flit Centre f rmocrat. BELLEPONTE, PA. Tk Largest, Cheapest and Best Paper PUBLISURD IN CENTRE COUNTT. From th* Now York Otwerrer. INTERNATIONAL LESSONS. Third Quarter. st sir HSSST a. uiu.t r, t>. o. SEITEUIIKR 18. Ijesson 12. REVIEW. Gointiv TUT:—' "Wp will bIM ilm l/nl from this time forth tud for cftrßOM."—Pi. ilo: I*. Central Truth: —God is able to save unto the uttermost. We have now reached our third quar terly review. The lessons of the quarter began with the first chapter of Exodus, and have taken ua nearly through that book. To thotie who have faithfully studied them they cannot have been otherwise than deeply interesting. Probably to most in our Sunday schools, the early por tions of the Old Testament are less familiar than the new. But the things of which they tell us are not afar off. They do have to do with our every day experiences and needs. God's dealing" with his ancient people were intended to reveal his character and way*. And he is unchanging in character. Hi* ways, too, are essentially the same. It has often been noticed that the manner in which he now rescues a soul from sin and prepares it for the heavenly land, is much like that by which he delivered Israel from bondage and trained them in the wilderness fc* *L • promised in heritance. In the story of Israel's es cape from Egypt and wanderings in the desert, Christians have found great in struction and cheer. It colors some of best hymns. Much of the phraseology of the old-time prayer meetings was derived from it. Our first lesson was ISRAEL IN ECIVIT. In it we are told of the wonderful in crease of Israel in Egypt, and of the means the new Pharaoh used to check their growth. But the more they were atllicted, the more they grew. God's watchful care of his people is never ceasing. t lur second lesson was TUE COXING DELIVERER. Just when the night of God' people seemed darkest, Moses was born. In this interesting lesson we have the charming story of his preservation, as delightful as any romance; of his train ing in the wisdom of Egypt, and of his flight to Midian. IIi great choice to suffer affliction with t'.e people of God, rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, was a heroic example for us. Some like summons to a great i life choice comes to us all. The third lesson was THE CALL OR NOSES. At the burning bush God commissioned Moses to be his people's leader, and pledged bis own faithful presence and help. He taught him that in the fires of atHiction they should never be con sumed. The fourth lesson was NOSES AND AARON. From the great tak the I-ord assigned , him, Moses diew back ; and so God gave to him Aaron as his helper. He also in- ' structed Aaron to perform certain signs in the presence of the people, that they might see that the l,or>l was with htm. It is noteworthy that these signs were the first miracles wrought by mane agon- j cy spoken of in the Bible. The fifth lesson was MOSES AND TNS MAGICIANS. God now began ft series of visitations tij>n Egypt to move Pharaoh to let Is rael go. The magicians imitated some of the divine miracles. Pharaoh was unmoved, or only momentarily impress ed. His heart was hardened byjudg menu which were really mercies, lie went, as all do who resist the calls of God, from bad to worse. The lesson teaches the great peril of trifling wub the patience and grace of God. The sixth lesson waa THE rASSOVER. The crowning visitation upon Egypt WH the destruction of all its first-born. It filled the land with terror. But Israel was exempt. The means of their escape waa the blood of a lamb sprink led on the doorposts of all their dwell ings. Every dwelling thus marked wns "passed over" by the destroying Angel. 80, through the blood of the Lamb, provided for us, we can be saved from greater ill. The seventh lesson was THE MED SEA. The destruction of Egypt's first-born made such an impression of God's pow er on Pharaoh that he now consented to let Israel go. But hardly bad tbey aet out when Pharaoh started to pursue them. But God opened for them away through the sea; and, by the same wa ters which parted at their approach, their enemies were overwhelmed—a aure proof that "none can harm thoae whom God protects." The eighth lesson was vas MANNA. It wu the interesting and instructire story of the way In which God fed bis people, famishing in the wilderness, 1 with bree /4 from heaven. Are not the resources of God abundant for us all, and for all times? We are taught to pray for our daily bread with fullest trost. In Christ, too, we have living apiritual bread, of which, if one eat, he snail never hunger. Tha ninth and tenth lessons were TBI eOMBAMBMEim. The manner in which these were given waa solemn and impressive. Having been proclaimed from the Mount, they were written with the finger of God on two tables of stone. These command meats were formally given to Israel. But the reasons underlying ibem are universal. They are therefore for us. The Saviour did not abrogate tbetn. He gave to them a deeper application, gad bp his gospel pats us in Ui way of - a better than any outward keeping of them. He writes them on our hearts. He shows ua how it is that love to God and to roan is their perfect fulfilling. The eleventh and last lesson was IDOLATRY I'L'NISUED. Hardly had the wonders connected with the giving of the law ceased when Israel fell into a great sin. Moses had gone up into the Mount to receive other com munications from God. He was there forty days. Msunwhile the people grew restless. They concluded that Moses had perished, and begged Aaron to make them an idol to go before them. Aaron did this, and the result was a punishment of great and terribly sever ity. Thus he made them see how sure sin, unrepentcd of, is to be punished in due time. Taken together these lessons show u the free access it is possible to have with God. Moses catue into most intimate communion with him. He talked with God. 11 we are equally ready to obey, why may we not enjoy as well tut desire the same ? We are reminded that God hears prayer. Even l'haraoh saw that Moses had power with God. But he hud no greater power than we may have. In these lessons God is seen working numerous miracles. We are sometimes told that faith in miracles is unreason able and dying out. Neither part of the saying has any ground in truth. A personal tiod muet be able to work mira cles, and ready, too, to do it, when the great occasion arise*. And, as to tbi* taitli dying out, even rejectors of the Bible aro full of it. They want, and are ready to cred t, more miracles than can be found in t 'ie Bible, The one great lesson which runs through all these portions of Scripture is the peril of standing out against God. and the safety and sure blessing of obeying and trusting him. "Happy is he that hath the tiod of Jacob for bis help." SEEING THE MIDMGIIT SI N. Conyreetman CoAhen.tre at the North {ape 0/ Eipland—Suntet no More—Arc- L-- Sconce in f/.< Cape—The Rocky Senti nel of the North of Europe—A'ray Sorth of Iceland and Greenland —' htly fi.UOO Miles A round the Earth. NORTH CAI'K, lotplnwl, July 1, 1881. —It is tcu o'clock at night ami we are in sight of the ca|ic 1 It grows cold and colder. All wraps are or dered up ami out, so that from the deck we may survey the splendid head land. Before taking 11 local view of the situation, let us see where we are —on our planet. Evidently wc are in no ordinary out-of-the-way place. The air, sea. sky, light, and most of all, this mystic volcanic mountaiu isl and—wild, bleak, black, hare and jagged, u thousand feet sheer and clear of the sea, ami its surface deeply in vested in white —prove our strange situation. The very air blows with a strange chill, and the light, which conies to us over the obliquely, has iu it a sepulchral semi shadow in the heart of its mild lustrousneas. It is a sort of inner light, burning 111*01 the vestibule of outer darkness. It j* a spot to philosophize upon. It hush es the outer senses. It makes one feel the limitation upon our will and works; yet tiod has enchanted this rocky promontory by His sunlight, though He grants it but a brief sum mer. This was the end wo proposed in making this long voyage aud yet lie fore I left Trondhijem, I saw a hand hill jiosted on a fish warehouse with the heading: : SPORTING AND ri.E.Vst'KX TRIP ; TO SPITSBERGEN nr WAT or NORTH CAPE. It is a-surred the festive public that good hunting boats, with harpoons and all necessary implements would accompany the exjiediti<>n, and that Mr. Ellertsen, H. S. ft. <). It. J. ()., an eniincut Arctic explorer, would be along; ami all for BlDo,toand fro? What all these alphabetical prefixes mean —though I surmise that the O's refer to the Order of Olaf —I am not assured ; but it was rather a damper on our enterprise to know that it was so easy to go so much further into the wild Arctic sea. At the North < 'ape we look out upon the Arc tic ocean ; ami but for distance and Spitsbergen, not to speak of another small isle between, which lies due north, we could see the Polar sea, if not the pole! Let us lie con tent with the prospect! Besides, have we not gone eastward as well as north ward '! We are over thirty degrees north of New York and Chicago. Our longitude has moved tis eastward ; and the time, as meu reckon time, has changed. Every five degrees eastward has made a difference of twenty min utes. Our meals and clocks must un dergo their changes. We have come to meet the sun east as well as north, and are adding something to our lives, as some men count living. Being ex tremely north, and ihe circles of lon gitude being less, we mark time more rapidly than in New York ; and cer tainly "make more time" than I have known it to be made in Washington 1 But whether the degrees be long or short, the real time is the same. A degree here is twenty-two mills, while at the equator it is four times as much. 80 accessible are these ultra north ern places by steam voyaging on this coast, that we forgot how far north we were. Iceland is far south of us, Greenland is below our line drawn circularly westward, and Behring Straits is not wit hi* our magic Arctic circle. The pole of the magnet would be found attracting us by its marvel* ous energy, somewhere on the same lines of latitude where we now move, to the throbbing of the engine and the motion of the aet. llow doca thin wild north rock ap pear ? It* size in not great compared with other mountain!*, hut it it* u fit ting end of a great continent. It. in seamed with long line* of whito and black, as though marked by fire and thunder. It has its eaves washed by epochs of oceanic tempest. At its base is a green fringe of seaweeds, which, on near inspection, wo find very slimy and dangerous to stand upon. Below this is aw hite liue of breakers, in snowy contrast with the bleak mountain and green margin. Our vessel turns around the point and en ters into the shadow of the mountain. The harbor, if it be one, is as black as ink. When wo stop the screw stirs the dark tlood into flashes of green und white, making it seem to boil with unaccustomed noise, so deep is the si lence and solitude. The throb of the engine and the song of the sea cease, and we are comimrtively quiet in this lonely cove. \\ e are sent on shore in the captain's gig, the captain himself takiug the helm. But the landing is difficult. The slippery boulders give unsafe footing, and one woman at lust hns to be carried ashore by the sturdy suitors. The rest of us have to be heedful of our steps before we are safe under the frowning rock. Some of our party —the more vig orous Scotch young men—endavored to ascend the gulch in the mountain. It has been done, (fur captain has done it twice; but not with such a mass of melted and melting snow as now fills up the gorge. We see thern afar up, on hands and knees, patiently climbing. They fail and have still more trouble nnd danger in the de scent. The captain calls his company —a score of us—together, and the difficulty of reaching the small boat, es|>ecially by the ladies, is overcome. On our return to the ship each one lays down his trophy, line has a piece of wood evidently borne by the Gulf stream from American. It is palmetto. lie holds aloft Bayard Taylor's description, with his proof of the existence of the grand river in the ocean. lie dwells on Taylor's de scription of the island, as it glowed in the blended loveliness of sunrise ami sunset, and wondered if bis pic ture would fx* realized when miduight came? Another Scotchman brings as his trophy n beautiful green-cup, with a diamond upon it, repeating the verse, with a thrill of music in his voice: Ilk* of (ram kef* IU 4rap of Another lias his thermometer, nml has been testing the beat of the wa ter, and is reducing Baumer to Fah renheit. Sme have rounded pebbles as paper-weight souvenirs of the spot. The captain, who has been far up ihc mountain —looking like a little sil houette against the immaculate snow —brings u variety of Arctic flowerets for general distribution. My wife lias a handkerchief full of little love drops of flowers on the tiniest of moss ten drils. < Inc. sturdy engineer l>car* in his buttonhole n big boquet of the smallest and prettiest of flowers known to the nomenclature of botanv. The beauty of the tropics in its daintiest sense is thus reproduced at this frozen ami bleak end of the continent. What a kind dispensation is that which places amid the meagre raossc* of this far-ofl" Arctic rock tlice little flowers ? How brief is their summer! May, June, all the seasons of the florescence which are ours, are here the work of a brief week or month. These flowers are the smiles upon these ultimate rocks. These are beauteous proof* that summer has reached these grim a'KKles, soon to be enveloped in wintry gloom. They teach us to be ltfti*t with our !■ n<9 Bar trtreM**! tparaol ffcajr mam*)!. But it is no time to reflect or moral ize. We prepare to move from our enchanted, almost sinister, moorings. The gloom which (,'arlylo, in his "Teu fuldscroch," inspires, comes over the soul .as we take our last look at this "Infinite Brine," on which he located the low ami lazy sun, slumbering on his cloud couch, wrought of crimson gold, yet with a light streaming over the mirror of waters, like n tremulous fire pillar —the porch lamp to the palace of the eternal. Shall we real ize this weird picture of the cynical yet sublime critic? We shall aw. Midnight draws near, and all are anxious. The anchors arc lifted. The unusual clangor disturb* one solitary bird, a cormorant, which flies around our boat as though inspecting the in vaders of his melancholy home. He is used to sitting upon these rocks—a lonely fisherman —from which, unlike the noble gull, he dive* for his prey. Hteam i* up. The hour of twelve ap proaches. All we on the qui vire tor the midnight sun ! Twenty of us are at the prow with our watches out. The old orb i* radiant. The captain call* out: "Five minutes of twelve 1" Will the orb disappoint us? There i* a heavy cloud above in the zenith, but it is lined with silver, and a mackerel line of cirrus clouds lies just above hia majesty. lake a king of day he is enthroned without obscura tion between the long line of clouds, sitting on pear! and amber, orange and gold, all the hues of the prism in tensified with soft, weird, raalance by the struggle between sunrise and sun set. A minute to twelve I He still re mains round and radiant. Twelve I Hurrah I Hurrah ! It is doue, and the cheers go up from this solitude, arousing ita echoes. The rim of the horiaoo, far off lo the north, where the pole ia supposed to be, is silvered with a jale, weird beauty. It grows pink, and this Arctic desolation i* made a living splendor. IMf withdrew!) Into a vondcrou* depth, Kar linking Intmpleiidor without en4l This is tho wondrous phenomenon which we have come so fur to witness. Tho captain is oil the bridge. "11 fait accompli," I sing out to lum from be low "Give it to me in good English, Meister GJX." 1 say, "We are ull happy. The grcnt transaction is "Prepare to fish,the practical response and emphatic order of the captain. " r The lines are out, the captain lead ing wiili two codfish. I soon follow, and the suitors are busy. Mirth goes around ill each success. My wife, a good fisherman, generally, tugs away at her long liue until, like the gentle admiral, she suddenly "goes below." My courier, Bene, the Dane, catches a monster, nil golden us the sun itself. [Cheer*.] Then a Scotchman gets inn hideous hog-fish of twenty-five pounds. [Laughter.] Our stewardess, Julia, hauls in a monster. [Benewed cheer* and laughter.] And so we keep it up until two in the golden morning, when to sleep we go, covering the port holes so as to pretend it is night. We had made many sacrifices to see this remarkable performance of our luminary. Not that either of us was over anxious to find a land where sun set did uot occur. We had hoped that there was no realm in this or the future existence where "Sunset" might not come. But I may be allowed to remark that I have borne the sobriquet of Sunset for so many years, and it has sounded with uch sweet silliia tion, that I had come to believe that I had a sort of fee simple in its faeri laud, with its gorgeous palaces and ! cloud-capped towers. And must I now IK- disenchanted? 1 I)o I live and is sunset no more? Do 1 see a country where the sun is going, going down amid a mice cn rone equal, if not superior, to that Ohio evening j years ago, which I tried to portray 1 with my |Kor jen —ami vet it does not go flown ? Was it iierience gives to the scenery, to time, to the clouds i and mountains, the fjords and snows, | the glamor of reality. We are, so to • speak, inverted, home sense of the ■ comic, if not of the cosmis, relations j we bear to space ami stars ami suns j comes over us ; ami the light we bask in at midnight is as strange as that "which was never on the sea or land— the consecration of the poet's dream." Here are day of days, ami night of nights ! This is plain to the eye, and it takes ever so slight reflection to uu : derstaud it fully. It is complex, un til we remember that the earth goes | round the sun —a problem which men have lieen ready to defend even unto death. Jo going around the sun, the earth inclines its axis to the plane in which it moves. It the earth did not thus "tenderly iuclinc"—if it stood | stiff and |>crpt-ndicular, without court ing the graces—every inch of its sur ; face would have it* night and day equally divided. But it plays the erect only twice a year, nt the inter section of the ecliptic and the equator. These days of alisolute equity of dis tribution arc- in the spring and fall. But <> si determined that for a half the time to one ami half to the other j pole. The angle of this obeisance of our earth to its plane rm-asurc* the distance from the j*le to the circle. It is a plain conclusion from these facts, that the circle within which we arc moving just now, girdle* the earth with only 6,000 mile*. If we would make a straight inarch around the circle we would save one-fourth of the journey in miles ; and if around where we are now at this north cape on a line of latitude, it would lie one half ! lew, or oue-fourth of the distance around our globe at the equator. But our business now is not "around," but ! down to the latitude nearer home. 8. 8. Cox. Otd Hatches. In the South Kensington Museum, at Iyondon, is egan sawing through the grans-stalk. in a few minutes the stalk fell, and hundred* of ants jsunc ed uimn the (alien caterpillar, lie wua killed at once, and the victora marched off in triumph, leaving the foe'a body on the field. HL'NTIXO FOK A WIFE. JONATHAN JRSKH ON THE MtEAIi GIBI.S have or ueiku oi.o aAt 09. \N hy woman should dread to Ire classed as "old maids" is a matter that the majority of men caunot under stand, tor the sensible portion of the sterner sex look with something akin to reverence uj>on a maiden lady who i ha* outgrown the frivolity of youth, and blossomed into a kind hearted, pure minded, self-sacrificing woman, ever ready to lend a helping hand to assist the poor, or smooth the pillow of the sick and suffering. Of oourse there arc many old maids—the cross and cranky one* —who are an excep tion to this rule, but the good .Samari tans among them are by no m-ans in the minority. However, notwithstanding the views of men whose opinions are worthy of respect, there is no disguising the fact that the majority of the fair sex look forward with horror to the day that w ill see their names classed with those of "an uncertain age," and to e*ca[H therefrom, often sacrifice themselves 'hy marrying the most grace!c-- scani|M that come in their way. On every ! hand are evidences of blighted, ruined I lives, which arc clearly traceable to 1 marriage entered into to escape being ' calk*] old maids. I Now, it is my firm conviction that a great deal of the evil result* from the proper parties failing to come to gether in early life. In other words, there are just as many young men ' who would make good husband-, who -tav at home, languishing for female society, as there are young girl* living jin dread of dying old maids. One ; great mistake that many parents make is prohibiting their children from mingling socially with members of the opposite sex. Many a young man who is now wasting hits days and nights ktafing around bar-room* and cigar store* might have been a useful and industriou* citizen, and a happy husband and father, had hi* parents encouraged him in mingling in the society of good and decent girls, in stead of confining hi* companionship solely to boys of his owu age. I know when my boy reaches sixteen, no matter how bashful he is, I shall say to him, "My soo, although it is early for you yet to be looking out for a wife, still 1 think it high time that you should learn to appreciate the value of female companionship. Your heart is young and tender, and just in the condition to fall desperate ly in love with some fresh, blue-eyed damsel of fifteen or thereabout* Once desperately in love with a pure-mind ed maiden, I am confideut that you will never do anything to disgrace your parents, or leave a stain upon your memory to be regretted in the years to cotne, when you have ac quired more discretion and judgment. Now go and fall in love, and if you haven't got the cash for ire cream, theatres, and the other necessities for courtship, you may drawn on me every week for a reasonable amount, and I shall consider it money well invested. That is the way I talk to my son—yes. and if he js'too big a booby to bunt up a girl to love, I shall fir.il one for him, and if he don't love her, I'll "whale him" within an inch of his life. Why is it that in nine cases out of ten you find the women really worth marrying—the pure-minded, sweet faced, obedient, industrious, faithful one* —united to men who often treat them little (setter than slaves, while men who are really parogen* of hus bands so frequently have wives un worthy of therof 1 jail 1 tell you the reason. The bold, ffltd fellows, who have plenty of check, go forth, and, metaphorically speaking, pluck the best fruit la the market. The sbv, timid fellows must wait patiently un til circumstances throw them iti the way of some shrew of a long-tongued, brazen-faced female, grown desperate at the neglect of the sterner eex. and rather than not have any huslmnd, tbey meet the timid Benedicts half way and do a large share of the court ing themselves. It is thus that good men and pure women often get the very refuse and scum of the market, while the real matrimonial prices are picked up by adventurers of both sexes who are really undeserving of their good luck. "And did your late husband die ia the hope of a bleased immortality, 8i ter Btiggiogs?" inquired the new min ister, who was making his first call oa a fair widow of his congregation, "Bless you, no!" was the response; j "be died io Chicago." - MaL' d . ■ J