hrist © garng O happy place Where His dear First shed the sunshine of Above the plain A heavenly strain Of music and its re Is ringing still O'er height and hh “Be Peace o rang; Wh Rejoice to-day, The glad bells say; Put all the cares that vex away; Let Christmas cheer Find welcomes here, And bless this best day of the year, To Christ, thy King, As tribute bring heart, and let the offspring With e be sweet, As at His oful vows repeat. Thy lov ita grat a and sing, i bells ring. rid's dear King; f Peace! ‘ompanion A CHRISTMAS DEBT. nd was made ug sh Aura He berrie peeping bri iy wind wreath and thers to i peel and omng here And he stopp i moment gaze at the wealth of ra the pposite to 8 There nasiyY Nu mkey Was n wi crowa ith and bottles scintillating and sparkling in a perfectly Bursts of merry laughter came every moment to the jl clad little pondering outside “] don't see why it msi ne gor the ght d plac ©. hundred and more Hiataes bewildering manner boy as he stood irresolute wouldn't work. soliloquized young Tommy Dodd, as lu withdrew his face from the big window *‘Soakey hain't got a boy just nqw, an he's sure to have lots of parcels v0 Sliver on Christmas Eve,” And he walked slowly but determinedly toward the door Just then the latter opened, young, rosy-faced Tan stepped out to the road to quiet a pair of fretful spirited horses that stood by harnessed to a light culter the richest man in the township. Robins caught sight of Tommy, “Hello, kid!" he said merrily, ‘what are you standing out here for? Come in- side and get warm and sot ‘em up!” n Earth, to Men Good-Will" F : and and a It was young Robins, the son of | im 4 1 1 Ex goin was ter with n it; while appealingly nning men, he scene im- fo hw Ks eh? laid up! ay's small han ner's face he crowd of rough tho seemed to enjoy mensely. “Just "nuff, Tom," said Bob Brass the grocer's boy, “There's ten of us, Set em up, Soakey, an’ give the kid a hot lemingnade." The “iid” let the steaming ‘‘leming- nade!’ stand hefore him, and as all the en raised their glasses to their lips and med with a laugh, ‘Here's to yer, ,” he said quietly: ome. To little Laura,” own their glasses, demanded Mr. Soakey, nk at the crowd. TH “To with a knd “To littl looking solem “She's my siste Santa Claus is comil to-night, with a big Sharpe's door, that's & That money was to help t see, 1 told Laura she'd be it. But,” continued Tommy and theroom would have been | silent but for his voice, for all th were intensely interested, don"r | see—how-—I'm to—get i legs you can give That's what I came in here fer; drink I" the bartender,’ w, our place sure, down there in ler'n a half. it; cos’, you i'n to get | owly ps LL | not to a of continued crowd, and echoed clear had subsided nds art of the wer that When it You dida’t think ur money, glass, start the gn, Soakey the of have a it to and wand, sad when it was freighted juarters aod the out Against money es DA mmy Men vely, hoping ne home y the wish i the snow in his face answer il i poken all anxio jury fine. two ree. heave! said Ti form of the m my. a8 he dragued the heavy ttle apon iit Ope man laura's Christmas pres ent more big effort, and he had aim on If it was hard pulling before, what was | {it now! Poor Tommy made very siow ther bres and siewgth, while the | h Yoon 2% me & job, Mr, Soakey } ned to have wi : ! | snow, | the { Warn © | had sprung up . s “by made af ed him &f hundred wind, He Gia AY times the bitter was off the He dared not leave his burden to UY | slay be called nose building Aas set people | and find the track ; but he turned, as he thought, directly back with his load, hoping to come upon the road ggain. Poor boy! He did not know that the rout, as he turned, was just behind him, and that he was leaving it ab vary heavy, tired step he took. He wss nearly done out now. ; His ill. elad feet and bare hands weref bitingly | cold, and the snow had worked under | his trousers up to his knees. every second moment he stumbled, and once his burden slid off the sled and ‘he had terrible work getting the uneonselous man on again, He became very sleepy, 100, He tried | hard to keep up, but flesh and blood | were beaten, and he sank [down com pletely exhausted He lay beside Rob ins, his parcel of little purchases clasped | | under one arm and his head resting upon said little Tommy, | {his sleeve. Was that a shout! But he was too She thinks | tired and sleepy to raise his head. | i | i How snug he felt! And how sleepy! * * * ol » - Surely that but repeated, soutiing [neues One void, two, lof them! He netd have was A shout, very fain louder and three-a dozen no care now! fectly | ‘Wouldn't little Laurs laugh and clap her men | tiny hands when she saw him; and the sled. Bat wha over the sled? It ngs and to be travel like the shove the | the time t had come ing through the air famous wooden horse in the fairy tal and he upon | joes ntinue i um that the Yi sounded UK glimmer of white ad the vering him with a pris Tommy the fered sled and coon coat, and carned VOe } iol Was ud way saved spaired of for EE Was respect for the brave who « dured so mn mkard’s life, Oe Wore ne ath be has not six That Was SiX year ver 1o To QUOT agRin, an was ten tthe Laum preached many gs very diffi anity Ik or came There mingle leader ver nt sl tn so thi CN CT hte They They who When the 256th of em “lun Feast sment oo Mo na "Ww Christ r meetin nh ther 1868 talked of Uhn had come 0 ight to and warm the He the ‘light of world.” “The people which sat in darkness saw a great light,” and ‘light "The light shineth in } t1ial Lhe ritual sun, ol | spiritual world Was the Almost | : | the | to the skull between the eyes i down over the nasal cavi i ff darkness, but the darkness comprehen. | “The worlds were made Therefore the sun wos made The Sun Worshipers ‘‘wor creature more than the but the Christians worshiped who blewed forever superiority of this over that was soon made visible, and the masses wore released from idoistry, Tt mattered not whether the 25tn of De cember was the birthday of Christ or noi the effact was the same. deth it not.’ by Him.’ by Him shipped Creator,” the the “Creator, " more ' The ——— ——— His Christmas Tree, “What did you have on your Chistmas , Boftiy i" inquired Nilson, “Myo. I had to climb a tree to get — ++ *Set ‘em up,’ " echoed Tommy mentally, | snow came down dng the wind | out of the reach of my creditors.” J y had her placed under the ORDER. PRESS OF . om the Fore. | is Nose Bridge ing. ht i843 wl Developed Tnty «Curious Skin Gr ¥ JA vovel and interesting ease of what who keep the run of surgical work in mind s talking. Mre. Hoffman, who lives in Brooklyn, had suffered from nasal | eatarrh until she had no nose left. Bones | as well as tissues were gone, In this condi- tion she applied to Dr. F. L. R. Tetamore, of New York city, who had had a good many cases of skin grafting and facial re. ! pairing generally, to see whether he could build a nose. The doctor, after an examination of the influence of an anmsthetic. Then he cut away the skin that covered the nasal cavity, Next flesh on the forehead, immediately above the nose, was dissected back | fis aps, | portion of the skull there. covered with a skin, as nearly every one knows, y " save only attached This flap was laid that the point of the V was left it ty the that had been next to the bone was down. Meantime a live chicken had been cut open, and a bit of its breast bone of the right size and sh to form a nose was cut out and stitched fast over the nasal This bone formed a bridge which supported the flap of periosteum up gn the » of a The periosteum was therefore stitched over thig bridge. Then »n that was done, wus twisted so that when side pe Cavity nose, the skin and PY [£41 ent pati drawn u 0 Over i and ew nose , Fy Pa g USOY pars 3 do : oh around alway #emain there wi pect CRY and building where such d rmities exit Was aeked It was a number of vears ago, wher unfortunate young w ih, and part of her if 1 ex heen ner upi 10 anyih y Be had andl BO COB ntist when a luded to try soft rubber and lip. 1 well that she was afterward married, That set me to thinking about like cases, and I took up the study. 1 suppose that the building of » nose is the most important piece of work of the kind, although the covering of such scars as are made by burns where the face is drawn out of shape are also well worth attention. It is only within younger man making » nose succeeded so able to get a few vears that such things have been | possible, but now surgeons can do pretty | extensive jobs In repairing cripples Bo far as 1 know, fhe onse of Mrs. Hollman was the first in this country where resort was had to the periosteum in buildiag a nose." A case of skin because it showed how in the growth of any part of the human body its natal characteristics are accurately preserved, The patient had a sevire burn on the | face, and the wound would not heal, So bits of skin were grafts” “or the wourd, and in that way success Attained. But the | in $0 a8 to lay bare a wedge-shaped | The bone is and a flap of this bone skin | (periosteum) of the shape of a truncated | V was dissected from the bone, | the work, their great patienco and { taking, and the natural drying anc {serving climate of the Kast, fting was intersting * } ‘ novel feature of the case was that a great gariety of human cuticle was used. Skin from the legs of hairy men, patches o the and lookmg and used, kin that had moles on them, { skin of colored people were | they all grew fasta patch work, But very curiou soon after each | patch grew fast it began to change its | character until at the | { had been burned was { the other one, the white an no trace of hair or colored folks remaining last i ———————— WISE WOGEDS, The noblest mind the best has. Guilt fills the air rors. with vi Grief treads upon the he sure. An enemy can always « a friend cannot always Do not offend. commits makes one enemy. The worst passions are occa to thieves to fall out Rense sh it is set humble m They yet the mos who have liv rather broeat ee society: nes wit ana who Ther man mind more it gist the i — A Peculiar g Coincidence, was 8 Jdesiral snd the wide it then and th ent not | § to find that the lot adjoined own tern that are buried and be at The widow had never heard of lw in which my parents in which 1¢ xpect some day to nid rest husband's oft-ex pressed desire to be buried by my side, and 1 think A very strange oincidence Herald the « one Chicago S— Ancient Brick Making. The great perfection to which the an clents carried the art of brick making is probably due to the abundance of Labor, plenty of time to devote to each stage of Pe The dry, warm atmosphere of Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia, which countries were the nur series of the cermmnio arts, have kept in a good state of proservation for more than three thousand years, the sundried bricks so common in those countries, Many well sdobes are also found in towns snd walls of ancient lndia. — SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LVESBON DECEMBER 22 FOR Lesson Text: Beign.” 1 Golden 13 “Close of Solomon's Kings xi, 206.48 Text: Focles, xi, Commentary 6. “Jerobhosm the sot Nebel” twenty times is this man, whom for the first time ius mentions books of Kings. + vaarthou the son « rasl tos He bec first King of the ten Fe ro and set up 12 golden calves at Dan and Betlel r lara to worship Chap. xi ording to WHE OFF niarging the reason the facts that be hers we now meet 1 in the two pisces it x ae who made Is ame Lhe tw Young, signifies * tainly ar “exper s of lerael why the Holy that he wa re prayer ight iat two rat book ut we ve nu LI Hifted | against the ginnin . } § reign that God had at there King At the it was written given him rest was neilher rrent cha 4.1! change When RLS ways pi the 1 i, He maketh iw asive “vi with hin estly desire what we His glory i 1d Prov. xxiv, 1 i e that Jeroboan never breathed . be Kix a single person s the that © 0 Frek woe int xi if th expression and it i= als rmy servant said, because he David's : ket This was the asa whole, and nmandments in Psalm exix Lord and brings Jeans the usness, and e forgi venoms Wn the city which { all the tribes of lores ™ Israel war a chosen hoses oily, David a I to magnily the name oy failed to do this He r enemies to be chases You only have 1 the earth, there for all vour indquities ™ s aMict the send © } Dnwid, his obedience bis wins semuch as God's 11 Sam. vil, be a revtoration established in the Isa ix. 6 7: Luke i, ‘TROY ETA gh ten 18 ke th ever i wo kil David, but pol even to therel ore °8) 0 SOug oam : tq did David oo Baul Shimer when he cursed and threw stows Death the devil's weapon; he who walks with God leaves vengeance to Him that is to God, and dos aot take matters inte his owe hands 42. 43 “"Rolomon slept and was buriad In the father” Forty years a King, wisdom and honor anprecsdented bestowed upon him, yet be acts ar a fool; & thousand IVA ana one son, and thal son robbed of his inheritance by his father's sins, Is it not A mad story? Bat wae Solomon saved? Where we have no clear testimony we oan Not say positively, We may hope that ere he went out to mest God be traly ted and burned to Him. How is it with you dear reader’ Lesson Helper, ww — - - Two warren girls in & Rapid City, (8B. 10.) hotel took up claims near that city some time ago and have bailt houses, fenced their claims, raised stock and crops, and at the same time waited on the hungry boarders st the botel. o oF aul Bol thus is with his fathers, city of David his Over “- riches andl,
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