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ABRAHAM I.ISt 01.V.-FOt 1.1.T AWiAS
SI MATED APRIL H. 185.
You fey a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier,
Yp, who with mocking pencil wont to traoe,
Broad for the eclf-complneent British sner,
Hia length of shambling limb, higfurrdwed 'face,
His gaunt, gnarled hands, his unkempt, bristling
hair,
His garb uncouth, his bearing ill at ease,
His lack of all we prize as debonair,
Of power or will to shine, of art to please.
You, whose smart pen hacked, up the pencil's laugh
Judging each step as though the way werp plain;
Reckless,' Bo if coald pbint its paragraph, ,
Of thief's perpixit v. or people's pain.
Beeiffe this corpse, that bears for winding-eheet
The stars and stripes he lired to rear anew,.
Between the mourners at his head and feet,
SaJ, scurrlt Jester, is there room for yoa ?
Yes. he had lived to shaxne me.from my sneer,
To Inuie my pencil, and confute my pen—
To moke me own this hind of princes peer,
This fail-splitter a true-born king of men.
My shallow judgment I had learnt to rue,
Noting bow to occasion's height he rose, ,
How hie quaint wit made home truth seem more
true,,
How irou-likc his limper grew by blows. '
Ilow hnmble, yet how hopeful he could be :
How in good fortnnoa.id HI the same :
Nor bitter in success, nor boastful he.
Thirsty for gold, nor feverish for fame.
He went about his work—auch work.as few
Jiver had laid on head and heart and hand-
As one who knows where there's a'task to do,
Man'fe honest will must Heaven's g6od grace
ebirtmand: 1 t
Who trusts the strength will with thebnrden grow,
Thkt Uod makes instruments to work his will, i
If but that will wc can but arriye to knyw,
Nor .tamper withthe weights of good and ill.
tip he qent forth to battle, on the side
That be felt clear Was Liberty's and Right's,
As iri his peasant boj'hood he had piled >■
His warfare with rude Nature's thwarting
mights— • ■ ./•
- i fa r . r.
The uncleared forest, the unbroken soil,
The iron bark that turns the lumberer's are, .
The rapid, t hat tlie boatman's-toil,
The prairie]hiding the mated wanderer's tracks,
The ambushed Indian, and the prowling bear —
Sufch were the heeds that heq>ed his youth 'to
train:
Roagh culture —but such trees largo fruit may
bear,
. If hut their stocks be of fight girth and grain,
t
So fee grew up, a destined work to do.
And lived to do it: four long suffering years.
111-fate, ill-feeling, 'ill-report, lived through,
And then he heard the hissep change to cheers.
The taunts to tribute, the abuse to praise,
And took both with the same unwavering mood,
Till, as he came on light, from darkling days.
Arid seemed to touch the goal fVoia where he
stood.
I ■ I >: - - ■':(! ■;
A felon, had, between the goal and him,
Reached from behind his back, a trigger iprest—
And those perplexed ami patient eyes were dim.
Those gaunt, long-laboring limbs were laid to
rest !
The words Of mercy were upon his lips,
Forgiveness in his heart arfi on his pen,
IVliori this vile murderer brought swift eclipse
To thoughts of peace on earth, good-will tt> racu
The Old World and the New,-HOW sea to sea,
Utter one voice.of sympathy and shame !
Pore' heart, so stopped when it at least beat high
Sad life, cut short just as its triumph catne.
A deed accurst! 'Strokes have been struck before
By the assassin's hand, whereof men doubt
Tf more of horror or disgrace they bore ;
But .thy f<wl crime, tike Cain's, stand's darkly
out.
Vile band, that brandest murder oii a strife,
Whate'er its grounds, stbntly and nobly striven:
And with the pjartyr's erpwn crownest a life
With much to praise, little to be forgiven !
FOR TMK BEDFORD INQUIRER.
A DYSPEPTIC IN PURSUIT OF A
CURE.
BY MUDICUB.
Reader, have yott eyer had Dyspepsia?
Tf not, us'you valhevour temporal 'I might
also add spiritual) salvation, avoid it if you
can. If you would escape the horrors <Jf !
"BJue Pill," "avoid Dyspepsia.
Reader, lam a Jtawitcd man —haunted
by''Blue Pill," or '"Blue Devils, 7 if you
please. From the earliest period of my re
collection. this cerulean (why is it called
"blue" when it's a; grey as dingy as fyiajhl
Aminidab 13utter.-tick's old shad-bellied
overcoat ?) compound has been familiar to
my ears. 1 had an uncle once who took it
and as "went over Jordan,"" the name
has ever been associated in my mind with
something inconceivably horrj'ble.
But here let nie narrate my misfortune.
In the fall of IS - after a severe hitch of
Bilious Fever, and a tremendous gorge of
bran imip, I became slightly dyspeptic, and
thought I had. in medical parlance, better 1 '
"apply, iu time" to a physician. IdM so
—blood and thunder! what was my horror
and consternation when the learned man of
physic prescribed Bine. Pill. Reader, nfly
blood fairly. Curcßqs cveii yet when I- think
of the sensation which shocked my every
nerve. My hair tood up until my hat dis
placed from its seat on my cranium, fell
liumping, to the floor, and my eyes dilated
to the dimensions of a pair of pewter saucers.
Thinksl, I'm a gone case and had better
; make my will, but a moment's reflection
! soon dissipated so preposterous a conclusion
! as 1 had within// to it iU— except taking the
''PUT' at all hazards, and so T did for a
month, and what do you think followed—a
cure? No ! a repetition of the same pre
scription by the physician, a month longer.
Well I took it Uro months longer, and then
abandoned "Fill" and physician in disgust,
with all my symptoms aggravated. My
next step was'to apply to Another Ifoitor.
He examined very gravely into my case, and
after assuring me of a "speedy core," pre
scribed—"Bhk Piff." I remonstrated,
told him i bad bueo Diking it before—"not
in snffifdent doses,''said he, "take it as I
have directed, your liver is torpid, and must
be aroused." Well, reader, 1 todk it again
for/"//• months, and in all that time, be
lieve tue, 1 had not once an opportunity to
complain of being much lietter, I thank you.,
But, on the contrary,'l began to feel pretty
well used up. What was I now .to do ?
Things were growing desperate. I mow de
cided to apply to an old physician who had
the reputation of being "some" on stomach
'complaints. I went to see him—"Doctor,"
said I, "I have been sorely afflicted/' and
here went on to give him a description of
all my symptoms, not forgetting a detail al
so, as to what my former advisers had dqno
for inc. He listened, attentively until I got
through, and then taking off his spectacles
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and laying them down on the table said—
' l why ymma inan you' re hyped /' I i The cus
sed -eld fool! I wus well nigh sending an
old skull that stood near, slap into his face.
But I forbore. He continued—"go home
and go tb work—you eat too much, and
don't exercise enough—take one of these
pillf- every night to keep your bowels regu
lar, cpld you 1 IT get well enough." • I looked
at the pills—thinks I you infernal noodle —
"flyjped ! and these pills are my old cqmy
as sure as I'm living. ' But I did not dare
to trouble the lying old jackanape any fur
therso [ left, and incontinently "threw his
phv.4c to the dogs.''
But the invalid ever feels an incontrolla
ble hankering to take something. I now,
though m'tieh discouraged, -applied to the
fourth, the fifth, the sixth, and sootf through
the whole catalogue of M. J>'sin the whole
country. But success in obtaining relief
was j'non est inventus;" instead, my case
had been gradually growing more and more
desperate, besides i had met with inmlt a*i~
•lea to th 'fry-~ in jured by li ßlw ft'U" (for
they all with one consent, prescribed it) and
insulted by being told that I had the ' 'hypo."
Were they blind ? Why my appearance
alone guve the lie to that assertion. Hypo,
indeedi why I was reduced to the "shadow
of a shade," and looked as though I had
been picked oft'a wreck at sea and drawn
through a gimlet hole. 1 wouldn't cared at
that .time if his Satanic majesty had had the
whole kit, and stuffed them with "blue bla
zes;" as they had me with "blue pills." But
I was now in complete despair. 1 went to
the "Spamos"—no recuperation, my im
poverished system grew leaner and leaner
every day until I was not thicker through
the abdomen than a. deal-board. At length
I w completely "laid upon the shelf "
took aiy bed. from pure exhaustion, literally
dosed and starved to death. I discovered
one Jay, 'whilst in a recumbent posture, that
something hard existed in the umbilical re
gion of my stomach—l examined it; it was
about the size of a goose egg. Whew I
what a hiibbub it created when I made it
kno\yn.
My fripnds immediately sent for' 'the doc
tor —the very identical chap who had so
frosfly insulted me in the earlier stage of my
ise ise. lie came, put on the saftie old
"specks,' 1 arid proceeded to—not an autop
.siealquite—examination oft lip phenomenon.
After a good deal of'pow-wow and pun
ching, looking sage as an owl, he pronoun
ced it a ''concretion" —of what ? thought I
—horror of horrors ! a peck of "blue pills"
wedired up in ay gastronomical apparatus !
He summoned,a Consultation of halfadozfcn
iiioif of my "Blue Pill" heroes. They
oame, examined, pummeled. and punched
at the tumour to their heart's content —de-
liberated: ahd then passed sentence—"an
indurated tumor in the hypogastrium —
must be removed by an operation. " Post
poned the same for a few days, and then
came to the conclusion, unanimously, that it
"couldn't be did without killing the pa
tient." Just as I expected, and wished,
for I was ambitious af a natural death, if
.possible, after the amotrnt of "blue pill' I
had.swsJKiwed. But, to tell the trath, I
did not feel much like dying even then, I
felt like cnfin'O. ahd eat I did, occupying one
breath with the bolting of food, and the
next in denunciation of "blue piUs" and
their adthors.
And now let the elements be hushed ; let
erpry sound cease ; lei the sun and moon
stand still, whilst all the inhabitants of
Heaven and Earth, with fingers to their lips,
on tiptoe, lu-ar what this mighty, majestic
and dignified "court of inquiry"—this aus
tere, sapient and profound body of medical
intelligence had well' nigh done. After I
took to eating (for thn/hwl allowed me noth
ing but thu shn/l/nc of a pigeon boiled down
one half) the tumor began to disappear,
and in a few days it was gone. Reader, it
was my Ixiclebone! But let me explain: In
the spinal column there is a curve about its
middle projecting inward towards the sto
mach ; l was so much emaciated that there
was> little else material in front, and the egg
like tumor teas nothing .am, „or less than
•one of the most prominent of tin dorsal vert,-
rt>r< i. After my stomach assumed its nat
ural distension, of eonrse, as I said l>cfore,
the thing disappeared.
Let it be recorded for the benefit of fu
turd generations that a convention of wise
acres—a* session of brilliant, magnanimous,
and learned (?) physicians of the lllth cen
tury of tip.- world, decided on removing the
backbone of a patient to cure him of dys
pepsia.' i
But my troubles were not ended yet, for
though materially improved by a bettor di
et, my dyspepsia still remained. I now de
termined to seek a remedy on my own hook.
For this purpose L dived iato medical authors
up to Hie eyes. Btit here, too, I was doom
ed to fresh torture, renewed disappointment.
I Would take up a book, look at the index —
run my finger along the same until I oame
to the vonl—Dyspepsia —refer to the page,
glance over the description of the disease,
and hasten on to the treatment. I nvariably
tfic first thing that met my sticking
out in bold relief, was —"Blue I'iU is be
yond all comparison the best alterative that
can be given." Indisnailt I would slap to
the covers of the book, and mutter to my
selfr—' "Blue Devils are beyond all compari
son" the worst disease a man can be afflic
ted with. "Blue Pills alterative!" 1 would
continue,"yes! they'll alter a uian in a
very short time so muoh that his nearest
friends cannot recognize him —take all the
flesh off his bones, ami ail the sense out of
hps cranium,' jocosely adding, "providing
he has any/n it.' But 'twill never do to
give it up so —never say die, thought I, and
acting under this suggestion, it occurred to
me that the study of physic in real earnest
might, pprbaps, enable me to ferret out
something for my case. I would then have
an intercourse, pumerically, with physicians
from the Biddy in physic to the tidiest Shang
hai on the apex of the pill. So at it I went,
and went right square through, too ; atten
ded lectures —gofniy " shcejosh-in : and strut
ted off with it in my pocket, feeling
"as large as life and twice aT natural.' 1
B ell, reader, J suppose you thiiik now,
that I nad penetrated the intricate mazes of
physic, hail wound round through every av
onue and labyriiith,_ and seen fully every
atom of its Elephantipe proportions; I was
in possession of what J had so long heen
cure. 11a Iha ! I took a cut
across the fields of " Physic" —got into the
woods in a ngrrow, hriery path—reached the
Inroad, followed, it up through the mud
till I reached the, turnpike—pursued it —
got on to the plank road—struck the rail
road —mounted the "Rulgine," and road,
like a streak of stiff-burnt lightning right
into the courts of old Ksculapius himself
only to see as a standing motto, in flaring
capitals— "BLLE PILLS LN TORPID UVER V
Befeder, bring a cooper, quick, with his
hoops—l am enlarging, expanding, burst
ing ! If all the artillery that ever shook
the earth had been let loose right in my
( face ;Jf the thunders of an earthquake had
suddenly rent the ; if the eaith bad
opened at my feet, and a volcano qf molten
lava had burst forth, I should not have
quailed, but this was too mnch for my hor
ror-stricken feelings. I could "seek the
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bubble reputation at the cannon',s mouth,"
but I could not face that motto, I cams, I
saw, and "Blue Pill" conquered! I quiv
ored in every muscle—mountains of my re
morseless and hatedjeneiuy arose before me,
rolling and revolving in all their "naked ug
liness"-millions ofrmnuti microcosms uutof
each of which peered billions of imps grin
ning horribly their ghastly smiles.
Reader, many years nave passed, but the
foeman has stiff kept my track—he scents
me out whereso'er I go, stern, inflexible,
unrelenting he'll hunt me to 'the last_ of
earth." I have practiced my profession
cooly, calmly and interestedly, but the odi
ous compound is expelled from my Pharma
copoeia—expunged—obliterated-wiped But!
I have never prescribed it for a a patient
lest he, like should become a HAUN
TED MAN.
-r.bgtßphkal J&efccli.
OUR LATE PRESIDENT.
Character of President Lincoln.
BY RALPH W. EMERSON.
The following address was delivered by
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Concord, Mass.,
on occasion of the funeral services m honor
of Mr. Lincoln :
We meet under the gloom of a calamity
which darkens down over the minds of good
men in all civilized society, as the fearful ti-"
dings travel over sea, over land, from coun
try to country, like the shadow of aa uneal
culated eclipse over the planet Old as his
tory is and manifold as are its tragedies, I
doubt if any death has caused so mush pain
to mankind as this has causedj or will cause,
on its announcement; and this not so much
because nations are, by modern arts, brought
so closely together, as because of the myste
rious hopes and fears which, in the present
day, are connected with the name and insti
tutions of America.
In this country, on Saturday, every one
was struck dumb, and saw, at first, only
deep, as he meditated on the ghastly blow.
And, perhaps, at this hour, when the coffin
which contains the dust of the President
sets forward in its long march through mour
ning States, on its way to his home in Illi
nois, we might well be silent, and suffer the
awful voices of the time to thunder to us.
Yes, but that first despair was brief; the
man was not so to be mourned. He was
the most active and hopeful of men; and his
work had not perished ; but acclamations of
praise for the task he had accomplished burst
out in a song of triumph, which even tears
for his death cannot keep down.
The President stood before us a man of
the people. He was thoroughly American,
had never crossed the sea, had never been
spoiled by English insularity, or French dis
sipation ; a quiet native, aboriginal man, as
an acorn from the oak; no aping of foreign
ers, no frivilous accomplishments. Kentuck
ian born, working on a farm,' aflatboatman,
a captain in the Blackhawk war. a country
lawyer, a representative in the rural Legisla
ture of Illinoios—on such modest founda
tions the broad structure of his ftime was
laid. How slowly, and yet by happily pre
pared steps, he came to his place.
All of us remember —it is only a history of
five or six years —the surprise and disappoint
ment of the country at his first nomination
at Chicago. Mr. Seward was then in the
culmination of his good fame, was the favor
ite of the Eastern States. And when the
new and comparatively unknown name of
Lincoln was announced (notwithstanding the
report of the acclimations of that Conven
tion) we heard the result coldly and sadly.
It seemed too rash on purely local repu
tation, to build so grave a trußt, in such
anxious times; and men naturally talked of
the chances in politics as incalculable. But
it turned out not to be chance. The pro
found good opinion which the people of Illi
nois and of the West had conceived of him,
and which they had imparted to their col
leagues, that they might justify themselves
to their constituents at home, was not rash,
though they did not begin to know the rich
ness of his worth.
A plain man of the people, an extraordi
nary fortune attended him. Lord Bacon
says : "Manitet& virtues procure reputation;
occult onesj fortune." He offered no shi
ning qualities at the first encounter ; he did
not offend by superiority. He had a face
and manner winch disarmed suspicion,
which inspired confidence, which confirmed
good-will. He was a man without vices.
He had a strong sense of duty which it was
very easy for him to obey. Then he had
what farmers call a long head ; was excel
lent in working out the sum for himself; in
arguing his case and convincing you fairly
ana firmly.
Then it turned out that he was a great
worker; had prodigious faculty of perform
ance ; worked easily. A good worker is so
rare ; everybody has some disabling quality,
in a host of young men that start together,
and promise so many brilliant leaders for
the next age* each fails on trial; one by
bad health, one by conceit or by love of
pleasure or by lethargy, or by an hasty tem
per—each has some disqualifying fault that
throws him out of the career. But this
man was sound to the core, cheerful, per
sistent, all right for labor, and liked nothing
so well.
Chen he had a vast good nature, which
made him tolerant and accessible to all; fair
minded, leaning to the claim of the peti
tioner, affable, and not sensible to the afflic
tion which the innumerable visits iid to
him, when President, would have brought
to any one else. And how this good na
ture became a noble humanity, in many a
tragic case which the events of the war
brought to him, every one will remember,
and with what increasing tenderness he
dealt, when a whole rac J was thrown upon
his compassion. The poor negro said of him
on an impressive occasion, "Massa Linkum
am eberywhere. "
Then his broad good humor, running easily
into jocular talk, in which he delighted, and
in which he excelled, was a rich gift to this
wise man. It enabled him to keep his se
cret ; to meet every kind of man, and every
rank in society ; to take off the edge of the
sevarist decisions; to make his own purpose
and sound his companion, and to catch
with true instinct the temper of every com
pany he addressed. And, more than all, it
is to a man ofsevere labor, an anxious and
exhausting crisis, the natural restorative,
good as sleep, and is the protection of the j
Overdriven brain against rancor and insair j
ity. , j
He is the author of a multitude of good !
sayingSj so disguised as pleasantries that it!
is certain they had no reputation at first but,
as jests ; and only later, W the very accept- :
ance and adoption, they find in the mouths
of millions, turn out to be the wisdom of the
hour. lam sure if this man had ruled in a j
Eeriod of less facility of printing, he would ,
ave become mythological in a very few j
years, like jEsop or Pilpay, or one of the
Seven Wise Musters, by his fables and pro
verbs. ■ ,
But the weight and penetration of many
passages in hia totters, messages and apeech
es, hidden now by the very closeness of their
application to the moment, are destined
hereafter to a wide fkine. \\ bat pregnant
definitions ; what unerring common sense ;
what foresight; ami on great occasions what
lofty, and more than national, what humane
tone ! His speech at Gettysburgh will not
easily be surpassed by words on any record
ed occasion. This, and one other American
speech, that, of John Brown to the Court
that tried him, land a part of Kossuth's
speech at Birmingham, can only lie compar
ed with each other, and with no fourth.
His occupying tbcehair of State was a
triumph of the good sense of mankind, and
of tlie public conscience. The luiddle-class
country had got a middle-class President at
last. Yes, iu manners, sympathies, but not
in powers, for his powers were superior.
His mind mastered the problem of the day;
and, as the problem grew, so did his com
prehension of it. Rarely was man so fitted
to the event. Li the midst of fears and
jealousies, in the Babel Of counsels and par
ties, this man wrought incessantly with all
his might and all his honesty, laboring to
find wliat the people wanted and how to
obtain it.
It cannot be said there, is any exaggera
tion of his worth. If ever a man was fairly
tested he was. There was no lack of resis
tance, nor of slander, nor of ridicule. The
tjmes have allowed no State secrets; the na
tion has been in such a ferment, such multi
tudes had to be trusted, that no secret could
be kept. Every door was ajar, and we know
all that befel.
Then what an occasion was the whirlwind
of the war. Here was .place for no holiday
magistrate, no fair-weather sailor; the new
f ilot was hurried to the helm in a tornado,
n four years—the four years of battle-days
—bis endurance, his fertility of resources,
his magnanimity, were sorely tried and nev
er found wanting.
There, by his courage, his justice; his even
temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he
stood an heroic figure in the centre of an he
roic epoch. He is the true history of the
American people in his time. Step by step
he walked before them: slow with their
slowness, quickening his match by theirs;
the true representative of this continent; an
entirely publie mam father of bis country,
the pulse of twenty millions throbbing inhi3
heart, the thought of their minds articula
ted by his tongue.
Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which
in Houbrakcn's port raits of British Kings
and worthies, is engraved under those who
have suffered at the block, adds a certain
lofty charm to the picture. And who does
not see, even in this tragedy so recent, how
fast the terror and ruin of -the massacre are
already burning into glory around the vic
tim? Far happier this fate than to have
lived to be wished away; To have watched
the decay of his own faculties; to have seen
—perhaps, eveu he —the proverbial ingrati
tude of statesmen; to have seen mean men
preferred.
Had he not lived long enough to keep the
greatest promise that ever man made to his
tellowruieu —the practical abolition of slave
ry? He had seen Tennessee, Missouri and
Maryland emancipate their .slaves. He had
seen Savannah, Charleston and Richmond
surrendered; had seen the main army of the
rebellion lay down its arms. He had con
quered the public opinion of Canada, Eng
land and France. Only Washington can
compare with him in fortune.
And what if it should turn out, in the un
folding of the web, that he had reached the
term; that this heroic deliverer could no
longer serve us; that the rebellion had touch
ed its natural conclusion, and what remain
ed to he done required new mid uncommit
ted hands—a new spirit bom out of the ash
es ofthe war; and that Heaven, wishing to
show the world a completed benefactor, shall
make him serve his country even more by
death than by his life. Nations, like Kings,
are not good by facility and complaisance.
"The kindness of Kings enosists injustice
and strength." Easy good nature has been
the- dangerous foible of the republic, and it
was necessary that its enemies should out
rage it, and drive us to unwonted firmness,
to secure the salvation of this country in
the next ages.
The ancients believed in a serene and beau
tiful Genius which ruled in the affairs of
nations; which, with a slow but stemjustioe,
carried forward the fortunes of certain cho
sen houses, weeding out single offenders, or
offending families, and securing at last the
firm prosperity of the favorites of Heaven.
It was too narrow a view of the Eternal Ne
mesis. There is a serene Providence which
rules the fate of nations, which makes little
account of time, little of one generation or
race, makes no account of disasters, conquers
alike by what is called defeat or by what is
called victcfry, thrusts aside cneuiy and ob
structions, crushes everything immoral as
inhuman, and obtains the ultimate triumph
of the best race by the sacrifice of everything
which resists the moral laws of the worla
It makes its own in-trumcnts. creates the
man for the time, trains him in poverty,
inspire? his genius, and arms him for his
task. II his given every race its-own talent,
aigl ordains that only that race which com
bines perfectly withthe virtues of all sbaD
endure.
MEN FOH THE AGE. —Personal purity, in
ner cleanness and sanctity of life, are mat
ter? not to b° dispensed with in a reformer.
The eye with the b.iaiu is not of sufficient
clearness to detect, the mote. The lip of the
impure is too feeble to be effective in the
ease of virtue. The mote and offensive
band will be claimed by those who have lai>-
ger bleuii.-hcs, as evils oi no consequence.
Although there may be something in the
adage, "Sot a thief to catch a thief." the
thief would be but a sorry teacher of the
man after he was c uight. He would be too
likeiv to recqgnfre. him as a persecuted
brother of his own order. With such aid
alone one might pray for the unlimited
reign of goodness in the subjection of evil
forever, and be no nearer to th answer of
the desire of the righteous. We want
whole-souled men to help us —those who
have wills to work, and hands swift to re-
Ijeve the wants of lie poor and needy—men
j with strength to di vise and strength to do.
! None of your deal lions. We nave had
enough oi' them in those literary, religious
| boasters who have leen strong and scholar-
I like in language, but very feeble"in what is
| far bettar. a whole, heart for the true and
! the right., Those who have made fewer
professions and liv ed uprightly, have done
lnfinately more Tor us. Indeed, our lion ia
| bor has been invariably-against ua; for, not
withstanding some have been convince d by
it of the soundness of an ism, more have
been frozen up in its want of life and love
|of the good >ud holy. The confession of
oi roi is hut the beginning of repentance,
i It is not only our duty to convince of wrong
(in doing this the work is only haft
: done), we want to intimate the convinced
into the right A smart man in argument
nan do the first but it takes a. good man to
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Vol 38: No. 22
Two BA HABITS.— There are two weak
nesses in our habits which are very common
and which are very prejudicial to our welfare.
Ihe first is giving way to the use or indul
gence of the moment instead of doing at
once what ought to be done. This practice
almost diminishes the beneficial effects of
our actions, and Often load us to abstain
frota action altogether; as for instance, if at
this season of the year there is a gleam of
sunshine, of which we feel we ought to take
advantage, but we have not the resolution
to leave at the moment a comfortable seat
or an attractive occupation, we miss the most
favorable opportunity and perhaps at last
justify ourselves for remaining in doors on
the ground that the time for exercise is past.
One evil attendant upon the habit of
procrastination is that it produces a certain
dissatisfaction ofthe mind which' impedes
and deranges the animal functions, audtendi
to prevent the attainment of a high state of
health. A perception of what is right,
followed by a promptness of execution, woifta
render the way of life perfectly smooth.
Children should be told to do nothing but
what is reasonable but they should be taught
to do what they are told at once.
The habit will stand them instead all their
lives; Therecond weakness is, when we
have made a good resolution, and have
partiallly failed in executing it, we are very
apt to abandon it altogether. For instance,
if a person who has been accustomed to rise
at ten resolves to rise at six, and after a few
successful attempts happens to sleep till
seven, there is great danger that he wfll re
lapse into his former habit, or probably
even go beyond it, and lie till noon. It is
the same with resolutions of economy or
temperance, or anything else; if we cannot
do all intended, or make one slip, we are
apt to give up entirely. Now, what we
should aim at is, always to do the b6st we
can under existing circumstances; and then
our progress, with the exception of slight
interruptions, would be continual.
MAMMA, YOU HAVEN'T PRAYED WITH
ME TO-DAY. —Not far from me lives a poor
hardworking German mother, who with
her six. children, is seen almost every Sab
bath in the house of God, but so hungry is
she for the bread of life, that summer s sun
or Winter's storm seldom prevents her
presence with the little ones in the sanctua
ry. She is in the habit of going into her
room with only a three year old child to offer
prayer. If .she fails daily to do this, the
little fellow is prompt to call her attention
to the omission by the artless rebuke,
"Mamma, you haven't prayed with me to
day. '
A day or two since, on receiving a piece
of tread from his mother, he looked up with
loving eyes to the giver, with the remark, <
"thankyou mamma," and added reverently,
' 'thank you God.''
"Why do you thank God, my boy?"
"'Cause I want to thank all my friends
who are so good to me.''
Mothers, who would wield over their lit
tle ones, an influence wide as the world, las
ting as eternity whose memory is cherished
from early ehudhood, to old age, will you
not believe as this poor German mother
does, that children may be converted even
in their infancy ?
Lead the little ones to the Savior in the
early dawn of their young lives, and let
mo/her and Jesus be the "watchword that
shall shield them in the coming years of tri
al and temptation. Oh, mothers, if you
would spare your children many an hour of
bitter conflict with the powers of evil, if
you would save them from the fearful
storms and tempests that so often prostrate
a soul not strengthened by a mother's pray
ers. lead them to the children's Friend in
their earliest years, and commit them to His
tender care and keeping. Then only are I
they safe. —CongregatimtaHat.
DESCRIBING several remarkable caves, in ;
what is called the Mo wry Silver Mine, in ;
Arizona, a correspondent says :
"In exploring the mine with my compan
ions, at a depth of one or two hundred feet
below the surface, we came into some of
those caves or chambers. Alladin's lamp
never revealed such sparkling, glories as did
our poor, dimly burning candles as their
light was reflected back irom what seemed
to be ten million diamonds. The moisture
and water of those caves had crystalized on
the roofs and sides and floors, in every va
riety of shape, but everywhere brilliant and
beautiful. The white rock sometimes hung
in glistening pendants in shape like icicles.
Then it blossomed into pure white flowers,
with stems and leave?, or grew into small
shrubs with a main stem and branches,
growing out from the stony sides of the cave
from three to six inches long. Then again
there were delicate growths of the same sto
ny material, looking like the hoar frost of
winter, or the feathery, snowy covering o'
trees in winter in the North, after a storm
It seemed as if those white formations look
ing si i like frost work would yield to the
touch. But they were firm as needles, and
we brought away beautiful specimens of
those subterranean flowers that had blos
somed out of the rock, as well as of the oth
ers that I haye mentioned.
CORRECT SPEAKING.—We would advise I
all young people to acquire, in early life, the,
habit of correct speaking and writing and to
abandon as early as possible any use of slang
words and phrases. The longer you live the
more difficult the acquirement of correct
language will be : and if the golden age of
youth, the proper season for tug acquisition
of be passed in its abuse, the un
fortunate victim, if neglected, is very prop
erly doomed to talk slang for life. Money
is ndt necessary to procure this education.
Every man. has it in his power. He has
merely to use the language which he reads,
instead of the slang which he hears; to form
his taste from the best sjieakefs and poets
in the country; to treasure up choice phrases
in his memdry, and habituate himself to
their use, avoiding at the same time that
pedantic precision and bombast which show
the weakness of vain ambition rather than
the polish of an educated mind, s • >
—i— m ■ •
ENGROSSED IN-WORLDLY CARHSL—WE
keep ourselves in such a continual hurry
and crowd of caresj thoughts, and employ
ments abput the things of the body, that
we can fiud little time to be alone, commu
ning with our own hearts about our great
.•onccrntoents.in eternity. It Is with many
of us as it was with Archimedes, who was
so intent upon drawing his mathematical
schemes, that though all the city was in
alarm, the enemy had taken it by storm, the
streets filled with dead bodies, the soldiers
came into his particular house, nay entered
his very study, and. plucked, him by the
sleeve, before he took any notice of jt—
Even so, inanymen's heartsare so profound
ly immersed and drowned in earthly cares,
thoughts, projects, o fpleasure, that death
must come to their very houses, yea and
pull them by the sleeve, and tell them its,
errand, before they will begirt to , &n^
come to a serious consideration of things
more important. — Flatd,
"~7 "EELIGIOH HOT GLOOM.
We are of those who kve religion ; and
wish to express ir in our daily life ; and,
loving it as we do, we cannot push it to one
side as a dark and solemn thing, fit only to
receive our tears of repentance, and before
which we most walk with tong drawn faces.
Webce in it the glory, the sunshine of life.
When it springs within us it does not con
sign us to a life of trembling suspense,
passed on the edge of the tomb; cut of our
souls, hitherto stumbling among the tombs,
groping in dim caverns of the earth, rise
into the sunshine of God's love. Thisistbe
true life, and no one can truly say he live*,
unless, throwing aside his grave-clothes, he
walfo forth in this light. We hold that
thosle who live in earnest, must of necessity
be religious, and that their religion will car
ry them above all sorrow and care. There
fore we do not like the fashionable sentimen
talistn which throws shadows upon religion.
We like soberness and revereuce, but also
cheerfulness, triumph, joy and gladness.—
Esewmgt. ■- t
ASKING FATHER.—A gentleman of fine
social qualities-, always ready to make liberal
provision for the gratification his chil
dren, a man of science and a moralist of the
strictest school, was skeptical : in regard to
prayer, thinking it superfluous to ask God
for what nature had already furnished ready
at hand. His eldest son became a disciple
of Christ. The father, while recognising a
happy change in the spirit and deportment
of the youth, still harped upon his old ob
jection to prayer as unphilosophical and un
necessary.
' ; I remember,'' said the eon, "that I onoe
made free use of your pictures, specimens,
and instruments, for the entertainment of
my friends. When yon came homo you
said io me, 'All that I have belongs to my
children, and I have provided it on purpose
for them; still, I think it xcouldbt respectful
alwfiyt to adi your father before taking any
thing. 'And so," added the son, "although
God has provided every thing for me, I
think it is respectful to ask Him and to
thank Him for what I use."
The skeptic was silent; but he has since
admitted that he has never been able to
invent an answer to this simple, personal,
sensible argument for prayer.—Congrega
tion nlist.
A WIFE'S PRAYER. —Very beautiful is
the following : "Lord bless that dear per
son whom Thou hast chosen to be my hus
band—let his life be long and blessed com
fortable and holy ; and let me also become a
great blessing unto him, and a sharer in all
his sorrows, a meet helper in all the acci
dents and changes in the world; make me
amiable forever in his eyes, and forever dear
to him 1 Unite his heart to me in all the
deargst love of holiness, and mine to keep
him in all the swiftness of charity and com
pliance 1 Keep me from aH ungentleness,
all discontendedness, and unreasonableness
of passion and humor, and make us humble
and obedient, useful and observant, that we
may delight in each other according to Thy
blessed word, and both of us may rejoice in
Thee, having our portion in the love and
service of God forever!— Amen."
THE PURE IN HEART.—A little girl hav
ing one day read to her teacher the first
twelve verses of the fifth chapter of the
Gospel by Mathew, he asked ber to stop
and tell him which of these holy tempers,
said by our Lord, to be blessed, she should
most like to have. She paused a little, and
said with a modest smile. "1 would rather
be pure in heart'' Her teacher asked her
why she chose this above all the rest
"Sir," said she, "if I could but obtain a
pure heart, I should then have all the other
graces spoken of in this chapter." And
1 surely this was a right answer. God.
Himself has said : "Out of it (the heart)
are the issues of life." It is in the heart
that God sheds abroad the graces of His
spirit: and from thence comes "grace of the
lips" which shows forth the right mind
within.
WORKING AND THINKING.—It is aDO
less fatal error to despise labor when regula
ted by intellect, than to value it for its own
sake. We are always in these days trying
to separate the two; we want one man to
be always thinking, and another to be always
working, and we call the one a gentlemen
and the other an operative; whereas the
workman ought often to be thinking, and
the thinker often to be working, ana both
should be gentleman in the best sense. As
it is, we make both ungentle, the one envy
ing, the other despising his brother ; and
the mass of society is made up of morbid '
thinkers and miserable workers. Now it is
only by labor that thought can be- made
healthy, and only by thought that labor can
be happy, an d the professions should be
liberal and there should be less pride felt in
peculiarity 7 of employment; and more in ex
cellence of achievement.
AN ENGLISH OPINION.—The last inaugu
ral of President Lincoln made a strong im
pression in England, The British Standrrd
speaks of it as ' 'the most remarkable thing
of the sort ever pronounced by any President
of the United States from the first day until
now. * * * Its Alpha and its Omega is
Almighty God, the God of Justice and the
Father of Mercies, who is working out the
purposes of his love. * * It is invested
witg a dignity and pathos which lift it high
above everything or the kind, whether m
the Old World or the New. * *i The
whole thing puts us in mind of the best men
of the English Commonwealth; there is in
fact much of the old prophet about it.''
B;KLF EDUCATION. —We all have two ed
ucations, one of which we receive from oth
ers,! the other and the most valuable, we give „
ourselves. It is the last which gives our
grade ui society, and eventually on' actual
.valtc in this life, and perhap the true 00l- - 1
or of our fete hereof tor. All the professors j
and teachers in the world cannot make us
wise and without p ( ur own co-operation; and
if such we are determined to be, the want of
them will hot prevent it. Bi '
WHILE unpacking a bak of Chinese cot
ton at Bacup, the other dav, the men so em
ployed discovered two gold coins, One about
thei size of a threepenny piece, and the oth
er smaller, with holes punched through them
wrapped up is a piece of rag. Many silver *
piefces have also been found amongst this
kind of cotton.
A BEAUTIFUL thought is thus suggested
in the Koran— "Angels, in the grave, will
not question thee as to the amount of
wealth thou hast left behind thee, but as to
what deeds thou hast done in the world to
entitle thee to a seat among the blest"
A GREAT many of ns are constantly com
plaining and growling about the shortness
of time, and yet have a great deal more
than we know how to dispose of; for the
time that is given us is either spent in doing
nothing at all, in doing nothing worthy of
estimation, or in doing those things that wa
should not do.
SOUND ADVICE.—If you wish to relish
your food work for it; if you would enjoy
your raiment thoroughly, pay for it before .
you put it on; if you would sleep soundly,
take a clear conscience to bed with you.,
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