l anzil Cittdr.
THE ICONOCLASTS OF TOURNAY.
[A story of the Dutch Reformation, from Owen Me
redith's "Chronicles and Characters," being the con
cluding part of his piece called: Adolphus Duke of
Guelders.)
Suddenly, a shout,
As though Re}l's brood had broken loose, rocked all
Heaven's black rodf dismal and funereal.
As when a spark is dropt into a train
Of nitre, swiftly ran from brain to brain
A single, fiery purpose, and at last
Exploded, roaring down the vague and vast
Heart of the shaken city. Then a swell
Of wrathful faces, irresistible,
Sweeps to the great Cathedral doors; disarms
The Guard; roars up the hollow nave; and swarms
Through aisle and chancel, fast as locusts sent
Through Egypt's chambers, thick and pestilent.
There, such a sight was seen, as, now and then,
When half a world goes mad, makes sober - mete'
In after years, who comfortably sit.
In easy-chairs to Weigh and ponder it,.'
Revise the various theories of mankind,.
Puzzling both others and themselv r es to find.
New reasons for unreasonable old prongs, ~
Yells, howlings, cursings; grim-tumultuousthrongs;
The metamorphoses of mad despair ;
Men with wolves' faces, women with •fierce hair
And frenzied eyes, turned-furies: over all
The torchlight tossing in perpetual
Pulsation of tremendous;glare or gloom.
They climb, they cling from altampieoe-andlomb;
Whilst pickaxe, orowbar, pitchfork ; -billet, each ,
Chance weapon caught within the reckless reach
Of those whose single will a thousand means
Subserve to. clquilplefiviiil, apd.g i tintis,
Whose sole thfidifildiiiiltredetipilifey, thrOutti all
The tnaxble tpqn,ura9ts majestical
Go crashing. „Basalt, lapis, syenite,
Porphyry, and liefrimept,"in splinters bright,
Tumbled with el,apsof,thunder, clattering
Roll down the dark. The surly sinners sing
•
A horrible black santis, so to cheer ~.
Vital& Vith4terinoli:4 yoivhear
A shout of awful joy, as down goes some
Threieiluldred-years-old treasure.. Crowded, come
To glut the greatening bonfire, chalices
Of gold and silver, copes and cibories,
Stained altar-olfithkipoiled pictities,'oilnaments,
Statues, and broken organ tubes and vents,
The spoils of•generations all destroyed
In one wild moment! Possibly grown , cloyed
And languid, then a lean'iconoclast,
Drooping a sullen eyelid, fell at last
To reading lazily: the letters graven
Around the royal tomb, red porphyry-paven,
Blank-pillared; snowy-slabbed, and sculptured fair,
Re sat on, listless,with spiked elbows bare.
When (suddenly inspired 'with some'new hate
To yells, the hcdlow roofs reverberate •
As though the judgment-Angel-passed among
Their rafters, and the great beams clanged -and - rung
Against his griding wing) he shrieks; "Conte forth,
Adolphus, Duke of , Guelders! lor thy Worth
Should not be hidden.” Forth With, all men shout:
"Strike, split, crash, dig, arid drag - the' tyrant out!'
Let him be judged•!" And from-the' drowsy, dark;
Enormous aisles, aqhttndred echoes bark'
And bellow,--"Juged!"
Then those dread Haters till,
Marching before the magisterial
Curule of tardy Time, with rod and axe,
Fall to their work. The cream-white marble' cracks,
The lucid alabaster flies in flakes,
The iron bindings burst, the brickwork quakes
Beneath their strokes, and the great stone lid shivers
With, thunder on , the pavement. A torch, quiv.era;
Over the yawning vault. The vast crowd draws
Its breath back hissing. Tettiat sultry pause
A %au• u'erstrideiv : tha tomb. aud.drope.benenth ;
Another! then another. Still ts breath
The crowd" holds, fiushftil: • the lath aPpears,
Unravaged by a hundred wicked tears,
Borne on brood s l / 4 oußer,.s,from th,e Jonah to which
Broad shoulders boreilim ; eotniUg, in his rich
Robes of magnificence (by sweating thumbs
Of savage artisans;-as each one comes
To stare into his dead face,—smeared and smudged);
Adolphus, , Duke'a Gnelders, . . .to beju'dgetilt
And then and there,, in that strange judgment-hall,'
As, gathering round their royal eihninta,
Troop the wild jury, the dead 'Duk6 *as found'
To be as fresh in face, in flesh as sound,
As though he had been buried yesterday;
So well the embalmer'S work from all decay
Had kept his royal person. With his great
Grim truncheon propt on hip, his robe of state
Heaped in visit folds,fiiillige-bilin Bashi' around; .;
The Duke lay, looking as in life; and frowned
A frown that seemed as of a living,man.
. s l 9 ,
. _
Meanwhile thosejtidges t eir tissue began.
And, having, in incred,
Decided that in notling save - hiti crime -
The Duke exceeded mere humanity,
Free, for the first time, its own cause to try,
So long ignored,'L-they peeled him, Bibb by Atli,
Bare, 0 the mingled pomps4hat mantled him; .
Stript stabbed him, stampt . upon ,him,
smqte 4 .
His cheek, and spat upon it, slit his throat,
Crusht his big, brow, and clove his crown, and left
Adolphus, Guelders'.last own Duke, bereft
Of sepulture, and naked, on the floor
Of the Cathedral. Where, six days or more
He rested, rottifq. What remained, indeed,
After the rats had had their daily feed,
Of the great Duke, some unknown hand, 't. is said,
In the town cesspool, last, deposited.. ,
GRACE_ ROCHE'S LEGACY. C%l_ , P.
By the'Aiithdr ormargatetiaridle'
Claxton's Bqmnt.
.Rot passe. 0;1 On. There was much
spare room in that little cottage, by the mill
stream • - kr a; 'group of merry, bright child
ren hadsprung up •around Andre* and his
wife, drawing their hearts still closer to
gether. They had Wad their sorrows: " The
Reaper" bad visited the green earth, and
taken away two treasured blossoms • from
the miller's family; but the sorrowing pa
rents had been enabled to say, even in their
deepest grief, ' 4 The
,Lord gaire, and the
Lord taketh awa.y; , blessed be the name of "
,
the Lord 1:' and could' rook' Upon their dear';
ones, not as lost but only as
, gone a little
while before. . .
Their eldest' child was a boy, named
Frank,, after his mother's father; the other
rgthitinins children were girls. 'Frapkßoche
was a merry, lighthearted, industrious
youth? the life of alf at home, and a favorite
with everybody. He was a striking contrast
to his cousin Geoffrey'', the wheeliiriglit's only
child., Young ; Geoffrey was really to be pit
ied. Be,bad been reared in a most unheal
thy moral atmosphere, and. his disposition
had sttffered 'in coriseqtienda. ' His father's
discontented disposition bad . increased With
his ad vai;cing years; and ke already looked
quite ten years the senior of his elder bro
ther Andrew. It was a bad home for a
young man, /Us Mother, too, was constant
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1863.
ly reminding him of what his prospects
would have been it he had had his "rights ;"
and the youth had early come to look upon
himself as a much injured individual, on
whom fate had cruelly imposed a life of toil
ing industry, in place of the "independence"
to which be was entitled. How few under
stand the real meaning of the Word "inde
pendence." A writer says, " The king is
the least independent man in his dominion;
the beggar the most so ! "
Andrew Roche did the best thinghe could
for his nephew. He invited him constantly
to his house ; and encouraged, in every way,
the intimacy between him and his cousin
Frank. The two lads were much attached
to one another, notwithstanding - the great dif
ference in their dispositions; and the happi
est-portions of Geoffrby% yontlithr days; were
those,-which he spent with his cousin. after,
wore on ^ the summer evenings, fishing for
trout in the stream , in the neighborhood, or
by his,uucte'S Cheerful fire-side , &Kim the
long Wrinternights.
" ''catilint think how you 'manage to take
things so easily," said Geoffrey to'`-tirilii cou
sin, one eVening,- - as•• they were-fistili4;in the
mill 11.04-,21 "You have been defrauded of
your 'lights'''just as much - as I have, and
ityet you don'A, seem to care a Tusk' abput
Frank - cotdd never keep from , laughing
whenever his cousin' began to talk ' abOut
their "rights," ,
suppose the reason is, Geoffrey,r;that I
feel I have 'still plenty of'‘ rights;aas , • you
call them, left me, of which no one can de
prive me," v,
*hat rights, lave yon,,Fran,
" lhe , right to,, earn, ray ow,o living, and
the power of doing so, -Which is true blip : .
pendence; the power otenjoyingthis,beau
tiful world, in which God , hasi placed liss;
the. rY ' '
"Nonsense" interrupted Geoffrey; "hat.
is not what "Nonsense,"
Virkat, heritage he s%
you lOok fori'htid to Wheki--416%—ilrield
dies, for example ?"
'Frank was not laughing now,and - there ,
was a slight tone of reproach; in
as he 'answered' cs.mini , " god for)?id
I should ever 'look forward ' to any cluck..
time; G'eoff'rey;
Him to call ferAerslietge,Ute leav4
to all his•filtaily Arhat S6lomon.says,,‘As bet
ter than great riches,' namelnotlie heritage
of a 'good name.' ~
"You, ne,cd, uot.talro' Othgn -so seriously,
,In
Frank;'leani: I can assure you;
only, when I look at Aunt , Gracei , and think
" Would
,you change
. places , with ~,kunt
Grace, if yon Courd,92eoff4l"'WEiked ierabli
with a returning smile.
It Was nowl , G-eoffeey:s'i)Arn Wltnglif
right, as he "prOt a e'seedi itarrickfiing would
induce hiro.to k _do, s?. z e , • • c i 4. 1
" change places will such a mis
erable being'aVAtiiit'GritehT Niii; No 1"
" Then I say, we have.the best of it, after
all,",said Frank. ",I'm, quite sure 1 am-not
wretched and miserable, neither are you,
Geoffrey, except when'yoU litiiiikusaittN too
much about your ',riVatse , . Anditherefs
their, 'she's ' happy en oiikit 7 -IWlref,`
—and as to.father," continuethFrank, point
ing to a hale , jovial-looking man i Wbo was
advancing; towardsPM through reAa4
(lowa, with a party Of l l merry laughing girl's
around him;,":l don't think ho 'looks very,
sad!" . • , •
.•.
`::!"..No,h'S
thought how little his own fatherresenibled
Uncle Andrew.
" Well lads, what 1.71 simrt said the miller
as hisi came near,
inhoh," 'they replied; " the evening
is too bright." • •' - • •
heard you both laughing
said Maggie Roche, _Prank's eldest 'sister;
" that it was enough '4cai.e the b4ll
away: have Y'on, been laughing
about?" '
" Frank asked me if I , mould ;change
places with Aunt' Gracdr . saidlepffrey.
"And you said Yes,' " ; Of CC,qrse.,
"Didl, though? I'm riot q . uit,q , so , foolish
as that, ,Maggie .7
That"s right, my b0Y,17 :0 494 A4 4 .,tiPPJeff
Slapping him on thoi back.
" A wicked miserly old mdifia;ii,'":'sai‘l' Goof
frey " who, as father says, , deeerves—'''
"Nay, nay, GeOffi.ey,:lad,;``ii`6, "bitterness.
If wee - mina; in trnth, - spealViztucli good' of
your Aunt Grace, let us abstain ‘trota speak
ing evil_ L have, lo.ug since fgrgiyenTlier,
from sic, Aint wicitik AA' intkie hav e
done me; and(all„t,hc,happiar fez'
it, Geoffrey: ' Relieve:thee° who'll**
malice, pay, a ; bevy, penalty, fqr .so doing.
It, is time fOr you to"beleftving'Off now,
boys, I think-T,'? cant:inked Andrew Roche;
" forqhd deMiti falling thick and fast. °dine
home with us to supper, Geoffrey; the girls
have been whispering something about a
syllabub, whie,h,thek mpther j h*s promised
them, to celobrate,SusieN '
Geoffreedid not require muolitmessing
and, the,two lads put up their ilshinetaekles,
and walked towards the cottage. A
ktrs,,,Aoche was but little changel since
her marriage., 'Her, -figu i fe wae, - ionaihat
more niaerbnly ; ankrkeiiii Observer might
haVe detected a
with her dark brown hair;, bat, -*ere was
the same filthily fade, the same
the same bright, blue eye; and the sameleind
heart which 44 made,Andl.e* `RochWteel,
twenty yFars before, that he 'Mid brought a
perpetaiil "isuxibeam" to' 'enlivenibas.hoine.
And he had never had calinie . lo'bhange his
opinion. ,E,r,e,7 wife has it,. to, a great ex
tent, in ifilr own powi3C,Uoilid.43ithdiula sun
i'dark cloud in her home: '''7.*e,rk
r
One feels the difference there ieninithe outer
world, bet Ween a bright gonshicy: day, and
one obscured, by heavrthgndetpli#l,lo; and
there is just as wide a difference in domestic
life between that home whereqlAerful good
burnor reigns, and one over which -the evil
shadow of ill-tempia'reses.
It was a merry,party that evening, in the
miller's cottage. gis. Roche's' father had,
come in from the mill, to , drink the health
.11
of his youngest grandchild. The old man
was still hale and hearty, and took a pleas
ure in witnessing the merry games of the
children. As to Geoffrey, he left his dark
cloud outside his uncle's cottage, and was as
cheerful and happy as the rest, while he was
there.
CHAPTER 'III
The next few years brought great changes
along with them. The elder Geoffrey had
worried himself into a premature old age,
and had died quite suddenly. His affairs
were found to be in anything but a prosper
-01113 condition; for
,his unhappy disposition
had prevented him from paying that active
and zealous attention to his business which
it required. It - would have gone badly, then,
with Widow Roche and. her son, had not
Andrew Roche come forward to help
,to set
matters' straight. By, his, exertions, his late
brother's affairs were, restored to something
like order ;. a decent provision madetfor the
widoW, and. young Geoffrey started 'afresh
with every
, prospect of sacc , ess, r He, wasa
clever v•tri3:rknian, i)l4::tfierci, :werio"r4aSon
why* he should not make his WaY,in' the,
world.,
" I'm sure we.'arelyery•much beholden to
you, Andrevi . ,A saiii-tiee"Viiibw, in a plain
tive voice ;, "a . nd!.o\ol,ll , Y , ,t4rongh bein,g
prived of obi' as I may say,,that
we' have been 0b1iged.t0,,,7,, •
Andrew Roche was an easy good-temper
edlnan; but:•this speech was almost more
than, he could. Put up
, with.
Mary,"he said to his sister in-law, ;
quite. angrily; ." if you wish Your-son ever
to be good for-anything in the2•World; have
dOne,,at 'once, and for ever, talking about
thede ','rights'.'yonrs. y,ini not
sense en0ugh...,,i.0 see, that it: Wasthe,unfor
tunate habit of brooding 'over these • very
rights that brought , my poor brother to
his grave;and would you encourage your
only child foll6*,the same marl ,course ?
Geoffrey has now a clear ; fresh start in 'life.
Let.him set to mork , manfully, hopefully;
and beware how you throw any impedi
ments int hist - wa3r.;:bpleadinwhirru:to4dwell
upon:whattwaslhitf.fathersktnin i and would
pool' beconie '
TI widO4 s fOr . 4Vliiite,..ff - not
IdOnvine`ed: 'And ov:sr•
hism eph evii was so :great, thatth e latter seem
adtci have turn
,ed 1437 arziow leaf; He 'ap
plied hiitigilf stiikdqf to 'WEirli? slat at the
end of ,a twelve-puonth, was doing,a,pron?erl
ons trade, aii,dwas enabled, to repay his,un
cle spmemaney he had advanced him.
far all waw well. • • •
"",I it , t,y,.Frank; I'idiall be two-hndltwen
ty;t6.inphikv, old' fel)d.w-='alinost time to
beJooking out ,foi; a wik;..,ien't it;?"
~ Frank thud looked in ,at the wheelwright's
shop to' have a‘nhat. - He.frequently did so . ;
114' he 'and'his'consin Were' asi warm filet d's
as ever. ._„,, , , • , .
" 4' '''`l'' r ttl -L i b
I (9143 er wat a, 1 e comer Geoffr ey?"
" - Oh i.. 1. don't niein to_marry,..yet.; bilk it
is as well to ma ks ,§.,uxe s o4 your wife, when
/„,
you have one in chi. isi ."-
ii,P,And have",yoa tized,upon any pno, Geq-
F
: O T_ , ,• wak'AliTitli''anscio.y. arc _ the 'Cone.` of
Fra voice, and laeoffrey observed it.
' 4 iii'yon.ihin K. ,I.should have beim wiser
to . ,h4ve waited a little longe.F?''' ' ' ,
"Thatdepends: n said Frank.
-4 95 4 ,e11 . , -- k - don't - mimitatlitrg-you; Tdd - fel
low: It's
have, titivbflliaTilltinffi. +Secrets from
You; Millie North-way I wish to get for
my re--le?i'W-tuktr Ray: , Oro. l / 1 414 ..M . r choice,
Bran .r.?, ... , ~r 24, A. : - • ..., ,a. '-, li" ;a. < ' '
. a
11f:$, Iit i f,(TPYMAIAk r thit4i:eo lll4 :l 2l.
Her,e tank ntititanly , checked himself, and
adde `'','?ltUeLyn'ott., spOken to. Mani; yet,
qett. 2 . ~.Y'r.- . 7,,',"',,'',.":.:: :''' ' , ' ' '',
`.''.. ~) ,•• t hathis,what I Mein ..to.do the first
oppiatinity',,',,l',liC t right ,glad ,ypu. think I
have' 'phosen , frftt; : aria ',ll things ' prosper
with , • niii ,thia.,year ; Wliy who knowsh at that
nett':' ,ear,l l ,Sh.4lriie able to 9fferAillie a
comf ' ble home." , ),• , •.•, :
. - 0.0 r,ey. WO 40.,f1i1l ''of. hi4','oWn ,
,happy
thou ts . , that it neverstruckhim , as 'strange
that IrColll3ill did npt wish - him success,
and that he-,wenfvfity rithi , r, Brikabrupt
ly t h a h wdi l r iti4.4.ydv, /3)1, /; , f - _
lie twe tell the reason ? A d
ark' cloud
hActi VI:937r. FAti-1k,',8, hitbAtto,itanzyili4;
andf ' sftemed , all , the-darker from ' 'baring
begiii , efallyNiniinoi& Ho hadiongdeved
Hilly' bithivay--hail long wished to make
her thriortg-liii. had filittill, h!ti f)ialieda
were'not yet good enough to allow of his
i i
mairyi,ng i , and ha reflAin tn
ed fpo-speaki,n&
aOverd to ' Millie titeeniblecti AWE lie:Mid i
a• giliod therms to-o es her:‘ And ?nicoi-, ail4aii.i'-
over, and his dea,rgst hopps, could never be
realized. Once, i> ftuithi,the saddest
wa'k he had ever taken,the thought crossed
hiaaai i ti d tlifyt,;.,sys, 9-eoAreg-lload no 0,,t 4 yet, sir ;
ken to AMY, 'he inigllt bo bef6re:hana with
him, and. speak to. her first. himself. •Ile was
passing MillY'd oftittage' ilt'the'Vary Moment . '
this polight
,came,into his 'mind. lie had
as goOd:&.ChiticiCe as. , •aeoirrey—nay, he had
sometimes almost • fancied, that ').l illy ;13'0'
rather a preference for him. Sig ,
tuld ho go
in at„itence, and' team ,her',;deci4on ? These
thoughts 'passed quickly, through Frank's
brain; 'but' all that, was ooble in his mind
protested against • such a yotirsc, as_ taking a
mean and dishonorable advantage of his
cousin's coiifideace. His bettei nature tri-:
'implied; atrd, with a sad, heart, but a clear
conscience, he determined to conceal his.
feelirtgsz'Althin;:hia own ' ', breast, until time
Should enable him to overcome them.',
Bat, ;toile ' , events soon happened in his
honie l vithieh"Maile his' doing s'e a harder
task than he had expected. His:grandfather
witsstedenly, Wien ill, and 'axe attack 80011'
Tregi,j4tal to him., Peaceful ,and happy
were the*closing , scenes of , the
.old miller's
life. And; Surrounded by hiS , children, to
badJbeen spared beyond the time
usually:allotted to• mortals,' he passed away.
The mill had now becomf34the , prDperty of
.44:pw.Apd,b is Jaffe. Tbey did not, hoW,'
ever, remove from their old cottage in which
so .many happy"years bad been past. It was
Frank.and his, sister Maagie ,who .went to
live4ap ,here littim the
t • 41.4. .m ill. -
i
EOM
" Maggie shall turn out, remember, Frank,
my boy, whenever you brin 4 home your
wife," said his father.
Frank smiled almost a sad smile, as he
replied—
" Maggie will have to wait a long while
before I turn her out, father."
" You'll sing a different song some day,
Frank, never fear; meantime,
there's the
mill, and a good house too : no bad home to
bring a wife to, I should say."
And so Frank felt—and it increased his re
gret—but never made him think of acting
otherwise than his conscience told him he
should do. It was a great temptation ; for
Milly had been absent from Woodthorpe for
a month, and Geoffrey had not found an op
portunity of speaking to her before she
went. And when she returned home, al
most her first visit was to Andrew Roche's
coti age, as she and Frank's sister had been
companions from early_, childhood., - Frank
was glad 10 was not living at home when
she called ; and he avoided , meeting her un-,
til his , consin had spoken to her. 3
He was very busy in the mill one Morn
ing, vilipri Geoffrey rushed in flushed with
excitement,
"Give me joy, old fellow," he exclaimed:
as he drew Frank aside; "it's all right; she
has eonSented !" • •
And Frank was able to wish him joy in
all ',good faith'. and sincerity,` and no one
ever knew the struggle , thiit had taken plitee
on:the unseen battle-field of Frank,Roc ►e' s
heart..
"I certainly am. surprised," said Kra.
Roche to her husband; when Geoffrey's .en=.
gagement was -known-- to her.---"-I all
along boped t tbs,t,our Frank bad a liking for
Milly Nortliway; but I suppose it is all for
the best?'‘
[TO BZ CONTINUED.]
"GET THEE HENCE, SATAN."
'A little girl sat upon ` the large'stendoor
step .of her father's houi3e, 'and"beside
was• a boy about the same. age. Itethad been
eatinga fresh, rosy apple, andshad.thrown
the, eore into the gutter beyond the .walk
m
and Watehed it as the muddy, water carried
it' his sight; then turning back to his,
playmate, who seemed to be, absorbed inthe
pictures of a new book,• he said:—
" Give me a bite of your apple, Katy;
mine's all gorie.". .
",Not. now ;, wait till I eat it," was the
abstracted reply; but the voracious, little
fellow; not quite content to wait, took the
apple up, turned.it , roand and round, smelled
at:it. a little; and then began to toss it light
ly.in his hands, each time catching it: again.:
I expected, to see his teeth go into it ; bat
her was too honest for. that. At last it' drop
ped from his chubby hinds, and rolled
across the: walk into the gutter, , and it Was ,
borne away.: ~.1 ,
Ris , :exelamation brought the large eyes
of: the little! girl rupon him. The rich • blood
mountedto:her brow, and with a Spring she
was: upon , :hor feet i ,with one ',hand raised,
apparently to: strike the shrinking form be
side, her.. Bat it did 'not 'fall ; and! as she
stood, her hair thrown'back, the hand pois 4
ed in the.air,i the whole face•and formshOW
inga struggle within, I prayed, that she.
might not: be too strongly tempted: A.Mo4
ment more ) . and• the clear triumphant tones
of , her voice fell . on my ear ; •
" Get' thee.hente, Satan !get,thee hence!
The mother within the 'door heard .the.
sound teoi , and:coming to them, asked the
ineaning.:l Again a blush mantled the noble'
brow.of the child, :but it, was humility and
shame that :caused it ; , while with slightly
drooping head, she answered, "Satan wan
ted nia,to strike Freddie; but didn't."
The:.mother drew her within her arms,
and kissed her, saying: " That is right, my'
child; resist . him- and: hewill flee from you:"
Would that all. might learn in childhood
to resist the power of temptation with the•
Holy. Spirit's:help !•,T.rulythe world would ,
be better for it.—Christian Banner. •
THE .OLDEST! OHRISTIAN; ; HYMN.• - (
In , Wook all. of Clement of Alexiindria; is , given
in Greek) the intik andientliyinn of'the Priniitive
Church. It -is there(one hundred and fifty:years'
after the: Apostles) asserted to be of Much earlier
origin:' It may have been sung by the belored.
Disciple" before he ascendedto his reward. The
following' version will give some imperfect idea of
its 'Spirit
, Shepherd, of , Aender youth,
'Guiding in Jove and truth,
Through devious ways;
Christ, our triumphant' King; ' •
We come Thy-name to sing,
And here our children bring,
: ; ;To shout Thy , praise. - • , ,
Thou art•our holy,_Lordj
The all-sfiladuing
Healer of - strife!
Thou didet Thyseit abase,
ri hat from Sires dee'p disgrace
Thou.mightest save oiler racei
And give us life.
Thou art wisdom's High Priest! 0
Thou hast prepared the feast ,
Of hilly love!.• '
And in our mortal pain 4
None calls on thee in vain ; -
Help Thou dost , not disdain,
Help from above. =
,
Ever be ThoU our Guide,
Our Shepherd and our pride,
'
-Our staff and song!
:Jestis! Thou (Arista' God ! •
By thelperennial Word;
Lead us where Thou .hasttrod ;
Make;our faith strong.
SO now; and till we . die,
sound we' Thy praise.bil - high
And joyful , sing.
Infants, and the glad throng,
Who to Thy . cipare* bel 9 og v , .
Unite and dwell the, eery „
• To Christ our ECipg!
the sacrifice of human prudence on the
altar of God is onelof the toost difficult.
Eat gontomg.
TILE ROBIN,
The return of the robin is commonly an
nounced by the newspapers, like that of
eminent or notoriouspeople to a watering
place, as the first authentic notification of
spring. And such his appearance in the
orchard and garden undoubtedly is. Bat, in
spite of his name of migratory thrush, he
stays with us all winter, and I have seen
him when the thermometer marked 15 de
grees below zero of Fahrenheit, armed im
pregnably within, like Emerson's Titmouse,
and as cheerful as he. The robin has a bad
reputation from people who do not value
themselves less for being .fond, , ,of cherries.
There is;
- I admit, a spies'spies'of vulgarity= in
him, "and his song is rather of the Bloomfield'
sort, too largely ballasted with prose. 'llia
ethics are of the Poor Richard school, and,
the main chance which calls forth all his
energy is altogether of the belly. lie never
has those fine intervals of lunacy into which
his cousins, the catbird and, the mavis,.are
apt to fall., But, fdi
. a' that and twice
mtickle 's that, I would not exchingo
him for all tb&cherries that ever came oat
of Asia,Minor., , With whatever faults, he,
has .not wholly forfeited that superiority
that belongs to the children of nature. life,
has a finer taste in fruit than could be dig`
tilled from many successive- committees of
the Horticultural Sobinty, -, and be , . eats :with
a relishing' gulp not inferiorlo Dr. johii
son's. ' Ile feels and freely exercises his
right of eminent doinain. His is the earli
est mess of green peas; his, all the mulber
ries had ; fancied mine. Brit if he get t also
the lion's share , of the raspberries, he. is's
great planter, and sows those wild ones in
the woods, -that solace the pedestrian and' ,
giv& a' momentary' calm, even to the jaded
victims, of the White Hills. He keeps*
strict eye over one's fruit, and knows tnia,
shade, of purple when your grapes. have
cooked long enough in the sun. During the
severe drought a few years ago, the robins
wholly vanished from my garden. I neither
saw nor heard one for three weeks. Mean
while a small 'foreign grape-vine, rather shy
of bearing; seemed to find the dusty air
congenial, ,and, dreaming perhaps of its
sweet Argos across_ the: _sea; decked itself
with a Score or so of fair bunches. I watch=
ed them frokudity to day' trill they should,
haVe secreted etigar enough' from the 44.1-
Wain's; and at last made up my .mind that 7
wee,l4, eelebrate my vintage the, next morn
lam Fekt the, rebins.too•had-sornehow kept
note of them. They must have sent: out
spies; US did the Jews itito' the promised
landl k before I was stirring. *whorl I went
out with my` basket, at least a dozen of
these winged vinta,gers bustled' out from
among the leaves, and ,alighting on the
nearest .trees interchanged some shrill re
marks ''about me of' a derogatory nature.
They had fairly sacked the viiie Not Wel
lington's veterans made cleanerwork of a
Spanish town ; 'not Federate dr, Gonfecieratea
were ever more impartial in the confisca
tion of neutral chickens. I was lapping my
grapes a szeret to surprise the:lair Fidel°
with, but the robins made them a profound
er secret to her than I had Meant. The
tattered remnant of a single bunch was
my, bariest-home. How paltrYit looked at
the bottom of the basket ir --ae if a humming
bird had laid:her egg. in- an, eagle's nest !,..I
could not help, laughing;, , , and the. robins
seemed to join . : beartily in the merriment.
There was a liative"grape-vine' close by,
blue with its fess refined abundanee, but my
&inning thieies preferred the foreign flavor.
Could'l tax'them with, want of taste ?
The, , robias - are not good- solo singers, but
their chorus ' as, like primitive fire worship
ers; they hail the return of light and
Warmth to the-World, is unrivalled. " There
are a titindred singing like one. They are
noisy enough then, and sing, as, poets should,
with ~no aftertheught. .Bat when they,
come after cherries to the tree near my
window, they' muffle theirs voices, and their
Laint tpip; popl sounds far away at the
bottbni of the garden, where they know I
shall not.suspect them of robbing the' great
blaek-waleut of its bitterrinded store.
They are, feathered Peasants, to be sure,
but then, how brightly their breasts, that
look rather shabby in the sunlight, shine in
a rainy day against the dark green of the
fringe-tree'! After 'they have pinched and
shaken • ,life out of an earthworm ' as
Italian COO.is . pOUnd all the, spirit out ctf" a
steak,, and then , gulped him, they, stand up
in honest self confidence, expand their red
waistcoats with the virtuous airof a lobby
meniber, and outface yicin`with 'an eye that
calmly challenges - "Dp /look like
a bird that knows the `flavor btraw vermin?
I throw ,myself 'Ten, a jury ! of my peers.
Ask any robin if he ever ate anything less
ascetic than the frugal berry of the juniper,
and he will answer that his vow forbids
him." Can Such an open bosom cover such
depravity'? Alas, yea! I have 'doubt his
breast was redder atthatvery moment with
the blood, of my raspberries. •On the whole,
he is &doubtful friend in the garden. He
makes his dessert of all kinds of berries, and
is'not averse from early pears. But when we
remember how omnivorous he is, eating his
own weight in an incredibly short time,
and that Nature seems •exhaustless in her
invention of new insects hostile to vegeta
tion, perhaps we, maY;reekon-that he does
more good%than harm.. For my own part,
I , would rather have his cheerfulness and
kind neighborhood "than many berries.—
j. Bisset Lowell in Atlantic Almanac.
The Old' Testament is ,indeed a less full
revelation of meroyasa.doctrine or a scheme
of:salvation, .bat, the mercy itself is there,
in, overflowing measure, and expressed in
the most pathetic language. It is peculiar
ly the emotional part nf :Holy Scripture.—
Evyr Lewis ir_anges Gen:eats.