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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-12-7, Page 2EDITE RANEM THB BB>t1$BEI,69 POST, DF,o, 7, 1599 STORM. Rev. Dr. Talmage Draws Some Lessons From It. jdnah Punished for Disobedience -Caught in a Storm and Wrecked --Some People Have Friends Who Are Not Christians --What Are They Doing to Bring Them to Christ --The Dr. Preaches a Powerful Sermon. 1A despatch from Washington says:- I,ov. Dr. Talmage preached from tit the following text: "The men rowel hard to bring it to land, but the could not, wherefore they cried unt the Lord." -Jonah i, 13, 14, Navigation in the Mediterranea Sea always was perilous, especially s in early times. Vessels were propel led partly by sail and partly by oar When, by reason of great stress u Weather, it was necessary to reef th canvas or bout It in, then the ;este was entirely dependent upon the oars sometimes twenty or thirty of them on either side of the vessel. Yo would not venture outside Sand Hook with such a craft as mo sex finds Jonah sailing in; but he i:ad no much choice of vessels. He was run- ning away from the Lord; and when a man is running away from the Lord, be has to run very fast. God had told Jonah to go to Nineveh to preach about the destruction of that otty, Jonah disobeyed. That alway makes rough water, whether in th Mediterranean, or the Atlantic, or 111 Pacific, or the Caspian Sea. It is a very hard thing to scare sailors. have seen them when the prow of th vessel was almost under water, and they were walking the deck knee deep In the surf, and the small boats by the side of the vessel have been crush ad as small as kindling woud, whist ling as though nothing had happened but the Bible says that these man- ners of whom I speak were frightened. That which sailors call "a lump of sea'' had become a blinding, deafening swamping fury. How mad the wind can get -at the water, and the water can got at the wind, you do not know unless you have been spectators. 1 have in my house a piece of a sail of a ship, no larger than the palm of my band; that piece of canvas was all that was left of the largest sail of the ship Greece, that went into the storm five hundred miles ,,If New- foundland. Oh what a night that was. I suppose that it was in some such storm as this that Johah was (mugbt. Fie knew that the tempest was ou his 'recount, and he asked the sailors to throw him overboard. Sailors are a generous -hearted race, ani they re - resolved to wake their escape, If pos- sible, without resorting to such ex- treme measures. The sails are of uu use, and so [bey lay held on their °ars. I see the lung rank of shining blades on either side the vessel. Ott! how they did pull, the bronzed seamen, as they laid back into the cart. But rowing on the sea is very different from rowing otos, a river, and as the vessel hoists, the oars skip the waoe, and miss the stroke, and the tem((at laughs to scorn the fining t:nddles• It is of no use, no use. Tbtre comes a wave that crashes the time matt. and sweeps the u1rsruren from their pi-tce3, and tumbles everything in the ton- fusior. of IMPENDING SHIPWRECK. or, as my text bas it ; "The et i ruw- ed tiara to bring it to 'ami, batt they conal 11(3 +•.herefore they coed un- to the .Lunt." Ths scone is %cry suggestive t0 me, and I pray God I may h,yrioe and strength eIzough tt r:;i sent :t be- fore this rlyug yet izem;,rtal auditory. I Arent heel you a seem 10 on another ,boae uf this Vcry subject, Mill a letter from ll,usten, Tee ts. 111. writer suyiug that she reading of that sermon i1 Lotto lied led hitt in God. led I received another lot tor Iran Smith Australia, saying that the snail- ' of that s,+r'mon in .1us,reui11 had .ought aevc.rel souk to Christ. Anel then, 1 thought, way 711zloty take nn- othe.r tthase of th s:une eft Wee!, for, 'senates, that GO who can face in power (het which is EI' wIn 111 w1.5!tr1,033, may this night, througb amities. e7' t hate of the mune subject, bring .=atv.,tinn to the people who shall bear, and sal- vation to the people tvho shall reed. Men and women, who ltnw how to pray, ley hold of the Lord God Al- mighty to -night, and wrestle far the blessing. l,fshup Lorimer would stop eomtetime( in Ilia Hermon, in ills' midst of his argrun+nt, and say; "Now, I will tell you a fable;' sod t" -night I would like 1,, bring the scene of my text as an illustration of a moat im- portant religious truth, As (home • Mediterranean oarsmen trying t., bring Joeali ashore were dis",,zndl- sd, I have to tell you 'that they were notthe only men who have 1broken down On their ',addles, and have been obliged to call on the l,orrl for hoof:, want to:my that the ull'tveiline efferte of 1110831 1,4501t,rr,(r,' 3 ea realest line a e counterpart in the effetea we are mak- 1 i•ng to bring smile to the eh0l'e of .cafe- 1 ty, e y, set their fact 1111 the .(lock of Ages, You have a father, or moth- er, or husband, or wife., or ehilrl, or near friend who is not a Christian„ There. have ben times when you have been In agony about tlueir salvation. b A minister of Christ, whose wife was dying without any hope in Jesus, wonted the floor, wrung his hands, tried bitterly, and said; "I believe I shall go insane, for I knots she is not prepared to meat Clod." And there may hove been clays of 510130588 in your household, when you feared it would bo A FATAL SICKNESS ; the shore when you ars swept beck s again.. What ellen you do? put (Iowa 1 the oar'? 011, no, I do not advise that; y but I do advise you to appeal to that o God to whom the Mediterranean oars- men appealed -the -God who could rile n enc13 the tem(+est and bring the ship e in safety to the port. 1 tell you 1233' friends, that there has got to be a good deal of praytng before our fam- f idea are brought to Christ. Ab 1 it da e an 'twful thing to have ha:f a house - 1 hold on one side the line and the (oh- , sr part of the household on the other Hide the line, 0h, the possibility of u an eternal separation I One would y think that such a thought would hover t over the (sinew, and hover over the t arm -chair, and hover over the table, anti that eaeb clatter at the door would cause a shudder as though the last messenger had come. To live together in this world five years, or ten years, or fifty years, and then afterwards to live away from each other millions, • millions, millions of years, and to know O and feel that between us and eternal separation there is only one heart I beat I IN our Christian friends go out of this lite into glory, we are com- forted, We feet we shall meet them again in the good land, But to have two vessels part on the ocean of eter ''dry, one Tang to the right and the - other to the left, farther apart, and farther apart, and the signals cease ' to be recognized, and there are only two specks on the horizon, and then; they are lost to sight for evert I have to tell you that the unevail-' sng efforts of these Mediterranean • oarsmen has a counterpart on the ef- forts some of us are making to bring our children to 71 ainellE OF SAFETY. There r e '•, 331.1350 mils temptations tor, young •people as there are naw. The literary and the social influences seem to be. against their spiritual in. terests. elitist seems to be driven al- most entirely from the school and the p1e,t,urabJe concourse, yet God1 known how ausious we are for our ch(idren, i 11'8 cannot think of going to beaven without them. We do not want to leave this itfe while they are tossing on the waves of temptation and away from God. From which of them could we consent to be eternally se!.:•sated? Would it be the son f Would be the daughter? Would it be the eldest? be the yuuage.t P 11'ould it bet he one that ie Weil and stout, or the one that is sick?? 011, I hear some parent saying t0 -night: 'I have tried toy best to bring rely children.tu Christ. I have laid hold of the oars until they bent in my grasp, and I have braced my:.0lf against the ribs of the boat, nod I have putted ter their eternal x341011.', but I c'an't get them to Christ' Tne , I tap you to imitate Ole men 01 the ext and Cry miule( :y unto God,. We want more impurttfnate praying for ehi„iren, such as toe father indulge ed In when be had tried to brines his ..six sures to Christ, and they had wee - tiered uff lulu dissipation. Then he. go, down in lei: prayers and said; "U11, tl�>d rap_ away trey lila, if through Ilea mete :d my' ions may repent anti b b, ughi 10 Linter;" ante the Lord larl,iegly answered the prayer, and 111 a 1'',: weeks the fattier wars taken t1'rt t' and through the eoleinnit3• the fle..! un•.0 3.11,11. 011, that fath- er s ;tinted to die for the eternal netfent,f hie cbil,irer• 118 rowed hard t.- being 111,eu to the lend, but cow's en, atilt thein 111 ;:vied I1OLO 1110 l,urd There are parent:( here who are atm -et. discuuragea about their child - Where is your sun to -night 1 11•: has wandered ut'f, perhaps, to the amts 41 the earth 11 0051114 a8 if he etien"t gel tar enough away' from your t.',.ti,• i,., culznset. What dues he cars aoe.ut ire:• furrows that came to your 1111 about. the quick whitening of tee hair; about the fact (ha( yuur back bat ;et to stoup wall, ttte burd,sns? he would tact care: omen it he heart you were dead, Till! 1JLACK-1.JG1',D LIBTTIni.' drat 13111 13 111(3Indeog, he'wuuld put. in If -alum package :v the other let et8 ceiling 'be story of l,is 510,me. What are sun grueg to do 1 Both paddle.( beekea en. the huddle of tate blade, huw 1,111 you pub him ashore 1 I throw one ear u, -''iglu with which I be;lieve you eat; bring hitt into harbor. ft is •t gore us peoln813: "I will b•+ a God to 111 amt to shy aged after Ih00.'' Uh ! broken-aear•terl father ani motherl You have tried 8very(hi1,g 0 - a, now matt' an appeal fur the hep met om- 111putence ur (h; eo5eimtit-keeping Gud, and perhaps at. your met family gaLh• - .ring, perlmps un that !(.•+giving-d!ay, c ,er1"148 111•x1 Chritimes-nay, the pro- a iigal may Ire. tonne ; and 11 ;',u crowd 1 an 14111 (>iats moue tueura033 than on any t ,:bet pial; at the table, t ant sure the 1 brnthere will 1101 Pa! ;jealous, len they 1 will wake up all the unset in t11e. house "b"r:au4e the dead is alive ,.gad] and 1 ecau:e the lost is found." 1'erhaps your prayeni have bnen answered al- 9 a ready. . The V08801 (1ray be, comity homeward, and by the light of Ibis night';; (1.itte 1343! absent Nen may be, pacing the cluck of the ship, anxious for m the lima so some whet, be can throw his arms around your ((eek, and ask for t' foryive13 e,+s for that hu (nus been wring- i„g Trott Your old heart to tong. Mer- it/1M r(• -union, that will be loo accred for outside 3 to took upon; but I would just s:ke to 11>uk t.brough the window when you have all got to- gether again, and are melted at, the banquet, "Though parents may in cnvenitnt be, And have their heaven in vtow, Theyare Y nut happy tilt they ace, Thole children happy ton." Again, .I remark, that the unavail- ing 811051 of the Me,hlerrlulean 0ars- tnun has a oeufllel' ear( in tho effort: wltiela we are making to bring this world baro to God, His pardon, anti tv sonny. If this world could have been C; saved by human effort, it would have (11 been dono long ago. John Howard took bold of one oat', and Carey took hold bf anotber oar, and Adoniranl Tudson took hold of another oar, and Luther took hold of another oar, and John Knox took hold of another' oar, and tboy pulled until they fell back dead franc the exhaustion. boom dropped tbo ethos of martyrdom, emote on t St'ALYINtl ANLVIO1 OF SAVAG' and 5011,0 tato the plague -struck r0 of true lazaretto; and still the ohm aro not brolsen, and still the 401p0 isms ttre not demolished, and still t world is unsaved. Wbat tbeu? 1 down the oars and make no effort do not advise that. But I want y Christian brethren, to understand tl the Church and the ecbool, and t college, and the missionary 8orlety a only the instrumentalities; and iftl work is over dune at all, God must it, and Ire will do it, in answer our prayer. ' Tbey rowed hard bring it to tho land, but. they cull not: wherefore tbey cried unto t Lord." Again, the unavailing effort of the Mediterranean 0arsnten has a eeun( part. In every Hurn that is trying row lois own soul into safety, When t Eternal Spirit flaehos upon us 11 ennd'ition, we try to sate ourselv say : "Give me a stout oar for 1 right hand, give mo u stout oar f my left hand, and I win pull myse into safety,' No. A wave of s collies and dashes you one way, and wave of temptation eome8 and dash you in 8n0t11er way, and there plenty 0f reeks on which to found r !but seemingly no harbour into chi to sail. Sia must be thrown overbear or we must perish. There are men this house, in all these galleries, w have tried for ten years to becom I Christians, They believe all I say regard to a future world. They belie that religion is the first, the last, th infinite necessity. With it, heaven Without it, hell They do everythin but trust in Christ. They make six( strokes to a minute, They bend fo ward with all earnestness, and the lay hack until the muscles are listen 334, and yet they have not made on inch in ten years toward heays What is the reason ? That is not th way to go to work. You might as we oke a frail skiff, and nut it dow ren in glory calling to -night, sayings. "Steer this way, father, Steer etralght for mo; Here safe In heaven I am waiting for thee," Bo you nal'. Pee the bands cal mercy, rho hands of loved 01388, let dowfl 001N in from the skies, buckuning to the pare be Boning Jesus, beckoning u to 115831811 D;, and to glory, Can it be that it is all nm in vain? ' ins PALVAIIY IN VAIN? t- Death -bed warnings In vain? Minister he tering spirits in vain? Tho opening 'ut I aatae of heaven in vain? The imf>ollen 1 ,11ing of God's eternal Spirit all, In vain on, To y0t11' knees, oh dying soul, before 1 ,et j he too late to pray. I bear the creak.. he log of the closing door of God's mercy re To some of you the last chance has lis come. The tongue in the great bel du begins to swing for the death' knell of to thy soul immortal! And in an hour, in to which ye think not, you disembodied id spirit may go shrieking out towards he the throne of un offended God, and - 1 what then? Has not God been calling se ; to you, my dear brother, during the on week? In the uncertainty of tine to world's treasures? Do you 1101 feel to - he night as if you would like to have God ur and Jesus, and tt11 the precious pre- en' miser of His Gospel? I remember ay; that after (he great crisis of 1857, or when the whole land was rocketll with 11 commercial sorrow, the spirit of God in descended, and there were two bun- a;drad and seventy thousaa1 souls in es' one year, who found tau peen of are Christ, 011, I would that tine rocking 13 , in Washington City to -day - eb the commercial rooking - might rouse d up men to the consideration oft the In - in Menge of their immortal souls, bo As I asked you 1113: amm- o sng, I ask you note: "What shall it In' profit a man if he gain the whole world vee and lose his soul ?" Coma back, ab e wanderer. T do not ask where you I: came from to-nigbt. Though you may g have acme from places of sin, I shall y' not be partial in my offer of salvation, r- I offer it to every one who sits before y me. "Whosoever will, let him come," d and let hlm come now. e, Plenty of room at the feast Jesus n. has the ring of His love all ready to e put upon your hand. Come, now, and 11: sit down, ye hungry ones, at the Ban- n quer. Ye who aro in rags of sin take tl the robe of Christ. Ye who a' t" ease ,irezkelose4s4sezie*Isestmeietiliaz A LITTLE REBEL. CHATTER I. "Porple'x'd In the extreme." - "The memory of post favore is like a rnlnbOW, bright, vivid and - beau3.lful," The professor, sitting before hie Oa- t tasted breakfast, is looking the very picture of dismay. Two letters lie be- fore him; one is In bis hand, the other s is on the table cloth, llntb are open; 1 bu't of ono, 1118 opaning lines -that 1013 of the ilea of his old it! ,fro all he has read; whereas ba has read the other from start to finish, already three times. It is from his olcl frim[ himself, written a wools before 1116 death, and very urgent and pleading, The professor has mastered its con- tents with ever-increasing consterna- tion. Indeed, so great a revolution has it created in ]lis mind, that bis face - the index of that excellent part of him -has, for the moment, undergone a complete change. Any ordinary ac- quaintance now entering the profes- sor's rooms, and those acquaintances migllJt be whittled down to quite a little few, would hardly- bavo known him, Por the abstraction that, as a rule, characterizes his features -the way he has of looking at you, as if he doesn't see you, that harems the simple and enrages the others -is all gone 1 Not o trace of dt remains, It 11118 given place to terror, open and unresltrained, A girl," murmurs 110 In a feeble tone, falling book in bis chair, And , then again, in a louder tone of dis- , 5007--" A girl 1" He pauses again, and now again gives way to the fear that els destroying ]rim -"A grown girl!" IAfter this, he seems too overcome to continue his reflection, so goes back to the fatal totter. livery now and then a groan escapes him, mingled with mournful remarks, and extracts from the sheet in his hand: Poor old 1VynterI Gone al: last!" staring at the shaking signature at the end of the letter that speaks so Plainly of the oohing toy clutch that should prevent the poor band from forming ever again such sadly erra- tic characters as these, " At least," glancing at the half -read Letter on the cloth-" (bis tells me so. His soliei- tors, I suppose, Though what Wyn- ter could want with a solicitor- Poor old 10110tV I He was 01ten very good to me in the old days. I don't believe Ishould have done even as much as I have done, without him. . It must be fully ten years since he threw up his work lore and went to Anetralia I Teo ,years. The girl must have been born before be went," -glances at letter-" My child, my beloved Por- petua, the one thing on earth Ilova will be left entirely alone. tier moth er died nine years ago,. She is only seventeen, and the world (des before her, and never a semi in it to care how it goee with her. I entrust. her to you -a groan. To you I gtva her, Knowing that if you are living, dear fellow, you will not desert me In my 3131001: need, but tvi11 do what you can for my little one." tut the foot of Niagara, and then hea It ed by ,eyo the breakers around you, cry to it up toward the churning thunderho of waters, and expect to work yo way up through the lightning of th Loam into calm Lake Erie, as for yo to try to pull yourself through 111 surf of your sin into the peace, an pardon, and placid' y of the Gaspe You cannot do it , that way, SIN IS A ROUE G. 11A , and long -boat, yawl, pinnace, and goo dole gu duwn unless the Lord delive but if you will cry to Christ and la bold of Div',.s mercy, you are as saf from eternal condemnation as thong you had Leen twenty years in Ilea; en. 1 wish Icould put before this au thence, unparduned, their own help- lessness. You will be lost as sur as you sit there it you depend upo y0u3 own power. You cannot do it, N hurn110 arm wa1 ever strong enoug to unlock the door of heaven. No fob was ever mighty enough to break th 511a(•k10 of sin. leo oarsman swarthy en ough to row himself into God's ha boor. Wind is against you. Tide is against you. The law is against you, !'ori thuu:and corrupting influences are against you. Helpless and undone Not so helots - a sailor on a plank mid-Atlantic. not so helpless a travel ler girdled by twenty Ludic,' 0f prairie on fire. Prove it you say. I will prove it. John v. (641 " No man Dan come to me, except the Father which hath sunt me draw 'him," Itut while I have shown your belp- 1,•ssness, I want to put by the side of it 1130 power and willingness of Christ to sa5e you. l think it was in 13',111; u vessel w'aa bound for Portugal, but it. was driven to pieces 0n an un- friendly const, Tho captain had hie eon with hila, and with the crew they wandered up the beach and started on the long journey to find re- lief. Atter a while the son fainted by reason of hunger and the length of .the way, The captain said to the crew: "Carry my boy for mo on your shoulders:" They carried him on : but the journey was so long, that after awhile the crew fainted from hangs and from weariness, and could carry hili, no longer. Then the father rallie. I hie al most wast lel energy, and took up his own boy, and put lam on his shoulder, end carried him on utile after mile, mile after mile, until, over- eenle himself by hunger and weari- ness, he, too, fainted by the way. The boy laid down end died, and the fath- er, Met at the time rescue cattle, also perished, living only long enough to tell the story -sad story. indeed, But glory be to God that Jesus Christ is eta. to (aka on up nut of ourship- wreckcd end dying condition, and put u'a on the sholtlder of Ills strength,' ani by ID's. (m>nipotenca of IRs gospel, hear us on through all tho journey oft this life, and, at last, through the opening gates of heaven HE 18 MIGHTY TO SAVE, Hear 11, ye dying men and women, Though your sun be lung, and black, anal inextenal1111e, and outrageous, lite very moment you believe 1 will pro - 'Mien pardon - quick, full, grand, un- on'ati mol, uncompromising, illimit- hie, infinite. Oh, 111'' grace of Gadl am overwhelmed when I come to hank of 11, Give me a thousand lad - leen, lashed feet to each other, that alight Henle 111e height, Let the Ino run out. with the anchor until all be cables of earth are exhauster!, that we may touch the dean h. Lot the rchat,gel fly In circuit of eternal ages n trying to sweep around this theme. Oh! the grace of 0o(tl It, is so high, It '4 so broad, It is so deep, Glory be to 9 God, that where man's oar gives at, Ood's arm begins, Why will ye arry your sins rand your 50rr0w51 any longer when Christ offers to take them. Why will you wrestle down your fears when this moment you 1n1gh1 give up and be saved, , Da you not know that everything is really? "Stet Jesus :sande with open amts, Inc eh11s, Ile bids you mote; . Sin holds you back and fear alarms, Rut stilt there yet ds room," 0111 men anti women, bought by the blood of Jesus, how can I give you up? Will you turn away t.hi5 plea, as you have turned away so many? have' you deliberately chosen to die? Do you wont to be Leel? .O0 yeti turn your back an heaven bonauao you do not want to 131(1 Christ, nor your own .loved ones horn Ho 11ua taken into His bosom, toot some of these fathers and ethers bear the aglow of their child- , ur Christ to pilot you into .smooth, still ei waters, On account of the. peculiar u' phase of the subject, I have drawn my iill ustrations, you see, chiefly, to-' 1 night, . FROM THE WATJ3III. I remember (bat a vessel went to pieces on the Bermudas, a great many r, years ago. It had a vast treasure on board, But the vessel being sunk, no' ' effort was made to restore 1t. After hmany years had passed, a 0umpany of adventurers went out from England,' and after a long voyage, they reached the place where the vessel was said to have souk. They•got into a email boat and hovered over the place. Then the e divers weut down, and broke through , owhat looked tike a limestone covering, h and the treasures rolled ou(-what was t found afterwards to be, in our money, 13 worth 1,5(0,000 dollars, and the found- - ation of a great business -house. Al r_ that, lime the whole world rejoiced over , culla[, was palled the look of these ad- venturers. Oh, ye who have boon row- ing towards the shore, and have not ; been able to reach It, I want to tel( I ' you 10-ni&ht, that your boat hovers' over Infinite treasure. All the rdchee' of God are at your feet. Treasures, that neves fail, and orowns that never , grow dim, Who will gu down, now, and seek them? Whet will dive for the pearl of great price? Who will be prepared tar life, for death, for judg- ment, for the Mug eternity? Many; who bear my voice bear it for the last 1 time, and I shall moot them not a31aie until the heavens be rolled up as a scroll, and the. books be open, !'(es 1118 wrath to come 1 The Lord help . you. I am clear of the blood of souls,' See two hands of blood, stretched out towards the dying soul, as ,Jesus says: "Colne unto me, all ye who labor and I are beavy laden, and 1 strip give you rest: cmc( how closely you examined the fame of the doctor as ho dune in and se.ru• Untied the patient end felt the pulse, and you followers] lain Into the next room; and said: "There isn't: any dan- ger, la there, doctor?" And the hest• tattoo end tho un(ertainty of the re- ply made two eternities 1100 before your visdan, And then you went and you tallied to the siok one about the greet future. Oh, there aro those Isere %vho have tried to bring their 0rionl5 to God. They havo been un- able to bring them to the ellen; of safely. They are no neater that besot than they were twenty years ago. You think you have trot tholes almost to TWO KINDS. Mrs. Stuhb-John, what in the world aro you doing with those boxing gloves i,n one hand and the remnants of din- ner in the other? 1311', Stubb-Maria, there ds a tramp downstairs who says he is looking for scrape, I want to he certain which kind lo moans. c9C1DY 071' 4St3T0, "But what is that?" demands the professor, distractedly, Ile pushes his sspeettieles up to tho top 01 his head, and then drags them clown again, and casts (bona wildly into the sugar -bowl, " What on earth nm I to ;On with a girl of seventeen? If it had been a boy even that would have been bad enough -hut a girl! And, of course I know Wynter-he has died without a penny. IIe was bound to do that, as he 311Wnys lived without ono. Poor olrl Wynter I" 08 if a little ashamed of. 1adlnl:elf. "1 don't see how I eon afford to pu't her out to nurse," He pulls himself up with a start, "To corset a girl of soventeoo 1 She'll want to be going not to balls and thing's -at her ago." As if smitten to the earth by this last awful idea, he picks his glasses cult of the sugar and goes back to the lcttsr. "You will final her the dearest girl, Most loving and tender-hearted; ands full of life and spirits " "Good Heavens 1" say;, the professor. He putts down the leiter ngein, and begins to pace the room, "Life and omits.' A. sort of young kangaroo, no 40111)le, V: hat will the lrindlady say I shalt leave these roams "-wish a fond and lingering gaze round the dingy old apartment that hnen't an article in it worth ten sous-" and take a emelt house -somewhere -and. , , But- er---- It Won't he respeef:Ode. I think. 1 -I've heard things said al,out-er-. things like that Ips no good in look - big an old fogey, if you. aren't One; 110 earthly use "-standing before a glass and ruefully examining his• oountenenee-" in looking fifty 11 you are only thirty-four, 11 will be ascan- dal," says the professor mournfully,, They'll cut her, and they'll out nae, rd -what the dance did Writ .ormean ' y leaving me his daughter? A real live girl of soventt'.en 1 It'll he the death of toe," says the professor, mop- ping hie brow, " What "-wrathfully'- "that determined spendthrift meant. by flinging hies family on my shoal - dere I,-- 0111 Poor old Wyntor!" Here he grows remorseful again. Abuse a roan dead anti gone, and one, too, who had been good to him in m0nv ways %viten he, the professor, was younger than ho is now, and had just quarrelled with a father, who was nl- ways only Ino prone in quarrel, with any one who gave hit, the chance, seems but a poor (:hinge Tho profee- sor's quarrel with bis fatbor had been roused by the young man's refusal to accept a Government appointment -oh - Mined with so030 difficulty -for the very u'nsufficient and, as it seemed 10 his father, iniquitous reason, that het had made nes his mind to devote hie life to snionon. Wynter, too, was a scientist of 110 mean order, and would probably, have made hie marls lb the world, it the world and; its pleasures had not merle their mark on trim, Ho had been young Curzon's coach et one time, and finding the lad n kin- dred spirit, had opened out to him his own large store of knowledge, and steeped him In that great s0a of whloh n0 Man yet hos drank enough -for all begin, and leave it; et111.3183, Poor Wynt'er1 Phe professor, turn- ing in his stride up and down theater - row, u000m'orts.bi0 room, one of (ho many that lie off 1.11.08erenrl, finds his eyes resting on shut other letter - 08re18s51y opened, barely begun, Prom W3'11ter'11 30135llurl It 3400113 ridblulous thus W,vnter 811ould !ln brad a ao11014oa ''/itlr a sigh 1113 (aka 31 up, ()pinna it out, and begins to rea it. At tlto end of the second p g', h anent rveroaals a eentetese ur tw'o, nn sadtl01113' his face becomes illumil,aIe 1133 throws up, his hoed. Ile cuc'lthet a bit, He looks ns If be wants to say somet�ing very baclly-"Hurrah," pro- bably -only be has .forgotten bow to do it, and finally goes back to the tet tamer again, and ibis time -the third 11ms-finie1tos 11, Yes, It is till right 1 Why on earn O udot he road, it first? S0 the, air is to bo soot to live with her nun lifter all -tut old Indy-maiden lady Lvidontl living somewllet'oin Blooms hurt', Miss Jano b1zl,1erldie, Mother' sister evidently, Wynter's sister would never have been old maids i they hard resembled him, wllieh prob ably they did-dfl hal had any, What a hantsome fellow, he wa81 and 53011 n good-natured fellow, too. The professor colors here In his queer sensitive way, and pushes his spectacles up and down his nose, In another nervous fashion of his. After all, it W18 only this minute be had been accusing old Wynter of anything but. good nature, Well! He Had wronged him there. He glances at the letter again. Ile has only been appointed 11er guardian, it seems. Guardian of her fortune, rather than of her. The old aunt will have the charge of her body, the -or -pleasure of her 330- oieCy-he, of the( estate only. Fancy, Wynter, 015 all men, dying rioh-actually rich. The professor pulls his beard, and involuntarily glanoes round the somewhat meagre apartment, that not all his learning, not all hist suooeas in the scientific world -and it has been not unnotewor- thy', so far -has enabled him to im- prove upon, It bus helped trim to live, no doubt, and distinctly outside the line of want,/ a thins; to be grateful for, as his ratnily having in a measure abandoned him, he, on his part, had abandoned his family in a measure also, and with reservations, and it would have been impossible to Jilin, of all men, to cordon himself beaten, toad return to them, for assistance of. any kind. Ile. could never have enacted the part of the prodigal son. He knew this in earlier. days, wino Meeks were for the most' part all hos had to sus- tain him. But the mind requires not even the material husk, n lives on bet- ter food, than that, and in his :case mind had triumphed over body, cad borne it triumphantly to a safe, if not as yet viotorious goal. Wet Wyntor, the spendthrift, the erstwhile muster of hire who now could be bis master, has died, leaving behind him a fortune. What was the sum? Ho glances back to the sheet in his hand and verifies, his thought, Yes -eighty thousand pounds1.11 good fortune even in these luxurious days. IIe has died worth 780,000, of which his daughter is solo heiress. Before the professor's eyes rises a vision of old Wynter. They used to call him "old," thoso boys who at- tended his alasses, though he was as • light-hearted as the best of them, and art bandsnnul as a dissipated Apollo. They had all loved him, if they had not revered him, and, indeed, ho had boon generally regarded as a sort of liv- ing and lasting joke among them. Curzon, holding the letter in his band, and bringing back to his mem- ory tho handsome face and devil -tones - care expression of his tutor, romem- .bers how the joke hail widened, and reached its height when, at forty years of age, old Wylnter had flung up his classes, leaving them all pl8nte la, as it were, and declared his intan- tiOn of starting life anew and mak- ing a pile for himself in sumo now cored. " '.11 Lt bad not been such a joke alt -r all, if they had only known, Wynter had made that mythical "pile," and left his daughter' an heir- ! 0155 1 Not only au heiress, but a gift to I Miss Jano Majendlo, of somewhere in BloolOsbury. T11e professor's disturbed f -to. grows calm again. It even occurs to trim that be has not eaten bis breakfast. He so often remembers this, that it . does not trouble hirer. • To pore over his books, tbat are overflowing every table and chair in the vnw.m,fQrtable room, until bis eggs are indian-ruh- ber and hie rashers gutta-percha, is not a fresh ent.Prlenoe. But this morning both eggs and rasher have attained a high place in the leather rie(.artmout, ho enters on his sorry re- lrest witb a glad bsart. Sweet aro the rebounds from jeo- t.ardy to joy1 And he has so mu011 of joy 1 Not only .has he been able to shrike from his shoulders that aw- ful incubus --end ever-present ward - but he eau be, surd that the absent ward is so well-off with regard to title world's goods, that he need never give her so much 116 a passing thought, dragged, torn as that thought would be from his beloved studies. The aunt, of course, will see about her fortune. IIe has only a per- functory duty, -to see that (ho fortune is not squandered. But be is safe there, Maiden ladies never squan- der! And the girl, being only 51131031- (teen, can't Ixlssibly squander it her- self for some time, ,Perhaps he ought to call on her, ,however, Yee, of mune he must call. It is the usual thing( to call on one's ward, It will Ito a terrihto business no doubt, All girls belong to the genus nuisance. And this girl will be at tho head .o1 her class no doubt. `Lively, spirited," so far went the parent. A regular hoyden may be read between these kind parental (dues:, :the poor professor feels hot again with nervous agitation as he imagines an interview between him and the wild, laughing, noisy, perhaps horsey, they all rule in Australia, young wo- man to w11ont he is bound to make his how, now 00on 01-53 thin unpleasant in- terview take (dace? 01100 morn he looks back to the solieitor'e letter. Alt 1 On Jan. 3rd her tether poor old Wynter, had died, and 011 the 20111 of May Rho is 1 n be "an Viow'1 at 11[00 :bury 1 an,l it is now the 8nd of ebruary,l ,1, respite! Perhaps, ovho knows? She may never arrive tit Bloomsbury et all I There aro young men in Anstralia, a 15eyd0J1, 118 far a5 the professor has road, and (bat ds Buying a good deal, would just suit the man in the bush, l''IIAJ'Tl'lft H. "A maid en tweet okra her more sight mote glad Luau sorrowing," s Nevertheless the moo its the bush ye mitten I. get her, Time hum ru.11 on a little bit since cl the professor sufferers many 1tg0nie5 e on a certain raw February morning. ci and now it is the 30(11 uf May, and a d glorious 01111511 too to that ewuct N•l;ven into this dingy .ad room, whore at a dingy old table Leo professor site buried in ,;ilex of nates, and witli sheets of manuscript knee -1150p :mate tared around hien, the warm sun is Waling; here and there, the little rays aro darting, lighting up a dusty tuzrner bore a hidden heap of books there, at Is, as yet, early in the aft tornoon, and the riotous bestms, who aro no respeo1ar' of parsons, and who y !tenor the rinhleou5 and the ungodly s alike are playiud' In this soml,re sham. f bore given so entirely up to science anti its t 1 ons ways, daring even now 10 dance lightly on the professor's head, which has begun 10 grew a little bald. "The golden sun„ Ln 81)18ndur likes? I1eav'n," Is proving porbaps at little too much for the tired brain in the small num, Hither that, or the incessant noises in the street ourside, which have now been enricbed by the stratus of a brok- on-down street plants, causes ham to lay asido his pen anti lean batik in e weary attitude in Ills chair, What a day It is 1 How warm! Ary hour ego he had delivered a brilliant. lecture on the everlasting Ms:mmoth,' a fresh specimen just arrived from Siberia, and is now paying the penal- ty of greatness. Ile had done well- he knew that -he had been interest- ing, that surest road to public favor -he bad been applauded to the echo• and now, worn, out, tired in mind and body he is living over again his honest joy at hie success. Io this life, however, It is not give en us to be happy] for long. A knock at the professor's door, brings him( back to the present, end the know- ledge that the landlady -a stout, somewhat erratio person of fifty-, standing on his threshold, a letter in her hand. "For you, me dear," says she, very kindly, handing the letter to the pro.. fesaor. She is porbaps the ouo person of his acquaintance who has been able to • see through the professor's gravity and find hien young, "Thank you," says ho. IIe takes tho letter indifferently, opens it languid- ly, and-- Wetl, there isn't much langour after the perusal of it. The professor site up; literally this time slang is unknown to him; and re -reads it. That girl has come. Thera can't be any doubt of It. He hail almost forgotten her existence during these past tranquil months when no word or hint about her reach- ed him, but now here she is at last, de- scending upon him like a whirlwind. A line in a stiff, uncompromising and apprises the professor of tbe un- welcome fact. The "line" is signed by "Jane Mujendie," therefore thorn can be no doubt of the, genuineness of rho news contained in it. Yes 1 that girt Ilea come 1 Instead of that she pulls himself toe gather, and determinate on imtnedia- ate action. To call upon this ward of his is a thlug that must bo done soon- er or later, then why not sooner? Why not at ones? The more unpleasant the duty, the more necessity to get it off one's mind without delay. Ile pulls the bell. Tile landlady ap- pears 1(31510, 1 must go out," say the professor, staring a little helplessly at her. "An' •t :good thing, too," says she, "A saint"s 3:o.• mcall, the sun, An' whoreye (0, ight sir, dearit'? Notwkl to tl,dtn rascally sthudents, I 110 thrust ?" 'No, Mrs. Mulcahy. I -T am going to sea a young lady," suysu the prtfos- sor simply, Tho died 1" says Mrs. Mulcahy with a beaming senile. ",'Foix, that's a turn the right way anyhow. But have ye thought o' yer clothes, me dear?" "Clothes" ? repeated the professor vaguely, Arrlah., watt," says she and runs away lightly, in spite of her fifty years and her too, too solid flesh and pre- sently returns with' the professor's beet coat, and a clothes (brush that, from its appearance, might reasonably be supposed to, have been left behind by Noah' avhen. be stepped out of the Ark. With this latter, having put the ooat onl trim, she p•r000ecie to be- labor the professor with great spirit, and presently sends him forth 81,dn- ing-4f not internally, at all emote ex. ternally. In truth, the pr03essor s mood is not a happy one. Sitting in the hansom' that is taking- him all too swiftly to his destination, 115 dwells with terror on the girl -the undesired word -who has been thrust upon 11(50, He has quite made up his mind•about bar. An Australian girl Ono knows what to expeot there 1 1 Health unlimited ; strength tremendous; And noise much noise. Yes, she is sure to bo a big igird. 13, gg'ibr.1 withyoucould ' branchinghealimbs and a ff young woman with •00r 801156 ile 0f O113,)1 fit- ness of things, and a settled oo11via- (ion that nothing could shake, that "'Stralia" is the finest country on earth 1 111. bouneing roreature itwho never sits down ; to whom rest or oalni is unknown, ands whose 11ig1Dat Ambi- tion will be; to see the Tower and the wax -works, Her hair is surd to be untidy; hang- ing probably in straight. black locks over her forehead,, and her 110010 will look as if It had been pitchforited onto her, and requires only the insubordin- atioit831n0(of0, one;pin to leave her without The professor is looking pale, but has on him all tho airs of one tprepan od for anything as the maid shows Mtn into the drawing -room of the house where Miss Jano Majandie lives, His thoughts aro still full of her niece, Her niece, poor woman, and his warul-(poor mons 1 when alio door opens and 80036 ono 0012105 in. Some ono! The' yrufesuor gets 5Joo ly on his feyet, and stares at the rsdvan0ing ap- parition. Is it child or woman, thio fair vision? A. bard question to an. moor 1 it is quite easy to .tread, how- ever, that "some ono" ie Very love- ly, "It is ,you, Mr. Oln•zon, IS it 00(1" says the Vision, To Bo Continued,