The Centre reporter. (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, May 17, 1894, Image 3

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KEEP YOUR TEMPER!
Let the world wag as it will:
Keep your temper !
If you cannot fill the bill,
Pass it to the man who will:
we
Keep right on and, better still--
Keep your temper!
Let the world wag ax it will:
Keep your temper!
If you eannot climb a hill,
Take a trick, or turn a mill,
Keep right on and, better still—
'
Keep your temper |
You will get there by and by:
Keep your temper!
Sun and rain will bead the rye;
Summer bring the harvest nigh:
Heaven, at best, ain't very high——
Keep your temper!
-{ Atlanta Constitution.
THE TROUT.
ot Scholastique! :
¢ Monsieur Sourdat.”’
“Take the utmost pains in cooking
the trout—short boil, parsley, thyme,
“*Are you not afraid to use all the
herbs of St. John, Monsieur?’’
“*No—and above all no vinegar—
just a sprinkling of lemon juice. Let
the cover be laid at 10.80, and let the
dinner be ready at 11 precisely—not
at five minutes past 11. Do you
hear?’
fter having uttered these last in-
junctions to his cook Judge Sourdat
crossed the chief street of Marville
with alert steps and gained the Palais
which was situated back
Sous Prefecture. Judge Sour
dat was about 45 years of ave: ry
active, notwithstanding a tend
to square of
short with
de Justice
of the
Vi
Po
stoutness ; shoul
in stat 1
voice and a round,
ciear
: 4 ir
ir eRni
ure, & Sql
eyes gra
bushy es hrows pa ||
with thin and irrit:
cheeks, surrounded
badly trimmed: in fact,
mastiff faces of wi
an’t be good every day.”
ly he was not very
boasted of it. A despot, |
of his li realm ir
as oward the
with the witnesses,
the he a
furnace who fanned himsel!
ly intoa glow. He
the fire, and he was
However, this m
vulnerable si
mo
rich or
ttl
tiie 1 the
€
stone t
ageressive wit l
was veritable
advocates,
constan-
rel 1iIK«
i
LOVE
gourmand.
a }
rofe
gastronomy,
had become a mania,
Living in this little, narrow, sleepy
city on the frontier of the Belgian
Ardennes. where
the pleasures of the
table constituted i
the only diversi
of the easy-going burgomasters,
i accomplishments of t!
for ten
t }
LAIN NIE 1
culinary
were cited
It was said
Judge leagues
around.
fish caught at
the rep
gence of
becat
the
break of d AY,
of the
emotion
night ane
rendered
more delicate at that time.
It was who imagined
plunge shell fish into} i
fore cooking them in their ordinars
dressing. gave them a richness ane
velvety flavor particularly exqui
On the day that he taught that latest
refinement to the priest of St. Vietor,
the latter tld not help blushing,
and raising his hands to Heaven he
cried : ‘Too much! This is too much.
Judge Sourdat! Surely it is permit-
ted to taste with discretion the good
things which divine wisdom has pro-
vided, but such gluttony as this bord-
ers upon mortal sin, and you will
have tv render account for it to the
good (rod. ”’
To the scruples of the excellent
priest the Judge responded with a
misanthropic laugh. It was one of
his malign joys to expose his neigh-
bors to temptation, and this very
morning the priest was to breakfast
with him, the recorder being the ouly
other guest.
ceived, the evening before, a two-
he
COL
Semeis. It was his favorite fish. and
had fully occupied the first hours of
his morning. He had demonstrated
Holland sauce of the books.
seasoning in which it was cooked.
an srticle of the penal code, He con-
tinued to repeat it to himself even
after having clothed himself in his
ument bearing upon an important
case now pending.
matic details of which contrasted
singularly with the epicurcan
lations which persisted in haunting
the cranium of Judge Sourdat.
The case was thus: During the
revious week, at snnrise, there had
sen founa in‘a thicket of the forest
the body of a game-keeper, who had
evidéntly been assassinated, and then
concealed among the brambles of a
ditch. It was sipposed that the
erime had been committed by some
strolling poacher, but up tu the
present time there had been elicited
no precise evidence, and the wit
nesses examined had only made the
mystery deeper.
he murder had taken place near
the frontier, where charcoal burners
were at work. The suspicions of the
judge had therefore been directed to-
ward them. The depositions thus
far had revealed that on the night of
the murder these people had béen ab-
sent from their shanty, and the fur.
‘mace had remained In the care ¢| a
young daughter of the elarcoal burn-
er,
Nevertheless, Judge ourdat
given the order to re-examine one of |
the men, a stolid boy of twenty, who |
bad once had a falling out with the!
murdered guard; and the judge nad
also cited the charcoal burner's
daughter to appear before him. Just
hére the affair commenced to be pe-
culine, The girl had not responded
to the summons. She had evidently |
hidden, no one knew where. The
judge had been obliged to send a cox-
stable to look herup, and he was now
awaiting the result of the search.
Toward 10 o'clock the door of his
cabinet opened, framing the cocked
hat and yellow shoulder belt of the |
constable,
“Eh! well?” grunted the Judge.
“Eh! well, Judge. I cannot find |
the girl. She has disappeared. The
charcoal burners pretend utter igno-
rance."’
“Pure
|
had |
acting!” irritably eried
“These people are
You are but a stupid |
Go.”
The Judge consulted hiswateh, The
give u glance of oversight to the mat-
ter of the dining room before the ar-
rival of his guests. He disrobed him- |
self and hurried home.
The pleasant dining room, bright-
ened by the June sunshine, presented
a most attractive aspect with its
white woodwork: its gray curtains;
its high of blue faience with
its marble top; and its round table
covered with a dazzling white linen |
cloth, upon whieh were placed three
artistically trimmed. The
rolls of white bread rested ten-
derly unon the bright red napkins.
Flanked right with a lettyce
ornamented with nasturtiums:
cluster of }
the trout
+ engirdled
kK eut
stove
Covers,
little h
} uh
on the
salad,
on the
from t
tended
parsley,
yer
lof hat
eft shell
a
was ex-
with
he
in
trans.
Sey
{taking a ¢
fine i
newhat softened
Judge, and
by
opened vie \
vestibule a ir
“I tell vou I wi
Judee.
ud He
door
heard 1 the
the hall
he
YOO
ts
t
e¢ whiel
expec
At the same time
made the ree
throuch
He had j
the
was ush-
hall It
girl, almost a child. thir
with 1
ir streaming on
feet wi
a gray
» cotton formed }
ra
3
:
AS
arrived
incovered head and
the wind
thrust
House and
ier sole
=
3 lives %
nei “ Hg
id walking had
le brown
her gent
under the
$
vr chestnu
111
3 atin
were dilating
fed,
does ail th
arted lips tremb
“What
growled the Judee. seo
little charcoal burner,
recs Touch boeuf.
the
It is that
srder
Prlais just nfter
has followed me
far as here a state of wild excite-
ment, in order that you may take h
deposition, ”’
Eh!” groaned the Judge.
are in great hurry, my
keeping me waiting three d
did you not come sooner?’
“1 had my reasons,” she said, cast-
ing hungry eyes upon the table.
“We can better appreciate your
later,” replied the Judge,
furious at the interruption ‘Mean-
while we can listen to your report.’’
He drew out his watch. Jt was a
quarter t6 eleven. “Yes, we have
time, Touchbowuf. You will find
at your side all that is necessary for
writing. We will question her.”
The notary seated himself at the
writing table with his paper and ink-
stand, and his pen behind hig ear,
waiting. The judge, sitting squarely
in asquare-geated armchair, fixed his
responded the
“She arrived at
3
ne
F Od Ie . and Be
in
in
ft
}
er
“You
rl, after
s. Why
y
4 (
a 2
fa
v
reasons
remained standing near the stove,
“Your name ?’’ he demanded.
*“*Meline Sacael.”’
“Your age, and your residence 2’
“Sixteen years. I live with
father, who burns charcoal at the
“I came only for that.”
late all that you know.”
1 watched near the fur.
nace. Toward 8 o'clock, at a moment
who is a woodeutter of Ire, passed be-
watching at an early hour?’ 1 cried,
“How goes all at your home? All
well 2’
‘* ‘No,’ he answered. ‘The mother
has a fever and the children are ale
most dying with hunger. There is
not a mouthful of bread in the house
and I am trying to kill a rabbit to
sell in Maryville.” That is on the other
side of Onze-Fontaine, I lost sight of
him then, but at daybreak 1 heard
the report of a gun and 1 was just
clearing the ashes to shield the char.
conl. Then, immediately after, two
men came running toward our lodge,
They were disputing. ‘Scoundrel! ’
cried the guard. ‘I arrest youd
** ‘Beurrot,” eried the , ‘I pray
you let me have the rabbit, for they
are dying of hunger at my home.”’
‘Go to the deuce!’ cried the
guard. Then they fell tpon ench
hear their hard blows
plainly. Suddenly the guard cried,
‘Ah! and then he fell heavily,
“I had hidden behind our
terribly frightened. and Manch
lodge,
in ran
not been
for sure,
has
Belgium,
to this he
in
that time
seen. He is
That is all 1’
“Hum?” growled the Judge. “Why
did you not come to tell this as soon
as you received the summons?’
“It was none of my business—and
I did not wish to speak against Man-
chin.” ?
“lI see! but you
changed your mind
How is that?"
“It is because T have
they accuse Guestin,”’
“And who is this Guestin?”’
The
to have |
morning, |
seam
this
heard that
girl reddened and answered: |
our neighbor charcoal burner,
and he would not harm a fly. Do you
not continued, ‘that the
thought of fastening on him the guilt
of another aroused me, I put these |
great boots on, and 1 have run all the |
way through the weeds to tell you
this, Oh, how I haverun! 1 did not
feel tired. I would have run till
morrow if it had been necessary, be-
cause it true as the blue heav- |
ens that our Guestin is entirely inno-
cent, gentlemen.” |
She spoke with an animation which :
made her truly beautiful in spite of
her rags. Her rough eloquence had |
the ring of sincerity, and the terrible
Judge felt himself moved by the en-
ergy with which the child defended
Cruestin.,
“Hallo !"’ eried he, seeing her sud-
denly grow pale and stagger. “What's
matter?”
My head swims. 1 cannot see.’’
She changed color and her tem
fi
in
gee.’ she
tO
is ns
the
ples
noist,
The Judge, alarmed. poured out a
of wine and “Drink
i 1] was wholly
very *h moved b
1
threatened
glass cried
3 1
GquUICKiy
and
i
rh
Id
who
He
ar
was
lared
of di
ot call Schol:
sturbing his
Violent
piatter on
ically.
the
it After separating
bint
hich pt
he
Eat!’ said he imperionsly
He had no nead to repeat
mand. She ate rapidly. voracious!
In another mindte 1
the pl
and Judge =
Nig com
nt
empty
filled it
Touchbeu! rubbed his
10 longer recognized the
admired, though not
without a senti of regret. the
robust apy e of the charcoal burner,
who devoured the exquisite fish with.
out any more ceremony than if it had
been an smoked herring, and he mur.
.
ment
in
wrist
tiful dish!’
At that moment the door opened :
the third guest, the
Vincent, in 8 new cassock. with
three-cornered hat under his arm.
entered the dining-room, and stopped
good priest of St. |
Judge's table.
“Too late,
growled the Judge.
more trout.”’
»
Monsieur le Cure!
“There is no
He compres
tapped upon the shoulder of the
“Judge Nemorin Sourdat!’’ eried
he, “you are better than you
thought. In truth I tell you that all
that trout which we have not eaten.’’
—={From the French, in Romance,
Quaint Relics in a Georgia Cave.
J. W. Keys of Cartersville, Ga..
who recently discovered in a cave fif-
teen miles from that place a curious
piece of stone or pottery, in semb-
dance of a human figure, says that
the cave has several entrances, and
that a young man unearthed at sn
other point an earthen pot with a
handle shaped like a swan’s neck.
The figure that Keys discovered was
found more than a mile from the en-
trance of the cave, and was buried
under six fest of earth. It seems to
be an earthen jar, sh at the to
like a human head. e chain fou
about the neck of the figure is made
of twenty-four strands, It resists
such acids as have been applied to it,
but the nature of the material has
not been determined. Along with
the figure were bones, arrow
heads, bits of pottery, and
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
——————;
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN-
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “The Generations.’
Text : “One genaration passoth away, and
another generation cometh,” ~Eeclesiastos
oy
According to the longevity of peapla in
their parts *ularecentury has a generation haen
called 100 years, or fifty yours, or thirty
years, By common consent in our nineteenth
cantury a generation is fixed at t
yonrs,
The largest procession that ever moyad
the procession of years, and the
is
greatest
rations, In each generation thers nee nhout
nine fall regiments of days, Thess 9125 davs
in each generation march with wonderful
precision, They never break ranks. They
never ground arms. They never piteh tents, |
They never halt. They are never off on Mr.
lough, They came out of the eternity past,
and they move on toward the sternity fntare,
They rross rivers without any bridge ort
The 600 immortals of the Crimes dashing into
them fausa no oo wnfusion, They Move us
rapidly at midnight ns at midnn mm. Their
haversacks are full of £001 bread and bitter
aloes, clusters of richeat vintage and baitlea
of ngonizing tears, With a regular tread
that noorderof “double quiek™ can hasten or
obstacle san slacken, their tramp is on and
on nnd on and on while mountains crumble
an! pyramids die. “One generation passeth, |
and snother generation cometh,”
This is my twenty-filth anniv EArY Ser.
mon—1869 and 1854. It is twenty-five VORA
#ines I assumed the Brookliva past rate, A
whole generation has passed, Three genery.
tions wa have known that whisk preceded
our own, that which is now ut the front, and
the one coming on, We are nt the '
our predecessors, and our suecssssors ars nt
our heels, What a generation It was that
preceded us! We who are now in the front
regiment are the only ones competent to tell
the new generation Just now coming in sieht
who our predecessors were, Biography can-
pot tell it. Autoblography cannot tell it.
Blographies are generally written by special
friends of the departed—periiaps by wife or
son or daughter-—and they only tell the good
things, The blog phers of
Presidents of the II; ited Btates make
ord of thes Presi lent’s 1scoun’ hao
the archives at the Capitol, which
geen, telling how mueh be lost
daily at the gaming table, The i
of ons of the early Secretaries of
Btates described
Withesend when the Seorstary was
dead drunk from the State np (rtments
own home, Autoblography is written i 3
man himself, and would rec
fature times his own weaknesses and
deficits, Those who keep diaries pat
only things that read well, Noman or wo.
man that ever lived would de
record of all the thou
lifetime, Wa who
the generation
Us are far me
to deseribe accurately to o
our predecessors were. Very much like our.
seives, thank you Human nature In them
very much like human nature {on us, At our
time of life they were very moch like we now
Are. Af the time they wers in thelr teens
they were very much like you are in your
teens, and at the wers in ir
twenties they were very mash like you Are
in your twenties, Human nature vo! an aw.
ful twist under a frait in Edens, and
though the grace of Got does much fo
strighten things every new generation hes
the same twist, and the work of
straightening out has 10 be dons over ag
A mother in the runtry eX prove.
ing the neighbors at her table on som wala
Right, had with her own hands arraneed ey.
ervihin aste, and as WAR A
turn from it to ressivas eels
Httle child by ae
© winite cloth and voll evervth
the mother lifted her hand to slap t
but she sudden ¥ remembered the ti
a little child herself, in hor father's hb Oriee,
where they bad always before been used to
candles, ont shass of innp, whish
Was A matter of rarity and prids, ai» took it
in her bands and dropped it, crashing into
pisces, and looking up in her father's face,
ft chastisement, heard only
words, "It is x sad loss, but never
you did not mean to do 11."
History repeats taell, Gensrations
wonderfully alike, Among that generation
that Is past, as in our own, aad as it will be
in the gensration following us, thoss who
sticosedad became the target, shot at by
those who did not suooand in those times,
as in ours, a man's bitterest enemies ware
those whom he lad befriended and helipad,
Haten, jealousios and revenges were just as
Hvely in 1869 as in 19904. Hypocrisy sniff sd
and looked solemn then as now. There was
Just as much avarice among the apple bar.
reis a8 now among the ocofton bales and
among the wheelbarrows as among the
locomotives, The tallow candles saw the |
same ving that are now found under the
electric lights, Homespun was just as |
roud as is the modern fashion plate,
wenty-five years yea, twenty-five ‘ent uries
have not changed human nature a partici,
outs, |
liens o
t
ane of tl
Heyer the scene
BG ons
just ahead
than any boak
Gr sucooasors who
me able
time they th
trae
tre
&
fame
Histriots,
* int
gins line
til
aw
toler
it her go
of Aan BOAAr © $
i ident upset a p
oe oh v
wr the ani
mw» ohiig
fo
ng
Tie when
* oy >
i prt
expect
mind ;
abominations of the ages,
Une minute after Adam got outside of
paradise he was just like you, O man! One
step after Eve left the gate she was Just like
All the faults and vices are |
many times centenarians, Yea, the cities
Bodom, Gomorrah, Pompeii, Herculaneum,
Heliopolis and ancient Memphis were as |
much worse than our modern cities as you |
from the fact that the modern |
tions,
Yea, that generation which passed off with-
In the last twenty-five years had their he-
reavements, their temptations, their strue.
their failures, their gladnesses and their
griefs, like these two generations now in
Bight, that in advance and that following,
But the twenty-five years hotwesn 18969 ani |
1804 how niuch they saw! How much they
discovered! How much they felt! Within
that time have been performed the miracles
of the telephone and the phonograph, From |
the obsstvatories other worlds have been |
seen to heave in sight. Bix Presidents of
the United States have been Inaugurated.
Transatlantic vovage abbreviated from ten
days to 5). Chicago and New York, once
three days apart, now only twenty-four
hours by the vestibule limited. Two addi-
tional railroads have best built tothe Pasifie.
France bas passed from monarchy to repub-
Neaniui, a any of the Sites ve Aearly
oubled their pulsations, uring nt
fon the oniar surviving heroes of the
ivil War have gone into the encampment of
the grave, The chief physicians, attorneys,
orators, merchants, have passed off the earth
Or are in retirement waiting for transition.
Other men in editorial chairs,
Governors’ mansions, in legislative, Bena-
torial and Congressional halls,
There are not ten men or women on earth
now prominent who wers prominent twenty.
five yoars ago. The crew of this old ship of
# world Is ali Others at the he
others on the
gratofully salutes 1860, “Ona generation
prsseth away, and another generation
cometh,”
There are fathers and mothers here whom
I baptized in their infancy, There is not
ons person in this ehureh's board of session
or trustees who was hers whon I came, Hers
nnd there fn this vast assembly is one person
who heard my opening sermon in Brooklyn.
but not more than one person in every 500
i Bow present,
| nve mo a nnanimous oall when I came,
three, I bolleve, are living,
But this sermon is not a dirge. It is an
| anthem, While this world is appropriate ss
| 8 temporary stay, ns an eternal residence it
| would be a dead failure, It would he n
| dreadful sentence iF our race were doomed
to remain hers a thousand winters and a
| thousand summers, God keaps us here just
| long enoueh to give us an appetite for
heaven, Had we been born in celestial
realms we would not be able 10 appreciate
| the bliss, It needs a good many rough blasts
in this world to qualify us to properly esti.
whers it fs never too cold or ton hot,
cloudy or too glaring,
to us than to those sg pernsl beines who were
| never tempted or sick or bereaved or tried
. Bo you may
too
tune in major “Ona genars-
tion passsth away, and another generation
ecomsth
Nothing ean rob us of the satisfaction that
uncounted thousands of the generation just
past wera converted, romiorted and hare
vestod for heaven by this chureh, whether
11 the present bullding or the thros
ing bulldings in which they worshiped, The
two great organs of the previous churches
went down in the memorable fires, but the
muititudinous songs they lad vear after Year
wors not recalled injursd., Thers is no
power in earth or hell to kill a hallsluiah,
It is Impossible to arrest a bosanna. What a
satisfaction to know that thera are many
thousands In zlory on whose sternal wel.
fara this church wrought mightily! Noth-
ing can undo that work, They Liave ascend.
ed, the maltitudes who served God in that
gensration, That ohapter Is gloriously |
ended, But that generation has left its fm-
pression upon this generation,
A satlor was dying on shipboard, and he
£344 10 his mates “My lads, I ean
think of one passage of seripture, ‘Ths son!
that sinneth, ft shall die’ and that Keeps
ringing in my sars, ‘The soul that sinneth,
it shall die.’ Can't you think of something
10 cheer me up?” WwW
and they tried to think «
other passage of 8 ripture with w
0 console their dying comrade. but
cogid not. One of them said: “Let u
pthe eatin bor, His mother was a
an, and I guess he has a Bible”
Pp. and the dying
asked him if he had a Bible, He said “Vea,”
tat be sould not exactly find it, and the dy.
ing sailor scolded hia isald, “Ain't yon
ns! 6 read your Bible?”
: wltom his trunk
bie, and mother
passage ust just the
cas*, “Ths blool
ciesnssth from
to dis in
another,
or don
the
kay,
Or
only
mine in
was esalied nun
Arne of 1
2 hp
his
marked 8 fitted
NE Axiors
rist, His Son,
Tang heined the salle
joe
of Jesus
sin,”
. A
bia
all
pence,
and
Are
gone
is written or
i
4
a repro-
Irug the passing of the jast
ilar events have
any walle resting at Sharon Springs,
Ithink it was in 1570,
tinment in Bro
the park of that
ne mn
mission
generation
unfolded, One
XX.
Year after my sot-
walking in
od mysel! asking
il there is any
execute in this
nay Godshow it to me I"
on mes great desire to
rough the secular print.
sd that the vast majority
Christian lands, never
that t would be an op-
ness infinite if that door
a opsged
prayer in a blank
prayer day ir and day
100 answer came, thoaeh in 8 way
from that whieh I had expected,
a through tt misreprasantation
i of enemies, and I have to
encouragement of all minis
who are represented,
presentation bs viralent
bitter and continuous
* nothing that so widens one's
as hostile attack, if vou
the Lord's work,
old about me, the big.
to 82s and hoar what I really
From sags of Bio
putiication to another the work has gone on
until week by week, and for twenty-three
yours, | have had the world for my audience,
a8 no man ever had, and to-day ire NO
than at any other time, The syndicates in-
form me that my sermons go new 10 about
25,030,000 of people in all lands. [ mention
thie not in vain boast, but as a testimony 10
the fact that God answers prayer, Would
Gol 1 had better oocapied the field and been
mors consecrated to the work! May God
forgive me for lack of servies in the past and
double and quadrupie and quintuple my
work in future,
In this my quarter century sermon I re.
cord the fact that side by side with the pro-
cession of blessings have gone a procession
I am preaching to-day in the |
began work in
My first sermon was in the old
SOMA pe
tha
{ln
Geet ic
i
al
i that
pred ma
nough
The
onm serm
mn
this city.
was almost extinguished, That churoh filied |
and overflowing, we built a larger church,
years disappeared |
in flame, Then we built another o treh, |
which also In a line of flery succession dis- |
Then we put up |
years, a fortress of righteousnmss and a
lighthouse for the storm tossed, its gates |
erowded with vast assemblages long after we
have ceased to frequent them ! i
We have raised in this church over #1.. |
030,000 for church charitable purposes dar. |
dreds of thoninds of strangers, ysar by
year. Irecord with gratitude to God that
during this generation of twenty-five years [
romember but two Sabbaths that have
missed service through anything like physical
indispositions. Almost a fanatic on the sub
ject of physical exercise, I have made the
parks with which our city is blessed the
means of good physioal condition. A daily
walk and run in the open air have kept me
randy for work and in good humor with all
say to all young ministers of
the gospel, It Is easier to keep good health
than to regain it when once lost. The reason
#0 many good men think the world is ‘
to ruin is because their own physica
dition is on the down grade,
to preach who has a disessed liver or an en-
larged spleen. There are two things ahead
of us that ought to k us cheerful in our
WOLk haven and the eantum. :
And now, having come up to the twenty.
fifth milestone In my pastorate, I wonder
how many more miles I am to travel? Your
Seinpany has been exceedingly pleasant,
by, YOUF tds anti) the gemorstioh with whom
ur
Ml abreast und
nest, Whydo I go? For educational pure
poses, 1 want to freshen my mind and heart
TY new scenes, new faces, new manners and
customs, I want better to understand what
| are the wrongs to be rizhtsd and the wests
pinces to be reclaimad, 1 will put all I learn
| In sermons to he preached to yor when I re~
(turn, want to ses the Bandwish Isinnds,
not 80 much in the light of molern politios
as in the light of the gosnel of Jesus Christ
which has transformed them, and Bamon
nnd thoss vast realms of New Zealand. and
| Australia and Covion and Indis, 1 want 1s
| Bee what Christianity has accomplished, I
| want to ses how the missionaries have heen
lied about as living in luxary and idleness,
| I wantto know whether the hesthen ree
| liglons are really as tolerable and as com-
| mendable as they were represented by their
| adherents in the parliament of religions at
{ Chicago, 1 want to sees whether Mohan
medanism and Buddhism would be wood
{ things for transplantation in Americas. as it
| has again and again bhesn argued, IT want
i 10 hear the Brahmans pray, | want to test
| whether the Pacific Onsan treats ite guests
any better than does the Atlantic, ‘I want to
aes the wondrous arehitecturs of India, and
| the Delhi and Cawnpore where Christ wae
eracified in the massagers of His modern dis.
ciples, and the disabled Juegernsut une
{ wheeled by Christianity, and to ses if the
Taj which the Emperor Bha Jehan ‘wilt in
| honor of his empress really means any more
{than the plain slab we put abova onr dear
departed, 1 want to see the fields whers
Havelock and Sir Colin Campbell won the
day against the sepoys. 1 want (0 ges the
world from all sides, How mush of it is in
darkness, how mush of it is in light, what
ble means by the “ends of ths asrth
tent of the present to be made to Christ as
spoken of in the Psalms, *‘Ask of me, and [
shnll give thee the heattusn for thine inherf.
tances and the uttermost parts of the earth
for thy possession,” and so I shall be ready
ictories of Christ
in more rapturous song than I could hava
rendered had I never seen the heathen
abominations befors they were conquered,
And so I hops to some back refreshed. re
enforaed ard better equipped, and to do in
work than I have
And now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary
sermon, I propose to do two things first, te
put a gariend on the grave of the ROners-
of the generation
of action, for
A palm branch fn the hand
Just now coming on the fleld
my text is true, gensration passeth
away. and another generation cometh,” Oh,
how many we revered and bonored and loved
in the last generation that quit the earth!
Tears fell at the time of their going, and
dirges were sounded, and signals of mourn
ing were put on, but neither tears nor dirge
nor somber veil told the hall we felt. Their
going Jolt a vacaney In our souls that has
never been filled up. We never got used to
their atsence, There are times when the
sight of something with which they were as-
sociated. a pleture, or a book. ora garment,
or a stalf--hreaks us down with smotion, bat
wa hea wonuse we have 10 bear it,
Oh, yw snow while their hair got, and how
the wrinkles multiplied, and the sight grew
more dim, and the hearin less alert, and the
step more frail, and one day they were gone
out of the chair by the fireside, and from the
piate at the meal, and from the end of the
church pew, where they worshiped with us,
Oh, my soul, bow we miss them! But let us
console each other with the thought that we
shall meet them again in the land of salusta-
tion and reunion.
And now | twist a
parted generation. It
perhaps, just a handful of clover blossoms
from the field through which they used to
walk, or as many violets as you could hold
between the thumb snd forefinger,
plucked out Jf the garden where they used
to walk in the oool of the day. Pat these old
inshioned Nowars right dowa over the heart
that never again will neche, and the fest that
will never again be weary, and the arm that
has forever ceased to toil, Peace, father!
Peace, mother! Everiasting peaos! All that
for the gensratio one,
But what shall we
branch? Test we will pu
Reneration co oars is to be the
Reneration for victories. The last and the
present generation have been perlesting the
powsr, and the eletrie light, ani the
elsctrie forces, To these will be added trans-
portation. It will. be your mission to use
ail these foroes, Everything is ready for you
to march right up and take this world for
God and heaven, Ge! your heart right by
repsatance and the pardoning graces of the
Lord Jesus, and your mind right by slevat-
ing books and pictures, and your body right
by gymnasium and field exorcise, and
plenty of ozone and by looking as often as
Fou ean upon the face of mountain and of
sea, Then start! Ia God's name, start’ And
here is the palm braneh,
From conquest to
conquest, move right on and
He
One
rit simply?
gariand for that de-
need not be costly,
the
do with the palm
t in the hand of the
mins on.
wen
ri
¥i
richt up. You
wiil soon hate the whoie fleid for your.
sail, Belore another twenty-five years have °
gone, we will be out of the pupils, and the
offices, and the stores, and the factories, and
the benevolent institutions, and you will
be at the front. Forward into the battle! If
God be for you, who ean be against you?
“He that spared not His own Son, bat deliv
ered Him up for us all, how shall He not
with Him aiso freely give us all things?
And, as for us woo are now at the front,
having put the gariand on the grave of the
last generation, and having pat the palm
branch in the band of the coming genera-
tion, we will cheer each other in the remain-
ng onsets and go into the shining gate
somewhere about the same time, and greeted
by the generation that has preceded us we
will have to wait only a little while to greet
the generation that will come after us. And
will not that be glorious? Three generations
in heaven together-the grandfather, the
son and the grandson , the grandmother, the
daughter and the granddaughter. And so
with wider range and keener facunty we
“Oue generation
Renoration comet
prisms —
An Oyster Kills a Duck,
The oyster is apparently a helpless
creature, but sometimes ho comes out
ahead of his enemies, as is shown bya
A
passeta away, and another
deckhand on the steamboat i
discovered a duck floating dead on the
water and picked it up. To his sur-
prise he found an oyster, with its
shell tightly closed on the bill of the
duck. Evidently the duck had found
the oyster with his shell opened, and
tried to make a meal of him. The
oyster had shut his shell on the duck’s
bill, and elung there in spite of the
bird's efforts to shake it off; and its
weight had gradually wearied the dae :,
and finally pulled its head umder
water, and drowned it. The duck and
oyster were brought to Baltimore and
roved quite a curiosity. —New Or-
he Pleayune.
A ——
Brain Surgery.
Sawing out sections of the skall in
order to give the brain room to de-