DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON The Chain of Influences. “Make a chain." Ezek. 7: 35. AT school and in college, in announc- ing the mechanical powers, we glorified the lever, the pulley, the inclined plane, tlie screw, the axle and the wheel, but my text calls us to study the philosophy of the chain, These links of metal, one with another, attracted the old Bille authors, and we hear the chain rattle, and see its coll all the way through from Genesis to Revelation, flashing as an adornment, or restrain- ing as in captivity, or holding in con- junction as in case of machinery, THE CHAIN IN THE BIBLE. To do him honor, Pharaoh hung a shain of gold about the neck of Joseph, and Belshazzar one about the neck of Daniel. The high priest bad on his breast-plate two chains of gold, On the camels’ necks, as the Ishmaelites drove up to Gideon, jingled chains of gold, The Bible refers to the Church as having such ghttering adornments, saying: Thy neck is comely with chains of gold.” On the other hand, a chain means captivity. David, the psalmist, exults that power had been given over his eneinies “to bind their kings with chains.” The old mission- ary apostle cries out: “For the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.” In the prison where Peter 18 incarcerat- od, you hear one day a great crash at the falling off of his chains. St, John saw an angel come down from heaven to manacle the powers of darkness, and having “a great chain in his hand,” and the fallen angels are represented as sreserved in everlasting chains,” while in my text for the arrest and limitation of the iniquity of Ins time, Ezekiel thunders out: ‘‘Make a chain!” What I wish to impress upon myself and upon you is the strength, in right and wrong directions, of consecutive forces, the superior power of a chain of influences above one miluence, the great advantage of A CONGERIES OF LINKS ernment, and in all effort to rescue others, and in all attempt to stop im- quity, take the suggestion of my text and make a chain! portaice, that which encloses the most tremendous opportunities, that which of earthly things 1s most watched by other worlds, that which has beating against i's two sides all the eternities, is the cradle. The grave is nothing in importance compared with it, for that is only a gully that we step across in a second, but the cradle has within ita new cternity, just born and never to cease. When three or four years ago the Ohio River overflowed its banks, and the wild freshets swept down with them harvests and cities, one day was found floating on the bosom of the waters A CRADLE WITH A CHILD IN IT all unl wrapped up snug and warm, and its blue eyes looking iuto the blue of the open heavens. It was mention- ed as something extraordinary. every cradle is, with its young passen- ger, floating on the swift currents of the centuries, deep calling to deep, Ohios and St. Lawrences and Missis- sippis of influence bearing it onward, Now what shall be done with this new life recently launched? Teach him an evening prayer? That is but not enough. Hear him as soon as he can recite some gospel hymn or catech That is important, but not (£3 8 9 ismrt him a Bible story? That is important, but not enough. Once in a while a les- son, once in a while a prayer, once in a while a restraining influence? All these are important, but not enough. Each: one of these influences is only a link, and it will not bold him in the tremendous emergencies of life. let it be constant instruction, constant pray- ences, a long line of consecutive to his fifth, and from his fifth year to nis tenth, and from his tenth year t Ais twentieth, “Make a chain!” Spasmodic education, paroxysmal dis cipline, occasional fidelity, amount (0 nothing. Yo can as easily bold an an- chor by one link as hold a child to the right by isolated and INTERMITTENT FAITHFULNESS, The example must connect with the in- struction, The conversation must com- bine with the actions, The week-day consistency must conjoin with the Sun- day worship. Have family prayers, by all means; but be petulant and incon- sistent and unreasonable in your house- wold, and your family prayers will be a blaspberuous farce. So great in our timses are the tetnptations of young men to dissipation, and young women o so- cial follies, that it 18 most important that the first eighteen years of their Life be charged with a religious power that will hold them when they get out of the harber of home into the storioy ocean of activelife, There is such a thing as impressing children so powerfully with good, that sixty years will have no more power to effuce it than sixty min. utes, What a rough time that young man has in doing wrong, carefully nurtured as he was! His father and mother have been dead for years, or over In Scot. land, or England, or Ireland; but they have stood in the doorway of every dramshop that he entered, and under the chandelier of every house of dis sipation, saying: **My son, this is no place for you. Have you forgotten the old folks? Don’t you recognize these wrinkles, and this stoop in the should- er, and this tremulous hand? Go home, my boy, go home! By the God to whom we consecrated you, by the cradle in which we rocked you, by the grass. grown graves in the old country church. yard, by the heaven where we hope yet to meet you, go home! Go howe, toy boy. go home!” And some Sunday you will be surprised to find that young man suddenly asking for the prayers of the church, Some Sunday you will see him at the sacrament, and perhaps drinking from the same kind of chalice that the old folks drank out of years ago when they commemorated the suf- ferings of the Lord, Yes, my lad, you do not have such fun iu sin as you seem to have. L Rnow. so {4 &POILS YOUR FUN. » * ee ——————————————————————— 2 You cannot shake off the influences oi those prayers long ago offered, or o those kind admonitions. You cannol make them go away, and you feel like saying: *‘Father, what are you doing here? Mother, why do you bother me with suggestions of those olden times?” But they will not go away. They will push you back from your evil paths, though they haye to come down from their shining homes in heaven and stand in the very gates of hell, and their backs scorched of the fiery blast, and with their hand on your shoulder, and their breath on your brow, and thelr eyes looking straight into yours, they will say: *‘*We have come to take you home, oh, son of many anxieties!" At last that young man turns, through the consecutive influences of a pious parentage, who out of fidelities innums- erable made a chain, That THE CHAIN THAT PULLS mightily this morning on five hundred of you. You may be too proud shed a tear, and you may, to convince others of your imperturbability, smile to your friend beside you; but their is not so much power in an Alpine ava- lanche after it bas slipped for a thous. and feet, and having struck a lower cliff. is taking its second bound for Af- teen hundred feet more of plunge, as there is power in the chain that pulls you this moment toward God and Christ and Heaven. Oh, the almighty pull of the long chain of early gracious influences! jut all people between thirty and forty years of age, yes, between forty and fifty—aye, between fifty and sixty years—and all septuagenarians as well, need a surrounding conjunction of good influences, In Sing Sing, Au- burn, Moyamensing, and all the other great prisons, are meu and women who went wrong in mid-life and old age. We need around us a cordon of good in- fluences. We forgot to apply the well. known rule that a chaln is no stronger than i5 ITS WEAKEST LINK. If the chain be made up of a thousand links, and nine hundred and ninety- nine are strong, but one is weak, the yaln will be in danger of breaking at at one weak link. We may be strong a nd excellences and yet have ess which endangers us reason see men distinguished for a whole round of virtues collapse and go down. The h ni oue Ww i That is the gave way under the pressure. The first chain bridge was built in Reotland, Walter Scot French imitated it In a bridge across the river Seine. But there was one weak point in that chain bridge. There wus a middle bolt that was of poor material, but they did pot know how | the chain bridge. a procession started, led on by the builder of the bridge; and, when the mighty weight of the procession Was | fairly on it, the bridge broke and pre- | cipitated the multitudes, The bridge | was all right except in that middle bolt, | So the bridge of character may be made up of mighty links strong enough to hold a mount: but if there be one weak spot, that one point uniooked- | after may be the destruction of every- thing. And what multitudes have | gone down for all time and all eternity { because in. the ¢ hain their | character tl Wis a stron middle bolt! He had BUT ONE FAULT, and at was avarice; hence, forgery. He had but one fault, and that was a | burning thirst for intoxicants; hence, his fatal debauch. She had but | fault, and that an inordinate fondness | for dress: and hence, her own and her | husband’ bankruptcy. She had but one fault, and that a quick temper; | hence, the disgraceful outburst. What | we all want is to have put as and us a | strong chain of good fluence, © | tian association is a link, Good litera- | ture is & link. Church membecship | link. Habit prayer is a link. pture research is a link, Faith in is a link. Put together all these Make a chain! Most excellent is it for us { | company better than ourselves, are given to telling vile stories, let | put ourselves among those who will not { ablde such utterances. If we are | stingy, tet us put ourselves among he | charitable. If we are morose, let us | put ourselves among the good-natured. | If we are given to tittle-tattle, let us | put ourselves among those who speak I no iil of their neighbors. | spondent, let us put ourselves among those who make the best of things, If evil is contagious, I am glad to say that good is also catching. People go up into the hill-country for physical health; 80 if you would be strong in your soul, fry ih 19 bridge of wR £ lacking g t nris- is ¥ OL He i i Bese pitencen, Oo ge the altitudes of HIGH MORAL ASSOCIATION, For many of the circumstances of our life we are not responsibe. For our parentage we are not responsible. For the place of our nativity, not respon. sible; for our features, our stature, our color, not responsible; for the family relation in which we wers born, for our national tastes, for our mental character, not responsible. But we are responsible for the associates thal we choose and the moral influences under which we put ourselves, Character seeks an equilibrium. A B Is a good man, Y Z isa bad man. Let them now voluntarily choose each other's cletys A I will lose u part of his good- ness and XY Z apart of his badness, and they will gradually approach each other in character and will finally stand on the same level, One of the old painters refused to look at poor pic- tures because he said it damaged his style, A musician cannot afford to dwell among discords, nor can a writer afford to peruse books of Inferior style, nor an archutect walk ont among . dispropor- tioned ‘structures. And no mau or woman was ever so good as to be able to afford to choose evil associations, Therefore, 1 said, have it a rule of your life to go among those beiter than yourselves, Cannot find them? Then what a pink of perfection you must be! W hen was your character completed? What a misfortune for the salntly and angelic of heaven that they are not en- joying the iniproving influence of your society! Al, If you cannot find those | better than yourself, it is because you { are ignorant of yourself. Woe unt you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! THE CHAIN OF CAPTIVITY, | But, as I remarked in the opening, in sacred and in all styles of literature n chain means not only adornment and] royalty of nature, but sometimes capti- vity. And I suppose there are those in that sense deliberately and perstently waking a chain, Now here is a young man of good physical health, good man- ners, and good education. How shall he put together enough links to make a chain for a down-hill road? 1 will give him some directions, First let hun smoke, 1f he cannot stand cigars, let him try cigarettes, 1 think cigarettes will help him on his road a little more rapidly, because the doctors say there is more peison in them, and so he will be nelped along faster; and 1 have the more confidence ¥ i last year were, according to the doctors’ reports, killed by cigarettes. Let Lim arink light wines first, or ale or | lager, and gradually he will be able to | take something stronger, and as all | styles of strong drink are more and more adulterated, his progress will be With the old-time drinks a fore thirty or forty years of age: now he can get the madness by the time he is eighteen, ment of Princess Elizabeth, in the Isle of Wight, the words to which her index-finger pointed in the open Bible when she was found dead in her bed, “Come unto Me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest,” Is there a drunkard here? You may by the Sayiour’s grace, have that fire of thirst utterly extinguished. Is there a defrauder here? You may be made a saint. Is there a libertine here? You may be made as pure as the light, When was eulogizing goodness, there were hanging around the edge of the audience some of the most depraved men and women, and the minister said nothing about mercy for prodigals, And a depraved woman cried out, like of us.” Blessed be God, our gospel can fathom the deepest depths, and is a rope that 18 long enough to rescue the worst: “Whosoever will.” But why take extreme cases, when ve all have been or are now the cap- tives of sin and death? through THE GREAT EMAXCIPATOR, shackles and take You have looked at your hand and arm only as being useful now, and a curious piece of anatomy, but there Is some- thing about your hand and arm that h ii Let him play cards, enough money put up always to add interest to the game, If the father and mother will play with him, that will help by the way of countenancing the habit. And it will be such a pleasant thing to think over in the day of judgment, when the parents give account for the elevated | manner in which they have reared their Every pleasant Sunday afternoon | take a carriage ride, and stop at the | hotels on either side the road for Sab- bath refreshments, Do not let the old- fogy prejudices against Sabbath-break- | ing dominate you. Have a membership in some club, where libertines go and tell about their victorious Sins, and laugh as loud as any of them in derision | your sister and mother. Piteh your Bible overboard as old-fashioned and 4t | only for women and children. Read all the magazine articles that pul Christi- | age, and go to hear the they say, Instead of being Mighty | of a great delu- | ity, Lo | and thrall along ! i sion. Go, at first out of curios see all the houses of dissipatio their fascination, Getling THE CHAIN FINISHED, * + I further can Become more | ¥ {-mouth- | Let me see what I sug- | ed in your atheism, more thoroughly | alcoholized, and instead of the small that will do well enough for games of chance in a ladies’ parior, put | put up somethimg worthy, put up more, | put up all you have, Well d You have succeeded, You made a | the tobacco babi the | nnd one. have * » one link, 1delity another link, Sabbath | nother link, uncleanness | and altogether they make | And there is a chain on sn your fool, and a ind a chain. so 1 shalr « a chair on your tongue, and a chain on your property, } A CHAIN ON YOUR wake up and say: and 1 am going iis shackle,”” You pound hannner of good reaii- it break the thrall, Your MOL Loe “I am ‘ ges Some day you tired of this, loose from tl b to tion, but canm but fail exhausted ic the unavailing at- tempt Now you begin, and with the writhing of a Laocoon, to try to break away, and the muscies are distended, mind, and soul you attempt get loose, but have ouly the chain sink deeper. All the that encamp in the wine-flask and the rum-jug and the decanter for | to In some midnight you spring from your couch and say: “I am fast! O} ness, let me loose! Father and mother | and brothers and sisters, help me to get And you turn your prayer to roar there is played au accompaniment | not an accompaniment by key and and the rattie is that of a chain, But I take a step higher, sud tell you thereis APOWER THAT CAN BREAK ANY CHAIN | —chain of body, chain of mind, chain | of soul. The tetters that the hammer of the gospel have broken off, if piled together, would make a mountain, The captives whom Christ has set free, if stood side by side, wouid make anarmy. Quicker than a ship-chandler’s furnace ever melted a cable, quicker than the bayonets of revolution pried upon the Bastile, you may be liberated, and made a free son or a free daughter of God. You have only to choose be- tween serfdom and emancipation, be- tween a chain and a coronet, between Satan and God. Make up your mind, makes me think they are an undevelop- wing, And if you would Know what possibilities are suggested by that, looked close into the eye of the noonday sun; or ask SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. Buspax, Ocropen 7, 1855, The Commission of Joshua. LESSON TEXT. Josh. 1: 1-9, Memory verses, 849 LESSON PLAN. Toric oF THE QUARTER! Promises Fulfilled, God's GoLpex TEXT For THE QUARTER: There fatled not aught of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unio the house of Israel ; all came to pass, Josh, 21 : 45. Ii Neu Lesson Toric: couraqgerment. eiving [ens Out mn int Stand ; { GOLDEN TEXT your loins girt abou therefore with tr wth, COUSTIL DAILY M. TP Eph. 6 : 14, Hove READIN Josh, 1: 1-9. Exod, 17 soldier, Exod, Mount Sinai. Num. 14 : a spy. & 2x Ln, T. as F. + 12-23. Joshu signated as the leader. Deut. 1 22.39. J “i “ae IU: ocks of the ask the condor that this mornin g Is borazo. ed wings, ready for the empyrean. R my soul, and stretch thy wing, Thy better portion trace : the world’s history, such as the chain which fastened the prisoner of Chillon to the pillar—into the staple of which I chain which the Russian exile clanks on the mives of Siberia. Aye, there have been races in chains, and there has been A WORLD thank God, the last one of them 11 be broken, and, under the liberat- IN CHAINS; | | : i i i 1 i i | i shackles shall fall from the lasl But these fetters shall ail be gath from the dungeons and the workhouses * and tl 1 b fee 14d aa, ‘ and they shall again be welded 1 ] grung link to transformed this world, which has wandered off and been a recreant w wid and a lost world, shall by that chaix be Ii {f Gol, no longer the iron chain of oppression, but the golden chain of ove, There this old ransomed world swing forever! Roll on, ye vears, rol, ye days, and hasten the again hink, and polished and 3 #1 uns el The Tollers oft he Nile. We Nubia, the climate, the | different types of the negro race, their | are i regard of dress, all remind us thal we are | 1ia Africa, for about us | deed M3 Very scenes we tO see all “ail y are tl used i1 wl ida Myself a native and familiar with plantati a dozen different states, as since the civil war, id of the south, u life in half before as well | ind these Afri- own country a particular. interesting study, We have walch them at their daily toil, and far Wo made to work 1 : as day, until id stand no more, ils. a grain something like barley, tasting more like the bean, A coarse, dry bread, that a well bred dog would not sat at home, , and is all. We buy a sheep now and then for the they are as ravenous over it asa pack of starving wolves The crews of the boats are least de- iy . ferdit sms ght “an nature heir food is sometimes a : iis ¥ al great num. clothing is unkuno We see these people drawing waler from the | river, toiling in the fields and laboring i “For my part, I can truly say that i slavery wai not understood by me be- tore visitihg Egypt, Ian intelligence | and respectability the average of these | people, nol sitaply Nubians, but those | of Egypt as well, I mean, ot course, the felaheen, do not compare with our | plantation negroes. The alleged catar- i acts are nothing more than rapids, not | as fine as those above Niagara falls, | nor the Lachine of the St. Lawrence. | 1 haps, a spice of danger init, It was | good sportto watch the ebony sons of ! the desert leap from the rocky cliff into i the seething waters of the great catar- | act, then, after a hard struggle, scam- per up the steep bank, and, by the dozen, make our ears ring with the din | of the natwonsl motto, “‘backscheash, backscheash,” all in chorus, i The Age's Eaucational Folly. The educational folly of the age con- and make it up quick. When the King of Sparta had crossed the Hellespont, and was about to march through Thrace, he sent word to the people in tbe different regions, askin them whether he should march throug their countries as a friend or an enemy. “By all means as a friend,” answered most of the regions; but the King of Macedon replied, “1 will take time to consider it,”’ *“Then,”’ said the King of Sparta, “let bim consider it; but meantime we march—we march!” So Christ, our King, gives us our choice between lis triendship and His frown, and many of us have long been consid. ering what we had better do; but mean. time He marches on, and our OPPORTUNITIES ARE MARCHING BY. And we shall be the loving subjects of his reign, or the victims of our own obduracy. So, I urge you to gists in the assumption that any large proportion of our population desire much instruction in schools. Rev, John Harvard, who saved a few hun- dred pounds from his scanty salary that he might endow a college, stated that he made the sacrifice because ‘‘the young peopls about him were possessed of an absolute passion for acquiring knowledge,” Had he lived in our time he would have discovered that the young people had a passion for almost anything else, Ie would have used his nioney in obtaining the pleasures of vacations, Girls go to high schools now, not for the love of learning, pure and simple, but in order to get a chance to teach, and the sons of rich men at- tend college chiefly because it is fash. fonable, 5 AIA 3 SIN One of Chleago’s millionaires, Mr, Dale, sold for $75,000 not long Ago a jot with that he Jane} rather than slow deliberation, and T wiite all over your soul the words ahi in the city limits orginally paid only $76 for. pointment retold. 8 Deut. 31 : 14-23. Joshua's ap- pointment contirmed. i —————————— LESSON ANALYSIS, 1. THE NEW LEADER. I. The Dead Leader : Mo dead (2). Deut, 4 : 22 sach hat thou 48 my servant is in this land thy days die (Ix Die in the mount ¥ 32 : BO). - 4 i must Moses, . ir rd of the Lord (Deut, 34 : 5. IL. The Promised Buccessor: After of Moses, qua (1). died,. ant the death Take hand upon him thee “aval HOVAN } in unt Exod. shinil angel and . tha ng thee it s have the T ne 1 i The people’s post land beyond; (3) The 4) The arousing . The land which I dogive tothe Canaan: A land of promise; A lenty; (3) A (1 land of ism. 11. THEGREAT OPI IL. A Broad Possession: § land vi fix your foot shall ve I given it (3). i seest, to thee that 11 be yours { IL The Divine Fellowship: 5 1 with Moses, sol will be Was a ba 3 hee Xond, 12). will be 33% 1 it fall He ti Deut, forsake thee 2d Fear thou not, for Isa, 41 : 10M If God is for us, w hic Rom, 8: 31k I am with thee y is against us? ya shalt cause this people to inherit land (6). thee will T give it, and to thy seed for ever (Gen. 13 : 15). divided for hdl, inheritance an inheritance (Num, 26 : Canaan, the lot of your (Psa. 105 : 11). inheritance (Heb, 11 : 8), 1. “Every place that....your foot shall tread upon, to you have I it.” {1} Unlimited opportunity; (2) Actual occupancy; (3) Unguali- tied assurance, . 9 «There shall not any man be able to stand before thee.” (1) Enemies presupposed ; (2) Triumph assured, 8. ‘Be strong and of a good courage.’ Divine encouragement: {1) ts neces. sity: (2) Its quality; (3) Its conse- quence, 11. THE SUPREME ENCOURAGEMENT. Observe to do according to all the law (7). Observe thou that which I command the this day (Exod. 34 : 11). Moses .... took Joshua,....and gave him a charge (Num, 27 : 22, 23). Observe snd hear all these words which 1 command thee (Deut, 12 : 28), 80 did Moses command Joshua: and so did Joshua (Josh, 11 : 14), 15. The Means to be Used: This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth (8). He shall write him a copy of this law in a book { Deut, 17 : 18), He shall read therein all the days of his life (Dent, 17 : 19), In hislaw doth he meditate day and night (Psa. 1 : 2). The sacred writings which are able to make thee wise (2 Tim, 3 : 15). 111 The Power to be Trosted: The Lord thy God is with thee whith. ersoever thou Soest (9). He will be with thee, he will not fail thee (Deut, 31 : 8). EE n : (Josh, 8:T\ ; 1 So the Lord was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land (Josh. 6 : 27). 1. “Only be strong and very courage- ous, to observe to do according to all the law,” How to keep God’s laws: (1) Bupremely; (2) Forcefully (3) Courageously; (4) Serupulously; (5) Completely, “Tarn not from it mayest good Bleadfas dant i “The ,. ... that tho success,’ obedience; (2) Al sT1T JRA: is with thes whithersoever thou goest,’” (1) Ex- alted companionship; (2) Constant companionship; (3) Profitable cou paniousi God LEADING, Ee i LESSON | The Book | history of the i lesson Isra« immediately follows Ir in | last one of the third quarter. Thetl f mourning for Moses (Deut, i fOr : tlie probably intervened bel Ol days o iT 1 = i? i We mission of Joshua.’ The place was ti W8 i the encampment of { { Israelites in plains of | against Jericho; | Joshua was probabil) { of meeting.”’ The time was during first mo of the 8 ale wie marture commu ith Hii {the | after deg he tenth day of the over the Jo s recorded in this | —— PERSONAL ENIGMAS, The Art of Managing Scholars or Sere vants with Gentle .ess. A gentle lady, 1 a strict arian. on becoming the teacher of primary department of a young lad discovered that the puplis were terous, disorde aud indisposed to heed her request, which she spoke in a soft. iow and distinct volce, She was surprised, for they were daug refined, cultivated people; but at recess her eyes were opened. “Please, miss, said one of the g seeing the grieved look on Lhe tea 1 | face, ‘we don’t mean 0 disobey you but vou don’t order us as the last teach- er, Miss Siminons, hammer the desk with her ruler, and shout at us till we minded. You so gently to us that we thiuk you dot care if we mind or not. “Please don’t cry!’ teeing | glistening in the nervous woman's eyes, “We ull like you much betler than we id Miss Simmons, but we haven't got | used to your lady-like ways.’ { The patient, gentle teacher px rsisted in ber “lady-like ways,” and int the pupils had learned to be guided her eye. Tue anecdote is for children isy, expie | rend a teacher whose cominands fail gently as dew, Ddervanis a often perplexed by a genlie, forbearin master. The late George I. when a member 1 Tess, enigma to his Washinglon ser vants, be cause he never spoke harshly to them. An old woman, who had been a servant for nearly two years, was noticed one day standing be- fore his portrait, studying it intently. “What are you doing?” asked Mrs, Marsh. “laws, missus, I'se tryin’ to see how massa Jooks!”’ she answered, “Pears like 1'se afraid to look at him real, ’’ “But why are you afraid? He al- ways speaks Kindly to you,’ *Oh yes, missus, it’s just that! He speaks to us all kin’ o' guiet-like, just zif we'se white folks. If he’d only | swear at us sometimes, and say he'd break ‘er heads, we wouldn't be feared | no way; but he's so drefful still and | deep!” Then, turning away from the por | trait, she added, speaking to herself: | “Yes, massa’s deep as the seal Even a | poor nigger can make that out, But | he does simile beautifull” disciplin a 3 se hi ve Isis H el used 0 did. She speak ¢ the tears TELE iv trates how difficult Liave sive government to appre- illus LF it who been used ton As heen the Are or = Marsh, { WAS of Oug an negro $ isl ou i sys tl is family i A friend once asked Mr, Marsh how he managed to refrain from speaking harshly to his servants, “By always remembering,” he re plied, “how little their poor, nNOITOw lives can give them at the best,’ Ay -_ > Yucatan Women, As a rule the women of Yucatan take kindly to their chains, having never known or heard of any other mode of living; and when, asin rare cases, she rebels, It only does her in- finite harm by increasing the harshness of her master. Though instinctively virtuous, so far as faithfulness unto death to one man is concerned, their standard of morality is not so high, and the amigas (“friends”) of married wen are considered to be as good as anybody. The pature of Yucatan women is not intense; it 1s only warm, weak, aud indolent. Though as chil- dren, especially among the lower classes they go about absolutely unclothed till nearly half grown, as adults they are fully as modest in appearance as thei Northern sisters. Whatever their inward thoughts may be I cannot say. A young American writer, lately here, who doubtless ob- served the girls more intelligently than your correspondent could do, says of them: “They can no more help shows ing the pleasure a young man's pres. ence causes them than flowers can help showing that they like the sunshine; or ar drop. thor Is aye op r liqu oh like vestal nuns *' - i i i 3
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