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Now that the report is confirmed by
tite Republique Francaise, the Paris
iaewspeper, What used to be edited by
Gaiebette, and is now edited by the
present Prime Minister, M. lnfeline,
there seems. to be no doubt that the
Czar and the Czarina, will visit Perla
on or ebout Sept. 15. The imperial
gloats will be lod.ged in the Ministry
for Foreign Affairs, that le to say, the
Qual d'Orsay Palace, and, according to
the ministerial organ, the Director of
Fine Arts lies received orders to put the
beading in readiness, to which end the
remarkable national collection of fur-
niture bas been placed at his disposal.
No effort, it seem, is to be spared to
give the Emperor of Russia and his cox -
sort a reception worthy of two great
nations, and to outdo, if passible, the
enthusiastio welcorae offered nearly
three years ago to the officers of the
Russian fleet. .
THE LOVED HD LOST,
THE SHADOW" WHICH DARKENED
THE HOME AT HARVEST,
The Vial Meson+, and eta Unsaid wetrusi-
twit aria Earth. to Iteaven-A nalld's
rower Over the Parana' Ileart-nhe
Deanna or nelitihotel,
Wasaington, Aug. 80.- Wlaile the
reapers are busy in many parts of the
lana and the• harvests are being
gathered the scene brought before us
in this subject is eepecially appropriate.
The text is II. Kings, iv., 18, 19, 20;
"And wben the child was grown it
fell on a day that he went out to leis
father to the reapers. And he said
unto lns father, 'My head, my head!
And he said to a, led, 'Carry him to his
mother.' and when he had taken him
and brought him to hie mother he sat
on her knee till noon and then died.:
There is at least one happy home
in Shuman. To the luxuriance and
splendoule of a great bones bad been
given the advent of a child. Even
when the angel of life brings a new
soul to the poor man's hut a star of
joy shines over the manger, Infamy
with its helplessuess and innocence,
lead loosed away. Days of boyhood
had come, days of laughter and frolio,
days of =whine and promise, days of
strange questions and curiosity and
quick development. I suppose among
all the treaeures a that house the
brightest was the boy. One day there
is tbe shout of reapers heard afield. A
boy's heart always bounds at tbe sound
a sickle or seythe. No sooner have
the harvesters out a swath aprons the
field than the lad joins them, and the
swarthy reapers feel young again as
they look down at that led, as bright
and beautiful Oa was Ruth in the bat -
vest fields of Balileaent gleaming after
the reapars, But the sun was too hot
for him. Congestion of the brain seiz-
ed on him.
I esti the swarthy laborers drop their
sicirle, and they rush out to see what
is the matter,. and they fan him, and
they try to cool bis brow, but all is of
no avail. In the instant of conscious-
ness he puts his hands against his
temples and cries out, "My head, my
head!" And the father said, ',Carry
hizn to his mother," just as any father
would bane said, for our band is too
rough aud our vole() is too mirth, and
our foot is too loud to doctor a sick
child if there be in our home a gentler
footstep. But all a no avail. W.hile
the reapers of Shunem were busy in
the field there came a stronger reap -
The motives that impel patriotic,
Frenchmen to desire a visit front the
Czar are intelligible enough, and yet
there could soarcely be a more ven-
turesome proceeding. As the sun rises
ever the firet dal of his guest's so-
journ in the French oapital, President
'Faure might well ejaculate: "Would
twere night, eat, and all were -well!"
The last visit of a Czar to Paris was
fraught with no auspicious augury, for
it will bo remerabered that when Alex-
ander II., went thither in 1867 as the
gaest of Napoleon 111., be was disturb-
ed, and as his suite thought, insulted,
by the cry "Viva In Polognarexalsed,
as it happened, by a Frenchman des-
tined to become a Prime Minister of
the Tbird Repu.blie. But then the
emancipation of the Russian serfs bad.
made a lees deep impression cm the
Frenola mind than the rigorous extir-
pation of the last Polish iusurreetion,
and no man *and foresee that, but for
the veto of hira who was then her guest,
the German nallita,ry party wand. sub-
ject France to the seourge of a second
invasion betore she had recovered from
the exbaustion of 1870-71. There is now
no intelligent Frenchmau who does
not know that, but for the firra stand
taken against Bismarck by Alexander
II, between 1873 and 1875, his drained
and dismembered country could have
been irremediably crushed. NOT is there
one who can refuse tO. recognize that
it was by the virtual alliance conclud-
ed with Alexander lin thee France was
at last able to resume her rightful place
among the powers of Europe, 'Whatever
be the definition of gratitude, a just ac-
knowledgment of favors received or a
lively sense of eavors to come, the feel-
ing should impel patriotic Frencanaen
to give the young Czar such a wel-
COMe as shall convince him that a
league of hearts between a republic and
an alien -ate monareby is no more
um-
- pomibis to -day than It was when Louis
XVI. sent Rochaanbean to uphold the
cause of the -United States.
The unpleasant faa remains that
some Frenchmen are not patriots, but
avow more sympathy for Nihilist as-
sassins than for tbe head of a dynasty
which has unqueseionably saved their
coantry not only from further mutil-
ation, but from the no lees fatal cank-
er of eelf-conterapt. The Anarcleists
who could murder so upright and meek
e man as Carnot are not likely to
waste much thought on the terrific con-
sequences of alienating the Russian
people irreparably from. France. It is
rather to be feared that they desire to
see their country friendless and belp-
less, so far as foreign powers are con-
cerned, that she may become more ens-
ily the prey of her internal enemies.
Frightful, indeed, is it to contemplate
what harm may be done to France by
tbe act of an individual, for all other
purposes inane and impotent, but who
wrought to the pitch of frenzy by an-
archistic doctrines, should, like the as-
sassin of Carnot, be willing to sacrifice
his own worthless life to the execution
of a fell design.
TRIALS OF LONDON POLICEMEN.
for you had, often said to your oora-
Panion, "My dear, we shall paver raise
that child." But 1 scout the idea, not
good ohildren always die. Sarguel the
pious boy became Samuel the great
prophet. Christian Timothy ioecaane a
minister at Ephesus. Young Dente'
consecrated to God, beoaane prime
miaister a all the realm, and there are
hi bundreds of the sthoels and families
of this country to -day children Nebo
love God and keep his commandments
and who are to be foremost among
the Christians and the philanthropists
and the retainers of the next ceutury.
The grace of God never kills any one,
A child will be more apt to grow up
with religion than it will be apt to
grow up without it. Length of days
is promised to the righteous. ante re-
ligion of Christ does not pram') the
chest or curve the spine or *weaken
tbe nerves. There are no maladies
floating up from the river of life. The
religion of Christ throws over the heart
and life a a calla a supernal beauty.
"Her ways are ways of pleasantness
and all her paths are peace."
eoreed to Illeet Brutal goes Without
Deans or Drotection.
,
, The stranger is not wont to spencl a
meek in London without being told that
one point in which the lower orders
ei London differ from the roughs of
othereeountries, is in their respect for
..-
aa exemplified by the London pd-
licema,n. Clubs and revolvers, we are
often told, are not needed by the lat-
!en SO inborn is the British respect fax
uthority. It would seem, however,
that the rough is a rough all, the
world over, and some at least of the
metropolitan police force probably wish-
ed last Monday afternoon that they had
in place of the abstract idea of author -
in', something a little more substan-
tial in the way of a heavy stiek or
six-shooter to rely upon. Two consta-
bles in plain clothes were "shadowing"
suspicious-looleing person outside the
headquarters of the militia in Dalston,
' when they were set upon by some of
the friends of the suppected man. When
"other policemen came to the rescue they
had to run the gauntlet of a savage
orowd, and things became so bad, stones
flew so thickly, sticks and knives, boots
and fists were doing such executkon
the courage of the law-abiding Lon-
doners deserted therm and no attempt
was made to help the police. It speaks
'Well for the pluok and courage of the
latter that they were able eventually
to fight their way through in face of
an exhibition of mob ferocity which
would not have disgraced the TOOSt fer-
ocious and uncivilized community in
the world.
I pass on to consider the susceptie
batty of ehildhood. Mein pride them -
elves on their uncbangealeility . Then
will make an elaborate argument to
prove that they thinir now Just as
they did 20 years ogee It Is charged
to fraility or fraud when a man
changes his sentiraents in politics, or
in religion, and it is this determine, -
tion of soul that so often drives back
the gospel from a man's hearta It is
tQ hard to make avarice cha,ritalile
and fraud honest, and pride humble
and skepticism Christiane The sword
of God's truth seems to glance off from
those mailed wa.rriors and the helmet
se,ents battle proof against God's battle-
ax. But childhood -bow susceptible to
example, and to instruction! You are
riot surpreeed at the record, "Abrabera
beget Isaac, and Isaac begat J acob."
for when religion starts iu a Legally it
is apt to go all tierough. jezebel a
dress, you you are not surprised to find
her son jehoram attempting essassina-
tem. Oh, what a responsibility Ron
the parent and triaoher 1 The rausioan
touches the keys, and the response of
those keys is away off amid the pipes
and tbe chords, and you. wonder at tlae
distance between the key and the
chord. And so it is in life -if you tooth
a ohild the result will come back from
manhood or old age, telling just the
tune played, whether the dirge of a
great tiorrow or the anthem of grea,t
JoY. The word that the Sabbath school
teacher will this afternoon whisper in
the ear of the class will be ecboed
back from everioating ages of light or
darkness. The home and the eohool
decide the republic, or the despotism,
the barbaxisra or the civilization, the
upbuildbag of an empire or the over-
throwing of it. Eigleer than valeta.-
m,ent or congress are the school and
the family, and the eaten(' of a child's
foot may mean more then the tramp
of a hot. What, thee, are: you (M-
ine fen the purpose of bringing your
,theldren into the kingdom of God? If
they are so susceptible, and if this
is the very best time to act upon thele
eternal interests, what are you doing
by way of riglat impulsion?
Tnere were some harvesters in the
fields of Scotland one hot day, and
Hannah Lemond was helping them
gather the hay. She laid: her babe
under a tree. While she was busy in
the fields tbere was a flutter of wings
in the air, and. a golden eagle chit -di-
ed the swaddling band of the babe
and flew away with it to the mountain
eyrie. All the harvesters and Hannah
Lemond started fax the cliffs. It was
two miles beeore they come to the foot
of the cliffs. Getting there who dared
to Mount the cliffs I No human foot
had ever trod it. There were sailors
there wbo had gone up the mast in
the day of terrible terapest. They did
not dare risk it. Hannah Lemond sat
there for awhile and looked -up and
saw the eagle ill the eyrie, and then
she leaped to her feet, and she started
up where no human foot bad ever trod,
crag above crag, catching bold of this
root or that root until she reached the
eyrie and caught her babe, the eagle
swooping in fierceness all around about
her. laustening the ohild to her back
she started. for her friends and fax
home. Oh, what a dizzy descent, slid-
ing from this crag to that crag, catch-
ing by that vine and by that root,
coming down randier to the most
dangerous pass, where she found a
goat and some kids. She said "Now.
I'll follow the goat. The goat will
know just which is the safest way
down." And she was led by the ani-
mal down to the plain. When she got
there, all the people cried, "Thank
God, thank God!" her strength not
giving way until the rescue was ef-
fected. And they. cried: "Stand back
now. Give her oar I" Oh, if a woman
will do that for the physical life of her
child, what vvill you do for the eternal
life of your boy. and your girl? Let
It not be told in the great day of
eterraty that Hannah Lemond put
forth more. exertion for the saving of
the physical life of her child than you.
0 parent, have ever put forth for the
eternal life of your little ones. God help
you.
I pees on to consider the power which
a child wields over the parental heart.
We often talk about the influence of
parente upon children. I never bear
anything said about the influence of
children upon their parents. You go
to school to them. l'ou 110 more edu-
cate them than they educate you.
With their little hands they have
caught hold of your entire nature, and
you cannot wrench yourself away from
their grasp. Tou are different men
and women from what you were be-
fore they gave you the first lesson.
They have revedutionized your son.
There are fountains of joy- in your heart
which never would have teen discover-
ed had they not disoove.red them. Life
is to you a more stupendous thing
than it was before those little feet start-
ed ow the pathway of eternity. Oh,
how many hopes, how many joys, how
many solicitudes that little anti has
created in your soul! You go to school
every day, a schoel of self-denial, a
school of patience, in which you are
getting wiser day by day, and that
influence of the child over you will in-
crease, and, though your children may
die, from the very throne of God they
will reach down an influence to your
sail, leading you on and leading you
up until you mingle with their voices
and it beside their thrones.
The grasp which the child has over
the parent's heart is seen in what the
parent will do fax the child. Storm
and darkness and heat and cold are
nothing to you if they stand between
you and your child's welfare. A great
lawyer, when yet uoknown, one day
stood in the courtroom and made an
eloquent pies before some men of great
legal attainments, and a gentleman
said to hen afterward, "How could you
be eo cp,thi standing in that ' august
presence?" "Oh," sad Erskine, "I felt
my children pulling at my skirts cry-
ing for bread." What stream will you
not swim, what cavern will you not.
enter, what battle will you not fight,
what hunger will you not endure for
your children? Your children must
have bread though you starve. Your
children must be well clothed though
you, go in rags. You say, "My children
ehall be educ,a,ted, though I never had
L1
. ,i,,,sc,arreat was the terror inspixe.d by
the eeirlY camileagee of Davien that in,
his latter _ eneepengn there was little
, figatieg, for netgaboring princes hee-
l& tened to submit to his sway. Tbis,how-
ever, does riot make David self-couceit-
ee, ed. All tbe glory he passes over to
j h - h, h h and whom he
4°'51le u°'1441/` Text- 14allb '!'''1%9* " seeved, Every Christian has an caner -
GENE tai.L S'I'ATEla NT.. once somewbei, analogous to this, 'The
We study to -day one al iha psalms ly the Cleristiaa be early liae are by
1- sins wince threaten to overthrow quick-
vvhich come assuredly from. David's pen. reheated mastery
It is of special interest beeauee ariather plate control, and the victorious
brought into eora-
version has been preserved to us (Pealra strength nhich has wali this vietenar
18). Whiet of the two texts is the ,trrrs itself in all other directions, aad
Christian man to react). at, to
more ancient it is impoesible to decide- , a hrgbsitverage of holy living,
Even hostile eritice admit that both ver- a die. Close places, Mountitie fastnesses. lf
' Ta, t - If
"Whet LO you ere weary limbs and istfr SCI100
aelang head and Mende bardened anel SUNDAY
callom if only the welfare of. your
Their eorroeir is y'aur sorrow, their 3'oy INTERNA'rIONAL LESSON, SEPT.
obildren can be vvrouglat out !:ry it?
Is your joy, their advancement noir , --
victory. •And, olo when the last nein "David's aratitude tioda.' Salta
noes comes, how you fight back the
aortal of disetese, and it is only' sifter
trernaltda)ha sLinggle, that. you sur-
render. And teen when the spirit hes
fled the great deep is broken up, and
Rachel will not be comfortedebecause
ber cbildren are not, and David, goes
up the palace stairs, crying, "0, .Ab -
salon, ray on, would to nrod, bad
died fax thee. 0 Absaiona, my eon, ray
sord"
Ther i is ilota large fanally-„ or lordly
a 'ergo fa.tuily, that has not bent over
euch. a treasure and lost it. In tile
family fold is there no dead iamb? I
have eeen many such cases of sorrow.
There ee one pre-emiaent eny raezoorY
as pastor -Scoville Limnos McCollum-
Tbe story of his death was brought
unto God. Ile belonged to my parish.
in the west, A. thorough bey, 9 or 10
years of age. Nothing morbid, nothie
dull about Lira. His voice fondest an
his foot swiftest. on the plaiegroutal.
Often he has come into my house and little doubt that this pealm was writ-
tarown himself down on tbe floor in ten in the eaxly days of David's royal -
yet he ewes Christian, consecrated to Y.' a
ex' that way, with keener scythe and
for a richer harvest. He reaped only
one sheaf, but, oh, what a golden
sheaf was that 1 I do not want to
know any more about that heart-
breaking scene than what I see in just
this one pathetio sentence, "Ile at on
her knees till noon and then died."
Though hundreds of years love passed
away since that by eleipped to the
harvest field, and then was brought
home and died on his mother's lap
the story still thrills us. Indeed chit -
hood has a charm always and every-
where. I shall now speak to you. of
childhood -its beauty, its susceptibility
to impression, its power over the
parental heart, and its blissful transi-
tion from earth to heevene
The child's beauty does not depend.
upon Vim. or feature or complexion
or appeal. Thatilestitute one that you
saw on the street, bruised with un-
kindness and be rags, bas a charm
about her even under ber destitution.
You have forgotten a great many per-
sons whom you met, of finely out fea-
tures and with erect posture and with
faultless complexion, while you will
always remember the poor girl who,
on a cold, ram/night night es youWere
passing late home, in her thin shawl
and. barefoot on the pavement, put out
her hand and said, "Please to give me
a penny?" Ah, how often we luive
walked on and said, "ph, that is noth-
ing but street vagaliondisnal" but
after we got a block or two on we stop-
ped and said, "Ab, that is not right 1"
and we passed up that same way and.
dropped a mite iota that suffering hand
as though it were not a matter of sec-
ond thought, so ashamed were we of
our hard-heartedness.
With what admiration we all look
upon a gram of children on the play-
ground or m the school, and we clasp
our hands abnost involuntarily and
say "How beautiful!" All stiffness and
digeity are gene, and your shout is
heard with theirs, and you trundle
their hook, and fly their kite, and
strike their ball, and all your weari-
ness and anxiety are gone as when
.a child you bounded over the play-
ground yourself. That father who
stands rigid and imsympathetio amid
the sportfulness of children ought
never to have been tempted out .of a
crusty and umodeeraable solitariness.
The waters leap down the rooks, but
they have not the . graceful step of
chilclho,od. The morning comes out of
the gates of the east, throwing its
silver on the lake and. its gold on the
towers and its fire on the cloud, but
it is not so bright and beautiful as
the morning of life.. There is no lieht
like that Witt is kindled in a child's
eye, 00 color like that wena blooms
an a child's cheek, no MUSIC like I he
sound of a child's voice. It's face in
the poorest picture redeems any im-
perfection in art. When we ere weary
with toil, their little hands pull the
burdens off our back. Oh, what a dull
stale, mean world this would be with-
out the eportfuhaess of children! When
I find peeple that do not like children
f immediately doubt their moral and
Christiane character. But when the
grace of God comes upon a child how
unspeakably attractive! When Samuel
'begins to pray, and Timothy begins
to read the Scriptures, end Joseph
shows himself invulnerable to tempta-
tion, how beautiful the scenel know
that parents beeome pious, because
they have the idea that good children
always die. Tbe strange question
about God and eternity and the dead
excite apprehension in the parental
mind rather than congratuiattone In-
deed, there are some people that seem
marked for heaveni This world is too
poor a garden for them ,to bloom in.
The hues of headen are in the petals.
There is something 'about their fore-
head that makes you. think that the
hand of Christ has been on it, say-
ing, "Let this one come to Me, and let
it come to Me soon." While that one
tarried in tbe house yeti felt there was
an angel in the room, and you thought
that every sickness veould he the last,
and when finally the winds of death
did scatter the leaves you were no
more surprised than to see a star come
out above the cloud on a dark night 011 a:W=0e
, WILLIAM'S USELESS ARM. ,
The withered and useless left arm of
the German Emperor , has been photo.
graphed by tbe Roentgen ray, and the
surgeons now hope by a simple opera-
tion to restore partial, if not complete,
use of the linab.
xin tames have 'internal proofs of original.' "
ltY, tlee difference being not such as David's successors bad been as faithful
itlo.auledho'hi[stah as was David, pagarlem
could be accoanted for by inacourate v been swept aroin the large
transcr* Vo In b th. of its forms, 'ler part ofthecivilized earth long be -
then, the psalm, comes directly from its lord,. war Saviour came.
anther, just as we have varying vere . the elTima.herxe ofhishsoismetrellionienig-the. Lord.
sjos of -Some of the most important liveth. So long as Jeh:vabeab
poems of Wordsworth a,n.d. Tennyson, } 'reigns David is haPPY, ilaale nebn'aw
is almost synoaymotts witb lortress.
aaah of them alike onigln. al. There la 48. It is Ood that a.vengeth me. In
fent, David saw God in everYtbing.
(Compare 2. Sam. 4.0, 10, and 104, 49.)
49. Lifted me up on high: But no
higher than God. will raise oath of us
an exbanstion of boisterou,s mirth and
of victories,
t t the close of his first great series
God keeping flis commandixtents. That and doubtless it was a if we equally trust in huo. The vio-
is the kind of childish piety I believe favorite with its author, Toward the lent mai. in then case Saul.
esuoadicidennlyot gaentdviliven.wasizetolsdadtli; atoreshues oZsooteofv/itaistreiiita„hrd isfirssutpposee rf:-,
wrl.11 '''' belonged, in the purpose of God. to Gen-
es proof that the salvation of Christ
50. Paul cites this verse (Bona. 15.0).
in. When. the days of sickness came
Gen -
alone ,an save 'Me, Jesus will save the flush ef early triumph; and we tiles ds wen ae J ems. 1 wilt sing. Day -
me. He lias saved me. Don't 017 have before us to -day the beer edition. id W0S great as a iv arrior, great as a
Mamma,. 1 shall go right straight up i„ ,_ . - . ,
to heaven." And then they gave Um —
the psalnaist,
eee,ututu language we are re
first, whet the Lordeaire govoie,xutorru,togreavtavaiscia ahaurad atno lellivesr,sepeerd-.
a glass of -water to 000l his Lot lips,- tans greatest of all as a sacred singer.
anti he said: "Mamma, I shall take a to hire; then, by what mighty deliver- Tbrougliout David regarded inueself,
draft from the water of life after once he has been rescued from suffer.- and should be regarded by us, as typi-
awhile, of which if one driek he shall
ne
at
ju
ra
cad of the whole Massiauic plan.
ver get thirety I lay myself Lag and peril; how this deliverance is
et what Ile thinks best to do with of the blessings of life; of the preserve, -
eau,' was a new hymn, „d be bed non of tbe anyal dynasty ; of help end
THE TEI,EPHONE'S BIRTH,
ate lievention Due to Iwo eeparete leadio
of %nougat.
The story a how the telepbone, owne
to be iavented was told by Dr. Alexande
er Granata Bell during las attendanee
on the recent siMeiner meeting of the
American as.soolation to promote 'the
beaching a speeth, to the deaf, held. at
Mount Airy. Dr. Beins fatter was an
elocutionist in England and well known
as a oorrector of defects in utteraidcia
as ins grandfather bad also been Otis
nether bad devised a method ot repre-
sentilag tbe action of the vocal °roes
by symbols, similar to those used in
cloraisty. In like manners letters re -
'presenting tile various organs of speech,
with figures attached imliceting the
positions of those organs, would repre-
sent certain sounds or spoken words.
A person placing his tongue, tenth, lip.
and palate in the poeitions indicated bjr
a, certain formula would produce a, dee
finite sound. The use of such a eYon
teal for the ins-truction of deaf elutes
was not overlooked by Dr. Bell's fath-
er, and experiments were raade a
little scaool in Landau Bell be-
came interested Ie tae subject, and de -
eloped a method of teaohbig the deaf
to speak. His father had lectured ita
the United States, and in that way the
sYsteM bad. come to the knowledge of
the deaf and dumb lastitutione in 130s -
ton and of the prominent educators In
that city, and in 1871 the Board of Ed-
Jesus' feet, end want Him to do based on tne eternal tharacter of God; acation invited Dr. Bell to see waat
e." In. thoee SJ 17
"Itest For the . LONDON "TOSHERS."
eould do in the Bastcai Schaal for the
Deaf. He accepted, the invitation and
learned it, and in a terfect ecstasy of strength in beetle • of rule over ene- 'rhea
There my Saviour's gone before me
There remaius a land of rest, mercies. From t s paean our lesson
is taken. sometimes call themselves, bat their tion after another throughout the cowl-
tio Through tee emcee to Search For Put system „
the stem in practice there with
rsotuhle's.s‘r,eaegruye,st; PRACTICAL NOTES. and the ertielee they pick uh "tosia." Dr. Bell did not at that time believe!
most familiar appelation is "toshers," trya
ThereTof uisl fresillItla iro
There is rest for you. strVeearrth,40,ToThbeouwhelalet girded no with They really belong, to another well- it was possible for deaf mutes to tine
Shout your triataphs as you go! well =reed, for the girgdirledneodt.so.rinasyrkoebpst
"Sings, oh, sing, ye lairs of glory,
Zion's gates are open fax you, the garments in place, but gave strength
You shall find ao. entrance through, to the wearer. Jehovah biruself wale
" There is rest fax you, papa; there is his own kind hands prepared bis ser-
vant for battle. Pexhaps the notable
There is rest far the weary.
And thee, put- feature of tins psalm is the looney re -
rest for you, mamma,"
ting his hands over Ms heart, he said: cognition of God's providence. In al-
" Yes, there is rest for me.' And then most every sentence we see that the
ray Shepherd; I shall not want. He can prosper without God. lf the war -
he asked them' to read "Tbe Lord is Pris:bninseetdpsrotofoubendgleirr abeeldie, viefshistbatenneomoinees
maketh me to lie down in green pas-
tures and leaeleth me beside still axe to be overtbrown, if strangers are
waters," and he cried out: "0 death, to submit themselves, it the violent man
where is thy stieg? 0 grave where is is to be thrust asiae-all these good
thy victory?" results tome from the direct help of
Only 10 years old. And then he said: God. The Bible is full of shriller
"Now I wish you. would just turn this thoughts; God is on tbe side of them.
bed so I can look. once more on the thrat trust Inra. Them that rose up
foliage and. see the sun set." And they against me. Many of the apparently
turned the bed. And he said: "1 clo so harsh phrasea of the psalmists are to
wish that Jestea would hurry and come be explained by the thorough ideriti-
and take me.' They said to him.: fication of God's cause with the cause
of those eariy champions of goodness.
soul in his last hour e cried out: mies; the whole concluding with a Articles or online. VERY GREA.T SUCC.ESS.
"La the Cbristiaans bone in glory Paean of joy and gratitude itor all God's Shoremen, or shoreworiters, they and it was introduced in elm institua
Why are you not willing to await
the Lord's time ?a "Yes," he said, "1 David especially seeras incapable of mak-
am, but I would rather Jesus would bag any distinotion between his enemies
eoltee end hurry and take me." And and the Lord's enemies. Those that
so, with a peace eueescageahne he rose up against David rase up against
passed away. lofty moral ideals. There are two dan-
Oh, there is nothing sad about a gers against ivhich all Christians need
child's death save the grief in the
parents' heart. You. see the little ones
go right out from a world of sin and
suffering to a world of joy, How many
sorrows they escape, how many temp-
tations, how maty troubles. Children
dead are safe. Those that live are in
peril. We know not what dark pat
they naay take. The day may come,
in whicia they will break your latearta
but children dead are safe -safe for- -mte
ever. b t
The brightest lights tbat can be
kindled Christ bas kindled. Let us,
old and young, rejoice that heaven is
gathering up, so much that is attrac-
tive. In that far land we are not
strangers. There are those there who
speak our name day by day, and they
wonder why so long we tarry. If I
could count up the names of all those
who love gone out from these families
into the kingdom of heavenoit would
take me alt day to mention tbeir
names. A great multitude before the
throne. You loved them once, you love
them now, and ever and anon you.
think you. hear their voices calling you
upward. Ah, yes they have gone cnt
from all these families, and you waxit
no book to tell you. -of the dying ex-
perience of Christian children. You.
have heard it. It has been whispered
in your ear, 0 father, 0 raother, 0
brother, 0 sister. Toward that good
land an Christians are bearing. 'Dais
snapping of heartstrings, this flight
of years, this tread of the heart re-
minds us that we are passing away
'Under spring blossoms and through
harvests and across autumnal leaves
and through the wintry snowbanks
we are passing on. Oh, rejoice at it,
children of God, rejoice at it 1 How
we shall gather there up, the loved
and the lost 1 Before we mount our
throne, before we drink of the foun-
tain, before eve strike the harp of aux'
eternal celebration, we will ory oat:
" Where are our loved and lost ?" And
then how we shall gather them upl
Oh how we shall gather them up I
hh„heh,nieeeee ,e; enwestie •eneweetwei. anNileri
known class, the raudlarks, but consider derstand speevh ey looking at themoteth
tbetuselves a grade or two above these of the speaker; tio nierbanisra of speech
latter, for the genuine toslaer does not
confine himself as they do, traveling,
through the Thames mud and ,picking
up odd pieces of coal ur wood, copper
nails, bolts, iron and old rope. Tite
tosher, wizen the coast is clear of the
Police, makes his way into the sewers,
was, he thought, too complicated for
that. He, therefore, set to work to
invent an apparatus which would re-
present speech to the eye as it was spok-
en, by throwing a eneture of the vile -
rations on the screen. He coraneenced
his? experiments with Koenig's maim -
and will venture sometimes for miles metric flame awaratus, which,by meant'
hi quest for valuables that oevasioually
find their way into them by the kit-
chen sink or the street grating.
When about to enter the sewers cording to
of a vibrating dia.phragin stretene on
a piece of evuod divided into two parts,
and a series of mirrors produces a
band of light IA1314 Nrl'aNT effects, an.
of
these iron provide themselves witle a flame was too feeble to be ohotograph-
pole '7 or 8 feet long, on one end the sound uttered. The
ed. Dr. Bell then turned his attention
which there is ri. large iron hoe, a bag toanother apparatus, called a phoneto-
carried on the blaok, a canvas apron tied graph, in ,whieb ykas stro'iolled a mem-
around them, and a, dark lanterunThis !wane agamet wiaat te person spoke and
they strap on their right breast, so which carded a. little pencil over ux
that while evalkini: upright through smoked glass. which ramie a curved,
the large sewers t . light is thrown line that oould be easily photograph,
straight in front. "hen they tome, to ed.
the branch sewers and have to stoop, He made many hundreds of tracings,
tee light is thrown directly at their but unfortunately they did not corres-
feet,. As they make their way they use pond -with the flame pictures before de-'
eir hoe in the mud oe their feet, and seribed, and he attributed the trouble;
to the clumsiness of the apparatus. Ile
therefore mapped out changes in the
eonstruction ot his plaonetograph and
thought he saw in his draft a rude an-
alogy to the construction of the human
to watch; first, the disposition to credit in the crevicee of the. brick worn, and
to the movings of God's Spirit all the occasional shillings and silver spoons
passions of one's own heart; secondly, find a temporary resting peace in the
and more commonly, the tendency to bag at their back or in them eapazious
ignore God's Spirit, whose leadership
and nein would often be oars if we ao-
In this dark world of sin and pain
Wis only meet to part again,
But when we reach the heavenly shore
We there shall meet to part no more.
The hope that we shall see that day,
nand ohase our present griefs away
When these short years of pain are past
We'll meet before the throne at last.
TO BOIL EGGS'AIST RIGHT.
A cheap Sonamoeit That 'WM Enable
Cooks to Properly Boil Inas.
A stop -clock that ca,n be sold for 15
cents is tbe largest oontrivance patent-
ed. This ingenious little article is de-
signed to be especially useful to the
housewife, All housekeepers know how
hard it is to make servants time any-
thing -especially such things as boiling
eggs.) They think they Gan guess so
much easier than watch the clock.
So most boiled eggs that are served
i
are either raw or n the right oondi-
tion for salad., The girl puts them on
also given rae the necks
les. 'That is, "thou halt
1 to turn their backs unto
suing them, grasped them
. 'Them that hate me. Mine
enemies.. We are to remember that all
this wee written before the spirit of
foagiveness had been proclaimed by the
Lard Jesus.
42. 'This verse bad been supposed, be-
cause of its issue of the name of Jae
bovah, to refer to domestic rather than
heathen enemies. One would hardly ex-
pect foreign soldiers, paw= in creed,
when on the edge of overthrow to cry
out to the Lord Jehovah. But it is pro-
bable that all over Palestine and the
adjoining territories -where races and
languages were greatly mixed, the
names of deities became interthange-
able. As an evidence, of this there are
several eases ou record both of pro-
per names within Israel's bounds com-
pounded with the name Baal, and pro-
per names outside Israel with Jehov-
ah's name compounded. So that in the
earlier years a heathen might pray to
Jenovala by name while thinking of
Baal; and an Israelite might cry oat
to Baal, 't ee Lord," while in his heart
appealing to the God of Israel. But while
the language of men may thus at times
be confused there is, the psalmist as-
sures us, no eonCtieion in the mind of
God. His enemies prayed to jehovah
but there was none to save; . . . he
answered them not. We misapprehend.
this =new rassage if we interpret it
as a cruel exultation; it was a case
where wicked men, striving to defeat
God's plans, in fits of desperation ap-
pealed to God to help them. Strange,
indeed, tnet men should do so. but one
has only to read history -indeed, one
has only to keep, Ins eyes open as he
walks through life -to see such cases.
43. The imagery of this verse is re-
markable. The enemies of God had
been rocks and barriers in the way of
his progress, but God had so girded
David with strength that he turned
than into roads and streets for pas-
sage. And now what bad beet danger-
ous, opposing fortresses, were simplY
dust and rand on a highway, over which
"God was marching on." Two things
must be coestantly reraembere,d: first,
the enemies a the psalmist were ene-
mies of sozial order, enemies of the
State, enemies of the great God; sec-
ondly, the "fullness of time," when the
slowly developing moral nature of hu-
manity was susceptible of Christlitess,
had not yet come. David had never
learned from Jesus Christ the sub-
lime lesson of forgiveness. No raan in
David's' day could have understood Jes-
us. Tha growth of the moral percep-
tions of the race, was slow, and we may
be assured that, hamanly speaking, the
Gospel message was given just as early
in the history of the world as it could
be anceived.
and starts to do somethuag else, for- 44. Tbe strivings of my people. When
getting all about them.' Now, this lit- one reads the history of the latter part
tis clock can be set for two, three, or of Saul's life and of the earlier years
any number of minutes desired, and of David's reign one understands by
when the time has passed. it will ring what storms David's kingly qua,lities
a bell. were developed. From all these dis-
Meanwhile the cook does not need to turbances among his countryeaet David
think of her egg's at ell, but can go was delivered, fax this purpose -to be
ahead with her other world In this the head of the heathen. Ile was a the -
way the eggs are mire to be °poked ex- oeratic king in the truest sense that
actly to the desired pc:anti This is only is to say, he was not king at but
coat pockets.
The toshers generally go in gangs a ear. Instead of hones actuate y a
three or four, both for the sake of coin- membrane, as in the ear, he bad a lever
of wood moved by a membrane. He
therefore concluded. to modify the shape
to correspond with the human ea,r, and
went to a distinguisbed florist in Bos-
ton, Clarence A, Blake, who suggest -
c1 his experiraenting with
pany and to be able to defend ena-
selves from the rate with which the
sewers swarm. 'When they come near
a street grating they close their lan-
terns and watch an opportunity to slip
pea unnoticed, for otherwise a crowd
of people might soon collect at the grat-
ing, whose presence would put the po-
lice on the alert. T.bex find great quan-
tities tat money, especially, in the ere -
vices a the brick work a little below
the grating, and not infrequently shill-
ings, half-crowns or half -sovereigns.
When "in luck" they find mane' ar-
ticles of plate, spoons, ladles, silver -
handled knives and forks, mugs mad
drinking cu.ps, and now and then arti-
cles of jewelry. They generally. also
manage to fill their bags with the more
bulky articles found in their search,
such as old metal, bones and ropes.
These they dispose of to ratixine store
dealers and rag-and-bone won, and di-
vide the proceeds along with the coins
found, among the different members of
the gang. At one time .the regular
tosbers used each to earn from 30s to
£2 a week, but with the construction
of: new sewers,grated at the mouth,
their ini
dustry s not so easily exercis-
ed, and is consequently much less pro-
fita.ble.
one of a thousand things fax which
this clever device TOSY be employed.
THE DAUGHTER OF A WIDOW.
I don't want to marry him, but I
Jehovah was, and Dana was Jehov-
ah's vicgerent. And the next two
verses voice not simply the gratified
lust for power of a great conqueror,
but the lofty thanksgiving that welled
up from the heart of the apostle of
feel as if I ought for mother' a sake. Pinata of faith, and inoral order when
Why ? wieked -creeds and inferior civilieation
She will have so much better cbance were replaced by ttue spiritual doetrines
hereelf. and
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MRS. SWEET'S REVENGE.
-^
The Reason Dlr. Merrill Did Not Give a
Lady a Seat.
"James," said Mrs. Merrill as she sat
at tea with her husband, "I heard some
thing about you to -day that has dis-
tressed me very much."
"Heavens!" thought Merrill with a
sinking heart, "bow I wish I knew
what it was!"
But he raerely said aloud, with a bra-
vado he was far from feeling; " What
was it, may I inquire?"
"I never could bave believed it of
you -never," she continued with that
aggravating mysterious raanner that
bas driven men to death. "I had an
impression that my husband was a gen-
tleman."
"It isi 't going to be as bad as I
feared," said Mr. M. to himself, and he
assumed an air of virtuous indignation
and swelled out as shirt bosom.
When yoxi tell me of what I am ac-
cused it will be time enough to deny
it I suppose," he said.
" Yoii kept your seat in a street car
Yesterday and let Mrs. Sweet stand up
in arant of you?"
1 "I didn't tell her where to steed."
" She says you didn't see her,"
" Oho!" thougbt Mr. Id.., " then my
little dodge -worked?" Aloud he said:
"You don't imagine for a =merit I saw
her and allowed her to stand, do you,
Anoxyllis?"
"James "-Mrs. :Merrill's votoe wing
out like a cathedral bell-" why didenel
not see
" Why ? Why? My hat was Ora ray
epee aza I was resting."
"Janos, why were you resting1"
"Because-," He was just. going to
make a clean breest <if it and saer, " be-
cause I saw the old cat standing there,"
when he remembered the was his wife's
friend, "because I was tired."
"Yee, and she knew it."
Then Mr. IVIerrill realized the fury
of a woman scorned, for Mrs. Sive-et
had found her revenge. "She said,"
concluded bis wife in a brittle tote,
"that you had be,en drinking and could-
n't Stand."
AN ACTUAL HUMAN BAIL
Dr. Blake got an ear and dissected
it for Dr. Bell so as to expose the
membrane and the little bones. The
Doctor attached a pencil to the bone
called the "malleus," moistened the
membrane with glycerine and water,
and constructed an outer ear. "With
this beautiful tracings were made on
the smoked glees. The tracings, bow -
ever, were different from what he had
before produced.
While he was engaged upon tbe
above line of research at the Instate.
tion for the Deaf, he eves also develop-
ing an .invention out of wench he exe
pected to make some mosaey-viz„ aix
electrical multipl&e telegraph, by which
he could send many messages simultane-
ously over one wire. Dr. Bell simian
fied this apparatus greatly.He notic-
ed that when half a dozerx wane operat-
ing together there was a resultant el-
ectrical effect, and that but one sending
magnet was necessary to produce all
the sounds. Further consideration eon-
einced him that he could not only send
any number of musical tones simultan-
eously, but sounds of any kind. His
familiarity with the nature of speech
had taught him that the. term "quality
of sound" means really a chord of dif-
ferent musical tones having different
intensities, and he could conceive how
a sound of any kind whatever, even
words, might be transmitted, if one of
these reeds could be moved in front of
an electro-mag:net in the resultant way
he which the ear is moved when n. sound
is uttered. His eaperiments in vibrae
tions had taught him the form of the
sound waves., The problem was to
make a mass al steel vibrate he the
way the air does., The problem was in
bis mind at the time he was making
the experiments with the human sax,
befere described.
The thought sudde-nly struck him
that there was a great disproportion in
mass hetwe,ern the bones of the ear and
the membrane that connected them;
that these bones were, relatively to the
membrane, very heavy and very mas-
sive. Why, then, could not the piece
of iron or steel be moved by attaching
it to a heavier end stiffer membowne
of the present telephone form. The
problem was wive& It will thus be
eon that the telephoto was the result
of two separate lines of thought.
FATAWSPIDER BITE.
Mrs. AaMelinda Slavin, wife of John
Slavin and the mother of nine chile
dren, while peefiirming her household
duties at her home in Phillipsburg, N.
J., was bitten on the lanm by a small -
sized spider. She brushed the insect off
and gave no heed to the sniell, sting-
ing wound whith it had made, Next
day her arm began to swell, and on
Saladay her condition was so alarming
that a physician was called in. Blood
poisoning had resulted from the bite of
the spider. The women died in great
agony.
A POINT ABOUT COAL.
Investigative has lately demonstrat-
ed that coal may lose as mucb as 33.08
per cent. in weight from exposure to
the weather, while Abe Imre is made
even more considerable by the deterior-
ation in quality.
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