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Collections made and promptly retnlttfid, trebl,s49tf. , w. rxerittqx, .ATTOILNEY AT 0 LAW. 9111ee—Merptr's , Block, next door 1•,- Kress OMee, Towanda' Pa. • jiyl.43. , 1 Ir)R. S. M. Wogb.l3 . Physi cian and Surgeon: (tree fwer 0. A. Black', Crockery store., Towanda, May 1. 18:21y..1 • - WPOD SA.NOERSON, .7 A.TTOTOCRYS AT T.AW, • • TOWANDA. PA. J., W 001). :mar..7l F. SA NIMID.oN EC fSTREETFAI. LAIC ( PI , I7IOE.ITOWI. N 1 , A. PA "W. A . PEC K. - Jacil;i:743 DRs. 'JOIINSOIN & NE*TON. rhysietan,4 and ,tAurrc•ons. (Mee over Dr. Peri - ten...Si 'ore, !kn.; Si•nre. Tnwail na, Pa. T. n..i(oitxsON.. M. to. to N. NEWTON. M. It. lane-.7:iti. 4.- i - • . . C. GRIDLEY. - I ! . \ TTlliN'q.l' AT LAW: A pril I, V , 73. ' ' 1 TIOVAXItA.y.I. _ G . ' EORGE W 11R1SIC, Justice of , . the *Peace an. k`iinveyaineer. : . Inaimanee %gnt, Lena). , lllll., Pa. .__. Ntaech 1?-.57. • 'i 1 _ :•,, N • .. F.. 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N A TIO\ A BANK TIIWI ' .S9.A : `IITII FuND ^ - 1 • 2 . 3• • ,. .ft•ls UNUSUAL FA(III.ITIES for I ; ENE!: A L BVSI NESS ME I P I)FiVit`4ll." Tt• I . . , : . . . . . . *. : . J ' 1 1.. ~ %I:1: Gt V I"". T , ..71t - T. Ci.l ,i 1.1:‘ Tt.ls: 1 , 1 , :- 14:3 Cut, N.:. i i I . •'2. o i..+ ivi.larlf:: to :' , FJSI) Mi.iS F:l*, ~• any part of ' ( ' , . - a , late , . E nzla tot, reland: Scotia:o.'or I , it! , i1 , 31 ~ Ith, "*.!l , i IC:ill ', I of En ri .t lls. cm!, licre !...- draft. for that parpoio. , _ ; .l - 1 , . . P •k S 'iz .1 C: K T.I eK ET .-•,,'' 1 tho 111,1 !.v thoti..st ,tram or 11:),. al (..ti . 4,V Lit lir IcEDI. '[.ls RATE,: .1111, 11;r F. S" 1 1„a1aT; aJl(i 'ilc&•i m ' t 0 I Tnt 1.1"‘ITIE '11“12;ND &OR i • ;i :t , 1.• place in Tnnakula to nil r g` l l — _k ND - ' MBA f(CO, at low iteniembkr 1 BLOCK, uppusiti• COUItT 1101::4: eIG:NT 15.00 i ~o.ao j ie:~o_~ :o".00 IL STREETER The recent revelations . coneerning deed foraeries at a criminal trial in Chicago, , reminded me of an incident that occurred a few weeks ago in the vicinity otSt. Louis, that seems to me to he Worth relating, Clara.. and Mary Nterwin, sisters and orpliao. were inithe sittinzToom th of their phiitsant hoe oh the `edgeof a village near the Missouri, - Their mother bad ; been dead Aeverni rears : their father; had lately died, leavin! , them.an estate. as they ;•lipposed. of the value Ql' ;iome forty thousand dollars. but they had-learned quite recently that it was encumbered to such an extent that they were likely to be deprived of:it all: This dis covery. :tA May be supposed. filled them with anxiety and sorrow, and they were heated in silence. unable' to read. to converse. to work, to 'do anything 'brood;.over their areat misfortnue.! While they were thus occupied . with sombrr. thoWilits. a buggy drove up in front of thc house-. and a man alighted. and the buggy drOve away. The man!mast haVe been a little on the shady side or filly: to judge frthll his fzniyliairs.althott ! th his thee was fresh and unwrinkled. He was dre4cd with remarkable neatness:, and his thee. indicated briskness. a s welt as prMsion. In one hand he cttOied a sufall valise. and in the oth er au mnbrella..and lie stepped quick,: ly to the dhO:i . ran! ,- the bell.- tit a IrwThitnnents he was wltered into the tresence't if the youw , "I'm to introduce myself." he said. smiling and bowing in a courtly manner —" Abner Pierce. Here is my 'card—professional card. You will see that I am a lawyer in St. Louis. and-presumably. a respec table man. Don't be afraid. 1 am not here to hhrt you. but to int) I have-the honor to call myself' friend of yflur ramily'—that is to say, although it is many years since I have seen tiny Member of said family, I always had the highest possible re gard for yottr sainted mother, and nothing would please the better than to Ite of some service to her children." are happy to meet you." murmured Clara. " Thank yOu. I happent;t Ito hear —no matter how—that yon were in tntulth., and haVe come up here in the belief that I icon assist you. hope von-will feel that you can trust me.. I ant aettiallY an 11(1111.'4 Mall, although a lawyer. and mean well. although I e)press mrself.chunsily... -I am frt.c!t.o admit." said :Clara. " that we need assistance and advice. anti that We haVt . not 1010161 tA to lank rol; it; " •• cry Nvel! ' ; ' it i- a :oto.l thin_. uo doubt. that Have come. Now, sit - down. and tell me all about it." 'Clara Mervin. who was the elder the orphans and leader in even - - thin". t 01.4 how she and her sister had taken 4cltet s 'of administrltion • ti pop their father's' ! estate. when - tt man of whom they had never benne heard put in an appearance. and pre sented a mortgage, with bond includ ed. executed by the late Mr. Melvin:, upon his real estate, for the stun of forty thousand dollars. Not cOntent with prohibiting them front :attempt ing to sell anything, lw had tied up their money in the Itank, leaving them absolutely penniless. They had used their credit. brit tradesmen were be coming impatient. and some had re fused - supply them any further without pat - . " That is a bad case," said •••Mr.- Pierce. ....You need money--sthat is the first thing Otte attended ti:. You must_let me act as your banker until I get you out of "this scrape. and that won't be long, I hope. How much do you owe?" " More than :one hundred dollars," answered Clara. • The old gentleman counted out two hundred dollars from a wellstilled. pocket-book, and handed it to her. " For your mother's sake," he said, when she refused to receive it, and he forced it uphill her in.such a way ft - 4 she could not help taking it., Ile theh accepted the young ladies' invi tation to make their house his home during his stay, and went in to dinner With them. " Is, there any place where I Can stroke ?" he asked, when they bad returned to the sitting-room. " You can smoke here," said the. impulsive Mary'::: Paldways smoked here. and we are used to it." So he took a meerschaum and some. tobacco from his valise, and was soon pulling away with .an air of great contentment.' . " I can think better when I smoke," he said. "Did :you have any legal advice in the matter of that mort gage. MisS Mer Win ?" Yes, sir," replied Clara. " Our liwyer said that it was a plain case against us, although it was strange that we had never heard of the-mort gage before." , " Very strange, What is the name of the man who holds it ?". "Alexander Campbell:" _- " Hum ! A gOod name. but a had BIMINI! TTolt N Er W ill attend car, In Bradford. with 8,11. I1M!= FE I Ns1"1:.1 NUF SEM EMI MEM MESE E. TT 4111- iiaViing rnkft , A4,l,:a t tootton give it to n.tor, l'ottrtA. = .17 LAW. rIIW %NIP s. , of 111,.Pint .1. N. rALIFI. (:' - I.: N C Y, 1 . -' =ME RIZEIMMIE =ME k : Eri MO 25;f am :41.01141 N. N. LVT, Ca,hier. - - =I S. W. ALVORD I Publisher. VOLUME. XXXII. el rfrd Parhy. NOT LOST. The kok .%/ 1- npatik, - tbelefitlu i tvord, • Spukett k lour that - only antrla beard: The secret art of pure self-eacri fire, Viiscru lit men, brit Market by ailed', e•ye•— These are not log The saeresl music of a tender NIT7IIII. W runt from-a poet's heart by grief and pain. And ehanied timidly. with doubt and fear, To busy ei-owds. whn <careelg.panse• to hesr— These are not lO6t The ' , Hen( tears that fall at (lead.::s4 slight (leer rojle4 rulws:that once wen. pure awl white The prryern that rlae like incense' from the soul: Longing fin. Christ - to make it clean and whole— These nee• not lust The happy' dreams that glathlent4l aft our moth, _Whet' &rims had les. of self abet muse of truth The childhood's faith, sO tranquil and ter Wt et; Which sat:like vary at. the %taster's feet-- ilkse :lie iii;l rst; The kintlly plans devised for ,tthers' So 'sel.lom 4ueAse,d. ~ link liti,rstoo.) : The Talet,'steadrastove that strove to win some 11-anOr,pr front the wav TlieNt. are taq Icksi Not tor. In Thy city blight Our eye:, .IUIII see the past by eteat•vr 14110, , And thltig.Opng (null (Jur parr helow Thou -wilt ri;i eat, and it e shall stirOv know The6e are not iwq eak'fellatpsou. MA'S OLD BEAU. inalijitth afraid. When and Wl; can I see hint, "liebe here this afternoon,'' answered Chan. ittopdscs if We will make_him a deed of the real es. tate td give tip the bond.and most gage, leaving purmonq itt bank aiid the rest of the - personal "Very liberal. Introduce me' to him when he comesos an old friend of the fatally; and not as a lawyer." , Mr. Alexander Campbell called in the course of the afternoon, and was made acquainted with Abner Nettie, at whom he looked suspiciously; but his eyes fell. when he met..the Old gentleman's intent gaze. Mr. Pierce glanced but slightly at the deed that .was offered fox the considerntion'of the Indies, being ,occupied in study ing* the eottntenanee of the inatt'litt whose drattli: "I Can't decide upon it juk noW," he said at last. "As a friend'of these young ladies—standing, la: I May say ; jit loco pcirenifs-1 intist make; a few inquiries Coneerin,, ,, the - value of this prilpetty . : Slippose you come `after supper, Mr: caMpbell, and stip you. bring that mortgage. with you. I have no doubt it is all caiir rag, but I would like to see it." Mr. Campbell assented to this and. withdreW., Abner e filled his pipe with nervous haste, and Mary brought him 'a light. I know that you have some good !toys for us," she said. " I can see it in your face." ; -[ " Not bad, My child. , I hope :tad trust that it is very good. A good name, but a bad man,. I said, and that is true, I think I see my way' out of this difficulty, and the money that 1 lent you, is safe, lint yon milk not hiterfere - me. young ladies, or be surprised at anything may-say or do, or object to it. Yop must' trust me, and let me work in . , my own way." • A ft. - er,upper, w hell . Abner Pierce had enjoyed - another comfortable smoke-, and conversed with the girls concerning their mother, as he had known her ini her youth—a subjeet, upon which he grew quite eloquent-1 Alexander Campbell Caine .iu ing the deed and mortgage to 3lrj Pierce fig examination. - • ." I have made inquiries concerning the property," said the old gentle!, man, " and am satisfied that it is n 4. -worth more - Alum the amount of the mortgage, -anti would probably - bring much less if sold at a foreclosure. Your otter _is a liberal one,; but must first look at`; the mortgage. This appears to be correct," he con-J filmed, when he had 'examined the instrument. " It is properly acknowl-; edged. and the signature is undonlgi eddy that of Philip Merwin. I sup-, pose the young ladies will have tol go to the county seat to.. execute the; (1(441.- • The girls' countenance fell at this sudden surrender on the part of their ehampion. This - reminds me. - said the ohl lawyer, picking up the mortgage again, "'of an occurrence that fell un der my observation in Tennessee; not that the two eases are alike,, as the Tennessee case was undoubtedly a fraiulttlent,i,allitir, but tII(I Was a similarity in the ci retunstances. Dun't lobk so - down-heartcd, iyoung ladies. What will be must be. it is useless to cry about what can't be helped. As I was about to say, a man died in Tennessee, leaving a widow and one daughter. The.widow Was a hula to administer upon - ,his es tate when l a man Ivho was unknown came forward and presented a mort gage siMilar to this and for exactly the saineraMount. It was examined by lawyers who: were eamiliar• with file. signature of the deceased, and 'flounced correct. Although there was something strange about? the af f4i.r.,they could find no flaw in the instrument: It was partietilarly puz zlhig;to one of them, who thought he had trausacteil all the law business ofl,llo deceased. 'lle got hold of the inortgage anti lorought it to me when I was iir . Nashville. happened to have in my possessiont a eery power ful magnifying *glass that had been presented to me—the most powerful lens I have ever seen. With this I examined. the mortgage, and soon discovered that the 'forty' had been raisol from • four.' There vas no mistake about it. .1 could easily see nnytks of chemical erasure, and the ilith•rence in pen awl bytwtTn the • raised • awl the rest; of the 'in strument. (Tow the iraseal got into the Iteister's office I don't - know, hut the rceorki had "been altered in the same. Manner. db• ran away, and it wat'• not considered win-di while to folloW him. Strange circumstance was it not. Mr. Campbell r' mr. Campbell was fidgeting uneas ily in his chair, and made no reply. '! Here is the glass." continued the old gentleman. taking it from' his pocket. "and you can sec" . for. your self how well it magnifies,. NOw - as - I look at Mis • forty '—why.„ bless n% the same signs are risible that I sa w in my Tennessee mortgage. ! I think you will be obliged to drop this, Mr. Campbell. My Tennessee man's name was Alexander Belt, and he has add ed, a Camp to it since be came to Missouri." • Campbell; his face red as flame. reached but ,his hand tor the docu- men . • 1 believe I will kil.cp this. :?Ir, t'ampbell, for fear of accidents. Why ! do you think you could take it by force? Here's something,,,that shoots five times! Goina, are ,you ? Very well; _I don't think-von will be molested if you Will leave this part of the country.and never return to it. It is barely- possible that the estate of Philip -Merwin may owe you four thousand dollars. If so. 1 advise you not to try to collect the debt, as such an attempt might land you in the penitentiary. Good-night, Mr. Camp bell, and farewell.- ( What is it ine'an ;Isked'elara. as -rubbing Ilia hands and smiling, bustle about to, fill his pipe. %1 71: .A.re you so dull, my child ?'W hy. hq fellow is a swindler and has been found out.. 1 guessed as much when heard of-the affair, and was sure of it when you told Me his name. You Will soon be able to pay me my two hundred dollars, and then we will straighten up matters. Thank you, Mary; your are very kind to give me a light." • • IMI - . TOWANDA, 1*14 1 01,11 COUNTY;II) . A..; -r.fItURSDAY *041 , 0.0, ~ jkijrVB7- . „. ‘,i,,..,:187*. --- - -- 1t"----- , 7—'1-4--- --- - - 44 Don't yen mean to pUnisk him ?" usltUd MON: ' ~. : .. •.!: -..: 1 It wctidd hardly: tiay.: l ifit.4 j wit him in the penitentlitry f btttia' ' u Might lose taut. thiin Witt !tkillikiiiilliy tin) je t lx Ily _trying- Ail fort' tti'otisitid tf-has iqst the 'four that ; may .have' eii jus tly hig die 16 will • biifar Roil here 'by - murninfri .. l - intreipo doubt; and 'gitidd-:..riddlnce to hitn. Alit this is'eomfortable. I know that I ifeel better, and r lionethiit you Oo." - ) The girls were sure that a great !eight had heen lifted from their minds and hearts.; Alexander Camp *bill, "alias Bell'olecitniped, and 'Abner Pierce stayed 0 week •with the or• plians, during which.time he arranged all their affairs satisfactorily, and won thelr lasting gratitude and . love. 'r_llow can We •et'er titanic' you for all yott have done for tiS ? " asked . Clara, when -he' was abOtitito leave; - • i‘ It' was for-yotir mother's stake, my child: Alid for bet sake. if I ever help you, all naive is at ,Votir service:': ,h.lnier Pierce has made visits ,to trig orphans frecitiently since the event narrated above, and they have'always hail a cordial *eleoiiie rw• : ! iiia's 0 bes,tl' 1 THE STINGS OF CONSCIENCE. have struggled with my :guilty conscience until I can no longer static' upjunder the' heavy burden, and I win, n•om ,, to make a confession. r I am a murderer ! Within a few hours I shall go and deliver myself up to officers of thei law, plead guilty, , and hail my sentence with satisfaction. NO one can i conceive of ~t he weight of my mental burdeft—Luo one who has not stained his bands witlchiiman gore. to was a sheientsiket—ivy I entered his Ow: or business one night in search of a pair of bootA. lie smiled sweetly, remarked abmit the wea i ther. and sa4l-Ile would make the best pair of hoots that even : out floor.: . It, Was•Mondav, : lid II( WaSh(l have them ; done I called at the appointed time; rand the - were not half finished. llp said Friday, when Friday c: ii saidauesday. I was there Titi.sdalf and he said . Thursday, and,. When Thursday came he smiled and 6.7 plain ed I • " }ye've been rushed to flodli--4 onul 'in Tuesday." .Ti ley were finished when I called gaith'and that wretched luau worked air he?ur and a half to get them' owe' lle ?said Off were matte tt tit, and he Was dytermined that they should do so. , When I :rot on it seemed:as if 4 ert'r )1 Lots .nati been driven bark am inehlland an if eachloot was bent tip in thi shape of a raihhow. I had to. drawanyself along by seizing hold of the +miter, but he assured me that the Lots. would fit perfectly easy by the time I . !rot home. 1 fell down on the street; awl had .ride home in a hack. I destroyed three Loot jacks and flilnolished two chairs getting the biota off. and it' took all ni“ - ht for my toes to get straightened out:, NAliing - in.. the world - ails the boots r 'said the dealer,. when I limp ed do •n the next day. and he insisted that Ilput,thent: on. lle said tluft if I'dk.osne Lark there at the end of!two hours I say tlmt the boots weren'lt a tit he'd !rive time fifty dollars: • went cut on .the street, and the •hoyF followri me, belie ! lIV s drtink'i: men stopped me and Wallt d to know if had run a nail in m 'foot; two women turned around. ,nd one . Of them rpnuirkeil that it atways made her sad to see a man c ork boots. want treeing; oft." .renrarlied rho dealer, as I crawled into th'e 'store. • lle tired them out. he oiled thew. he diTlawav at .the lle they wilre a petreet fit. when I IWaS rriud o the store On' door; and his eghlilets had temoYed the boi.itzi and left the room, I killed hint. !le didn't fumpeet anything. and war rubbing, chalk down inside. Ithe le.ri determined to pull the Loots ;On again, when became trumrdero, Ilie nevo groanef rand he didn't nudee a strug:ite. I shouldn't have doneit, ,Lind were ltei,d o ite over ,a! , :tin, roi:w Ht% haunt. His face lilt day and night for iyears. audit will be a relief ft,r to hear Yufid. 1 - - 4.. 41 411110.. • . . • HAPPY .EVERY DAY. . . : i,ltte' i v Smith rut :Lice.followitu 'min a ilewspaper :old preserved 'it 'or Itinuiejr: .-...• . -Ivii,,iii yoli rise ill tile month'. ono thti resolution to make the :flit\ . . a hapßylone to a fellow creature. It ' s easilyl done ; a left otfgarinent to he mini %Ott) needs il; a kind ; word To the sorrowful ; an eneoura!riii , 6:- pressionl t t o the striving—trifles in khemscli,es,as liLfht as air—will do t least fondle twenty-four bout-s.4_ Am!. if you are young, depend on ft, it Will tell when you are old. rest a .- Ore(' it !will send you gently all 1 rappily Itiown the stream of life to ternity.l lii' tin' most simple aritlit t tetleal ittin, look at the result. If 11-ousetid one 1)iA's . 011 . : : away happily brough ihe da - , that is three hundred nd sixty-five in the course of a year. .:. nd supOose you live forty years'onlY sifter yore commence that course of medicine; you have Made fourteen thousandi six hundred per s qns kappa , 1 1 at all ckents for 'a time.; T , ____.-..1'..1.- •-• - 1 A ctn. ,3 pcit in Brooklyn, New York devotes Ovo hundred , l and fifty doli lrs caeltlyear. to supplying the pasl. tors libriry with books, he makhig .the, Scleltions. We - commend the Itactice to all. other - Churches. :Mai. it .. a pastbr, sptinds the earlier year* i.. 1 ot his ministry in it sort of . literar:st dt.stitiutio l p. He labors uncle - 1 . ...a great disadvantpge. lie has not appropriate rading, :ind he is without such book. o 'reference as are necessary to hi4ru p .oper stiidy. A verrsall amount; (. o utone3i from each one: the can c , rationi. would furnish-him. with a t 9 s. ,- f.ood supply, and_ the people wouldl - be great g i ainers loth in the lappyl e4periencc of haying done a - goodl deed, and in providing ,theinselvesl wlth fresh and' • abundant thought th l Inlrough the.scrOns of their pastor. "Why, Jeunie, you look good enough to cat," sail a 'loving husband to his wife one morning at breakfast: , " Well, I'm eating as fait as I can, ain't I ?" _ _ ItEgAPPLEt4 OF IiENUNCIATION 'FROM ANY QUARTER. `A Deseripati of the Wei BeVeraii4 it Cepeltav The fat &flied Cape MAY is at the ektrethe southern end icd the State of ; :S , l ew Jersy—althoUgh", CiiPe I.4ftytilty and capa.Al ai lln are constantly ", ;o • t enfoninle4hotinitbstanding the fact t ti at thereitit - distattte of about two` mles beta-telt' ihetie plates. It has en a triattetotottrprise that soni ' o e had not — ert . PtOi :evert small b i cOttage.- for gtiests at this point,' and a ood reason - van scarcely be given. S veral, years' ag,o n number of -New Y rk ge ntlemen undertook to organ i7 a company — for . the development o this Site, but the enterprise was, abandoned for 'the -want of sufficient fu ids. Years • came and went,' leas-- in Cape May Paint itie mule . dreary wi derness, - until ' this Spring,. when M . Alexander Whildin, (the well knon-ii -enterpilaing Wool Merchant of No. 20 South )+kont Street Phila. delphia,). becamt - inspired 'with the id4a. that an Incorporatedeompany might eStablish at this 'spot a Sea- Sic e itegortcfhere The care-worn ant Weary - Minister, the Merchant, th 9 Professional Man, a lid the A rtist . could recuperate their energies and', spread a portion, if not all, of their suthtuer months away 'from the heat= eel' city, in the enjoyMent of liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To this end- an organization was hitt mediately effected, under the title' Of the "Sea Grove Association." .Mr NV iiildin was chosen President, and , contracts were at once entered into for, laying out the town, grading the streets, building a largtrhotel, also a' number. of pretty cottages and a lung hilicent Pavilion to he dedieatrd to relinions service. ' , These operations wer( , , accordingly commenced in the latter part of the 1 month of March.-of this year (1875). andl behold the !• What was .._ then a complete wilderness is now a 1 most beautiful village, with line broad lics;, that would do honor to a diverging from the Pavilion =as 'ter, and .extending to the Ocean ie east, to the Point at the south, to Bay on the west, and the love resh Water Lake on the north,. nd Which a fine carriage .rtiad i i s completed. At regular Intervals avenues are intersected by Its, varying iii width from 50 to S'e.et, Which extenifin a somewhat itotts form around, the centre L . the Beach 4 venue is reached i Itue drive is being rapidly pusheil thipletion and will inalw,. when ed, one, continuous carriage way the upper end (rf Cape May City 1 d the Point to the Beach on vare flay', thence' on to till! ibo:it Lauding: l i -e can im no more elegant, rule than this magnificent Reaeli just -as in is setting across the Bay. I' hotel is located on the ocean f the town directly at the shore i commodiOus building, contain 'bout 121 rooms, and will he • the very lust of management. lots upon the Junin avenues r ! sold lOr the erection of dwell qic intention of the As sociation to avoid, if possible, the erect , any store, buildings upon the s leading from the l'avillion. are cross streets 'of sinlicent for business purposes, as thCie one less than 50! feet wide the present limits 'Of the Sea t el (it:' .1 Ce 011 t to tl, ly :twit EIDE tlwst! stre 100 cunt MED EN IMO ME OEM now' Lela Steal MOE Iltm , lit. s Tli silly 0 1 it is in :► under 11( i will I)! being ion of :wenn There width within “rwtv A v compl ry fine eottagei.los just been ted in which Mr."Whildin and lily expert to spend their slim mer. Wannamaker, (with whom nearly all mankind are directly or in directly acquainted.: through their knowlildge of his mammoth Oak Hall I • ('lilthi ng Establishment at Sixth and :Market Streets,'Philadelphia), is now erecting a handsome dwelling house on the Peach, very near the, A manlier of lots have been 'purchased by Philadelphians who are, now busi ly preparing fora pleasant sojourn by the ? Sea. The IWest ;Jersey Railroad Com pany has arranged to grant special privileges to those who erect cottages at Sea drove this season: The ]organization of a horse Car Company is talked of, which will run cars aCregular intervals rr( v n the \Vest ii7sey litailroad Depot - to the Steandpat I,anding, a distance of two. and a half miles upon the .Turnpike road. which passes directly :llong the northern edge of Sea. (I rove. ThiFr road.has lately linen thoroufddy• paired. I In 011 1 CUllrieoP r e - stimation. with the pn-sent 4s management and, the cr.fn iriprovement exhillited on le,, the town of Sea Grove au nom' other than the Fa -a-side 'Resort for all .who niet Slimmer Retreat from and lairdeas of a )aishiess isional life. :tartt, every heel owiir soek a q the eare profe --.......-...- --- Moo - DniNKiso LAbir.r:.—lt re quires pretty firm nerves in ladies to stand b' a bullodk beingslaTrhtered and drink down the warm blood as it tlowp . from the dying aniMal ; „and yeti - according to the Ef:///i', here is 'the way they do it inAZeading: • . Those who are aware of the cm-. phatic Prohibition of blood for food from the'l earliest times, which we find in the holy scriptures, will be aston ished WI learn that about ia dozen ladies.onthis city, married and single meet regularly twice a week at Boy er's slaughter house, rear of I OS South Sixth street, 'and quail' the blOod of steers that are killed there. W(ml is sent tO the ladies that an animal will lie shilightered at a certain hour, and when the time arrives they as semble and stand in a row, each holding a wine glass in her hand. The throat of the animal-is-Out with a large knife: by the butchery and its, the lite )flood flows from the wound it is caught in a large: circular silver pan. by Mr. James M. Boyer,: who then „passes along the roW Of ladies and fills,their wine glasses: . after - the first roiind has been drank it is quite t sight toseet 4 ie dozen ladies stand ing .with !bloc.. v mouths'andbloody glasses waitiog . ior the second round ,of gore. 1 Vario'us chemical prepra tionS containing iron and other con stituents of blood have: been. Used for years :by i persons in this , -eity, but very . few drank blood' itself. ' How ever it is quite a conntion thing for delicate ladies in Paris, NO .York and even Philadelphia to drink blood under the advice of prominent; physi cians, .- SEA GROVD MEI MMMMNI ' . '.' 'Manna REAnnie. - .' • ' ~.:71ixie-teriOi or the reading_ done' is, prothibly; airaply i to, pass away time, Or procure it ideassiit excitement, for unoccupied honisi. New who : retul .do . It `oirith. - ail: definitd purpose -of - In-: . Creasing' their, stO6. l J' r o,liwo,*iedgt 0 1 ideas, s,tilllf;itc tlie,iefote; a o o l 4l4su any meld. purpose -44.-reading...,,On r! .k.l the: Conti% ,' iit - lk.conies t 6 . ttfeni a .fluid of disc . titut,4e.:reaCtion from the '. littera " of ::ihial.,: teairei: - them' more , Ala AO ,uogatlSElecl—tliaar be fo re.,' 'We blamo.lthe ., ;efreOti :of :the reuilin fi of novels opon morel-writers,. witen. really they ate More 'chargeable upon novel7readete: .1 1 01" ,t l3 l 46l ',liiii possess sOttio:''Moti*:ivPiik tr4e,liits some character witlx :Potato 4:lntet st, If . wcerend it:'ettrcthllraiutwitit the intention Of .' f firaling‘ Oat" What, there is iii It. deserving' Of: ithibte,:cir . blaTne.l But the army Of,:fitorYlead.. ers stop .4 - o fot . '•nOthinirtill:they- gat. tor • end-of . the volimei.jand - knoW nothing in'tegard.tci,What 'they tith- 4 e: read, except' that" all,; the .4roSibleli: come to .a happy determination, ; snit the ,hero and lierbine.trere • mntried at hist. - Pesetiptionti of nitthral-seen ery, detaifs :of Indivlduil_ cluiractet; the • careful wOrl(lOg - 011t Of..te3ults from ) . the iue,idente! mrl...iudivattali-: ties grotipeaKtog,ethet.«4ll . - these are "skipped,"overfOOked," : Uevef thenfglif of; .in fact; the:hook itself is fotgot: ten, or at least no clear idea of its. features is retained, after foriy-ei4lit hours have passed. : . . Such ,readingas this is worse than useless' , ---it iva4tes valuable time, and furnishes the . brain , with nothing _in return. If a book is not worth read ing with care, if it adds nothing .to Our store' of knowledge, if it supplies uo food for thought or dismission, it is not worth reading.at all. - Indeed, this is 'a very good test to. apply to book. and and one Which, if it could v-be properly applied bytthe elass.of-read oo who would be. the inost benefitted by it, would reduce their stock of lit eriotkre to a very low ebb. ' • - _ BELIEF IN YOUNSELF It is said that when John C. Cal houn was in Yale Pollego he was,' ridiculed by his fellOw-stndents for his , intense application. to Study. "Why, sirs," !said he,: - "I am forced to make'the most of imy*time that I may acquit myself creditably When in Congress. Po yOn doubt it?..' I assure you if r were notsoiivineed of my ability to reach the national capitol as a . repreSentative \ within tlnk.e. years. I. would leave college thi4 very day !" - Let every :voting man thus have faith in himself, and earnestly•take hold f life, scorning all props and buttres-cs, all . crutches and life-preservers. Let hint-believe, with PeStalozzi, that noinan on God's earth is either willing or able to help any other man. . Let hini strive to be a ureator, rather than[ to borrow. In- Wad of wielding the' rusted sword of,'valorons forefathers, let him forge his own weapons, and conscious of the God-in him and the providence over him, let him fight his own pat ties with his own lance. Instead of sighing for an education, capital, or friends, and declaring) that " if he on ly had these he would[be somebody," let him remember that, as 'Horace Greeley . said.. he is looking in the wrong end of the telescope ; that. if he only were somebOdy he would speedily have ail the boons whese . absence he is bewailing. Instead of being one of the foiled potentialities of which the world is so full—one of the subjunctive heroes, who always might; could, would;-9r shdiild do such great things.' is what nobody can understand—let him be in- the imperative mood, and do that of which his talents arc indicative. This lesson. of- self-reliance once learned and acted* and every man will discover within filmset,. under God. the elements andi capacities, of usefulness and houor.--"fletting on in the ivorld." FUN, FACT, AND PACETIE A Chinaman in los Angeles, Cal, upon being applied to for payinent of a debt, replied: "If 1411'11;1%w how,..; 111 ?" Whz4; is coal the most emit !tub:tory:ill lett. knt mit to commerce ? Because wheit pnr chased it goes to the cellar. The ,misery' Mt by the child win) couldn't go the picnic, is nothing to that of the one Arlin hag been tai it. A widower was. recently rejected, by a damsel Who didn't. want [any afrethins that hall ken "warmed ker.:" Ira flock of gt.t.c , see olie of their mun her drink. they will all drink, too. ' Met often make geese of themselves. Tim gentleman should alwr precede the lady in going up stairs,'ant fiill44 in going down. • Indiana papeN report teat ar, of Lafayette, has twin-kle. twin-tiled lit tle Stars for her linsbandlwiee. The 'Missouri Republieein speaks of edi tors as 'the non palmate class of men win grease the wheels of progress at , half Wages.'! An lowa woman gave lien husband mor 'Aline to cure him of che n wing tobacco. It. .cored jam, hut she is' doing, her own 'har vesting. A little wart-hacked 114 pp-toad w ll break up a croquet party quicker than the dark est cloud That ever gathered. How to become practieallvtainted with the "Hubs of Three" rave with your wife. mother, and mother;:in-law. A Milwaukee paper says of he air in its relation to man, "It kisses and blesAeli hint, but will not obey him." 'Hobbs says that description suits lii S titife exactly. Challenging lawyer to a colored jury man in Clinton. La.: "Do yen know what a verdict is?" " No, salt " Did fpm ever see one?" "No, salt. I nebber was at a shoW in my life!" A book agent took refuge under a hay stack thirite , a thunder storm, and the lightning struck him on the Cheek, glanc ing off and killing a mule twit hundred ,yards away. A lhAtuyter cmisits enumerator stuni ided upon a familyi‘vhose chain - en claim the illlitetative nainOs of Julia, binatban. Jame.-;, Job, Jane, JOlia.• .Torgylut ami Jededialt. : Jertisalem • • A farmer complains that !a hook ,and ladder company hasiheen organized iu his neighborhood.' Ho litutes . that the ladder is used after dark for climbing into the hen-house, after • which the- hooking is dune. • On a tombstonein.a 11:mbey graveyanl the following wry singular im)eription ap pears: "MaryThiwkins, whol having been tapped for the dropsy forty-six times, re rises in christ, September, 1, 1826." A lady•torreSposident who assumes to know how boys ought to be trained; write. as follows: , "Oh, mothers 1 hunt 'out the soft, tender, genial side of your boy.'' liethers often do-to the boys sorrow. OE= Tat Ogniti CIEMIO st.4Vere4 Ay Belo 11. Illevelltil, _ ' • ItrInr;APFPF" , -P/ 1 " "wJi Pont lis;-•-iivolO 13 , his a lama erpoFer awl pe l f unto' them, Verity, I satunto you; litausuell sot Yg /Me done i t unto one or the lean or theoe my brw!tht,'S. , poni ye rum done is unto itiee.elkirtheaixti: 40J i These whits - Or our. Tiord, flake frm hiS,Parablc.tirresentatithi .0 . , 111 i last , as size,. size, set forth 00;04014i wleordhlg to which divine . approvals ; proceed, Euultinal revritrds arc' Admhdrilertd., , Thr hcd:been expOunding tO his 414cipiei the prattleal character of his religion, and urging l u _ then' a sense of their personal 'resonsi bility. Ilisiamiest, however, was not' to, i the) critical faCultyl nor to the curiOns in- 1 telleet, but , to the moral 'sense and , i4- stinctive affections of the ever asPirhig and",ecmildini heart., As to what :things !;4.4r present 4e will sur!"?? #,T• "o' , „of i rrne, mulputlast"the rav ages' eV d4raily Lie !says : Thoy will go into - , therifecia , iihOse WI T are ; found trfunmed'l Mil burnyw-witen the kills returns to hiS ei; tat* ho- will promote those Sall'antsildiii not Only kept, but - also friereased,: - !tris 'goods :' when the Son of titan comei - in Clem& Of gl9r7rand holy genets pith anti,. be Will recognize and reward as his disci plerri:•tirdy those persons who have•rreil the.filllietlileier his reliiien and pu , ,' th‘aihio loiing =la helpful deeds. • • "Tii•clay Cbrtst comes to riS, and in air initnetri'N•e kindof way tells:tar whit! sort °E,l ) l ' etY Onrs.must Iv6 Lto'h° t 13 4:.." 4 9) ) 44- 'l lO .O Rims, ineet:the metis gt tIIS Pr4Wlit, life,: and be roWarded S last • • ' 0 come, ye blessed - 411tIren." fie tells ,tr, itt.4t such a, piety 'mast be more tin ,m. a #iela: l PhY4ea l Opinion and'eCeleslastical dCrlicrea; more than: subscriptioti to tio . cretthr ;'... more l than "Lord, LOrd;" and more than. Wordy sentimentalities, ;esthetic and or thodox. It must not stop short of getting loving and helpful things done, or the ap proval. "Well done, good awl, faithful servaitt !':' will never he pronounced upon it. , . , . . . telling us this is. a blessed gosPel.. ti< in clear and forcible light the anti= relation our religion sustains. to the al needs and activities of our individ and social life. It takes religion 'out ilt. region of mere metaphysics, and i . it down from the icy summits of spec-: Mott, where too often we at the first .d itl, and where we are too apt to con-, to RI I and shows us that its chief element character, and its .controling ambition multi.t. , It dilsipates thus the mists which abstru.se!' reasonings have flung 1., iboutit, and lifts the veil with 'aside)_ philosophical dlstiiiisitions have overlaid it. It quiets the fever of the intellect .try renter ng the mystery. , that perplexed it, and pats upon' the heart, whose tritest rest islin trustful and obedient activity, the immense obligations (4 (inistkln en deavott It shows ns that so far as under standing- religion is concerned, it is the simple St thing in the world; that its le difficulty is not intellectuaVi but .practi i t; is not in the logical understanding, but' in doing What we Very well know; and the difficulty of, religion in this regard is great enough ? when considered, to satisfy : the most voracious 'appetite for that sortof diet. 'there is, the In" whose ability for ma tering difficulties is so great that .he really gets ! done 'all that be admits •ought ti) be done ? Ile, surely, finds that the pctieal difficulties: of religion are enough and until these are overcome. Wants o other. ; :I" Chri :never addressed the merely apse-. r ulatA , e `'intellect.', He recognized the diffi culties of pond*, 'and abundantly -prO vided fur overarming them. • This. chap ter refers wholly to conduct. • The coli demnation in the first instance falls upon: those N5)10 delayed doing until the fitting season Ur it had quite past. The cont demnat on in the second instance falls uPL on him ho by sophistries had reasoned Ur himself into indifference and Omega he knew Would be condemned. The condeni nation i! i the thin instance, birwever, falbt upon t lose who, however sentimental they ntry have heen, failed in the end of getting any really helpful things done. , - Nerti did speech of mortal urge' so Irn.;, pressivelv the doing of right and loving I ' deeds, ir• does this speech of our Lord, a. 14 here m(J,ltiled, lie hiinself never rose tol heights . sublime. The whole chapter is a most wonderful 'composition. The. chill eat understand it, and the sage if; aive.l :ITUd thrilled by it. In its power to' arrest the attention, kindle : the itnagina that, alit mare the impulses of the will, it hOlds a 'foremost pike evetiThmoni the re c ords tf" Inspiration.. It expresses our Lord's (estimate of the importance of con duct, and of the ti j emeinlons peril of stop ping shirt otit. ' . rhe It sett mate .nI t kith on .11ing,us that religion has to do aethities..is a gospel to 115. be 'r dauber that taking it out of l ilatiVe region, we will confine it Intimental, This danger is per imMinent-to the •• people .ittoilists,'' though-it is not limit- e;te,t.. the spo to the s, baps called 3 nil to tl cm. Our, c . timmott speech indi cates the t the "danger exists. It is great- eSt pelitaps in the beginnings of the 1.. Christial life. •In entering upon this life, people ~ rely say, ~that they have begun and are trying to lire a Christian life, but, speak of themselves and o f their brethren= as . having "profe.ow4 religion." The, stress is put upt in profession as the chief thing in the new life. Instead of proceed ing steadily and efficiently with a better conduct, 'they, proceed to much talking almmt their beliefs and feelings, litiPes and opinions, and % - ery likely make severe strictures on other people Who hold to somewhat' different opinions. Does the .mother;inake any profession of hiving her. Child ? ' She just loves and serves it, and is silent Idoint it-. Does the chili] Make any profe'ssion of faith on of happiness? NO. It just confidesand iiitappy. Its ten thous:and activities set forth itstrust and happiness, as words, thongh most e-x -act and, piing isophic, could not. The. lily and the rose are silent, but they incarnate their earnest little lives in forms that are beautiful and odors 'that arc fragrant. These :111,! in goltkin silentx, get things done, anti the things done incarnate and evidence the life. And all teal and divine outgoing 'of the ,Chri.stiau life is not ;in word onlY, lout also, and much more; in deed. !his the Spirit taken of the things of tail. and given them to us? Then, ac cording to Our measure,. we shall repro= (luta: the! loving and active life of our Lord on earth, and get good and .helPful ,thing done for our fellow men, such as they mos need_, to' have done. In the es timate-01, our only - .3l.iater,, the logic of better being is, Ora" better doing. . MI tali 'jitdgments Of °dr fellow-men must be- i Me& upon their doings. - "By 11111 , se. per Ann • • I_, - . • :• ' [--,1. ' then. fruits ye, shad 14tt of the lips in*, glO beg or but 'whollibbiiig, is reiS Of , ? li. l l - A9t,iv4te 4 •-- I it'iJ, l 7 7 13 r 1 41 I Ts:Vstil PrßfCAfiii . ),nsi , but, by tlitprAleed4 - IV§ j 1 not Fit . ; mach fin; lip as 'For what; theY'-I mist let our:light _: 0, 1 'not; fur - the eon it 4 01 4 - . 4 0 - ; li ght !lb' and. brightly, as *hi b.f.ulitptipg this 1 doqe, 'that you ," workA," and enable F r :Libor which - is in here're what - they /et tkern soe. • _ Is .e l . thhig for a man'.' ) I ch.ll-apier. manifest i deeds'.' Men who beoin un4r inteniestinin lare in aangerof Su thinit'in the, relipol there are 1 4 611)eagitatefil t the religion is agitation. And so, lirtiiiwbielt the eg &Med ' 'thoy do not , . 'f-SI 4.lr•,hat (rein 1 fii:ol l PationAnd the lileObtrOV64; we admiration fcir •Saint liariiies, at' Hie expe 1e Consider the Epi tiT infinite trefunire_b hut i,hat of: !it. Ja travr." We are .bo i,4 ,;'..ivimi by:faith.," i"1 Will show you my Faith without work 1 ' , electlatiy favorites f ' . !Mists and apostles o le such as were His with'piin most inti eartlit I believe that than F 4. Paul, most c ,1 • r eti the spirit and gns ePistli of Tames is a S fill comment on the' i , we Live taken for our i . gospe) whiekour chuff need L,,,,.h and knee who a,re early taught r. find 41* the . rnetaphys -saint rani, are in clar the higher and more i) °Ur Lard and of His 1 Jainei.. 'they are in_ that tie ` good coufe witne4s consists iu o'l wOrdSl what they liiti't hoped feared and res 6 dcimb Would believe, hi //hi of'ligion. i tleg lining' the yids 'hut life with wrong r eniihasis and enoneo s theories, we con tinue :is • we began. 1% • hold the feelings as. i endi l rather than ni ins. We put eon .duct in parenthesis, an i consider it not as 1 1 1 ;oil lilt niethott We consider the Cmo ttoinil as the chief elem nt in:religion, l and einploy every conceiva le method Olin tenSiflit. Our fires., in ernal and eternal, can no be kindled too I otly. l Our delight is ratluir in the steam t at noisily escapes from the - whistle of 'tli 1 engine, than in .1 , that which pushes Atli pistons of life, moves forward its - tusk - and carries its burlen. We not only refer the. preach ers ;wll excel. inthe ' arousement.s,7 to those i p -actical men whn . giveus no rest till i vre . vet good-and he ' ful things One, tint) we Fonsider'thern t ern as more I ,,tie- Vol and orthodox . etake infinite . 1 . pai sto feel good, and c do, good when we feel like it. Worhsmercy are often irlisu l in ; failure to live 'we have prayed lit le shames us; hu always the thrill of,dt•vo ion is a suprenie ,satisfaction. We for,glet .hat our truest life our highest ideai and miss.sion—is to do and finish the work iltieli our Father in rteaven lids , 1 - .given nn to do. . -, , I • Tiler fore .it is that 11. proclaim to-day, the g i ospel of getting things clone. sit pot, 1 when you think , of', it, a gospe' to havel re igion taken out of the region of met. phsic::and speculation ? out iof i., mauilli sentimentalism and unprincipled entlitisiasm ? and put intro the sphere of our 6 1 iiiiiirei - Cand practical life, where men I tin and suffer, struggle and die Where they have actual wants to be net, evils to ibe overcome, sorilivs to Le allvi- . ated qul l l griefs to be aSsitaged ? To men fami r iar with the -bitsiness and pains of life, r it, not a gospel—a Message - of god 'news/--to know that the piety which Jesus 1 7is not all mystery and, dream, in' ofl theological philOSOphies and sen italr.softnesses; but is a , relig,imi of 1p processes , of practical helpfulness, if isulculable rasults Does not ';he requi r Spite timer} simpli and 9 prod: . , .ini a gtispel I who •preclaims a relf /at- conies to abSol's-e our sins, 1I re lieve o ur heart-aehes, disintlirall our spi rits, ennoble and nourish our uffections? In 'our 'World of carklng, cares,: galling needs, aft(' consuming distness, is it not a very blessed gospel to know that JeSits i 1 - • . , , apprTed - and taught a religion that gets ;good - and helpful things done for wicked land suffering hunianity.. I, I Do rot understand me as implying that !Our -religion puts au..,extinguisher uptati the hate led, or -ignores the emotional. 'The ' i4.slin l' ion of Jesus is the source of the I truest pltilosephy and ''of the most genu- , ' ',I ermanent progress. The revival ;-in has alwaysbeen the Irovival 'of 1" In Christ are hid the treasures ledge." And yet, becoming right red and accepted :of Heaven, Is . , . , [ dependent on the accuracy or mr intellectual conceptions. Onr i which never "continue in one •Ie not, in the true Christian econ eornerrstone of life's temple. I, and feeling are net the highest the largest blessing. Charity,' 0(1, .and sliuteth riot up its coir from the needy, isArcatest, mot divinest andlcSt. The gospel of EOM ÜBEEB of reli. letters of km charm not 111 unity 'stay,:• al' i li 111";{ only, good, tilat .esus a4es the Christian character and life on thle disposition's and the activities. it'prononnees a life of loving helpfulness as the best devotion, the, highest gratitude it I and the invfountlest pieiy.,- ',` Love is tir :iultillititglof the law," and if- we "do not love of • neighbor whom we have seen, ,ire cannot love God whom. we' have r Seen."' , liou may: have raid, " Lor icir ! ford" r and uttered your ."Shiboleths" . but if yen have not been loving and help ful, ye i l have been at beSt only a novice. The gespel of getting things done is a aospel,l4r it enables wi, _ here and now, without iralting • for foil* words from ifielgria `" IC to take our observations mg' rftl giliali ME lig IffnMl NUMEEII 11. I know thent i ."' • The belle fruit pr a Mn 'of - life; man's d only in 'the sum the political and tail- to men WA record their • the' tested i•ocoril of age "and' honor them t they )lave got said i ave..dbne.---' True, we ane, but - shining is is only for the eye. os. so. linieh,,i,so far ing deeds ? 7t is just of getting things ow men yoUr good them to "glorify your HO:Wen." Men will You have but to {aracter the essential a what ,does genuine self but in genuine heir religiffits; career . tion of the feelings, pining that the chief is the stimidatipn. o.pie who MIA that I o and n , religious, and n proportion to the in days and affairs tion cannot. well :1) even attempt, to be he polemics Of the schools of theOhvic ye derived an.undue Paul and bi*pecu ! NC of Saint James, tle to the liehreWs `se of good things, es "an- Epistle of d to declare : If ' We . nd weak to Utter : ' faith by my WorkS. : is dead." Tf we ' itc - ammig the evati- our Lord, let,them avoritesi and ; lived i ately ,while on the St. ..Tames, rather I inpletely reprOdue- I of Chrifit. The rikitig and. wonder ' lutpter from which . text., It contains a Eh 1 and age greatly , aml,practice; Men ' nd become greatly ical discussions of ger of overlooking - k.. . tical teaching of oily apostle, Saint langer of thinking lion " they: are to • rhetorical t i• `Ought atul l felt, I .,ved. nntil one born ;insetf. imrn in6tpo- • an. .uta e our reekeSif gs lehit 1 ,/. go od mss:! 11tsert i o t 4 , 44 #0„14„:67,,10i1t !4ddil!::- sue ti 4uesiion.*;!+ can tellyyhethei Christ co4iders na as.,4ristians, and whether • oto,ibiOre -proaieCt. ;4--.littaring:4llB joy hereafter.verything . hinges imfdoing. :iiittiiiinnelt ] al ye It nave lite:w yo - il4': ; • • the 1 , least og these i -enter iti." TO; gvistil of getting Oinge done is in deed gospel,. for, ,t pritsreli'gion: within reach' of ail. and; equally.. ``Th'r faring i ' and :the:simplo,.;!f. need let en emiCering ifrnor;'stumblii because of it. Conduct, Which is four-fifths of life, all I .1 mut and under take:the ligiati%of,suc i a gOipel is noffOr - seti - dairy, occrusions and places; is netforcOspacked pricits, and•narrovi Leviteli alone; it is the eqnril Inheritance of all, and,theb)easing ,of cOnimon days and of ,ordinarY: oem- sion4,ll Pompous egotists] entrenched creecN swollen aristocrat,' in marble pal aces,] aid leisured scholarSseAted fit their ancint temples, hive no .itivantag• over ]] • the Inimblesr. Sarnaritau, in- acting ~as I "neighborto•,hith that ; fell • a mong thieviiist . " • .] - Thk] ] • ; things required of uS in this gospel' of getting things done, are4sessibleitio all, in evert) age and condition," who have true and ;hiving hearts. "Inasmuoli !as ye. have If h l ine it.l . Done what? Givenleloth ing tai Ole ;spin. rind-' naked; waterl l o the . thirsty ]food t i e the Itung4;, recognition to th 4 ltrangen visitation and help to the • imprierieds These; detailed yartiularts . indierini the +Rs of feelings ire are to ex ercise l and the israCticat Rork, of 1 1 , what sort it sl=, we are to get done. in our 10•orld. " Baste i don [ e it." To. whOp.o " the least O i fitheie niY brethren.',' .Not to un fortunate kings ]bid compiered geperals and priotitrate heroes, .but tsi common pee:" pie, ordinary soldiers, impisirerished'ipeas ants, and strugglingneighbeft. • , The;roligion Christ urges; upon ti.4 2 and that sinlvives the test of the Irea'venly judgnettth,• is One that not only looks up but iii [ tit up. ;It was (Jhriist.-• who isaid "BleS.4ed are the merciful, for they ;shall .; obtain; nierey. 4 t ' : Only he Alfils th 4 law. who "rp+s his, neighbor as Ihimaelf.y It was the alms and prayers Of the Gentile - Corneliu s that'went up an inesistiblO me morial ].L'efore HeaVen., Dorcas id was that made clothes for the p*, and ]`was full of 0:,3d works and alms;sdeeds•-which she did,'l; who got raised from. the dead and permanently enthroned in hiskory. And .lelN l who " sought. - out ihe CatlSt;" of the potir and needy, was sustained in; his integritylagainSt utmost temptations, and in his declining years the Lord "addedall that hadilieen];:to him, unto the "Blessed is he 'that considereth the floor; the Load ! will deliver him in time of trou ble.- God is' not uorig,* hicOns.to for!get 1 .. - el( and l labor of love "which ye I , - Ted t4ward his name, in that, S7e ustered to the saints; and do ipin tlVhatsoever ye would that men 1 h to yoi, do ye even so to th 6 : s the law and tI4 prophets .•' Orange, feelings dielaud are 'fur l] rwledge passes away;, but g l ood Ile ',toy I done, and ' „ o` on working il 1 1 ; [re. secretly or openly, -everrnbre. 1 i has for l, iver allied hunself toithe . t.lte poor, whom we have alWays 1 ",.. Of e rel l wesents himself as bre,ak rthe ag,ee wnlr 7 -” Lira.* cs the puor, 7 H these my the jAlor 311.1 not timse. J....„ your w have sli! have mit ister.•' I should Of for' thiq Theorie4 gotton ? ,ill deeds din 1 for welfi l Chrisi , cause of i 4' with us.iT ing the 4 ( 0; t•a111 I)rethrt-t also whi) men wlo po‘i, poor ill 4 1 I.ool' ill l ,are w; ire wr. li,slt , . po4 In chat I .3,pcvtat l l 41.piness • Luling in goods, but those 'wing in knkledge.l in 11l graces . There "'lre r in ideas; Poor in +2* meter; poor 1 - I..rttemorti - : Jot's; poor in . 3neettr; What we lu tor t4se : 141- . Christ wi V I I, consider and reward as done for him,4 f i . . Tint cause of the poor tni needy isl Oways Ibis cause; most in its thought: 11arest lis heart. I e liVed and, suffered Iltid died .to "save- t• he. Ti l lie': work Bgu ilei inauted lie WaUts carried • forward: ; . - Nothill i k Bin is so pleasing to ' . and honoOle to is, as i 'working together with ilir ! Ir' in Ilis cause. Ilet! us 'not withhold,i4fir allicinee and endraVor until , j I • we feel that we eau i " do soine : gre r vt thing." IGreat cl:cds are not clemanded not ineutidned, b t only helpfal deer.i. I d By eng,agitig in these, we can best Sholw l ' our • faith illand , r , itittide . breathe die : t '9 ' , ' ChriStly iturit, and prove the.. depth :yid • 1., fervot of lopr devotion: . ' i I have itiad an Eastern story of a pct. ' k • I. l' - I bird that: was beaten to the' gionnd byia' • 1: storm. - There it lily weltering f i n the mud of the hi ;l wit .; lllitoken Wing, unable to Ilse. Then a n ti, traveling-11111a w 4, came to 4.4 and - putting ' his hand gently under it, lifted it np, as if he had been God, and; took it ti his iionit. There lie' bound up the broken wing and tenderly nuased it t soundtiess. , Then.- when it 1.1 was restored, be. :Acted the whalowaull 1 i . gave the Ibird its freedom. Sol.. l in,ft wa i s ' with its fidlows in the woods and Jt home in the ninnntains. I And the niap wonde.c. ed where !gtatitude was—,why the bird dill - t not return land el l presk its thituks ! 1,i.. uttered nu !word aud sank no souk,. put! day the - Mari heard a gentle tiApping at the winlapW. Throwing I open' the (illikr anent, I thgrq he .saw the ! bird 111)011111k, ledge; It ihild - come ] back to tell its appre i l I elation of the man's kindness aid of itS own rectiveil-, but now there Willi no Itot(i of gladness only silence. •And yet Weill was elognenee. • It i had brought with 4 anotliet bitil with brokeiil wing,. l l liich 4 was mutelyl g liftinlip for healing .-I My brethlien : YoU may s not hat for mighty 'le.ells, nor brain forl i discplisitiaq nor words far eloql suasion; li . us you ,con. lift up bil profrate'friiiip . for healing, i ! Il' SATANS.! , 0 ! !! . : :. —' Each One of kts have a ( Satan. 84tan comes to one the fori*of idleness, and ma waste (14 - after day, year aft until he rhas waited his wit doing notiin h g Satan ;domes tO another man as work, and!lmakesl himself in ;the op posite way i by wearing nntlprema tarly his brain and his body. lie conics 10 another, as Christian' zeal, and, the man becomes a biaot.• full of fire for the Lord ; but the fora lie serves ;is a God of wrath; a God , who cares for triflfs, a Pod l "wl!o pre fers sacrihte to mercy. Ile corms to auother' as charity, but it is' charity which: tdierates evil and lets it alone, • which ihas no edge to it, no courage, ;an indolent charity, Winch is.not lOve at all, but only eaSyl, good-nature. ' So he disguises mself as an angel of light, 'calling himself when he wi'Shes Arolmake nations hate J r each other ;walling himself Christian ity whenl he swishes to inal4e men persecuteleacl other ; calling himself honesty When he wishes to ene l pfirage a man in his rude and over-tearing ways; and .one changing ',4imself into everf 7irtue and every grace, Jathes Fr`eOptan Clarke.' , 1_ It .is a I ..singular fact that 'cold water, when introduced inOriahly becomes one'Of the . fiercest issues that pol-. iticians or 'eonventions handle.i • "No," sai4 Mrs. Podgers; very phsitive •lY, "if I go into the ¶ountry, Mr. Podgers t goes with ' me. Tins city ain't no safe place to lead a man alone in." • • 1 C powel, learned rent pea ihte it au ifferent man in' es him er year, ole _life
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