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.,,,•ttt ee i s••• ;s • time when the madrepores laid the
, tip aCoral, 1So Says 11e Meel ike foundations of the islands and the time
aeoesea viae, ":There Is a Gera; $ed 7' hen the madrepores put on the capstone
' a completed work? It puzzles all the
'scientists to guess through how man;
Christian y'prltere, years the .cora}] ices were building the
Sandwich aud` c1Riety islands and the
tdap,7rlihted lee7, by amerteetatt4.0,ress.Argo• Marshall and Gilbert''Q fps.:„But more
elation;.
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ikQE ON THE-SCULP-,
OF THE DEEP `' ^t
�long... W ilio built these reefs, these Islands?
'1r he zoophytes, the corallines. They
woo not such workers who built the
pyramids oaia were these masons, these
creatures of the •sea. What small creations
amounting to what vast aggregation!
Who can estimate the ages between the
�dor�e rile
l',—Cgaefort for the 1 aitbfnl
•
k slowly and wonderfully .;iecumulative is
11►aaehin set Deo. 26.—This.,.pititures- dei cougrace ra t d because he heart. the u tilclin getimes
y
`e'gieue discoir •sed of Dr. Talinageeleads his the soul not go on nzgio rapidly.
hearershearers and•. i a'ders thrgirgh unwonted
regions of �`giitemp)atfon and is full of Why, you have all eternity ta;build in.
tical itospak; text, Job xxviti, 18, The little and there
life am zocephyte
'We menthol shall be•load° of weave builders, and there will be small layer
RPh iio,ngot: say that, inspired dram -
on
top of small layer and fossilized grief
?3 Wkon you wanted to set forth the on the top of fossilized grief.' Grace does
,n kerior -vanf our religion, mu tossed:,blessed be o God,it l Des Up. Teri tho. in yoor usand
t�� crisis the 'onj+x, which• is 'tiagd� for; million ages illg`not finish you. Yon
"1e making exteilisite cameos, and the Hap will: never be finished. On forever! II
phase sky. IiltS�' it'll . $opes~i oflxambic forever! Out of the sea of earthly die
' em anii`th4i able of�f•`rozen 'blood, and
• q quietude Will geadually rise the reefs, the
here' you 'set "that• the cor .11 whieh rete, &elands, the continents, .libo. hemisphere
miracle of elieepe gied •a transport of color
to those olive are studied it, is not • of gledidene and ” glory. Mon talk as
worthy of iifeti n in comparison with though. in this life we: only had time to
befild; But what we Budd en this life as
our boLy. religion ; "'No mention shall -be mom red with what we 'sheer' build in
- ,_,;t anaele.of,coral•" :t St. Johnsbut'y, tete the next life .is as a' striped'sliell to
In a museum built. by the chief citizen,' Austrsnlia, You .go into. an. architect's
i,I ez{V1Ernineti a;rliecslmen yip the shelf, study and there you see the sketch of a
t ;utilized wh ea holy of holies.( q3i• temple the cornerstone of which has not
•caw• tial �. ,and has -built iu the temple of been laid. Oh, that I could have an
Pieceof co l;' "1 do not xvozrdisc that',Te?..ahitectural sketch of wha(' o will be
•o i'n'st ` Tfeekel, t'liVetteat 'reeieltti:>t, while '
n•: - 3 n was so 6ntran'ed `ivitim,',tbe , after eternity has wrought 'upon you!'
i ,9., What pillars a strength!' Yhat.altars of
•specimens which. sow C.ingulese divers supernal worship! Whatptineateles thrust-
• ee had •brotghtup f :Tics l spectlon"that-" ing their glittering spit t. •into the sun
"t• he hirnseit plungf e into the sea and that never sets! You do uot•scold the
'et
^Rent clear under the waves at •thet?risk inf acronines because they minuet ; build ate
his life;;.aga:in aud agate. and again, that :island in a day. Why shbuld you scold
he 'night know Moro of the corale. the. ourself because oueemendencomplete a
• beauty of which ho' indicates Carnot oven ' yourself
of holiness `for'the heart in this
be. guo&'tx13 those who . have only seen short lifetime? • Yon toll ane we do Wee above water, alio- s tier,. the poi �,pps) . earnment to 'necktie*, but tx iia 'after a,
which OW, its eoululier� and t;aiolutec''tai, th iresnd mil 'on a es`01 1}ak].freeliax1i 'Lot
'have died aid tile (lief glories of these, ean' to defile:101sta this- us :'roar' ilio an fell"& tentYfor a million
.submarine flowers. have expired. Job:iit ,,ntierieff ilius uti hi}` 'ct inity with God
divnne sLutpture in the cora reefs si o n e; donnas amoiwt to
theWeide, • ennlethmg VA kwh wind marvelously'
It cu kin situ S
a,,, wan did. not -,. 1 and. their' (e- µ r T7
see.,
'oet.rfi•tese-
$he victim's face and lmmediettly trans:
ferrel it to the canvas. Then be said to
the servant, "Moro torture,'° and ander
more torture. there -was a more thorough
expression of pain, and the artist sal:.:
"Stopthere. •Wait till 'catch that expres-
sion. There!• Now I have it upon the
canvas. Let loose the victim. I have a
work that will last forever." "Oh," you
say, "he was an inhuman painter!" No
doubt about it. Trouble is oruel and in-
-human, but he is a great painter aud out
of our tears and blood on his palette he
makes colors that never die. Oh, that it
might be a picture of Christian fortitude,
of shining hope!.
On the day I was licensed to preach
the gospel an old Christian man took
my hand and said, "My son, when you
get in a tight corner on Saturday night,
without any sermon, send for rue, and I
will preach for you." Well, it was a great
encouragement to be backed up by such
a good;old minister, and it was not long
before Igoe into a tight corAet on Satur-
day night, 'without any sermon, and I
'sent for the old minister, and he came
and preached, and it was the last sermon
he ever ee eached. An the tears 1
cried a't'. • his funeral could not
express my affection for that man,
who was willing to help nee met, f a tight
eornen. .A,h, my fricaule,,teehiit nes what
we all want—somebod `te'lieiti xs out of
a tight corner, You are in one now,
How do I know it? I am used to
judging of human countenances, and 1
see beyond the smile and beyond the
courageous look with which you hide
your feelings from others. 1 know you
are im,a,ttght corner. What bo do? Do as
I did wvheu:1 scut for old Dr. Scott. Do
better than I.did--send for the Lord God
of Daniel, and "of Joshua, and of every
other •roan who got into a tight corner.
"Oh,-" says some one, "why cauinot God
develop me through prosperity instead of
through adversity?" I will an wer your
question by asking another, Why dot,[e
not .God dye our northern pled, .temperate
seas.with 'coral? You say,: "The'sdtildr is
•nti€lint enough." There! In answering
my question you bar) answered your
own. Hot climates for richest specimens
of coral; hot trouble for the jewels of the
soul. , The coral fishers going out from.
Terre del Greece) never brought ashore
such fine specimens as are brought out of
the scalding surges of misfortune. I
loop down into the tropical sea, and there
is something that looks like blood, and
I say, "Brea there been a great battle
down there?" Seeming blood scattered all
up and down the reefs. It is the blood of
the coral, and it makes ins think of
those who come out of great tribulation.
A ' take your hand, and we walk
on tnreeela this garden of the sea and
look more particularly than we did at
the beauty of the coral. Tim poets have
all been fascinated with it. One of them
wrote:—
Thera, with a broad and easy motion,
Tho fan coral sweeps through the clear
deep sea,
And the yellow and scarlet tae s of the
acaan
Aro bent like corn on the upland lea.
Coral Specimens.
One specimen of coral is called the
tt so it is like a
dondrophilia boa tree; u ,
another is called the esteem because it is
like a star; another Is called the brain
cur.tl becausoit is like the uonvolutions of
the Truman brain; another is called fan
coral beoauso it is like the instrument
with which you cool yourself on a hot
day; another specimen is called the orgau
pipe coral because it resembles the king of
musical instruments. All the flowers
and all the shrubs in the gardens of the
land have their corrnspondenoies in this
garden of the sea, uorellum! It is a
synonym for beauty. And yet there is no
beauty in the coral compared with our
religion. It gives phy::lognomio beauty.
It does not change the features. It dons
not give the features with which the per-
son was not originally endowed, but it
sets behind the features of the homeliest
person a heaven that shines clear through.
So that often on first aequaiutlmce you
said of a man, "He is the homeliest per-
son I ever saw," when, after you carne
to understand him and his nobility of
soul shining trough bis countenance,
you said, "He is the lovollayt person 1
ever saw." No one ever had a homely
Christian mother. Whatever the world
may have thought of her, there wore two
who thought well—your father, who hau
admired her for 50 years, and you, over
whom she bent with so many tender
ministrations. When you think of the
angels of God and your mother among
them, she outshines them all. Oh, that
our young people could understand that
there isnothing that so much beautifies
the human countenance as the religion
of Jesus Christ.
Near my early home there was a place
called the Two Bridges. These bridges
leaped the two streams. Well, my friends,
the religion of Jesus Christ is two
bridges. It bridges all the past. It arches
all the future. It makes
w ^ the landing place of
\one glory..- It turns the
.:iv . - et • e t 'Ia e.ei '• he ;,race: in the soul
Ko out.. can a9:oid to•dopxeeer,, ee "'thee anyr,liing' I can think• of. "No
white pali►ces of the d4opr"liuLLF ree'o, eFon shall be inade of coral." • ,
God's dirmot1on. lie •nrtger c alribos T;is;
Tl,a Yia•tue of Patience.
plane for tao;building ettf ebeeeelands and
shear ns;'"anke—for uncounted thonsands of
years the Doral g�araeris and the coral
castles and the °Mial battlements go an
and up. 1 [barge you that you will please
God and please yourself if you will go
into the minute examination of the corals
--their foundations, their pinnaeles, their
aisles, their pillars, their curves, their
cleavages, their reticulation, their group•
ing—familles of them, towns of them,
cities of them and continents of them.
Indeed you cannot appreciate the mean-
ing of my text unless you know some-
thing of the coral—labyrinthian, stellar,
columnar, iioral, dented like shields from
battle, spotted like leopards, embroidered
like lace, hung like upholstery—twilight
and auroras and sunbursts of beauty!
From deep crimson to milk white are its
colors. Too may find this work of God
through the animalcule, SO fathoms down,
or amid the breakers, where tho sea
dashes the wildest and beats the mighti-
est and bellows the loudest. These sea
creatures are very busy. Now they build
islands in the center of the Waffle ocean.
Now they lift barriers around the con-
tinent. Indian ocean, Red soa and coast
of Zanzibar have specimens of their in-
finitesimal but sublime masonry. At the
recession of the tides you may in some
places see the top of their Alpine °lova-
• tions, while elsewhere nothing but the
deep sea soundings from the decks of the
Challenger, the Porcupine and the
Lightning of the British expedition can
announce them. The ancient Gauls
employed the coral to eularn their helmets
and the hilts of swords. 1 many lends
it has been used as amulets. Tho Alger-
ian reefs in one year (1878) had at work
amid the coral 811 vessels, with 3,150
sailors, yielding in profit $505,000. But
the secular and worldly value of the coral
is nothing as compared with the moral
and religious, as when, in my text, Job
employs it in comparison. I do not know
how any ono can examine a coral the
size of the thumb nail without bethink-
ing himself of God and worshiping him,
and feeling the opposite of rho great
infidel surgeon lecturing to the medical
students in the dissecting room upon a
human eye which he held in his hand,
showing its wonders of architecture and
adaptation, when the idea of God flashed
upon him so powerfully he cried out to
the students, "Gentlemen,ti erets a God,
but I hate him!" Picking up a coral, 1
feeilikeeryiug out, "There is a God, and
I adore him l" .
God and the Beautiful.
Nothing so impresses nee with the fact
that our God loves the beautiful. The
most beautiful coral of the world never
comes to human observation. Sunrises and
sunsets he hangs up for nations to look
at; he may green the grass and round
the dew into pearl and set on fire
autumnal foliage to please mortal sight,
but those thousands of miles of Doral
achievement I think he has had built for
his own delight. In those galleries he
alone. can walk. Tho music of those keys,
played on by the fingers of the wave, he
only can hear. The snow of that white
and the bloom of that crimson he alone
can see. Having' garnitured this world to
pleaseethe human race and lifted a glori-
ous heaven to please the angelic intelli-
gence, I am glad that he has planted
these gardens of the deep to please him-
self. But here and there God allows
• specimens of submarine glory to be
brought up and set before ns for sublime
contemplation. While I speak these great
nations of zoophytes, meaudrinas, and
madrepores, • with tentacles for trowel,
are building' just such coral as we .find in
our text. The -diamond may be more
raro, the crystal may be moresparkling,
the chrysoprase may be more ablaze, but
the coral is the long, deep, everlasting
blush of the sea. Yet Job, who understood
all kinds of precious stones, declares that
the beauty and value of the coral are
nothing compared with our holy religion,
and he picks up this ooraline formation
and: looks at it and flings it aside with
all the other beaietift l things he Das ever
.1110.4
Lord, help us to learn that which most
of us are deficient in --patience! If thou
cause take, through the sea anemones,
millions of year; to build ono bank of
coral, ought we not to be willing to do
work through ten year:, or 50 years with-
out complaint, without restlessness, with-
out chafing of spirit? Patience with the
erring; patience that wo cauuot bavo the
millennium in a few weeks; patience
with assault of antagonists; patience at
'what seems a slow fulfillment of Bible
promises; patience with physical ail-
ments; patience snider delays of Provid-
ence; grand, glorious, all uncltixiag, all
conquering patience! Patience like that
which niy lately ascended friend, Dr.
Abel Stevens, describes when writing of
one of Wesley's pre:tehnrs, .Talnn Nelson,
who, when a own had hint put in prison
by false charges end being for et• long
time tormented. b•v bis enemy, said,
"The Lord lifted up a stundardivhon the
anger was coming on like a flood, else I
should have wrung his neck to the
ground and set my -rheum, upon it." Pati-
ence like that of Pericles, the Athenian
statesman, who, when a man pursued
him to his- own door, hurling at him
epithets and arriving there when it had
become dark, sent his servant witee a
torah to light his enemy back to his
home. Patience) like that eulogized by the
Spanish proverb when it says, "I have
last the rings, but hexa are the fingers
still." Patience! The sweetest st:gar for
the sourest cup; the balance wheel for all
mental and moral machinery; the foot
that treads into placidity stormiest lake;
the bridle for otherwise rash tongues;
the sublime silence that conquers the
boisterous and blatant. Patience like
that of the nnaat illustrious example of
all the ages—Jesus Christ; patient under
betrayal; patient under the treatment of
Pilate's oyer and terminer; patient
under the expectoration of his assailants;
patient under flagellation; patient under
the charging spears of the Roman cav-
alry; patient unto death. Under all
exasperations employ it. Whatever comes
stand it. Hold one wait, bear up.
Christian Ifcpe.
Take my hand again, and we will go
a little farther into this garden of the
sea, and we shall find that in proportion
as the climate is hot the coral is wealthy.
Draw two isothermal lines at 60 degrees
north and south of the equator, and you
find the favorite home. of the coral. Go to
the hottest part of the Pacific seas and
you find the finest elpecimens of coral.
Coral is a child of the fire. But more
wonderfully do the heats and fires of
trouble bring out the jeweie of the
Christian soul. Those are not the stalwart
men who are asleep on the shaded lawn,
but those who are pounding amid the
furnaces. I do not know of any other
way of getting a thorough Christian
character. I will sheer you a 'picture.
Here are a father and a mother 30.or 35
years of age, 'their family around them.
It. is Sabbath nnoruing. They have
prayers: They hear the children's cate-
chism. They have prayers every day of
the week. They are in humble circum-.
stances. But, after awhile the wheel of
fortune turns up and the man gets his
$20,000. Now he has prayers on Sabbath
and every .day of the week, but he bas
dropped the catechism. The wheel of
fortune turnsup again, and he gets his
$80,000. Now he has prayers on Sabbath
morning alone. The wheel of fortune
keeps turning up, and he has $200,000,
and now he has prayers on Sabbath
morning when he feels like it and there
is no company. Th'e' • wheel of fortune
keeps on turning up,, and he has his
$800,000 and no prayers at all. hour leaf
clover in a pasture field is not so . ram as
family prayers in the houses of people
who have more than $800,000. But now
the wheel of fortune turns down, and
the man loses $200,000 out of the $300,-
000. Now on Sabbath morning he is on
a stepladder looking for a Bible under
the old newspapers on the bookcase.. He
is going to have prayers. His affairs are
and of and cries out in ecstacy' of more and more complicated, and after
awhile crash goes his last dollar. Now
he has prayers eve>y morning and he
hears his grandchildren may the catechism.
Prosperity took him away from God;
adversity drove him back to God. Hot
climate to make the, coral; hot and scald-
ing trouble to make •the jewels of grace
in the soul. We all hate trouble and yet
strikes me. nen looking at . it does a great dual for us. You have
frost ohing that ser wished
the Doral is its Tong contisiued accuinttla- heard perhaps of that painter 'who ss fax
turned uplike Cotopaxi, to. get an expression of great c s e. f
to
' not
e is
tion.servant� lash
rat is an oatbutting and an outbrancli- his canvas and who had his
ing 01 ages. In Polynesia there are more a man fast and put him to great torture,
kundreids of feet deep said 1,0e0 miles and then the artist' caught thelook
ceze
admiration for the superior qualities of
our religion, "No mention shall be made
of Doral."
Take my hand and we will walk
through this bower of the sea while I
showyon that even exquisite coral is not
worthy of being compared with the
richer jewels of a Christian. soul. The
and oversp<s
the dying; pi1
angels froth
sepulchere int A..tste•ti.3incj•orchardIt:,
:
oatcheseep the c g"';it t 'full=orchestra:
Coralllim! And e ithet does not express
the beauty. "N °'neutron shall be made
of coral." �`
opened a musical instrument and 1,1;,yed
and sang` with great enthusiasm, and
one of the numbers they rendered was -o
emotional that tears ran down their
cheeks while: they gang and plaveai.
Beethoven, sitting in the room, too dee!'
to hear the singing, was .cux'ious so know
what was the music that so oven?owerocl
then, and when they got through he
reached up and took the folio in his hand
and found it was his own music—Bee-
thovou's "Symphony in A"• -and he orlel
ouit, "I wrote that i" The household sat•
and stood abasbed to find that their poor -
looking guest was the great composer.
But he never left that bonse alive. A
fever seised him that night, and no relief
could be afforded, and in a few days he
died. But just before expiring ho took the
hand of his nephew, who had been sent
i'en m•l brei arrived, saying, "After. all,
litnnnnel. i must have had some talent."
Poor Beethoven! His work still lives,
:end In the twentieth century will be
better i n r • t &ne-
t a i tw'c'l.t od than it was its the n
eccnth, and a' long as there is on earth
,in uncl,e•etra; to play or an oratorio to
:iiug, Beethoven's nine symphonies will
be the enchantment of nations.
But you are not a composer, and you
ay that there is nothing remarkable
(bout yon—only a mother trying to
rear your family for usefulness and
heaven. Yet the songwithwhioh you sing
your child to sleep will never cease its
mission. You will grow old and die.
That son will pass out into the World.
The song with which you sang him to
sleep least night will go with 'rein while
he lives, a conscious or unconscious
restraint and inapiration hero and may
help open to him the gate of a glorious
and triumphant hereafter. The lullabies
of this emntury will sing through all the
centuries. The humblest good accom-
plished in time, will last through etern-
ity. I sometimes get discouraged, as I
suppose you do, at the vastness of the
-work and at how little we are doing.
And yet, do you suppose the rhizopod
said, "There is no need of my working;
I cannot build the cordilleras?" Do you
suppose the madrepore said, "There is
no need of my working; I cannot build
the Sandwich Islands?" Eaohone att ended
to his own business, and there are the
Sandwich Islands and there ` aro the ear-
dilleras. A.h, my friends, the redemption
of this world is a great enterprise. I did
not sco it start; I will not in this world'
see its close. I am only an insect as com-
pared with the great work to be done,but
yet I must do my part, Help build this
eternal corallum I will. My parent_
toiled on this reef long before I was
born. I pray God that my children may
toil on this reef long after I am dead.
Insects all of us, but honored by God to
help heave up the reef of light across
which shall break the ocean's immortal
gladness! Better be insiguifioant and
useful than great and idle. Tho mastod-
ons and megatherituns of the earth, what
did they do but stalk thou great car-
casses across the land and leave their
skeletons through the strata, while the
coral lines . went on heaving up the
islands all covered with fruitage and
verdure? Better bo a corallins than a
mastodon.
Power of Little Things.
I take your rharid again and walk ay'•
little farther moan this garden of the sea
and I notice pie. durability or the work
of the coral yr 'lefentgomeiy speaks of it.
He says, "Erika were thein; forms, ephe-
meral their lies.thele! masonry imperish-
able." RhitOpods .are insects so small
they are invi dole, and yet they built the
Appenines and they, planted for their
own monument the cordilleras. It takes
187,000,000 ref 'them to make one grain.
Corals are Winging the navigation of
the sea, says eg .to the commerce• of ono
world, ." Talfe this ohapnel e , "Take
that abeam " "Avoid the other channel."
Animalcules beating back 'the Atlanti r
and Rate-, seas. 'fit the insects.pf the
ocean haaQ,built a reef 1,000 ;inilefe`ionge
who knows but that theoep ay yet build
a reef. i3, leleei `miles ion$; slur'thus .dale by
one stone ebridge. Euro ' 1l ihoeinited
with . this co' tt9eptai este de and by
another stoii `IS?id e•- Asia will be l nited
with this continent on the other side,
and the tourist of the world, without the
turn of a stearner's wheel or the spread
of a ship's sail, may go all around tho
world, and thus befulfilled the prophecy,
"There shall be no more sea." •
VICork That Endures.
But the durability of the coral's work
is . not at ` all to be compared with the
durability of our work for God. The coral
is going to crumble in the Oros of the.
last day, but our. work for God will
endure forever. No more discouraged
main ever lived than Beethoven, the great
musical composer. 'ell mercifully criti-
cized by brother artistsand his music
sometimes rejected. Deaf for 25 years, and
'Vienna
0begfood
i way� o 'Pi n
ons
fiedh
oc
and lodging at a very plain house by the
roadside. In the evening the famil-,
CARED F
LITT
Short Sketch of the Work Done by the areae.
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toros);ito
A sketch of one of the grandest life-saving institutions in the world wild•`
retake interesting. reading at this glad season of the year. The Hospital for f
Sick Children is a noble charity. It is the largest children's hospital in the r
world, having 200 cots—eighteen more than has the great London Hospital in 1
Great ()monde street. Fifty of the most skilful physicians and surgeons of
Canada are on its medical staff.
The Hospital for Sick Children, with its convalescent branch on Toronto
Island, known as the Lakeside Home for Little Children, cost over $200,000.
Twenty-two years ago the hospital was opened in a small house in the city that
could accommodate but six cots. Out of small beginnings wnat a mighty work'
has been accomplished. Since that time 24,000 sick children have been bene- II
fitted by the ministrations of this great institution.
The first pati int was a three-year-old child, Maggie, who had fallen
backward in a tub of hot water. Since that time children suffering from
a
il:
ments.and deformities of every description have been co mltt d to the care of
the hospital.
The present building is one of the architectural monuments of the city.
It is built to last for ages—of Credit Valley stone and pressed brick,
Last year nearly five thousand children were treated at the Hospital.
OE these about 500 were indoor patients, being nursed and cared for during
their sickness in the Hospital. The rest received medical advice and ^- ,
from the dispensary. ?`
These patients were received from all parts of the Province of Ontario..'
Nearly every county was represented. ;,
The hospital is open to every child in the Province, and open free to dveryr'•(
child whose parents cannot afford to pay for proper medical and surgical at-
tendance.
It costs 87 cents a day for each child admitted to the hospital.
The average : toy of children in the hospital is 57 days.
It costs $2,400 a month—nearly $1,0,000 a year—to pay all the expenses of
the numerous sick members in the family of this great Motb it Nurse.
Out of 476 patients admitted to the hospital last year 812 were absolutely w
cured, while 109 made much improvement. "f
Little things deckle great things. All
that tremendous . career of the last
Napoleon hanging on the hand of n
brakeman who, on one of our American
railways, caught hen as he Was falling
between the cars of a flying train The
battle of Dunbar was decided against the
Sootah because their matches had given
out. Aggregations of little things that
pull down or build up. When an army or
a regiment come to a bridge they aro
always commanded to break ranks, for
the simultaneous tread will destroy the
strongest bridge.
A bridge at Anglers, France, and a
bridge at Broughton, England, went
down because the regiment kept step
while orossing. Aggregations of tempta-
tion, aggregations of sorrow, aggrega-
tions of assault, aggregations of Christ-
ian effort, aggregations of self -sacrifices
—these make the irresistible power to
demolish or to uplift, to destroy or to
save. Caere causes and great results.
Christianity was introduced into Japan
by the falling overboard of a pocket Bible
from a ship in the Harbor of Tokyo.
Written on the fly leaf of one of my
books by one when God took to himself
out of our household wore the following
words. I do not know who composed
thorn. Perhaps she composed' them her-
self :—
Not a sparrow falloth but its God doth
know,
Just as when his mandate lays a
monarch low;
Not a leaflet waveth but its God doth
see
Think not, then, 0 trembler, God for-
. getteth thee!
For more precious surely than the birds
that fly
Is a Father's ..;ihnlguge to a Father's eye.
E'en thine hairs aro numbered. Trust
hi!# 'is'l'and free,
'Oast tley. eats; upon bine, and he'll,care
' f
. cj%tltee.
For the3Goft that planted:' in thy breast
a"send
On his; -sacred tables ;.doth thy nanne
enroll.
.Cheer thine heart, thou trembler, never
faithless be. y`
He that marks lie sparrow will le
member thee -:
ph, be encouraged! Po not: ieny yuan
say, "My- writ is so srii'ai.°a 'Do not any
woman efiy: "My woxX�;•••.`z"s so instgniil=:
cant. I cannot do wetting . for ' the up-,
building of God's -1dee.weeneeee .You eatne,,
Remember the corAtens: .A. Chasse �o�a
mother sat sewin, it, garxrfent -bnilehnx
girl irl wanted bo hip her, slid •`so she
sewed on nngtei5r Ape of -.",the same
garment an brou;,lr,..it •to her mother,
.and the work wasecoiret•eked_ It was im•
perfectaud had toebe all taken out again.
But did the. mother chide the child? Oh,
no. She said, "She ,wanted to bolt) nue,
and she ` did as well as she could." And
so the mother blessed the ,child, and
while she blessed the ohild she thought*
of herself and said: "Perhaps it may be
so with my poor work at the last. God
will look at it. It may be very imperfect,
and I know it is very crooked. He may
have 'to -take it all out. But he knows•
that 'I want to serve him, and he knows
it the best that i mode." So be core
forted in your Christian work. Five
thousand minion corailines made one
corallum. And then they passed away
and other millions came, and the work is
wonderful. But on the day when the
world's redemption shall be consummated,
and the names of all the millions of
Christians who in all ages have toiled on
this structure, shall be read, the work
will appear se, grand and the achievement
so glorious and the durability so "no mention Shall everlast
ing that
• ' n 1 be made of
...
coral.''
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A group of little boys whose manned and deformed limbs are being straightened tit the Hoe -pita
for Sick Children, Toronto. (Reproduced from photograph).
Would you believe that people allow this sweetest of all charitie's to
stagger under a heavy debt—a load that hampers and harasses ',the -henna ,
every day in the year? It is so. There is a debt of $70,000. rap dile hospital,
Of this amount $20,000 is owing the bank on an overdrawn account, and the,.
trustees hope that t' is sum may be forthcoming before We' end of January—in
time to meet the de, tends of the bank. They are msiking an appeal to the peo-
ple of the Province to help them in this emergency, •'
"Foot to foot—'tis Mereyman$ate,
'When is heard the plaintive sigh—
Hungry, thirsty, homeless, naked,
On the wings of aidto fiy.
Hasten—mitigate the grief—
Hasten—bear him quick relief."—Morris.
Inasmuch as the hospital's doors swing open to the call of any and every
sick child in the Province, the trustees issue their appeal to every resident of
the Province.
Everyone can help. Every penny is an aid. Every dollar helps. Be-
quests and donations are solicited. 3
In this appeal for aid the hospital requests you, the reader of this article,. '
to do what you can. Your dollar will bless you in the giving. The little pain-
stricken
ainstricken children cry to you for money that will mitigate their sufferings—per-
haps save their lives.
You may rescue a child that will prove a direct blessing to yourself.
You may give to -day that which will help save the child of your poorer
neighbor to -morrow.
Whatever you may feel disposed to give—be the amount large or small --
should be forwarded without delay to J. Ross ROBERTSON, Chairman of the
Trust, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.
Hlondike htonsekeeping.
A woman writes from Ramiport City,
on the Yukon river, about housekeeping
in the Xlondike. "It is impossible to
escape the dirt," she says. "Every pore
of the skin is filled with it, and all
clothing is ruined. There is some sort
of mineral deposit—gold perhaps—
which acts upon the skin and clothing
and grinds into them. Washing does
not remove it, but produces a gummy
substance, which the strongest soap
won't out. This dirt is the hardest thing
I have to endure. I like the country.
The air is fine and clear, with glorious
sunsets on mountain and river. We
have an $800 log cabin—just a hut,
with one room,, one window, a bunk
and a place fora. stovepipe. There are
no beds Ii the whole town there is but
one cot,`.Sv*th•niattress, and that is ours.
Onreeetleia is situated on a hill com-
manc ing 'line views of both bends in the
river".
`There eke/it—bout 400 inhabitants
here The'newcomers, like ourselves,
are:'We1i provisioned. Those who have
"been bele all summer have but little
glad Libor prospects of more. The sane -
:tion is alarming. . We were aroused
'night before .last, after midnight, by a
summons to go down to the store and
attend a meeting for the purpose( pre-
venting a steamer, which had just come
in, from taking her provisions any far-
ther. Dried fruits, butter, evaporated
potatoes, kerosene oil, etc., are $1 a
pound. A stove which sells in Seattle
for $12 brings $45 here and is not to be
had except occasionally. We have every-
thing almost in one form or another
except.fresh meats. Eggs and milk we
have desiccated and condensed, likewise
potatoes and onions, and we have excel-
lent appetites.
"There are three other ladies in ` the
town. In fact, we are the most unique
crowd that ever Dame to a mining camp.
Lawyers, doctors, brokers, teachers, so-
ciety men --all are here.' -New York
Post.
A Buried City In Central America.
A buried city like that of Ponnpoii is
being excavated in Central America, at
the foot of the volcano Ague. Pottery,
fine glassware, jewels, dint instruments
and human 'skeletons over 6 feat long
have beau taken out at depths of 14 feet
to 18 feet.
D -O -D -DS
THE PECULIARITIES OP
THIS WORD.
No Name on Earth So Famous ,
—No Name More. Widely
Imitated.
No name on earth, perhemo, io SO wed
known, more peculiarly constructed ap
more widely imitated than the word,
DODD. It possesses 'a peculiarity that
makes it stand out prominently and fame -
ens it in the memory. It contains fou
letters, but only two letters of the alpha-
bet. Everyone knows that the first kid-
ney remedy ever patented or sold in pill
form was namieed DODD'S. Their disooi-
ery startled the medical profession the
world over, and revolutionized the treat-
ment of kidney diseases.
No imitator has ever sucoeeded is
constructing a naine`posseasing the pecu-
liarity of DODD, though they nearly ale
adopt names as similar as possible 111
sound and oonstruotion to this. Thole
foolishness prevents them re lining that
attempts to imitate increase he fame ea
Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Why is the name "Dodd's Kidney 1
Pills" imitated? As well ask why are
diamonds and gold imitated, Because
diamonds are tbs most preoione genie,
gold the most precious metal. Dode's
Kidney 'Pills are innitated fondues they
are the most valuable :medioine the world
has ever known. No medioirne ever oured
Bright's disease except Dodd'a Kidney :
Pills. • No other inedioine has cured as
many oases of Rheumatism, Diabetes!,
Heart Diseaiie, Lufnbago, Dropsy, rd,
male Weakneos, and other kielhey Me-
ows as Dodd's Kidney Pills hart,, -ea i
universally known that tbay 'have moveo
failed to ours them e,. •tee sen ,*nems! ity
dei) sad siraiill'•' r tlinr tela.
are so wi �. - � �p�;`
A. Lively Year Coming '
Old -Moore's almanac, which ,'on no:.
toriety'tlie past year by preclioting" the
Paris the, prediots for 1898 , a terrible
oiol war in the United States, the
death
of the ozar and the kidnaping of cad
young kin of Spain, and about th
second week -"'of November of that yes;•
oom ntication will erred u with
m wllboo
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