famitg Cult BABY'S STOOKING. Hand up the baby's stocking, Be sure that you don't forget.; The dear, little, dimpled darling! She never saw Christmas yet. But I've told her all about it, And she opened her big; blue eyef, And I'm sure she understood me, She looked so funny and wise. Dear, dear! what a tiny stocking! It doesn't take much to hold Such little pink toes as baby's • Away from the frost and cold. But then for the baby's Christmas It never will do at all ; Wby, Seats Claus wouldn't be looking For anything half so small. I know what we'll do for the baby; I've thought of the very-hest plan, I'll borrow a stocking of grandma ; The longest that eyerl can, And you'll hang it by mine, dear mother, Right here in the corner—so; And write a letter to Santa, And fasten it on to the toe. Write, "This is the baby's stocking That hangs in the corner here; You never have seen her, Santa,. For she only came this year,- But she's just the bleasedest baby, A 4 51. now, before you go, . ' Just cram kr.siocking with goodies From the top clear down to the toe." Emily Huntington Miller, in the Little Corporal THE MISSIONARY HENS. Parson Warburton had been settled over a small church in a farming community long enough to become experimentally familiar with the peculiar parochial incident to a scattered population. The heart of the good parson was largely interested in his people's, welfare. Being well aware of the healthful and expansive effects of benevolence, he had sought to en list their sympathies in the cause of mis sions, and induce them to exert themselves for its support beyond the small and cere monious droppings of the monthly collet• tion. He had preached missionary sermons full of inevitable logic. He had secured sub scriptions to quite a goodly number of copies of a small missionary paper. He had contrived to work the subject in the Sunday school; and finally, by strenuous efforts, ho had raised money enough to buy a tet of missionary maps, which, on the recurrence of every "monthly concert," he took care to refer to and explain. But though in all this variety of labor the worthy minister undoubtedly sowed much good seed, he had the mortification of seeing his congregation marvellously ready to for get sermon, and paper, and' story, and map so soon as they were out of sight and hear ing, and - totally unable to fathom the good man's strange theory that they could be lib eral without being rich. Still Deacons Spicer and Knox continued periodically to travel up and down the aisles, greeted with the smothered chink of "four-pences" arid half dimes, and still at the close of each "financial year" the stolid church treasurer reported; without winking, the fatal pittance "for missions" of seven dollars and forty cents. Parson Warburton was not the man to say fail, however. lie studied and prayed over the matter, and kept watch for new suggestions. At last a thought occurred to him which was speedily made practical in the measure designated in the title of our article. One day, while out on one of hie .pastoral rides, he stopped to see Aunt Janeway, and, as he had done before, to take dinner with her. He found the good lady bdsy at her hen coop. "Ha," quoth he to himself," here's a good hint; who shall say I may not make profit by it to the cause of Christ?" The scene of the housewife among her fowls had furnished him with something Letter than a sermon. " Well, aunty," said he, after exchanging greetings with his parishioner, "you have a fine lot of poultry here. How many in all?" "Twenty," Said she, "and a hundred (thickens." "And you'll realize 11 handsome sum from them in the fall, as is proper and right you should," concluded the parson, and the two went into the house. "She is not the only sister in my church whose pride is in her poultry," thought the parson, as he followed Aunt Janeway in by the front door. He made this .triumphant generalization with all the satisfaction of al 'philosopher who has discovered the working principle of a great social problem. "Aunty," said he, after he bad listened patiently to quite a lengthy disquisition upon her poultry affairs by the good lady while mhe laid the dinner table, "I want to make a proposition to you." "What is it?" inquired Aunt Janeway, very simply. " You know it is very right 'and Christian -4e to lay by something, according as th,) Lord has prospered us, for the support•and extension, of' His Gospel. I proceeds you to promise to give this year the proceeds of one hen to the cause of missions." " Why, I never thought of that," said Aunt Janeway; "I supposed it was money they wanted. "To be sure, auntyrreturned the minis ter, "mYthing is easier than to make it money. I said the proceeds, you under stand." 0 yes, yes. Well, I don't know but I will. I'll see But come; sit up and bare dinner." They talked the matter over at the meal, and when at length Parson Warburtonlook his leave he carried with him Aunt Jane way's promise of ,a- year's profits of one or her hens. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1867. Full of his new idea, and stimulated by the success of his first experiment with it he now called, at his earliest convenience, on every one of his parishioners, and skill fully varying his approaches according to the peculiarities of each case, introduced the subject of the "one he." contribution. HiB effort prospered famously. lie was shrewd enough to make his.first.trials in the likeliest quarters, so that by the tithe he reached the more :stubborn cases he had a long list of subscribers to back „his argu men ts. To recount the particulars of all his per sonal interviews with the donors would be too long a story for our limits. Suffice it to say, that after Beyond weeks of indefatiga ble exertion he secured the pledge of every housewife in his parish, to devote to the cause of missions the proceeds of,one hen for the current year. Of course this novel expedient of the min ister provoked an unlimited amount of talk. lie meant it should 7 or , it:least, he kneWit would, and rather encouraged than repressed the loquacity that seemed to advertisehis innocent plan. When the list 'Was full, or dither' after every adult !lamp p. d,lisep, secured, he told the Sunday-school, with ~quiet exultationi and a pleasant twinkler in his 'eye,:how many subscribers he had,obtakned. After an apt story or two about child benevolence, 'lie as sured the young scholars that neither he nor their parents had-any notion of leaving them ,ou.k.,Qf th e. good, en terpris.e.. ‘ , then drogr.e: t lig a Bare* aceib proiv os n g that every boyand girl should take stock in the missionary fund by eentributing a chicken. The plan 'pleased. the Andrea -mightily, and ,before Monday had 'pAsseci 'pearly every coop in the parish had at least one marked missionary chicken irj it. fib e'l3 it caused byltheiplayftkilyiActical turn given to its benevolence by the inven tive parson was beyond all that had hap pened to that quiet church for.unremem bered years. It vas; amusing •(considering its cause) to witness the growilig, enthusittam for the cause of missions—unprecedented numbers came to the monthly concert to hear the Missionary 'Herald read and, the maps explained.. The sewing society began to feel the healthful influence. Gossip for got her small slander and quoted poultry. The sleepy parish had found just what it needed—a way to do its duty and get whole some fun out of it. On the whole, Parson Warburton, as he went his rounds' and . saw what a ".ho fever" he bad excited, Telt'lnot at all reluctant to take the responsibility of it. Time rolled on. The fowls -grew—as everything must when fed in the regular way—magnifying, week by week, the prom ise of their " proceeds,' until the child con tributors to the heathen fund, who had graded their philanthropic generosity by the size of a four ounce chicken, supposed to represent a cash value of about one cent, open Lhci--cyeam Jvtt flea alum el vp-, each one, the self-sacrificing proprietor of a four pound cockerel, or pullet worth a dot. lar. The older subscribers, watching the increase of their broods, began (some of them) to think the Lord's mortgagepretty large one. We are afraid that two or three of the good housewives who had not pledged a particular hen in the spring, failed to se leet the most successful one in the fall. 'Be that as it may, at any rate,.an unusual "run of luck", in the poultry line signalized that year among the farmers of Parson War burton's parish. At last the time came for harVestina "the results. It was November, and the consecrated fowls were all fat and ready for the sacrifice —night after night the various roosts of the neighborhood resounded with the-fa miliar "squall" that told of a farm-yard slaughter, and very early one morning the capacious and significant looking wagon of Deacon Spicer drove soberly through the parish, and stopped at nearly every house "taking in cargo." Busily from -door to door tryivelled the deacon's team, till the last "batch" was stowed away, and with a clean white sheet tucked down,.over the marrowy merchandise the stout vehicle rumbled off to the market town. He was in good sea son At io . the buyers' stand, and disposed of his load to good advantage. He came home at night with the money in his great wal let. To add eclat to the enterprise, and : create occasion among the younger portion of his people to rernetaber rettiras, 'Parson Warburton had proposed to fix a day for all the parish to meet in the meetinghouse and hear the report of the hen "proceeds." The day appointed was the day following Deacon Spicer's sale of the poultry at the market. At any other time such a meeting would have been voted entirely out of order ; and not to be thought of at all; but now, with the spell of a new benevolence upon their hearts, and a tempting secret ,before _their curiosity, the good' people not only endorsed the meeting with their consent ; bat went to it; thronged it as they never had thronged even a donation party. Parson Warburton stood up before his congregation, (it seemed as if they had never been so attentive,) and after giving a humorous account of the inception and pro gress of the enterprise whose success had called them together, his adventures in the prosecution of it, etc., he proceeded to read the names of the contributors, old and young, with the amount, in money realized from each one's poultry pledge, and carried out in the margin. And what do you think it footed up Four hundred and thirty dollars! The simple auditory could hardly believe their ears. For a moment all stared in breathless amazement, their faces written all over with exclamation points. There could be no .mistake about it, however. They had the items. But when it was an nouneed-that•a-full list of the names of the donors would be sent to tho rooms of the "Board," with the money, and published in the missionary paper, the children could scarcely restrain their exultant enthusiasm. At just the right time 'Coronation " was struck up, and the congregation, joining the choir with right good will, sung their triumph into tolerable control by'th aid of music and metre. A short prayer, full of eloquent thanks giving, closed The exereites, and the delight ed assembly dispersed to their homes.— Watchman and Reflector.' • A tODIG DESPERADO. When John is all snugly' , curled up in bed, with his rosy cheek resting on one of his scratched and grimy little' hands, forming altogether a perfect picture of peace and innocence., it, seenis-Jiard ;to realize what a busy, restive, pugnacious, badly ingenious little wretch' he ,is! I'm sure I don't4bow how he came by such .Utipleasant propensities. am myself the ' meekest, of men. Of course, I don't mean to imply that Johnny inherited his warlike .disposition , from „hismother. . She is' the gentlest Of Women. But when you come to`.7olitiny-z-he'k the terror of the whole neighborhood. - Was.meekenough at first,—that is to say, for the , first.six,or .seven days- of- his existence. 'But- I verily believe that he wasn't morethan eleVen days" old. when he showed a degree of temper • that Shocked me,—shocked me in one ,so young. On that occasion he turned very red , in the face,z-- he .was quite . red before,—doubled up his ridiculous hands in the most threatening man ner, and finally, in the impotency of rage, punched himself_in the eye. When .I think of the life he led his mother and Susan du ring the first eighteen months after his ar rival, I" ab rink from' th reVpinsi bil ity of al loNi;ing Johnny, • to call me father. aggressive disposition was not more early developed' than his duplicity. By the - time' - he Was . tWB years'of age I had go,t4he r collp wing WAIT: by, heart W4en - le v er' p arti NA 1 aiIY squalla." He was sure „to be in sonie mis chief. And' must say there Was a novelty, an • unexpectedness, an ingenuity in his badness that constantly astonished me. The crimes he - committed could be, ar ranged alphabetically: .., He never repeat ed himself. His evil resources were inex haustible. He never did the thing I expec ted he would. He never failed to do the thing I was unprepared for.''T am not think ing so much of the 'time when he painted my writing-desk with raspberry jam, as of the occasion when he perpetrated an act of original cruelty on Mopsey, a favorite kit ten in the household. We were sitting in the library. Johnny was playing in the front hall In view of the supernatural still ness that reigned, I remarked, suspiciously, "Johnny is very quiet, my dear." At that m omen t a series of path eti c mews WtlS heard in the entry, followed by a violent scratching on the oil -cloth.--Then Mopsey bounded into the room — ii - rith'rtli - ree — emTAT - spoot. upon her' tail. The spools were removed with great difficulty, especially the last one, which fitted remarkably. tight. - After that, Mopsey never saw a work-basket without arching her tortoise-shell back, and distend ing her tail to three times its natural thick ness. Another: ehild would' have squeezed the kitten, or „stuck a pin in it, or twisted her tail; ut it was reserved for the supe rior genius of Johnny to stringrather small spools upon it.: He never did the obvious thing. It was this fertility and happiness, if I may say so, of invention, that prevented me from being entirely dejected over my son's behavior at this period. Sometimes 'the temptation to seize him and shake him was too strong for poor human . nature.., But I alWays regretted it after*ardi. When I saw him asleep in. his tiny bed, with one tear dried on his plump velvety cheek and two little mice-teeth visible through the parted lips, I couldn't help thinking what a little bit of a fellow lie ,vas, with his funny little fingers, and funny little nails; and it didn't seem to me tha,t he was the sort of a per son to be pitched into by 4 great strong man like me. " ' "When Johtiii`groWS' older," I used to say to his mother,' " reason with him." Now:. I—donh-,. know. when Johnny will grow old enough to be reasoned with. When I reflectliew hard it is to reason with wise 'grown-up . people, if they happen to be unwilling to accept your view of matters, I am inclined tube verypatient With Johnny, whose experience is rather limited, after all, though he is six. years . : and a half old, and naturally wants to, know. why and Where fore. Somebody says something about the duty of "blind obedience." I can't expect Johnny to have'more wisdom than Solomon, and to be more philosophic than the. phi losophers. I freely confei3s that Johnny is now and then too much for me., I wish I coul4l read him as cleverly as he reads ale. lie: knows all my weak points ; he sees right through me, and•makes me feel that I sm a helpless infant in'his adroit hands. He has an ar gumentative, oracular air, when things have gone wrong, which always upsets my dig nity. Yet how cunningly, he uses his pow er 1 It is only in the last extremity that he crosses 'his legs, piits his hands into his trowsers-pockets, and argues the case with me. One day last week he was very near coming to grief. By my directions,: kind ling-Wood diid'Cdal are placed every-morn ing in the library grate, in order that I may have a fire the:moment I return at night. Master Johnny mint needs apply a ,lighted match to this arrangement early in the forenoon. The fire was not discovered until the blower was one niass of red-hot. iron, and the woodenAtantlOpiece was smoking with the intense.heat.., When I came' home,'Johnny was led from the store-roonvwhe,re he had been impris oned front an early period, and where he had employed hiinself in eating about two dollars' worth of preserved iitare. " Johnny," said I, in as severe a tone as one could use in addressing a person whose forehead glistened with syrup,—" Johnny, don't you remember that I have always told you never to meddle with matches." It was something delicious to see Johnny trying to remember. lie cast one eye med itatively.up to the ceiling, then he fixed it abstractedly on the canary-bird; then he rubbed his ruffied_brows with a sticky hand; but really, for the life of him, be couldn't recall any injunctions concerning matches. "I can't, papa, truly, truly,"' said' Johnny at length. -" 1 guess I must have forgot it ' " Well, Johnny, in order that you may not forget it in future—" Here Johnny .was seized- with an idea. He i n terrilp tett ~nie. " I'll tell you what you do, papa,—you just put it down in toritin'..". - With the air of a, man 'who' had settled a question definitely, but at the same time is to listen . politely .to..any crude sug gestions that •yosi may ,htive to throw out, Johnny crossed .legs, "thrtist his hands in thrthose . wunde,rful trowsers-pockets. I turned mytace.aside, for I Telt a-certain weakness creeping ;into. the . corners Of" 'rny ,moittb..,, L -kwus,,lf?at., e n -lns4nt the little head, coverid - it y ei ,eurris, - was. -laid—upon—my -kneeran -So riy-was, crying, ttiAtti yvry Berry '4 -hat e'sielif-t bat 61/ kerrdr-of the neighborhood. I think I have not done ntjetfiah ;aro scitte. If %I'VE) wt . 'radius 'Of two rnAes fro L ur, our ! tqu se,IJo ball, or ,a stone k tip wnAti - .„eogi 8, .e6m 'l)4 dexterous hand, is alintost, • certain -to be-TotHuttin the battered premises. I never heanthe mai cal jinglingof splintered glass, bh.f, &yet-parte nionnaie gives a co An 1m yls,#‘2o.b in my breast-pocket. There is rit‘t...W.4.6or step in our street that Ixasn'porne evidences in red chalk t oD Alits.hirtitile ability;l there isn't a bell that he hasn't runaand run away from itt las roe- lin lid rat , SOO:01y 'a day . passes oti•t of something, or overAenifething; J oifintb,;soniething: 11. lad= der running up 'to the 'dizwy roof of tar lin finished,bnilditig is no.anore to he resisted by him than the back platform of a horse-, car, when the conductor is ,collecting his fare in'Wo'n't.'". ' I slidoild not likel6 &lupe ero4ll6b. that - Johntiy,has fought during 'O.B, past eight.months, ItisAphysieal impossibility, Ishoirld judge, for himito-refirse a . ch,:lienge. He picks' his enemies so- Ciety, At) ,has:fought' the . as4,-..triWiltiiy, the ,grocer's boY, the t ich boss oVer - tbe,ivay, and .any , number:of miscellaneous boys who chanced -to-strayinto (Mr street- I am. well aware that, socially sparking, Johnny is n 'Black •Sheep. n . I know that . l have brought him tip * lmdly, And that there is not an unmarried,,man .or woman in the United States who wouldn't have brought him up;very differently. It's a Igreat pity that the only people who knovi how to man-. age children never "have any ! At the same time;.Totinny_is not.a _black sheap7All over. - rre nas som - e — i;ibite "spots.' His ,Sins—if wiserlolks-had no greater !--are the result of too much .animal life. They belong to his evanescent youth, and will pass , : away; but his honesty, his geuerosity, his bravery, belong to-his character, and are enduring qualities. The quickly crowding years will tame him. A good large pane of glass, or a seductive bell-knob; ceases in time to have attractions for the most reckless spirit. And I am quite confident that Johnny will be a 'great statesman, or a valorous soldier, or, at all events, a good citizen, after he has gotover being A Young Desperado.—T. B. Aldrich in Atlantic' Monthly. HAVE -PATIENOE WITH YOURSELF. • . Thus we need, every one of us, tp , know that we live in moods and phases, working eccentrically, sometimes more unhinged and sometimes less; sometimes in better na ture and sometimes irritable; sometimes more disposed to jealousy; sometimes more to conceit. Nothing looks fresh after a sleep less night ; nothing true after an over-heavy dinner. A touch of dyspepsia ma.k - esthe soul barren and everything else barren to it—even , ; the :finest poem it turns to a desert. Any mood of gloom, in_the same manner hangs a pall over the sun, and even thevery bones will sometimes seem to be in that mood as truly as the eyes. Opinion is sometimes bilious, sensibility morbid. .and sore, and passion, tempest-sprung, goes wild in all ; sorts :of rampages. At one time we can be captions towards a friend, at another generous to wards an enemy at another about equally indifferent to both. Now a wise man is one who understands himself well enough to make. due allowance for such unsane moods and varieties, never concluding that a thing is thus or thus, because: just now it bears that look; waiting often to see what a sleep or a walk, or a cool revision, or perhaps a considerable turn of repentance will do. He does not slash upon •a subject, or a man, from_ the point, of a just now rising temper. He maintains a noble, candor by waiting sometimes for a gentler spirit, and a better sense of trutli. He is never intolerant of other men's judgments, because he is a little distrustful of his own. He restrains the dis likes ofwejudice, because; he has a preju dice against his dislikes. His resentments are softened by his condemnations of him self. His depression do not crush him, be cause he has sometimes seen the sun, and believes it may appear again. lE4+ 4 :revises his opinions readily, because he has a right, he thinks, to better opinions, if he can find them. e holds fast sound opinions, lest his moodiness in change should take all truth away. And if his unsane thinking appears to be toppling him down the gulfs of skepti cism, he recovers himself by just raising the question, whether a more sane way of think ing might not think differently. ~A man who is duly aware thus of his own:di - stem. perecl faculty, makes 41 life different from `One who acts as if he were infallible, and had nothing' to do but just to let him.- self be pronounced ! There is, in G l . t, no possibility of conducting a life succe! , ,,f u ll, on in that manner. If there be any truth' that vitally concerns the morally ri _ht s e lf. keeping and beauty of character, it is that Which alloWs -and makes room fin. the ih s _ tempers oil a practically unsane state; one that puts action by the aide of correction, and keeps it in wisdom by keeping it in re gulative company. Just to act out our e n _ sanity is to make our life a muddle of incon gruous, half-discerning states without either dignity or rest. There is no true serenity that does not come in the train of a wise, self-governing modesty.—Dr. Bushnell in Hours at Home. BIBLE CLASSES OF YOUNG MEN, One of the most important problems in connection with Sunday-school labor is, how to retain young.men in the Bible classes, and keep them interested in Bible study. An English teacher, oflarge experience, says on this pointy: It,was a great failing, with many teach - , ere that they did not, study the maitre of the Characters they, had to deal with in their Sunday-school class. 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