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
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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