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THINGS TO REMEMBER.
Edward Everett became overheated in
testifying in a court room, went to Faneuil
Raw w hich was cold, sat in a draught of
air until his turn .came to speak; " but my
hands and feet were ice, my , lungs on fire.
in this condition I had to go and spend
three hours in the court•room.' He died in
less than a week from thus checking the
perspiration. It was enough to kill any
man.
Professor Mitchell, while in a state of per
spiration in yellow fever, the certain sign of
recovery, left his bed, went into another
room, became chilled in a moment, and died
the same night.
If, while perspiring, or while warmer than
usual from exorcise or heated room, there is
a sudden exposure, from still cold air, to
a raw, damp atmosphere, or to a draught,
whether at an open window or door, or
street corner, the inevitable result is a vio
lent and instantaneous closing of the, pores
of the skin, by which waste and impure
matter, which was making its way ..oat of
the system, is compelled to seek an exit
through some weaker part. The idea is
presented by saying that the cold had set
tled in that part. To illustrate: A lady
was about getting into a small boat to cross
the Delaware,but wishing first to get an
orange, at a ruit stand, she ran up the bank
of the river, and op , her return to the boat
found herself much heated, for it was sum
mer; bat there was a little wind on the water,
and her clothes soon felt cold, which set•
tied on her lungs, and within the year she
died of consumption.
A strong man was working in his garden
in May; feeling rather tired about noon,the
sat down in the shade of the house and fell
asleep; he awoke up chilly ; inflammation of
the lungs followed, ending, after two years
of great suffering, in consumption. On
opening his chest there was such an exten
sive decay, that the yellow matter was
scooped out by the cupful.
A Boston ship owner, while on the deck
of one of his vessels, thought he would lend
a hand in some emergency, and pulling off
his coat, worked with a will, until he per
spired freely, when he sat down to rest
awhile, enjoying the delicious breeze from
the sea. On attempting to rise, he found
himself unable, and was so stiff in his joints
that he had to be carried , home and put to
bed, which he did not leave until the end of
two months, when he was barely able to
hobble down to the wharf on crutches.
A lady, after being unusually busy all day,
found herself heated and tired towards sun
down of a summer's day. She concluded to
take a drive to town in an - open vehicle.
The ride made her uncomfortably cool, but
she warmed herself up by an hour's shop
ping, when she turned homeward ; it being
late in the evening, she found herself more
decidedly chilly than before.. - At midnight
she had pneumonia (inflammation of the
lungs), and in three months had the ordina
ry symptoms of confirmed consumption.
A lady of great energy of character lost
her cook, and had to take her place for four
days; the kitchen was warm and there was
a draught of air through it. When the
work was done, she, warm and weary, went
to her chamber, and lay down on the bed to
rest. This act was repeated several times.
On the fifth day she had an attack of lung
fever ; at the end of six months she was
barely able to leave her chamber, only to
find herself suffering with all the prominent
symptoms of confirmed consumption;such as
quick pulse, night and morning coug, night
sweats, debility, short breath; and falling
away.
A young lady rose from her bed on a No
vember night, and leaned her arm on the
cold window-sill, to listen to a serenade.
Next morning she had mieumonia, and suf
fered the horrors of asthma for the remain
der of a long life.
Multitudes of women lose health and life
every year, in one or more ways, by busying
themselves in a warm kitchen until weary,
and then throwing thernselves on a bed or
sofa, without covering, and perhaps in a
room without fire; or by removing the outer
clothing, or perhaps changing the dress for
a common one, as soon as they enter the
house after a walk or shopping. Phe rule
should be invariably to go at once into a
warm room, and keep on all the clothing
for at least five or ten minutes, until the
forehead is perfectly dry. In all weathers,
if you have to walk and
‘ ride on any occa
sion, do the riding first.
THE MINISTRY HONORABLE.
Bev. Henry Ward Beecher, in his letter
read at the recent laying of the corner-stone
of the New Divinity Hall at New Haven,
sets forth in" fitting terms the nobility and
attractiveness of the Christian ministry.
Ms admirable and timely words will be read
with interest :
"That, young men are to such an extent
averting their faces from the Christian min
istry gives an unfavorable impression of
their manliness. An ambition of wealth, of
political power, of literary eminence, may
tot be disreputable, but to go past the
uoblest profession of all, fearing its trials,
to take up with secular pursuits, at a time
like this, when the continent from ocean to
( 3 eeau asks religious instruction, indicates a
state of mind much to be deplored. Even
if Preaching, to day, was accompanied by as
many priva , iolll3 as it was of old, it would
still be the noblest profession of all. No
man ever entered 'heart and soul upon the
work of the Christian ministry who was
not thankful all his life long for the choice.
After the vicissitudes of thirty years, the
earliest ten in straits of health and of
means, and all of them laborious; i with a
clear understanding of the honors, emolu,
menis, and pleasures of other liberal profes
sions, I would, to-day, if I were to begin life
again, choose eagerly, irresistibly, the Chris
tian ministry. It has its burdens, all pro
fessions have. It has its restraints and limi
tations, but not more than other pursuits.
It is the freest, the most engaging, the most
soul-satisfying of all callings, to those who
are of the right spirit for it. The commerce
of the mind is with the noblest themes, the
business of its life is the most benevolent.
It keeps a man's heart related to his fellows
in its most generous moods. Better than
all, the crystal vault above one's head is not
darkened by such passions as so often send
their faliginous influence into other avoca
tions, and one has a fruition of the coming
joys, even while a stranger and a pilgrim.
"At the present day the work of the min
istry demands the services of every grade
of mental endowment. I n teaching, in pas
toral work, in ten thousand humbler fields,
men of good sense and deep-heartedness
will find abundant occupation, although they
are not children of genius. But in dealing
with the phases of philosophic thought, in
bringing religion in its authority and' beauty
above the level of jurisprudence, of litera
ture, and of civil affairs, that to it "every
knee 'may bow and every tongue confese "
is a Nip on which men of the noblest parts,
fired with truest genius, may find the noblest
opportunities for the beneficent exertions of
their whole nature.
"That which approaches nearest to God
is the most natural. The ministry of Jesus
Christ is the most intensely natural of all
pursuits. And I fervently hope that Many
a young man who. shall be gathered in the,
goodly company to see the laying of the
corner stone of the Theological building
will be found, when it shall be completed,
ready and waiting to occupy its rooms and
compose its classes."
mos
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT.
A newspaper correspondent says: In con
nection with the exploration now going on
in Palestine, I wonder whether it has oc
curred to those who are so much interested
in the matter, that there is a Jewish tradi
tion that, at the time of the captivity, Jere
miah concealed the Ark of the Covenant in
a secret chamber underneath the Temple.
Nothing seems more probable. There is no
mention of the ark, which was overlaid with
gold, having been carried with the rest of
the sacred vessels and utensils to Babylon ;
or having been brought back from thence.
In fact, nothing is known of it except by
tradition. Probably the matter is known
to the explorers, though I have not seen it
adverted to. It would be an interesting ob
ject for search. The discovery of it would
be one of the greatest which could be made.
I have thought that some of your readers
might know something more about it than
I do.
RAINY SUNDAYS.
Spdaking . of these the Sunday. Magazine
remarks :
. The imprisonment of a wet Sunday may
itself prove a means of grace. Wherever
attendance on public worship is so habitual
that any omission of it is distinctly felt, the
feelings associated with the day and its
usual occupation may be more powerfully
stirred by the sense of void than by any ap
peal that would have touched them at
church. There are thousands who would at
any time prefer the baldest service and the
dullest preacher that could just hold their
attention, to being left alone with their own
thoughts. An unoccupied hour, for which
nothing has been provided, is a rare oppor
tunity for conscience. Many a sermon, with
a most unmistakable application, is preach
ed while both preacher and hearer are look
ing through' the same pair of eyes into the
fire, .or on the streaming clouds as they
scud before the wind.
The enforced leisure of a wet Sunday af
fords opportunity for gauging the quality
and strength of our spiritual tastes. A.Oian
has surely some reason to suspect that his
ordinary interest in the service of the sanc
tuary is msthetic rather than religious, more
intellectual than spiritual, if he cannot find
employmeut for his unexpected leisure in
his Bible. An hour or two with nothing to
do, which under other circumstances would
have been spent in God's house,
is as plain
an invitation to read through a Gospel,
or a group of epistles, , or to spend an
extra quarter of an hour in prayer, as a
man could look for. The higher tastes of
the soul must have become vitiated, or never
have been formed, if such a way of spend
ing part of a wet Sunday seems irksome.
In a family, the head of it may enlarge
his usual functions as priest in his own
house, and gather his children about him
for an extemporized service that will fur
nish them with hallowed treasures of mem
ory in yeardto come ; or he may take the
opportunity to show the interest he feels in
their religious instruction by drawing them
into that kind of talk which to be impres,
sive must be rare, and kept for times which
are recognized by common feeling as sacred.
Some may think they make an unworthy
concession in allowing that a wet Sunday
need keep any but the aged and invalids at
home. It is admitted that the inconvenience
and risk loom larger in the imagination
than they are really found to be when ac
tually encountered. Those whose office
obliges them to be in their places in spite of
",bail, rain, blow or snow," do not often suf
fer for their attention to duty. But then
they have the excitement of activity to pre
vent them sudering the chill that may seize
those who wait on their ministry. Still,
_within the limits, one of the uses of a wet
Sunday is to test the religious earnestness
of a congregation.
More might be said by an advocate for wet
Sundays; for quite as much has been ad
vanced in their favor as could be expected
from one whose interest and work are so
centred in Sundays that he cannot say he
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1869.
ever really desired a wet day. Even when
he has felt more unequal to his duty than
usual, and might be supposed to be thankful
that there would be few who would suffer
from his deficiency, there have been the
counterbalancieng considerations that a de
pressing atmosphere would make matters
worse, and that those who brave inclement
weather for the sake of the blessing out of
Zion deserve the best ministrations of a min
ister's head and heart.
LITERARY ITEMS.
—A cable despatch dated London Oct. 7th
says :—Additional, though not later news has
been received of Dr. Livingstmie. He w as
seen fourteen months ago by an Arab at Lake
Tanganyika. The Arab says he was going to
wards the west, and was probably endeavoring
to reach Congo. There were no doubts of his
safety at Zanzibar.
—Rev. Dr. Temple, who hai been appointed
Bishop of Exeter, is the Head Master of Rugby
'School, and author of the least heterodox of
the famous "Essays and • Reviews." He is, of
course, a Broad Churchman, and his nomination to
succeed the very High Church Bishop of Exeter
is sure to bring down a torrent of denunciation
on Mr. Gladstone from the strictly orthodox. A
cable despatch says : " The Chapter of the Dio
cese of Exeter will probably, reject the nomina
tion of the Rev. Mr. Temple to that See."
—Charles Augustine Saint Beuve, the dis
tinguished critic and a Senator of France, died
last week, nearly 65 years of age;
—Ranke's " History of Wallenstein" is the
great event of' the day in the highest spheres of
historical scholarship, and attracts much atten
tion in France and England, and especially in
Austria and Prussia. The " Memoirs of Col
bert," by Pierre,. Clement, a Member of the
French Institute, are likewise full of historical
interest.
—Mr. Leland is about publishing in London,
a new series of Breitmann ballads, the principal
poem in which, entitled " Hans Breitmann •in
Church," is said to be based on facts in all its
incidents.
—Anne Hathaway's cottage at'Stratford upon-
Avon is advertised for sale. As one of the few
indisputably genuine relics of Shakespeare now
remaining,—for it was from this cottage that he
married his wife, England ought to feel the
deepest interest in its preservation, and we are
surprised that• steps have not already been taken
to save it from the shameful fate which befel
the pod's own house, demolished, as our readers
will remember, by a Vandal clergyman into
whose possession it came by purchase.
—ln an article in the last number of the Revue
des Deux Mondes M. Guizot says that he was
a. rationalist in religion until he undertook to
prepare for the press an edition of Gibbon's
" Decline and Fall." The investigations neces
sary in the preparation of the notes for that
edition led him to accept Christianity as a sys
tem that could not be explained; by any purely
human forces.
—The New York Obserrer '
was
_criticised
severely for' expressing regret that the Board of
Publication bad, at this juncture, issued Prof.
A. A. lodge's Commentary on the Confession.
The Presbyterian Quarterly Review for October
•
says:
" The policy of its issue by them (the Board
of Publication) at this juncture in the history of
the Presbyterian Church, may by many be
reasonably accounted questionable, and the more
so as some of the views which it maintains are
not universally, if even generally accepted by
large numbers whose adherence to the standards
,is unquestionable." •
—The first. German almanac (Kalendar) was
issued in this country just about one hundred
years ago, by Christopher Sauer, of German
town. There are now probably fifty different
German almanacs published in the leading cities
of the United States, and an equal number im
ported. .Philadelphia is the headquarters of
cheap German almanacs.
—Michelet has written a letter tb one , of the
Paris newspapers, in the course of which he
announces that he will publish in November a
work on education, and says : " A very new
literature is beginning in France, a literature
which will break images, a literature all flame,
genius, apd animation."
—M. Gustave Dore has already taken upward
of 500 sketches of life in London for the book
which he contemplates in conjunction with Mr.
Blanchard Jerrold. Some striking prison in
teriors are among them. At present it is be
lieved the bumbler phases of English society
have chiefly engaged his pencil. " Typical Lon
don" is the title which has been suggested.
—The remains of General Lima ; who was
perhaps. the must noted historian of Brazil, and
whose death occurred some time since, were
forbidden, by the Bishop of Pernambuco, burial
in 'consecrated ground. A few years ago, b e
published a very able defense of the Bible against
the attacks of the priesthood, and carried on the
contest till he had exposed the errors of the
Roman Catholic Church. Great excitement
prevailed in the community on account of the
act of the Bishop, and the press of the country
have also very generally censured his course. A
large concourse of people carried the body to
the English cemetery.
—The Book of Common Prayer has been
translated into Latin by the Rev. W. Bright
and - P. G. Medd, under the title of " Liber
Precum Publicarum Ecclesia3 Anglicam" (Riv
ingtons). The Psalms are taken from the Vul
gate, as also are the various passages from the
Epistles and Gospels read in the Communion
Service. The prayers taken originally from the
Missal or Breviaries, are restored to their origi
nal Roman text, and the additions made by the
Reformers are turned into corresponding Latin.
Wherever, for instance, the word 's priest"
.occurs, it is rendered Sacerdos and not Presbyter.
—We see it stated that " A club has been
formed in England called the Carlyle and
Emerson Association,' whose chief object is de
clared to be that of popularizing the writings
and teachings of these authors, which the pro
moters regard as 'eminently calculated to imbue
the youth of the rising generation with such
high and worthy aspirations as shall render pro
gress possible hereafter. "
—A despatch from Hartford contains a card
from 'Mrs. Stowe on the Byron controversy, in
which she states that she is preparing the vindi
cation of her course.
—Dr. Shelton Mackenzie says that Byron's
autobiography, which Moore burned, " will yet
see the light." In an edition of .Aroctes Anibro
.4.anw, published in 1855, with Dr. Mackenzie's
notes, on page 436 of volume 1., he says that
Byron's autobiography was copied for the
Countess of Westmoreland, and he adds : " Of
the copy sent to her.l have beard a copy was
made and retained. No copy was sent to
Galignani by Murray. Lady Blessington had
the autobiography in her possession for weeks,
and confessed to having transcribed every line
of it. Moore remonstrated, and Lady Blessing
ton committed her manuscript to the flames, but
she did not•tell him that her sister, Mrs. Home
Purvis had also made a copy. In fact, several
people had been allowed the like opportunity,
and it is hard t'o believe that out of at least ten
or twelve persons, only three, and these women,
had taken the trouble of transcribing. From
the quantity of ' copy' which r have seen (and
others were more in the way of falling across it
than myself,) I surmise thatat least half a dozen
copies were made, and that five of these are yet
in existence. Some particular transactions—
such as the marriage and the separation—were
copied separately; but I think there cannot be
less than five full copies yet to be found."
NATIONAL THANKSGIVING.
By the President of the' United Slates of
America :
A PROCLAMATION
The year which is drawing to a close has
been free from pestilence; health has pre
vailed throughout the land; abundant crops
reward the labors of the husbandman; com
merc'e and manufactures have successfully
prosecuted their peaceful paths; the mines
and forests have yielded liberally; the na
tion hasincreased in wealth and in strength;
peace has prevailed and its blessings have
advanced every interest of the people in
every part of the Union; harmony and fra
ternal intercourse restored are obliterating
the marks of past conflict and estrangement;
burdens have been lightened; means have
been in ereased; civil and religious liberty
are secured to every inhabitant of the land,
whose soil is trod by none but freemen., It
becomes a people thus favoped to make ac
knowledgments to the Supreme Author
from whom such blessings flow, of their
gratitude and their dependence; to render
prayer and thanksgiving for the same, and
devoutly to implore a continuance of God's
mercies. ,
Therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President
of the United States, do recommend that
Thursday, the 18th ay of November next,
be observed as a day of thanksgiving and
of praise and of prayer: to Almighty God,
the Creator and Ruler of the universe., And
I do further recommend to all the people of
the United States to assemble on that day
in their accustomed places of public wor
ship, and to unite in the homage and praise
due to the bountiful Father of all mercies,
and in fervent prayer for the continuance of
the manifold blessings He has vouchsafed to
us as a people.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed, this sth day of October,
A. D., 1869, and of the Independence of the
United States, the ninety-fourth.
By the President, U. S. GRANT.
Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State. •
A SUPERINTENDENT'S, TALK ABOUT. THE
HOLY SPIRIT.
Superintendent.—" Children, what is there
in this room ? Name some of the things
which you can see or touch."
Children .—" Table, stove, bench, bell, man,
boy."
"Is there anything in the room which
you cannot see What is it that you
breathe ?"
" Air."
" Yes. You cannot see the air, and yet
you could not live without it. But is there
nothing else in the room which you cannot
see ? What is it behind my voice which
speaks to you, and behind your ears which
receives and understands what I say ? It is
the think, the soul, is it not ? Did you ever
see a soul ?"
" No l''
"Yet there is such a thing, and it - is here,
in me, in you. It is I; it is you. That part
of us which thinks and feels, which, knows
what is right and what is wrong, which is
happy or miserable, is as real as our bodies,
though we cannot see or touch it. It is
this which is to live forever, when the body
has passed away from sight and touch. But
how do you know that I have a mind?"
"Because it speaks to us."
" Yes. You cannot see my mind, but you
can hear what it thinks. You know that
a soul is, and what it is, from what it does;
just as you know that there is a wind, from
the sound of its blowing, and its effects on
the leaves and dust. Now, is there any
thing else in the room which you cannot
see ?"
" God."
c , You are right. God is here, as really as
you or I am here. What is God, that we
cannot see Him? Jesus told the woman at
the well what He is. He said,' God is a
Spirit' He is, then, like your mind.
Though you see Him not, He is here, think
ing about you, loving you. Does He speak
to you?"
"No." "Yes."
" Not in a voice like yours or mine. But
He does speak to us by His Holy Spirit.
We can hear and feel Him thus, by our own
spirits. Our thoughts tell us what the Holy
Spirit says to us. What does God's Spirit
do for us ? He convicts us of sin,—makes
us feel that we are sinners; converts us to
God and goodness,—makes us love Him, and
prefer to do right; and sanctifies us,—helps
us to be good, to think, feel and act right,
—helps us till we have overcome the very
last sin. How may we know that the Holy
Spirit is with any one, doing these things
for him ? Only by the effects seen in his
life, just as we know when the wind is blow
ing. When any one of 'llll is sorry for his
sins, turns from them, and is converted, we
may know that the Holy Spirit is at work.
When we feel thus, we must remember that
God's Spirit is with us, and not grieve Him
by carelessness or disobedience."—Sunday
School Times.
BOYS, DO NOT SMOKE!
Dr. Ducaisne, in the course of investiga
tions on the influence of tobacco on circula
tion, has been struck with the large number
of boys, aged from nine to fifteen years,
who smoke; and has been led to inquire
into the connection of this habit with the
impairment of the general health. He has
observed thirty-eight boys, aged' from nine
to fifteen, who smoke more or less. Of these,
distinct symptoms were present in twenty
seven. In twenty-two there wore various
disorders of the circulation—bruit de souffle
in the neck, palpitation, disorders of diges
tion, slowness of intellect, and a more or
less marked taste for strong drinks. In
three the'pulse• was intermittent. In eight
there was found on examination more or
less marked diminution of the red corpus
cles. In twelve there were rather frequent
epistaxis. Ten had disturbed sleep, and
four had slight ulcerations of the mucous
membrane of the mouth, which disappeared
on ceasing from the use of tobacco for some
days. In children who were very well nour
ished the disorder was, in general, less
marked. As to the ages, eight of the boys
were nine to twelve years old; nineteen
from twelve to fifteen. The duration of the
habit of smoking was—in eleven, from six
months to a year; and in sixteen, more than
two years. The ordinary . treatment of
amemia in general produced no effect as
long as the smoking was continued ; but.
when this was desisted from, health was
soon perfectly restored;_if there were no or
ganic disease.—British_Medical Journal.
American Presbyterian
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