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THE OHISIS.
“The crisis presses on us ; face to face with us
it stands, . „ . .
With solemn lips of question,like thebpmnx in
Egypt’s sands! ......
This day w« fashion Destiny, our web of fate
we Bpin; . .
This day for all hereafter choose we holiness or
E ven now from starry G erizim.or Ebal’s cloudy
crown,
We call the dews of blessings, or the bolts of
cursing down!
“ By all for which the martyrs bore their agony
and shame ;
By all the warning words of truth with which
the prophets came;
By the future which awaits us; by all the
hopes which cast
Their faint and trombling beams across the
blackness of the past,
And in the awful name of Him who for earth’s
freedom died;
O ye people, O my brothers !; let us choose the
righteous Bide!
“ So shall the Northern pioneer go joyfully on
his way,
To wed Penobscot’s wators to San Francisco s
bay ;
To make the rugged places smooth, and sow
the vales with grain,
And bear, with Liberty and Law, the Bible in
his train ;
The mighty W est shall bless the East, and sea
shall answer sea,
And mountain unto mountain call: Praise
God, tor we are free !”
Whittier.
THE dOHTMTED FISHES.
It was a bright, warm, sunny day, and
the wind blew freshly from the river.
Not far from its shores stood a large,
■well-furnished' house, that looked as
though its inmates enjoyed every com
fort that human beings could ask, as
well as many a luxury. In one elegant
room was a side-table, on which stood a
glass globe, quite hollow, and filled with
pure, fresh water, in which were swim
ming two little fishes.
A little rosy-cheeked, golden-curled
boy, to whom they belonged, declared
that they were sisters, and that their
names were Mit and Kit. He thought
that their names were so much alike be
cause they themselves were, the only
difference being that one wore scales of
‘gold, and the other of silver, so that one
was fair as a lily, and the other bright
as a rose.
The great object of their little master
was to catch them asleep ; but often and
often as he had crept into the room
for that purpose, he had never yet suc
ceeded. Their fins and tails were always
moving back and forth, their eyes were ,
always wide open, and their little mouths j
always opening and shutting. If they j
never seemed to sleep, neither did they
to eat, and for the best of reasons—they
had no food. Day in and day out, for
breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper,
DQthing was there for them but the pure,
fresh water, which the ; housemaid care
fully changed every day; and yet food
or' fl<s food, there were their little mouths
always opening and shutting about some
. thing. At last little Franz thought he
had discovered the reason—they were
talking to each other!
No sooner did Franz make, as he
thought, this discovery, than he became
extremely anxious to hear and under
stand what they said. He was so much
fexciicd about it that he could neither !
talk nor think of anything else; but not
a Bound could ho hear, nor if he had, not
a w.ord could he have understood. His
: only 1 cbmfort waß the hope that when
Gottfried, his brother, came home from
the ’high-school tho pext vacation, he
would a ble to understand and trans
late their conversation for him. Gott
fried was, he knew, very wise—the
- wisest hoy, he thought, that any one had;
oyer heard of, for he read so much, said
to their father, so many things that he,
poor, ignorant little boy as he was, could
hot even guess the meaning of. Besides,
this wise brother had so often told him
what the little birds and insects were
• singing and chirping about, that he must
be able to understand the fish-language
equally as well;-? ,
Fortunately for Franz, the vacation at
the high-school was soon coming, and
With it, in all due time, came Gottfred.
Very kind he was to the little brother,
tali'and wise as ho was, and when he
found how his heart was set upon it, he
promised to go into the large room, as
Soon as he had finished writing some
letters about which he was in haste, and
tell him just what the fishes, as far as
he could understand, were saying. There:
was but one condition to this promise—
Franz must not interrupt him until he
Was done. Franz readily agreed to this,
and stood like a little statue at his
brother’s side, almost bursting with
anxiety to say just one word, but never
uttering a sound for all, until I don’t
know how many pages of paper had been
Written over from top to bottom,
But at last Gottfried's labor came to
attend, and praising him for an excellent,
Well behaved little boy, Be took him by
the hand, led him to the table beside the
globe of fishes, and sitting down in a
chair, took him on his lap, and prepared
to listen. Franz’s eyes grew very large
as the minutes went by, and he satlook
ing foom the fishes to Gottfried, and from
Gottfried hack to tho fishes. At last
Gottfried smiled with a look of great
pleasure, as he exclaimed: 44 That’s it,
Franchen! Now I can tell you all about
ifc : J>id-you not see how attentively I
v was listening?”
“What have they been saying, Gott
fried?” asked Franz, trembling with
eagerness.
“Well,” said Gottfried, “Mit began
first. I find she is the eldest. 4 Kit,’
said slic, 4 I’ve been thinking,’ and then
she stopped.”
“ ‘ Indeed, have you ? It is not un
likely !’ the other one replied merrily.
44 ‘ There’s nothing strange in that.
But thinking about what, pray ? Tell me
that, Mit.’
44 4 Why, I was thinking what a nice
and pretty home we had here in this
globe. I like it a good deal better than
living in a brook or a pond.’
“ ‘ Well,’ said Kit, as if she were think
ing about it, 4 1 myself am very, very
glad that I am a gold-fish instead of a
minnow or a herring, there are so many
of them.’
44 ‘The best of it is, too,’ said Mit,
‘ that we did not get here of ourselves ;
we were put here.’
44 4 Yes, dear Mit, and what a pleasure
it is to have everything so bright and
rich and handsome about us. I can see
so plainly out into the room where our
dear, kind little master lives, that I think
sometimes I can swim out to him, and
then the first thing I know, I hit my nose
against the glass.’
44 4 To be sure, Kit,’ said Mit. ‘l’ve
made that mistake myself more than
once. I know it would make that kind
little Master Franz of ours so happy if
we could swim out to him and let him
stroke our backs, that I’ve tried to do it
oiten and often. But somehow, when a
hand comes over the top of the globe to
dip down and stroke us, the water makes
it look so big that.it frightens me half
to death. - If I could only get over that
fear, I would let him put his little hand
in and stroke me to his heart content;
hut I can’t. However^through the glass
we can see the pictures on the walls, and
the flowers in the vases, and the pretty
things here on the table, all the same.’
“ 4 Yes, Mit, and though it is rather
rough handling when Mary, the house
maid, tumbles us into the net to change
the water, it feels so much fresher and
cooler afterwards, that it makes up.’
“ 4 Very true, Kit,’ said Mit, * and we
must not complain if we do turn a little
faintish sometimes when the nooh-day
sun shines in so hot upon us, after we
have enjoyed its pleasant beams in the
early morning. Perhaps, if our dear
little master knew it, he would not leave
us there so long; hut he don’t think, I
suppose.’”
wl will think, though, Gottfried,”
whispered Franz earnestly.
Gottfried nodded, smiled kindly, and
went on: 44 4 1 should think not, indeed,
Mit,’ answered Kit, 4 it would be very
ungrateful. To bb sure,'it may make us
feel a little drowsy, too ; but our dear,
good little master shall never catch us
sleeping! We are very happy little
fishes.’ Justthen,” continued Gottfried,
“ she gave one of those little jumps, you
know, that are so apt to startle one who
happens to be nervous or to be nodding;
did you not observe her?”
44 Oh ! she does that so often,” replied
Franz, “that I hardly think of noticing
it, though I dare say I must have seen
her do it. But lam so much obliged to
you, dear Gottfried, for telling me their
conversation. I wish I could understand
fish-language myself.”-
“ I think,” said Gottfried, 44 that the
most beautiful thing about Mit and Kit
is theirperfect contentment. They seem
to enjoy heartily all the pleasures they
have, without a single wish for anything
that has been denied them. ”
Franz looked at him as if fie thought
his observation had some peculiar mean
ing, and perhaps the expression on Gott
fried’s face helped him to understand
what that meaning was, for he said very
gently : “I, too, will try to be contented
to do only what the dear God gives me
the power to do.”
Gottfried kissed him with a smile, and
took him out into the garden; hut the
little fishes went on sailing round and
round in their little bright globe, speak
ing in sweet whispers, and yet preserv
ing a wise silence, but to this day, if
they are still there, never sleeping. —
Christian Times.
A PUZZLED DABKEY.
The American Agriculturist tells a
very good story of the mysterious adven
tures of a leg of mutton, on its way as a
present from the deacon to the minister.
We can match it with another of Virginia
origin—not new by any means, although
we do not know when or where we have
seen it in print.
A Hhernl, Virginian, whose Pastor did
something in the. agricultural line, sent
hied a fine young pig out of a litter of
choice stock. The bearer of the present
was an unsophisticated negro boy, and the
distance to the minister’s some miles.
Piggy, much to his indignation of course,
was tumbled into a hag for safe trans
port. The boy on his way had to pass
a “corner,” the country term for a
place where a store, generally liquor
selling, a shop or two, and twice as
many houses are gathered. There a
company of loafers, after inquiring about,
his burden and its distination, seduced 1
him inside, and while he was there, re
lieved his bag, which had been left in the
road, of the pig, substituting a puppy in
its place.
With this last load, he then trudged
on to the minister’s, accosting him, as he
had been instructed, with, “ Please Sir,
I am Judge ’e hoy, and my master
! has sent you a pig.” The clergyman
untied the bag and shook out its contents."
■ His surprise could not begin to come up
i with the bewilderment of the boy, to
whom the transformation suggested very
i superstitious scruples respecting the
’ character of his burden, involving doubt
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1864.
respecting its fitness for Christian shoul
ders. In fact it required sharp author
ity from the minister to induce him to
re-shoulder it and return with the mes
sage that there was some mistake in the
affair.
Arrived at the 44 corner,” he was of
course inquired of respecting the recep
tion of his present, and very serious as
tonishment was expressed at hearing his
tale respecting the mysterious transform
ation. It was not, however, difficult to
get him once more to lay down his load
and come in, and while he was. out of
sight, to make the re-exchange of pig for
puppy. Thus ignorantly re-freighted
with the original intended present, he
returned to his master; and in reply to
the not very gentle demand where he
had been, and why his load was brought
back, he stammered out an incoherent
explanation, which was at length under
stood to mean that the pig was not a
pig at all, but a puppy, or perhaps some
thing worse in the shape ‘of the" last
mentioned quadruped. The master im
patiently seized the bag, untied the string,
and shook out before the now thorough
frightened boy— the pig. Scratching his
pate, and rallying his best wits in self
defence, he said, “I tell'e what, massa,
him can be a pig or a puppy just as him
please. ,,
The explanation was doubtless the
most available one at hand ; and it was
one which might not be inappropriate to
the facility with which some of the hu
mans change character and almost nature
in more important characteristics than
those which separate the pig from the
puppy—especially when in politics, or
in the more solemn matter of religious
faith, times arise when it costs something
for men to come out as they started.
From a very satisfactory account of
the history, character and missionary
enterprise of this interesting and ever
faithful people contained in the last
number of the Christian World, we take
the following particulars:
WaldenseE—-Vallenses—Yaudois—
Yaldesi, applied to them at different
times by various authorities, are evi
dently derived from the valleys, their
original home 44 from time ou£ of mind,
and before the • dukes of Savoy be
came princes of Piedmont,” they
were “men of the valleys.” Much
learning has been employed to prove
that they were of more recent origin,
and named after Peter Waldo, &c., &c.,
to save some Roman Catholic interests;
but we believe the above is the conclu
sion satisfactorily established by the
most recent and extensive historical
investigations.
We speak of them not ethnologically,
but religiously; for not their blood but
their religious faith and practice are
the distinguishing characteristics of the
Waldensians. The testimony which
they give of themselves is, that their
fathers occupying those same: valleys
held the same, faith from the dayd; of
the apostles. In a petition presented 1
1559, to the persecuting PhiiibertEman
uel, duke of Savoy and prince of Pied
mont, they use these words: “We like
wise beseech your royal highness to
consider, that this, religion which we
profess is not only ours, nor hath it been
invented by men of late years, as is
falsely reported; but it was the religion
of our fathers, and grandfathers, and
great-granfathers, and other yet. more
ancient predecessors of ours, and of the
blessed martyrs, confessors, prophets
and apostles, and if any can prov<e the
contrary we are ready to subscribe and
yield thereto.” It is remarkable that
in all the replies of their persecuting
princes to such addresses,—replies dic
tated doubtless by the most' learned
priests,—the above pretensions are al
ways passed over in silenoe; no attempt
made to prove them apostates from the
Romish Church. If their claims to an
tiquity could have been denied with
decent plausibility, it would have been
done by these princeß to justify their
cruelties. Voltaire says: “Auricular
confession was not received in the Alps,
in the eighth and ninth centuries, of
this Alouin complains in his letters.
The people of those districts seem ever
to have had a disposition to adhere to
the usages of the primitive church. * *
It is a thing remarkable enough that
these men, almost unknown to the rest
of the world, should have constantly
persevered, from time immemorial, in
usages which have been changed every
where else." That Peter Waldo, the
rich merchant of Lyons, was not their
founder, as the Romanists pretend, is
proved by their writings still extant.
These date back far beyond the birth of
Peter Waldo, and show them then to
have been an organized Christian peo
ple.
WHO FIRST PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO
THEM?
This, history does not reveal? But it
is probable that the early missionaries
going out from Rome soon after the
time of Paul penetrated these moun
tains ; for the road from ltaly to France
and Spain passed 1 that-‘Way- If Paul,
ever made his proposed jobrney into'
Spain (Rom. 15: 28) he probably trav
eled that road, and not ; unlikely was
the first Christian preacher to these
“ men of the valleys.”
IMPORTANCE OF THESE VAX-LEVS TO THE
These valleys were the rallying point
for the various classes ip the surround
ing countries who held the evangelical
doctrines. In the valley of the Po,
Rome-was resisted till tne tenth cen
tury. and her images extended even
from Turin, —and in France and Spam
numerous Bible Christians existed still
longer. When Papal persecutions on
THE WALDENSES.
THEIR NAME.
THEIR ORIGIN.
the east side in tne 10th and 11th, and
on the west in the 12th an’d 13th cen
turies, denied the rights of conscience
to the true worshipers and poured out
their blood like water, probably these
narrow valleys hidden and defended by
nature’s grandest fortifications, received
large accessions. They there cherished,
preserved and defended the truth as it
is in Jesus, when elsewhere it had fallen
and was trodden out by the feet of the
“ scarlet beast.”
THEIR HISBIONARV SPIRIT.
Always have they counted themselves
the missionary people for the surround
ing nations. In the 11th, 12th, and 13th
centuries, by such men as Peter; de
Bruys, Henry of Lausanne, Lollard,
Peter Waldo and his poor men of Lyons,
did they leaven the south arid middle
portions of France, the north part of
Spain, England, Flanders, Germany,
Poland and Hungary, with a pure Gos
pel ; and they were, doubtless, the pa
rent stock of all who held the same
faith, though called by different names,
derived from their respective leaders or
localities, as Puritans, Catbari, Leon
isls, Lollards, Albigenses, Vaudois, &c.
Such was their growth in the 12th and
13th centuries that the French Roman
Catholic historian-says : “-The condem
nation o; these heretics did not stop
their progress. They spread, especially
in Burgundy and Flanders, and gained
ever the greater part of the ecclesias
tics and nobility of High, and a part of
Low, Languedoc.” And Raymond,
Count of Toulouse, asking aid of the
church to put down the horesy, in his
dominions, says: 44 1 confess lam not
strong enough to accomplish it; for the
most distinguished of my subjects have
been seduced, and have carried away
with them the quarter of the people.”
Raymond afterwards himself espoused
the “ heresy,” and died in its defence.
At Pra del Tor,'in the valley of : An
grogna, ages before {he Reformation,
the Waldensians trained their young
men for the ministry. Missionaries
from this institution were sent to the
Waldensian colonies of Calabria and
Apulia in Italy, to Bohemia and to Eng
land, and probably scattered seeds
which, watered by Wiekliff, Hass, and
Jerome of Prague, grew into the Re
formation. Such was the number of
their converts in foreign countries that
at one time the missionary could travel
from Cologne to Florence, and stop
every night at the house of a brother.
Nor were all who went forth as Wal
denßian missionary laborers ordained
preachers. Many humble laymen of
.piety, who travelled into neighboring
countries as pedlers, or itinerating mer
chants, were ingenious and efficient in
recommending and diffusing the pure
Gospel in those dark and trying times.
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We hail with real satisfaction the .appearance of these
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appropriate for the increase of a pastor’s library at
about ihis season of the year. The pastor wh6 reads
them aright will be, with God’s blessing, a more spirit
ual man, and a better preacher.” ;
TlieiVew York Observer says: “ The author has achieved’
a great work, performed , a valuable service for Pro
testantism and the world, made a name for himself
among religious historians, and produced a book that
will hold a prominent place in .the esteem of every
religious scholar.’* ; /
The (New York) Methodist, second in literary ability
to no other journal of the denomination it represents,
devotes over two columns to a notice of the work. It
remarks: “Rarely have we known a task performed
with equal fidelity and success. Mr. Gillett has pro
duced a large, but not a cumbrous work. It is abun
dant in detail without tedious minuteness, . ;. • The
book, however, has other merits besides those of histo
rical accuracy and interest. The author is more; than
a mere compiler. He has not only scrutinised, but
generalized. He has. surveyed the whole field as well
as the separateiportions, and he, has firmly grasped and
clearly presented the great leading features of the
period, and the fundamental ideas involved in the
movement. The-work, in short, is a labor of dove, well
and faithfully done.”
ThB New York Evangelist speaks of it as “ One of the
most valuable contributions to ecclesiastical .history
yet made in this country.” .
The New York Independent, in devoting more than a
column to an editorial notice; of the work, remarks:
“ His researches are ample, his materials abundant, hiß
selections-discreet, his style* rapid, and; racy j strong
without rage, without o’erflowing full. He has secured,
we judge, a.high and permanent place in in our litera
ture r . ■ .
The Christian Inieiliaeneer of it as “An Histo
rical and biographical narrative, m method, style, and
elevation of every way worthy of his great
theme. His description of Bohemia, prior to the ad
vent of Huss, is a master-piece, and reminds one of the
very highest efforts of'Bancroft in descriptive' compo
sition.” ,
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