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The Exeter Times, 1895-2-7, Page 2TEE 14XIITITIR 'ALL NEN ARE LIARS." 0 SAID bAerlD, THE PSALMISTs IN 141S HASTE. • the Mole Words of the Jewiels WR, Ifirileniseee rreaettes on the leatigers PeSsilAistu-Tbe Goatee.' of Cheexteninessan Eiace of safety. REIvY011Z, jan. 27. -Rev. Dr. Talmage M itook for his subject "The Dangers at ere eeason or pout, but the vast realer- itY oe those in the conjuged relation ohose the most Appropriate coman panionship d ere bap y in that reletion, You hear notislug of the quietude and happietess men acmes, though nothing but death, iU tliens part. But one sound a marital discord makes the ea re of a continent, and perbaps a a hemispbere, gert. The one letter that ought never to haye been writs ten, printed in a newspaper, makes more e. talk timthe millions of letters that crowd the poetofficee and weigh down the Mail carriers with expressions of honest love. Tolstoi, the great Russian author, h wrong when he prints a book for the).'de- fee reunion, wuere sne expeate to meet her loved ones already translated, and after telling the Lord in very simple language hoer much she loves him and trusts nine and, hopes to stee hiro. soou hear her pronounce the quiet "Amen," and she rises up -a little more diffienit effort than kneelum down, And then. she puts hee need me the pellow for the nights and tbe angels of safety aud peace stated seutinel about that couch in the farm house, and her face ever and anon show eigus of dreams abont the heaven she read, of before retiriug. In the morning the day's work has be. gun dovva stairs, and seated at tbe table eeeseineism," the text selected being Psalm premation et marriage. 'If Your observe, the remark is made, "Mother., must have Cava li, "I said in nia haste, Alluien are tion bas put you, in an attitude of deplora- overslept herself." Mid the grandchildren tion for the marriage state, one of two alsO notice that grandraother ts absent Swindled, betrayed, Persecuted, David, things is true in regard to you -you have frorn her usual place at the table. One of in a paroxysm of petulance and rage thus either been unfortunate in Your acquaint- the grandohildren goes 56 the foot of the fauralted the human race. David himself ' h " 13 t aalsilled when he seed, "All men emitters,' He apologizes and says he was provoke !FA, and that he was hasty when he hurled •euele universal denuncietion, "I said in felicity whiele the Bible depicts. The man stand, and tbe covers o e e My haste," and so on. It was in him only . a,momentary triumph of pessimism. There ja ever and anon, and never more than new, a dieposition abroad to distrust !everybody, seed 'because some bank em.- ployees defraud to distrust all bank em- ployees, and because some police officers leave taken bribes tobelieve that all police- men take bribes, and because divoree eases are in the court to believe that most, le not all, marriage relations are unhappy. •There are men who seem rapidly cora- ling to adopt this creed: All men are liars, scoundrels, thieees, libertines, When a new case of perfidy comes to the surface, these people clap their hands in glee. It , glove piquancy to their breakfast if the •inert:ling newspaper discloses a new ex - pewee or a new arrest, They grow at on ermin. They jein the devils in hell in jubilation over recreancy and pollution. If some one arrested is proved innocent, it is to them a disappointment. They would rather believe evil than good. They are •vultuves, preferring carrion. They would were as determined to be bad, and getting like to be on a comrnittee to find something worse, as the pessimists represent, I would wrong. They wish that, as eyeglasses think it was hardly worth saving. If have been invented to improve the sight after hundreds of years of gospelization and ear trumpets have been invented to no improvement has been inade, let us help the hearing, a corresponding instru- give it up and go at something else besides Mont might be invented for the nose to praying and preaching. My opinion is bring nearer a malodor, that if we had enough faith in quick re- ...sash:alarm sa s of the church, "the ma- sults and conld go forth rightly equipped anceship, or you yourself are morally s mrs an cues, ia rotten. The world, not as rapid RS we there is no anewer. Fearing eomething is would like, but still with long strides, A the niatter, they go up to see, and all seems on the way a scenes of beautitude and right -the spectacles and Bible on the who cannot see this is wrong, either in his heart or liver or spleen. Look at the greet Bible picture gallery, where Isaiah. has set op the pictures of smooth, and the face is calm, her white hair on. the white pillowcase like mow on snow already fallen. Bat her soul is gime up to look upon the thiugs that the night aborescence, girdliug the world with cedar before she had been reading of 1 tho and fir and pine and boxwood, and the lion SeriPtures. What a transporting look on led by a obild, and St. John's pictures of her dear old wrinkled face! She has seen waters and trees, and wleite horse cavalry, the "Xing in his beauty." She has been, and tears wiped away, and trumpets welcomed by the "Lamb who was slain." blown and harps struck, and nations re- And her two oldest sons, leaving hurried deemed. While there are ten thousand up stairs, look and whisper, Henry to things I do not like, I have not seen any George, "That is religion!" and George to discouragement for the cause of Gad for Henry, "Yes, that is religion!" twenty-tve years. The kingdom is com- There is a man ieated or standing very Ing. The earth is et-ea:taring to put on ' near you. Do not look at him, for it might bridal array. We uteed to be getting our be unnecessary embarassment Only a anthems and grata marclies ready. In few minutes ago he came down off the our hymnology we hall have more use steps of as happy a home as there is in for "Antioch" than for "Windham," for this or any other city. Fifteen years ago, "Ariel" than for "Naomi." Let "Hark, by reason of his dissipated habits, bis home From the Tombs a Doleful Cul" be sub- was a horror to wife and children. What merged with "Joy to the World, the Lord that woman went through with in order is Come!" to preserve respectability and hide her Really, if I thought the human race husband's diegrace is a tragedy which it would require a Shakespeare or Victor Hugo to write out in five tremendous acts. Shall I tell it? He struck berl Yen the one who at the altar he had taken with vows eo solemn they made the orange blossoms tremble! He struck her! He made the beautiful holidays "a reign of terror." Instead of him supporting her; she sunreirentanheasee alien netenhen 'nen- 0o;1-ty- of the members af. , with thuhdpolne an aeakteleaatin azid enleshopop&tes, al- though it is no temporal advantage sentla Mei'. alarusness would end with this nine- s member of the church, and therefore teenth century, and the twentieth ecu - there is no temptation to hypocrisy." Pee' • tui -y, only five or six years off, would be- simism says that the influence of news- gin the raillennium, and Christ would papers is only bad, and that they are cor- reign, either in person on some throne set mitaing the world, when the fact is that up between. the Alleghenies and the Rocks • they are the mightiest agency for the ar- les, or in the institutions of mercy and Test of crime, and the spread. of intelli-• grandeur set up by his ransomed people. genes, and the printing press, secular and Discouraged work will meet witb, defeat. religious, is setting the nations free. The, rex" pectant and buoyant work will gain the whole tendency of things is toward °pejo. •eatery. Start out with the idea that all ism and. the gospel of Smashup. We ex- • men are liars and. scoundrels, and that cuse Da.vid of the text for a paroxysm of everybody is as bad as he can be, -and that disgust because he apologies for it to all society, and the churcb, and -the world are the oenturies, but it is a deplorable fact on the way to deraolition, and the only that many have taken the attitude of per use you will ever be to the world will be aetual distrust and anathematization. to increase the value of lots in a cemetery. There are, we must admit, deplorable We need a more cheerful front M all our facts, and we werad not hide or minify religious work. People have enough them- Wears not rauch encouraged to trouble already and do not want to ship efi tad that the great work of official reform another cargo of trouble in. the shape of in New York city begins by a .proposition ta the liquor dealers to break the law by religiosity. If religion has been to you a peace, a de- leeeping their saloons open on Sunday fence, an ipspiration and a joy, say so. Say from. two in the afternoon. to eleven at it by word of month, by pen in your right night. Never since America was discov- hand, by face illumined with a divine ered has there been a worse insult to so- •satisfaction. If this world is ever to be briety and decency and religion than that taken for God, it will not be by groans, proposition. but by hallelujahs. If we could' present That proposition is equal to saying: "Let the Christian religion as it really is in its law and order and religion have a chance true attractiveness, all the people would on Sunday forenoons, but Sunday after- accept it and accept it right away. The ficions open all the gates to gin and alcohol tiad Sehiedam schnappsand sour mash and Jersey lightning, and the variegated:swill of breweries and drunkenness and crime. Consecrate the first half of the Sunday to God and the last half to the devil. Let the children. on their way to Sunday schools in New York at three o'clock in the after- uoon meet the alcoholism that does more than all other causes combined to rob chil- , Christ in living example !" throbs the great heart of sympathy which eiren of their fathers and mothers and 1 As a system of didactics religion has feels for you. I announce him. I intro - :grew the land with helpless orpbanage." I never gained one inch of progress. As a duce him to you, Jesus of Bethlehem and Surely strong drink can kill enough peo- . technicality it befogs more than ie irradi. Olivet and Golgotha. Why contest thou ple and destroy enough families and suf. • ates. As a dogmatism ibis an awful fail- hither this vvinter day, thou of the spring- ficiently crowd the almshouses and peni- . ure. But as a faca as a re -enforcement, as time and summery heavens? He answers; tentiaries in six days of the week, without . a transfiguration, it is the mightiest thing To give all this audience pardon for guilt, giving it an extra half day for pauperism. • that ever descended from the heavens or condolence for grief, whole regiments of end assassination. , touched the earth. Exemplify it in the help for dy of battle and eternal life for Although we are not very jubilant over ' life of a good man or a good woman, and the dead! What response shall I give him? a municipal reform. that opens the exer no one can help but like it. A city mis.. In your behalf and in my own behalf I oises by a doxology to rum, we have full sionary visited a house in London and hail him with the ascription: "Unto him faith in God and in the gospel, which will found a sick and dying boy. There was who hath loved us and washed us from yet sink all iniquity as the Atlantic ocean ' an orange lying on his bed, and the mis- our sins in his own blood and hath made melts a flake of snow. What we want and sionary said, 'Where did you get that us kings and priests unto God and his Fa - What I believe we will have is a great re- ' orange?" He said: "A man brought it to ther-to him be glory and dominion tor- ligions awakening that wilt moralize and me. He comes here often and reads the ever and ever. Amen." Christianize our great populations and Bible 'to me and. prays with me and A 7ErtiN THE CH RIS'MAS. AIR. make them superior to temptations,wheth- brings me nice things to eat." "What Li • er unlawful or legalized- So I see no his name?" said the city missionary. "I rhey's a kind o' feel in the air, to me, :anise for disheartenment. Pessimism is a forget his name," said the sick boy, "but When the Chris'mas-time sets in, sin, and those who yield to it cripple them- he makes great speeches over in that great elves for the war on one side of which are building," pointing to the parliament rhat's about as much of a mystery all the farces of darkness, Ied on by Apoll- house of London. The missionary asked, As ever I run agant- e'er instance, now, whilat I gain in weight yon, and on the other side of wbich are . "Was his name Mr. Gladstone?" "Oh, ell the forces of light, led on by the Om- i yes " said the boy, "that is his name, Mr. And gineral health, I swear goneriess somers I can't quite eipotent. I risk the statement that the Gla:dstone." Do you tell me a man can'Thera a vast 'majority of people are doing the best see religion like that and not like it? I state - they can. Nine hundred and ninety-nine : • ' ' . A kind o' feel in the air. , There is an old fashioned mother in a ' ant of a, thousand of the officials of the , farmhouse. Perhaps she is somewhere in r hey's a feel in the Chris'mas air goes iffunicipal and the United States govern- • the seventies; perhaps seventy-five or sev- right ments are honest. Out of a thousand bank •gixeynno itis the early evening hour. To th spot where a raan lives at! presidents and cashiers, nine hundred and Through spectacles number eight she is Ct gives a feller a' appetite-- el/lens-nine are worthy the position they reading a newspaper until towarcibedtime, They ain't no doubt about that! necupy. Out of a thousand tnerchants, when she takes up a well worn book, call- and erit they's somepin'-I don't know ateahanics and professional men, nine , ed the Bible. I know from the illumin- hundred and ninety-nine are doing their ation in her face she is readinn one of the Thawt fhoaIrers me here and there, linty as they understand in Out of one thanksgiving psalms, or in Revelation the and haunts and worries and spares me ttionsand engineers and conductors and stcay of the twelve pearly gates. After not- evritchmen, nine hundred and ribeetyasine awhile she closes the book and. folds her A kind o' feel in the airl if e true to their reeponeible positions. It hands and thinks over the past arid seems rhey's a feel, as I say, in the air that's seldom that pimple Allies at positions of whispering the names of her children, teeponeibility Until they have been tested some of them on with and some of them jest Inver and over again. As blame -don sad as sweett- in heaven. Now a smile is on her face and If tbe theory' of the pessimist were ac- ziow a tear, and sometimes the smile catches In the SMOG re-sho as I feel the besb lituntei society would latig ego have gone the tear. The scenes of a long life come And am spryest on lip feet. Z h pieces, and civilization would have been back te her, One minute she sees all the ahey's allus a kind o' a sort of a' ache siebnienged with barbarian's, and the wbeel cliildret smiling around her, with their That I can't locate nowhere; But it comes With Chrisanas end no mife takel- A kind o' feel In the air, asettesta SAM OUTWITTED BMI Farmer Kendrick had brought in an arm- ful ef,enow-oovered loge from the woodpile at the -north end et the house, throweng them down cm the atone hearth with a noise like a small earthquake, when Carrie Brown started up, "Five o'clock I Oh, I had no idea. A WW1 so Iate 1 must be gong home." r"Alr me to accompany you, Bowril, " *retell let me see you home, punie " °Retain Logan and Fred Jones both epoke at once, but Carrie shook her head. "1 prefer to walk home alone," she !amid gayly. "About the eleighing party toonorrove night ? " asked Fred, anxiously, "I -I have promised Captain Logan," mud the village beauty, a rosy tint suffusipg her cheek. . But, Carrie, I thought it was settlea between you and me two weeks ago 1" ex- claimed Fred, with a trowel. "Was it ? I am sure I had forgotten it' Fred was silent. Captain Logan's smooth, eoit-toned yoke broke the silence. • "'exact no promises," he said, gallantly, "but if I am not punctual to the hour and the spot Miss Brown may draw her own conclusione." And Carrie went home. She was very pretty, this bright-eyed New England dameel. Fred Jones had loved her ever since they were children together, and Captain Logan, who had come down to spend the Christmas holidays with his cousins, the tendricks, had become so fond of those bright blue eyes and golden hair that he had prolonged his visit into January. seen • " ' Pon my word, she's a regular beauty," said the captain, staring through the tiny window panes at the „eetreating figure of Mee Biliwn. . • Fred Jones looked quickly up at him, as if he would have liked to knock him over into the fireplace, but he refrained from any such demonstration. "A beauty," went on the captain, "and it's a thousand pities she should be wasted on any of the country bumpkins who vegetate among these wildernesses. Sam, you young villain, are those boots of mine blacked yet?" ofFen aeard him speak the name of God, but never in prayer, only in profanity. It was the saddest thine. on earth that I can think of -a destroyed home! Walking along the street one day, an impersonation of all wetchedness he saw a sign at the door of a Young den's Christian Associan tion, "lVfeeting for Men Only." He went in, hardly knowing why he did so, and sat down by the door, and a young man was in broken voice and poor grammar telling how the Lord had saved him from a dissi- pated life, and the man back. by the door said. to hiraself, " why cannot I have the Lord do the same thing for me?" and he put his hands, all a -tremble, over his bloat- ed face and said: "0 God, I want that! I must have that!" and God said, "You shall .have it, and you have it nowl" And the man came out and went home a changed man, and though the children at first shrunk back and looked. at the mother and began to cry with fright they soon saw that the father was a changed man. That home has turned from "Paradise Lost" to "Paradise Regained." I want to invite you up into heights of safety and satisfaction and holiness, as much higher than those which the world affords as Everest, the highest mountain In all the earth, is higher than your front doorstep. Here he comes now. Who is it? I might cities, the nations would cry out: "Give be alarmed and afraid if I had not seen us that! Give it to us in all itsholymagne- him before and heard his voice. I thought tism and gracious power! Put that ealve he would come before I got through with ou our wounds I Throw back the shut- this sermon. Stand back and. make way ters for that morning light Knock off for him. He comes with scars all around thees chains with that silver hammer his forehead; scars M the center of both Give us Christ -his pardon, his peace, his hands stretched out to greet you; scars on corafort, his heaven I Give us Christ in the instep of both the feet with which he song, Christ in sermon, Christ in book, advances; scars on the breast under which bt the centuties would have tuned back toys and sports end fitrange questionings. to the darla ages, wrong imPression is Then she remembere several of them down made tbat headsets two men falsify their siek with infattile disorders. Then elle bank accounts theta' twce wrongdoers are Bees a short grave, but over it out in mar- blazeted before the world, while nothing be, "Suffer them to come to me." Theta Is maid in praise of the hundreas of bank there is the wedding hour, and the neigh- ' elitrkit who have stood at their desks year boas in, and the promise of "1 will," arid In and year ont until their health is well the departure from tbe old horeestead, sigh gone, taking tioh.' a 11114)0Wath °f that Then a scene of hard timet and }leant which belongs to others fax themselves, bread and struggle, Then she thinks of a though with skilful stroke of pen they few years with gush of sunshine arid flit - might have entiched themselves and built tinge of (leek shadows and vicissitudes. tbeir country seats et the banks of the Then she kneels clown slOW1Y1 ot. many latidaell or the Ithirie. It le a mea ri thing year e have stiffened the joint, and elle human nature that men arid women are moassee of a lifetime have made her Inn tpraised for doing well, but only exce. when they do wreng. By divine ut tile most of the families of are at peace, and the Most 6f 6 sited int Marriage hale for eaoh afteetion. They mat3r dittereneee and here arid Supple. Her prayer is a rebstnte of thanks 'tot grttco dating all those years, arid thanke f� t ehilaree good Mid Chrietlan and kied, afid praYer for the 'wandering bey, whom elte hopes to see dome hem° before her departure, .a.nci then, her trembling lipo Speak. of the laud Is it the racket the children raise/ not. -God bless sem-not 't the eyes and the eheeks ablaze-' Like my own was long ago? - Is it the bleat o' the whistle and beat 0' the little toy -drum and blare D" the horn -Not not -It's jest the sweefaka The sad sweet feel in the air. -jamas Whitcomb Riley in the Cosito., politan. . - Eleestoge'ef Oue of the Elements, Teacher -Yon may tell us, Touirty,some of the ways in whieh the element of fire eonfers beneffi on the human race. Tommy (who knoll; something a hie fathers business inethods)- en the amount el the insurance exceede t e value of tha draw* oil hand a -Chicago Reco dint ligbt? which name throngb a 00bWeh draped window at eieher end of the learn ()ham ber, " Don't hurry yourself, caren," rejoined Sam, in ajeeriegtone. e As the captain_plunged iuto a dark corner there wee a jingle, and the string of bells, euspended frent a nail, hit him, direotly on the neek, eo like the grasp of death cold fingers that he could but etart, "Oh I" Rant the (Agenda, nervouely, "Here they are. Catell 'era SamHello 1 • Whistea the trap door?" And it took the worthy captain fully sixty setionds more to reeliee that the trap door was elosed and faeteoed on the lower aide. He rushed to the window and threw it up, only to see Sam speeding up the hill, " lial-lo-o-a 1" yelled Captain Logan. " Como beak, you scoundrel -you ilbcon- ditioned lout --you inap of evil. ' Sans turned around and exeauted that peculiar gyration of the fingers in connea, tion with the nasal organ which is sapposed THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEB. 10 nOliellse and the Children" Katt. fa. 1-14 Golden Wean elect 18.14, cieetzinte. ariereemae. Once more, and for elle lieee time,Jesue le ab Capernaamaind under the roof of Peter's ho,use enot no ve sarrouncled by the multi- tede, but followed by the twelve only'. So little haVe the twelee understood their Master's utterances aoneerning the cress and the tomb that they have beendisputing over the offices and honors to be enjoyed in his kingdom. To show them how unwnithy is their epiris, he calls a little child and sets him in the midst, and declares that unless to express the extrernity of scorn. their natures are ohanged into the simplic- " You'll find the ladder on the barn floor, ity and neethableness and trust of little teepee," hooted the young rebel, "an' don't children they caunot possees citizenship in his kingdom, not to speak of high position. He warne them not to look lightly upon even the least of his followers, not to stand in the way of their salvation, or to, cause them to stumble ; for so doing they are blasting the prospects of a BOW, and would be held to a mighty responsibility before the throne of God. He declares that ties as strong as the right hand, friendships as dear as the right eye, were to be be afraid of the ghost ; it's very harmless if you let it alone. But, Barn, Sam, come beak I'm to be at Mr. Brown's at half -past 7 o'clock," " Don't worry I" bawled Sam 4' Miss Carrie won't wait long before Mr. Fredal be on hand." The oaptain danced up and down on the floor in an matey of rage, as Sam, disappeared over the tweet of the hill, He knew very well if he possessed the lungs of Boreas he oould make no one hear. He sat shivering down on the hay, starting nervously at the sound of horses feet below, and thinking how disagreeable a bar of moonlight which streamed down from a crack M the roof resembled a tall white figure standing under the aentte beam. He could almost fancy the repo around his neck. Psheav .A,nd the oap- tain jumped up again, with starting dew on his temples, even in the freezing wanes- phere of the barn chamber, "What is to be donee" he asked himself An echo, if echo has any common senee, would have answered: "Just nothing at all 1" Sam had outwitted him. And pretty Carrie and Fred Jonee, with his red cutter and a great chestnut horse 1 The captain was wild at the thought; surely he wee vanquished. " "lama% watt anotner moment for him," said Carrie Brown, coloring up, with tears in her blue eyes. "Go on, girls, I ehall spend the evening at home." "There is plenty of room for you in our sleigheCarrie, ' coaxed her brother. "Bessie Andrews will be glad to have you along." "No, she won't, either," pouted Carrie. "As if I would spoil all her fun ! No, if I can't have an escort of my own rii stay at home and mend stookiogs, and I never will speak to Captain Logan again." Charlie Brown was on the point of argu- ing the matter with his sister, when the door opened and in walked Fred Jones. "Not gone yet, Carrie? Where is the captain 1" "I don't know," said Carrie tartly, "and I don't care, Am I Captain Logan's keep- er ?" "Will you go with me ?" e "Yea, I will," eaid Carrie, her eyes light- ing and shy smiles dimpling hef face. "Of course," said Fred, "I can't expect to make myself as agreeable as the city captain, but --" "The captain 1 The captain 1" cried Carrie, a little irritably. " rm sick of the sound of his name. I never want to see him again. What a nice uew cutter this is,and how easy the wolf robes are 1' "Carrie," whispered. Fred, as he touched up the horse and felt her nestling close to him, "is it for always ?" "Yes, always," she answered. * * * "Jerusalem!" said Farmer Kendrick. It was past 10 o'clock at night, and the old gentleman had come out as usual before retiring to rest to see that the dumb mem- bers of his family were all straight and comfortable. "1 do believe that's old John Kendrick's ghost COMe to life again, poundin' like all possessed on the barn chamber floor 1" "It's name 1 It's m-ee 1" bawled the captain. "Unfasten the 'trap door and let me out!" Slowly the farmer lifted the ladder to its place. With rheumatio awkwardness he climbed the creaking rounds and undid the hook from its clasp.- " How in all creation came you here ?" he demanded. "Why, I thought you were out a-sleighriding with the gals," "15 was all the doings of that villain, Sam !" gasped the infariated captain, his teeth chattering with mingled rage and cold. "1 won't stand this sort of thing. I'll leave the place to -morrow." ' As you please," said the farmer, to whom the prospect of losing his guest was not unpleasant. "I'm dreadful sorry this should have happened, though. I'll talk seriously to Sam." "So will 1," gnashed the captain. " I'll break every hone in his body." But Sam bad taken particular care to go over to his grandmother's, six miles across the snow fields, to spend the night, and the ouly personahe captain sew was old Mrs. Kendrick sitting by the kitchen fire. " You've lost your chance, captain," she said, good humoredly. "Dorcas Smith has just gone by on her way home from the sleighing party, and she says Fred Jones brought Carrie Brown in his new cutter, and they're engaged." The eaptain left the next day and Mrs. Fred Jones haft never seen him since. And when the affair came off Sam got a piece of wedding (take big enough to give him dys- pepsia for a week. "No, they ain't," said Sam, crossly. "Well, what's the reason ?" "Cause I ain't had time." "See you find them then, quickleattoo," said the captain. A.nd Sam glowerea after him as he went gayly up the stairs. "Just wish. I had the firin' of him out," said the boy, gloomily. "It's 'Sam, do this,' and Sem, do that,' and 'Barn where's She warm water?' and Sam, what the deuce do you mean by letting my fire go out?' and not a cent has he guy me yet -no, nor so much as a pleasant word. I wonder if he means to stay hare always" "You and I are about equal in our love for him Sam," said Fred Jones, laughing. "I heered him talkin' to Mies Carrie about goal' sleigh ridin' to -morrow night," said Barn, shrewdly. "I'd es' like to pub 'Kicking Tom' in the shafts? I would if it weren't for Miss Carrie. He don't know nothin' about horses, that there militia cap'n don't." And Sam chuckled. "I say , Mr. Jones, why don't you get beforehand with him? Miss Gerrie don't really oars for him, she's only dazzled like. Fred Jones frowned slightly; holiest Bern was not exactly the kind of Ganymede he cared to have meddle with his love affairs. "Miss Brown must choose for herself, Sam," he said, and Sam went back to his work, secretly wondering how a young lady, gifted with ordinary sense, could hesitate for a moment between the captain and Fred Jones, The nightcame-a perfectnightfor stet gh- ing expeditions and rustics love -making, the roads hard and well packed, and a glorious M0011 shining down whitely, as if a rain of silver were deluging the whole world. "Couldn't be better weather," said the captain. "Sam, where are the sleigh bells?" "Dunne," said Sam. "There's them old jinglers in the garret thee used to belong to Deacon John Kendrick, that was in the revolutionary war, and there is the two cowbells that Mary Jane mighe scour up w i t‘h ahaahwas1— "Ps " satd the captain. ."Do you teke me tor Rip Van Winkle? There a pretty little string somewhere, for I saw them when Mrs. Kendrick Went out day before yesterday." "I hain't see nothin' on 'em," said Sam sto.lcidolmy.;, come, Sam, don't make yourself out any stupider than you are by nature," said. the farmer, laughiug nevertheless, for the captain's airs were fast wearing out his welcome, and he secretly sympathized with She much -abused Sian. "I guess they're opt in the barn. You had better go with him, captain, if you expect to find 'em. Our Sam Is dreadful thick: headed when he ohooses to be." "Come along, my Axle fellow," said the captain, collaring Sam and metalling him off in the direction of the old red barn. "We don't need any lantera in this moon- light, that is one comfort." "Where are the stairs?" dernanded the captain, as they entered the barn. "Ain't none," toed Sam. "It's a lad- der." "alp with you, then," gad Logan, but Sam shrunk back. "I wouldn't not for $50," +Aid Sena "Old Sohn Kendrick hauged himself from the middle beam fourteen years ago, and &Ike say he stand up there with nt rope around his neck every moonlight night.' " Stuffend notisentie I" oried the captain, in accehte of tottempt. " You &merrily lout, stay where you are, then, and go my Bella' epreng lightly up the rounds of the ladder and disappeared through the trap. Where is it?" he called. " The ghost? Bight udder the middle beam by the windy was the Wade where "Bleokhead 1 1 mean the string of belle." , "Look for 'etn. yourEself Fetid Sete, sulkily. "I cloth xneet*lige they'T ettel, what's MOTE, I don't °ere.' "I'll settle with you, my fine fellow when I come doWn," tatid the oaptafrso! threatenifiglya as he groped about in tlid renounced if they should beam:he hindrances of their salvation. He depicted to them the Son of man as the goodShepherd walk- ing over the mountains to find the lost lamb from his fold, and rejoicing over it more than over the ninety andnine which went not astray. And if the master would do so much to save a perishing soul, should not we give our endeavors to aid that soul in the way of rielateonsness ? EXPLANATORY AND PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 1. At the same time. Not long after the tranefiguration, when Jesus and the disoiples were again in Galilee at Cappenaum. Came the disciples. From Mark 9, 33, it would appear that a dispute had previously arisen among the disciples, and inlet Jesus drew them by inquiries con- cerning it to ask this question; Who is the greatest? •Nob "what character is the best ?" but "which of usshall be the high- est ?" We see how hard it was for the disciples to accept the spiritual views of their Master's mission which he was ever urging upon them. The kingdom of •heaven. Their conception was of an earth- ly throne, on which Jesus should sit as supreme ruler over all the lands, and around which they should stand in the offices of state. • 2. And Jesus called, Following his custom of preaching by illustration, and preaching to the eyes as well as to the ears. A little child. It would be interesting to know who this child was that enjoyed the honor of being held up as an example before the disciples. Different traditions, but without authority, relate that it was Ignatius or 'rename, both afterward distin- guished bishops. It may have been Peter's child, ,as this took place, probably, in Peter's house. As Jesus called him he was old enough to walk. (1) Every child may hear the voice of Jesus, Set him in the midst. By taking him into his own arms (Mark 9. 36). 3. Verily. The word is given to indicate that what follows is worthy of special hearing and heedingg. Except ye be con- verted. Revised Version, "Except ye turn." The word "converted" in the New Testament almost invariably refers to man's act of turning from sin ; though in our aommon speech we are apt to use ie with refeeence to the divine work of transforma- tion wrought by the Spirit. The Saviour meant that his followers must turn from the worldly ambition which possessed their hearts. Beoome as little children. Not that fully grown men and women are to imitate all the traits of childhood -its playfulness, ignorance and impulsivenees-but thatsome traits of childhood should be sought in the Christian character, as its humility, its teachableness, its whole-heartedeess, and its trustfulness. (2.) We may be childlike ' without being childish. sre shall not enter. Before asking for the highest place they would need to inquire -whether they were fit for any place in the kingdom of Christ. (3.) He who woad mount high in Christ must be willing to sink out of Self. 4. Humble himself -as this little child. A little child hes a dependence upon its parents which is touching. He feels safe in the darkness if he can hold his father's band. He has no happiness apart from his mother's presence. He has no anxiety about food or clothing or shelter ; he leaves all care with those who care for him. He has no thought of honors or crowns for all his thoughts are bound up in the home. So let the disoiple leave all with God and lean hard on his Master. That is the humility whieh Christ honors. 5. Whose shall receive. Welcome to his home, ta,ke up to his heart in fellowship, and aid by his service as a brother in Christ. One such little ohild. To be taken literally, of little children, in whom every disciple of Christ should feel an interest ; and also as referring to the lowly, poor, and weak among the followers of the Saviour. In my name. That is, fulfilling a service to a child, not because of its attractiveness or its relation to ourselvere but because it is a soul which Christ has purchased. Receiveth me. The service to one who belongs to Christ is rewarded as a service to Christ himself. (4) Thus does every deed reach up from earth to heaven. (5) Let us love every soul that the Son of God loves. 6, Wh080 shall offend. Revised Ver- sion, " Whoso shall cause one of these little ones which believe on me to stumble." This does not mem, " wounding the feel - our definition of "offending ;" but misleading, causing to do wrong in thought or action. We are not responsible if others misunderstand ma but we are if °there' are wantonly misled by no as when a father's example teaches a son jodierilt or to swear; or velum a young men leads a younger eue into evil courses. 'letter for hina. Re- vised Version, " it is profitable for him," Millstone were hanged, Literally, "a millstone butxted by ati as,' meahlfig heavy millstone, as distind from that turned by women. That is it is better fet is man to lose his life than- for him to eAUSO another to lose hie emit ; for one lose id for the prosett, while the other is etetnal. (6) Think of the povrer for evil it a had book or a wicked example;and think, too, how it must all be accounted for. ' 7. Woe - because of offenses. Revised Version, "ocioneida Q stembilog." A vast aniount of the world's sin and misery,ponies because of evil et ample and influence. It most needs be. The "heeds be" Is not in God's will last in the feet of sinful .hUMail nature. As twig as there is ein there mud be misleading forces among men. Wee to tiled man. There sat one man aMotIg tire twaeriniangWtolus hoiVtg,bu h• tw il e iise l lhaIualy have taken ee able 50 al vvrongdoere as wall as to Judae. (7) We are judged for out influeoce as well as89.ll oaraeta'and or . foot. Soo Matt. 6, 28-30, where the opine thought is preeent- ed. The hand mud footareueoossarY orga000 having their innocent uses; but even those ittecent toes must he renounced if they will lead into sin. "Whatever tempts the ins dividnal or the community' alto sinful yourees, even though it be not only in itself innocent, but in its right employineut importaut, is tO be put away until it *naafis to be a source of temptation." -Abbott. Cat them off. As wben one leaves a profit, able business because of its temptations to cheraoter, and submit to poverty, Into life halt. It is notpossibletobe Mat °maim- ed in the life eternea but it is poesible to renounce a complete, succeesfal life held Lor the oak° of one hereafter. Everlasting fire. A eymbol of those fearful realities of suffering which our nature cannot aompre. 10. Despise not one of these little ones. No soul worthy of salvation is unworthy qf regard. In heaven their angels. Probably pointing to the face that there are guardian angels who watch over mere ao intimated , in Psalm 34, 7;91. II; Ileb. 1.14. 11, The Son of man. This verse is omitted in the_Reaised Version. If genuine here it means that, as MOO oatne to save the perishing souls of men, his disciples should not despise them, but eeek them out and atrive to win them. 11. A hundred sheep. Theee represent the Soul saved and in the Church of Christ. One of them be gone. The sinner who is perishing, or the weak disciple who has strayed into sin. Goeth into the mountains. So Christ, the good Shepherd, came from, hie heavenly fold to find the sinners in this earth, the wandering star. (8) If our Saviour seeks the lost, shall not we? 13. Rejoioeth more. Not that in his heart he cares more, but that he gives greater rejoicing; juat as God's people when a sin- ner is converted. The lesson of the parable is that we should care for, seek for, and reclaim wanderers, and notlead astray even the weakest. 14. Not the will. If any soul is lost A will not be because God willed it, bottahot- - withstanding God's will, and •b-.? As own voiee. HEAVY BURDENS ON THEIR HEADS. Some Statistics About the Weights Borne by Italian Women. The only women who have a truly regal pose are the Italien wornen whom financial stringency forces to carry great loads of wood from buildings in the process of ereo- tion or enormous heaps of &ebbing from the sweaters says, a New York paper. As the human arm is not long enough to clasp the bundles they have. to carry they have learn- ed to utilize their head' for the weft, and have thus ,acquired a carriage w.hrdle no other class of women possesees. For one cannot balance twelve pounds of unsewed waistcoat upon the apex of the body unless the body is in bsolute equilibrium, the neck and ehoulders,the Waist, hips a all in their correct positions. It is an art not to he acquired in a day, this of balancing weighte upon the head The Japanese Soldier's Diary. It appears that note -books are quite common in the Japanese Army among both eoldiers and 000lies ; they keep regular diarien aud tette copious notes" of every- thing they gen "It is eurprising," evritee a war correspondent, " what a lot they know about the greet Welt. Several of them talk intelligently of Spertens and, Persians, Napoleon and his march to Mos- cow, and even otormare the abolition of feudalism in England and Japan. They fully understand all bleat is implied in the contrast between old-fashioned hand -bo lurid warfare and modern long,range manceuvres ; and they speak scornfully of the Chineee tactics at Pingyang, in tryin ; °rivalry charges against massed bodies or riflemen without first using their inaohine. guns, as the French at Waterloo did their field -pieces, to throw the ranks into dis. order. All this from the Japanese must be surprising to Europeans, because we ae nob ktiow them. Their prbgeess is greeter and more real that foreigners imagine," The Nell/ Woman; Boy -'."Who is thet lady ?" ° lefetbersa"She it the heaa of the 'Neer an' movemeht." lloy-'48he doesn't look very new, 4 TILE ATTRACTIYE TYPE --RARELY SEEN, Consequently the tenement -house mother begin early to train their children in the way they have to go. The six year-old child is sent to the building for suoh steaks as she can collect. She does not carry then back in her arms. but piled upon her head. It may be a very light load -so light; iv,Ita that one wonders why it is not blown o but the little maid scorns to bear it et ler than. as her mother would do. The sticks are laid upon her head her arms aro held 05 one of the lightly poised sticks to fall. acquired the principle her only advence family 'ecutcheon if an unsteady walk °SUS. That i8 her fin b Imam Aftershe has once akimbo and her hands are placed jauntily on her hips. She feels, it a bolt oft the consists in the increased weight of tle load ehe carries until finally she grad) ates with all the honors and at sixteenase so is able to lif t as heavy a iota as her mo- thero. Ad.ording to a doctor, the Weight of tkie toed increases from three to four poundnin early ohildhood to about sixty in vigorous youth end middle age. On gent (Amish:ma When kiudheartea builders allow the eartyiag away of old hunber hi Argo quan- tities, the women frequently stagger along under eighty or ninety youndo bf flreevcrbd. Of eoutse tite heavy weights are nO5 health' giving, The top of the head, though it May be hard and tough„ A not adapted to bearing the burdens of a camel. The ins tense -heat generaiad by heavy loade Of WOolleg gooffi 56 be mede up for the tailors is eetremely unheeldiy. The shape -of the headsebntlcebly 6:erdal°:dina:1;lng)uil8eatly :oug1inhto etth; ha:floYg rhlth fiermal type. Toot the benefit of those young *eine who woad like to obtain, the good read of ouch eirereise, 'Without its tell Mime t dootor recommends Walking With ah6 tete pOutids res ng Upon the head. T weight should bn in such A she that will fail Off anise ha hood ie herd care