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OUR WILLIE.
BY THE REv. oHARLES GARRETT.
Some time ago, on a specially
festive occasion, I was invited to
dine at a beautiful Koine, which I
had often visited before. There
was a Large gathering of friends,
for. the family had loug been known
for its hospitality. I knew that
total abstinence had not been
smiled upon thele, and I was there
fore surprised, on sitting'down to
dinner, to notice the entire absence
of wine -glasses. I 'wondered, for a
moment, whether this was done out
of compliment to myself, and I
therefore asked the lady of the
house whether they had become
abstainers since 1' last visited there.
I saw, by the change in her face,
that my
question had given her
pain; and, heading toward me, she
said, in a whisper; "I will explain
after dinner,"
as the dinner was ended
shit cooly rue into the anteroom,
and with great emotion, said :"You
asked ale about the absence of
wino -glasses at the table."
"Yes," I replied. "I noticed
their ,,bsonce,, and I was puzzled at
the .' 9'; ;1."
With a quivering vuioe she said :
"I want to toll you the reason ; but
it is a sad story for me to tell and
;tn.- Ud LU hoar. You r'etniu fiber
cry son Willie?"
''i)h, yes," I :ivatvurutl ; "I. re-
member him well,"
"R',:st,'t he a bonnie Lid 1" she
e•:111 tears iu her eyes.
ea," 1 F;tid; "Willie was one
of Cot in.l'!st lads 1 have over seen."
"YEE," Phe coutinu d, "he was
; and. perhaps, 1 loved
tui „'11• 1.-ou know that we
;,, �� :,', •. ,gi a\ iuo freely, and never
itnmst 13",1 that any hares ivould come
of ;;, Yon are aware, also, that our
)1'n,•re i knuwn as the `11.1iuiateis'
linter,' ,tuns that they aro no whore
Ltort ,"r.laonue that bele. On.Sundays
T h.,vt"1lways lot the children stay up
to nu')ner, so that they might have
the benefit of conversation ; and,. as
my linshantl and the ministers took
wipe,, I always gave the children
half n eiteis—ou Sunday nights
sty -,tad by, Willie went to
;:e•iettst, sed I was as happy ,as a
.00ti;e•r 'gusts be: I thought I had
ever"'Ping to make me so. After a
a Cele, however, I began to feel un-
comfortable. I noticed, when I
gav'i ..Willie illie hie good -night • kiss,
that b;r breath smelt of drink, and
1 se,toke to hint about it. He laugh-
ed at..my fears, saying he had. only
hail a glass with his friends; and -I
tho' that, perhaps, my strong
love for him made me foolishly
uspicious. I tried to dismiss nay
feats ; but it was in vain ; for I
saw *hugs were getting worse.
There was a look in his oyes and a
ltu. kiueas in his voice, which told
ia,e .ito was at least iu terrible danger.
I didn't know what to do about it,
I feared to speak to his father. If
it should turn out that 1 was mis-
taken, i knew he would be vexed
With 1E2 for suspecting such a thing;
.t,:;•i i I was correct in these sus-
I1u,:oed, 'I dreaded he might take
some strong measures with Willie,
which would end badly. So I waited,
."� into. -yeti, and hoped. My hopes,
however, were vain. He began to
corse porno late .at nights, his father
became alarmed, and, as I feared
would be the case, spoke sharply to
laim, and threatened severe punish
Ment. Willie, who had a high ,
,.,Iswored his father as he
should gut have duce, and they
l'rotlwin came to high wo rds,
c)�,, uin•,t Willie tango home quite
drunk. I tried to get him to ped
witieu:et ilia father knowing of it,
but I failed ; his father met him
in t' a passage, and many bitter
v; o ' i ' p lased between them. At
last il:a; lather ordered him to leave t he
hous. IIe went, and for months we
heard uc'hing whateve' about him.
Faille,. oilfired us never to mention
hint, rend I and his sisters could do
nr111,4.97 sort, pray that, in some way,
('roll ie. -mid restore him to us. At
le"�11', nee night, after my daugh-
ter.- and the servants had gone to
t,r,l .•.d while father and I were
reading, suddenly I heard a
which I thought sound
ed like Willie's. I dared not speak;
1 'lf f. -'1. ..r looked earnestly at ere,
in rid, "Did you hear [anything?"
I snits I thought I did, He said,
"Go to tho door and see," I went,
-,•,rt n„"acd the si,lu•rloor, and there,
trio'', like a corpse than a living
body, was \Vinic.
"T snits 'Willie !'
would make ma a basin, of bread
and milk, as you used to do wkett
I was a little boy. I think I could
eat that."
"1 said, i'll make yon anything
ydu want; but don't look so sad.
Come up stairs and go to bed, and 1
will soon get you right”
He tried to walk, but fell back.
into the chair, I called his father,
and he carne back. Not au angry
word was spoken. They only said,
"Willie,"—"Father."
"Seeing his condition, his father
took him in his arras as he would a
child, and carried him up into his
owu bed.
"After a moment's pause, he
said, "Father, I am dying—and
the drink: has killed nu."
"His fathor said, "No, no, my
boy. Cheer up 1 You'll be bettor
soon. Your mother will bring
your round."
"No, never, father. God be
merciful to ale, a sinner."
"His head fell back, and my
bonnie boy was gone 1
"His father stood gazing at hien,
with a look of agony, for some
minutes, and then turned to rue,
and said, "Mother, I sus it, all now.
The drink has killed poor Willie.
But it shall du no more harm in
our house. There shall never be
another drop of drink iu this house
while I -1 -five."
"All the liquor iu the house 'was
destroyed, and we parted with the
very wine glasses ; and that's the
reason of what you noticed to -day."
THE LITERARY INFLUENCE
OF TIIE BIBLE.
We are far from claiming the
Bible as the only agency in' creat-
ing the beauty and strength of
English and German literature, but
it is simply a matter'of fact that no
other causes have been so powerful
or so far-reaching. Without it'
there could have been no Milton,
no Carlyle, Emerson or Ruskin,
and prnbably, if the secret influence
could be discovered which created
ancestral habits of thoughtfulness,
no Shakespeare or Goethe or any of
the great writers of peasant origin.
We should have had others uu-
douhtedly, but of far inferior quali-
ty of mind and heart. When we
examine the Bible with the sternest
critical eyes we are compelled to
admit that it is great enough to be
the cause of all which we have as-
cribed to its influence. Without
speaking of its moral or religious
'qualities it is evident that. its liter-
ary merits are supreme. Let any
ono go through it from Genesis to
Revelation, and while he will find
passages that aro now unspeakably
uninteresting, yet on every page
will be found some pearl of great
price, which, even if it were not
• regarded .as a sacred word, the
human race would never allow it
self to forget.. Whatever may be
thought of the scieutific accuracy of
the first chapters of Genesi', few
would be willing to have that
graphic and pontic account fade
out of the mind. The Bible con-
tains every kind of literature and
can furnish specimens of each which
can hold their own with the best
that the race has produced. Its
historical portions, besides being
the oldest attempts to trace the his-
tory of mankind, and describing
the Divine method of dealing with
ono of the most gifted races of the
world, are related with a simplicity
and directness which no later his-
torian has surpassed. Its biogra-
phies, chapters of human -life, when
the race was young and men were
vigorous in their virtues and great
in their crimes, have a charm that
can never lose its power. No
novelist has ever written a sweeter
story than the Book of Ruth. „No
drathatist has ever treated the
problem of man's destiny and
God's ways with him with such
seeing eye and understanding heart,
"all in such free, flowing outlines,
grand in its sincerity, in its sim-
plicity, in its epic melody and
repose of reconcilement." It is
not its devotional element alone
which has given the Book of
I'salnls its uuequallod place in the
liturgies Christendom, but this is
partly due to the fact that it con-
tains poetry of the noblest and most
inspiring quality. Even in a prose
translation—a test which no other.
great body of poems like Isomer
could survive—it appeals to the
mind no less than to the emotions,
and maintains its position, not
wearying by repetition nor weaken-
ing through lapse of years. Pro-
bably no portion of the Bible has
suffered so much in translation as
the Book of Proverbs ; but never-
theless King James's version contains
sentences of exquisite literary
finish, while the wisdom of the
generations which have .followed
leo never crystallized itself in more
coueise oriconvincing form. Nor is
it the spiritual utterances of the
prophetic books which gave them
their only charm. Gems of poetry,
having the Divine' qualities which
_touch the imagination and render
their places in the literature of °the
world permanent, are to be found
in Isaiahand Jeremiah. The
literary qualities of the Bible have
been largely forgotten in the far
greater grandeur of its religious
and moral qualities, but the sacred
"Mother, he said. Will you let
110 111 1 '
"Ab, lug boy 1" I said, as I fold -
i„1 1 ii,l 1,o my heart, "you should..
ueyor have gone away. Come in,
and '•gel untie."
"Ho tried to do it, but he was
so f231.110 that I had to help him.
He 3110, "Don't take me into the
1raw1ng•room—take me into the
kitchen. I am eold and dying."
I said. ''No, my boy ; I'll aeon
nurse iron up, and you'll be your-
selI again.
the respect of echulars, or, indeed,
wholly of the ignorant, if it had
been a crude, incondite, and cue -
lensed jumble, like the, Ko•an, it
is eertaiuly a matter of the Unna
profound congratulation that a book
that. was to be read daily in so
many houses, and wonky iu all the
churches, and which was to be
the first, popular literature of so
many nations, should be cast in
such excellent form. What its
influence has boon in the quiukeu-
ing of imagination and thoughtful-
ness, and as an inspiration of
literature, can of coulee never he
measured, but it is outy second to
the moral and religious influence it
has exerted. A large part of this
result among English -sneaking
people is d'so to the translators ,,
our popular and long•uaell ver•siu)1
Whatever this lacks iu accuracy, it
is cortaiuly a "well of Euglish un-
defiled," and its place can neve[' be
taken by anything that is not its
equal.
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\\rf-ILII,E TRH DAY I;EG)I N5
According to the w,ty in which
this arrangement is now carried out,
the first land that tate now day
dawns upon isEaster Island, about
230 miles west of the coast of Chili,
South America. That is to say, 2,1
of July breaks here within a few
hours of the 1st, having !melon on
the American coast to the east, 11ud
the two days run on alongside—the
2d iu Easter Island and places west,
the sat iu all places ou tho Ameri-
can continent. \Ve may, therefore,
realize this idea—that at 7:20 o'clock
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Bruin, the next day is commencing
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this little island in the Pacific
Ocean, whence, in duo course, it
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Suppose one of them sails east to
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will find that they keep the day
thorn undera different date, and ho
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calender twice over to put ,himself
right with their notions. On the
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from east to west, this . wonderful
magic lino whore the day begins, he
will find the dates in this fresh part
of the world are one in adt•anco of
him, and he must nee,!., 561 ike a day
out of his colander to koelr rp with
the times.
"Mohler," he said, "I wish you Book °wild never have retained
This fact was curiously illustrated
in the case of Magellan. the Portu-
gese captain, who sailed around the
world from oast to west in 1522, and,
having crossed the magic line of the
"day's birth" in his wanderings, •bis
calender became, of course, a.day in
arrear. The sailors were completely
ignorant of, this, and finding, on
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