rr sg
a ho Jy
WOT Sings.
“Love is but a passing passion,
things a foolish fashion,
Death, a sound of empty knolls;
Take, O take my cap and bella
Take,” the Jester sang,
Lite, of
Loud his clear voleoe rang,
‘Take wy cap and bells!"
* What
Fame, except its own pursuing ?
Beauty, save for what it sells ?
Take, O take my cap and bells !
Take,’ the Jester sang,
Far his mad volce rang,
“Take my and bells!”
is love beyond the woolng 7
ap
6
Fools!
seem to .augh,
ng of Death so near your wel
who now the wine cup draining,
but still are feigning.
{he 5p 1s!
Take, O take my cap and bells !
“Take the Jester sang,
kis hard voice rang,
wy cap and bells!
I cure for all your sorrow,
ere a drear to-morrow
your passing knells.
» my cap and bells!
the Jester sighed,
f had died)
cap and bells 1”
LE STIR
msel
brow was
June
4 HOUSE Wot
is than we could
y answered Sallie
12
ALA
* 3 " ¢
008 Here, persis £4
y seated herself on
Luc
an empty
YW ii board do you pay,
‘Five dollars,” said Angeline
And yon, Sallie?”
Four. But we
four of us gir
‘bunk’
Is, in one room!"
“And I am ralsed to seven,’ said |
Jenny ‘Not that I shall stay with |
Mrs. Peck at those rates, But that * |
calculating rapidly on her fingers, |
“makes eight hundred dollars a year, |
Eight hundred dollars would pay house. |
rent, and leave quite a respectable little i
margin for expenses. And it would be |
a small house that wouldn't hold at |
least a dozen girls, instead of four. 1
declare to goodness, I've a mind to try |
it! I'll take boarders myself. And
Ruth }'leasant shall have the brightest.
sunniest. room on the premises, 1°11}
write to Aunt Thyrza to-night. She
shall be my first lieutenant, and 1'11 be
caplain of the ship myself."
“But you're not in earnest, Jenny!" |
gried the girls, in chorus,
“Am I not? Oh, you will see!"
Jennie Field's thoughts had flown at |
«once to a pretty wooden house —a relic |
«of old farm days, when cattle grazed on
the Harlem flats, and clusters of old |
chestnut trees crowned Murray Hill
on which s'e had seen an obtrusive
placard, “To Let,”
“Inconvenient, no doubt.” she said
to herself. “No modern improve-
ments. But a row of lilac-trees in
front, and such an elm in the door-
yard, and the grass full of dandelions,
And from the Inwk windows oze¢ can
together, |
{ look out upoa the Harlem river,
all events,’
silversmith, who would only let ft
condition of to
out’ a portion of the rent in board,
“Of course,”
the whole at my
hard to be turned out of my own prem
being allowed
house, but age, it
3 +
“YY pg
g the situation, “‘it would
We shall be
you
sald Jenny, mentally
i
in he
iil
but
a family of women
will put up with plain
ith Aunt Thyrza to
is dear old man's
18 respectability, 1
shie said to herself,
wlded the
“It's because Miss Thyrza is so eco-
said Sallie,
I's because we do our purchasing
Market before nine
geline,
“IVs because share expenses,’
said Jenny, nodding her head. “‘And
Mr. Morrison and Jack being here is a
great help to us.”
“Yes,” said Rath Pleasant, rather
dolefully, ‘put what are we going to
do when Jack goes away?"
‘Jack isn’t going away,” said Sallie,
“He's going to be married,” sald
tuth,
“Married?” Sallie’s plump counten-
ance fell, . *‘I don’t believe it!"
“But he told me so himself," per.
’
we
“He
must have been in joke,’
“Mustn't he.
' said
Jack
Jenny?
It’s true,”
tial rosy-red,
ried.”
““He is going to be mar-
“To whom, in the name of Cupid?”
shrieked Sallie, clasping her hand dra-
matically,
. “Tk 3
tes
me! intent on
sald Jenny,
Aunt Thyrza's Sunday pocket-handker-
chief,
Sallie whistled—a tom-boy fashion
that she had--Ruth burst into tears.
“Good-by, economy and peace!" said
Sallie, with elocutionary effect,
“I pever, never shall be as happy
anywhere else as § am here.” said Ruth,
4
I
| home,” sobbed Angeline “And
! now
jo. M14
| said
i Ruth’s
of
are 4
uy,
won't be any different
neck. “I couldn't part with
you, not for untold gold,
stay here just the same,
to do
50 1 shall turn housekeeper fi
One
| have something while Jack is
away, i"
the lot of you,”
“But what will Aunt Thyrza
that?” eried Angeline,
“Oh, didn't I tell vou?
is to be married to the gentleman, She
abdicates the housekeeper’s throne
{ my favor. She wants more time to
tend lectures,”
Well, I declare!”
‘But how those opposing theorie
of evolution?’
“Oh, Aunt
Mr.
positivel
he
Jenny,
exclaimed Sallie,
about
y
Thyrza 8
Morrison,”
i or n f
is BOih wi
answered
ha i
“But
thought of
sald Nallie
ere”
who wotlk
such an end
keeping «
ping
*Who, indeed?”
xperiment?’’
sald
mun
——
How Tea Was Dis
ns a ready
Contentment is better than money and
about as scarce,
Genuine benevolence is not stationary.
It goeth about doing good.
| SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.
| Bun DAY, Max 15, 15837,
The Call of Moses,
LESSON TEXT.
Kxod 1-12
\
AN,
LESSON PLA
Torn HE Qt
| and Delive rance.
GoLpeEN TEXT Fon
| There is no other God
after this sort. — Dan, 3:
OF ARTEL Dondaqge
I'tE QUARTER:
that can deli
oy
Call
rr
A Delivere:
reat 1
A Great G
. AG
L
sight, va
Hes, va
reat
\
A Marvellous Sight
3
Af
A Sublime Dnsclosur
his master, a good village curate—*'did
you observe the attitude of that man in
church—the nonchalant manner of —the
inattention of?" “Yes yes, I ob-
with a calm smile, “and I tried to be
more fervent than usual to-day, that
the good God, attentive to my prayer,
would perceive less the faults of those
poor children. Behold what kind hearts
do at sight ot their neighbor's faults,
Once, when some pligrims journeyed
fruitiess valley, beholding the Kaaba, a
lofty house of stone, They sought with
nct. Long they encircled the house of
stone with their march, when a voice
from within was heard, saying, ‘Why
x0
and worship in God’s true house, the
Tebrisi,
The valn man, and still more the vain
can here cheerfully appeal to every
have detected any deep qualms of con-
science, or discords in himself, which,
however, were never wanting, when he
lied very mueh or was toohard, Much
rather has he, on such occasions, expe-
rienced an uncommonly rocking of his
inner man in the cradle of state. Hence
wt,’ sitive
) A 1
command;
J action; (3) A peculiar
place, A sacred place; (2) A
i reverent attitude,
“He was afraid to look upon (zou.
Upon God (1) Who appeared
sly: (2) Who approached
Who spoke so perso
fe
ay
marvelk
ily:
sy Clos
ly
Ail y.
iil. A GREAT
I. AMictions Beheld:
have surely seen the afliction of
people 1
MISSION,
ny
God heard their groaning ( Exod, 2 : 94).
I have heard the groaning of the chil
dren of Israel (Exod, 6;
He looked upon me, to take away
reproach (Luke 1:
I have surely seen the affliction of my
people Acts 7: oH)
| TL Deliverance Assured:
I 1am come down to deliver
I will bring vou out from
burdens ( Exod, 6: 6),
And I will bring you in unto the land
(Ex. 6: 8),
| Who deliversd us...
(2 Cot. 1: 100,
{ The Lord knoweth how to deliver the
godly (2 Pet, 2: 9).
HHL A Deliverer Sent:
| I will sonedl thee. ...that thou mayest
| bring forth my people (10),
| The Lord is my rock, ....and my deliv-
i
i
i
bo .
my
95%
wt},
Ni
the
them
under
Land will deliver
erer (2 Sam, 22: 2)
He sent Moses his servant ( Paa, 105 : 20)
| Him hath God sent to be
| (Acts T: 85).
| There shall come out of Zion the Deliv.
erer (Rom, 11: 26
1. “Il know theX
. + «0 deliverer
| sorrows (1) Sore
—
row the lot of
the act of God
Ham come down to deli
1) The end sought: (2) The
engaged; (3) The means employed
I thee unto Pha
Maver:
The
The
med iaton
“}
Hil
3
1
ver them,
Ww
Iriel
f ux
LW
witer external advan
Moses in that
d fit him to be the recij
velation, hi
lawgiver, than
the face
tages
wwledge
nent
sphere
t Af
i Kt
of God's re
as Israel's
found of the
whole earth, in the davs of Moses.
But appears that intellectual cul-
ure and the atmosphe re of a palace did
ot make Moses forgetful of his origin
wrardless of the condition his
ry Although he had been
petted and reared by the oppressors, his
sympathies were all on the the
pressed, And on one occasion, when
saw a gross wrong done to a Hebrew,
he interfered and saved the sufferer by
taking the life of the Egpytian, At
first, Moses thought that his interposi-
tion was a secret ; but afterwards he
learned that it had become known, and
had excited the hostility of Pharaoh.
He then had to make his election be-
tween the sacrifice of his position at
court and the surrender of his birth-
right in Israel, His faith was equal to
the emergency ; for he chose “‘rather to
suffer affliction with the people of God,
then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a
season’ (Heb, 11:
Accordingly, he fled to the land of
Midian, This was a region occupied
8 new
we 0 be
3
elsewhere on
$
b
1
:
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of
¥
i
coun mein,
side O01
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he
an
wid
branch of the Red Sea, at times extend.
35), and again stretching to
|
i
i
comed ham, gave him his daughter in
marriage, and provided him with a fit
Here he remained for forty
years (Acts 7: 30), being jusi forty
years old when he arrived (Acts 7 : 23.)
The long period is almost a total
blank so far as the record is concerned;
and at first Hlogh it gems stranoe that
(a man so gifted, and intended for th
accomplishment of so great a work
| should pass so marly years not only i
retirement but in solitade, his pastoral
occupation I
requiring
him to spend most
* ¥
. . 1 y
by day alone with his flocks.
wasted
John the Bag
{of his time
But the
| nore than those
Airs not any
V6
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
A great many of usare like Falstaff’
soldiers, afraid of nothing pt
ger.
The best preparation
Lo drain tl
5
YF X08 All
for the future |
ie present of every good thin
it holds
and yet we throw away muc
are weary of many of its parts,
Nothing sits so gracef
dren as habitual respectand datif
portment towards their parents,
i
of the
1
uly upon
iif
(Ine hardest tasks
it Hara v Lasds
Ever ge
1 1 * big
good deeds he
self
a8 thers
¥ x x $
no every i
noeam
“Very
a broad
hearth that keep } oals (his pas-
Passion house,
Good e are coals raked
up in embers lo make a fire next day.
B i i ul Lie
leeds in his lif
The boy who sweeps the streets, aad
puts muscular force on the broom-han-
die, rendering the crossing clean, in
act exhibits trait of character
that will exalt him to higher stat oa.
Your life should be patterned on
God's plan —a busy, but a happy life.
He means that you shall ind content.
ment in your work, The happy and
contented are the best workers,
It was the policy of the good old gen-
tleman to make his children feel that
home was the happiest place 1n the
world; and I value this delicious home
feeling as one of the choicest gifts that
a parent can bestow,
It was a hard answer and yet de-
served. Some one announced the death
of a venomous gossip and boldly as-
serted that she died of poison. When
asked what be meant he replied that by
some accident she had bitten her tongue.
Some people are so good natured that
they are always ready to promise and
never ready to perform. A French
philosopher used to say of one of this
1k that be spent his mornings in making
promises and his afternoons in making
excuses,
Oh! for a man that will stand up and
say, I want to be good, honest, virtu.
ous, and upright, loving my neighbor as
myself, helping my fellow man along
the rugged road of life, simply from a
love of doing these things for their own
sake, and not because he fears eterual
torture In hell and hopes for a reward
| of a golden crown in heaven!
Science tells us, through its great
prophet, Darwin, that it took millions
| Of years to evolve a man out of an oyse
ter, so many millions that even the
| nathematios of the imagination are
| powerless to work out the same. The
processes of nature operated very slowly
{in the olden time, for in these latter
| days It requires not more than thirty
{ seconds to transfer an oyster Into a
| man; and though It is a littls hard on
the oyster the man 1s made happy
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