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THE MODERN PULPIT but that tho er.wil th.
, !Jesse! is dory, " Igo " t Very "
TUB OROWN RIG.EITEOUSNSS, ""t if t to word wore not Um rude,
, the very material and substanee of th.
!heavenly erown, And Ho It with righte-
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ny the Lam Rey. Vithen maimess, 'rho orown of rinliteoll/iiie101 N1 a
.PPeriehrti N11. Pouts (./d/o.drfti, London. wIjoroof j.jghtennsues8 jH the -material,
"Beneeforth, awe; lald lip for 1110 14 erown 1'1 he erown ot the Hanle 0.1111 treattre
of rtglessiesnese while) the Lied, Bic risque's, as ilea, which it, should decorate, it 1/1
V. ti.
Nyht,n. s pau w „at,' 1„, i fan (1,484.1.111mty,,„111(4)(1,
'whin" CI"' "1"" "1"1 f"r III" the beenty of j entice, truthfulness, purity,
alit LIMO, 110 110.4 already had it first trial ill
lodge, shell glee mu at that day." S fh tool who,. 1,,,,,nty 1001,111 1,Hanty
VieW of the mg of his uareer. Ile is in " ' " ,
, Which gold endgame mit but suggest to um -
the forum, or pablia ,,,,(144 Rama; p,aaa.h. ;charity, humility, carried to a point of re.
ly before the emperor, eertitinly with men of ,1
thie
all nations and same ',wising aeseiebled "s'a's",,`,S,.'v",;"aHs-'"`"
aa they were in ilia great, eapital of III:. " " :" ' '
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WOrld. 111 that trying:went., ill those anxious ,b ditm or ow..
moiDe2118, Patil Wits alone, No 1)0;1°11.1 Tt. may seam ta dinimoty in the way
"0 1 h" t'r") "'"" "" 1"'"' 1.1"1 1.(1"1"1 '411 1'Y of this etatement that the happiness of the
i°,811."W,I 1"`I !'" (V,10i"I""'t,'"1 i" tl"'"'"It.14. 1 blessed ix futid, elsewhere, hi minsiet in the
s. in, meal", I beatific, vision ; thitt 18 10 HitV, ill the ei, imam e
tai co tee [n•is....er, or, 141. te,ist ,
tIntt jIlstiee Wan dolle to 1111.1. At. aitym site, 'ssil unititevrinded Hight d (led, wheel the
trebled in 4 lie teelinieel la...eh Ine ei, ie the
Sieseed praise and bless to till eternitss
greet t relit ions of the I tonsin hits iv:eaten:le „, \ vs k„,... „.., ,sa s,.s„ ,,., „I„, 1 I111), 4,,,,.
pls.,: 114 reeling and li 1.• Lill al the di,issi 1 we si'Lati';`,va iii;71 l;a„, 1 ii,in".1.a. " "
illit what IN it
of the ne N.)1111011,11 frieuil, mime hat majwa os, :sews.: of
to "44;•-y I le• %villa 11, • .
; fis promised leappiness ? NVIlitt in it. hi
'184"1 II"' "I'ian"''.." " :sit NVill ehietly minister le the exreeled
-"i"4 ''"I Is it "fie bettnilless miwer ? Is it Iris
"1 1," "r ""'' I ,toxearehable wisdom? Vill I hey ery fer ever,
i".""" 11.1"I• " Almighty Almight ! Ihnialit v !"
ov mime
Ica,: tient'. I wer .1:1., •
1:01111; W110111 1.1100;i 4.0,1..01,10,0,00•1;1;,•/ 11,
001;111 1101 11;1;1 not seared :1 ; 1011 1•••
8‘,19101 were al...01d. I bsnr (1, amv. lei
lied, having hived this ;geese (1 oild. 11.
and ,renee118 Ititit left foe the mei< of 10/1111,
Christian stisjois ; Let weer.' where in
thoselione. eissleiss and depriesi. s,-- whine
was lembulits ? '," hero est, Puihms. risitig
soldier, as it mialit seam with his higaly
been British wife esis
Limes already biles, ef what there wa.i of
Christain Retire, :eel, es stub, working un.
der the apostles ? Alen 4: all, where was
Luke, the beloved pliysi trite ris
leaned in Panne to assi".1 his inosler Middy
th in those last (lays of ans lets, and eon.
tioisnent 'We know not, Thie only le,
know that they were um a Peel's side in
that first nubile 11 ial. "At niy
—110 sadly writea.-"At my first, answer,'
or piddle defence, "no man stood wall Me,
nee011018 of that, which is in its eesence, the
but all forenik nie. pesy!1.1 thet it mess a,ne,
not be laid to their &largo.' And he V. .-
1101 alone. Olie Was there, Unseen Ily 111,4 i 11.1H idea of the future life of the
dise„ris.a. by is, „f WKS( (I 0,0 crowned with righteousnese.
eye, but clearly
soul, ho was at outs: nipattaser
Advocate awl 1 'atroa. -One f imnt %Vise, pre-
Nenee the primouer drew strength mid bold
ness ntspiratioe --One \Abe so stirred
him to speak, tliat the faith was pewits:inlet
by hitn again, and for a lest time, it) suet.
Wine that, thniugh their represeetatii es, till
the nation...if the use Id should hear it, and
that, for the inomei tt, even t lie twat Iwo judge
W118 1.1W011. before hie victim. "The Lord
tlirist. stood by me and strengthened me,
that by my pretteld»g the truth might lie
1011,4 proclaimed, mg that ell the Gentiles
might hear ; awl I 11.00 delivered out of the
mouth of the lion."
This first trial appears to have resulted in
what the Roman lawyers eitilt.s1 " Non Iiip
net." It teas not, that is to tiny, plain to tho
edges whether the aceueeil was innocent. or
guilty ; and, as a consequenee, the case was
adjourneilesteljeurned, perhaps, indefinitely
allYbawi anal P"Inflar
or imperial caprice might, melte it. expellent
.‘11.Knowing ! A lbliiiowing ! Al4Kinite-
lig?" Will they not s .10 they not say with-
! ait. hifigue, without (legit e for change
linty ! floly ! linty ?" And Why in 1111S?
ilevallse essentially (Mil 1911 Inoral being, end
I is by Ills moral ativibutem God. 140 perfeet-
ly eorreiln011(18 to, mud satisfies the deepest
wants of eur human nature.
"The crown of righteousness." There is
t share, such as it is pessible for n. ermanve
have, in God's essential nettles -sin Ills
justice, Ills purity, Ifie loss , sinee while we
ean coucelve of Him, had He Ho willed it, as
101Ver having tweeted the heavets and the
mirth, we cannot -we dare not -think of
flint, in any relations with other beings, as
other than just, true, loving, mereiful-ht
other words, as other then holy. Tie is, in.
teed, If iniself the crown with whiell tie re-
wards the blessed ; usel there is Do impost.
ion between the bleed suet( a crown and the
heaLilie vision. They are only two different
Ls bring it on egain.
It during this interval thus obtained
that rit, Paul wrote to Timothy abont the
stolen of rightermeness. t he apes
tle was underlie illusions whatever.... to what
awaited him. He bed seen a great deal of
Rome, with eyes sharpened by anxious waits
lug, same five )(corals:fere arid 110‘14 he
seanned it. for a 880111111 little 11.0111 111H Roman
prison. He well knew what social forees
wore at work ---What W11.8 the geueral drift of
afiltirs-what considerations would cenie te
the front in possible or probable or mi
seen contingencies. Ho may well, too, have
receives" some intimation from on high, Rs a
last proof of the high favour of that Divine
Saviour whom be sevved, that the end Was
TIOW very near, and that he must be ready
for it. " 'Even LOW," 110 cries -this is the
meaning of his words-" Even no w blood
.8, as it -were, poured out in sacrifice, and the
time of my parting front earth is close before
me. I have fonglit the good fight ; I have
finished the course ; I have kept, the faith,
Henceforth, there felaid up far me the crown
of righteousness, Waiell the Lord, the right-
eous judge, shall give me in that day."
VIE [MOWN OF sthitemmeseess.
What does Ito mean by it ? To nothing
VMS the Wi1010 ancient world more agreed
than in viewing a crown as the symbol of
on our, glory, power. How it came to be
so, or when, is question shout which much
Ints been written, ancl with no groat pr
Probably
sped of arriving at an answer.
the symbol 1110.31 have been suggested by the
genius of the human form itself ; and, very
early in our history, human nature, we may
well believe, wreathed rosebuds 1.01.11111 the
temples of the Maiden, and bonnet laurels
on the soldier's brow, and set, a dindem of
gold and gents on tho head of the ruler of
men. To the Jews the crown was the most
familiar of eymbols. Their own monarells
longwore the mown which David took from
the Ring of Am111011, Their W0111011, their
bridegrooms, their priests wore coronets or
crowns or tiaras of varied form ; and the
geeat Asiatic conquerors who trampled their
civilisation and, for a while, their very re.
ligiou in the dust -they were crowned also,
as we lthow from their eeulptured forms in
our museums, and from drawings in such po.
pular books as Mr. Lityard's "Thou shalt
set Drown of pure gold upon his head" -
that is David's foreeest for the groat King
of the future. Nor was the conception only
Jewhill or Oriental. }tithe games of Greece,
erowns of parsley, orewns of thytne, crowns
of leurohn wore awarded to the conquerors
"corruptible crowns," as St. Thud calls thorn
when for a geent moral purpose the Corin.
titian* of scenos with which they atill been fa-
miliar front childhood, "dorrtiptiblecrowns,"
bat not for that, at the moment, less pr
dons in the eyen of the leen whe WO% or Of
the men who failed to Nein them. And thus,
or St, Paul, with his Jewish birth and ed.
Inman, and with hie long and intimate con -
verso with the Greek world, a crown was
the nathral symbol of triumph -of triumph
recognised, approved, done Justice to, And
therefore, when he weeld speak in Menne
weeds of the state of the blessed, he weave.,
08 it were, the highest moral beauty into the
form which he associates with the tritunphe of
Greek er of Jmvish life, ho talks, natu-
rally of a "crown of richteousness,"
(num' nom un idt:AN ItY IT?
Does ho mean that is righteousness
which is crowned, or that, if may so put
it, rightsionmess is the material of which
the crown is made 7 If wo aro to do the
npoetle justice, it is ef some iniportnnee, that
we should settle 010.
NOW, there are two expressions in the
New Testament, very similar to this, to dm
scribe 1,110 reward of the Messed, They are
"the crown of life" foul "ale 0401411 of glory."
In these it is plain that what, is meant iS not.
that life is trowned, but that the crown of
the bletieed ie life ; not that glory is
!eremites us incidentally with all answer to
! wo colnintal Objections to Christiani ty which
may be found in the (medalist therm 11 re of
tile day,
We are told sometimes that the Chrielian
faith in largely reepensible for unfitting
men for the deties is I his world, by fixing
their attention toe exclusively on a wield
that is to succeed it. That tylliell lumpened
at. Thessalonica between the writing of tit.
Paul'e first and of his seceml epis le -the
neglect of obvinus, daily wells, in obedience
to a religious excitement --is said to be the
rule wherever Christitteity is sincerely res -
espied and Christianity is, less...tingly,
cendetuned by those who measure the truth
an religion solely by 1111: eabet in this ono
directiou -solely by its effeet in this one di-
rection -solely by its capacity or inimpacity
to enable a man to do the best he can with
this present visible world.
And here we must admit in candour, that
there is a limited element of truth au the
objection, Say what we will, the religion
of the New Testament is a rennin:WARM. in
WhatoVer degree, of the present. WOrld. (Or
the sake of the next. It is not really possi-
ble to make the best of both worlds -at
Meet, in the sense of making the most, ma-
terially speaking, of this. But if Christien-
ity does 1.11118 draW the keenest ieterests of
mea away fecen the seen and the present to
the feture and Lo the Innen, it also
--mark this ---it also gives more than it.
withdraws. It endows men, during this
earthly life with moral excellencies
which, by their high practical value,
move than atone to human society and
life for the constant absence of • the
heart itself to use our Lord's expreseion-
-along tvith its treasure in heaven. ; for the
expectation of a crown of rightooneness tends,
from the nature of the case to make men se-
mmble that which they expect, just as any
object of hope -any ideal, good or evil-
gritclually, but surely, shapes the thought
and the chameter of the num who entertains
it. And thus, while, for Christians, this life
is made of less amount than thetas+ to come,
it is sweetened, it. is raised, ib is invigorated,
by virtues which would not be, to say the
least about, them, popular Or 0010111011 if mon
were once to think that all really ended with
ileath, and that there is no such thing, as
crown of righteousness" hereafter.
And 'we are told, again, by the apostles o
what olaims to be dismterested virtue, that
Christian service, aftev all, is but a poor and
memenary thing. The old question masked
again, and not without something of the old
bitterness, "Dalt Job serve God for naught?"
It is esked by mon who assure us that they
do love virtue bemuse it is virtue ; thatthey
love it for the sake of its own loveliness ;
that they find their happiness and their
satisfactien simply in obeying its dictates ;
that they want no payment, whether in glory
or in gold, foe efforts which they (multi on
no account forego. Virtue, they sity, is at
once their inspiration and their prize, And
then they turn a pityieg glance upoll Chris
tendom, with its millions and millions ot
souls in every gentration, bent, as it seems
to them, solely upon escaping the agonies or
upon attaining the joys of paradise, "What
a. poor eoneeption," they euy, "is this of a
renewed world, whereby virtue becomes only
%prim thatispaid for glory 1 What a travesty
within the sanctuary of the serious trans.
itctims of the world of cominorce, which, for
its part, pretends to no disinterestedness,
aid which is' honestly brutal in its avowal of
selfish tnotives. How flu, higher," they say,
• uolder is oor lifo which knows of noth-
ing: which expects nothing, tater clost11.-
winch is virtuous because virtue is the law
4f RS being-becauee ills the joy of its ex-
istence."
My trrathren, this is, at first sight,
• tolling objection. It. seems to turn
the flank of Ohrietianity tvith tut
argument which is profoundly Christian. It
seems to defeat out Lord Jesus Christ on
His own drown gromid. But this is the op.
peaenece it is not the fact, The feet lo,
wo livo lost now seen, Llutlivirtno is its OW11
reward Christendom not less truly -to
uso very guarded torms-not loss truly
than among the thinkers in question,
The Christian lifo is not lifo of virtue
undertaken in order to win a life
of rt dillerent kind -0, life of glory or
• life of pleasure, in a future slate of ex-
istence, The Christian lifo is life of right.
oonsiless, and it only counts on 80014 glory
and such pleasure es righteousness in. the
long run, and hum Rabb. brings with its II,
is a life of righteousness, not our own, most
assuredly, in its origin, but always the gift
of the perfect moral. 13eings our Lord Jesus
Christ, It is a, life of righteousness, begun
on earth, but 001144in:tea on to a higher
sphere whore righteousness takes now mut
transcendental proportions, and, asa crown,
becomes its own -101y, muell more than its
own reward, The real difference between
THBI BRITS$BLS PPST.
118 Christians and the thinkers in question
theHe creme. -even the very brightext o
does not 111111 Open the piing whether virtu. t hem. They are pet off in the dying lents
SI its own reward, Init. 1111011 the 11110On/11 they cannot be preeerveil in the eau, in tie)
whether this ie lir eau be sulliehmtly aelliev- less Iron, 10 the eternal K0001111 chamber
ed. Within the narroW of an earthly They past( with all their tinsel and with id
existence. The red irieetion whether at the adertineints of eneh seal beauty ee um)
death 111011 enatie 10 be. 1 f they do not, then belong 10 time : they 411180 alai are forgot,
the Christian heaven with (weren't]. of right. ten,
00111111808, ha tile int a, splen- 1 say that it ix always wrong to look
did settle of the ever•progresehig strength for (Towne like them; 'That Hmely would
and bentity ef a life of vIrtue "the er01111 I/0 all exaggeration, beetle,: it eften happen.,
(if riglitermenes8," winch is not to fade away in our human life that. the expectation of
on the Hod that covers an earthly grave, Ma 'Home earthly erown lo elinedy intertwined
to beautify a being that cannet die through with something Hint in 110bler it
the ages of eternity. 'I he income 10ay be valued Chiefly its a,
but the Ls owns %Odell so many of um hope !means of eintritalde effort the soidal poni.
may be laid up for ne SollieWher0 MO by tiou, eldelly as an 01 y for helping:Ind
10000 0110 - w119.1 are they it There 18 the guiding others- the 1;0110(401 triumph, in
crown ef a gond illorotio, 111 a great merest). order tO Carry ollt. some great mesa) or re.
eimiumnity like env own, this in 1110 ligious principle, or semi: social improve -
supreme 11n:tint:tom for which many 0 man ments the liternry 0111,11118,1, UR 11 meant. of
laboure wit Matt thought of any thing beyond. dissolliiiiitting what, j. be truth,
I 1, bogies ite it salaried elerk 11) 11, great 111-111, or of iinpre si tie ledge eonduct. Ile
Ile tines, rising above hi, head, in a. hiet• only –knows 'how it is Ni ilk each expect -
;welly Of 111020 useeeling splendour:4, the out of any. 01, ratty erewn ; bin , at least, to
tippet. clerks, dm junkie mirtiene, the retie- rest 1110 1,1 1001 0,1 1011 of ;thy
,s1 partners, the millionaires, the men whe as it it were it 01111101111/1 11/01 ;,1111•40;100V
0;0111 1.111,1. lia•onies, not liy hundreds iir 1.1 thonglit 01111 ziet.:011, eatlliot possibly
thousands, 1011 1.1' lens of limn- b.2,10 in a Cliri...11411 to Whom the king -
sands ; ,10,1 ad, is his we: it, Ids 114111. .1,111 01 LeiLl'e11 11104 10•011 10111 open by his
;anent ; i8 I h.. in • •", :4.• Citri,tiatt knows ha Ito has an
1,, via, Ito hop., f4,r do 1 • 0:11 110, 100, !iona•ridnilde sold Made for elernaleoninoin.
may Niy, 111,8e trieggh d Ity II %%it It .11.11 enjoyment of an 1111eltaugo.
and 1.4 114.1, lived the life of n a Id, .4.ject Mel a dceotation %%davit
thorough mall ot 1.11s1noss. If have kept the ever feseisating for the memeet, does ent
rule rif Immei v and 1 he rule of hard preinnil le Net, does but trill, with the very
wink. fleeisMas It, Imre is laid up fee me Mete iit' his existence.
the dist Mellen of an bemire withal will en. Srr, EN:PE,r0.1..rioNl AND coNstriitScit.
ahle Ivo spend lily 1.,‘Inailiing years all
,1'1,1111 le.riles With death in full view.
easy affluents, : itSter (111 money mean.
see's oefore no could say Rims -rely, I 1100111
comfort, and, looney ilicanS Viirer ;
all things bot dung, that I may win t. heist
the toil that I have undergone is not ill re.
and be found in flint." Now this view of life
warded by the crown."
and niore decided than O'er.
elosidy allied tr. thin in another eroNV1t 18 018'31."
''IIelleeforth, there is laid up fee me a crettm
-the mewl] 01 a good sovial pOsition.
ef righteousnees," When a thoughtful man
country like our own, this is a 01,0,1'11 tor ,
Knows that be lute not long to live, /le doen
the wintling of which many a life is epees
not think over muell of „that -Which lie 12110Ws
it is not tee 108011 to say .- from first to last.
yea„h so,..„.„.,1 must, end with life. Ile may be wealthy, but
We English, ae a people,
at his death his wealth will lei emelt les
bite the future not less eagerV than rlo other
yond his contml tut if be had never earned a
European nations. But mere resolutely titan
penny. He may have achieved a groat soeial
they, or, ta least, than meet of them, we
position: how will it profit him when he is
also tiling to the helmets of a distant psst,
ince in his voilin? "Iis name may have lie.
0111. Social system strikes its roots far ble:14
in all
into the Middle Agee ; ;eel we ofteti einn. cam° a 1101,801101A ill all 14110 cottriS,
the newspapers of Europe; will their esti-
bine the ideals of the silideets of the
multi of its inipostance be recoguiseil when
Plantagenets with the practical aptitudes of
he finde himself in the world tureen? Tits
the subjects et \ lemon ; end the enterprise
01 a ,,aaiaty, prafcau,ny iiaalia,a in its tea. hooks 10034 be classics: they may be translat-
is greeted te the at- 'el into all the languilgeis of the vitalize 1
dencies and temper,
world; mill yet it may matter its little )
teinment of positions which derive theis
him as if theivtirst copies hal been sold f ir
waste paper. As we get nearer detail the ex•
eggerealons of self-locc cease to as‘iert them-
selves. NVe See things mere nearly as thee
really are, We distinguish that which last;
front that whieb passes. We understand the
dititinetiou-the immense distinetion -Ini
tween all the perishable crowns and the
erown of righteousness, That crown does
not pass It iS laid. lip; it iS set ;Wide for its
lestined wearer by the Most, 'Stengel Be-
leemer, wile is also the 1,,,ternal Judge, tug
is watellieg with an unspealmbly tender in.
terest each einqueror as he draws newer and
(wares to the end of 11 is earthly entree, 011.1
am, 10 1110 name of the geetst redemption, he
appears to clitim it.
3
YOUNG FOLKS.
Mrs•
Ifc lived in a great, rough eilnel whiell the
railroad eanistestor hail tweeted to ineme his
. of Italian laborer:. in, Ohl Antonio
had ((hears oivned mid eontrolled lint if
Wa8 tlie 187'8 141110r he had very little of
fathen. feeling, for he ecolded end abused
the boy whenever hie humor happened to
set in t Ind way.
There were seven digs in the week to
Nino, end these seven were all trlike exeept.
that on env of them the 111011 W1/1'1(1111. 10101
and ate and smoked and (hunk beer and
;welled their elothing. Ohl "%Mollie did
not drink Leer bee:4118e it. cost money, Mid
every emit ef his winieS liot necescary to bey
bread Ile n 115 8;14' lug op to tali,
11101 111.10•11;040 11 Vineyard on whiell to end his
day, in easy indolenot• ; for e0111.1 easily
wifo, and She ...mid do ad the NVOrk 1110
V1111.3 01'11 require!.
So, .01 Monday, obi Washed his
and Nilio's ,Itithes,, and slept. lf then, Isel
been pree1 neat he Weold 11/1"0 ;10110
Mir, 111 111, 00;1 111114, 0101 Wash.! 0101 with -
for just the same the
1'04 of hc ; but perhaps that woold
11aVe 1iss b. heat Nino tat
11e11 1.1 11•,;ti /11; 1101..111111 110. 10/00
; bey lied to piss.
.111 ewn hale N/110 11.1111 tolaTed
haV log hren page 1.. holy
who Wintr (.41 in his native town, and
she irel taught hint about a dilfe. en) way
of :Ai:m(1111g Sine:lay, ;eel of phlegm Gml,
but his father and iiiiither had tee]; dest on
he passaie. ever, and oh 1 A mei leol
el to lie his web. and tolilt le, boy he weatil
kill him if he did not say so, ties
Then for a while they had traveled to
gether frinn town to toWit With all organ
and until old Antonio had done some-
hing for which the ollieern Wanted WM,
aud he hail suddeuly gone \Vest and joined
the gang ef railroad builders, among whom
Ire wee kmown ably as " Number '27."
Every day there wits sent down from. the
town 011 1110 11;11111 a sack of bread to feed the
hands. Often little Nino 0118 Kent to wheel
it up fr the station. Sentetimes the melt
was old and sett en, and great holes gaped in
it. Then the 1 rairriem digia handle it very
easefully, They weld," Intigh and jok-e
about the "ilago's fodder" an tlicy 1111111; it
front the train, ()nee the hag burst, open,
and several of the 1011.17es rolled out on the
platform. 'When Nino tohl Antonio about
this it greedy look eame into the old fellow's
eye, and he looked straight at Nino and
said :
nota keeps, one ?"'
Nino shook him hesil to show that he
thought such t hing would be wrong.
Tide seemed. tally te make Autenio angry,
and he shook hie fist and said : Next titue
bring one."
Next day when Nino started for the
bread, old Aldred() who hail just finished
his dinner, brought a large Meuse and put
t oVer the bny's ehouldere, and, buttoning
it tight at the. Menem sitid. "One here
rms. there," tapping the hese folds of the
blouse on either ;dile
The boy looked down to the ground with
a deep blush of shame, but said net a word.
"1-im hear S" demanded (ild Antonio.
Nino looked up awl making a gesture of
ilisimproval with his hands, shook his
heed.
Antonio was shrewd enough to Hee that
to threaten would not be policy, and NO Ile
changed his tone to a wheedling one.
thrust his hand in te his poisket and drew
out some stnitd coins-tInt price of o loaf of
bread -and showing them to Nino, said
"So much, so much, Nino, to take old An-
tonio and good Nino back to sunny Italy;
80 We go quick, good Nino," said Antonia,
"so Nino see friends,"
"You timid I hail no friends," spoke up
the boy quickly; "yeti told me Una you
Were nly entity, and that. all the rest were
dead with father and mother," mid the
boy's braVO sentence broke down almost
441011111 sob.
Antonio's face glowed with passion
and wiekedness, and he stamped his foot
and almost shrieked in the boy's facie, as
he hurried otr to his work itt the call of the
boss: "I kill you, you uo do 80 I tell 1"
The men till ate their meals together,
and while Antonio kept silence,there 1ras
an 0101110118 10014 ill 1110 eye. After all the
rnen had lounged away to smoke or lie down,
Antonio called Nino into a corner. The
boy trembled, but obeyed. Antonio mut-
tering and growling began to unloose, his
belt. Nino backed away front him into a
corner, Age. a pleading look and gesture.
Ire stumbled 014, something which relied
from under his feet and stopped with
thud against a poet. When Antenio had
taken (Olds belt Ite next whipped out an
ngly lookieg knife which he held in his loft
ham!. "Now, I make. you stay," he hissed;
" if you scream, I kills you," batudishing
his knife.
The boy begged him in the name of the
Virgin Mary, the holy saints, end his father
and mother, the infuriated demon gnash.
ed his teeth in rage, end mit alibis strength
into his blow, the force of which tossed his
hat from his head and threw a shower of
glowing coals from his pipe, It; cut the boy
down like the stroke of a eimeter, He gave
ono involuntary, agonized shriek, and fell
in a helpless heap. The instant the sound
died away from his lips there was antes.
derails gleam of steel above his head that
would have been his death -warrant, for
murders are of common oecurence in these
Italian dens, and 1101 plini8110.1 ; but
just then another flash arrested his arm,
it began at his feet, and whirled in a eiv-
cuit round and round, eccompanieil by a
aizzing noise that could not be inistaken
One who had ever heard it.
The murderous wretch paused and stared;
then his hand dropped nervelese at his side.
'rho coals from his pipe hacl caught in some
fuse stored in that enner of the sinuay, and
the coils had been dragged by the feet of the
bny and lv across a trein ot black looking
substance that trailed alon to the post
ehere ley the thing OVer Wille 1 the boy had
tumbled- a ein of giant powder used for
halting. 'The can had been careleesly loft
qu 11, or else had been broken by the force
of iis centact with the ground, and spilled
ite eentents as it rolled along.
The Italian stood and 01[11'041 at the spec -
;tele as a citat•nnal laird at tatako,
Ito footsteps and outcries of seine 44 his
eine:odes, who hail been attracted hy the
Mick of the bey, failed tie divert his gaze
from the impendiug destruction.
Some of the new arrivals took in the (lam
ger at one, and threw up their hands in
alarm. They called to Mitred.) to rue foe
his tile, They erica to each 01110e to stamp
otathe fuse, But. nothing was done, and
the hissing, flashing eirele ilamo burned
on its fetal cottrtic toward the powder.
'They SIM the inevitable fate of old An.
Undo, but ilteis danger WAN groat and true
to the brutal instincts of greed and self-
preservation ; most of them ran hastily up
stairs to secitro their Inoney and effects,
Those who were left wove like Antonio,
looted to the spot with brute fear, In an.
other instant all would have been blown to
atoms, but an unlooked for thing happened,
The boy, whose presence had boon forgotten
and who had been in. a tWoon, haa been
splendor front the eges which have passed
away ; and Ine, in Emilio if elass envy
is, happily, reduced te meter le propor-
tions, it is mainly liesinee in his seeret
heart melt atulatieus moodier of every (lam
but the highest hopes to rise? And 1 1, as
we survey the ceaseless itetiVity of every
smitten and department of the (meal world,
we could hut miss the undertone of desire
which is the Bind ef all thie ineessant
We sheuld tied, probably, that it is greeted
to a tine, when each 81 niggling aspirant al
heigth might say, " I have made great
efforts, tempered with due diseretion.
hitve finished a course which has appeared
to bring 1110 1111101111111011 1110110111'0, 11111 yet 11110
really meant incessant wearieess. I have
observed those laws of social propriety which
are never disregarded with impunity ; and
so, heneeforth, there awaits me an assured
positiou in which I may, indeed,be rivalled,
but from which I cannot lie dislodged ---a
position which society cannot but award,
sooner or later, 111 those W110 struggle up-
wavds faithfully, in obedience to her vulva."
And thee there is the er011,11 of political
power. In 0111' day and comery that crown
can lie said to lie beyond the reach of'no
man, In the elnys of our fathers there was
what is called 0 governing class. In our
days, as We see, 11.1.y mall With W11010114
itbility and good oppnr111111t108 may become
it member of the government. And thus
we see, also, naturally enough, all over the
country, the budding ambitions which
would. fain some day help to control the
affairs of England. To become a member
of ti, municipal coeporation-to represent a
popular must Lumley, or even to stand for
it with sortie distillation- -to raise it voice
which shall command attention even for
twenty.four hours at a crisis in the national
history --these are the first steps in the
ascent. 13ut how many are the steps, the
itights of steps above -the slope, the
heights -which must 110 traversed and
sealed eve the summit, reached; how many
the failures, the rebuffs, the dimappoint»ents
-how transient the successes -how keen
the Immillatiens, which must be encountered
ere the prize is woe. And yet, in every
young men who ventures on that often
thankless career, there is a, hope in his heart
of hearts that a uy may mime it may
be his to say, "1 11111.0 fought ogee(' tight
against the :toes of my party, or my country.
I have finished a course of politics' activity
which bas borne me onwards to the end,
I have kept to my principles, or I have
shown that I had reason to modify or to
abandon them. Hencefosth, there is laid
tip for me a extent of political influence
which is, almost front the nature of th
case, independent of office, and which a
gvateful country will neves refuse to those
who have served it long aud have served it
well."
And, once tnore, there lo the mown of a
liteetsey reputation. There ie many a man
who cares little for society, and less for
wealth, who hes neithee spirits nor skill for
the active struggles of politico,' life, Or I svould stand upon some overlooking
but in whom intellect is active and hill
creative, and imagination enterprising, 1Vhon day breaketteross the prairies, miles
and taste sefined, and to whom, therefore, afar,
the . pursuits of literature ere less of Adorned with diamond hues that throb end
an employment than a recreation. In thrill
our own day, when education has heenne so Like myriad crystids of a broken ear.
general, the literary class -to use that word
m wide sense -is much more innnerous
than are the opportunities of litemryoueupa-
tion, or than the ehanees of 01'011 moderato
diStinetion; and yet we may be pretty sure
that molt young writer, tot 110 trie1 his hand
at his first article, or at his first, review,
hopes devoutly Out day nifty come when
at the conclusion of some work which shall
have caught the fancy of the world, and
which shall have made criticism respectfnl,
or, perhaps oven enthusiastic, lie may be
able to say," I have had a hard time of it.
I have finished what proposed to do.
lutvelmen tete 10 tho re llirenlents of a great
Figs and Thistles.
The neaver you get to the Father's hand
the less the switch hurts.
The hardest, thing God has to do ill to tell
a, sinner that He loves him.
It 'you want Le learn how to speak well,
first learn to hold your tongue.
The truth may be crucified, but no grave
0011 be made deep enough to holdit,
If you go to church without praying for
the preacher, the devil will go with you.
The devil would rather pat a long face on
Christian than sell a berrel of winsky.
If you want to have a good preacher,
treat the one yon have the best you know
how.
If you don't want to lose everything
else, don't let envy get a fosthold in your
heart.
Dr. Tenth gives bittes. medicines and uses
a very sharp knife, but no never uses
00.98.
No man can know everything about God
until he first knows a good. dent about him-
self.
A preacher who has a praying church be-
hind hint never has any trouble about get-
ting Ids salary.
If you do itot avoid every appearance of
evil the devil will be certain to use you for a
stool pigeon,
God's hold on man is uncertain as long as
the devil's clews run clear throtigh. his
peeket-book.
If you want to be a Christian and do 1101
begin to be ono at owe, it may be that you
neVer Will 1)0 0110.
The Flowers.
0 Ood. I if I could worship any God but Thee,
I would choose me some clear, sweet, free
grant flower,
And before its shrine of spotless chastity
Adore the mystery of its silent power.
A violet, a daffodil or new blown rose,
A common wall.flower or a branoli of may,
A breath of apple blossoms or the light that
flows
From lilies °lathed with whiteness of the
day.
Or passion -bound before some ich carnation.
A. spray of jessamine or a Mho rose,
I would sing the new song of Thy new emits
tion,
Front which lov t Men music ems onward
flow,.
Anil what is worship but unity of spirit
With the soul of beauty feet the heart of
love ?
Till fragrant lips and radiant oyes inherit
'Beauty of the dowers and the stars above 1
W. 1I, Tnousitt,
Tboir Husbands,
and exacting subject. ieneeforth, there is
1080rVed for nie the rare pleasure of n, rep11, Ill New Ismilen, (Sims , there is a lot in I
tation whieh wealth and station cannot the vas. cemetery containing live grarex,
command, and which envy cannot take those of 0 man mends fem. 'Wive& Tile WO. s
away. Henceforth hare place in the 1111404 graVell form four sides of a, square,
great communion f the learned, among the inan reposiug in the center, while the
those eleet minds in Whom genius is wedded inseriptions are as follows ;
to industry, and whose works aro among
the treasures of the human race."
TIM NATAL DtlAW11.101t TO Tlf ll11 ALL.
Ifore aro the crowns, or some of them,
for which men toll, end with 14111(111, not
001(1010, they ere reneirded, 11111 (10 they last?
Of the waver of one it is "written, " lIc
shall entry nothing away with him when he
dicta ;" of another, ‘t Man being in honour
hath no understanding, Ito is hko ttipe
the beasts t hist perish of a third; " }Tow
art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son
of the teeming)" of a toroth, " Of making
of books there no end, and mealt sitinly 10 No art, can repair modesty when it once
wecriness to Sic flesh," They pdss away- is damaged,
.1• ,
MN' SECON11 W11,11.
OUR nusnabra
81V WIPP.
awakened by the tumult and the smell of
}models sulphur. Ile looked aliollt
.111nt behind 111111 11010 an open hod'. 111
seeind he could have eprong tire tigil it and
ilasheilawity. Before him wes. the Ides:mg
powder lenpieg 00 towni.1 the a, it. 'Fla. liny
Was sensible enough in a mime.. 4.. se, off
11115. 11 e HMV that Ile ts.111.1 100
114, eould dee and lertve his persees ter ti, his
fate and go out end thel new friends fee
himeelf who vreuld help him to make Ids way
baek to his 01411 country ; be 01,11111 41 ay
to risk an unetwthin fight Nvitla tile danger
before him mud perhate. die with thine- who.
umuld live taken his s or, if Ili, bevel
them, it would be only to renew hie hetet:el
slavery.
All this flashed through his what in a
second, mid limns That something more
1111181. haVe been I...ninnies 01 the long -M/0
and almost forgot ten leSS0110 alotalt 1.1n.
one of Nes:mall awl hie treatment ot his
All)•Way, the Isith that 1 boy
',hose was the Sill1111 "11,•01 derbie 01 11,1,11101.
4.1i iled ant, W11110 tin werc point i1Jg to
hint the door behind and bidding Lim ti
04,410' through it, le, isai gem. te esis with
halals J4101 Month, 0. i3O)0 In. .1:initlg fed -
lea fuse and spplyins it 111131 - 100,1 lip, 1...11.1
tonglit. ii. spit e of 1 is, pill. twill 1,11,2
spark was est inein-lest mat I le: minis si
el; cresol el, ;10-4 ;11/111 1;••1,,.;
anotiel• 1.1,10 1•1•1. 11,1011 W11/1; • e-
WIt1111 11'0111 1111. 011.0,1-4 ,r1 the fright.
this tin., he fell into 1....nder, ppilerq,irg
aria, the eligitv...A.s. Iiiiiel./Spris and 04,
t 10.1;101., 1010 fool heard 1 I., 1% ',oil., s'ory
one of tlo, men who chanced 10 lc, les&
en.swil to boar all.
01.1 .4iitonio Would her, ne,t deserts,
but lie molt advantage el the eseitement
about the boy awl hastened ;mass
The boy wee nursed. and testi:01'1y ',dell
for, and full aeisnint of the affair got into
the daily pspers of a neighboriug city, in
It kWh 1111111V, were giVen 11111.
Next day the immieley 11101 surprised hy
die arri9.11 of a Well dressed pair
Who kept a frnit and confect emery estab-
lishment in the eity. They had sem, the
1011111. of the yo11110 hero, as 1110 pappr11,
veiled Nino, and bail reetigitileil it an the. •
name of their nephew wlenn they laul sup-
posed died with tile father litot11014
0,1111 front whose loving care old Antonio
hail been defrauding them all these yeare.
\Viten you go to the city yen will notice
behind the imunter of one of the west.
fashienahle enterers, youth lentdstane
spite of an ugly sear rumess his brow and a.
slight. deformity ef his lips. These are the
mementoen of his eseme from the sloXtri
of old Antonio.
RUINED BY DRUGS.
.t slerefele Exionnte er the letreers or Stere
pain.; and Coraille.
A mall with more than 1,11110 searti 011 his
hely lies on a isa at the Chiesgi, Hospital.
Ile mit V1011111 ef the use , if neirpidne. cocaine,
atid other powerful dregs. His st ory is an in-
teresting one, and, as Or MeNanntra says,
he "is an excellent subject 1111: 11 novelist."
When an tateridaut removed the clothing a
the patient yesterday the skin of hie einacist -
el form looked like that of a tattooed num.
He was black and bine from neck to usikles,
the result, of five years' ese of a hypodermic
syringe.
The man's name is George Ileynettrix, or
'Slaynettril, Freuch physfeizin of 35, learn-
ed in his profession, speaking four languages,
and a greduate of the University of Heidel-
berg, Germany. He 14118 picked up Sunday
night at Heleted and Jackeon streets. His
elothiug was old and torn, anti lie looked.
like a tramp. He had taken a dose of atro-
pin, one of the deadliest of poisons, 01111
0110 of his pockets WOr0 10111111 tWO Vialn,
llnitaining enough atropia to kill fifty men,
and about fifteen grams of cocaine 111 the
other. At the hospital Moyne:sex at, first
refused to give his name, but after SWIM
persllosiclit Dr, McNamara seeured it said a
portion of the unfortunate :I history.
Aftergraduating at Heidelberg, Moyneaux
went to Paris, where he built up a lucrative
practice. Several years after establishing
himself in the French capital Sluyneaux
began to experiment 411111 tile use of nter-
pitnie and ceettine. He c hose himself to prac-
tise upon. He took the (trues in moderate
injections, and one day be trentght be had
made a grand discovery. He foetid be could
take emlaino With impunity and counteract
its effects by taking atropia. This theory
has loeg ago been exploded by medical men-,
except that atropia taken with morphine or
cocaine will kill the effects of either of the
drugs and leave the patient in the condition
he was before he took the poison. However,
Ileyneaux's experiments ended disastrously
and he fell a victim to cocaine and morphine.
Shortly before Ite fell into the street Settles
day night Ile had injected ten grains of co.
came into his body, and, still believing in
his old theory, had taken dose of steeple.
He evidently took too much, as it rendered
him unconscious. This wee the sad end of
his former splendid career in Paris, where he
lost his practice and mane to America. Here
he sunk lower and lower, every cent he could.
procure going toward the purchase of the
bo11111sys. poison that could give him temporary
Aloyneaux adored untold agony yester-
day', Ho WAN given an injection of two grains
of morphine, but this N1,110 not one.twentieth
the amonnt sufficient for him, and he begged.
and pleaded in four different languages toile
given the injector and a bottle of cocaine.
The man writhed (led twisted about in 0,
frightful manner, and stared like wild
man at those about him. Finally Dr. Mes
Namara had to mice extreme measures and
8, trap the unfortunate to the bed. "He wil/
lie, ' said the Doctor, "and there is ne help.
for him, he is so far gone. I never before saw
such a, desperate case."
Someitteresting features will 1i...seen:in the
new sigealling station which is to be estab.
lished at Tory Island, between Ireland and
Scotland, width is expected to be of the,
greatest, service to Atlantic steamers. A
large cable has been laid between the island
and Mc share, the chief use of which willbe
to announce the passing of veesels and the
transmission cf telegrams from them. All
ingenious buoy -like wet erproof despatch
ellHellan been devised, whieh will eontsin
any number of tolegresna Thistle; hopieked
up by the boatmen front the inland and eons
veyed to the signal station. The messages.
eon then be telegraphed to ally part of the
kingdom, an re-rangement which will be of
the greateet convenience not only te tl`Mt.
oilers, but also to merchants anti shippers.,
A fortunate 101811 fit Trente, ill Austria.
Its electric light station is owned by the
munieipality, which has the advantege of
the power of a large waterfall. The light is
fernielled to private consumers for aboutt
twenty cents 14 year per candle power, nut
they can hurn the Iamps nue hour a night, oe
twelve 11001s, just es they ;ileum, tsethette
extra chavge. ns to enable the voor in-
habitants to uso the light, the town, pays for
tho house wiring, payment hamlets& by
au annual charge, A flour milt anti spin-
ning mill are already supplied vaith currents,
and groa t. activity is looked fer in the local.
industries owing to its use by altmet. tbas
whole of the community.,