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THE MODERN PULPIT. fact of judgment at the entrance, the fact of
the separation of the righteous and the wicked
-.the wheat and the tares—the sheep and 'the
RAVEN. goats, the fact that the decisions of that day
for which all other days were made will be
final and eternal—these are all, Whatever
liter Rev. Wailer Barton. there may be beside these in the world to
Bev. tbere shall be no night there. come theee are verities settled by Him who
spa,ke as having authority. If these things
were not so we may be sure. Be would
have told us. But still the heartasks, where
is Heaven anti what is Heaven? Instead of
ompare it to a ring, an unbroken cycle -
gmeng usa geography of the Place and an am
tre
turneng into itself. Between Moses, the fi
rst count ot its oeeupants, the Bible lays most
stress on bring with Cariet and being like
writemancLielm, the lad, about 1500 yearsin-
tervene,andyet they allhave thesametheme Okra, " We know not what we shalt be, but
WO lenow that when He shalla_p_pear we shall
and the same song; the themeChristethesong,
be like Hun, for we shall see Him as He is."
p,edeerning Love, How striking it is that, as
in the beginning, Nise find Adam, and, Eve Ifeeven Islam completingorthesoul and there
JuSt So much of Heaxen in the soul now
his bride, in innocence in Paradise, then
tempted. of the serpent and driven away and hero,asthere is likene.es to Jesus. Still,
from the tree of life, and the pleasant Heaven is a place as well as astate. The
moet degraded o.nd the most highly developed
i
waters of Edeu, though not without prom -
nations cherish a local Heaven as a part of se or a Redeemer who ehould eresh the
their expeeastions. From the hunting
Serpent, so at the close we find the old
grounds to which the Indian hopes togo, to
Serpent cast out forever by the second
Al
the Lord from eavenwhappears
the.ies and the Elysian tIsles of the Blessed, the Garden of Hes-
tem. H, o %i paganamtions
ram
h His bride, the church, in a ore glori-
pernplace..
ous Paradise and by pleasanter waters, the hue and all expected a loeal dwelling
Am f
tree of life also there with all its healing poetry and art are the voice otheir
properties, not guarded with a gaming nature ; and them nature is not a universal
sword. but open to all who enter there- he. And what therepagan. taught is held
n
in, and there is no more curse. Streit is early m•ery religious body that has put
of the t Ream, . its behef in a form to be considered. If
th e
The Bible ends as it begius, with the de-
scription ot a Paradise. And in this fact
may be found one of the proofs of its hare
monious unity. The fathers were wont to
tle." No longer does he water his conch with 'let us purify ourselves even as He is pure;
tears, nor cry; " My tears have been my and like Him let us also work while the day
meat day and night," nor werpe "rivers of lads..
waters" because men keep vot Goad's come I The right conception of Heaven is not that
manage Now and forever be can, say with a which makes us weak awl effeminate, dreamy
feeling and a force .he never experienced and sentimental, but that which wonderful -
here: "Thou haat delivered mine eyes from. ly wakes us up in and tor every Christian
tears." duty, ena which realms us more gentle and
humble, more loving, patient and strong, like
0, Christian friends, be of good courage, the immortal _heroes and heroines is the
and comfort one another with the glorious eleventh of Hebrews. As we hope soon to
assurance thet Ile who 'wept at Bethany = enter into and, become a
will soon wipe away from the eyes of all part of "so great a
eloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every
His people, every tear of pebtrsloenaavleameig,iono,f weight and the sin wiaich doth smeasily .be
of somal trial, of family
set us, and let us run with patience the race
broken friendship, and or godly caonmd which
for the souls of others. The h that is set before us." Heaven will be the
' happiest place to those who have done the
still bears the scars of the nails is yet to
meet to take othera there with them. May
pass over your cheek and wipe away your noneof us be content to wear starless crowns,
tears forever. Now He leaves these tender
acts of sympathy and solace to His servants
and to his holy angels. But when the lest
tear is wiped away it will be done by Em-
manuel hinasf. 0, the wonderful picture,
of our Elder Brother, °lir loving Lard, annexed to the Berlin Congress were a num-
rising from His Throue, and as the last re- ber of preparations illustrating some of the
deemed one comes into Hispresence, assuag- modes of accidental death. One specimen
ing the last pain, relieving the last woe and was that of 4 man who =idea wager that be
removing the last tear, and so ending forever could swallow a beefsteak whole. He died
the tragedy of sin and the sorrow of sin in consequence of the attempt, and the pre -
which ltave so bitterly tried the human,: peration showed the meat still Sticking in
heart, "Anal there shall be no night there,' • his throat. Another was that of a. woman
no night of bitter weeping such as Peter who suddenly fell down in the street, and
once knew, will ever extort another tear Me died beforemedicalaseistance couldbeebtain-
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-A. erneeenle Oelleatien.
Among the objects alteria The MIASMA
. yourI 3 . ng tee . . . ed. Her falso teeth bed become dislodged
tio x story. The great novelist Charles Tic_ ___, eaven IS.not 4, place, then the language of
Diekens wrote a story, or began to write ocriptine m nueleathug. Christ says . `I go
And all , othell Heaven.
And in this eon= there writ he no nightein a
III. Again, roght Is need to sigmfy tleah- ana choked her. In another epecimen illus.
trating smitten death front asphyxia, the
one called Edwin Drood, Doing be. etopeepare a game for you-. "1 west evorit .
the works of 1.Pn 'accident was Shell% to .)14VC been eaused by
fort; it Ira% finished, it fell to another -serilithre is m hormone' watt that pleiM and that scut me, evittle it ra daythe night • a „odd ef chewing tobacco in the larynx.
explicit utterant.-n of uur, Lord. Gr. ine.it enee eametig wben no man ean work." Our Lord Several skulla crossed in all directions by
plete the story, and to imagina,
to try to e,oin
tl 1 d the leedin character cetved of the lot al Hem en as the centtr of all a ,
ehould come out. The Bible WaS not Tirade the revolving worlds, and this majestic cow
mu.ch more ennobling then the dim
up in thet way. Its author is the Alpha eeptton rs
and the Omega of all history as well as of and dreamy uleas of those who throw a fog.
redemption, and He sees the end as well as hatilt.overJortlan, leaving us in doubt wheth-
er It shoreless or shored by a eltininglauth
the beginning', and it is worth something to
If Dr. Dolt conception strikes you plemeant
huoir how this divine storyof redemption
•
3 - a awl numerous red lines land been When from Melt
which was very soon coming .to Him,
sooner or later comes to all, sumo it is lfrillefl felling from a height, Comminuted
ineturh liad.occurred, and the red streaks
pointed into all men =co to die. In this
world, what thought is more terrible to most 0 he hoes of union where the variona
SpileTeVeellat4 been contented together. Other
men than that of death? There is something ' akulls shoning bullet wends were to be
solemn in the very mute. The death -bed, i '
aeen turd one was eeltibited Nritil an axe
is corning out, and where and lehat tehreit s re , ' 7, P . 3 ' the coffin, the Aloud and the grave ere geed's. drf e j ' • •
It the hone where it
y m t woug ,
heroes will be when thie wonderful &ante iustinguisuel a scientist as Priueiltal each and alt terrible things to human i ha- -4'. teen implanted by the wife of the Vie*
closea. 'Daweon or Canafla in effed adopts and en -
6 e i it. g „D nature, and yet not more terrible than corn. tint
ea of te a eep among mon. W
The last chapters of Revelation are goner- ,t 'irses t le le hat Sall Separation% it makes in the '
the planets, suns, nebulas antl Systeme, fatuity, the social circle anti in the church
ollyeegardeti =containing about all we know
the center world, vast enough to hold the , ga
of Heaven as a place, and. though there are ered and strong and tender as these re -
many things in this Rowlett= which are universe in its arms, is, as these dermit lationshios are, death is ever at work sun -
scholars speculate to be the residence &ring -1,
bard to beas many things which t COL Parents ale, children die,
of the redeemed. Diesipate the popular i t.
are wholly beyond our comprehension still aretacre anti yours*sistefriends and companions
much remains that is clear and plain, even faith in a 1011"111 l'ket' and soon Y°11 Pt° Who of has net steed by tee
to
those who are but bahesm understanding, ' deco inflate -ewe res-pectingthehearealgened .
o death -bed of some dear one to eatch the
That the supernatural blessednees °Mae • The reason why lietifen is not more filoY ' la.stlook and hear the last word of affection
yen might becatue more intelligible to usethe revealed t° us lit douotiesS that 1,Ve..etillul sot . and counsel?, Hundreds of such seenee are
beloved:disciple wasiuspired to pieture it in bear it. , If the *teen, ri,f 4. tie," n" u,nsunire ,, transpiring* every' day—axe Munspiring
figures and images as glorious and beautiful sPirit in ilerh him Sue Delimit tliem5gniut"lee : now. And. when the secret idol le gone that.
as they aresimpleandittatruetive.Andalleatt of 8,"1°nrin t if the ,alinstle edeeolini who leia,d, your poor heart yearned upon, what a
readily see how well suited to the human stituten mantileill the mast et =His Lord, ten'':' night of sorrow comes over you.. "What
mind these deeeriptions are, sigee, while the at His feet as one fleadwhen He appeared to • shall I do with that portion of thoughts
soul is clothed with flesh, fancy and itmighee him in the vieions of Patinae, how could our I which e was in the habit of telling only to
ation have spelt a dominion over us that we 07es hear that i•rill'hoteYi or our eare endure ., her" elo wino Walter Seett after the
can cormeivesof nothing supernaturalbut ; teat heavenly melody, or our mortal kettles ;
i
'•Itear up the weight of glory now? Christ has &Mir of his wife ; and. how many can sym-
pathire with him. How true it ts that each
e through comparieons awl imegee taken horn
material Osage. Haw* ate" anti Heaven.fmanYthingstoshow Iliepeople but they eaitr i frwitti of ours that departs seems to take
which is our subject of meditation and pude(' !iiit hear them new. iso hinges we have to wa la , mesa a part of teersekee. There was
in thisworld wentuet walk by faith. When we 1 smut; portion of 'our being related
temaight, set forth under the Mee arni Haan
of a feast, a hiugdom, a city with payieease to he'ehildren of night and hemp(' ail" to the one that is gone ai to no other,
gates awl. golden streets,
a city with se airen of the day, then shall we see as we are and we still have things to say to him or to
temple for it is all 4 temple, a eftg, that ;seen and know as we awe bnown. In this her width no other wouMorcould appreciate.
needs no light of the sum for God and the levorld, hire up whatever subject we will, we And when you go to the grave of buried love
Lamb are the lightthereof, a city tilled withfon ehlY AO, a Mlle wee' before we iind enn. to meditate, you go there but to imitate the
streams and fountains, trees., fruitu anti ,neeteit with it smn'-' nYtterY whi,vh the light sisters at Bethany, you go there to weep.
flowers -the Paradise regeined.
oen eternity alone eau num, Emma For you find. that there comes from the dead
lleseription the inspired I
In the midst of his
Thre ewill be no night there. flI 111
t -oh w--- lam newe, front the grave no voice, front the
'
revelator &tips a figure that giv et; negat ieety ' malt" ilarlinese light and erookeel thing", i eeparate etate no message. You lean aping
straight. The mysteries a time, a Prova the odd, silent marble, but there is no ert-
a view a Heaven, to the etansideretion of
whielt I wiele to cell your attention this dem and of Reef:1340n will all be cleared Fever, nor any that regartleth. Since the
evening lupe ereatlion there it bat:stood, the atone of germ
there shall be no night there." As
you are all well aware, night in Scripture
end other writings also, is used both in
literal and in a fignwative sense. In its
, sense night. signifies that 'portion of
the natural dey when the sun is beneath
the horizon. in ita figurative sense it signi-
fies, ignorance, sorrow rind death. Taking
it in this latter sense, let us see how its ab.
moo will contribute to the glory and happi-
ness of)he Heavenly Home.
There will be nothing in Heaven of whielt
night is the emblem or image.
1. Autl fast, night is the image of ignor-
ance. The whole history of this world is
little else than a history* of human ignorance.
Scot after sea, system after system, school
after school, sage after sage, 110,V0 appeared
and disappeered,leavingbardly triteelielnnd.
And those who Wive attained to the widest,
knowledge have been always the ntost ready
to confess their own ignorance ;like Newton How often are we ready to say: "whose
who, with all his vast attainments, seemed to sorrow was ever like my sorrow ?"
himself to have gathered only a few pebbles And yet there have been human hearts con -
=the shore of a boundless ocean. The more stituted just like ours for six thousand years.
Then shall we see heel- and know,
All we theired or wlehea below,
And every power find sweet employ
In that eternal world of :my.
We shall underetand the things which now
the angels desire to look into, and we shall
readehapter after chapteorf thegreat epic of
the Future which will be a divine story ever
telling, but never told.
Night is also the enblem of adversity
and sorrow. Since the fall of Adam and RVO
in the Garden of Eden there has not been a
day or an hour in which this has not been a
sorrowful world, Soule portions of our
earthly lot are less painful than others, but
under every aspect in which we may view
our earthly condition NVO find that every sit-
uation more or less exposes us to sorrow.
"Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly
upward." We have all felt grief, and sorrow
bas never long been a stranger to our hearts.
they know, the more they see to be known.
Others there are, who really knowing but
little, think they know it all, that they are
the people and wisdom will die with them.
If the world only would follow their panaceas
and prescriptions, set aside the tehurch and
the Bible and follow the apostles of modern
thought, then would the miseries and in-
equalities of life cease and society become at
Once happily and fully organized. But all
such experiments have failed in the paet and
will in time to come. " Where is the wise.?
where is the scribe? where is the disputer of
thisworld?" HasnotGodathousandtimescon-
The same stars rise and set upon our world.
to -day that rose upon the youthful David,
when, a shepherd boy, he watched his flocks
on the plains of Judea. And thus the same
sorrows, like the same stars, rise and set in
every age. All that sickness and death can
do, all Oa flisa.ppointed ambition, blighted
love, thwarted. hope ever did, they do still.
Nan tear is wrung from your eyes to -day
that has not been wept over and over in a
long succession since Adam and Eve stepped
from Paradise and gave their posterity to a
world of sin and sufrering. We are told by
inspiration that no temptation has befallen
founded the wisdom of thewise and brought us but such as is common to man. In all our
to naught the unaerstauding of the prudent ? best poetry there appears thesame undertone
No creed, no sect, no reform, no enterprise of sorrow in the common experience of life.
for improving the race and for preparing How true and how suggestive are these lines
souls for Heaven, will, without the Divine front the little poem that was so highly priz-
Christ, and the Divine mystery of the Gos-
pel in it, ever succeed? " Without Me ye
can do nothing." But there is ignorance in
the church as well as in the world. What
So the multitude comes, even those we behold,
Christian has not, at times at least, been To repeat every tale that has often been told.
troubled with such questions as these, why
did sin ever enter and mar God's beautiful
world'? Why, with almighty power -in His
hand, has He not long since banished this
disturbing. element from the mirth? How
can God be sovereign and man free ? A man's
heart devising his way but the Lord direct- Thus our own experience and observation
ing his steps? Efow can God's government confirm the Scripture declaration, that " the
of the world. by fixed general laws be hare whole creation (and we a,re a part of it)
m
m ized. with the efficacy of prayer? Hew groaneth and tra,vaileth in pain together an -
is it that an all -sufficient atonement having til now." To many a Christian this world
beenee. evided for men, millions upon mil- is a valley of tones, a howling wilderness, a
lion .. e not yet heard of Christ after near-
ly 2000 ars?
Who as he reads his Bible is not often
struck with its silence on many points that
are profoundly interesting and as profoundly
clerk ? We very soon find, as we read it, that
it is indeed "the glory of Goa to conceal a
thing." We ask el,bont the creation of the
world and are dismissed with a sentence. We
inquire if the Stars are inhabited and whether
they have felt above redeeming, grace and
dying love. But the seal of sixellhe is still
Unbroken. We St....;-gle fte TA did with the
great mystery and mission of sfaffering, and
like hira we say a great deal about that which
we understand not. .We all feel, or ought to,
as cud the Queen of Sheba, the sting of igno-
rance,and cherish the curiosityand the desire,
delirious yet divine, to know; but where now
is the Solomon who eau answer all our hard
questions, and with whom we can comm= = of
all that is in enr heart? What is to be our
condition after death ? "Man giveth up the
.,.host and where is he? If a man die shall he
live again?" Does death end all On none of
these points is the Bible as plain as We think
it should be. A few simple but comprehen-
sive declarations are made to stand eat like
the lofty mountain peaks of a country toward
which we sail. But let us remember that
these nee= tain peak e tell us that the country
is there, The great fact of immortality, the
ed and praised by President Lmcoln
"So the multitude goes, like the flower or the
vreed
That withers away to let others succeed;
For we are the same our fathers have been,
We see the same sights our fathers have seen,
We drink the same streams and view the same
sun,
And run the same course our fathers have
run."
stormy ocean, and how often is the language
of David, in his heart, if not on his lips:
"All thy waves and thy billows are gone
over me.
There's not a spot of earth,
Ho weV•er green or fair,
There's not a happy hearth
Without some shadow there,
There's not it desert path
Where human foot imth trod.
But human sorrow bath
Pressed down its velvet sod.
There's not a dawning morn,
There's not a setting sun,
But some to grief are born,
And some lie 'wearied down.
. But there will be no such night of sorrow
in Heaven. We read, and how blessed it is to
read : "God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes." The poet Burns, it is said, could
never read the passage with dry eyes. And
who else can that really knows what temp-
tation, trial and sorrow, mean? "And there
shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor
crying, neither shall there be any more
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pain.
"Every tear is wiped away,
Sighs no more shall have the breast,
Night is lost in endless day.
Sorrow in eternal rest.
David no longer prays as he often did
here "Put thou A my tears into thy bot.
ation and of silence; no tears have ted
it—no prayers have pierced it. But there
Will be no night of death in Heaven. Xu all
the future world not one shall ever die, not
a grave shall ever he seen. Can there be a
mere comforting or more glorious thought
or prospect to dwellers in a world like
this 1 In all the eternal s years the re-
deemed shall never see death again, nor
fear that an absent friend. is deed. With
what anxiety and fear we part as parents
from mar families, as pastors from our flocks,
as friends from our friends, lest death
shoulil come to snatelt thetn a•wity in our
absence. We sometimes speak the•parting
goothbye and. give the parting kiss, little
thinking we are doing it for the burial ; yet
so it often proves. But there will be no
stub fear in Heaven. The saints shall never
again have their songs and pleasures in-
terrupted by the voice of mourning, nor
will they ever witness the slow and solemn
funeral march in the golden streets of the
Celestial City.. Death will have been
swallowed up in victory. As the saints rise
froni their graves to meet their Lord in
the air, how grand will be their shout of
triumph : "0, grave, where is thy victory?
0, death, where is thy sting ?" To a Christ?
ian, death is but a transplanting. On the
top of Mt. Washington you will find little
spruces and oaks of a summer's growth; you
look around to see what has become of the old
spruces and the old oaks; but you soon find
that they are so high up and the cold is so se-
vere,that none of them are over a foe c or two
hieh ; and you say, if these little oaks and
spruces remain there they will be just as
short, stiff, stunted and scraggy as the old
ones. You carry them W the valley of the
Connecticut or the Hudson, plant them in
rich and mellow soil, and what noble trees
they: in a few years become. So transplant
Christians from earth W Heaven, and how
wonderfully they will grow. Welcome,
then, Christian friends'the hour of your re.
moval to the better Wed. From the many
lessons and reflections that crowd upon the
mind in view of the subject now consider-
ed, we have time to netice but two or
three. How earnest we should be to pre-
pare ourselves for that world where no
night of ignorance, sorrow or death, can ever
come. Though Heaven is the gift of God,
a reward of grace and not of debt, still
each Christian's }Leven will be in no uncer-
tain sense, of his own creating. "Behold,
I come quickly, and my, rewardls with me,
to give every man according as his work
shall be." Some will have a greater re-
ward than others, in Heaven. They will
all be stars, .but differing in brilliancy and
glory. Some, who have given all diligence,
to make their calling and election sure, to add
to their faith virtue and the other graces in
their order, will have an entrance minister-
ed unto them abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of their Lord.
Others, who bave savored so much of
earth ana so little of Heaven, will be
saved as by fire, the man himself may be
saved e "but he shall suffer loss." H Christ-
ians, we are now and here every day de-
ciding what positions we shall occupy in
Heaven. In the light, then, of what
you would: be and are to be m Heaven,
learn what you ought to be on earth. How
often in years paet has the heart of Great
Britain been. pained to see the Prince of
Wales, the next heir to the throne conduct-
ing himself unworthily, and so forgetfully of
the great duties and the high re ponsibili-
ties that may at any thne be thrown upon
him. After his severe sickness a few years
ago, in which hislife trembled in thebalance,
a sermon appeared in the London Times ex-
horting him to make it the turning point in
his life. And is not Heaven also often pain-
ed and sad to see so many who are yet to be,
a,nd some of them very soon, .kings and
priests unto God, living as though no stash
high destiny aweited them. Seeing we have
The Art of Sweeping.
In sweeping, take long light strokes, and
do not use too heavy a broom.
"Alice," mid Lois, "do you honestly think
sweeping is harder exercise thau playing
tennis?"
I hesitated. roily don't know. One
never thinks of hard or easy tennis, the game
le so interesting; and then les out -door ex-
ercise, and. there's ne danger of inhaling
dust."
"Wela, for my part," said Magiorie, "I
like tieing work that tells. There m so much
satisfaction in seeing the figures an the car-
pet come out brightly under my broom
Alice, what did you do to make your recep-
tion -room so perfeetly splendiferous? Gide,
look here 1 You'd think this carpet had just
come out of the warehouse."
"Mother often tells Aunt Ilettea" said If
"to dip the endear the broom In a pail of
water in which she has poured a, little am-
monm—a teaspoonful ton gallon. The am-
monia takes off the dust, and refreshes the
the colors wonderfully. We couldn't keep
house without it," I finished, rather proud-
ly.
" Did you bring some from home ?" asked
Marjorie, looking hurt.
" 1Vity, of course not 1 I asked your
mother, and she gave me the bottle, and
told inc to take what I weeded."
Tust the Man to Introduce o. New Article.
Proprietor (to applicant for job)—"Yes,
I advertised for a man to travel on the
road, but I shalt require unusual qualifica-
tious. Have you had any experience ?"
Applicant—"No, sir."
" Have you any recommendations ?"
"None."
"Can you refer me to anybody as to your
clutrader and fitness?"
" I am afraid not."
"Then it is hardly worth while to—by
the way, are you a member of any church?'
"No, I don't believe in churches. Darn
the eburches 1"
" What .1 Don't you believe in any future
rewards and punishments?"
'4 No, sir.
" You're the num I want. lam introduc-
ing to the trade a new brand of pure crab-
apple jelly."—[Chicago Herald.
A Celtio Choice.
]i'ootpad—Your money or you're life!
Irishman—Och, yez better take me life
I wantmy money toiler° on.
Ke Had It All.
"Why do you kiss me on the forehead,
Perseus 1" murmured the maiden. "A kiss
on the forehead denotes reverence for the
intellect, andyou know I haven't much in-
tellect."
"1 know it, Andromeda," said the sop.
homore, loftily, "but I—er—reverencewhat
you have you know."
No Impediment.
Clergyman—" I don't suppose you take
young men whose intellects are not bright,
do you?'
College President—" Oh, yes. You'd be
surprised to see what success some of our
graduates have as street car drivers."
.A. Doublo-barrelled Recipe.
"Dear me," she cried, as they met on the
street, but I was just wondering hoNi you
came out with your tomatoes."
"They were splendid."
"So were mine. Got all through with
your peaches ?"
"Yes."
"So have I. Made any catsup ?"
"How did it come out ?"
"Fine."
"Mine didn't. I m afraid it didn't boil
quite long enough. Have you got a recipe
for chow -chow ?"
OhTh,yon,esio'r'
mercy's sake, •let me have it.
I've lost the one Thad last year."
" With pleasure."
"And you'll come over and taste it ?"
"Thanks. My husband is worrying 'for
fear we shan't have any. Does your recipe
callfor tomatoes, cabbages, onions, pepper,
horse radish, red. peppers, carrots, potatoes,
celery, parsnips, egg plant, cinnamon, and
currant.
"I am quite sure it does."
"So glad 1 I can use it one day for chow -
chow and the next for mince pies. I'll send
the girl right over after dinner."
• —
Anther Wav of OaJling a Man an A—a
" That fellow, Bonsalini, the portrait
painter is a brute."
"What has he done ?"
'1i:wanted hint to make a portrait of me
this hope of one day reigning -with Chriat, and he said he wasn't an animal painter.
'LOOKING AT AND 1.1001UNG
THHOTTGH.
It was once my privilege to visit the interior
of Saint Paul's Cathedral in London. 'lin-
gered, long and willingly in the superstruc-
ture, and. admired without stint tae noble
statuary, the wilderness of stately pill=
crowned by arches of exquisite symmetry,
the vast spaces se exactly proportioned as
to impress the mind with a sense of unity in
immensity, and glorifying all, the majestic
dome.
Very reluctantly I turned away from these
excellent beauties and descended to the
crypt. There, among other objects that
mitckened nay pulses,1. found the great iron
hearse which was used in the funeral page-
aut when England mourned for Wellington
andsffo'eusl3iffen,asepulchre werther of her most
illu
That historic hearse was made of metal
obtained by melting down some of the guns
taken by the Iron Duke from the enemies
of Britain. I did not greatly admire the
Waxer; OP TUE STRUCTURE,
nor the workmanship. Indeed, I round it
quite impossible to fix attention on any.
thing external—so busy were my faculties
with the thoughts suggested by what I
saw.
While rey eyes looked upon the hearse my
mind tureted backward anti away it; the
Howe and places or the grent soldier's
achievententa. Stertingly vtvid to my Ma
aelnation !weenie the succession of apien-
tlzU
niilitary operations of which Wellingtan
had been et ono the gertius and the hero.
First I sew him in India where his career
began. Then in thought I followed him to
Portugal, to Spain, to France. Last of 4111
looked on hie short but glorious eanmaign in
Belgium. I saw MVO sweep through the
smaller affairs of Quatro Bas and Ligny
50 m.eiteure ewer& with the military
Colossus of this world. on the battle-
field of Waterloo. The agony of the
long wait for Blucher seized my soull I
heard the blare of trumpets as the great
Prussian advanced 1 I saw the line of battle
lengthened and strengthened 1 The time
had come? The historic command, "up,
guards,arel at them," was about to ring outou
fitageurr Ileafeeed air I was thrilled, trans -
duet then there came around the end of
the hearse a 111511—a tourist like myself who
looked into my tell-tale face, punched mein
the ribs and remarked in tones of gushing
sympathy, "it's awful puny, ain't it 1 it
must bee* cost a heap of money 1"
Tito sudden
TUMBLE FROM TUE ION. OUT
where I had been standing to the level of
that western Yankee's ridiculous shoddy,
*early broke my spiritual bones.
Upon reflecuon 1 cameto understand that
my friend the Yankee had been looking at
the hearse and had seen nothing but form
and color, while I had been looking Mamma
18 10 the glorious rind =daring thins sym-
bolized in it.
One cau hardly refrain from moralizing a
little= the mental habits illustrated by the
incident.
Some young people merely look at mat-
rimony as a present MMUS of securing the
comforts of is home of climbing upa little
htglter in the =caseate, of indulging pas -
sem Others, look through it W the tre-
mendous considerations involved in the fe-
lting intimacy which is to have more power
for good or for evil than any other influence
which will ever touch their destiny, and to
the measureless responsibility of bringing
other immortal lives into being.
There are some who, in considering so
groat a matter as religion, never do more
than look at its outer forms and habili-
ments. They know no
TEMPLE OF GOD,
but the one made of stone and mortar.
Religion is, to them, a matter to be dated
and located according; to the appointed
hours and places of public worship. There
are others who discern the presence of the
Lord as they look throneh the forms and
ordinances of religion to the divine realities
symbolized in them. They know that the
body of every good maxt is is temple of the
Holy Mose. Looking through the thing
which are seen to the greater verities signi-
fied in them they so apprehend the presence
of God in his world that every place is a
sanctuary and all work is worship.
Some poisons look at the surface appear-
ance of a debt about to be incurred, and ,
went it it little thing which will soon I
vanish away before the hard work and
economy they mean to practice. Others
are thoughtful enough to look through
it to some errim possibilities which may
become actualities. Strength to labor may
be broken. It nmy come to pass that the
debt will increase until it will become a
millstone chained to the neck—until it will
have more power to weaken the moral pur-
pose than all the devils in hell—until it will
press its victim toward dishonesty, flight,
suicide, as means of escape—until once atid
again he will come to himself and shudder
over the half-fmmed semi-murderoes wish
that his old father or his rich brother
would die so that an expected inheritance
might come to his relief.
And so emend on, through all the interests
of human life, some look at and some look
through. I have
A STRONG CONVICTION
that to enrich the mind, to ennoble the
character, to bring to the conduet of life
true wiScimii are must cultivate the habit of
looking not on the things which are seen but
on the things which are not scan; for the
things which are seen are temporal and the
eniggs which axe not seen are eternal.
LEROY HOOKER.
'What Ailed Him.
"Good evening, uncle."
" Ebening, boss; ebening."
"How are you getting along?"
"ToPble, salt; table ; gwine to go a leetle
slow case de roomatism got er grip 50 des
laigs er late, "
You are not quite as spry as you used to
be?"
No, I ain't that,"
"Where is your brother Sam ? "
" Oh, he done dies out o' dis life two years
ergo. he did."
"Did he die in bed?"
"No, an he didn't want to neither: four
or five men tried to mek him do it, but dey
couldn't hol him dar. so dey conldn't "
"Why, what was the matter with him?"
"Well, de doctahs said es how he had de
hilarious trimens, but I guess it was de
snaikes, and dey wuz big ones, regular boa
'strictors, dey wuz. Yes, he had em large,
mighty large, boss, Dey done got erway
with him, dey did."
There are no easy methods of learning
difficult things ; the method is to close your
door and work. --[Count Joseph delVlaistre.
The Hamburg group or socialist workme
who are followers of tea Salle, have decided
to issue a manifesto calling upon the work-
men of Germany to assist the government in
carrying out its socialist policy.
Mannaltro.aning for Women.
One of the most sisificarat signs of the
times is the progress being made in the
manual trabaing of woman. The public)
School of Art for women at Bloomsbary,
England, holds a high rank in its instrum
tion in art and mathematics, and is entirely
in the hands of women professors. In Soutla
Remington more pupils in proportion to
their number carry oil prizes in the yearly
national competitions than in any other
institution. In Belgium there is an EcoIe
Profeesional, nurnbereng 770 pupils, and Hie
object is to give women a. thorough profese
Monet manned education simultaneously with
theoretical teaching. In Holland smilax
schools exist, which admit to their elassee
young girls ',revery ratakin society, and not
ouly teaoh every sort of handicraft
suited to professional work, but also furnish
excellent opportunities for liberal culture to
those, who do not need to make of art a
means of aupport. In Denmark the profes-
sionally artistie education of women is or a.
yet more adranced character, and the Gov-
ernment school of decorative art is attended
by 120 WoMen pupils, who are admirably
trained to take up art in its various bran-
ches professionally.
Act I.—After the Honeymoon.—A young
woman who had never learned the gentle
art er cookery, being 'desirous of impressing
her lumband with her knowledge and diii.
geece, managed to have her kitchen door
ajar on the day after their bridal trip, and,
It1St Asher lord came in from bit office, ex.
claimed loudly, "Hurry up, Eliza, do I
Haven't yon washed the lettuce yet? Here,
give it to nte. 'Where's the soap?"
It is well there is no one without a fault,
for he would not have a friend in the world;
he would seem to belong to a different spe-
cies.
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