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relied tour, him selected ire the' subject
,,diser's sermon through the pt'essi "An
Son i'' the text ohethe being Luke 7,
N I en He c me eights) the oate
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mity,behold,therewee a dead man 0331'
out, the ,only soh of his mother,and she
-a 4 h 1 f th 't
NVI: Ow: an mem peep tio 0.01, y was
her. And when the Lord saw ber,lie
mospession on her, and said unto her,
i not. And he came and touched the
and they that bare him stood eta).
,
lie said, Young man, I say unto thee
And He that was dead sat up, and
k to s k And li 14•• d h' t
pea . e,(,... were im 0
aother."
i text calls us to stand 'Sh ''Ite gate af
ity of Nein. The streets are a -rush
business and gayety a d the ear is
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ned with the hammers of mechanism
he wheels of traffic. Work with ite
and &erns and thousand eyes, and
and feet fills all the street, when
lily the crowd parts, and a funeral
i. Between the wheels ot work and
ire there comes a long procession of
-
sing Reople. Who is it ! A trifler
" Oh, it s nothing but a funeral. It
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were come up from the hospitae of the
w the almshouse, or some low place
1 town. :" but not so saws the serious
ver. There are so many evidences of
ereavernent that we know at the first
d wine one has been taken away
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.y• beloved ; and to our inquiry,
.o is this that is carried out with so
offices of kindness and affection d'
mply comes "The only son of his
kr, and she is a widow." Stand back
ni the procession pass out ! Hush all
moes of mirth and pleasure ! Let
head be uncovered 1 'Weep with this
ig procession ; and let it be told
gh all the marketplaces and. bazars
in that in Galilee to -day the sepulchre
gathered to itself " the only son. of
ether, and she is a widow. '
re are two or three things that, in
Ind, give special pathos to this scene.
rst is, he was a young raan that was
carried out. To the aged, death
Lel beautiful. The old man halts and
along the road, where once he bound.
a the roe. From the midst' of framed-
ailments and sorrows, . he ories out,
,.• long, 0 Lord, hoe, long 9" Footsore
ardIy bestead on the hot journey, he
to get' home. He sits in the church,
digs, with a tremulous voice, some
le sang forty years ago, and longs to
the better assemblage of the one
ed and forey and four thousand, and
Lonsands of thousands who have passed
led. How sweetly he sleeps the last
Push back the white locks from the
led temeles; they will never aohe again.
he hand's over the still heart; they vvill
toil again. Close gently the eyes;
will never weep again. •
this man I am speaking of was a
man. He was just putting on the
ef life, and he was exulting to think
is sturdy bloers would ring ont above
eager of the battle. I suppose he
young man's hopes, a young man's
ens, and a young man's courage.
d, "If I live many years, I will feed
agcy. and clothe the naked. In this
' Nabs, where there are so many bad
men, I will be sober, and honest, and
end magnanimous, and my mother
ever be ashamed of me." But all
prospects are blasted in one hour.
he passes lifeless in the procession.
l all that is left on. earth of the high-
d young man of the city of Nein.
m is another thing that adds very
to this scene, and that is, lie was an
in. However large the family flock
i, we never could think of sparing one
Iambs. Though they may all leave
salts, they all have their excellences
anmend them to the parental heart ;
t were permeptorily demanded of you
that you should yield up one of your
a out of a very large family, you
be confounded, and you could not
a selection. But this was an only
ound whom gathered all the parental
etions. How much care in his educe-
How much caution in watching his
! He would carry down the name to
Imes. He would have entire control
1 family property long after the
3 had gone to their last reward. He
stand in society a thinker, a worker,
ianthropist, a Christian. • No no !
1 ended. Behold him there. ireath
1 Life is extinct I The only eon of
ther
a was one other thing that added to
hos of this scene, and that was his
' was a vviduw. The main hope of
me had been broken and now he
me up to be the safe The chief
f the household had been main-
l, and this. was the only light left.
leo she often said, looking at hint,
, are only two of us." Old it is a
hing to see a young man step out
end. say to his mother, !, Don't be
earted. I will , se far as possible,
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%her'o place, and as long as I live
11 never want anything." It is• not
•that way Sometimes the young
get tired of the old people, They
Y are queer ; that they have Uo many
s ; artd they sonietimee wish thorn
the way. A yoang mars msct his
i at the teble, their little eon on tide
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eying beneath the table. The old
Was very' old, and hie hands shook
• old, " You shall no mords sit with
3 table." And Bo they gave, him a
the corner, where day ley . day he
of au es,rtken bowl—everything
s that . bowl, One day hist hand
i so mech. he .dropped it and it
ind the eon, seated' et the elegant
mid,floor, said to his wife, "Sow
i father .4 wooden bowie and that
t break." So a weodett howl was
l, and every dap old grendhethei.
if that, eitt4ag in the cornet% One '
Cie the 'elegant young man and his
!e yeated at the table, with chewed
id. a41 lonries • and their little
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upon the nom', t(ley saw thelad
g, and they said, " My. son, what
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are you dolig ehere with, 'that knife t'
" Old" ekaa he., ,. i—rtn neekieg a troligle
' fel my ftether' end Moeher ed eat mit of
. when they get 0141" • -
• Bat this young • man of , the text was. no
of thet ehereater. lice did. not beloug 'to
'that 011901$ 1; eau tell it front the WO they
' meuriled over hied lie eves to be ehe Qom-
Panicle Of' hie tnether, ' fie 'Wes to, he his
mother's protector, li,e would return now
some of the kled,oese be h.ee. received la
th days of child' d a b eh 4 A
e . me ah. ..0 QC . y,
he would, with hss 'strong hand uphold that
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form already enfeebled With age. Will he
do it? No. In
, ,. ,, one, bout- all that promise
of help end oMpanionship is gone. Teeth
is a wo ed f ' • h " th t h t
i o anguis in a otie s or
phrase, "The only eon, of his mother, and
ab'e is a WidQW'''
• • Now My friends it waa upon this scene
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that Chriet broke. Re camo in without
any introduction. He stopped the proces-
sion. ile, had only twolitterances. to make;
the one to the mourning mother, the other
to the dead. lie cried out to the mourning
one, "Weep nom" and thene touching the
bier PDO which the son lay, he cried out,
"'Young man, I say unto thee Arise!'
And he that was dead. sat up.' t '
I learn two or three things from thie
subject, and, first, that Christ was a man,
Yon see how that sorrow played upon all
the chords of His heart, I think we forget
this too often. Christ 'was. a man more
certainly than you are, for He was a per.
feet man. No sailor ever slept in a • ship's
hammock more soundly than Christ slept
in that boat on Gennekkaret. In every
mei nd us 1 1 b d fib f
ve, a ,rn c e, ant . one, an
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His bodys in every motion and affection of
His hearte in every action and decision of
Ilia mind, He was a man. He looked off
upon the sea just as you look •off upon the
waters. He went into Martha's house just
as you go into a cottages He breathed
hard when He was tired, just as you do
when you are exhausted. He felt after
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sleeping out a night in the storm us
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nice you do when you - have been exposed.
to a tempest. It was just as humiliating
for Him to beg bread as it would be tor you
to become a pauper. He felt just as much
lted b being sold for thirty pieces of
isillsvuer as yYon woidd if you were Sold for
the price of a dog. From the crown of the
head to the sole of the foot He was a man.
When the thorns were twisted for His
brow, they hurt Him just as muah as they
hurt your brow, if they were twisted for it.
He took not on Him the nature of 1 •
ange s,
tie took on Him, the seed of Abraham.
homoi"—Behold the ma 1 '
"Eoce . n.
But I must also draw from this subject
that He was a God. ' Suppose that a • man
should attempt to break up' a funeral obste.
quy be would ,be seized by the lawe he
- ' d if he l
would be emprisone , were not settle -
ly slain by the mob before the officers could
secure hi '
m. If Christ had been a. mere
mortal, would He have a right to corns in
upon such a procession ? Would He have
succeeded in His interruption 1 He was
more then a man, for when He had cried
out, " 'I say unto thee, Arise r he that
was dead sat up." What excitement „there
must have been thereabouts ! The body
had lain prostrate. It had been.' mourned
over 'with agonizing tears, and yet now it
begins to move in the shroud, and to be
flushed with life; and at the command of
Christ, he rises up and looks into the faces
of the astonished spectators. Oh, this was
. the work of a God ! I hear it in His voice;
I see it in the flash of His eye ; I behold it
in the snapping of death's shackles ; I see
it in the face of the rising slumberer ; I
hear it in the outcry of all those who were
spectators of the scene. If, when I see
my ,Lord Jesus Christ mourning with the
bereadechr Put my. hands en His shoulders,
ease "My brother " now that I hear Him
proclaim supernadmal deliverances, I look
up into His face and say with Thomas,
"My Lord and my God ?" A great many
people do not believe that, and' they corn-
promise the 'matter or they think they
compromise it. They say He was a very
good man, but He was not a God. That is
impossible ; He was either a God or a
wretch, and I will prove it. If a man pro-
fesses to be that which he is not, what is
he ? Ile is a liar,an imposter, a hypocrite.
This is your unanimous verdict. Now,
Christ professed to be a God. He said over
and over again He was a God, took the
attributes of a God,and assumed the Works
and offices of a God. Dare you now say
He was not 1 He was a God, or He was a
wretch. Choose ye. -
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Do you think I cannot prove by this
Bible that He was a God ? If you do not
believe this Bible, of course there is no
need of my talking. to you. There- is no
common data from which to start. Sup.,
pose you do believe it ? Then I can demon-
atrate that 'He was divine. I can prove He
was Creator, d'ohn 1 : 3, " All _things were
made by Him • and without Him was not
anythine made that was made." H
—e was'
eternal, Rev. 32: 13, "I am Alpha and
Omega, the beginning and the end, the
first and the last." I can prove that he
was omnipotent, Heb. 1 : 10, 'The heavens
are the work of Thine hands." I can prove
He was omniscient, John 2 : 25, „He
knew what was in man." Oh, yes, He is
a God. He cleft the sea. He 'upheaved
the crystalline walls along which the
Israelites marched. He planted the moun-
tains., He raises up. governments and casts
down thrones, and merches across nations
and across universe, eternal, omnipotent,
unhindered and- unabashed. That hand
that was nailed to the Cross holds the stare
in a leash of love. That head that dropped
on the bosom in fainting and death shall
make the world quake at its nod. That
voice that groaned in the last pang shall
awear before the trembling world that time
shall be no longer. Oh, do not insult the
common sense of the reef: by telling us that
this, Persen was only a man, in vrhose pre-
sence the paralytic arm was thrust out well,
and the devils crouched and the lepers
dropped their scales and the tempests
folded their wings, and the boy's satchel of
a few loaves made a banquet for five thou-
sand, and 'the off procession oe my text
broke up in eongretulation and hosanna 1
Now, I have th tell you, 0, bruised soul,
and there ere mariy everywhere (have you
ever loOketdover any great audience and
noticed how many shedowe of soma,* there
are?) eome to all such arid say, " Christ
meets lett, and He•has compassion oti yon,
end he says.) 'Weep not,'" Perhaye with
some it is financial trouble. " Oh, ''' you
gay, "It is such a silly _thing for a 'man to
ory over lost meneee" Itt it ? 'Suppose
you had a large fortune, arid all luxurlea
brotight to your table, and. your wardrobe
was full and your home wau beautified by
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motile . and touipture and peinting, and
throoged by the elegant and educated, 'and
then some rough misfortune shoild strike .30th
you in the, face and trample yews. ereaeuees
and taunt yeur children, for their faded
deesse and send you into commercial circles
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iste thedeiling evh.ere once you waved a seep.'
tre et goht, do, you think you would ay
thee ? ' I ehhink You WoulsL But Christ
(lotto' meat meets all treoh towlay., lie beets
all the streets in which, you have been
thrust. tte olseervest the peer of that man
who once Vas proud to Walk in your shad.
ow, and glad to get your help. ,Re eeett.the
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proteated note, the uneencelled indgthent,
the fereolosted. inortglige the heert.ereakng,
eXatIperatiter. and Re says, "Weep. met. 4,
own the eettle on a thougand hills. X will
never let yeti starve, Prom mY hand, the
fowla (Almaden peek ell thete• feed. 4.0c1
Will 'f let you starve 1 Weveredn°: 'IV' °ilia'
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` Or nerimpa this. tremn at the gate Of
Nain has en (who in your own bereft
spirit S Yeu event mit to the grew% and
you felt y never eould came hack again
, . •ou , , e
Y'Qa left your home) there. The , white
sneer of deeth covered ell, the garden. Yon
listen for the opea.long ot •voices thet, will
never be heard again, and the sounamg of
fe t ti t 'it ver' move in yerir dwelling
e . ite wx .ne .
again, and there is a heavy, leedee press-.
ure on. your heart Goa has dashed out the
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light of rue eyes, and the heavy spirit
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thae tha woman carried, mit of the gate of
Nein is no heavier than yours. And you
open the deer, but he conies not in. And
you enter the nursery, but he is not there.
And you sit at the table, hut" there is a
vacant chair next to, you. And the sun
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does uot shine as brightly as it used to, ane
the voices of affection . do riot strike you
with so uick a thrill and our cheek has
q , y .
not so healthy a hue, and your eye has not
SO deep a fire, Do I not know? Do we pot
all know? There is an uplifted woe on your
heart. You have been out carrying your'
loved one beyond the gate of the city of
Nein. But look yonder. domeone stands
watching. He seems waiting for you. As
you come uP He stretches out His hand of
help. His voice is full of tenderness, yet
thrills with eternal strength. Who is it?
e very ne w o aceoste e mourner a
Th 0 h ' d th t
the gate . of'Nain, and ac,, says, "Weep
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not- .
' Perhaps it is a worse grief thatrthat. It
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may be a living home trouble that you
cannot speak about to your best friend, • It
may be some domes* unhappiness. It
reay be an evil. temp . y
icion It ma be the
disgrace following in the ,footsteps of a son
th t • d • 1 •
a is waywar , or a • companion w to is
cruel, or a father that will not do right ;
and for years theie may have been a vulture
king its bleak into the vitals of your
stri . . .
soul, and you sit there to-dey feelmg it Is
worse than death. It is• It is Worse than
death. And yet there is relief. Though
the night mey be the blackest, though the
voices o y
' f hell may tell on to curse God and
die look up and hear the POire that accost-
ed ihe Woman of the text as it says, "Weep
not." • •
Earth hathno sorrow
That Heaven cannot curo.
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e learn again, from all t ts that hris t is
the master of the grave. dust outside the
gate of the city, death and Christ measured
lances; and when the young man rose,
Death dropped. Now ,we are sure of our
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resurrection. Oh, what a scene it ,was
h th t b le 1 Th
w en a young man came ac . e
mother never expected to hear him speak
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again. She never thought that he would
kiss her again. How the 'tears started,
d h h t th bb d h 'd
an how er ear ro e as s e see ,
d Oh, my son, my son, my son 1" And that
scene is going to be repeated. It is going
to be repeated ten thousand times. These
brokeia famiy Circles have got to come to-
gather. These extinguished household
lights have got to be rekindled. There will
be a stir in the family lot in the cemetery,
and there will be a rush into life at the com-
mend, " Young men,I say 'onto thee,
Arise !" As the child shakes off the dust
of the tomb, and comes for th fresh and
fair and beautiful, and you throw your
arms around it and press it to your heart;
angel to angel will repeat the story of
Nand' " He delivered him to his mother.»
Did. you notice that passage in the text as
I read it ? "He delivered him to his
mother." Oh, ye troubled souls 1 Oh ye
who have lived.to see every prospect blasted,
peeled, scattered, consumed 1 wait. a little.
The seed -time of tears will become the
wheat harvest. In a clime cut of no wintry
blast, under a sky palled by no hurling
tempest, and amidst redeemed ones that
weep not, that part not, that die not,
friend will come to friend, and kindred
will join,. kindred, and the long procession
that marches the avenues of gold will lift
up their palms as again and again it is an-
nounced that the same One who came to
the relief of many a maternal heart, and
' repeated the wonders of resurrection, and
"delivered him to his mother." Oh, that
will be the harvest of the _world. That
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will be the coronation of princes. That will
be the Sabboth of eterhity, •
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. Dieet domed i,•d . Weseepott- of Kegedeld?
h sh id th. k / did ., I , , RI f
the etilie e.h:ns;rah mar'ried. ulY:t4it dei:ieest71,
lishMent Was brok. en hp,' Aud . before that
we hed knewn each tder BS girls though
eur positions' of 'Oo 9.'"'' were' der; differ.
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out. •
She Was just eaves') .o••• , •when she wets
married, 'awl I was aboht a year older, ahd
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as eaPpenee PISS then to be at home, 0 ie
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was as pteatiee as possible to,have me. • It
w as re Owned that she had made a good
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match, as kr. Richard ' Westoott was sup-
ported to be very well-to-do. At any rate,
he alwaye, rode fi.ne horsed, spent his m oney
freely, and after the marriage would have
the housekeeping go on in the mot expen.
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sive etyle.
For the arst two ears I acted as Mrs.
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Westeott's maid and then when the first
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child, a boy, was born, I was made nurse.
, Well, for the lest three years things
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went on all right, with plenty of flue
pareies and. an open house to all corners,.
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when stiddeniy a orash came, and it Was.
found that Mr Richard West ott was b
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means so rich as he had made peo le
no . p
believe.
•He had deceived his own wife as much
d ' ' bl bl t
as anybo y, and it was a terri e aw 0
find hat they were in debt right
her to t
and left. As soon as she discovered how
matters stood, she set to work to straight-
. ' ,
en things as much as she was able. See
l. l
was a Mt e woman, and quiet, too, in her
b t h h d th ' 't d fi • • f fift
way, u • s e a e spin an re o y
men gentle as she seemed. She hated a
,
poison. le cou wear
debt worse than ' SI ld
tt dl k Id • it—a
a co on wrapper an oo a a y m y,
and WA willing, too, so that they oould
f •th tl btt b d d•
pay or i ones y— u o e resse in
owe peop e money was
fine clothes, and 1
a an wormwoo o er.
g 11 d d t h
• Her first stroke was in housekeeping.
Three servants out of the five were at once
dismissed. She kept me and cook • and as
3
all the company they used to see kept far
enough away, now that the junketing wee
over, We ' could manage the work easily
enough, '
Week in • week out no one came to the
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house except Mr. %George Westott, Mr.
h. . ,e, , , ....
ld bachelor
•th :
ichard s uncle. tiee•was an o .
very rich, and very queer in his ways. Re
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d f 11 t k ld t
was a won er u y ou spo en o man, oo.
One day the nephew must have been ask-
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ing him to help him fel, he broke out, right
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e‘oeimok ne e Dielt " a h " I o 't
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ther o•red cu a dollar or lend you a dollar.
dh, 0, 7 . ..„
.11.•,:;'" it t all I own
ut ti t en won t par wi ar, so
eV 11121 deld yel'r beyt wi•thgea doll '
don't bother me." •
e as red as c and•
The h t d fir •• '
nep _ew utiir: t ,
went straight o ! he room.
Old Mr. Wescott s fancy was to collect
diamonds, and in. that way he was as odd as
in everything else. Instead of having them
bright and shining, he used to buy them
When they looked like rough pieces of stone.
I've seen him showing them to Mrs. West-
cote, and saying they were worth thousande
of dollars, when all the while they didn't
1 k rth th i ' ht • '
oo wo e r weig utlirom.
He lived about five mi es thstant, and
when he intended to be away from home,
he would bring over a big leather case in
which he kept these diamonds, and leave
This made
them in his nephew's care. Mrs.
Westcott very uneasy, and two or three
times she urged him to put them in the
bank at Oakford, where they wouldbe safer..
However he wouldn't hear of suoh a thin
d as the did 't ieh t offe d id th g'
au . y m w • o n im, ey
let him have his own way.
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b 1. remember wen, it was amout a week
efore one Christmas when he drove over
d left this case with them as usual as be
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as off on a trip to Europe.
W "Id •hh ld 'td " 'd
o wis e wou n o 330, BM my
tnistress. " It makes me ver uncomfor-
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table to have such valuable things in the
house which are not our own."
Early the next morning I was sweeping
the stoop, when two rough -looking men
came up and asked where Mr. Richard
Westcott was. As it happened, he crossed
the hall as they were speaking and came
oat at once.
One gave bim a paper to read, and no
sooner had he looked at it than he turned
as white as a sheet. ,
He drew the men aside and spoke to
them for a few moments, and then they
went away.,
0 " No longer than three days, sir, at t he
utside," said one of them as he turned to
go. It wee evidently some other extrava-
gance of his turning up and no money to
meet the bill.
An bout afterward I was passing the
stables when I saw Mr. Richard leading
saddled out into the
his horse, ready , yard.
"Jane," said he, tell . your mistrese Tins
going out on business, and may not get
back before tiamorrow."
To any one but , myself this would have
seemed a most curious message, considering
that the mistress was just indoors, and he
might have told her himself. But I saw how
e land la at once He eves oin to be ,
th Y • g g g
some of his acquaintances to help him, end
she would have died soone ,than bewher
borrow of an one
y . '
He knew that well enOty d B0 ...? was
- '
slipping off without her knowledge.
T hat day, Sarah, the cook, hacitobteined
i ' t
perm sown o go to Oakford to itte her say,
friends, returning, as it was some distance,
the next morning, BO thats unless Mr.
sto i a
We ott ret irne , we .should be quite
alone for the night. the
ert wint
The eh er day went by, the even- steppe
log began to close in, and he had not re-
turned. In the afternoon the little boy little
had been rather feverish, and, as the even-
ing wore. on, he was worse. and both of us
sat by him all" the time. It grew lathe, rouud
and still Mr. Westcott had net come home, from
We were sittin in the 'nurser when the
g y , ,
clock struck eleven, - ,, : '
"E 'd 1' 'M W t - .' '
vs. mit y r. Witco t is not ceming sharply
back tn./light, jane," said mY mietresa,
"so you may make the hove secure." thought
She wend round with me, and we saw
every, bolt' and loek fastened, exanfining
the windows carefully.' In doing this eve
that the 'window in et• entail room
opening into the hell was Unfastened, and
open. I • said at once that 1 had eleethe
not left it, like that, . •
6 6 u .8 0; .
e mus , Iv ak, to Sarah alas t th, , seed
Mtg. WeStOott. "She must have been very if
careless to leave the WitidoW ajar hi this
• • . '
We made it tecirre and then keturned up
•
I had been geieg to, put out the.
big iamh ih the lially when my mistress them
o ihe 0 cave i a ig • •
• ''
"I'vei heard•thatplenty of lights burning
Will make a gook protection tor a bontited
said she,"so. leave three or fear lamps belly
Alight, as if • we wore Up." • • '
, Id a little. while she Pala that I might
to tO'.bed, aed. she WOU14 eit• Up. with ihe
hasigh etiver:'-idl:dd hiewheads ihneht e'hlatth:,1:e4PtYa,yaila:
in ode anYehing Should be weanted."
We had lredwil each °Ober e° long that
WelWere_nnot eXactly like an.. ordinery mis-
•
trees anh sertent, sO she Agreed. ' ' '
As I seid, we were. sitting up 'in the
'memory, which was, immediately above the
'Odle room Where We had.found the window
lenastened. Beth rortme looked mit tut a
small court -yard, 'which' had me direct con-
notion with the hOuee. •
• It Was about au hoer later, when all of a
, ... .
sudden we both jumped and looked, at each
other. What was that ? ,We listened
without drawing a breath, There it •was
again. - Some one moving about quietly,
but still we could hear their steps on the
flags of the yard. under the window.,
It could net be Mr. Westoott, for there
was no door there. who was it ?
If I live o b 1 n e
t e a h i dred I shall n ver
forget that moment. I felt sick with
,.
IriFhb• •
' 'he diamon se flashed into my m ne
' ` d " ' i
like lightning. , I knew they were in the
house, X was so silly with fear that' I
hardly knew what 1 was doing, and I must
have a' "
8 id The diamonds" aloud, for my
mistress said, sharply :
" Be quiet, Jane."
. f.i 0 ears ahem, Whoever
We trained ur '
it was theY were trying the Window which
we had found unfastened. e •
" There is some one trying to break into
the house J " 'd ' t
ane, sai my mut ress, as
ll • ," '
coo y as if it were quite the• regular thing.
As soon as her first shart was over she was
as calm as possible.
" Yes'm," said I, for t didn't know what
else to say. The baby woke again and be-
gem to whimper. She took him up in her
arms laying her cheek down to his and
,
quieting him. •
Then she carried h own the
' im up and d
room, listening with all her might.
ras i. i y eart eape into my mout .
0 11-Vf h 1 d' h
The window below had been broken, so
that the oatch might be reached from the
outside
'
It was certainly sorne one very well ao-
quainted with the state of the house at the
'
time, tor the lamps were burning as bright-
ly in the hall as if the whole household
were at home and astir. ,
When my mistress heard the noise of
the glass, she stop a her w lk ahd laid
. pe a
the baby again in his crib.
Without a word,. she went outs amd. I
followed to the door. I saw her gto to a
spare room at the other end of the corridor,
where Mr. Richard kept his guns and fish-
ing-rode and such like.'
She was back in a moment 'th di
vet a ride
and a box of the little cartridees you
' th Sh k h - ' -.
put in . em. e new w at to do with
it, too. She opened it in the middle, as
I've seen e nulemen do man a time ali .
Y I p
ed ' g '
p n one of the cartrid es and clicked it
t 'Then h d *4 d, •
o. a e stoo again istenmg. .
"Are ou oin to shoot them ma'am9"
, Y g g , •
said I She turned on me as short as
cou e.
ld.b
"Why not?" says she as fierce as dessible.
'
"What's my baby done that these eillains
. . .
*hould come here to disturb, perhaps kill
.
him? They came here of their own accord,
and they must take the consequences."
While this was gaing on, the window
below had been pushed. wide open, and in
another instant footsteps were heard in the
room beneath.
"Jane," said Mrs. Westcott, "doeftleave
baby for a second " She gave him one
' - ' -
kiss, caught up the gun, and went out.
She had on soft bedroom slippers, which •
made no noise as she walked. Although
she had given me strict orders to stop in
the nursery, yet I couldn't help following
he wo d
r to see what ul ha en I cre t
PP • P
across the landin and looked over the
g,
stair -rail. It was quite plain at once what
her plan was.
The room -which had been broken into
d b '` h 1
opene nowhere ut into the al , and from
the centre of the stairs the door could be
plainly seen. It was there that my miss
tress had taken her stand, the gun pointed
directl at the door The lam made the
y • le
place as light as day.
I stood in the shadow abo 1 heart
. ve, ny
thum in a ainst m ribs It seemed hours
P g g Y •
and hours before the door was slowly and
carefully opened. Then a man, in a long
li., ulster down to his heels somethin
roeg . : g
black over eis face, and a big, slouching
hat, stepped' out. Ha was alone, for he
closed the dhor behind him. •
det-
" Stand enere 1" cried my mistress, in a
deep, rough voice I should nevedknown for
hers, leveling her gun with a sure aim.
The man staked in every limb and looked
up. He put his hand to his face, as if to
assure himself that the covering was there.
Whether his Start disarranged it,• or
whether be hadn't been very handy at
fastening it I can't tell - but the stuff—
, 1 •
it was a piece of velvet—slipped from his
face and fell. For a second there was the
deadese silence. Then my mistress gave a
moan like somepoor dumb animal. It was
her husband.
From where I stood I could see hoth
their faces. Never di d
'd I see such scorn an
contempt shine in anybody's eyes as they
did in hers that night. Never did I see
such terror as his face showed. d'or a
while she didn't move. Then she lifted the
gun as if she would have shot him where
he stood. He saW it, too, and half raised
his hands as if begging for mercy.
She dtopped the weapon, then seized it
madly again, and turned the muzzle to
herself. Poor thing 1 I could Liee that she
was beside herself with ra ge and shame at
having sueh a, husband, and didn't know
what she was doing. •
How the idea came into my mind, I can't
except that! am a woman myself, bu t ,
I flew back into the nureery. The baby had
gone comfortably to sleep, and lay , there,.
ittle fist tucked und.ee his chee and
one 1 k.
other lying out on the ceverlet. I never
d an instant but—it as black and
, w
blue the next morning—I pinched his fat
arm with a,11 m mi •ht
Y g .
He woke hp and began te scream, 1 can
promise you, and before you could turn
in flew my Mistress, ft ,;,C.
-13-e, me awaY
the erileas, if 1 had heen a feather,ancl
whi ed him. u into her arms.
pp p
" G d at once " '
o to be , Jand said she
t, " theee'a nothing the trititter.".
" This riddle isn't very hard to read,"
I, asI undrosed and got into bed.
" Mr. Woe -tooth meant to rob his own house
of his !mete's diamonds, tiniest! I'm very
much mistaken." 1 •listened- for e, While,
bet not a sound was te be heard ally:where
.
hi the house; and lido little time I went to,
• . , ,
The next, morning Mr. Westoott came
.8 ; . . . .
down t breakfast with es natural an air as
he had let himself in with his latch -key
the night before. My mistress had spent
the night in the nursery with ithe little boy,
and never a word did she eVer saw to hie
about oer midnieht burin. &idler of
ever expected that` I knew whet I
aid, mid / was careful to hold my tongue.
, • .
. .
Fevre that days on she ehrank from her
linehando eliel clung o 0 and ino e to he
child, dad fer his peel; he al*eye &teemed to
watoldher with, a :sort of eteelthy feed
Six Months later ` the little •bey • aioct
very suddenly, end . Lifter . thee Mrs.
Melt:47z dii:21,,, 4.4.1 hoeht? uttraiz.)
. her hed, and three months - to the ves.y
day after her Child died , she died her.-
Self. ' • •
1 Was alone with h t the en f the
. er a i se, or
nurse wasdownstairs. Icalleedher,therovent
wtoot.he Idlieniwnga•oroosimttinw.ghenreevMtrh..0 lewreisztid000twe
trying to leek Mourutul, but when he sa w
the tears running 'down my face, for I had
known her since We Were children, he
, sprang from his chair. I shall never for.
get his fated 'The look of relief that. leaped
elite his eyes—the rascal 1 He couldn't
'have kept it 'back for a fortune—and the
great sigh weicli breke from him showed
plainly that his own skin was more to him
than. fifty. wives. • ,
It Was all gone in a fiashomd then he put
se ,. ,
his hanuaeronier up to his face, People
' ' '
who didn t know him were dreadfully sorry
for him, for he did take on aboue it as nat.
mai as possible. '
When the funeral wilt 'vvek, .1 cleared
out of the place ba,g.and baggage, as quickly
as I could, and rye never set eyes on him
since. -
What became of him : Oh, in about a
couple of years he married a Miss Blake a
:
Moetreal girl, and they went out to the
' • h
North-West and started a cattle rano ;
got a host of children, too live heard, Old
Mr. Westoott, his uncle ? Lord bless you,
he's alive now and lives at Edgefield. He's
' ' d• ,
over ninety years ol , but they tell me he s
as lively es ever and vows he'll live to be a
hundred. . .
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IIE 8IJND Y SOITOOL
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•111Tgr•TATIC/NAL LE$30140 'EVrEIV,i'"
ogR 2, 18244 •
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I , f r i j on 2,13.;
' tsna cleansIng he„. l'un' e''"" ° ', -,
' ig.,,
Time,--AeD, 27 Passover Aptil 11-17s
five or six weeke, after' the time of the IRO
led,e, ; Tibehi ht odor, wmpheer of whew. .
. . , . , •
Pontius. 'Nate, Goveruor et Judea e go,....4
Antipas, Governor of Galilee end d'erea.
lace —The temple of Jerusale
P ' • • "
Between the Lessons, —Soon atter the
• ,, • •
r • s e de
miracle at Cana, .estis Weny so haps:inn:Mud
with his mother and brothem andlhe disci.
ules he had Mttheredahout hind Oepernarun
- • - -
was on the shore of .the Sea ef Galilee. See
"Bible Dictionary." ' He, remained at Cap -
ernaum only f d th
a ew ays, as e posover
-
was near an e wont atten t at. o .
d h d a h N th
•
ing is said of any teaching or working of
miracles at Capernaum. ,
. Hints for Stody.—Verse P, whiela comes
b -I
etween the lessons, is the on y,connectiye
matter ie the gospels,. ete , the map „and
. .,,d
t;ace the route from Cana to Capernmine. •
There is another cleansing of the temples of
•
which we are told in Matt. 21 : 12-16 •
,,
Mark 11 : 15-19 ; and Luke 19 ; 45-48. But
this was at the elose of our Lord's ministry,
• • • • '
while the cleansing described in our lesson .
was at the beginning, his first publio act.
netre ter LaAnillikli THE l,ESSON.
13. The Jews' passover.—The greae ann.-
ual feast which had. its origin in Egypt,
when the Hebrews were leaving the coun-
tre. •
y All the Jews were expected to attend
•
this feast.. Jesus went up.—From Caper.
naum
' 14. In the temple —The temple prope
h - • - - - r
ad a number of courts around it. There
was the court of the men, the court of the
women the court of the Gentiles, The
,
word temple here embraces all • of these
, h h
courts, an i was the outermost of these,
the court• of the Gentiles in which these
,
traders had theit stands and were carrying
on their traffic. • Those that sold oxen end
sheedand doves.—These animals and birde
ware used in sacrifice, and the dealers had
go en permission o o er. iem or sa e in
tt • ' t ff tl •f 1 •
this outer court, probably pe.ying for the
Privilege. At the time of the passover the
business would be very active, as so many
oame from all parts of the world to attend
the feast. Chan f B k
gers o money.— ro ere,
who changed the foreign. coins of •the Jews
.
• ' •
from other countries into coins which could
be used in paying the temple tax
- - - - — '
15. A scourge of small oords.—The whip
wait used not for the men but for the mai-
le.' He drov em all o t — h i
ma . e th u . T at s, .
the sellers, the exchangers, end the cattle.
Ponred out thechangerre •money. -w -He turns
ed over the tables and scattered the coins
on the floor
'
16. To them that sold doves.—The cattle
he had driven out, but the doves being in
•
cages had to be carried out, to he bade the
owners to remove them. My Father's
..
house.—In these words Jolts would be
'understood as Claiming to be the Messiah,
as he claimed God for. his Father. Seven.
teen years before he had spoken of the
temple in the same way if we take the '
words of the Revised Version in Luke 2:49.
A house of merchandise.—It was bait to
be a house of prayer, but they were making .
it t market place. See Mark 11: 17. Tte
Years later, when again ;TAPAS cleansed ehe
temple, he spoke of it as being made a den
of thieves. See Matt. 21: 13. Things had
then groven worse instead of better.
17, His disciples remembered.—As they
saw their Master expelling the profaners of
'
the temple. Written.--Psalin 69: 9. Rath
eaten me. up.—"Shall eat ,me up." Shall
consume or devour me, wear me out. The
words describe Christ's intense devotion to
his Father's house and eervice. 18. Then
answered the Jews.—Meartiug here those
Jews who werempposed to Christ. What
sign shewest thou?—They demanded some
sign that he was what he claimed to be—
the Messiah.
19. Destroy the ternple.--This word was
twisted by • the enemies of Christ into a
charge against him on his trial. Temple is
used here figuratively foe his body. In
three days.—Referring to his resurrection.
20. Forty and six yeard—This was really
the third, temple. Zerubbabel built the
. .
second afterethe return from captivity. It
was a cheap structure. Herod rebuilt it in
great magnificence; restoring part of it at a
time, so that it was not all demolished at
once. The work continued through forty -
eix years. ' .
21. He spake of the temple of his body.
—Which he did raise up in his resurrection '
'
on the thud. day.
22. Wheri therefore he was risen from
the deada—Some truths which are not tin-
derstood at the time they are uttered, be -
com f tl 1 1 h
e per ec y e ear ater on w en new
events have cast new light upon them
h . . • '
After esus had risen the disciples remem-
bered this and the other words he had
spoken referring to his rising. They be -
lieved the scripture.—Which foretold his
resurrection • for example, Psalm 16 : 10.
The word wliich dlesus had said.—On this
eeeteihth
23. When he was in Jerusalem.h-During
, • •
ems passover feast. Many believed.—Were
convinced that he wee the Messiah. When
-
they saw the miracles.—"Signs." None Of
these miracles 'are recorded. This suggest%
that only as few of the wonderful works done. )
by Christ ere noted. See John 4 : 45 ; 20 • sd•
30. ; ' '
24 J d'd t `d, h' 1 t '
. esus i no , comm. imse f un ti
them.—"Did not trot himself :into theme
The reason is given in th lett r tOf tl
•
Th - ,, ,e . e par .. le
verse. e word commit" here is the
same wor use or e 'eying. on brute.
• d d f b l' ' • C • • '
He did. not trust himself in their handle ins-
cause he cohld not have confideec i tl '
We do commit o • ' e ab l'em. '
urselvee to Christ elieve
on him, because we can have perfe'et S.':
deuce in hind Because he kneW all Mr
It is implied that he • kne that th 't fe i-1;
in him was not ar 11 wd d eV el-'
6 d. e , grotto e au sure. -
2 . weeded not that any ehould testify. ,
e_wee knew II I ' ' ' hie d tied b
a nen s• inner i an I DO t
'
need to learn frohi others what sort of pee -
sons they were. For illastratione of this
see John 1.• 42; 47t 48. 3•;• 3' 4: Zed' 61,64. `
. 7 • ,7 ,
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HOW TO LIGHTEN THE BURDE.e.
_...... .,
rie Not Int lido, Th
ilt W • 41 1. at Any One Should
lie Free rrom Cave and ItesPonsibIlity.
" I wish I was as free from care and
trouble as you a " s 'd •
re, ai one business man
• •
to another, recently. " You don't know
,
the burden I have to bear," was the quiet
response. The first speaker was stru I
gg ing
against financial reverses, The sails of his
•
business s ip were not reefed when the
storm struck,' 'and for a year he hai been
fighting desperately to save the ship. Ruin
•
stared him in the face Day after day of worry
•
and work and night after night sleepless—
no wonder he envied his friend whose busi-
mess affairs were in snug shape. But no one
can measure or weigh another's burden.
It transpired that the man who seemed so
free from care was suffering with an incur-
•
able,diseases For ten years death had been
staring him •in the face constantly. Any
moment might be his last, and he knew it.
' - ' ` '
His sleepless nights were caused by pain,
' • . ` ` — ' '
mortal distress, and an indeecribable op-
h ' . I th f h' t bl
pre ension. a e presence o is rou e
,
' the other man s was as the pigmy to the
•
giant. Yet he went bravely on with his
ions •
duties 'and res onsibilities keen
var , P ' - -
i h' t
ng is rouble to himself, heroically wait -
ing for the inevits.ble result. :,
Every man and woman is a burdensbear.
er. No responsible human being is ex-
empt. In the providenee of God it was
not intended that any . one should be free
from care 'and responsibility, for these
things are essential means of developing
true manhood and womanhood. We are
sometimes prone to envy those who possess
more of this world's goods than we do.
But wealth brings added responsibilities
and cares and beyond a certain limit,
without.. additional advantage. Said a
wealthy man te the writer, recently: " I
have accumulated a fortune within twenty-
five years, but I have never seen as much
real enjoyment since I was worth $50 000
b e ?
as afore. It is not wealth that brings
happiness. Health and a olear conscience
are farbetter. " Give me, neither poverty
• :: • •
nor riches is the right prayer. Envy no
one who has more than he needs—a com.
petence. " As thy days, so shall thy
strength be." In other words every man
' •
will he able to bear the burden imposed on
•
him. True, it is borne with very different
spirit by different individuals. Some carry
it bravely and even heroically, and others
•
with constant protests and complaints. But
it is carried. It must be. How much bet.
ter, then, to take it submissively, cour-
ageously and philosophically. Make the
best of it. That is the way to lighten it.
Human endurance is marvelous. None
of us know how much we can bear. Emerge
encies develop latent power! and abilities
we never dreamed of posseastag—power to
bear and to do. Life is full of examples,
and history records many 'of them. Great
achievements and heroic acts cannot be
erformed without o ortunit The op;
P . PP Y.
portunity to do some great thing does not
come to every man. The opportunity to
bear great burdens comes to most. There
is as much true heroism in bearing the one
.
bravely as in doing the other . Sometimes
when we look back and see. what great trial
r rouble we came throu h we are aston.
o t g
ished that we could bear it. But we did.
There are sore trials ahead, storms to be
met, difficultiei to overcome. Meet them
bravely, though it marnot always be fear-
lessly. You have borne your burdens thus
far. Strength and emdurance will he given
you to bear those to come, if yotir reliance
laced ri ht
is le g •
A DEEP WATER WAYS CONVEN•
TION.
.--
an important Meeting wiii be lield in TO.
ronto, Sept ve to go.
For years throughout the West the quo-
tion of improved water communication with
the Ea ' d C •
st has been agitate . onventeons
to further this object have been held at
Grand Forks, Detroit, Washington, and St.
Paul. A 20 ft. channel to the sea would
re uce t reig an me rise e price o
d he f ' ht d ' re th ' f
the products of the soil 'throughout the
whole of the West and North West. The
States of North and South Dakota, Minne-
t Weso • Michi an, Illinoi , Ind'
so a, . i orient, g s 1-
ana, Ohio, the North-West Provinces' of
Canada and Ontario, parts of Kansas,
• Nebraska and Colorado, are largely inter-
ested in this question. Twenty-aix millions
of people live in the eight States that border
on the Great Lakes, and six millions in
adjacent territory depending on them. It
is of immense importance to these people to
have a 20 ft. channel clear to the Atlantic.
The enhanced value of one year's crop
would pay the total cost. In a speech de-
li ered in the Canadian House of Commons
y ,
30th April, 1894, by Mr.. Cockburn, of
o onto in favor of dee emu the canals
T r , . . P g ,
that gentleman estimated that deep water-
d `' h I -f
wart would ad $120 to t e va ue o a crop
from a 160 acre farm. This is only allow-
s er buthel and is well within
ing five cent p t
the mark..
With a 20 ft channel ocean. vessels will
be seen in the harbors, of Toronto, Detroit,
, •
Buffalo,. Cleveland, Ghicago, Duleen, etc.,
bringing cheap coal,•and taking away the
products of forest and geld, and the meg-
nifioent fleet of eteamers now land -looked
in tbe 'Upper Lakes Will have acceei to the
A ri'l '' . . '
Ports of the woe-. -hie is not a local or
1' uestion • the eo le of • the
eeetiona q , p p
Western States and Canadian Provincee are
equally interested. The Great Lakes and
St: Lawrenee are free Without restriction,
and the resources of our civilization will
A AA A
doubtless fine some means ox matting tne
eonnecting links On ad e9nitable basis:. On.
APril last,a resolution reae intrenneed found
in the cenedisa.Parliarrienton this subjece,
sheering the lively teterest• taken in deepen. slightly
ing the canals by. tome ''of our, leading
, . , , l , ,.
statesmen. A Convention wzil be he d at
Toronto, 800, 17th to dedh, 1894, to diti-
ettee this' great question and the best means
of Securing theiie objects. fashion,"
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ONE OF CHINA'S CITIES.
' ---- -
canton, Where the Plavie comes From,
: and ft Isn't surprisfint. '
e
.S. 1. t 'f el A hb ld D '
me or, wo rom . rs. rc i a , unn a
.. .,
new book gives a a ,
triking picture of the
horrors of life in Canton. "The oircum-
• '
ferenoe of the city walls measures from si
. x
to seven miles, and within their inclosure
their exist 1,000,000 Chinesepeople. I had
•
been in many oriental cities and had smelt
many oriental smells, but those of Canton,"
sayS,Mrs,. Dunn, "were gients to then), all.
The passage -like ,Streets are open sewers,
every description 'of refuse 'being east into,
h . , , ,
t em and .forming continuette heaps on
e ther side of the a The •
i . , w y. .. water supply
is raised from Wein! in the streete, the
mouths of whieh are on it level with the
geound, and a shower of rain, or drippings
from the buekete in Whieh, thsv life it
' . ' .
must eerier back the surroueding dlth in a .
Way horrible to think of, • Through miles
and miles of these high, narrow alleys elict
,we travel, through the most fetid, airless
atmosphere that human lungs ocitild cups finding
'with, through tho meat evil and noisome
t . , d . .
odom hat could asoil humen nostril/I, pest
the moet loetheonle sights hi the shispe Of
abnormal butcher meate-suoh, cie dogs and
cats, skinned and dressed toady foe cook- job
ing ; rats; both dried and han -'n li b
, , , gi , g a ve y
the tails; frogs and tinhatural,lookingliell
hi tube ef watet, alive, end aWaitifig death fot
and onsurnptioi4
•
oft.
A Lofty IdeaL
.
dif ani petteetis, Willing te Work, mumd , •
said the tramp "b t th ' deft it ' '
, n e i on y is la
labot congenial to in ' t st '• " '
"What do o th' k' • a es. ` '
. . y u in • yeti , Would like tO
do ?" inquired the compassionate Woman, ' '
"I think I'd like to be e. batik Pretident,
Minn. Do you ,know where I cotild et •
g a
of that' sort 1",
. . .....-_,... ,
Fo I th • de 1 tl b d • d • '
r o e 8 u le o„ y form ' oth teke•
soul ie form, and cloth th fa dy • •k
e o ma e.e.i
sponger, . • • .• . •
.... .
'
He .who tnerely kriews right principles is stairs,
not equal te hint who loves them.. -Con.
duchie. 1