The Brooklyn pivine's Banday
Sermon,
Subject: “The Vacant Chair»
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Texr: “Thow shall be missed, because
thy seat will be empty.” —1 Bamuel zx. 18
Set on the table the cutlery and the chased
silverware of the palace, for King Baul will
#ve a state dinner to-day, A distinguished
place is kept at the table for his son-in-law
a celdbrated warrior, David by name. The
guests, jewsied and plumed, come in and
take their places. When people are invited
to a king's banquet they are very apt to go,
But before the covers are lifted from the
feast Seul looks around and finds a vacant
ent at the table He says within
himself, perhaps audibly, * What does
ikis mean? ‘here is my son-in-law?
Whers is David, the t war
rior? Iinvited him, I expected him. What}
& vacant chair at the king's banquet!” The
fact was that David, the warrior, had
been seated for the last time at his father.
in-law’s table. The day before Jonathan
bad coaxed David to go and occupy that
place at the table, saying to David in the
words of my text, “Thou shalt be missed
because thy seat will be empty.” The pro-
diction was fulfilled. David was missed,
His seat was empty, That one vacant chair
spoke louder than all the occupied chairs at
the banquet,
in almost every house the articles of fur
Diture take a living personality. That
preture—a stranger would not see anythin
remarkable either in its design or executd
but itis more to you than all
the Louvre and the Luxembo
member who bought it and
it And Lymn
Ler who out of it, And
cradle urexember who rocked it.
that ee WOU Ke ver who re
quit of at, J 1 that bed—you remem ber w
sept init, And tl roo
whod in it 3 ere
rg. Youre
who admired
book--you ramen
wad
-—you remember
notiving i
and so mighty voiocsd
I suppose that befo
from this banguet
wine pitchers,
vaed out by the
} vacant ©
is Nn all
and his gu
WaS & gr
but ail that racke
yolos that came
the table,
Millions bave gazed and wept at Jolin
Quincy Adams's vacant chair in the honss of
representatives, and at Wilson's vacant
chair fn the vice-presidency, and at Henry
Ciey's vacant chair in the American senate
sad at Prince Albert's vacant chair in Wind.
sor castle, and at Thiers’ vacant chair in the
councils of the French nation. But all these
chairs are unimportant to you as compared
with the vacant chairs in your own housshold.
Have these chairs any lesson for us to learn?
Are we any better men amd women than
when they first addressed us?
First I point out to you the father's va.
tant chair. Old men always like to sit in
the same place and in the same chair.
They somehow feel more at home, and svme.
tines when you are in their piace and they
toe into the roc you jump up sud-
y and say, ‘‘Here. father, here's your
The prol ity is it is an arm-
I as he onces
His
de
i
he so strong
was, and he 1
Sar is a
pressed,
uch dentistry
little upholdiag
Fr, big gums a little
days there was not
hd hair and
ald | & i may
have sug i ) im neat, father
foes not war
(at neve
re 3
MEG ROT
I sat at the table
ws f
na for
WR
Grand.
or naw
sb
ut the
ie tip of he slinpers,
ave of the past years
t of that chair,
. ttle impa-
and same story
but old chair how many
sed men ies hover! 1 hope you did
aot crowd that old chair, and that it did not
get very much in the way,
Sometimes the old man's chal: gels very
much in the way, especially if he has been so
anwise as to makes over ail his property to
his children, with the understanding that
they areto take care of him, I have seen in
such cases children crowd the old man's
chair to the door, and then crowd it clear
into the street, and then crowd it into the
poor house, and keep on crowding it until
She old man fell out of it into his grave,
But your father’s chair wasa sacrad place,
The children used to climb up oun the rungs
of it for a good night kiss, and tha longer he
staved the better you liked But that
chair has been vacant now time,
The furniture dealer
al piacidity
his life broke
08 som
ont, wd the
<Wice;
bles
for some
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ur affection ive smnbroided |
that old chair in purple and g
F." Have all the prayers of
hair answered? Have all
air besn praciiced!?
i armchair,
4
an oid man whose ¢
heen
counsels of that old ¢
Bpeak out! ¢
History tells us of
fons ware victors in the Oly w
when they came back thesa
their garlands, put them on the father's br
ree
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tories of his three children that he fell des!
in their arms. And are yoo, oh man, going to
bring a wreath of joy and Christian usefulnes
and put it on your father's brow, oron the
vacant chair. or on the memary of the one
departed? Speak out, old armehair! With
reierence to your father, the words of mv
text have been fulfilled, “Thou shalt be
missed, because thy seat will be empty.”
I go a Httle further on in your house and
I find the mother's chair, It {s very apt to
te a rocking chair, Shes had so many
cares and troubles to soothe that it must
have 1ociars. I remember it wall; it was
an old chair, and the rockers were almost
worn out, for I was the youngest, and the
ckalr had rocked the whole family, It
made a cremkie noise as it moved: but
thers was music in the sound, It was juss
bigh enough to allow us children to put our
heads into her lap. That was the bank
where we deposited all our hurts and wor.
rier, Ah! what a chair that was. It was
different from the father's chair: it was on.
tirely different. You ask me how? I can.
not tell; but we all felt it was different
Perhaps there was about this chair mors
geatienass, more teaderne more grief
when we bad done wrong, “When wa wero
wayward father scolded, bat mother ered,
It was a very wakeful chair. In ths
sick days of” children other chairs
could not awake; that chair always
kept awake—-kept easily awake, The chair
knew all the old Jullgbies and all thous
wordless songs which mothers sing to thei
wiok children—songs in which all pity ani
Somtpiaiion and sympathetic influence are
combined,
That old chair has stopped rocking tor a
good many years. It may be set up in the
left ar the but it holds a queen!
pows yet, bem at roldoight you ne 4
into that Ks shop to ged the intoxicating
draught, you not hear a vi that said,
“My son, why go in there?” And louder
than the boisterous encore of the place of
sinful amusement, a voles saying, “My
son, what do you do here? And when
you went into the house of ant,
% vajes saviog, “What would your mother
& And you
A if sho knw Yip Th hate!
a a ih, Joutut, aud
naticlsm aad your head got hot with your
own thoughts, snd vou went home and
you went to bed, and no sooner had you
touched the bed than a voice said: “What!
a praverieam pillow? Man! what is the
matter” This You are wo near your
mother's rocking -chnir, .
“Oh, pshaw I” you say, “There's nothing
inthat, Pm five hundred miles off from
where i was born, I'm three hundred miles
off from the church whose bell was the
first musie I ever heard.” I cannot help
that, You are too near vour mother»
rocking chair, "Oh" you say. ‘there
can't ba anything in that. That
chair has been vacant a great while” |
cannot help that, It isall the mightier for
that, Itis emnipotent, that vacant mothars
er's ahair, It whispers, it speaks, it weeps, it
carols, it mourns, it prays, it warns it
thusdura A young man went off and
oroke his mother’s heart, and while he was
away from home his mother died, and the
telegraph brought the son, and he cams
into the room wheres she lay and looked
upon her faca, and he cried out: "Ob,
mother, mother, what your life could not do
your death shall effect! Thismoment 1 give
my heart to God.” And he kept his prom.
iss. Another victory for the vacant chair,
With reference to your mother the words of
my text were fulfilled, **Tuon shalt be
missed, becauss thy seat will ba empey.”
I go on a little further, and 1 come to the
favallds chair, What! How long have
been sick? “Oh! 1 have beep sick t
thirty years.” Is it po }
Thera
hls
%i 00
are
in
{my congragatio i
The occupants of
aod 10 te
-~
chairs,
chair
which
time [ pt
the thr
ni
ust one
juss or
vaiid's chair,
WHO Ar'e RiwWavs
plaining—th spina
and peur and rheamat
cruciati will answ 0 the roll eall
s martyrs throne
1 i IF ee ” : © far
suiiaring, but never
there many there
TALY Only abot
undred mi ns of them The ol
i the mothe y Roep the
Christ : i
Le
Lid
i fairly make
five h
crusty Pharisees
children away from bother
Him.” they said: “you trouble aster.”
Trouble Him! He bas filled beaven with
that kind of tr i
A pioneer in
first year or two
Sierra Nevada county
woul
the
% that for the
resi
fornia say
after his lence
there
reach
¢
ourth of July
and ¢ the baby a
Was i = In it as
cheer In it, . i= nothing
subdues the soul
when I goes
becomes a
an all abo
Rd sl X “
ay band,
thivte
melt and
a child Ver
away from you the high chair
higher clair and thers is desolati
you,
In three-fourths of the homes of this cone
gregation there is a vacant high chair,
Somehow you never get over it, There is
noone to put to bed at night: no one to ask
strange questions about God and heaven.
Oh, what is the uss of that high chair? It is
to call you higher, What a drawing up-
ward it is to have children in heaven! And
then itissuch a preventive against sin. If
a father is going away into sin he leaves
his Hv children with their mother: but
if a father is going away into sin what is
he going to do with his dead children float.
ing about him and hovering over his every
wayward step. Oh, speak out, vacant high
chair, and say: “Father, come back from
sin; mother, come DRCK trom Woridiiness, i
am watching you. 1am waiting for you”
With respect to your child the words of my
text have been fulfilled, “Thou shalt
missed, because thy seat will be empty *
My hearers, I have gatherad up the voices
of your departed friends and tried to futons
them into one invitation upward. I set in are
ray all the vacant chairs of your homes and
of your social circle, and 1 bid them ery out
this mornmg. “Time is short, Eternity is
near. Take my Saviour, He at peace
with my God, Come up where 1 am,
We lived together on earth; come let us
live together in heaven” Wo answer that
invitation, We come, Keep a weat for us
as Baul kept a seat {or David, but that seat
shall not be enipty. And oh! when we are
all through with this world, and we have
shaken hands all around for the last time,
ana all our chairs in the home circle and in
and
ike a Hut
wy ®
iv
be worshiping God in that places from which
we shall go out no mote forever,
1 thane God there will be no vacant chalrs
In heaven, There we shall meet 5 and
talk over our sarthly heartbr How
much you bave been through since you saw
them last, On the shining shore ‘you will
talk it all over. The heartaches. The lone
linows, ® nights, The wesping
until you had no mors power to weep,
the withered
i
|
when you taougnt thas departed had come
k again, snd the room seemed bright
with thelr faces, and you started up to
Test them and in the effort the dream
roke and you ‘ound yoursell standing amid
reoan in the miduight-—alone,
Taliing it ail ovar, and then, hand in
hand, walking un and down in the lizht
No sorrow, no tears, no death, Oh, hea ves!
beautiful heaven! Heaven where our friends
are, Heaven where wa expeotto be. In the
cast they take a cage of birds and bring it to
the tome of the dead, and then they
the door of the cage aud the birds, fiying
out, sing. And I would to-day bring a cage
of Christlan conselations to the grave
your joved onss, and I would opsn the
with the
Gren
o
‘oor
masse
Oh, how they beund in these spirits be.
Bome shout with gladness,
in their
qa ver
Nome stand speschiess
They sing, They
They guzs on the
on the waters, oa
They weave their jov into gar-
spring it into trinmphal
sirike in on timbreis, and
lovel ons gatas
the throne of 80
they
they
all the
great cirele around
Stars, sons
1d 1
ti
thers, mothers, brothers
wers and friend
the throoe
to yi, joy
around abou!
* widening
in
Hr unul
RWWA
fen
, my beloved, andl be like a 1
mountains
imdows
pang bard upon the ol
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CHILDREN IN JAPAN.
GYeyY any ot
charm { to them
No doul
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with the wari
ki
ies, and ¢
and 18 sire
first—that each «
a miniature adu
exception of
ulders, ita dress i
of a grown person
delightfully
httle men and women,
smaller chubbier
fl V-ARWAY
ssl
fact
he
3 the k
And it is
quaint to see these
anda
the
fun.
But there i
creatures
butter
yment
immed
pir little
Japanese boys and girls
| children; an
they
IW snr
aug htine
childlike of al
| prisiongly good 3
almost unknown i spent
{ hours watching them in the mn
school, at work, or at play, and very
Some
are! aH
have
streets,
expects
of tumor is with them a
| stronger passion than puagnacity, and
i the threatening thunder-clouds burst
in a rain of laughter.
By what golden spell do the Japan.
parents control their children?
what magic do they command the
r bbedience which is a noticeable
characteristic in these little people?
Certainly not by coercion nor by punish.
ments, 1 have been for over avear in all
parts of Japan, and never once have |
seen a child slapped or shaken, and I
have been told by European teachers
jin native schools that punishments are
very rare aud discipline very easy to
maintain. The accompanying sketches
show some characteristic types of
| Young Japan in their national oos-
{tumes, These present a striking con
trast to the hideous foreign fashions
| now frequently seen in the streets of
i Tokio and Kioto. Oh, the pity of
it!
sCnte
| driving away the classic kimono. Im-
i ported boots are crampime the little
padded cords of sandal or clog.
{ worse than all, the little round heads,
| which for thousands of years have re-
| quired only an oiled paper parasol to
protect them from sunshine and
| shower, are now thrust into every
| variety of European eap and bat, from
the Lard felt “bowler” to the unadorned
straw shape.
There are no people so fond of toys
{an the Japanese. About one day out of
| three is a holiday in their country, and
| even their pilgrimages to temples of
| worship are performed in gala costume,
| with dancing and sports by the way-
iside. Flay is from their pointof view
| the object of existence, work being the
| means to the end, because it is neces.
| sary to earn pleasure in order to find
{it enjoyable. Americans, of course,
| know better than this, having ascer-
{ tained that the purpose of life is labor
{ and that fun in any shape is waste of
| time,
The Japanese have the most perfect
kindergarten system in the world. . In
i fact, they originated this method of
instructing by entertaioment instoad of
| punishment inflicted. Their play ap-
atus for such purposes is elaborate,
mt all of it is adap to the infant
mind, which it is od at once to
amuse and to inform. The little ones
i
:
|
;
of wood with a lathe. They make out ’
lines of solid figures out of straws, ith
green peas dried to hold the joints to-
gother, and for the instruction of the
blind flat blocks are provided, with the
Japanese characters raised upon them.
Even the toys of Japan give instrue-
tion to those who play with them. One
sort of playing cards bas printed upon
them 100 scraps of classic poetry, by
which the rudiments of the art of versi-
fication are expected to be ineunleated, |
Avother set embodies & collection of
old Japanese parables, by whieh the |
syliabary of the leuguage and moral |
maxims at the same time are to
taught.
tory cards to give instrioetion in the
names and forms of animals, and sill
another set, especially intended for.
have been celebrated for their
and noble qualities,
All these things can be seen in
museum of the Burean of Education,
at Eighth and G. s reets, of the exist.
In the eollection there,
the Hw
1
ao
educational
nutries
of Japan
m are types ot play-
f
Of
mil
ing fissem! lage HE
any of th
ied western
the I.
but no
long stick by a
still another 18 a
# al 'hDj
being sttached
y base, At
t
more ox
tween t
the axle w
v
wWheals,
tha bh OV 1
iekisha i» WATS)
a foreign
cov by
Further devices
er Deing
be
ag native
kaleidoscopes,
ecapboar
profligate
men, Who
beholders
1 are re
becomes of them
3 the
§ no m seen.
s what
oy hide their
flight is finished,
languish
Marshalsea, and the
dragonflies of
I do not
'
when
Mostly,
heads
xy
n
ved, they
the
are the
butterflies
They
sa
she wrrsh
oF, DOS
suppose that
1s
Yet no one knew 1t—no one
such =»
Archer's,
wonld suspect
Lord Aldeb rgh bad brought up
conld possibly suspect the truth. it
might
crowded during the trials of the four
men charged with high
longing to an obscure
for being concerned in
which led to nothing. Some one may
have remembered the face i
former and King's evidence; but eon-
gider, his new dress had so altered the
man that nobody conld possibly reCoE-
Nothing of the grab was
wp le ndid aragon fly. Nay,
e thought him elf quit
very. St Ka'harine's
is a most obsoure place. The world of
fashion finds not ite way there; one
trembes to think what wonld become
of a Bean, Jessamy, Maccaroni, Smart,
or Dandy (the creature changes his
little
a petty
nize him
left in this
i suppose that 1
safe from disc
and unprotecied among the tarpaulins
and mudiarks at the head of St. Kathe.
rine's Stairs. And if the world of fash.
even Vauxhall
jut a man can never escape his past,
From his birth and the station to which
he is ordained and called into being,
unto his death, the whole of his history
is always ready to be unfolded and dis-
closed. He can count upon hiding
nothing, principally because there are
few things which a man does absolate-
ly alone and wvmnoticed. His past
clings to him; it follows him; it is like
a lengthening shadow; it is like a chain
which he drags after him; it takes
sha To some it becomes an angel
of light to lead him vpward; it outs out
a way for him through the wood and
lays low the thorns; it strengthens and
supports him. To others it lies as a
not about his feet to trip him up and
lay him low; it may become a devil
with a scourge; it may take shape of
an executioner with a torture-ohamber
and a gibbet. Physician and philos-
opher have held that every moment of
a man's life is remembered; and may
be recalled by a trick of memory or
some sudden association of ideas, Thus
may we understand how a man may be
judged by his own memory, by his own
mind, and out of his own mouth,
Walter Besant in “St Katherine's by
the Tower.”
Lightning destroyed an Iowa lce-
house,
Hungary's railway cars have electric
ta,
The Tichborne claimant is a still
walter,
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
EURNDAY, AUGUST 8 1801.
Christ at Jacob's Well,
LESSON TEXT,
ohn 4 : 5.28, Memory vorses: 18-14)
LESSON PLAN.
Toro oF TRE (JUARTER:
Son of God,
Jesus the
rou THE QUARTER
that ye might be-
the Christ, the Son
believing ye might
his name. —John
Goroex Texr
1 hese are written,
licve that Je BILE
of fod; and that
have life through
20 : 31.
in
Lesson Toric: The Son and the
Sinner,
1. Approaching the Bin
ner, va 54
2 Interesting the Binner,
{
|
Lessox OurrLine
itening the Sin
ORG EVEY
of life freely
being wearied,
v
Here
Then I said am I: send me (Isa.
6:8
What then must we
I ask with what
me (Acts 10 : 28),
am ready to preach the gospel to
Hom, 1
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Luke 3 :
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intent you sent for
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We rome
i As we i
Iii.
Jews have
tans
Surmount
Samnari-
Preach the gospel creas
tion (Mark .
I he ut forth, and preached
where (Mark 16 : 20),
I perecive that God is no respocter of
persons {Acts 10 34),
We are more than conquerors through
him (Bom. 8 : 87
1. “Jesus therefore, being wearied,
#at thus by the weil.” 1}
Wearied; (2) Willing; (3) Watch-
ing; (4; Waiting.
“Lhere cometh a woman of Sama-
ria to draw water.” The woman's
errand (1) From the human stand.
point; From the divine stand-
point.—(1) A trivial purpose; (2) A
momentous result,
3. “How is it that thou, being a Jew,
askest drink of me?” (1) Human
barriers; (2) Divine triumphs —
(1) Alienated in society; (2) One in
Christ.
vy went for ever
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il. INTERESTING THE BINXER,
Presented:
I.
>od's Girt
1{ thon knewest the gift of God (10.
i I will give yon rest (Matt. 11 : 28),
Ye shall receive the gift of the Holy
Ghost (Act
i The free mit
(Rom. 6 :
Thanks be to God for his unspeakable
gift (2 Cor. 9 : 15),
! 11. Man's Blessedness Described:
| Whosoever drinketh....shall never
thirst (14)
| Blessed are all they that put their trust
in him (Psa. 2 : 12),
| Let your soul delight itself in fatness
| (Isa 55: 2).
| He that lelieveth on me shall
thirst (John 6 : 856).
{| They shall hunger no more, nor thirst
any more (Rev, 7 : 16),
Il, Human Desire Aroused:
Sir, give me this water, that I
not (15).
Wash me, and I sha'l be whiter than
snow (Pea. 51 : 7).
O satisfy us in the morning with thy
mercy (Pea. 90 : 14),
lord, evermore give us this bread
(John 6 : 34).
Sirs, what must I do to besaved? (Acts
16: 80).
1. “If thou knewest:. ...thon would.
est have asked....and he would
have given.” (1) A peerless gift;
(2) A waiting giver; (3) A fatal ig-
norance.—{1) Knowledge; (2) De-
sire; (3) Blessodness,
2. “The water that I shall give him.”
Water (1) Quenching. spiritasl
thirst; (2) Meeting oll wants; (9)
Satisfying for eternity; (4) Earich-
ing without price.
8. “Give me this water.” A petition
(1) Sincerely uttered; (2) Imper-
fectly comprehendedy (8) Gener:
ously answered,
HL ENLIGHTENING THE SINNER
I. As to Sinfuinass:
He whom thou now bast is not thy
husband (18).
He... will conviet the world in respect
of sin (John 16 : 8,,
When they heard this, they were
pricked in their hearts (Acts 2 : 37),
Through the law cometh the knowledge
of sin (Rom. : 20).
, Soup through
5 Sn
of God is eternal life
} 3
never
thirst
1 bad not known
the law (Kom. er
15. As to Worship:
They that worship him must wo: ship
in spirit 251 truth (24),
Thou s«hait worship the Lord thy God
(Mutt. 4: 10).
In vain do they worship me (Mats,
b: 9.
If any man be a worshipper of God,
and do his will (John 9 : 31.
Who worship by the Spirit of God
(Phil. 3 ; 3.
it
I that speak unio thee am he (2
Behold, the Lamb of God (John 1
This is the Bou of Go i (John 1:
We have found the
41 |
We bave found him of whom Moses
did write (John 1 : 45),
1. ““Jesns saith unto her, Thon saidst
welk” (1) The sinners hidden
Ite; (2) The Baviour's thorough
knowledge.
ir, 1 perceive that thon art a
prophet.” 1) The Lord's commu-
nications; The womun’s cone
vietionus.—(1} Conduct; (2) Conviee
ticn: (3) Confes
3. “1 that Epeak nnto ve
Messinh 1 expe
:
As to the Saviour:
“
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: 20)
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Mossiah (John 1
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{ “about the sixth hour”); although it
has been thought by some that John
uses the Homan mode of reckoning
time, which wonld make the “sixth
hour” six o'clock, in the evening or in
the morning.
Prnsoxs. Our Lord and a Samari.
tan woman; the disciples (how many is
not stated) who had “‘gone away into
the city to buy food.”
Incipexrs—The arrival st Jacob's
well, on the journey through Samaria
to Galilee; our Lord rests at the well;
a Samsritan we comes to draw
water, and is asked by Jesus for a
draught of water, the disciples being
absent in the city. The woman ex-
presses surprise at the unusual request,
“for Jows have no dealings with Sam-
aritans.” Our Lord intimates that be
can give her living water. She replies
tint he cannot draw water out of the
{ well, how then ean he obtain living
water; but further implies that he thus
puts a slight upon Jacob. Jesus tells
of the unfailing supply of water he can
give, The woman finds in this a
promise of relief from her toil. Bidden
she to call her husband, says she has
none; and Jesus reveals his knowledge
of her past life, Acknowledging him
as a prophet, she diverts the conversa
tion from herself to the question of
worship, about whieh Jews and Sam-
aritans differed. Our Lord explains
the spiritual ebaracter of true worship,
while claiming that salvation is from
the Jows The woman responds by
saying that Messiah will surely come,
and that he wiii make known all the
truth. Jesus answers, “I that speak
unto thee am he.”
There is no parallel passage,
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OAD
A New Chapter of Proverbs,
As a pink pearl in a senllion's ear, so
j= a fair woman without a good dress.
maker. ;
Whoso telleth the trath concerning
to heavy damages,
Better is a chop with a peer than a
sever-and-sixpenny dinner with a per-
son of vo position.
What is sweeter to a soured woman
than the failines of her dearest friend?
My son, when thou writest a play,
know that thy pathos wili be nuder-
stood by the pit, thy wisdom by the
dress circle, and thy inuovendo by them
that sit among the stalis
Mussns, Pannor me Cin, of Paria,
ere reprodacisg in ebhromo-lithog
abont sixty of the finest specimens of
We 's artistic pottery now to be
found in English eollections. The
lates will bencoompaniod b an Eng
ish text, written by Mr. Rathbone,
wao is well kn wn as an suthorite upon
the subject.