rdit fainitij eirk
WHAT IS LIFE?
A little crib beside the bed,
A little face above the spread,
A little frock behind the door,
A little shoe upon the floor.
A little lad with (lark brown hair,
A little blue-eyed face and fair;
A little lane that leads to school,
A little pencil, elate and rule.
A little blithesome winsome maid,
A little hand within bis laid ;
A little cottage, acres four.
A little old-time household store.
A little family gathering round ;
A little turf heaped, tear-dewed mound;
A little added to his soil;
A little rest from hardest toil.
A little silver in his hair;
A little stool and easy chair;
A little night of Earth-lit gloom ;
A little cortege to the tomb.
C. .B€ 4 in in The Lutheran Observer
KATEINA AND KATINKA.
Once on a time—no matter when—in a
certain beautiful city—no matter where—
there lived two lovely twin sisters, with the
brightest eyes, and the cunnitigest little
roly-poly figures, and the slenderest ears
with the softest pink satin lining, and the
spryest motions imaginable. They were
brunettes in complexion, with white breasts
and tail-tips, as they were kittens. Katrina
and Katinka were their names, if I remem
ber rightly—maybe I don't, but anyhow
they might have had those names, which to
my thinking, are very pretty and appro
priate for kittens.
Well, these same twin pussies were singu
larly good to each other. They never called
names, or scratched, or spat each other's
pretty faces, or pulled each other's little
smellers, or quarrelled over their meals.
They were so marvellously alike that it was
already difficult to tell them apart; and
when they slept, as they always did, hugged
close in each other's arms, you couldn't have
told, to save you, where one kitten left off
and the other kitten began.
They not only slept, ate and played to
gether, but as they grew older, took their
strolls for health and recreation, and their
mouse-hunts, in the same close and loving
companionship. They were very curious
and wide-awake little bodies,
and liked to see
all they could of the great, busy world; so
every pleasant afternoon, when there was
much driving aad walking up and down
the fine street on which they lived, they
could be seen strolling down thelong walk to
the gate—always exactly side by side, " neck
and neck," as ticehorse people say—as even
in their pace, and as perfeiStly matched in
their action, as ever were a pair of trained
ponies in Hydee - Park. Reaching the gate,
they wouldTpause and stand quite still for a
half hour or so, gravely gazing through the
palings at the passers—pedestrians, eques
trians, and drivers of fast horses, like a pair
of dear little brigadiers reviewing thEir bri
gades marching , by. Then with the air pf
having discharged a public duty to the en
tire satisfaction of the community, they
would wheel exactly together, and again
precisely neck and, neck, and tail and tail,
trot gently homeward.
So they lived on, in and for each other,
almost as much united as if they ha4'been
a pair o f small feline female. Siacnese twins
—amiable, loving and virtuous, and grew
in ,knowledge fend stature :up, to -comet
lYohlig.aathood.- At last, it hapriened thslt
a very interesting event Occurred to the
twin sisters at. precisely the same time—
they became happy motheri—Were blessed
with three or four fine kittens a-piece. But
alas I before the little strangers had got
fairly to feel their legs—before they hadzot
their eyes open, all,save one, mysteriously
disappeared - from - each - nest. It was one
fatal ircoriiing, when the twin sisters had
slipped out of their happy attic apartment
for a little air—to take their , constitp.-
,tional" in a trot down-thelong gravel walk,
to • see how the world would look to them
now they were mothers—that this , kidnap
ping occurred, When they returned to
their families, they 'found them" strangely
thinned out ; but they were mothers for all
that, and did not seem to fret much, or
abate their - material' pride a jot: - 3 , ,
You 'see the ruling power in - the latinan
household in which they were domesticated,
and who was to them as a, providence, had
ordered a little flydropathy for their poor,
feebiej sprawling, blind darlings, beginning
With what' is called in water-cures " the
heroic treatment," a cold , plunge; and it
didn't agree' with theni—it never does With
any but the healthy-al harcl y. patients; so
it was they never cainebaCk' tut und.er
the blue waves they ileep Well, 'though irioxer
a mew or a pur comes bubbling' up to the
surface to tell the spot Where they he on
beds of tanglecl,sea-grass. ".1421/./es-eat tit
pace—as old tombstones say.',
The next mournful event in this true
was„the untimejy,detth of
.11a - trum,s one finking. 'Thi's badlaircived to
be but a frail flower of kittenhood ;'very
pretty she was—" too sweet to live,? people
said. Her constitution, was defective her
nervous system was extremely delicate.
Before she was a week old, tike had none..
thing alarmingty like a fit of catalepsy.—
Suddenly', nourishment, with
her fond mother purring . , over her, and two
or three ?kindred :lpokufg• On in smilin g
sympathy,,slier =kayo a piteous wild mew,
rolled over otilf4l9ifkc,Vkiitestuck up her
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1863.
little legs, and laid out her little tail stiff as
a poker! On the ninth day of her little
life, she opened her blinking blue eyes on
this great wonderful world, in which she
had as good a right to be as you or I; but
she didn't seem to like the looks of things
for she soon closed those small eyes again,
and never opened them more. Life was
evidently too bard a conundrum for her
poor, weak little brain, and she gave it up.
Of course Katrina was greatly afflicted,
but she did not abandon herself utterly to
grief. Had not her sister a kitten left? and
had not they two always had everything in
common ? So as soon as the sympathetic
children bad buried her dead out of her
sight, under a lilac bush, she went straight
way to Katinka, and with her full consent,
began to divide with her the duties and joys
of maternity. All three cuddled down to
gether in one nest—from mamma or auntie,
master Catkin took nourishment, just as it
suited his whim or convenience, and as you
might suppose, he grew and thrived aston
ishingly. So equal and perfect was this
partnership in the kitten, that it was im
possible for a stranger to tell which of the
two cats was the real mother. One day all
three were brought down to the parlor to
amuse some visitors. Both mammas seemed
equally nervous about having the baby
handled, and presently one of them caught it
by the neck, the cat's usual, immemorial way
of transporting her young, and started with
it for the attic ; when to the surprise and
immense amusement of allpresen t, the other
caught hold of the tail, and so the two bore
it away in triumph.
After this I am afraid the children gave
the little kitten 'rather more travelling than
he liked. It was such fun to see the two
anxious cats following him, mewing, and at
the first chance catching him up and lug
ging him home in that absurd manner!
Generally the real, certain true mother
seized on the head, but sometimes she was
magnanimous enough to yield the post of
honor to the aunt, and take to tho tail her
self.
So things went on for a few 'weeks, and
then there happened to this estimable cat
family another sad eient—for this is a trag
edy I am writing, though you may not have
suspected it—Katinka diedl What of, has
never yet been decided—physicians differed
about it, and the coroner could, not make it
out. But' this hitch is certain, Katinka
died. The grief of Katrina was and is very
affecting to behold. She mopes, she mews,
and her slender tail,,which she used to carry
erect-with such ajaunty air, droops dole
fully. ..he takes' no - longer the " constitu
tional" trot down the walk to the front
gate. Life seems to gm* dull and weari
some to her, and the pleasures of mouse
hunting and tree-climbing appear to have
lost their zest. If she remembers at all the:
halcyon period when much of her precious
time was spent in a dizzy round of gayety,
in a swift pursuit of a ball of cotton, or a
futile pursuit of her own tail, it is in sad
wonder that 'She could ever have - been so
merry and so thoughtless. She o-rows thin,
neglects her toilet, and 'often refuses food—,
and when the children offer 'her catnip, she
turns languidly away. If she were ac
quainted with Shakespeare, she would
doubtless say—" Canst thou minister to a
mind diseased ?" " Throw physic to Bose and.
Jowler—iTll 76)1,8 of it!
Friendly cat-neighbors call in occasionally,]
but the'y 'cannot cons Ole 'the pet
ting:cif the howiehold fails thus far to make
her_ cheery- and playful as once
,she
She is fed on the very " 4 --..hirman
kindness," bat, grief,has tic
. k; the , prearn
off. •
She seems to find her onlkee . soil "n yn
kt/
her care and - affJction -no,ltf,cl,lSs
catkin, and in his fondness 4E%-hgr e.
sorry to say, that he does ni24 44 .31 , 14,hry
deep sense of his loss--perhaps ho is too
young to realize' it. 'His •good , aunt4seems
sufficient for all his needs, and he thrives
finely,is fat and jolly, and full of all kitten
ish pranks and mischievous tricks. PoQr
_Katrina will have a hard time with him, I
fear as'he is sadly petted and indulged , . Such a
lazy rascal 011.8- he -is, i toodon't earn ;thy salt
of his porridge—that if lie took-it'iftited;
and-though quite old enough to .".go on the
war-path," has never yet killed his mouse,
or brought home a rat's scalp, or a ground
squirrel's brush, or as much as a feather
from a tomtit's wing. Ah, of all the dar
lings in the world,•an 'aunty's darling is the
likeliest to be spoiled.
This is all I know about this curious cat
family. I hope, dear children, that my true
story may not sadden you. f
All L can say in•a - way of a moral to my,
little story is: How-beautiful is love! Even,
when shown in, the fortunes , and- sorrows , of
cats and kittens, how , beautiful is lova !
grace Greenwood in The Little Pilgrim.
OHILDEEN A BLESSING.
I remember a great, man coming into my
house at Walthan, and seeing my children
standing in the order, of their 'age and sta
ture, said: '" These, are, th ey< that make
rich men poor." But he straightway re
ceived this answerii "Na ;'1 Iprd, these
are they that make a poor an ri4l) ; for
there is.not one of 113ese whom we could
part with for all your wealth." It; is easy
to observe, for the most part, that none are
solg i ripple ; and hardfisted as , the childless;
Whereas thoie,Who, fOr'the'n'aixiiktexiitnee ot
large families - are insured '-to' frequent dis
bursements, find'such experience of DiVine
Providence in the faithful management of
their affairs, 41i1 thattilleyli.)r-tontswith more
cheerfulness wh at th ey,roceiv fa. 4.nd wherein
their care Inuit be'abated When God takes
it , frgra,them to fa,isk i -ngiires
them e*a.selircitatibi tiiiir‘tui'dget ipon`
who bath more rig t to it, since our chit;
drr l are more-his t t b‘t,n, B opr, owyt. . He that
feecteth the: young ritVethi 'Can le' 'fat'
bestrofthis creaturee*hathey'oty . t 6 imF
--16hopJfilati, . -
TEMPERANCE JOTTINGS,
We called in, the other day, at a hand
some residence to talk with a refined Chris
tian lady about her husband, who has be
come a sorrowful wreck through the agen
cy of strong drink. We asked her what
first led her husband to tippling, for we had
once known him as very abstinent. She
replied : " He first began to use it at dinner
for dyspepsia. The doctor recommended
him to use wine or Bourbon as a tonic for
poor digestion. He got to liking his medi
cine, and it has made him a drunkard."
- .
That careless physician who put that
temptation in that poor man's way is part
ly responsible for his ruin. There are
enough other safe remedies for poor diges
tion without putting the dangerous glass
into the hands of a man who may have la
tent appetite for the accursed thing. The
physician who 'uses alcoholic medicines
freely is the partner of the grog-seller in
the manufacture of drunkards.
A gentleman whom we bad labored hard
to reform 'went back to his cups, and had a
frightful "spree." I said to his weeping
wife: " Why did your husband fall again
after his solemn promise to me and to God ?"
She answered ? "His health is not good, and
the doctor , says he must keep ale in the house,
and use a bottle every day !" " Madam,"
we replied, " the doctor who will put an ale
bottle, into your husband's hands deserves
to be kicked out of your doors." She took
the alarm. The ale was flung out of the
cellar, and the man reformed. He is now a
good church member, and a son of temper
ance. A good 'substitute can be found for
nearly every alcoholic medicine. Alcohol
cures but little; it covers up a great deal.
Ought total abstinence to be made a ne
cessary condition to church membership ?
This question is much agitated in many
quarters. My own rule is, never to admit
a man to the church (however genuine his
conversion) who has ever used liquor freely,
without his solemn pledge to abstain entire
ly. To all persons we would not make this
pledge an essential step to an admission to
the church' of Christ. But physical appe
tite must be met with physical restraints.
A Christian who tampers with stimulating
poisons as a beverage is'as likely to be over
come as any other man. And if a former
tippler professes spiritual conversion and
yet refuses to make a vow against his old
enemy, he is not to be trusted in the church
of God. 'He is secreting a "contraband"
lust in his heart, and is pretty sure to fall.
One-half of all the inebriates with whom we
have labored for five years past were once
members of Christian churches! What a
warning in this fact to pastors and church
officers.;---Rev. T. L. Cuyler.
MISPLACED WHIFFS,
Without either approving or condemning
any specific amusement, without attempting
to decide what is and what is not harmless,
we may be permitted to direct attention to
one tendency of the time. This spirit is
penetAting our churches and coloring our
Christianity. The demand ki that our sanc
tuaries, and our Sabbath-schools, and our
prayer meetings should be amusing. At
tractive is the word,used.. Opera music is
furnished in theJsanctudry. It= attracts. It
fills the yews. The Sabbath-school must be
attractive. The children Must bu amused.
•Sabbath.school concerts and anniversaries:
must be spiced with witty anecdotes. And
'prayer meetings must be made attractive
by holding them in i•ooins furnished with
the apparatus for popular games. A brother
in the ministry described to me the furnish
ing of a room for a Young Men's Christian
'Association in one of our c,itien.'• Along
each side of the room, were tables for 'play
ing deminoes,.backgammon and checkers—
and around these young men sat absorbed
in their games till the moment for the pray
er meeting. tal-16c. and then: the•iables were
cleared and worship began. Now in the
name of all that is proper, and serious, and
saqred,we protest agains,t the combination,
If dominoes,: and backgammon, and check
ers are innocent and proper—and we do not
deny , tharthey are-- 7 - 5 et-lire contend itliAt
they are not theliestimniediate preparation
for religious , worship. .IVe : may be old
fashioned, probably are, but the experience'
which has been moat proptable to us have
been those to Which' we have gone from the
closet and from our knees. • We always re
gret an invitation to tea on the evening of
the prayer Meeting. It not easYlo turn
immedpitely from the' ,chit-chat of a social
to the solemn worship of ded. can
these young men turn at once, and without
leaving their . places, from an exciting game,
to - At; of prayer and praise? Is this the
fitting preparation for an '
,approach to the
presence of Him beforebefore whom angels
veil their faces?,
' It Seems' -that a Young 'Men's'Christian
Association has been attempting, to Make
religion uttractivo by alternating.tlie prayer
meetings with sociables. The result .is
given in the following statement, taken
from the Springfield Republican:
" The Young Men's Christian Association
of North Adams became a thing of the past
on Monday last. Its sociables werealtways
well attended, which makes:it .a mystery to
some how it could possibly be given up.
But the prayer meetings have been so few
and thite-tiliall the same' wondering -thirlds
have desired to know how they could be
kept up." .
I,3,lt'we hail it as a good omen *lst a i
counter tendency is aw'akened': There is al,
reaction at least begun. The alarm is felt
and good men are sounding it. At the
cent anuive i rsaries at Andover an admirable
essay was read on the 'subject. The writer
took the ground that it is,esseptially vicious
t°,Rialco,POOnt.p the' OWect lif6' thoughle hind : of ilea Sure in itself may be , per
feetly innocent. The present demand is
tor Intemporatelindulgence.- What is meet'
needed-vowlis to restrain rather than to,
gratily.v, Jib .believesilikaValtittiswastado
which is made now-a-days by certaielggis
tian men about the great need of furnishing,
amusements for our youth is fearfully in
creasing the very evils which they think to
counteract. By so much as we appeal to a
love of amusements, already too much
gratified, du we awaken the sensuous nature,
deaden the moral feelings, and thus make
it all the more difficult to reach the heart
by religious appeals.
Bnt, however this may be—if any doubt
whether there is an excess in the direction
—no reverent Christian can question the
propriety of keeping our amusements dis
tinct and separate, both in time and place,
from our religious services. " Amusements
offered as a bait" to the Sabbath-school, the
prayer-meeting, or other religions appli
ances, are modern inventions. It is an at
tempt to beguile men into the service of
Christ. I know of nothing in the example
or teachings of Christ or His apostles to
warrant a resort to any trickery. But does
not Paul confess to the Corinthians—" Be
ing crafty I caught you with guile"? No,
but he puts these words, so we understand
him, into the lips of an opponent as a false
charge against himself. Let us not, breth
ren, lay,ourselves open to such an accusa
tion' not falsely, but truthfully made.—
The Watchman and Reflector.
THE POWER OF RELIGIOUS TRAINING.
A distinguished superintendent of public
instruction in one of the New England
States propounded, a few years ago,the fol
lowing question to a large number of teach
ers : " What proportion of such children
as you have had under your charge, could,
in your opinion, be so educated and trained,
that their existence on going out of this
world, would be a benefit and not a detri
ment, an honor and not a shame to society,
provided these children should all frequent
schools, taught by teachers of high intellec
tual and moral acquirements, during ten
months each year, from the age of four to
sixteen ?" From a large number of replies
thus obtained, we select the following strik
ing testimonies:
Mr. GaiscoLm, after an experience of for
ty years, testifies : That ninety-five per
cent would be supporters of the moral wel
fare of the community; that nineteen-twen
tieths of the immoralities with which socie
ty is afflicted would be eradicated from the
soil of our social institutions, and that not
one per cent would be found irreclaimable."
Mr. SOLOMON ADAMS says : " I would confi
dently expect, that ninety-nine out of a hun
dred would become good members of socie
ty, the supporters of law, order, justice,
truth, and all righteousness." Rev. T. AB
BOT witnesses as follows : "I think the work
of training up the whole community to in
telligence and virtue would soon be accom
plished, as completely as any human end
can be accomplished by human means."
Mr. F. A. ADAMS says : " In the course of
my experience, in teaching between three
and four hundred boys during the last ten
years, I have been acquainted. with but two,
in regard to whom Pshould not feel strong
confidence of success, according to the pro
posed experience." Miss C. E. BEECHER
bears the following emphatic testimony : "I
do not believe that one—no not a single one
would fail of proving a respectable member
of society; nay more, I believe that every
one would„ at the close of life, find admis
sion into the world of e.ndlesss peace and
love."
This testimony embraces children of both
sexes, from different parts of our country,
and extends over the last half century. The
teachers were all believ4rs in human de
pravity, and based their.hopes for counter
acting its demoralizing and ruinous influ
ences, on such a• degree of moral and reli
gious training as is imparted in many of the
public schools of New England, and which
might and ought to be imparted in them
everywhere else. If these,teachers expect
ed such glorious results from that degree
of religious training which may be proper
ly expected in all our schools, what'would
their expectations haVe been, if the question
propounded had included besides faithful
family training, efficient Sabbath-school in
struction, thorough e,atechization, and con
stant pastoral supervision? Who can doubt
that their united testimony would have been,
that the power of religious training, brought
to bear steadily and in the highest efficien
cy, during the fOrmative period of life, in
the family, in the school, and in the church,
by paren s, teachers, and pastors, would be
sufficiently great, to rescue every child
from the downward course of iniquity and
shame, and induce it to enter and pursue
the, ;path of virtue and honor, leading to
eternal life.-- The Lutheran Observer.i
"IF I SHOULD _ .DIE B E FORE I WALZE."
"Mother, every night, when Igo to bed,
I say, 'No* , I jay me; and do you know,
mamma, though lam four years old, I never
thought what it meant until Fanny Grey
died, n
? I asked nurse if Fanny died before
she 'waked ; and she said, Yes.' 'She went
to bed well, and had a spasm in the, night,
and died before she knew anything at all."
'" Now, mother," continued Rena, "
wankyou , to roe about Now I lay me,'
,so that, when I say it, I may think just what
it means."
" Well, Rena," said her mother, " I shall
be glad to tell you. What does it mean
when you say, 'Now I lay me down to
sleep?'"
" Oh ! that - means, mother, that I and; just
going to lie down iu my bed, to gorto.sleep,
t 11 morning."
" Well, then, as you
,lie down to sleep,
what prayer do you offer'to God:?"'
"'l:pray the Lord my soul to keep." I
want the Lord to take care of my soul
while I am asleep, and to:
•take care of me,
all over, mother.. But, mother, if I should
die before I wake; would the Lord be
ing oar*? of - gip then T. Now sacked-to
me, when Fanny died that God did not take
care of her alit night; and. so she died.",
" Oh, no, Rena! God did tai:e care of
her. The ittle verses says, If I should die
before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to
take ;' so you see God took little Fanny' s
soul to himself; and when she awoke, she
was in the arms of the blessed Jesus. Now
Rena, when you say, Now I lay me,' I
want you to think in this way : 'Now I
am going to bed and to sleep, and I want
the Lord to take care of me. If lam not
a good child, and do not pray to God, ought
I to ask him or expect him to take care of
me ? Let me lie down feeling that I am in
the Lord's care, and if I should die before
I wake, that still I am the Lord's child;
and I pray that he may take my soul to
dwell with him."
" 0 mother ! I will try and remember,
Why, I used to say it slow, and clasp my
hands, and shut my eyes; and yet I d d not
think about it. Thank you, mother dear.
Please bear me to night when I say my
prayers."
Ab; little children 1 are there not a great
many, who,
like Rena, say their prayers
without thinking what it means?—mere
words, with no meaning in them? God
cannot listen to such prayers. They are
not for Him " unto whom all hearts are
open, all desires known, and from whom no
secrets are hid."
Think of what I have written about lit
tle Rena, when you say, " Now' I lay me"
to-night; and I pray that God will watch
over you, waking and sleeping.
A TRUE STORY.
" Once upon a time" as stories were
generally begun in my childhood days, there
lived two little sisters in the town of T. t.
They 'loved each other dearly, as sisters
and brothers should always do. As they
were playing-one evening on the pavement
before their father's door, the little one,
whom we will call "Brown-eyes," threw a
pebble, which, unfortunately, hit the elder
sister, whom we will call " Blue-eyes."—
Several gentlemen standing near, seeing
the accident, expected to hear a loud screw
and an angry voice saying, " You ugly
thing; I'll just tell mother ! You did it a
purpose—l know you did—you mean, ugly
thing," and so on, as angry children will
talk. But these gentlemen h.eard nothing of
the kind. For a moment little Blue-eyes
stood, ready to cry—for to be hit by, a
pebble hurts. As I said, Blue-eyes stood
for a• moment looking at poor, dismayed
Brown-eyes, then she ran to her, threw her
arms round her, and said, " Don't cry, little
sister; I know you didn't mean, to hit me.
Kiss me, dear," and the sisters kissed and
embraced each other fondly. The gentle
men who saw the little ones told their
father of it adding, " We never saw any
thing like that befbre." Alas ! and is sister
ly and brotherly love and forbearance so
rare a thing that the : loving sisters' conduct
should call forth a remark like that? Dear
children, do be kind and loving to all, but
especially to your sisters and brothers, whom
God has given to you to love. Try to be
like Jesus, who not only loves those who
love him, but he loves his enemies. He died
that his enemies might live.
COULDN'T FIND THE VERDICT.
At a recent session of one of the courts
of South Carolina an entire negro jury was
empanelled. A, case was brought before
them, the witnesses examined, and the at
torneys made their respective arguments.
The Judge, after laying down the law and
recapitulating the testimony, gave the papers
into the hands of the foreman, a rather in
telligent looking darkey, with instructions,
as soon as theyfound a verdict, to bring it
in without delay.
Thirty minutes or more elapsed, when the
jury returned, headed by the foreman, and
stood before the judge.
As the foreman appeared to hesitate, the
judge inquired
c , Mr. Foreman, have you found a ver
dict ?"
"No, Massa Judge, we haben't found 'em
nohow," replied the ebony juryman.
" It's a very plain case," said the judge.
" Can't help it, Massa, couldn't see it," re
plied ebony again:'
" On what grounds ?" inquired the judge.
"we didn't look into the grounds, Massa
Judge," replied the foreman; "de ()sailer
didn't take us .out into de grounds, but he
took us into a room and locked us• in, an'
tole us when we found de verdict he would
leff xis out. So we began to - find.de verdict,
and search ebery nook, corner, crevis an'
ebery ting dere was in dat room, but we
found no verdict—no noffin ob•dekine dar!'
—Southern Exchange.,
A BEAUTIFI7L INOIDENT.
A naval officer being at sea in a dreadful
storm, his lady, who was sitting in the
cabin . near him, and filled with ilarm for
the isafety of the vessel, was so surprised
at his Composurnand serenity, that she cried
out
"My dear, are you not afraid ? How is
it possible you can be calla in such a dread
ful storm"?" ' • '
He rose from his Oair lashed to the deck,
supporting himself:by a pillar of the bed
place, drew his sword, , and pointing to the
breast of his wife, exclaimed--
" Are you not: afraid ?"
She instantly answered, " No."
"Why ?"Said the officer.
"Because," rejoined the, lady, ct I know
that this sword is in the lianas, of my hus
band, and he loves me too well to hurt me."
"Then," saidihe, "remember, I know in
whom I believe;.and that - He holds the winds
In his fists, and the' witter:in the hollow of
his hands." ' '
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Regard hyTner i key an , thn most odious sin
in the sight of ,Grod i 414,13.1exi... To have no
hohilees le bad rffintßag o li,i„hgt, to pretend it
when We have it,' DA, •Ilif gloitbie ampiety. ,
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