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Home My WebLink AboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-12-14, Page 2THE BRUSSELS POST. Duo, t4, 1699 A Little CTCL CHAPTER IL-Contirtued. Her voice is sweet and dear, a little eletulant perhaps, but still very sweet. Wee to Melte little girl -and clad in ,deetr mourning, There is some- thing pathetic about the dense black surrounding such a. radiant face, and such a childish figure, Her eyes are fixed ele the professor, and there Is evident anxiety in their hazel depths; her soft lips are parted; she seems hesitating as if not knowing whether she shall smile or sigh. She has rais- ed both her hands as if unconseious- ly, and Is holding them clasped against her breast. The pretty fingers are covered with costly rings. Altogeth- er she makes a plothre- this little girl, with ber brilliant eyes, and mu- tinous mouth, and soft black clinging gown. Daiety-sweet she looks, "Sweet as is the branableeflower." "Yes," says the professor, in a laese teeing way, as if by no means cer- taio of the feet, He is So vagueabout it indeed, that "some 01:15'S " dark eyes take a mischievous gleam. "Are you sure?" says she, and looks up at him suddenly, a little side - way's, perhaps, as if balf-frightened, and gives way to a naughty sort of little laugh. It rings through the room, this laugh, and has the effect of frightening her altogether this time. She checks hersele and looks first down at the carpet, with the big roses on it, whers one little foot is wriggling in a rather nervous way, and then 11P again at the professor, as if to see if he is thinking bad things of her. She sighs softly. Have you cume to see me or ..e.uat 'Tarter" asks she; " because Aunt Jane le ont-Pm glad to say "-this last pianissimo. To Bee you," says the professor ab - Bendy. He is thinking I He has tak- en her hand and held it, and droll - Peel it again, all in a state o high bewilderment Is this the big, strong, noisy girl of his imaginings 1 The bouncing creature with untidy hair, and her clothes tchforked On 40 hr? "Well -I hoped so," says she, a 111- tle wistfully, as it seems to him, every trace of late sauctness now gone, and with it the sudden shyness. After many days the profeseor grows accustomed to these sudden transitions that are Puzzling, yet so enchanting., these rap- id, inconsequent, but always lovely changes "From grave. to gay, from lively to severe " " Won't you sit down?" says his small hostess, gently touching a chair near her with her slim fingers. "Thank you," says the professor, and then stops short. You are—" "Tour ward," says she ever so gent- ly, yet emphatically. It is plain that she is now on her very best behavior. She smiles up at him in a very encour- aging way. " And you are my guar- dian, aren't you?" " Yee," says the professor, with en- thusiasm. Be bas seated hiraself, not on the chair she has pointed nut to him, but on a very distant leunge. Ho is conscious of a feeling of growing terror. This lovely child has (Tented it, yet why, or how? Was ever guar- dian mastered by a ward before f A desire to escape is filling him, but he bas got to do his duty to his dead friend, and this is part of it. He has retired to the far-off lounge' witha view to doing it as distantly as, . . possible, but even this poor subter-i few., fails him. Miss Wynter, picking, up a milking -stool, advances leisurely toward him, and seating 'tenter upon it just in front of him, messes her , hands over her knees, and lnoks ex-) pectently up at him with a charming smile. Now we can have a good talk," says she. CHAPTER III. "And it you dreamed how a friend's smile, And nearness soothe a heart that's sore, You might be moved to stay awhile Before my door" " About?" begins the professor, and stanuuers, and ceases. "Everything," says she, with met- tle nod. "It is impossible to talk to Aunt Jane. She doesn't talk, she only argues, and always wrongly. But you are different, I can see that. Now tell me," -she leans even more forward and looks intently at the professor, her pretty brows wrinkled as 11 with extreme and troublous thougbt- " What are the duties of a guardian ?" "Eh?" says the professor. He imams 1 his glasses up to his forehead and then pulls them down again. Did ever anxious student ask hint question so difficult ef answer as this one -that this small maiden has propounded? "You can think it 000.32.' says she, most graciously. "There is no hurry and I am quite aware that one isn't ince% a guardian every day. Do you think you could make it out while count forty?" "I think 1 could make it out more quickly ia you didn't count at all," says the profeasor, who is growing warm. " The duties of a guardiate- are-er-er-to see that nne's ward is comfortable and happy." "Then there is a great deal of duty for you to do," says she so/minty, let- ting her chin slip into the bellow of ber hand. "1 know -Pm sure of it," atm the professor with a sigh that might be called a groan. "But your aunt, Miss Majendie-your mother's sister- can---" "I don't believe she's my mother's sister," says Miss Wynter, caltely. "I lave seen my mother's picture. TO is lovely 1 Aunt, Jana was a changeling thee of it. But never mind, her. You were going to say—" "That Miss Majettclie, who fa virtu- e/1y year guardian -can explain ft all to you much better than 7 tame "Aunt Jane is not my guardiem The Mild look of ingniry changes to one ot Belt anger. The white brow eoetracts. "And certainly fhs could never Make one happy and comfortable, Well -what else 1" "See will look after—" "1 told you 5 (Meet 8818 about Aunt Jane. Tell me what you ten do—" "See that your fortune is not—" h "e don't eare about my fortune, a either," with a little gesture. "But I do care about my happinese. Will you Otte to that ?" tt Of course,' says the protease gray*. "Then you will take me away front, Aunt Jane)" The email vivacious fan Is .now all aglow. "I am not happ with Aunt Tan, I e-elneping he hands, and letting a quiek, vittaletir fire light her ityes--"I hate Atm Jane. Site says things about prat Pala that— Ohl how I hate her l' "But -you shouldn't -you should not. I feel certain you ough not," says the professor, growing vagu er every moment. "Ought I not?" with a quick litti laugh that is all anger and no mime "1 do though, for all that 1 1"-paus ing and regarding him, with a some what tragi e air, that sits most fun nily upon her -am not going toatay here mush longer I" "What ?" ergs the professor aghast "But my dear,-Ifiss Wynter, Pm afraid you must."' " Why? What is she to 0118 1" "Your aunt." "That's nothing -nothing at ell - even a guardian ie better than that And you are my guardian, " Why," -- coming Moser to him and pressing five soft little fingers in an almost feverish fashion upon his arm, " why can't you take, me away?" "1 I" "Yes, yes, you." she comes even nearer to him, and the pressure of the small fingers grows more eager -there is something in them now that might well be termed coaxing. "Do," says she. "Oh 1 Impossible!" says the profes- sor. The eolor mounts to bis brow. He al- most shakes Mf the little clinging fin- gers in his astonishment and agitation. Has she no common sense -no know- ledge of the things that be? She has drawn back from him and is regarding him somewhat strange - Impossible to leave Aunt Sane 1" asks she. It is evident she has not al- together understood and yet is feel- ing puzzled. Well," defiantly, "we shall see l'' Why n you 1ke your Atrnt Jane?" risks the professor, distraeted- le. He doesn't feel nearly as fond of his dead friend as he did ate hour ago. "Bemuse," lucidly, "she is Aunt Jane. If she were your Aunt Jame you would knowe" "But, my dear-" "I really wish," interrupts Miss Wenter, PcI ulantly, " you wouldn't rail 7718 my dear.Aunt Jane calls me that when she is going to say some- thing horrid to me. Papa-" she pauses suddenly and tears rush to her dark eyes. "Yes. What of your father?" asks the professor, hurriedly, the tears rais- ing terror in his sou." You knew him -speak to me a him," say's she, a little tremulously. "1 koew hito well iodecd He was very good to me, when -when I was eeunger. I was very fond of him." He was good to everyone," said Miss Wynter, staring hard at the pro- fessor- It is occurring to her that this grave sedate man with his glasses could never have been younger. He must always have been older than the gay, handsome, debonair father, who had been so dear to her. " What are you going to tell me about him ?" asks the professor, gent - expression that eniget almost be term- ed despair in the young ram as he left ber. Her fate, with that expression on it, haunts him all down the road. Yes. He will call next week, What day Is this ? Friday. And Friday next r he is bound to deliver e lecture some- where -he 15 not 5111'8 where, hut eel.- tainly somewhere. Well, Saturday then o iie might vall. But that— ,' Why not (tall Tbursday-or even ✓ Weelneedity e Weenteday lat It be, 1 He needn't t call every week, but he had said 1401110- r, thing about calling next week, end - I she wouldn't care, of Nurse -hitt one 1' filleted keep their word.. What a t strange little ram she has- and - strange manners, and -not able to get on evidently with her present sur- roundings. What an old devil that suet must be. CHAPTER TV. • "Dear, if you knew what tears they seed, Who live apart from home and friend, To pass my bouse, by pity led. Your steps would teed." He makes the acquaintance of, the . latter very shortly. But requires no spoon to sup with her, was )(Cies Ma- jendie's invitationto supper, 07' in- deed to luncheoze breakfast or dinner, are so few and rare that it might be rash for a hungry man to count on them. Tile professor, who has felt it to be his duty to call on bis ward regularly every week, has learned to know and, I regret to say, to loathe that eslim- ale*, spinster christened Jane Majen- die. After every Visit to her house he has sworn to himself that " this one" shall be the last, and every Wednes- day following he has gone again. In- deed, to -day being Wednesday in the heart of June, ho may be seen sit ting bolt upright in a hansom on his way to the unlovely house that holds. Miss Zane Majendie. As he enters the dismal drawing-. room., wbere he finds Miss Majendie and her niece, it becomes plain, even to his inexperienced brain, that there has just been a, row 011, somewhere. Perpetua is sitting on a distant lounge, her small vivacious fare one thunder -cloud. Miss Majentlie, sitting on the hardest chair this bideoas room contains, is smiting. A terrible ague '01113 what he used to called me- Domie I I suppose," wistfully, " you couldn't call me that?" "I ani afraid not," says the profes- sor, coloring even deeper. "Pm sorry," says she, her young mouth taking a sorrowful curve. "But don't call me Miss Wynter, at all events, or 'my dear.' I do so want some one to 11 103 by Olirlstian name" says the poor child, sadly. "Perpetua-is it not ?" says the pro -e fessor, ever so kindly. N "o-' Pet,'" corrects she. " It's shorter, you know, and far easier to say." "Oh I' says the professor. To bin' it 88010s very difficult to say. Is it pos- sible she is going to ask blm lo call her by that familiar -almost affection- ate -name? The girl must be mad. "Yes, meth easier," says Perpetua; " you will find that out, after a bit, when you Jaye got used to calling me by it. Are you going now, Mr. Curzon? Going so soon?" "1 have classes," says the Profes- sor, 1 "Students?" says she, You teaoh there? I wish I was a student. I shouldn't hare beengiven over to Aunt Jaoe, then,. or," rather augh, "if 1 bad been I should have led her, oh 1" rapturously, " such a life 1" It suggests itself to the professor th that e is quite capable of doing tbat now, though she is not of the male 'Goof -by," says he, holding out his hand. "You will come soon again?" de- mands she, laying her own in it, Next week -perhaps." "Not till then? 5 shall be dead then," says she with a rather mirth - leas laugh this time, "Do you know that you and Aunt Jane are the only two people in all London whom I know 1" " That is terrible," says he, quite sincerely. " Yes, Line it e" "But soon you will know people, Your aunt bas acquaintances. They - surely they will call; tbey will see you -4"h1V-11 Mk" e an overwhelming fancy to mel just as you have done," says she, with a quick, rather curious light in bee eyes, and a tilting of her pret- ty chin. "There, go," says she. "I bave some work to do, and you have your classes. It would never do for you to miss them, A.tel as for next week -make it next month! 1 would- n't for the world be a trouble to you in any way." "I shall come next week," eels the Professor, troubled in. somewise hy the meeting in her eyes. 'What is RS SlmpM loneliness, or misery down- right 1 How young she looke-what a child I That tragio air does not belong to her of right. he Should be all Itteighter, and tightness and Mirth—. As you wilt," says she; her tone as grown almost /toughly; there 1s m eense of reorse in his breast as g he oes down the stales. Had he Twinkled o niS Wyntor'a chifd? Has he been rue to his trate ? There had been all "I am glad to see you, Mr. Curzon," says Miss Majendie, rising and extend- ing a bony hand. " As Perpetua's gentrclian, you may perhaps have some influence over bor. I say 'perhaps' advisedly, as I scarcely dare to hope (Oleasenhualrria,Tfluence a mind so des - at onrY(I i "What is it ?" asks the Preressee nervously -of Perpetua, not of 5liss Majendie. l"I'm dull," says Perpetua, sutlers - y. The professor glances keenly at the tgiiourl's downcast face, and then at leliss Majeadie. The latter glance is a ques- You hear her," says Miss Majen- die reldly-she draws her shawl round her meagre shoulders and a breath through her lean nostrils that may be heard. "Perhaps you may be aide to discover bar meaning " "What is it V" asks the professor, turning to the girl, his tone anxious, uncertain. Young women, With " wrongs" are unknown to him, as are all other sorts of young women for the matter of that. And this particle lar young 1001711111 looks a little unsafe at the present moment. "I have told you! I am tired of tho life, I am dull -stupid. I want to go out," Her lovely eyes are flashing, her fare is white -her lips trembling, "Take me out," says she, suddenly. "Perpetua 1" exclaims Miss Majere die. "How unnecticlenly 1 How trained - est I" Perpetua Rieke at her with large, surprised eyes. " Why?" says she. "I really think," interrupts the pro- fessor, hurriedly, who sees breakers ahead," if I were to take Perpetua for a walk -a drive-to-er-to some piece or other -it might destroy this ennui of which she. eemplains. Tf you will allow her to thine out with ma for an hour or so, 1—" "If you are waiting for my sanc- tion, Mr. Curzon, to that extraordin- ary proposal, you will wait some time," says Miss Majendie, elowly, frigidly. She draws the shawl still closer and sniffs again. "There is 'no 'But,' sir. The subject doesn't admit of argument. In my young days, and I should think,"- scruti n 'zing him exhaustively through her glasses, "in yours, it was not cus- tomary for a voting gentlewoman to go out walking, alone, with 'e. man' 1" 51 she had said with a famished Ligter, she eouldn't have thrown more hor' ror into be r tone, The po'ofossor bad shrunk a little from thnt Massing of her age with his, but has now found matter for hotee in it. To 338 Continued. KILLIONAT ES F EVE Rev. Dr, Talmage Gives Some Good Advice to Business Men, and advocate reforms, and denounce 1001m:hetes, and yet your ebildree will be captivated by the glittering saloon of sin, unless you eau make your home a brighter place than any other 51500 on earth 10 them We gather all charms Into ewer Imes°. If you can afford it, bring books, and pictures, and cheerful entertainments to the heusteleed, But, above all, teeth those children, not by halfean-eour twice re year on the Sahleteleday, but day af- ter day; and every day teach. thorn A. CREAT OLADNESer, Starting a Business on Too Small Capital—It Is Ruination to (bat "Ira" abataa or gold about the Mete (hal It takes no mining from the Men --The Mau Who Borrows From Friends --Anxieties foot, no bliteuese from the heart, no and Perplexities of Business Life—The Dr. Speaks of , the Only Uncorruptible Treasures. A despatch from Washington Ferri!Iltis roglifg and the life that is to come, 701011 oolions oJ' what 1101 -11810. lir Talmage Preached frum Lhe following text ;-"Comfort ye, comfort: ye, my people."-Isaith xl, 1. These words came to the prophet in the olden time, but they come just as forcibly to auy men that stands, to- day, in any of the pulpits of our great w cities. A wencher has m as nu ere right to ignore commercial sorrows than any other kind of sorrows. Anti man who will, in this day, by veice, or pen, or type, inflame the public mind, or try to keep up the excitement of commer- cial circles, is the enemy of God and of good society, Instead of. that, I would tether er uttwords of peace mid con- solation, obeying the injunction of my text, "Comfort ye, comfort ye, my lieu- ple," fume of you have come in here with countenances 10010 from the ex- citernent of the past week. Some of the beet men in the land have fettered; men whose hearts are enlieted in every good work, and 10120811 hands have blessed every great charity. 'rile Church of God can afford to extend to them her sympathies, and plead 'lame heaven with all availing prayer. Tee schools such men have eeteblished, the ceurehes they have built, the asylum, and beneficent i 115111 tit.on.4 they have fostered, will be their allergy long at- m,. thou: banking 111511110ere toe gutten. Such men can never They have their U517601'55 in bank( Oat never break, and wi11 kie million - a ies fax ever. I thht. ougxt wouid be appropriate to -day, and useful, for me to talk aboue the trials and, tempta- tions of our business men, and try to offer some curative prescriptions. the first place, I have to remark great 0ni11 01 our bueivass men feel ruinous trials and tempta- tions coming to them 100111 small and limited valeta! in business. It is ev- erywhere understood that it takes now three or fear times as much to do busi- ness well, as once it did, Once, A YEW HUNDRED DOLLARS were turned tato guode-the merchant would be his men store sweeper, bis own salesman, his own bookkeeper 118 would manage all the afters hunsett, and everything would be net profit. Wonderful changes have come; cost- ly apparatus, extensive advertising, exorbitant store rents, heavy taxa- tion, expensive agencies, are only parts ni the demand made upon our pommel.- cal men; and when they have found themselves in such circumstances, with small capital, they have some- times been tempted to run against the rocks ot moral and financial destruc- tion. This temptation oflimited capi- tal has mimed me in two ways. Some- times they have shrunk down under the tempation. Miley have yielded the beetle before the first sea was fired. At the first hard gun tbey surrender- ed. Their knees knocked together at the fall of the auctioneer's hammer. They Idanclied at the financial peril, They did not understand 'that there Is suite a thing as heroism in mertshan- thee, and that there are Waterloos of the counter, and that a man can fight 110 !braver battle with the sword than he can with the yardstick. Their souls melted in them because sugars were up when they wanted to buy and down when they wanted to sell, and unsaleable goods 10808 on the Blatt and bed debts in their ledger. The gloom of their countenances oversha- dowed oven their dry goods and gro- ceries. Despondency, coming from lim- ited capital, blasted them. Others have felt it in a different way. They have said: '' Here I have been trudg- ng nlong. I have been trying to he honest all these years. I find it Is of no use. Now it is make or break." The small craft that weld have stood the stream, is put out beyond the tight -house, on the great sea of spec: elation, Ile borrows a few thousand dollars from friends who dare not re- fuse him, and he goes bartering on a large scale. He reasons in this way: 'Perhaps I will succeed, and if 7 don't I will be no teepee off than I am now, for a hundred tboueand dollars taken from nothing, nothing remains," Stocks are the dice with which he gambles. 110 boulght for a few dol - 18.18 vast tracts of western land, Some man at the Eant, living on a fat home- stead, meets this gambler of fortune, and is persuaded to trade off his es- tate here, for lots in a Western oitye with large avenues, and timely pal- aces and lake steamers smoking at the wharves, and rail trains coming down with ligtning speed from every direc-; eon. There( it is all on paper 1 The city; has never been built, nor the railroads coestructed, but everything pointe that way, and the thing will be done as sure as you live. Well, the Man goes IN HIS SPLENDID EQUIPAGE de dashes past, while the honest lab - 011(280 looks up, and wipes the sweat: tram his brow, and says: "I wonder where that man got all his money." After a while the bubble burette Cred- itors rush ie. The law clutches, taut fields nothing in its grasp. The man who were swindled say; " I don't know how I flouted have ever been deceived by that matte' and the pictorials, in handsome wood -cuts, set forth the hero Who in ten years had genius enough to fail for 150,600 dollars I And that is the promisee/ wheel matey have been tenoned, through limitation of capi- tal, to rush inlet loans that they could not meet, anti into labyrinths from Willett they cottel not bo extricated, would not want to 11(1110in honest enter- pme riI would not want to block up any of the avenues Inc honest accum- ulation that open before young mare 011 the eontritry, I wou'el like to ahem: them. on and rejoice ween they renth the goal; but when there are such multitudes of 111311 going to ruin for EVENING SHOES. Wee most fashiorable everting shoes are of satin the exact shade of the dress. Black satin embroidered in various colors so that they will go with any (Imes are more useful, and quite proper, according to the *latest Lon- don flevice. WOTJLDN'T BIS LINE HIM. Hewitt - Do you suppose that the clergyman will consent to you marry- ing bis datightet? Jewett -Why, of COO 1'90. Do you suepose he'd lose a chance to get a wedding lee? A SAVAGE 13ACHELOR. How women do love to state at a hero 1 said the Cynical Youth. Yee), assented the Savage Bachelor, That is one reason why they always flock to weeldin.ge, GEORGE WAS SLOW. Mae -You know I bet a pound of chocolates with George on the election, Ethel -Yes Did you win? Mae e-• No, 5 lost, and the stupid fool didn't have tense eseough to suggest that leer him in Wrists. That nation is best which maim the greatest happiness for the neat- est numbere-Hut eleraon, lawful spheres of enterprise, ie is the 5(113 of the ('1100011 00 God, and the ministers of retigion, and the Mende of nil young MO 11 to utter a plain, em- phatic, unmistakable protest • These are the influences that drown num in destruction and perdition. Again; a great many of our bust- ' sass men are tempted to over -anxiety and care. You knew that nearly all eommereial businesses are over -clone in this day. Smitten with .th8 ro q g , oui a 11010505 with men resolved to be rich at all hazards. They do not care how money 000)05, id it, only comes, Our best merchants are thrown into ciuntietRionweb men of more means and less (201110(011(201110(0(201110(011(29,(201110(011(29, and if an oppor- entity of accumulation be neglected I one hour, some one else picks it up. From January to December the strug- ' gle goes On. Nigh( gives, no quiet le three tossing in restlessness, nor to a braiu that will not stop thinking. The drenms are harrowed by imagine • are: loss, and Duelled with imaginary gains Even the Sabbath 01110101 1(0121 basic the title of auxiety; for this wave of worldlinees dashes clear over the churches, and leaves its foam on Bibles and praeer-books. Men who are living on salaries, or by the culture of the soul, cannot understand the wear and tear of body and mind to which our merchants are subjeoted, when they do not know but that their live- lihood and THEIR BITS1N'ESS HONOR are dependent upon the uncerealn- ties of the next hour. This exeite- nient of the brain, this corroding care Le: the hear( this strain of effort that exhausts the spirit, sends a great many of our best men, in mid-life, in- to the grave. They find that Wall - street does not end at the East River. It ends at Greenwood 1 Their life go with their store on their breaks. They trudge, like oaraels, sweating, from Aleppo to Damascus. They make pheir life a crucifixion. Standing be - ind desks and counters, banished 'from he fresh air, weighed down by cork.- tug cares, they are so many suicides. Oli 1 I wish I could, this morning rub out some of these lines of care; tbat II could life some of the burdens from the heare; that I could give relaxationto some of these wore muscles. It is Gine for you to begin to lake it a lit- tle easier. Do your best, and then trust God for the Test. De not fret. God manages all the affairs of your life, and He manages them for the best. Consider the lilies -they al- ways have robes. .13thold the fowls of the air -they always have nests. Take a long breath, Bethink, be- times, that God did not make you for a paok-horse Di • o 1 from among the hogsheads and the shelves, and in the light of the holy Sabbath -day resolve that you will give to the winds your fears, and your fretfulness, and your distresses, You brought. nothing into the world, and it le very certain you eau carry no- theng out. Having food and raiment be therewith content. The merchant came home from the store. There had been great disaster there. He open- e5 the front door, and said, in the midst 00 his family 'citrate: "I am ruin- ed. Everything is gone. I am all ruined," His wife said: "I AM left;' and the little abed. threw up it hands, and said: "Pape, 1 am here." The aged grandmother, seated in the room, said: "Then you have all the promises of God, beside, John. And he burst into tears, and said; "Goa forgive me that I have been so ungrateful. . I find I have a great many things left. God forgive me." Agaier I remark, that many of our business men are tempted to neglect their home duties. How often it is, that: the store and the home 808111 to clash, but there ought 001 10 be any eoleision. It is often the ease that the father is tho mere treasurer of the family, a sort of agent in see that they have DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES. eparkle from the erher waysare ways , no ring front the laughter; but that of plettemitness and all her paths are peace." 1 sympathize with the work being done in many of 0111' (titles, by which beautiful retina are set apart by our Young Moue Cbrist mao Aseoela- litie, and I may God to profiteer them In all things, J3ut I tell you; there is saaleallne leek of that and before that 'We need more happy, consecrated cheerful Christian homes in Weshing- tun. ; Again, I remark , that. a greet matey of our heelless men are tempted to Put the attainment of money above the value uf the soul, 11 is a granliaa l thing to have plenty ot naouey. T1 you get of ti, the better, if it come leek of 1, sickness dies without, teedi- eine and hunger finds its coffin in the empty bread tray, and nakedness sieve ors for leek of clothes andt fire.When 1 hear ri man In canting tirade against money - a Christian In/IU- DS though it had no pussible use on earth and be had no interest in it, I (mine almost to think that the heaven that would be appropriate for him, would he en everlasting poor-housel While, my friends, we do admit there is such a thing as a lawful 0,10 of money -a profitable use of money -let . us recognize also the feet, that money mann satisfy a man's soul, that it cannot 'glitter in the dark valley, (hal it cannot pay our fare aorose the Jor- dan that it cannot unlock the gale of heaven, Them are men in all (icemen- tione who seem to ace as though they thought that a pack of bonds and, utortgnges could be traded oft for a title to heaven, end as though gold would be a lawful tender in that place where it is so commoe that they , make pavements out of it. Salvation by Christ is the only salvation, Trete sures in heaven are the only wirer- ruptible LITAStIreS. 111108 you ever cip- hered out in the rule al Loss an Gnin the sum: "What shall it profit: a man if he gain the weele world and lose his soull" However line your apparel, the winds of death will flutter it like rags. Homespun and a threadbare coat have sometimes been the shadow of coining robes made white in the blood of the Lamb. 1111 Plealt la Ole GREAT PRICE is worth more than any gem you can bring from the °mate than Australian or Brazilian mines strung in one 0110 1111001, Seak f • find His righteousness, and alt retail be well here; all shall be well hereafter. Some of you remember the shipwreck of the Central America. This noble steamer had, I think, about five hun- dred passengers aboard. Suddeuly the storm came, and the serve tramp- led the cleeka end swung into the hatches, met there went up a hundred_ voiced death -shriek. The foarn on the jaw of the 1011111. The pitching of the ateorminearas though it were leaping a m Th88 dismal flare or the signal rockets. The long cough of the steam pipes. The hiss oft the ex- tinguished furnaces. The walking of God on the wavel The steamer went not down without a struggle. As the passengers stationed themselves in rows, to bale out the vessel, hare to the thump of the buckets, as men un- used to toil, with blistered hand a and strained musele, tug for their lives. There la a sail seen against the sky. The flash of the dis- tress gun 15 noticed, its voice heard net, for it is choked in louder boom- ing of the sea. A lew etas:angers es - (taped ; but the steamer gave one great lurch and was gime I Se there are some men who sail on prosperously in life. Alt's welt, all's well. But at last, some finanoial disaster comes ; a eureetydoeu Down they go I the bot - tote or this commercial sea strewn with shattered bulks. But because your property goo, do not let your soul go. Though all also perish, save that ; for I have 10 tell you of ammo stupendous shipwreek than that which I have just neentioned. God launch- ed this world six thousand years age. It has been going en under freight of 'mountains and immortals; but one day it will stagger at the 120701. fire. The timbers of rook will burn, the mountains flame like masts, and the clouds like sails in the judgment hurrieane. ,Thon God shall take the passengers off the deck, and from the berths those who have tong been asleep in Jerius, and He will sat them far 'be- yond the reach of storm end peril, But how many shall go down that will never be known, until it shall be announced one day in heaven; (ho shipwreck oe a world 1 So many mil- lions saved I So many millions drown' ed I Oh I my deal, hearers, whatever you lose, though your housego, though your Janda go, though all your earthly possessions perish, may God Almighty, through the everlasting covenant, save all your souls. The work of family government he does not touch. Once or twice le a year he calls the children up on a Sabbath afternoon, when he has n half-hour be does not exactly know whab to do with, and in that haie-hour he diseiplinee the children, and hides them and eorrects their faults, and gives them a great deal of good ad- vice, and then wonders all the rest of the year that his children do not do bettez, when they have the wondefut advantage of that senet-annual casti- gation. The family table, whish ought Lo bo the plan for pleasant discus- sion and eheerfuluess, often becomes the place of perilous expedition. 11 there be any blessing asked. at all, it is out off at both ends, and with the band on the oarvinp knife, He counts on Me fingers, mak ng estimatein the interstices of the repast, The work done. the hat goes to the head, and he starts down the street, and before the family have risen from ,the, table, he has bound up another bundle of goods; and says to the enstozner: "Anything more' I can do fax you Lo -day, sir?" A man has more responsibilities than those which are discharged by put - thee competent instructors over his thilciree, rine giving them a drawing - merrier noti n ntusic-teattlair, The phyaleal aititute of the child will not be. attended to, unless the father looks to it., He must sometimes loser him dignity, Ile must. unlimber his joints. He mat sometimes lead them outs to their sports and games. The parent who enrolee forget the 5171101n duties at life sometimes, to Ely the kite, wed trundle the hoop, and chase the hall, and jump the rope with his 0.111111mm ought never to have been tempted, out of n musty and unredeeniable soli - Eeriness. If you want: to keep your children away from places of sin, you can only do it by malting your home attraotive. Yoe mey preach sermons, THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DEC. 17 "emits ot 1(1011 041 weeug Deluge eett, 11. to to 4. 0, meden Text. eat, 0. 1. PRACTICAL NOTES. Vete° la. Your words have beim etenit against me. They had murmur ed against God's government. Their rites were religious, but their epirit 711.115 that of practical atheism. Every class of the Jewish nation shares 12 Maleehes denueolation - prieste, scribes, rulers and common people, What have wo spoken SO 17151011 85511151 thee? The question reminds one of the 0110st:ion of Matt, 25, "Wben 1115 108 1" 14, It Is vain to serve God, It. it. uselese for 08 to give up anything fortltttGwMell6evez.kri:. petWhat 1gottt ord1rasoos, li'libelyt had sordid conceptions of their roll- gloneeed wanted to bargain with their God as if he only were another (nue tomer. &hooking fie the thought is, it is an abut to cheat weenever we pboz.y.fficeasrtrestonGaonlovud.blavialgtv.ieevould be discounted in other ways. Tee word "ordleanee" dope thpLei A: and.t l 18 0 wedges saorifices alreThealcid.liy5 teems generically to the prescriptions and restrictions of tee law, Walked, mournfully.: On days of fasting, showing morrow for sin. 15. Now we call the proud laapPie God had just said that they who obey- ed him would be happy, but, "We gee," legated these impenitent arguers, "that it is th,o men who go their way iu tele world, disregarding their God and their fellows, who are lueititY.a Their minds are set ou seeular 51110058 only, ;Del tee they say, they that work wieteedness are set. up, elude proePare Qum and successiul; they tem tempt Gott are even delivered, Directly con- trary to wha1 the prophet: aLates. Pro- bably, as a matter 01! fact, the Samar - Hans mut Edumites were in bOLL0r prosperity than the Jews, and it re- quired spiritual insight to understand that "1.012010 the Lord loveth he Ghee - Mettle." Those men "Judged by the (Aymara appearance ;" the prophet and his followers endured as teiletag Him who is 1.0. Teen they that feared the Lord spake often one to another. Dr. te, A. Smith substitutes "Such things," for " Then," and makes the whole mese reter to a blessed future which shall answer all problems of the present. The Lord keeps before him the names of those who talk and ant on his side in Gee world, and " when 1110 day of: his action comes they shall bo separ- ated from the wicked and spared." It is, according to this view, an Old Test" ament statement of the truth contain- ed in the parable of the wheat, and the tares. Amid the universal neglect and scoffing there were found a faith- ful few who still.roverenced and they - ed God. They held their little gather- ings for mutual enceuragement, and frequently conversed together concern- ing the interests of Lrue spiritual re- ligion. The Loyd hearkened Their words of 'comfort were heard not only by Baal other, but also by tho listen- ing eat: of Gocl. Christians should of- tener talk with each other upen spir- itual themes. "Where two or three are gathered together in my name there am L" IA book of remembrance was written before him, God is figured as doing what the old kiegu of; Persitt did, registering the names of such subjems as lad distinguished their, selves for loyalty to bis cause. "Every godly attention and duty is kept in remembrance by God as punethally That thougbt upon his name. His book," wisely says old Matthew Henry. name stands for leis claramer, and particularly as wr itienThininka- ing upon the character of Go & purifies one's life. 17, Jewels. Literally; "peculiar tree. sure." The marginal reading of the Revised Veraion is the preferable herrn of this verse: "And they shall be mine, saith the Lord ot hosts, in Lhe day wherein 1 do make a emitter trea- sure." I will spare them. Have for them special compassion and regard. It means much more than merely spare, as we see from the next clause, as a man spareth his own son that serval' him. We are God's greatly be- loved children. IS. Then shall ye return, and dis- peen. The more one studies the pro- vidence of God the more he sees that God is on the side of the righteous. 13Mween the righteous and the wick- ed. The complaint bad been that God made no distinction between his foes and his friends. L .Behold, the day corneth, that shall burn. as an oven, Or furnace. Al figure of speech which comes readily to those reformers who foresee a clay of test and pun:shment. So John iloo Baptist warns the Jews of the 51/Ling and the burning, All the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly. Those who antagonize God openly, as well as those who, without defying him in words, defy hen practicatly by dis- obedience. Stubble. The stalks and Name left atter reapeng. Leave them neither root nor branch, Another phrase adopted by John the Baptist, 2. You that fear my name. Tbose mentioned in verse if,. 'Phe Sun of righteousneas arise with healing in his wings. The wings oe the 51111 tire its beams. God, especially 115 repre- seizited 10 the Lord emus Christ, is the MI of the moral and spiritual world, the source of all light, Grow up De calves of .the stall. , Gambol as calves. Ye shall overflow with hap. piness. e 'Ye than' tread down the wieked. Godliness shall triumph 0580 nIl the evil forces oe the world. They shall be ashes under the soles of your feet. Their evil doings shall be heel 111 u01 - versa! centempt. In the day that than do this. The du of the •Perfee- don of Christianity. 4. ai,e.tnereleir ye the law of Moses, That is, oliey it. Horeb, Sinai. 5. 5 will send you Elijah the pro- phet. Our Jetted repeatedly interpret- ed this promise as referring to John the Baptist, Elijah was th 0 great prophet of the cerlier clay, as John 10(111 Or the later. The great and dreadful clay of the Lord, The time when God should conee in judgment. I t is propbesied more 101)14 111 &tali in Matt, 21, It began in out' Lord's day, and iitealltier the awful overthrow ot Jer- aa0 les n115 11 111111 1.170 heart of the fathers la the children, and the home et the children to their fathers. "The maw met meet be prepared for by a return to the sincere use and tette irederetending of the old, and that ('heel) was the essence of the old must eot .grudge to develop into new forme ind attain il.s designed end and fruit. Not by getting rid of the law, but by fulfilling* it, is preparation made for the grace and reality that mane by Jesus Christ,"--Marous :reed. THE FINE DISTINCTION, I never Made a speech in rey life, sa.tvdothdeoartaNt'veadrithearo, speech erred an ea. thusittelic leen in the crowd. Just say soniethifig,