HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-6-14, Page 6Rev. Dr. Talmage Speaks of this
World and the Next.
A deelpeteh from Watthington says:
Rae,
Dr. Talmage preaohed from the
following teXt "Arise ye, and de-
part ; for tb4 Lanot your rest."—Mie
cell Si. /A
This was the drum -beat of a pro -
jt who wanted to arouse lals peoe
ple from their oppressed and ;sinful
condition; 'but it may just as pro-
perly be uttered now as then. Bells
by long exposure and much ringlng
lase their clearnees of lone; but this
rousing bell of the gospel strikes in
as clear a tone as when it first rang
on the air.
You and I have aeon men who tried
to rest here. They bladed themeelvee
Mat stores. They gathered around
theta the patronage of merchant
princes. The voice of their bid shook
the nioney-markets. They had stock
in the most successful railroads, and
in "safety depostsie , great rolls of
government securities. They bad em-
blazoned carriages, high -mottled
steeds, footmen, plate that confound-
ed lords and menaLors, who sal at
their table, tapestry on which float-
ed the richest designs of foreign
looms, splendour of canvas on the
wall, exquisiteness ol music rising
among pedestals of bronze, and drop-
ping, soft as light, on snow of sculp-
ture. Hare let them rest. Put bark
the embroidered curtain, and shake
up the pillow of down. Turn ouL the
lights? IL is eleven o'clook at night.
Let slbmber drop upon the eyelids,
and the air float throUgh .the half -
opened lattice drowsy with midsum-
mer perfume. Stand back, all rare,
anxiety, and trouble! But no! they
will not stand back. They rattle the
lattice. They look under the canopy.
With rough touch they startle his
pulses. They cry out at twelve o'clock
at night, "Awake, man! How ran you
sleep when things are so uncertain
What About those storks? Hark to
the Lap of that fire -bell; it is your
district 1 flow if you should die soon
lAweke, maul think of it Who will
get your property when yoa are gone?
Whet will they do with it.? Wake up !
RieliES SOMETIMES TAKE 1,\ 1.1.SGS.
'How it you should get poor ? Wake
up!" Hieing on one elbow the man
of fortune.looks out into the darkness
of the room, and wipes the danipnese
from his forehead, and says, "Alas!
For til this scone of wealth and meg-
nitieence—ne rut I"
"Wake up!" says a rough veice,
Political sentiment is changing. Sow
if yeu should lose this plaicettI heneur
Wake up I The morning papers are to
be full of denunciation. Hearken to the
exeerations of those who once caressed
you. By to -morrow night there will
he multitudes sneering at the %verde
whisk last night you 6X/3001 WI would
be universally admired. Row van you
sleep when everything depends upon
the next turn of the great tragedy?
Up, man! Off of this pillow!" The
men, with head yet hot &one his last
erlition, starts up suddenly, looks out
upon the eight, but sees nothing ex-
cept the flowers that lie oil his stand,
or the scroll from which he read. his
peech, or the books from which ho
quoted his authorities, end goes to his
t1eak'o finieh his aegleoted eurrespen-
deuce, er to pen an indignant line to
some reporter, or sketch the plan for
m public defence against the assaults
of the people. Happy when he got his
first lawyer'e brief; exultant when he
triumphed over hie first political rival.;
yet, sitting on the very top of all thut
this world offers of pribiti, he exclaims,
"No rest I No rest !"
• This world for rest/ "Ah I" cry the
W0t0r0, "00 rest here—we slung's, to
the sett." "Ahal" pry the mountains,
"no rest here—we crumble, Co 5 he
stein." '.hal" cry the towers, "no
reet here—we follow Babylon, and
Thebes; and Nineveh into the dust."
NO pail for the flowers; they facie, No
rem ft,r the eters; they die. No rest
for into; he must work, toil, suffer,
and slava.
New, fur what have I said all this?
Jusi to prepare you for the text
"Arise ye, and depart ; tor this is nut
your rest." 1 am going to make you
a grand offer. Some at you remem-
ber that when gold was discovered in
California, large companies were
made up and started off to get their
fortune. To -day I wani to make up
a piety for
THE LAND OF GOLD,
I held in my hand 0 deed from? the
Proprietor of the estate, in which he
offers to all who will join the com-
' patty ten thousand shares of infinite
value, iu a city whose Streets are gold
Whose harps are gold, whose orewns
are gold, You hove read DI the Orli-
maders—how that many thousands of
them wontoff to conquer the Holy
Setutichte. T ask you to join a grand-
er orumade—not for the purpose of
oonqueriug the serallehre ot a dead
Christ, but tor the purpose of reach-
ing the throne of a living Jesus,
When an army is to be made up, the
recruiting Officer examines the vole
auteers ; he tests their eyesight; he
he sounds their tangs; ihe measurer;
their stature; they must be just
right, or they are rejected. But there
shell be no pertiallty in making up
this army of Christ. Whatever your
moral or physical stature, whatever
your dissipations, whatever your
orirnee, whatever your weekneiteee, 1
have a commission tram the Lord Al-
mighty to make up this regiment of
redeemed souls and 1 ory, "Arise ye,
and depart; for this is not your rest.'
Many of you have larely joined this
compeny, and my desire is that you
may all join it. Why not? You
know in your own hearts' experienee
that what I have said about this
world is true—that it is no place to
rest in. There are hundreds here
weary—oh, how weary—weary with
sin ; weary with trouble ; weary wlih
bereavement. Some of you have
been pierced through and through,
You carry the sears of a thousand
confliets, in which you have bled at
et,e pore; and you sigh. "Oh that I
had the wings trf a dove, that I might
Es away and be at rest 1" You have
taken the Imp of this world's pleasure
and drunk it to the dregs, and still
the thirst claws at your tongue, and
the fever strikes to your brain. You
have chased Pleasure through every
valley, by every stream, amid every
brightness, and under every shadow;
but just at the moment when you
were all ready Lo put your hand upon
the rosy, laughing sylph of the wood,
she turued upon you with the glare
of a fiend and the eye of a satyr,
her looks adders, and her breath the
chill damp of the grave. Out of
Jesus Christ nu rest. No voice to sil-
ence the sterna. No light to kindle
the darknese. No dry duck to repair
the split bulwark.
Thank God, I can tell you some-
thing better. If there is no rest
on earth, there is rest in heaven. Oh
ye who are worn out with work, your
hands ealloused, your backs bent,
your eyes half pat out, your fingers
worn with the needle, that in this
world you may never lay down; ye
discouraged ones, who have been wag-
ing a handeto-hend fight for bread;
ye to whom the night brings little
rest and the morning more drudgery
—oh ye of the weary hand, and the
wertry side. and the weary foot,
HEAR ME TALK ABOUT REST.
But there are some of you who
w int to hear about the land where
they tits -or have any heartbreaks,
and no graves are dug. Where Is your
father and mother? The most of you
are orpthres. I look a roun 1, and where
I see one man who has parents 'Lying
1 see ten who are orphans. Where
are your children 1 Where 1 see one
family aerie, tnat is unbroken, I see
three or four that have been desolat-
ed. One lamb gone out of this fold;
one Dower plucked from that garland;
one golden, link broken from that
chain; here el bright light pat out,
and there another, and yonder anoth-
er. Wil in such griefs how are you to
rest? Will there aver be a power that
ran attune that silent ewe, or kindle
the lustre .rf that closed t'ye, or put
spring and donee into that little
fool? When we bank up the dust over
the dead, is the sod never to he
broken? Is the eesnetery it bear nit
no sound but Inc tire of the hearse-
wlieel, or the' tap of the bell at the
gate as the lent; processions coarse 110
wit h their awful burdens of grief?
Is the batten of the grave gravel,
and the lisp duet?. Nol not not The
tomb is only e. piece where we wrap
our robes about us for it pleasant nap
on our way home. The swelling's of
Jordan svitl only wash off the dust
of the way. proiu the t,op of the
grave we °Melt a glimpse of the
tatters glinted, wile the sun that
neer sets.
01.1 ye whose looks aro Mat with the
dews of the night of grief; ye whose
hearts are heavy, because those welt -
known footsteps sound no more at
the doorway, yonder is your rest!
rest! There is David triumphant; but
once he bemoaned Absolom. There le
Abraham enthroned; but ones he
wept for Sarah. There is Paul exult-
ant; but be once sat Nellie his /feet to
the stocks. There is Payson radiant
with iramortal health; but on earth
he was *always stele. No toil, no tears
no partings, no strife, no agonizing
dough, no night, No storm to ruffle
the crystal sea. No alarm to strike
from the cathedral towers. No dirge
throbbing from seraphic harm!, No
tremor in tile everlasting mon; but
reet—perfect rest— • ,
UNEINDIN REST.
Into that rest how Many of 001'
loved ones have gone! :Eke To fel is in
mourning for the dead. Never in ono
THE BRUSSELS POST,
eernmer cit my ministry have 00 Many
oi tray congregation been wept off
by deiease. The little children have
been gathered up into the
&Thrust. One of thone went out of the
arms o1 a widowed eiletheri following
ilei father, who died a few weeks bee
fore, /n its last imminent ie seemed
to see the deputed father, for it said,
looking upward with brightened,
teoutenance, "Pave, lake itus upl"
Others put down the work oe mid -
Life, feeling they could hardly be epee -
ed from the score or %hop for a day,
but are to be spared from 11 for ever.
Two 01 our people went in old age.
One came tottering on ltis staff, and
used to sit at the foot of, the pulpit,
his wrinkled face radiant with the
light, that falls from, the throne of
God. Another that Was nearer wane
than them all; from my own Miele she
went up. Having lived a Hie of Chris -
Linn consistency here, ever busy with
ktnttnesses tor her children, her heart
full ot that meek and quiet spirit
that is in the sight of Godof‘grette
price, suddenly her countenance was
trametegureel, and the gate was open -
ad, andshe took berphoe amid that
groat cloud of witnesses that hover
about the, throne!
Glorious consolatIOni They are not.
deed. You cannot make rue believe
they are dead. They have only mov-
ed on. 'With more love than that
with' which they greeted us unearth,
they watch us from their high phtee,
and their vifices cheer us in aur strug-
gle Lor the sky. Hail, spirits blessed,
new that ye have passed the Vora and
won the crown( 'With. weary feet
we press up Lha shining way, until in
everlasting reunion wit shall meet
again. Ohl won't it be grind when,
our conflicts doite awl our partings
over, we shall clasp hands, and cry
out, "This is Ifeaveor
It is ett/1 to say farewell on earth,
but how and to say farewell in the
judgment—to gaze eternally ittj to-
ward the place where our loved ones
dwelt, but be ourselves thrown out !
013 the bit terness, and the agony, and
the heart break oe that last ,parting 1
By the thrones of your departed kin-
dred, by their gentle hearts, and the
tenderness and love with which they'
now call you f rum Inc skies, I beg
yam Lo start on the high -road to
heaven.
ECCENTRIC SERVANTS
The Englishman who does not
possess and cannot cultivate sufficieut
philosophy and sense of humour to
permit the trials of doinestic life to
slide away from her mind like water
off a duck's buck should keep clear of
South Africa. Otherwise she will
have a sorry time of it, says an Eng-
lish paper.
She will think with regret of the
Very worst type of domeslie servant
England can produce, and will long
fur her with a fervour that cannot
be expressed. As for the neat -hand-
ed Phyllis of the usual English house-
hold, she will regard her as a beau-
tiful dream or a fairy tale. What
would not she give for the very worst
Abigail this country Gould mend out
to her !
Your servant may be a Kaffir, a
Hottentot, a Mozambique negress, a
Baniwn, what you will, but she will
always be bad. She has one dreadful
habit of departing at her own sweet
will. Instead of coming Lo her mis-
tress with the exasperating formula
of an English servant, "Please,
ma'am, I wish to leave you this day,
month," she grossly prevaricates,
mentioning her intention uf taking
holiday, for which she departs, often
under the escort of several relatives.
Kaffir- "boys" are jusi as unreliable.
They too make themselves scarce
with like celerity. Sometimes they
leave their wages behind them, if, as
it happens now and than, they have
let their masters keep their earnings
for them. Better freedom, to the
Kaffir, without gold, than a frankly
given "notice" and the regulation de-
parture at the coldly reputable and
most uninteresting hour of 9 p. 10.
usually Atwell by the domestic of
these isles as the one for exodus.
Even when he is in regular employ-
ment he so frequently cries elf for
the holiday without, *Lich nu servant
seems able to exist, that in sett -de -
team he adopts a system of his own
to ensure the reeeipt of proper wages,
for he has a poor opinion of his em-
ployer's honesty. For every day's
labour he puts in the "boy" makes
a noLoh in a stick be keeps, and at
the oompletion of a mouth's notches
presents himself for payment of a
mon t h's money.
The native cook cooks iniquitously.
She makes no attempt to exorcists her
profession unless her mistress liter-
ally hounds her into doing rio. The
mistress meet not only give her or-
ders, but must remind the maid bit
by bit of her duties. If she does not
Ihe maid lets everything slide. Quite
theerfully, and with great oonteal,
when dinner -time arrives she an-
nounces that nothing has been begun
tor that meal, or leaves her "giblets"
to find out the omission for herself.
11 is corieidered e horrible doineslie
dereliction from duty in ite English
homestead should the keeper of the
larder er the etc/Moore abstain from
mentioning be plenty of time the op -
prima)/ of a scarcity in any depart -
Mont of the rionsmisiteriat. • But does
the native reward the silliPle ehil(14,
like faith of her Mistress in her die -
(motion by marling and announcing be
good Lime that suell and moll a mon-
estlble is "1.000i0g Oar Not at all.
Ais exespeetited /Joh:mist who Alas
writhed under the ahortcoralaga of
her servants narrates with pathos
that several times her eltrti have been
wombed at breakfast time by the an-
nouneement thal there Wits no coffee,
or itt night, when the required lighte
tend a fire, that there was 00 matches,
delivered in the cheurfullest volute
possible, us if the news would be
certain to give delight to the 'rebut -
ed recipient thereof,
Another playful way the Kaffir .has
Is to tear up bar mistrese' household
linen for any purpose she may re-
quire it. She treats it badly enough
at.all times, spilling her pipe ashes
over it and Miming it into, holes,
washing it with much aeplioation of
rough beating -Aimee, and leaving It
about, to dry where it out be eaten
by ostriches or seized by any of the
lightefingered gentry of the neigh-
bourhood.
One fair farmeress in South Africa
remarked, however, with pleasure
that a set of Lea -cloths she possessed
were evidently held sacred by her
gentle Abigail. Imagine the reason!
The woman was a vain old thing, and
"fanoied" the tee -cloths because they
had coloured borders, were marked
"tea -cloth," and had Lea -pots woven
at the corners. So she annexed the
cloths to make turbans for herself,
and went about with the cherished
border and its strange device roguish-
ly wound round her brow! Not as a
sign of regeneration had she preserv-
ed that set of linen, but as a store
to use for personal adornment.
The native servants do not improve
with kwing, and for this reason at
the diamond mines and elsewhere men
who know no English are taken from
their kraals in preference to those
who have acquired civilization.
Every traveller seems to have dis-
covered a fresh trait of "oussedness"
in the servants of South Afrioa. It
seems also very useless to take Eng-
lish domestics out there—at any rate
for up -country work, for all the best
drift into the towns, and a great
many of them marry and settle down
on their own aocount.
The matter thus resolves itself into
a simple solation. Girls in England
who at the present time are engaged
to men who when "the piping times
of peace" are with us again, will take
up positions in pouth Africa, and bear
them out as the chatelaines of their
new homes, should he spending all
their leisure hours now in equipping
themselves for their residenoe in that
part of the world. They should
learn to 000k, to bake,. to do house-
work, to sew and to "manage," and
they will find a little knowledge of
carpentry also very handy. Above all
they should instil into themselves and
one another a grand disregard for
small worries. Great. ones also they
should contemplate with philosophy,
such, Lor example, as a possible hurri-
cane, a long and dreary drought, or
o sudden and overwhelming deluge, '
ENGLISH RIFLE CLUB SCHEME.
1Yar Office itereenttlan et Premier Salts.
Mory's Statement or the Nation's SCSI.
Prior and subsequent to Premier
Salisbury's plea that every male adult
in England learn to handle a rifle,
numerous applioutions were made Lo
the National Rifle Association hyper -
eons desirous of forming local rifle
clubs. A. council deputed by the War
Oftioe to deal *with the matter has
•issued a scheme for the formation of
clubs in affiliation with the Nation-
al Associatiou, each club to have at
least twerity subscribing members and
to pay an annual registration fee.
Rifles 'and ammunition are to be is-
sued, on payment of special rates, to
each club in the •proportion of one
rifle to ten members and 100 rounds
of ammunition to each member each
year. The rifles are to be the pro-
perly of the club and are not tore-
zoomn in the hands of members. All
ranges must be approved, by military
apthority.
The scheme is accepted aa a recog-
nition by the War Office of the na-
tional need which Lord Salisbury
made prominent, bul it is orttioised
as inadequate, as apparently the
members must bear the expense of
organization, administration and
maintenance, while a Lenth-part own-
ership in a Lea-Metford rifle and a
weekly allowance of less than two
rounds of ammunition are not likely
to rear a race of expert teflon:tea.
' • ' THE REASON.
Darling, your friend hint going to
lend up that money you asked him
for. He called to-dny to any
I Should like Co know why not. Ile
knows nee perfectly well—kuowe all
about me.
Ile said that—thel was just the reg-
ime telly.
0.—-.
Young Folks.
KIDSUMMEIt PDAY, '
•In sPrIng, Wallah Is the buoy time, of,
the Year, ovary ereeping, crawling
hopping, flying, swimming, living
thing a the fields, the wood's and the
streams le ocenpied at home, teach-
ing Its young the ways they shotaldigo,
but in midsummer lessons may be said
to be, fairly over for thel eeasolm and
playtime begins in earneeL. The long
lazy days are come, wheel the boys
and girls' that care to kneel what
other young, creatures do for amuse-
ment have only to saunter out of
doom and lie In watt under LL1O trees
at the brookshle, or near a amp of
flo were.
If you are very still under the trees
yout will see that the Kuirrel is about
as lively a little fellow at play ite you
can find. There ought to be 1 special
sympathy between squirrel's and boys.
The wonderful leaps from tree' to Lem
that the emeirrel can make, merely Lo
give a "steent" to the playfellows with
bun, are enough to fill ainy boy soul
with respeetful adanirations
The robin is another fun -loving ani-
mal. His saucy head, with the alert
bright eyes, his fearless independence,
hiss energy in searching for Ins never-
ending dinner, make one almost
ashamed to stare at him so lazily., But
11 18 really best to towage under. (be
trees, for if you, too, sat or ,stood,
wide-eyed and alert, you would at-
tract to yourselves too great atten-
tion, and the animals, instead iof play-
ing unconcernedly, before you, would
begin to worry over the intrusioni of
your presence.
At the brookside on a midsummer
day you may encourage the minnows
to it game simply by Leasing Vem
bread or cracker crumbs. Minnows
often seem to he playing at; soldiers.
They will head o.p straiten in a procee-
slam and, quick as a wink, turn right
shunt face and dart down stream for
a yard or two, reform, and as a Dom --
pony make, their way to the dispers-
ing point, Which LS alma some thin
slab of stone that bars their passage,
but wbschl they wisely do not* ruffle
their tempers by trying to get over,
Birds are not so numerous as in-
secta at this season, of the year, for,
ae all the world knows, August is the
great month, for butterflies, moths
ansi such things. The dainty little
hutmmung bird, however, and the not
less dajety clear -winged sphinx wills
disport themselves for hours about a
oluirme of flowers, a trumpet vine or
a honeysuckle. The butterflies, you
must have noticed are perhaps the
greatest lovers of plays and get their
reLtnaetselson. from that
frivolity frothat
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FLOWER FRIENDS.
It is told of the Princess Royal of
England, now the Dowager Empress
of Germany, that she had a very
hasty temper when she was a little
girl. Quick, hot words Guano readily
to her lips, and once she was even
known to speak angrily to her gentle,
indulgent father, when he refused her
some trifling pleasure. Queen Vic-
toria, always a wise and kind toolbar,
did not punish her little daughter for
these outbursts of temper, but one,
day gave her a little garden for her
own, and advised, when auger got the
best of her judgment, that she • go
out to this garden and work for a
few moments. The plan noted like a
oharm, and a very fan' moments
among the smiling farms of her flow-
er friends brought the little princess
ashamed and repentani to beg for
forgiveness.
The habit thus formed in ohildhood
has never be/3n broken, and riurinee
the entire life of this, the oldest
ohild "of the English queen, flowers
have held a high—nay, Chu highest—
place in her regard. When affairs
worry and annoy her, as they will
worry and annoy avail empresses, she
always found a few moments in which
she could slip out among her blos-
soms, and the silent oompanionellip
of the little pansy faces, the fragrant
rosebuds and the modest viedees teem-
ed to give her slrengllt bts oope with
any diffieuity, and wietione to maims
any puzzle.,
NIAGIC IN FIGURES.
You. never can tell What figures will
do. Of course they aro truthful it
properly handled, but, some of theta
are Capable oe the most bewildering
Ratios. Here is a method by whioh
figures may be made to tell secrets
in a way that will astonish those who
are not informed about bow to do the
"flgasome person to put down un-
known to ye0 5 number composed of
three figures, tete/ 762. Talk, him to
transpose the figures, making 207, and
to subtract the lesser from the great-
er. Then ask him to tell you the Rest
figura ot, the result, and you can tell
him the entire Weather, Por instance,
your first number In the present ex-
ample la 7(32, which tranapesed makes
267, Subtract 267, from /62 and you
have 498, The only figures that you
are told •M 4, the first .01 the result
All you have Lo do thl tq eutilmeob 4
rrom 9, wheoh, will give you/ 6, the host
figure, road, the nutria figure la Me
ways 9, SO your number will be 405,
This is Crile le all nem where only
three figures are ueed in making up
a number, The central figura will al-
Wayfi be 9 when the treneposed num-
her is subetracted from' the original
number, and the WO end figures when
added together will make 9. So, know-
ing either; the first or last of the re-
sult goo can give the entire number.
WHY CATS ARCH THEIR BACKS,
It is not anger alone that. makes
Cato areW their backs; indeed when
two oats are Prelair11161 to fight 1-110Y
do not assume this altitode, but
crouch low, just as they do When
about •to, Wring on their peey, the
body being extended, and the hair not
in the leaSt, ereet,
It Ise noticeoble that a cat will al-
so arch tea back when en tin 'Mee -
(tenet() frame, of mind, rubbing it-
self againsle its atiaster's leg, Al
the same time i1 slightly raises lIs
fur and/ holds its tail. erect. Its
whore attitude is juse the reverse of
that which, it assumes when savage.
Darwin, accounls. for this in the fob
towing words(--"Certuire steles of
mind lead to certain habitual actions
whiela are of no service. Now, when
a direetly opposite state of mind is
induce(' there is n strong and. involun-
tary tendency to the performance of
a movemenl of a directly' opposite
nature, though EL may be of no
servioe."
THE TWO JEWELLERS.
S. tittle 'Mina ;Thai Turned Fortune I'm
want °netted Kept the Other Down.
"It is curious," said Col. Calliper,
"how slight a thing may influence a.
man's whole future, in a town 1 lived
in onee, that later grew to be t.
thriving and prosperous city, there
were two jewelers with such shops as
you would expect to find in a place of a
couple of thousand inhabitants; doing
more business in watch and clock and
jewelry repairing than they did in
selling things, one doing about tbe
same amount of business as the other,
and each or them just about making a
living, and maybe just a little more.
That's the way they were going along
When a newcomer, a man of wealth,
bought land. in the towu and built him
a fine house and nettled there.
"These•new pylple had more or less
tinkering to do, of course, end they
tried both of the jewellers to sea whirl'
they liked better, before settling on
one, and it was hard for them to de-
cide, they liked 'ern bat h; both did good
work and were Both pleasant men. Rut
presently something happened that
made the head of the house come at
once to a definite devision.
"One of these jewellers had in Ifs
window.a clock which the man of the
newly -arrived household rise(' to eon-
sull in passing; 110 found it a good
time.keeper and be came in fart in
rely upon it for the torrent time, and
to have rather ti friendly feeling for
itsowner; in fact; so far as he • was !
cOnoerned, as bel ween the jewel-
lers, he was hemming unconsciously a
strong partisan nf a man wit h 0 Mock
in his windotve when, going by one day,
and looking in at it as mum!, he saw
that. it had stopped 1 The jeweller that
had placed that clock in the window,
thus inviting confideuce in it, and
through it in himself, had forgot ten to
wind it, .
"That settled it with the newcomer,
who was a precise man, who had made
his money by scrupulous crud exert at—
tention to business; end he at once
threw his weight for the other and
turned the scale in his favor; It was in
front of hie, door, only,. that the ear -
rine of the newcomers was theret 15 Or
observed to stop. Their example had
more or less influence and snore and
more people wen( there, especially
from. among the OM)" inhabitants. The
jeweller himself te whom trade had
thus mine, was a shrewd man who
did not fail to lake advantage of his
opeortunithee. doubled ltis stock
and attended to husiness and trent in
for what trade there wits itt the tom-
nuunity. The tosvit grew Lo be a city,
and he grew With it, and got rich! The
last Lime lwae there, and this was
only a taw years ago, he was a pros-
perous inereleent, with a fine big store
beautifully stuekedmild doing a fine
business, In a small store' 00 a .side
street, I Saw the: Men who had forgot
LO wind the cloak, with a inagnifying
glass twee his eye, bending itt work
over a watch 011 a workebench in
front of him in the window.
"Occasionally [see in some wetche
maker's window.a clock, put there as
a guide to the public and as en ad-
vertisement of the business within,
that has been permitted to run down;
Esaw one, in faet, the Other morning,
and thatee what brought to my inlnti,
as it always does, the story of the two
jeveellers."
• VERY easTrz.
She—I'm coolly sorry for 1 tbink
you'd make an excellent husband
It were not for your expensivelesimsi:
tfee
--I uppose you're Jesting Wha
OX001101,70 tasted have if
She—Me, for Prudence!
ITTNA. 14, 1900
fho Cfergyments Wife.
The ppsltiois 91 women in tbe weel4
is a matter about ,willeh the average
man gives Himself iltile eoneerm'As
Mrs. Game said of the "Rooeltians,"
he accepts the feet that women "WO
born so," and so must be content 10
perform the duties pertainliag to their
Mete in life, Them . duties are,
roughly speaking, the care of man
and 'the perpetuatiou of the race, As
they Acorn to 103 000h natural arta
appropriate duties, it is difficult for
man to realize how much of etterifiee
and of limitation' of possibilities their
performance inVOIVOS. The daily life
of most womeee is a weary round of
detatls, on which the oorafort and
health of the family 'depeudis, of at-
tention to clothing, to food, to
rooms and dust /Rothe, They are
constantly called on Inc decisions, and
always about: minutiae, It itt scant
wonder if in the end this perpetual
engagement with petty details pm -
duces a certain narrowness of view,
the mend losing its fodus for large
affairs. Perhaps it is wall that it
does lose it, thus rendering women ob-
livious to the greatest limitation
their lot Involvee, and one which mon
least realiree, their lank of • direst
power in the greater affairs of lite.
Rea only indireetly, through their
nuance over., those holding power,
that they have 'power in great events,
a condition which would Ise intoler-
able to .men.
It is is thus a hard job to be a
woman, it is doubly so to be a clergy -
woman. For not only is she saddled
with all the duties falling to her sex
in the apportionment of the world's
stork, but she suffers from limitations
and obligations not naturally imposed
upon her sisters. To begin with, site
is geuerally the wife of a poor mum,
but a man with cultivated tastes and
that high regard for the decency and
respectability of life whiell eharao-
terizes his class everywhere. 'to main-
tain a standard of living which shall
not only conduce to the hest work,
but insure Demi/sot, the pastor's wife
must work as hard as any arl;san
at contriving ways and means and
making economies. And, nine times
out of len, the bravery with which she
does it is simply splendid. Think of the
way in which the pastor it3 relieved
from small worries, et the strong Inca
in all the higher walks of the life who
have come out of minister's homes,
and of the personal sacrifices their op-
portunitie8 and education lie•rm en-
tailed 'moo the wife and mother.
Considered as a whole, there is no
more useful or self-derOtig •holy of
women anywhere, nor one that de-
serves en well of the state.
But beside this daily struggle with
carter and econuanies, the clergywo-
tuan must also "trot en example. Now
while in little things she is quite as
good, and generally a little better,
t him other women, it is not en agree-
able thing for anybody to be an ex-
autole, But the pastor's IA ire must
always renumber that she is so' to
her husband's flock, and that 18 lit-
tle as well as in big things. Mrs.
Brown is relieved from such respon-
sibility because through her busband
mity preach all the Virtues, she is not
expected le practice th.em. But there
is no such escape for the olergywoman
who is expected to illustrate in her
daily wallr an)( conversation all the
tem:lungs of the clergyman, And
there is reason to fear (bet her re-
eponsibittLies aro' not lo end with'
being an example.
New there le no doubt that, most
elergyworuen ere pastors'. assistants,
engaged in the spiritual Work of the
ohurch, But being capable as well as
good women, and recognizing the lim-
itations of sex, they realize that they
can best advance that work by de-
voting their talents to helping the
man whom they can inflhohee. They
therefore relieve him so far as may
be of the burden of petty details of
cares 'mud worries, so that he may
concentrate his attention upon his
work. They become his watchers and
Deities, weighing his actions and worths
and commending this line of procedure
and condemning 5.1501, In this capacity
they are so invaluable to the pastor
that 11; may be questioned whether
they could be equally useful in any
other, even were they not already
overweighted. To oblige them to be
candidates with their husbands would,
moreover, tend to lower the standard
of the clergywomen. The young paustot
would be tempted t6 select 'a wife
with a view to striking the taste of
the average oongregation, rather than
ae,a helpmeet, in the belt sense, ..for
himself. ,t • .... • 41
utDVICE, 31
Please help me, sir °fled, the beg.
gar, km starving!, 1 '
Coldly the pellion eppeeted to leoW.'
ed 01 leim in his misery.
W1sy tssy man, aeld he, yilit elon't
look ees though you needed any help
to Marvel If you ean't do it unaided
why dent you gife u» the attempt
' THE PDXNTIToir VIEW.
Tom—Women ars all more or loss
cowardly.
.jaelc--Oh, I don't know. 1 never
heard of olio afraid to got married..
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