kind ks?0, 0 four to one. fe, . e Besides, they are fe, much lighter and have 0 ie. no hoops to rust or 0 0 drop off. ree, q, --r„ 1 4N 1 II t-IJDY S indurated Fibrew it re . AfipAsTRonis CRoup syRup eases. Price, DEALER FOR _.., Saves children's lives. Cures Croup, Vhoopin,g cairtgjahr,oaBt Bronchitis and: 25 cents. AS] ,YOUR IT. Lakehurst OAKVILLE, For the Alcoholism, The Morphine Tobacco And The system is the famous System. Through 000 slaves to have been. emancipated teen years. Lakehurst oldest institution and has a inairittiin in this whole history any after ill-effects Hundred of happy the Domnion efficacy of a course , For term and . 28 Bank 0 ) Sanitarium 9 - ONT. treatmenteaed euro c t Habit, Habit, Nervous Diseases. elnyloyed in this institution Double Chloride of Gold its agency over 200,- the use of these poisons in the last four- Sanitarium is the of its kind ia Canada, well-earned reputation to land of medicme. In ire there is not an instance of from the treatment,. homeo in all parts of bear eloquent vritness to the of treatment with ue. full information write THE SECRETARY, of Commerce Chambers, Toronto, Ont. b r D. 3 . D 1 See our 8 or D 50 susstnio 6 t The Steele, e a tliesitioa a a Noto—All 0 L. the, you V i n g Want Catalogue eeds write us soswerati. Brign Marton Sgvi et, co 1 ash papas, INS/110145746., eau ontsrprisbar mitreirtatatit kni ttrttm trom le Canada aell war ;weft at,,,. sore or ossol Attires ve oe. r a 5l ..---..-7.• '.."4111F=Sr4............ 1.........412g Lt grNien or Women make Three Christy . $5 a day selling Woe "" WandertulehtlatyKnlvott Knives or $1 n Aonr.„,°.thiL writhe°, m territory at 0000. arida [Dr Brotul, Carving mid rating rtoos.) m CHRISTY KNIFE CO. Sent anywhere,.post. le 38WEI,LINOTON ST.EAST hy, paid, on reempt of ,d TORSIff0 price. it rt al te. Id A EnucATIng UIII 3t The Northern Businoss sh educatintx required a. time. C. A. Fleming, ,A er ,11 ' for a •yoroF rn"o cir trron.ao r wt. * ACtive dlit'eA IV the, ig ort,iner; Col lei., Otti y wmtn m t ch , to onilir. StmleitM admitted at Principal, 0,, en &Leal, Ont, LOCAL AGENT'S WAVVItn Immediately In every unreptesexited poet of neural* flujJfl�a Permanent and Prefitable. 1teepeetable elderly Men end weinee preferred. Vtielose stamp for paytiollArg t Idrmo TRW/ NOIIL 246 Adelaide $t, ''Areqt, 'Pemnio.