fantitg Cirdt, THE VICTIM. BY ALSEND TENNYSON A plague upon the people fell, . A famine after laid them low: Then thorpe and byre arose in fire, For on them brake the sudden foe; So thick they died, the people cried, "The gods are moved against the land." The priest in horror about his altar, To Thor and Odin lifted a hand: "Help us from famine And plague and strife I What would you have of us' Human life? Were it our nearest, Were it our dearest, (Answer—oh, answer!) We give you his life." But still the foeman spoiled and burned, And cattle died, and deer in wood, And bird in air, and fishes turned And whitens 1 all this rolling flood ; And dead men lay all over the way, Or down in a furrow scathed with dame, And ever and aye the priesthood moaned, Till at last it seemed that an answer came " The King is happy In child and wife; Take-you his nearest, Take you his dearest— Give us a life," The priest went out by heath and bill ; The King was hunting in the wild ; They found the mother sitting still; Olip , etkat her arms about , the - chihk The child vas only eight summers its beauty still . With, his years diktrealo ; His fseoWaLruddy, Arat4filt:l- 7 )- lie seemed'a victim due fire Thepriept.e.Atiltect, N.. ' And dried 'With joy, " here iy his nearest, 4-e, is. his - dearest -L. - hike the hey V. , ' - The,Kingreturned frii'MAO-the wit* He bore but little game ielitifir The mother said, " They have taken the child, To spill his blood and heal theland ; The land is sick and the people diseased, And blight. and famine on all the'lea: The holy gods, they must be appeased, So I pray you tell the truth to me. They have taken our son,' • They will hare his life. Is he your nearest ? Is he your dearest ? • (Answer--oh, answer!) Or I, the wife':" The King bent low, with hand on brow ; He stayed his arms upon his knee; " Oh, wife, what use to answer now, For now the priest has _judged for me ?",", The, King was shaken with holy fear ; • ":The gods," he said, "would have oh osen'well; Yet both are near, and loth are dear, And which the dearest 1 cannot tell!" • But the priest was happy, His " We have his nearest, We have hi 4 dearest, Kis only, son 1 ." „ The ribs prepared, the-victim bared, The knife uprising toward the We*, To the altar stone she sprang alone— " Me, me— not him, my darling—no !" He naught her away with a sudden cry ; Suddenly from him brake the wife. And shrieking, " /am his dearest, I I am his dearest !" rushed on the knife! Ancl the prie at was happy ! " 0, Father Odin, We give you a life! Which was the nearest ? Which was his dearest? The gods,have answered : We give them thewife,l7 ,• [Good Words for January, THE COTTAGE ON THE MOUNTAIN. High up on a mountain, just under. the shelter of a friendly rock,,there stood a little cottage, which looked, from the valley below, like a swallow's nest built in a wall. You would - hardly - think that ivy could grow so high up; yet the cottage of old Mr. Lam seri and his wife was covered with a splen did growth of ivy. The roof was covered with straw, and stones were placed here and there over it to keep thethatelrin plaee. There Was a little garden stretching. back of the, house; but the only. occupant ,of the premises,.save the old .man and Ilia wife, was a goat, which had bean their pet for a num ber of years. One beautiful spring morning, the old wo man was leading a lit le girl up to the cot tage; but by and by, little Lorlie became so tired that she could not walk any further. Then said Mrs. Lamson: "I Will carry you, poor child l for yon have come with me a long distance, and I know you are very tired." "But, grandmother, I am heavy, and you are old," said the child. " Oh l no, you are not so .heavy. I am used to carrying heavy things up to our little cottage, and I am sure I can carry you." So little Lorlie was soon on the old wo man's back,. and after an hour 'and a half they were both within the enclosure of the little ivy-clad house. 'Old Mr. Lamsen greeted his wife and little Lorlie, whom he had never seen before, with a, pleasantsmile, as he brushed his gray locks back off his ears with his rough mountaineer hands. His wife said to him: "I went to the Or plian-house yesterday, in the town of . N—, and told the gentleman having-charge ofit that I wanted a little girl to live with us and be our child. You know that is what we agreed upon a good while age, if we could ever find a little orphan girl to suit us." " Yes," said-he; you are quite right, and I 'am glad you have brought this little,girl. But how did you happen to select her from so many others ?" "I will tell you the real reason," she an swered. "The gentleman showed .me a great many children ) of different ages',4nd from different countries, I confess that I did not fancy- any of them particularly, though that may have been my fault. As THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1868. I was going out with him to examine the grounds, I saw a little girl jumping the rope. She had such a happy face, and when she saw me she wished me such a pleasant good-morning,' that I was attracted to her at once. I went up to her and kissed her, and after I did so, I noticed that the tears came into her eyes; and when she said, You did kiss me so much like my mother used to do'—and then her eyes reminded me very much of our dear little Carl's eyes, whom we lost so many years ago—l said immediately in my heart, 'lf I can take this little girl, I will do so,' for I knew you would like her. I asked the gentleman if he would permit me to have her;, and he said : Yes. She is a little girl that,lthink, you will love very much. then asked him what was her history, and his reply was somothing "i It is impossible to 'all" 'ili:3'histOry of many of the ehildreh that we receive; but I know, at least, a portion of the history of little Lorlie. Her pafehtiyfiad f ,,Onirgrafed from a Silesian village, ; and were on their Way to Hamburg to talte'passage for Aine rica as emigrants. But the 'typhus fever happened to be raging , at Silesia at the time they left, and they had not more than reached our town before both of, them , ,fath er aranidther, were taken sielt - 7,a.na - 130011 died. The child was taken care of by the proprietor of the little inn, where-they load stopped . fer.a week or two„ until I heard-the eirchm'stancei, when I hadlier'protnptly re moved _to my Orphan Asylum. Thepareats left no papers describing their circumstan ces, and even the little girl's name was not knOwn: She called herself Lorlie and' so I wrote that in our registry as 'he,r 'name. She r has been a very dutiful, happy, and loving child, from the time I took her to the present.. And that is that I can tell you about her.'" " You did right to take her," said the old man ';'''''t'ati'd,..with" . God's Messing, we *ill do our beat to' supply the pdace of her own pa rents." . , Lorne gr6w' rapidly der the iiiibience of thefresh a mountain'itir, and assisted' old &tr. and Dirs. liamsen, whona she .called grandfather and; grand. mother, in i oy_vx pos sible way. 'She soon - exhibited a-itt4thYdr readg,,,and whep,she, beciyme,olgiciaqugh she.attendeiPthe Village Eithoollt tile valley below. One day, whenishe was &little over tWelte y 4 4 11. of ,age, ; she ..i.&cf '.e.hild'e paper about' how.a little American girl"had been BO useful in starting and conducting a Sunday-school. She `then said to heiself: "Why.cannot I -do they same thing?" So she tbought, overit i and prayed over good, deal, and at last deter Mined to litrtaid subject before - her grand Parents: The oh.4e,eple shook their heads anti_dis couraged her somewhat—" For," said ".you are not old "'enough `, for gab' mil:l4r tant work; and, besides, with: your.present studies and with your duties at'horne, we don't think you have time enough" " said she . -" can 'do all itiat I de.now,.artri.catt. also invite a little Sunday school,provided the children will come to it, will you have any objections then?" They. a3asNieilciltital4. r Vat affk fear was her, health , wpuld - _ : "But," said she, , "if my health continues good after I have commenced, and I find that I am perfectly able to do it with all the rest of my..w,ogk, you then, con sent rest „ , The old people . - *pre ve,ry gOod, and ac cu,se (11 1 1 SF 1 4° ,- kro.:Y.,eibi944 ,- ,tkgixPPlct!Cl99l 2 .li - 2n w as very natural one.. "-Have, you :mired the ,Saviour they." - • ' " Yes," replied LOriie," 1, have asked Hirn a great many times, and He has always ail s wered the sktaleithirtgq miust , work the W,Cl l lc§9f Mea that•eeet , tine, •whiledtds•xilam the: ight= cometh, when' no marifean„*OA,'", - . The!.old.people gawe tb air const n t,, and Lori e' -next careo vita-VP eels. dher little friends, and,,get them,,to promise 'tdc:Orie to her Sunday-schOol, which met on Sunday afternoons, at tint in a little room that her grandpatents hired, for lief - in the village below. She took great pains to in terest the children and secure them good teachers. As the school increased, her un dertaking became very successful, and it grew frein:year to year, until neakyall the children in-the village, became reemberw•of it. Old Mr.. Lamsen and his wife died about the time that Lorlie became a young lady. And now I must tell youu - a remarkable cir cumstance that occurred, not,, , lorlg before their death. , One day the, old man received a letter from the proprietor of tile 'Orphan,: ; house from which his wife bad taken Lorlie years before. The letter was to the follow ing effect : "The history of little Loilie, whom • you took from my Orphan-house, a number of years ago, was not fully known to me at the time when I committed her into your hand §i, but since tben it has fully come ,to light/ A lawyer from Silesia came to our town some weeks ago, and instituted inqui ries in reference to the two persons who died at the inn of typhus fever. Those per sons were Lorlie's parents, and the lawyer has ascertained facts in Connection with them which will be of interest to you. the identified them by mseiins of a letter written by the father to a friend at home, dated Globe Hotel, April 16th, 1846.' This letter has been preset ved, and it is by means of it that I am now able to tell You, through thEi.' friend to whom it was written, the history of Lorlie's parents. Her father was named Carl. Lamsen, and ho came to Silesia many. years ago, when a little boy. Ho never • could give any account of himself, except that his parents lived in a little house cover ed,with ivy, high up on the mountains; and, that when he went down the valley one' day, the stage-drivergave . hini a ride to the other end of his stage route. He, wandered off, when there, without thiriking,,of it, and the stage-driver could nOf find 'him again. Young Carlwent from place to, place, and at,last went to Silesia, where he learned a tradonarried, and acquired some proper- ty. Through the influence of friends who had emigrated to America, ho made up his mind to go, too, and take his wife and only child, a little girl named Lorlie, with him. The rest of their history you know already. As you will see, from what I have written, the tittle girl whom you received from me, and who has lived with you ever since, is none other than your own grandchild, the only daughter of your son Carl I" It is impossible to describe' the effect which this letter had upon old Mr. and Mrs. Lamsen, and upon Lorlie; but somehow, in a way I cannot describe, both old Mrs. Lam sen and Lorlie had had the impression, for a long time, that they were related to each other in some very near way; but neither one ever eariresspd her opinion on the sub ject. And thus, by ..a strange . providence, the facts came to light; and when the old people died; they were able to. bestow not only their blessing .upon their own grand daughter, but to leave in her hands . the. pro perty of her parents, whichjd the, Mean time had gteatly. , increased value.' But Lorlie,thotigli nowt young lady, and placed in easy circumstances; never forgdtl her Suri= day-school, nor could any of the children, who& she loved iso ever say ''"Our superintendent tgkes less pains with us to day, or loves us 'less than when she first corm n e,nee her S d ayps /the Geitna7i in fre Iltetkodik. GENERAL CLINTON , B. -Fist Erarrates the following, nstance .of su.blimo Christian de votion : " I remember one old lady in Illinois, how she gave all' she' la'd to the cause of the nation. When the call for troops came in 1861, when Massachusetts' blood had made red the pavements of Baltimore, when everybedy in the West rose up to go, on the'hanks 'of the Mississippi there lived an old widow „7/91,fiati)E - 11.0 h:m3hEireir *IV lb` his grave. She had, but one child in the World, a n0b1ii„,494, sixteen years of age. She, took him from the plough and the har row, acid to You must go and fight for' your country. This great river that flows' by otir , farm must wash the shores' of but one conntry on its pilgrimage to the 'sea!' ' " The' boy niarehed off to battle. He Went with inethroligh many a weary march, and bloody fight; `add' skirmish. He was a Ohiistian boy;-rented'in the Sunday-school, and he always carried his Bible with him. " In ettiefe() - rotir aeingagem&tslLhe Ew wounded ; , the, surgeon told him he would die. _Charley sp,id he would like to see his mother, but he hadn't ruoicy entagytooend for her. The Soldier , beys'-`df Int? - ese.ort-L4 and generous • souls they were—gathered around him and.madEs up a purse, and sent away outip the) bale it?fi litkohlf2r- his mother to',come to see him. - I r emember when she presented herself at my headquar ters, chee,,rfnl aye happy,, wikil l ti.ylble and a lifetligiiSt . hyinii' book in satchel. I took hoar, to the . hospital She , • took. his hand, cheerfully thanking God that she. saw him alive, and there she sat, day after day, watching all' the child`she had in the world —watching foi: ' - "As ImedihroughAhat. hospital one • .11 mornin`g, 'at - the eot'of eb - arley, saw the'ideatbAkmp on Ms brOW Were dim ; hispulse,o2Nafts getting took.him . by `he htkid atie4Aid i" How is it this .mornine `,` Said•he, to the front,' and eyes- brrghtened: 'Ms mother stood 1:6y4 himpsinging 5 4 Jesus• can -rtirtke-a , dying- betl , • .• ' • folort 4s dowp:KpilVW;s Are,- • . NIL e oaThis 6reast. I_ lead. rqy head And J)reiitlielriy- life- out - sweetly there.' She gape n p . ,:iyiy;•hoy as 9110,,rtully se you would give a dGilar. We,buried him in the svVan)p. Shb Went to his rtuietiikiinif thanked God she ha - d -- a son to give to the nation " Such graves are scattered all over the country.' Tbey ;wit - tallfty that-we: shall not let this governi:nent of the,people, for th`e pe - bpie, 4 - people; - perish from the earth. T 4 •. :rr 0- Gns Fiurries eternal/camping -ground- - - Their siterkt lents, are spread, And glory guards,svitli solemn round,. - ;Th VI BEAUTIFUL` AND TRUE. At a festival party, 'of, ald. sad 'young; the question, Nits sake& • Which . season , of life •is-Tost happy? After'being freelydiscnssed by ttaftuests, it was referred 'for answer to rri , the host, upon ,iv,I;Lo was the burden of fourscore years N et: ed tkcy had not i n noticed a, "kroupt_ oda e ' , I y d ening, and sajd . :44Vi9l3 - en,the spring ~ • :'end in tlre soft ache bud( are breakfn oplltie trees, aVI they aig=doverell with blo4onits, I - think hoW laeautiful is spriml,:-And isAt the 'bummer cornis,, and' eoVers the - trees with its heavy foliage, and singing birds are all among tha.,brknolies,,l thibk ho Wr•beauti ful is tiuminerr W 'hen-autinati load them with-dolden , fruit, and their leaves bear - the gorgeous tint of frost;lthink howfbeautiful is autumn! And when it iaiere winter, and there is neither foliage nor fruit, thou I look up, and thrbuglr the "leliflearrbrank:hes, as I eould never until now:, .1 see the stars shine through."--Dr. Adams. This, we think% it very beautiful, and what is better ,still, exactly Aly., Rack ; Beason has its charms.. Life is a progression, and the seasons beyond y,opthAan, only be properlyli)preclatcci an`h-enjoyedlnspropor tion as with thedgogress of time we really develop ourselves into them. If an unde veloV6Vj-iintb 'ethild suddenly be placed into the, season pi middle age, or if the . young man of middle age 'could, •in like.man ner; be ushered into the season of Old age, he would not enjoy ii; Ne wnuld not think it beautifiils he, riiilid- not be happy. , The reason, would be, :that he has not regularly grain into th'e seasoil,; that he is ip the:' middle season with the feelings and charac ter of youth, or in the season of age with the untamed vigor of middle life. To enjoy the season of youth, we must be young; to enjoy that of middle life, we must be in the full tide of our powers of body and mind; and to enjoy that of age, we must be old. This fact, if properly understood, would save a great deal of anxiety and distress. The young, fascinated with the season of youth, are often found fretting in view of the rapid passage of days which threatens to leave them sooner than they then feel is pleasant, beyond this halcyon season, into another, which for them carries with it no such rich charms. With still more serious apprehension do those in middle life: mark the years that are silently conducting them to what they call the "joyless season -of old age." They worry themselves about crossing the, bridge before they come to it, and forget the great fact that, when our vigor is developed, the season of middle life will be adapted to tts,,,and that when we reach the season of old age, we-shall in like manner, feel a complete adaptation. to it, and that this adaptation is one essential condition of our happmess.. Each season prepares its own judgment; and each may be, equally beautiful, if we shall be found, when We reach it, properly prepared for it. "nut the last is instrinsically the highest and the richest, as in this, with due preparation, in volving the active exertion of youth and manhood, it looks more steadily up to-the bright Star of 'Hope. through the "leafless branches," and reposes more fa' in the heal venly and divine—langing ascend addbe at rest. The same fact holds true in regard to the duties, temptatiohs, and afflibtions which, before we come to them, we'fear and 'dread. When we actually meet them', they are always different things friiiii.,whaf *4 feared they would be, 'hecense we, ire better - pre pared for them ; Even the. dread of death, which we often, deeply feel when we are in good imalth, is removed, if we are true to the present, when the moment .`of -1 diesel atior? comes.—Ref mined' Chio'ch. VALETUDINARIAN CHRISTIANITY. That highly entertaining, if riot absolute ly lively case, which, under the title of "Martin:v. Mackonochie,"l-13 destiiied to play no unimportant. part iu theliistou of ecele-• siasticar dispute in the nineteenth century, has afforded us matter , for e g obd deal: of SoL, ber reflection., pr this, NoWever, hereafter. For.the 'Moment, we merely, wish to.,scig-, gest t 44 churchmen .of amertain school &new line of defence that has been recently sup plied by one of . theatile.eounsel'efigaged for the - deferidant.' anxiety` to blear his Client froma4' possible iotipcon fryikropri sty in the :habitual use Of ineense, ~the: Ipai-riPd gentle.rncrt in question ; •(was,it Mr.; Prideaux ?) hinted' that this rituali'stic addi, tion to the services at St. Albaniu, might have' beeri made on strictly sanitary princi ples. 'TheCorigregatii *it'`was composed of fhb - dregs - cif a bad . ti,piVtiliOr- - hood, and, in"' slioß, needed a.decided fumy option. This. idea is at once, original and vigorous. It, places Ritualism : on quite, a different .basis, and, if it. does :not reflect much credit on the discretionoof its peol pounder, it 'at least says agood dearfor that gebtleinun'S v alor. Here isa challenge Mil - 4 boldly ifitOthe "very face of the*c9rd that even that; araiablY-disposedjournal mayant : be unable to overlook.; Who in the world'. can object to such Ritualism as; thie? No; symbol, no doctrine—nothing but mere gienic firecatition Let us suggest " some thing in the sh ape, of„kcatechism, that intik disarm all further opposition : Q.—What:is-the.eopel A.--A sort of ecclesiastical overcoat, to be z worn by rheumatically. disposed •miais, ters. , •V.—CSil you tell:ins it first cam intousel • - • A.-H-Yes; in the year A...1X, 372, When, regory lll,Allopted it as n „preventive; against influenza. , li.'-=-QUite'right, my child; and tiOW can you ti3ll ll the .Why it is' sometimes adorned with worked, towers, :and variously &me mented with fringe, gold, or satin? A.--When thfx case is -considered severe, these things are not, unfrequently added for the sole" purpose of increasing""itS warmth. Q.—You rightly- , referoceremonial to its true origin—a desire to minister to the com fOit:and health of those eugaged iri`services of a religious Character.- Can you tell me why candles are lightethupon the altar A.—Yes, I QUI, and . will. , They are lighted in order that , the heat,prodaced by combustion may create an upward current of Air, and' `thus carryofrth 13 - mai:int gasubi. unfreciudicitly - generited' in .drowded of public resort • • t Q.—Ybu are quite right, my -child ; 1 and now let me heAr pat!, reply brAe t ffy, to, the, questionl,A am ooup to put, to you., wky is the surplee t (vb - rit in the pulpit'"? It a color that is - painful to the eyes. Out at cOnsideration`fOr those of the congregation' who are -Affected by -loo L king at the black goWn,,,the , white surplice is worn. , Q.—What- is the' use of ,flowers ? A.--They Supply oxygen, and thereby leounteraetthe injariouw:effeets of too , carbonic acid. ' - Q.--Why is the.service intoued 2 A:—To gtrengthen the lungs of'the mints ter and lEoe:congregation. the cirgan to be itsell throngly4 out ? • A.—For the purpos?„ of, itty,imr,t i ips,,the legs of tho organist, and of giving p r lewy"ot exercise`to the`bl(3w6F. ' ; talk ofexereise; rnyiehilii. Can you nowtell me why processions in. clitoral), are not,:urigrequently organized? A .- 7 -tes. 4xerei.se is in itself.# heaNifra, anci therefor. 3 deirable- think. Procep'steMs fri are, therere,'Orianited church, in order that the officiating elergyAnd choristers may the benefit of a walk. Q.—Quite right, my child. And now, pe r . baps you can tell me, lastly, why, in tlez,e processions banners are often carried ? A.—l can. They are to provide againt rain, in the event of the roof suddenly mg in. And so on On the merits of the various questions at issue in the Ecclesiastical Court we have no opinion to express, but if practices are to be defended, it is better that those who under. take to shield them, should do so uncom promisingly, and on intelligible grounds. bovirever, there is a party in the Church of England, who take Their stand upon " in cense as a disinfectant," we strongly recom mend. them to ,get, in a supply of Messrs. Ritniners vapioriaers , fOrthwith. Let them be sure the ." Censer "' by. any, .other name, wound smell ngt Only ai 8 :7*;, but good dear. Sweeter, to a large , section of their oppo nents itomakiwk. .".•.3 ' , . - : ' - `-' '-.• . t 1 ..1... . ...! , ANRODO'DifI-OF .3313..... WAYLAND. Frimithe lAf6 puidi'sh4iiiSheldil n'iina'al e' Dr . ••• • ~i "r-, stdim.au once imild'ibit'ile oftener an oven was- hVaied;the,_eitaOi. it_Was heat it. . to readily, and I tbi', 3 " - '' a ' Wr 7 b m it clr o e f I used` to tuA tti't 1," nipre.l wrote , l ef . r4V9jiTePtfUallY, the , • Ps i as p • in..'the,h speakingevery lailianciel f t.lEi n a ir d i , ,r i. .51, - b ' `be first . entered Oe'hAilii.l3 .mina does nail' I. fi'49°Be that in advancing lire lil''DPsvAlcierilYt9l,9dsn° much, tt t ot h i i i n ti gti e „ B 7 l,4 in b ei i.. e power toito li ''ol , - t . - - et ; . „,.. - c - e a t n gh n ii-, j e ig : could jhao`q,p,cliliill)set.t9r,„stt?l,,,ttin:;teriao at thirty; at the f - " R"' ' 'llB ,we'll g e n ill ;t 's le Pr iti e a a :0: e, y o .o r il ni n e g r ,in ag an a, : a a : l3 l6:, b ;,,e y iirk,bi '‘ er pi.,:, pstarcit_ ii easier ec hu r a c u b d , tion in Ihelatter. ' 'irenke' I the oftener ai n :ni the better be Will , `'rliveitohon, Si?,nclade that , p prepon. . t c o a , mth „ . 1. 8 ( e. , :0, e P. ' ' asi'°rt and i'X'ankly said . . 69 . 40.,,bi it 16 , yo ur R.rexte r Vitg. I have him, , on t...lcoovii' h ew ; i f ; ,,i. not4Ot:Or9'.,iteirlii_ ,T.-- ...., out .1 am 4...‘.. 4 -.- .fil ~- = deep, bit . 1.....d0n'h understand 16 , ana- 1 ,do ti4t, feel. ed' ' ',3 u. waylan<i saia fo ti m '' . ci ` e " ,i,,•''''' it ; " Mr. •. w :>ll. ~. 4_ .).-ri 'r ‘A oratr • ur , Y,r.iftve done ricr c- .• I; other, - . i. v 4 . 1 4- ,ssk,,oung to me; have l ie,ted. a ClViq i iail 'parl: I-. Sou is my, duty, 6'pi.e.,..et, th ,e,.. feel that it inedioine, and -bdt an. >Q. , I studied said, r ie.' ' e n, , 9 1 111 7 agtiect - but God , - : me. 1,, am ii i . , ; ~...,..... ; the ' gospel' , I ,-i- arhe 7 t ;Yu n ..ILD:4 B t preach seemed to call me here. ''-figrt9:4,lh4dause God ~ a =do not blame 3 ; ° .. 11 : - / 4 ' ). (l n ° t Llkk. in k - . iT.Y:.:II:e aching, or for r)O.T , being edified "b : I" Shah - riotl'he ,off - ttded; - Goo io2fliear yourself 14,94 i t?lessed O where' You find - b BuldiviP, or .ImOther Sharp., 'Dr.' and the diss b at e i n ti c t i a, err . t b ii ro f tb 4"' l wtre lt i e n P t a e s a t :s r . g°°ieuerl!e` By, this iimg ti r ,the both The Tit t ter edifying preacher he ban-ever heard, il° 63ient'and moat °and 36- WaYlaud r In time the, pastor learned r :that one of the minority, an honetit and worthy trades rnan, was ertitiarra"sed• hi:business. lie c,, -- alled co d Spil t ,irn . open ed Lis heart ,and, bufpess, " I could gr'nn if, if , N4retp4ki -i i?r what, I owe Mr. John B. Jones:::,(4,oyealthy merchant, after wards of t'he,fir_m.of,rones, Ldwe,:un d Ball). at..9?ce,calletlto,see Mr. Jones, and aeked h;in tpaeuonu,Kidate the person 1 4 n 01,110iiRn with w m.pre time, Mr. Jones Zea c daY rOIIA let • hiin have all the time - he wished, - and - to sell him more goods if he desired. ,„ Ile. ,was saved from failure I by. this - ,tintiVilite'qtiflitiOt - 1,“ and became a prosperoui*, htid,', / ben ent eVOI man of busi nest , TV , . - ''Dr. ,Vith:ylandlris .ibigfed that ,Mr Wins sextob,'dnee"safeto-hitn with con siderable concern, " I saw that yesterday. i / naattending2-4: , fietierif,- -- yne.--wore while stoekings:-I*-otit b.. d 6it,t) remark, and b . , t• ftfibeedini rig:" Mr. War t larnd - thanked:hith',-eibterely, and carefully hhededhis sageestqlon:, ) Thisliticident inns trites hise - r - eadillsii-tcy._rehelve:ad vice from whatever quiaerl f liirkrilitit,rtihterl greatly te r - bikido4n.tneditittiotiliifer 'prin'niples and general •inwn, - JyffltiTprictical -matters he courted advice. One btlitrViends has said, "I was always afraid .te ',advise him, for he was disposedltil . give nierenwelght to my ad vice thla,n I; thought. itwah entithzid- to." Mc. was always : '. cry - f,b 1 14 icikgre inter change' O thought and feeling, „Dr: Stow - `"'lle - once called rtow± appiiihntly for no otherptrrpose AKIO* ." - iihtenbe the ques tion, When is.l* thing.;pitkvedr do not remember_ the antirAvief 4. - gavel - -but it differed from his ; - Which: he gjAve:in form,t and then illustrated in , Vll , Aol4Bn*ay4:: - AA thing is proved, voliert it-muisilbe: so, or-son - ke law of nature iseiiolated:re' 'We have beard` IlYi. - "VaYTand mention that h n'once - callednino'n / Mother, who had been bereavedliYAlii i dehtb•Vf her daugh ter. The, a tedi in'other poured out her heart, and told - him' the child liad lain in lien"Eo`som; ad:never - Teenabsent from her for a day, Inid4eleii thi-irkinspring and motive of her life, and how utter now WitS her lOng after this con versation, the pastor had occasion, in preach ing,: to allude 'o" ; ll,—rnother's leve, and used as nearly" as niissible - the very language of tliirbereMtrtireittgr — Tlie people in amaze ment, heartL, ' deepest emotions delineated' Salia4lVlnrOy of 'Ahem, expres sed their wonder that a man so young could know 'so mut of human- nature. He preached about 1825 a sermon upon inteinptirinte, exhibiting not alone the ruin ens e.tieets- of indulgence in the vice, but the sinfulness of doin g aught that would Pro Mote it , „',. a ht'dity, a member of his church called nixpEi hitn and said, " hwie been'bris'itte of selling liquor at my store. But if what you said yesterday is trase:lt't!Nrttiik, 'foal dtiglif to abandon it, howeyer ninth the - step' may reduce my Profits .:`se aocerdingii , xenounced all con nection with 'the traftlr 's " I remember caSeklof - edtfying roiigious conversation. , Witki,%4Deilbsita o f m y church over go e
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